Dowling Park
Homes for Sale in Starke, FL

Dowling Park is a compact, owner-occupied corner of Starke in Bradford County, built out over decades with a mid-century median and a handful of much newer and much older homes mixed in.

County records show 6 qualified sales in Dowling Park across 2024–2025 (4 in 2024, 2 in 2025), median $185,000 — 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.

Dowling Park is too small for its own price trend, so here is the market around it.

In ZIP 32091, 58 homes are on the market and 14% are under contract — a slower corner of Starke.

Across Bradford County, 91 homes are active and 13 pending (12% under contract).

In ZIP 32091 (Starke), 99 homes closed in the last 12 months at a median of $354K ($191/sq ft), up 28.3% year over year, with a median 45 days on market. Right now 1 pending listings — a healthy market. See the live ZIP 32091 housing market and the Bradford County market.

ZIP and county figures describe the wider market, not Dowling Park specifically. Momentum Research analysis of MLS records.

The defining feature here is age variety within a small footprint. A median build year of 1955, with the oldest homes going back to 1938 and the newest to 2018, means the label 'Dowling Park' covers everything from pre-war construction to recent builds. There is no single template, so comparable-shopping requires looking hard at what has been touched — roof, systems, kitchens — and what has not.

At about 1,471 square feet median, the housing here skews modest and practical. With roughly 72% of homes homesteaded, turnover tends to be limited, and the inventory that does come up rewards buyers who move on the right condition rather than waiting for a large selection. That same scarcity gives a well-maintained, updated home real negotiating strength on the sell side.

In a market this small and this varied by age, the value is in reading each house on its own terms — not leaning on a neighborhood average. We help buyers separate cosmetic updates from structural ones across homes that may be 80-plus years apart in age, and we help sellers position an updated home against older, un-updated stock so the price reflects the actual work done.

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