Hardwick Farms Homes for Sale in Jacksonville, FL

Hardwick Farms is a brand-new Lennar community off Powers Avenue in the San Jose area (ZIP 32217), built as two products under one master plan. The Classic Collection of single-family homes has sold out; the Townhome Collection of two-story attached homes is still actively selling. The townhomes are two nearly identical plans, the Irving (interior, 1,717 SF) and the Easton (end, 1,716 SF), both 3-bedroom, 2.5-bath, built in 4- and 6-unit rows on Palladian Court and Golden Monarch Avenue.

Everything here is recent construction on Lennar’s Everything’s Included model, so appliances, blinds, and smart-home features are baked into the base price rather than sold as design-center options. You buy the spec, not a custom home, which keeps pricing clean and apples-to-apples but limits personalization. Quartz counters, designer cabinets, and tile-look flooring are standard.

This is a new-construction townhome buy in a close-in location, where the builder warranty and the corridor, not a lot premium, are what you are paying for.

The pitch is location and newness, not amenity sprawl. This is not a clubhouse-and-lagoon community; there is no gate and no resort campus, and the fee structure is not funding one. The amenity is the position: San Marco’s restaurant and shop district, the St. Johns River parks, and downtown Jacksonville are all minutes away, with the Powers and University retail corridors and Philips Highway close by.

Day to day, this is a lock-and-leave format that fits first-time buyers who want close-in Jacksonville with new-construction economics, and downsizers or downtown commuters who want new systems and low maintenance, as long as two-story living works. The I-95 spine does the heavy lifting on the commute, roughly 14 to 20 minutes to downtown and the Town Center, with the beaches about half an hour out.

• HOA by collection — reported ~$188/mo townhomes vs ~$91.50/mo Classic; confirm the current amount and coverage in writing.
• CDD — none advertised for this infill site, but verify the parcel tax bill line by line.
• Builder incentives — run Lennar’s lender-tied incentives against outside financing; the package is not always the cheapest money.
• Leasing rules — pull the current association documents for the specific collection if rental flexibility matters.
• New-build walk — even on a warranty, inspect the unit and confirm what the warranty covers and for how long.
• Insurance — quote the actual premium; attached construction and flood zone status both move the number.
• Resale comps — with thin resale history, comp against both original builder pricing and the live townhome sheet next door.

Hardwick Farms is the only new-construction neighborhood in this stretch of San Jose, so the honest comparison is against the established resale neighborhoods around it, each a different trade-off on age, price, and character.

The honest verdict: if you want new-construction economics, a builder warranty, and a close-in San Jose address at a high-$200s entry, Hardwick Farms is the only new game on this corridor. If you want walkability, character, or a bigger lot, the established neighborhoods above are the field to shop against, by total cost of ownership rather than list price.