Community Details at a Glance
The Homes
Product
New-construction single-family from two builders, one and two story plans, no townhomes
Builders
Dream Finders Homes and KB Home, in separate sections
Sizes
Roughly 1,286 to about 3,500 square feet across the collections
Ownership
Fee-simple single-family, not condo, no gate found
Costs & Fees
HOA
Reported near 71 dollars per month by Jome in June 2026; confirm by section
CDD
None per both builders' marketing; verify on title
Reality
Frontier Westside pricing on a new parkway; the trade is distance from retail
Amenities
Common areas
Dog park, playground, and a covered picnic area per builder marketing
Pool
No community pool advertised, which helps hold the HOA down
Setting
Rural Maxville edge starts past the back fences
Location
Setting
Far Westside Jacksonville off Normandy Boulevard near Maxville, ZIP 32234
Access
First Coast Expressway (SR-23) about 10 minutes
Jobs
Cecil Commerce Center about 15 minutes
Shopping
Oakleaf Town Center about 20 minutes for the full retail run
The Homes & Style
Per builder and Jome data in June 2026, Bellbrooke spans roughly 245,990 to 431,990 dollars across the two builders.
The buyer pool is Cecil corridor workers, NAS Jacksonville commuters, and value hunters pushed west by the rest of the metro.
This is appreciation-by-infrastructure territory: the expressway and commerce center drive the long case.
Two builders, three collections, one gate-free entry: match the collection to the budget.
From 265,990 dollars per the DFH pricing page in June 2026, plans from about 1,306 square feet.
From 341,990 dollars, plans to about 3,498 square feet; the larger tier.
From about 245,990 per NewHomeSource, plans 1,286 to 2,766 square feet; KB lets buyers pick the lot and personalize.
Living Here
The basics, deliberately: the price point is the amenity.
The community gathering spot.
The everyday-living layer for households who want yard space.
No aquatic campus advertised; that absence keeps the HOA near 71 dollars.
Maxville horse country starts past the back fence; that openness is part of the buy.
Daily basics run Normandy Boulevard toward the expressway, with Oakleaf Town Center as the full retail run twenty minutes out.
Builder marketing points toward Mamie Agnes Jones Elementary and the Baldwin schools, a small, rural-zone profile that some buyers seek out and others avoid; confirm the current assignment by address and decide which you are.
KB Home builds to order on chosen lots, which is rare at this price; patient buyers can spec rather than settle.
The First Coast Expressway keeps rewriting Westside drive times; Bellbrooke is early on that curve, which is the appreciation case and the construction-era annoyance.
Before You Offer
Jacksonville sees coastal, river, and creek flooding, and pockets near the St. Johns River tributaries can sit in higher-risk zones. Jacksonville participates in the FEMA Community Rating System at a class 6, which earns flood-insurance discounts of about 10 percent for homes outside a special flood hazard area and about 20 percent for homes inside one.
The reliable move is to pull the FEMA flood designation for the exact Bellbrooke address before you write an offer, since two homes in the same area can fall in different zones. A home in Zone X can cost far less to insure than one near water in Zone AE. Get a bindable flood and homeowners quote during your inspection period, so the cost is in your monthly math before you commit, not after.
The Jacksonville metro is served by Xfinity (Comcast) cable across nearly all addresses and by AT&T with DSL almost everywhere plus fiber to a growing share of homes. If working from home matters, confirm the options, and fiber in particular, at the specific Bellbrooke address rather than assuming.
Duval County total millage runs roughly 17.9 to 18.5 mills depending on the taxing district. The Florida homestead exemption for 2026 is 51,411 dollars for those who qualify, and the deadline to file a new homestead exemption is March 1.
The trap to plan for is the post-sale reset: when you buy, the Save Our Homes cap from the previous owner ends and the assessed value resets to the new just value, so your second-year tax bill is often higher than the seller current one. Budget the true number, and confirm whether the specific home carries a CDD or other assessment that is billed separately from the millage and is not reduced by the homestead exemption.
Comparisons
Bellbrooke's natural cross-shops are the other new-construction Westside addresses riding the First Coast Expressway and Cecil employment curve. Against the established Oakleaf Plantation master plan twenty minutes east, Bellbrooke gives up mature amenities, its own retail, and two decades of resale history, but answers with newer construction, no CDD on the tax line, and a lower entry. Against the volume-builder product deeper into the Westside, Bellbrooke offers two national builders and larger top-end plans in one community, which widens the price ladder from a compact entry home to a five-bedroom. And against the Argyle and Chimney Lakes corridor closer in, Bellbrooke trades drive time and retail density for frontier pricing and openness at the edge of Maxville. The honest summary: Bellbrooke wins on price, build era, and the no-CDD line, and gives ground on amenities, schools, and proximity to retail.
Who It Fits
Bellbrooke fits the Cecil-corridor or logistics worker who wants new construction at the low end of the Duval new-home market, the buyer pushed west by pricing elsewhere in the metro who is comfortable trading drive time for square footage, and the patient buyer who wants to spec a KB Home on a chosen lot rather than settle for inventory. It fits households that want yard space and rural edges over a programmed amenity campus, and buyers who value a no-CDD tax line. It does not fit the buyer who needs a short commute to the Southside, the beaches, or downtown, the buyer who wants deep amenities or top-rated schools today, or the buyer who wants established resale comps rather than two moving builder price sheets. Anyone on a beaches or Southside work schedule should drive Normandy Boulevard at rush hour before committing.
