Jacksonville Real Estate Market: Big City Culture with Small Town Charm

Whether you crave a bird’s eye view of the St. John’s River from the terrace of a high rise condo, an historic mansion with live oaks full of Spanish moss or ocean waves lapping at your door, Jacksonville, Florida can fill the bill. There is such a diverse real estate market to be found here and the population continues to grow by leaps and bounds, seventy six people per day are discovering this hot new market. Not bad for a town known not too very long ago as a sleepy little hamlet. Sleepy that is until Central and South Florida’s more populated big cities, bursting at the seams let loose and sent new retirees and young professionals seeking the famous Florida sunshine spewing north to a city not quite ready for prime time.

Still today if asked most people would have no idea where in Florida Jacksonville is located, oh they certainly know where Tampa, Orlando and Miami are but Jacksonville has been a well kept secret waiting to be discovered for decades and discovered it has been. In the proverbial blink of an eye shrewd developers are ravaging the landscape at break neck speed, city government and members of the local chamber of commerce struggle to keep up with the growth. Just a few short years ago this beautiful river city lay quietly in slumber, now high rise condominiums dot both the North and the South banks of the St. Johns River and the newly built sports arenas and outdoor amphitheatre are evidence that Jacksonville may never sleep again.