The 60-Second Overview
Every masterplan needs a front door, the village where buyers who love the place but not the flagship prices can actually get in. In Nocatee, that has long been the Enclave at Town Center: 148 compact single-family homes by David Weekley, built roughly 2012 to 2014 under The PARC Group, sitting next to the Publix-anchored shopping center, with the Town Center restaurants and the Splash Water Park a walk or short golf-cart ride away.
The product is deliberately small. Third-party sources put the homes at roughly 1,269 to 2,045 square feet, mostly 2 to 4 bedrooms with two-car garages, on compact, low-maintenance lots with Craftsman-influenced elevations. Where most of Nocatee sells square footage and yard, the Enclave sells the address at the lowest detached price the masterplan offers, and one builder built all of it, which keeps the streetscape coherent and the comps clean.
The market is pure resale and thin: recent third-party evidence showed a 2-bedroom at 44 Weston Circle closing around $493,000 (September 2025) and a 2-bedroom, 1,467-square-foot home at 344 Garden Wood Drive asking $479,900 and going under contract (June 2026), both dated. High $400s for the masterplan's smallest detached homes is the walkability premium and the entry-tier demand, in one number.
The Enclave is what attainable looks like inside a famous masterplan: small on purpose, next to everything, and never on the market for long.
Fees and the CDD
Two recurring lines define the carrying cost, and on an entry-tier purchase they matter proportionally more. First, the Enclave homeowners association, the village runs its own HOA (enclavehoa.info); confirm the current dues and exactly what they cover with the association before you offer. Second, the Nocatee (Tolomato) CDD assessment on the property-tax bill, which across Nocatee generally runs about $1,000 to $3,000 or more a year depending on the lot. The CDD is the financing engine behind the water parks, the Greenway, and the events calendar, and it is not optional.
Because the village dates to 2012-2014, individual parcels can sit at different points in their bond amortization, and the all-in tax line varies house to house. We pull the parcel-level figure on every candidate, on a high-$400s purchase, a CDD difference of a few hundred dollars a year is a real percentage of the budget, and two similar Enclave homes should never be compared without it.
The Attainable Entry
Nocatee's price ladder has kept climbing since the Enclave was built: the newer villages launch higher, the flagship product runs well into seven figures, and the walkable core stopped adding detached homes years ago. The Enclave occupies the rung the masterplan cannot rebuild, the smallest, least expensive single-family homes at the Town Center, which makes it the natural landing spot for first-time Nocatee buyers, downsizers who want one story of life and zero yard burden, and anyone trading an attached format for a detached one without leaving the walk.
That position does two things to the market. It gives the village the deepest buyer pool in Nocatee, everyone shopping the masterplan on a budget ends up here, and it makes inventory evaporate: 148 homes, a handful of listings a year, and the recent under-contract evidence suggests the good ones do not linger. Entry tiers in famous masterplans behave this way everywhere; the Enclave is simply Nocatee's version.
The single-builder factor compounds the clarity. Every home is David Weekley, including the compact Garden Series, so the village reads as one coherent piece and pricing is mostly condition and plan size. There is no builder-quality noise to untangle, which rewards buyers who know the closings, and punishes anyone comping off the wider Nocatee market.
The Compact-Lot Trade
The Enclave's defining decision is the lot: small, low-maintenance, and close to the neighbors, with the village marketed from day one on easy living rather than acreage. The honest accounting cuts both ways. What you give up: room for a pool on most lots, backyard privacy by distance, big-garage storage, and the play-football-in-the-yard suburban template. What you get: a yard that takes minutes instead of weekends, lower irrigation and landscaping bills, a price of admission the rest of detached Nocatee cannot touch, and the Publix next door.
Buyers should walk the actual lot, not the listing photos. Fences and landscaping do the privacy work here, most homes back to other homes, and the rare better-exposure positions carry premiums the thin inventory rarely tests. The right mindset is the one the village was designed for: the Town Center is the backyard, the Splash Park is the pool, and the Saturday you are not mowing is part of the purchase price.
