Julington Creek Plantation, St. Johns

Market snapshot

One hundred and sixty-three closings were recorded — by a wide margin the largest sample on this site — at a median of $492,000 and about $217 a square foot. Homes averaged 57 days on market with 2.4 months of supply, classified as a seller's market, and the median read roughly 4% below the prior year. At this volume the figures are genuinely reliable.

Market figures above are aggregated community sales data taken from the public community-data index published at the website movewithmomentum.com (an unaffiliated third party), dataset generated 2026-07-13, reflecting sales as of 2026-07-09. Figures are area aggregates, not an appraisal or a valuation of any individual home, and they change as new sales record. HOA dues, CDD fees and property taxes are NOT shown here: the only figures available for them are modelled estimates rather than recorded amounts. Ask Keith Jones Sr for the current recorded numbers before you rely on them.

For context, St. Johns County as a whole carried a county-wide typical home value (ZHVI) of $492,885 and a county median list price of $539,000, with a county-wide average of 61 days on market and a price-cut share of 22.3%, as of the June 2026 data release. Julington Creek Plantation's $492,000 median sale price lands within a few hundred dollars of the county-wide typical value — essentially at parity — and its 57-day average is faster than the county's 61-day average, which is a notable result for a community this large. The county's own figures show the same short-term-soft, long-term-positive pattern as the community itself: a -2.7% one-year read against a positive 4.4% five-year read, not far off Julington Creek Plantation's own -4% year-over-year number.

St. Johns County carried 47 total schools and 27 designated Schools of Excellence in the FLDOE 2024-25 data — over half the county's schools earned that designation, with average student learning gains of 64.1% in ELA and 65.4% in math countywide. That is one of the reasons buyers relocate south out of Duval specifically for Julington Creek Plantation and the surrounding St. Johns zip codes. It is also why school-zone verification belongs on every offer here: confirm the assignment with the district directly, not from a listing sheet, since attendance boundaries inside a community this size are not uniform village to village.

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What to check before you buy here

Julington Creek Plantation contains many distinct villages with different ages, fee structures and product types, so a community-wide median tells you less than it appears to. Get the specific village's association fee, amenity access and any CDD assessment in writing. Ask whether the home is in the Julington Creek Plantation Community Development District, because that assessment appears on the tax bill and varies by parcel. CDD bonds in Northeast Florida typically finance an amount set by the district’s bond schedule of 30-year infrastructure debt, separate from the HOA dues — that range is a starting point for your own budgeting, not a substitute for the specific figure on this parcel.

The most common surprise in a community this size is not the fee itself, it is finding out which fee schedule applies after you are already under contract. Villages built in different phases were handed different amenity packages and different maintenance obligations — some include lawn care, some do not; some grant access to every pool and tennis facility in the community, some only to a satellite amenity center. Get the estoppel letter and the current budget from the association early in your inspection period, not at closing, so a fee surprise never becomes a closing-day argument.

On the investor side, Julington Creek Plantation was built and is still occupied primarily as an owner-occupied community, and several of its villages carry leasing restrictions in the governing documents — minimum lease terms, caps on the percentage of homes that may be rented at one time, or both. If the plan is to rent the home out, confirm the specific village's rental rules in writing before you write an offer, because a restriction discovered after closing is not something a buyer can negotiate away later.

At 163 recorded closings and 57 days on market, this is one of the healthiest, most liquid communities on this site, and distressed sales are the exception rather than the rule here. If you are the one selling and the numbers do not work — payoff exceeds what the market will bear — that is a different conversation than a standard listing. Keith Jones Sr is a state-approved short-sale instructor and has walked Northeast Florida sellers through that process for close to three decades; call before you assume a short sale or a foreclosure is your only option.

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Who Julington Creek Plantation Fits

The buyer this community rewards is the one who treats it as many distinct villages rather than one neighborhood — who reads the specific village’s fee schedule, amenity access, and any CDD line before comparing prices across it. It fits buyers who want an amenity-rich, liquid market where comparable sales are plentiful and appraisals rarely surprise, and sellers who want that same liquidity working for them. It fits an investor poorly: several villages restrict leasing, and those restrictions survive the closing. If your plan depends on renting the home out, confirm the village’s rules in writing before you write anything else.

What to verify at the parcel level: the recorded CDD assessment and taxes for the specific address, the village’s current association documents, and the flood determination from the FEMA Flood Map Service Center. School assignment should come directly from the St. Johns County School District, since boundary lines inside a community this large are not uniform. The Florida Department of Revenue publishes the exemption rules that shape the final bill.