Forest Green
Homes for Sale in Jacksonville, FL
True comps, carrying-cost math, and listings before the portals.
Market Heat

Forest Green is an older Duval County resale pocket, and the numbers say condition and age are doing most of the work on price. The median sale sits at $337,000, working out to $227.04 per square foot on a typical home of 1,739 square feet. Every home here was built between 1985 and 1998, with a median build year of 1989, so buyers are shopping a fairly consistent age band rather than a mix of new construction and old stock — what varies is how well each individual home has been maintained and updated.
The current posture is thin and fast. There are zero active listings right now, the median days on market runs about 6.5, and pricing is down 11.3% year over year on a recent window of just 4 closings. That combination — no inventory, quick turnover, and a small, soft comp set — means pricing here has to be built off a short list of actual closed sales, not a shelf of active listings to compare against. A market heat score of 46 backs that up: this is not a community trading with urgency in either direction.
Forest Green right now
🔴 Off the recent peak. The trailing-12-month median ($330K) is down 12.0% from the prior 12 months ($375K). With about 4 sales a year, a single closing can swing this number, so read the level and the decade, not one year's move.Momentum Research, record-level realMLS closed sales, 12-month windows ending August 20. Confidence: Low (5 and 3 sales in the two windows).
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Updated August 20, 2026 · Live data: realMLS, refreshed twice daily · MLS facts carry their source; interpretation lines are Momentum Research · Data sources & freshness
The 60-Second Overview
Forest Green market snapshot (as of August 20, 2026): the median sale price is about $330K ($212 per sq ft over the trailing 12 months of closed sales), and a median 7 days on market for closed sales. The trailing-12-month median is down 12% from the prior 12 months, computed from record-level realMLS closed sales (5 closings in the current window).
Forest Green is a 179-home community in Jacksonville (Duval County) where roughly 75.4% of owners carry a homestead exemption, pointing to a resale market built on long-term owners rather than turnover-driven investor activity. No community amenities are identified in current MLS listings, so any pool, gate, or clubhouse claims would need to be verified home by home rather than assumed community-wide.
The setting & the homes.
Aerial and on-site photos of Forest Green. Swipe to explore the community.
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Who Forest Green is best for.
Best for
- Buyers targeting a home near the $337,000 median who are ready to act fast once something lists, given the 6.5-day median days on market.
- Buyers who want a consistent build era (1985–1998) and are comfortable evaluating value primarily on price per square foot rather than home age.
- Sellers who want a fast-moving listing and are comfortable pricing off a small, current comp set rather than a large active inventory.
Probably not for
- Buyers who want to compare several active listings side by side before deciding — there is currently no active inventory to shop.
- Buyers seeking community amenities like a pool or clubhouse as part of the purchase decision, since none are identified in current listings.
- Sellers expecting price appreciation momentum — the recent trend here is a year-over-year decline of 11.3%.
Price History: What Homes Here Have Actually Sold For
Median sale price over the trailing 12 months ending August 20 of each year, from record-level realMLS closed sales. Same methodology as every appreciation figure on this page: the 2026 point ($330K) IS the median in the snapshot above, and the move from 2025 ($375K) IS the -12.0% one-year change.
Windows contain 1 to 8 sales each (5 in the current window); every figure carries its sample size, and thin markets swing on single closings. Source: Data provided by realMLS. Deemed reliable but not guaranteed.
Forestgreen Market Scorecard
Forestgreen is currently a no active listings market. Limited supply, a median asking price of n/a.
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Live data: realMLS, refreshed twice daily. Typical value: Zillow Research. Market metrics only; these describe homes for sale and recent sales, not residents.
Housing distress & ownership in Forest Green, Jacksonville
Who owns here, how much is not owner-occupied, and how much for-sale inventory is under distress.
Source: Momentum Realty Research. Ownership & parcels from the FL DOR 2025 tax roll; distress from MLS active-listing status/remarks; price from MLS closed sales. Source: Data provided by realMLS. Deemed reliable but not guaranteed.
Forest Green on the map.
Every active, pending, and recently sold home, plotted. Toggle the layers and tap a home for the details.
Listing locations from realMLS. Map data © OpenStreetMap, tiles © CARTO.
Schools
- Duval County Public Schools
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- Magnet and choice options may be available
- Polk County Public Schools (verify by address) · Public
- Confirm zoned elementary, middle, and high · By address
- Magnet and choice options may apply · Choice
Zoned schools reflect the assignments reported on recent Forest Green listings and can change; always confirm with Duval County Public Schools for a specific address.
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The Forest Green buying strategy.
If we were buying in Forest Green today, this is the order of operations we would run for our clients.
Underwrite the condition first. Price the roof, HVAC, and systems honestly before judging any list price; condition swings value here more than square footage alone.
Match the home to real comps. Recent sales of similar condition and lot, not the asking price, tell you what a home is worth.
Move deliberately, not desperately. Neither side has a decisive edge, so a well-prepared, fairly-priced offer wins without overpaying.
Line up financing and inspection early. A pre-approval and an inspection plan let you act fast and negotiate from evidence.
Keep an agent in your corner. The listing agent works for the seller; we represent you and prepare a hand-built valuation before any offer in Forest Green.
Forest Green by the Numbers
With zero active listings as of this snapshot, Forest Green is effectively sold out of available inventory at the moment. That is a meaningful signal on its own: a median days-on-market of 6.5 says that when something does list here, it moves quickly, but the year-over-year pricing move of -11.3% — built on only 4 recent closings — shows that pricing is soft even with fast turnover. Thin closing samples like this can swing hard on a single sale, so any pricing conversation for a specific home needs to lean on the underlying comps, not just the headline median.
Every home in the community falls inside the 1985–1998 build range, with a median year built of 1989 and a median living area of 1,739 square feet. That narrow build window is part of why per-square-foot pricing ($227.04 median) is a more stable anchor here than the raw sale price — it controls for the fact that most homes are a similar size and vintage, and the real variable buyer to buyer is upkeep and updates, not floor plan generation.
The location and the amenities are priced into every listing in Forest Green. The deal is won or lost on condition, the comps, and the renovation math.
Why work with Momentum here
With zero active listings and a median-price calculation resting on just 4 closings, Forest Green is not a community you can read off a portal search. Getting the pricing right — for a buyer writing an offer or a seller setting a list price — means pulling the actual closed comps inside that 1985–1998 build range and weighing condition and updates against the $227.04 per-square-foot median, not the median sale price alone. That is the kind of comp work Momentum does before a number ever goes on a sign or an offer.
Forest Green in 15 seconds.
HOA, CDD & Fees
- Mandatory HOA. Confirm current dues
- Any club/amenity membership is billed separately
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Tools for a Forest Green buy.
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Data sources & freshness
| Live listings | realMLS, refreshed twice daily (last: August 20, 2026) |
| Community market stats | realMLS closed sales, 12-month windows ending August 20, 2026 |
| Under-contract shares | realMLS records, as of 2026-08-18 |
| Schools | 2025-26 district assignments + FLDOE school grades; verify with the district |
| Historical depth | Closed-sale records back to 2001 (96 transactions analyzed) |
Verify the primary sources yourself: Florida DOR · U.S. Census · FEMA flood maps · Citizens Property Insurance.
Momentum Research figures are our own analysis of realMLS records; MLS data is deemed reliable but not guaranteed. Methodology: how Momentum market scores are computed. Market metrics describe homes for sale and recent sales, not residents.
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