Schools: Pattern and the Caveat
The Enclave sits in the St. Johns County district, the school system that anchors most Nocatee buying decisions. The district's 2026-27 zoning framework lists Enclave at Town Center among the Town Center villages assigned to Pine Island Academy (K-8) feeding Allen D. Nease High School. Two moving parts deserve attention: a new K-8 inside Nocatee opens for the 2026-27 year to relieve the existing academies, and some older listing sources still cite the prior Ocean Palms Elementary and Landrum Middle pattern from before the Nocatee academies opened. That disagreement is exactly why we give the same advice everywhere in Nocatee: verify the address-level assignment with the district directly before you write an offer that depends on it, boundaries have been redrawn before and will be again as the masterplan grows.
What Living Here Is Actually Like
The daily rhythm is the next-door errand: Publix on foot, coffee at Town Center, the Greenway loop, the Splash Park in summer, evenings when the restaurant row is the kitchen of last resort a block or two away. The compact street grid socializes the way small villages do, neighbors actually know each other, and the low-maintenance lots mean weekends belong to the trails and the water parks, not the mower.
The small-home reality
Roughly 1,269 to 2,045 square feet is the whole range. Storage discipline matters, garages do double duty, and growing families eventually size up, often within Nocatee. Most owners call the trade obvious: the house is smaller so the life outside it can be bigger.
The Town Center sound
Living beside the action means hearing some of it: delivery mornings at the shopping center, event nights, summer Splash Park energy. Most owners call it the point; buyers who want silence should weigh interior streets, or a quieter village.
The golf-cart life
The Enclave sits in the heart of Nocatee's cart culture: paths connect the village to Town Center, the parks, and the schools. Charging and parking are practical questions worth asking per house, the garages here are standard two-car, not oversized.
Thin-inventory shopping
A 148-home village at the most-watched price tier in the masterplan can go weeks with zero listings. Serious buyers set the search up in advance and move within days; the recent under-contract evidence says the good ones do not reach the second weekend.
Five Costly Mistakes Enclave Buyers Make
Entry-tier resales in a premium masterplan generate their own predictable errors. The five we see:
Comping against the rest of Nocatee
An Enclave house and a same-price townhome, or a bigger house a long drive from Town Center, are different products. The right comp set is the Enclave's own closings and the other Town Center formats, walk included.
Buying the price, ignoring the roof
These homes date to 2012-2014, which puts original roofs, HVAC systems, and water heaters squarely in replacement territory. A $15,000-plus roof on a high-$400s house changes the deal; date the big items and get the four-point and wind-mitigation inspections early.
Skipping the per-parcel fee read
The Enclave HOA dues plus the parcel's actual CDD line define the carrying cost, and the CDD varies by lot. On an entry-tier budget, never compare two homes without normalizing both verified numbers.
Underestimating the size
Falling for the address and discovering at the inspection that 1,400 square feet is genuinely 1,400 square feet. Measure the life, furniture, storage, the third bedroom that is really an office, before you write, not after.
Waiting for more inventory
There is no builder releasing next month and no second attainable village at the Town Center. In a 148-home market at the most-shopped tier, the house you like is the inventory; hesitation here is how buyers spend a year not buying.
Positions and Premiums
When the homes are compact, condition and position carry the spread
In a single-builder village of small lots, value concentrates in three places: plan size, condition of the decade-old systems, and position, the quieter interior streets versus the edges nearest the shopping center, and the handful of exposures that face green space rather than another rear fence.
Because David Weekley built everything, the market reads those premiums cleanly. A renovated larger plan on a quiet street is the top of this market; an original-everything 2-bed beside the commercial edge is the bottom, and the spread between them is wider than the thin listing data suggests.
The Enclave Buyer Checklist
- Pull the parcel-level CDD figure and the current Enclave HOA dues and documents (enclavehoa.info).
- Date the big systems: roof, HVAC, water heater, with the four-point and wind-mitigation inspections early; 2012-2014 is replacement territory.
- Walk the actual walk: time the route to the Publix center and the Splash Park from the specific address.
- Measure the life honestly: roughly 1,269-2,045 square feet is the whole range; plan storage and the office question before you offer.
- Read the HOA documents on leasing, parking, and exterior changes before planning anything.
- Verify the school assignment at the address level with the St. Johns County district, especially with a new K-8 opening for 2026-27.
- Comp inside the Town Center core first, the Enclave's own closings, Daniel Park, West End, never against big-lot Nocatee unadjusted.
