Forest Hills
Homes for Sale in Jacksonville, FL

Forest Hills is one of Jacksonville's larger established communities, spanning nearly eight decades of construction, so the practical work here is matching a specific home's age and condition to your plans rather than assuming a uniform product.

realMLS (Northeast Florida) sales records identify 133 homes in Forest Hills that have changed hands since 2001, built between 1998 and 2005 (median 2000), with a median living area of about 1,373 sq ft and a typical 3-bedroom, 2-bath layout; 99% 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 19 qualified sales in Forest Hills across 2024–2025 (12 in 2024, 7 in 2025), median $295,000 — 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.

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

In ZIP 32277, 101 homes are on the market and 25% are under contract — a steady corner of Jacksonville.

Across Duval County, 4,384 homes are active and 1,562 pending (26% under contract).

In ZIP 32277 (Jacksonville), 211 homes closed in the last 12 months at a median of $298K ($177/sq ft), down 4.1% year over year, with a median 30 days on market. Right now 39 active and 17 pending listings put supply at about 3.1 months — a healthy market. See the live ZIP 32277 housing market and the Duval County market.

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

The 1928-to-2005 build range is not a footnote — it is the story. In a community like this, two homes a few streets apart can differ by roughly seventy years of construction standards, systems, and layouts. The median year built of 2000 shows where the bulk of the inventory clusters, but the pre-war and mid-century homes carry different maintenance realities and different renovation upside. Read every listing on its own merits.

At roughly 1,629 square feet median living area, the typical home here sits in a practical middle range. Because we have only the median price to work from and a genuinely wide condition-driven spread of homes, expect value to track updates, roof and systems age, and lot specifics far more than square footage alone. That is a market where careful pricing and honest condition assessment beat broad assumptions.

In a community this varied, the value is in the walk-through, not the average. We price and evaluate Forest Hills homes on their actual age, systems, and condition — the things that move money in a market where a 1928 home and a 2000 home share a ZIP code. That is the analysis we bring to both sides of the table.