Alafia Estates
Homes for Sale in Brandon, FL

Alafia Estates market snapshot (as of September 12, 2026): the median sale price is about $197K ($142 per sq ft over the trailing 12 months of closed sales), and a median 65 days on market for closed sales. The trailing-12-month median is up 19% from the prior 12 months, computed from record-level Stellar MLS closed sales (7 closings in the current window).

In ZIP 33511 (Brandon), 681 homes closed in the last 12 months at a median of $387K ($217/sq ft), down 0.2% year over year, with a median 34 days on market. Right now 67 active and 17 pending listings put supply at about 2.6 months — a healthy market. See the live ZIP 33511 housing market and the Hillsborough County market.

Stellar MLS sales records identify 60 homes in Alafia Estates that have changed hands since 2004, built between 1945 and 2023 (median 1978), with a median living area of about 1,248 sq ft and a typical 3-bedroom, 2-bath layout. Source: Stellar MLS closed-sale history compiled by Momentum Research; counts reflect homes with a recorded MLS sale, not every home in the community.

Alafia Estates Unit A is a small, established pocket of Brandon in Hillsborough County — 129 homes, an older core, and enough variety in age and condition that no single listing is representative of the whole.

The defining feature here is age range. A community anchored at a 1978 median but running from 1945 to 2024 means you will walk through original systems in one house and current construction in the next. That makes inspection and renovation math the whole ballgame — the number that matters most is not the list price but what it costs to bring a given home to your standard.

The homestead share sits at about 43%, meaning a majority of these homes are held as something other than a primary residence. For a buyer, that signals a fair amount of rental and investor activity in the mix; for a seller, it means your competition and your comps may include homes maintained to a landlord's standard rather than an owner's. With only 7 closings in the tracked window, individual sales carry weight, so pricing off recent, genuinely comparable transactions matters more than usual.

A market this thin — 7 recent closings across 129 homes with an eight-decade age range — rewards local reading over broad averages. We price and evaluate each home on its own condition and true comparables rather than the community median, and we will tell you plainly when a listing's renovation cost outweighs its appeal.

Confirm the current HOA dues, exactly what they cover, and any CDD bond or special assessment for a specific address before you offer.