Lake Forest
Homes for Sale in Jacksonville, FL

Lake Forest market snapshot (as of July 14, 2026): the median sale price is about $155K ($129 per sq ft over the trailing 12 months of closed sales), a median 40 days on market for closed sales, and 4.2 months of supply, a balanced market. The trailing-12-month median is up 1% from the prior 12 months and up 634% since 2012, computed from record-level realMLS closed sales (43 closings in the current window).

Lake Forest is a community of 2,163 homes in Jacksonville, Duval County, built between 1906 and 2024 (median 1952), with a median living area of about 1,404 square feet. 51% of parcels are homesteaded, the owner-occupancy proxy in the Florida DOR assessment roll (2025 roll, public records).

Lake Forest is a Duval County community of 2,163 homes carried on the realmls feed, with a housing stock old enough that renovation history and lot condition, more than square footage alone, tend to explain price differences between similar homes.

• North Shore Elementary SchoolFLDOE grade C · Public PreK-5
• Jean Ribault Middle SchoolFLDOE grade C · Public 6-8
• Jean Ribault High SchoolFLDOE grade A · Public 9-12

Grades are official Florida Department of Education school grades for 2025-26. Assignments are reported as of the 2025-26 year and can change; always confirm with Duval County Public Schools for a specific address.

Buying with schools in mind? We can confirm the exact zoned schools for any Lake Forest address.

Forty-three closings in the tracked window is enough to read a trend but not enough to call this a high-volume market — this is a neighborhood that turns over steadily, not one flipping constantly. The median $155,000 price and $129.39 per-square-foot figure sit against a median living area of 1,404 square feet, and with homes built anywhere from 1906 to 2024, buyers evaluating two listings at a similar price point should expect meaningfully different renovation states, systems age, and lot layouts rather than a like-for-like comparison.

Just over half of homes here, 50.6%, carry a homestead exemption, which is a reasonable proxy for owner-occupancy levels in the neighborhood's housing stock. Longer term, the median price is up 634% since 2012 — a reminder that the multi-decade trend and this year's flat 0.6% reading are two different stories, and a seller or buyer should be clear on which one they're actually pricing against.

With zero active listings at this snapshot and a housing stock spanning more than a century of construction, Lake Forest rewards someone who already knows which comps matter and can move the moment a listing appears. We track this community's closings, days-on-market, and price-per-square-foot on the realmls feed continuously, so when something does list, we can tell you quickly whether it is priced to the neighborhood's real condition-adjusted market or to its long-term trend line — and help you act on that distinction instead of guessing at it.

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