Lakeside Estates
Homes for Sale in Orange Park, FL

Lakeside Estates market snapshot (as of August 23, 2026): the median sale price is about $319K ($179 per sq ft over the trailing 12 months of closed sales), a median 36 days on market for closed sales, and 1.5 months of supply, a balanced market. The trailing-12-month median is up 1% from the prior 12 months and up 186% since 2012, computed from record-level realMLS closed sales (32 closings in the current window).

Lakeside Estates is a community of 114 homes in Orange Park, Clay County, built between 1964 and 1973 (median 1972.0), with a median living area of about 1,675 square feet. 76% of parcels are homesteaded, the owner-occupancy proxy in the Florida DOR assessment roll (2025 roll, public records).

Lakeside Estates is a small, established Orange Park community of 199 homes spanning construction from 1962 into 2015, with a typical home dating to 1968 — so buyers are shopping a mix of vintages rather than a single-era subdivision.

• Lakeside Elementary SchoolFLDOE grade A · Public PreK-6
• Lakeside Junior High SchoolFLDOE grade A · Public 7-8
• Orange Park High SchoolFLDOE grade B · 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 Clay County Public Schools for a specific address.

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

The math behind Lakeside Estates' $176.73 per-square-foot figure is straightforward: with a median build year of 1968 and homes stretching as recent as 2015, per-square-foot value here is driven heavily by how much a given home has been updated since it was built, not by a uniform new-construction premium. That is also why we do not publish a single price range for this community — the $322,500 median is a real, hand-checked figure, but the spread between a largely original 1968 home and a more recently updated one on the same street can be substantial.

Supply is the other half of the story. Only 6 homes are actively listed against 28 recent closings, which works out to 2.4 months of supply — a seller-leaning market by most conventional readings. Roughly 81.9% of homes in the community currently carry a homestead exemption, consistent with a resale market where most owners have held their property long enough to qualify, which helps explain why active inventory stays thin even as demand holds. We have not identified confirmed community amenities from current MLS listing data, so we are not claiming any here — if a listing mentions a pool, clubhouse, or similar feature, verify it directly rather than assuming it applies community-wide.

With only 6 active listings and a build-year range spanning more than five decades, Lakeside Estates rewards someone who can move fast on the right listing and read a home's actual condition rather than lean on a generic community price. We prepare a hand-checked valuation for every home we work on here — no automated estimate — because the gap between a 1968 original and a fully updated resale is exactly the kind of thing an algorithm misses and a local agent catches by walking the property.

Confirm the current HOA dues, exactly what they cover, and any CDD bond or special assessment for a specific address before you offer.

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