Kensington Lakes
Homes for Sale in Jacksonville, FL

Kensington Lakes is a settled, mid-1990s Jacksonville community in Duval County where the housing stock is uniform enough to compare cleanly but old enough that condition — not size — sets the price.

realMLS (Northeast Florida) sales records identify 37 homes in Kensington Lakes that have changed hands since 2005, built between 1989 and 2000 (median 1992), with a median living area of about 1,565 sq ft and a typical 3-bedroom, 2-bath layout; 84% 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 25 qualified sales in Kensington Lakes across 2024–2025 (15 in 2024, 10 in 2025), median $425,000 — 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.

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

In ZIP 32246, 237 homes are on the market and 27% 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 32246 (Jacksonville), 665 homes closed in the last 12 months at a median of $345K ($216/sq ft), down 3.4% year over year, with a median 41 days on market. Right now 144 active and 61 pending listings put supply at about 3.1 months — a healthy market. See the live ZIP 32246 housing market and the Duval County market.

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

With build years clustered from 1988 to 1998 and a median of 1993, the major systems in an unrenovated home are at or past the end of their expected life. Roof, HVAC, water heater, and original kitchens and baths are the line items that separate one asking price from another. Two houses of nearly identical size can justify very different numbers based purely on what has been replaced and when.

The high homestead share — about 78% — signals long-tenure ownership, which typically produces fewer but better-maintained listings. That is a double edge: inventory can be thin, and the homes that do come up range from lovingly kept to frozen in the year they were bought. Read each listing on its own merits and budget for the updates a given house still needs.

In a community this age, the value question is a condition question, and that is where a broker earns their keep. We walk the systems with you, separate cosmetic from structural, and price the update gap into your offer or your list strategy — so you are not paying renovated money for an original house, or leaving money on the table when yours is the one that has already been done.