Cottages At Hidden Lakes
Homes for Sale in St. Augustine, FL

Cottages At Hidden Lakes is a small St. Augustine community in St. Johns County. It's a low-volume submarket, so the story here is less about neighborhood averages and more about the specific home in front of you.

realMLS (Northeast Florida) sales records identify 15 homes in Cottages At Hidden Lakes that have changed hands since 2019, built between 2003 and 2020 (median 2006), with a median living area of about 1,508 sq ft and a typical 3-bedroom, 2-bath layout; 100% are single-family homes. Source: realMLS (Northeast Florida) closed-sale history compiled by Momentum Research; counts reflect homes with a recorded MLS sale, not every home in the community.

County records show 6 qualified sales in Cottages At Hidden Lakes across 2024–2025 (3 in 2024, 3 in 2025), median $349,000 — the last recorded sale per parcel on the Florida DOR 2025 assessment roll, independent of the MLS.

Pre-construction details are compiled from public records, builder announcements and builder listings, and are subject to change without notice; figures are deemed reliable but not guaranteed. Momentum Research figures are our own analysis. This page describes homes, pricing and community attributes, not residents.

Cottages At Hidden Lakes is too small for its own price trend, so here is the market around it.

In ZIP 32086, 190 homes are on the market and 26% are under contract — a steady corner of St. Augustine.

Across St. Johns County, 1,951 homes are active and 815 pending (30% under contract).

In ZIP 32086 (St. Augustine), 448 homes closed in the last 12 months at a median of $330K ($201/sq ft), down 3.6% year over year, with a median 66 days on market. Right now 117 active and 33 pending listings put supply at about 8.0 months — a buyer's market. See the live ZIP 32086 housing market and the St. Johns County market.

ZIP and county figures describe the wider market, not Cottages At Hidden Lakes specifically. Momentum Research analysis of MLS records.

The defining feature of Cottages At Hidden Lakes, from a market standpoint, is how little closes here in any given window. A two-closing window doesn't establish a trend — it establishes that this is a place you value listing by listing. Cottage-style product tends to trade on floor plan efficiency, condition, and how the lot sits relative to the community's shared features, and those variables swing wider than the sale count can smooth out.

Location does the heavy lifting in the value story: St. Augustine and the broader St. Johns County market give this community its context. Rather than chase a neighborhood comp that may not exist yet, we lean on the county-level picture and the physical realities of the individual home to frame an offer or a list price.

In a community this low-volume, the brokerage that admits the data is thin serves you better than one that manufactures confidence. We price and negotiate off the actual home and the wider St. Johns County market, flag when a single recent sale is skewing expectations, and tell you plainly when this isn't the right fit.

Listings in this community report association dues of about $43 per month ($516 a year) — the median AssociationFee across 38 MLS records, normalised to a monthly figure; most are billed annually. Dues change with budgets and can differ by section or product type; confirm the current figure with the association before you offer. Source: MLS listing records, 2026-10.

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