A single-family home at 6417 Big Belt Drive in Helena has come on the market at $1,125,000, adding to a thin inventory of seven-figure listings in the area.

The property is a three-bedroom, two-bath home of 2,043 square feet, built in 2005. At the asking price, that works out to roughly $550 per square foot — a number that reflects both the persistent pressure on Helena's housing market and the premium commanded by properties in established neighborhoods on the city's east side near the Big Belt foothills.

The listing is notable less for its specs than for what it signals about where Helena's upper-end residential market is sitting heading into summer. A 2,000-square-foot home cracking seven figures is no longer unusual here, a shift that would have been remarkable a decade ago.