- Set the search before the listing: the attainable tier of Nocatee rewards the prepared buyer most of all.
Every great masterplan eventually prices out its own front door, and the Enclave is the rung Nocatee cannot rebuild: the smallest detached homes at the best address, built before the price ladder climbed. The buyers who win here treat it as the position it is, the deepest buyer pool in the masterplan competing for a handful of listings a year, and show up prepared instead of reactive.
Bring us in before you tour and we will bring the closed comps, the parcel-level fee picture, and the inspection scope built for a 2012-2014 home, because at this tier the roof and the CDD line are a real percentage of the deal. In a village this small, that preparation is the entire edge.
The Enclave vs. the Nocatee Set
The realistic cross-shop for an Enclave buyer:
| Option | Format | The honest one-liner |
|---|---|---|
| Daniel Park at Town Center | Urban-format SF, walkable | The 2016-era sibling on 40-foot lots: bigger plans, a full price tier up. |
| West End at Town Center | TH + villas, walkable | The attached route to the same address if detached is negotiable. |
| Lakeside at Town Center | Key West SF, walkable | Bigger homes and porches at the same walk, at a higher price. |
| Addison Park | Original TC village | The first Town Center village; the established neighbor a block over. |
| Kelly Pointe | Attainable SF pocket | The other value-tier Nocatee pocket; the walk becomes a drive. |
| Greenleaf Village | Established mixed village | More house per dollar, a drive from Town Center. |
The Enclave's lane is precise: the lowest detached entry at the masterplan's most walkable address, from one builder, in a village that finished building over a decade ago. Bigger exists, attached-cheaper exists, drive-to value exists, but this exact combination is 148 homes and finite.
The Honest Pros and Cons
Pros
- The lowest single-family entry price in the Nocatee masterplan
- Next-door walk to the Publix center, Town Center, and the Splash Park
- Single-builder David Weekley consistency, clean comps
- Compact low-maintenance lots: minutes of yard, not weekends
- Full Nocatee amenity access with the deed
- Deepest buyer pool in the masterplan: the structural resale case
Cons
- CDD plus HOA dues in the carrying cost
- Small homes and lots: close neighbors, modest storage, no pool room on most
- 2012-2014 systems: roofs and HVAC in replacement windows
- Shopping-center adjacency brings some commercial-edge noise
- Entry-tier demand means fast decisions and little negotiating slack on the best homes
- Thin inventory: a handful of listings a year
Our Enclave Buyer Playbook
How we run an Enclave purchase, in order:
- Set the search before the listing: at Nocatee's most-shopped tier, preparation beats reaction.
- Build the all-in monthly first: verified parcel CDD, current HOA dues, and insurance on the actual roof age.
- Underwrite the era: 2012-2014 roofs and systems, with the four-point and wind-mitigation early.
- Pick position and bones over staging: the walk, the street, and the roof outlive every kitchen.
- Comp inside the Town Center core, then sanity-check against the attached and drive-to alternatives, premium acknowledged.
Questions We Ask Before You Sign
Six answers we get in writing on every Enclave contract:
- What is the parcel's current CDD assessment, and where does it sit in the bond schedule?
- What are the current Enclave HOA dues, and what do the documents say about leasing, parking, and exterior changes?
- How old are the roof, HVAC, and water heater, and what do the four-point and wind-mitigation reports show?
- What did the last three Enclave closings actually sell for, and how does this plan and position compare?
- What is the current school assignment for this exact address, given the 2026-27 rezoning?
- What is behind the fence, another rear yard, the commercial edge, or one of the village's rare better exposures?
Is the Enclave Not For You?
The honest cut, both directions:
Consider elsewhere if you want
- A big yard, a pool, or a preserve view
- More than roughly 2,045 square feet
- New construction and a builder warranty
- A gated community
- Distance from the shopping-center edge
- Deep inventory to shop at leisure
The Enclave fits if you want
- The lowest detached price into Nocatee
- The Publix, Town Center, and the Splash Park on foot
- A compact, low-maintenance house with free Saturdays
- Single-builder consistency and clean comps
- Full Nocatee amenity access with the deed
- A finite entry tier with a structural resale case