Meadow Lawn 5Th Add
Homes for Sale in St Petersburg, FL
True comps, carrying-cost math, and listings before the portals.
Market Heat
Price in Meadow Lawn 5Th Add is driven by condition and lot, not by any single template. With a median build year of 1957 and homes spanning from 1938 to 2023, you are pricing individual houses here — a renovated mid-century bungalow and a tired original down the street can carry very different numbers. The median sits at $295,000, and at roughly $259 per square foot on a median footprint just under 1,350 square feet, most of the value question comes down to what has already been updated.
The current posture is fast but softening. A median of 8 days on market says well-prepared listings move quickly, and a heat score of 64 backs that up. But prices are down 14.5% year over year, so sellers should not anchor to last year's comps, and buyers have more leverage than the speed of sale suggests. Read the two signals together: move decisively on the right house, but underwrite it on today's numbers, not yesterday's.
Meadow Lawn 5Th Add right now
🔴 Off the recent peak. The trailing-12-month median ($295K) is down 17.3% from the prior 12 months ($356K). With about 5 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 Stellar MLS closed sales, 12-month windows ending July 15. Confidence: Medium (7 and 6 sales in the two windows).
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Updated July 15, 2026 · Live data: Stellar MLS, refreshed twice daily · MLS facts carry their source; interpretation lines are Momentum Research · Data sources & freshness
The 60-Second Overview
Meadow Lawn 5Th Add market snapshot (as of July 15, 2026): the median sale price is about $295K ($259 per sq ft over the trailing 12 months of closed sales), and a median 8 days on market for closed sales. The trailing-12-month median is down 17% from the prior 12 months, computed from record-level Stellar MLS closed sales (7 closings in the current window).
Meadow Lawn 5Th Add is a community of 865 homes in St Petersburg, Pinellas County, built between 1938 and 2023 (median 1957), with a median living area of about 1,347 square feet. 74% of parcels are homesteaded, the owner-occupancy proxy in the Florida DOR assessment roll (2025 roll, public records).
Meadow Lawn 5Th Add is an established St Petersburg neighborhood of roughly 865 homes where about three-quarters are homesteaded — a settled, owner-occupied pocket rather than a churn of rentals.
Who Meadow Lawn 5Th Add is best for.
Best for
- Buyers targeting a mid-$290s single-family home who will renovate or maintain an older house
- Owner-occupants wanting a settled, long-hold neighborhood rather than a rental-heavy block
- Buyers ready to move fast on a prepared listing but underwrite it on current numbers
Probably not for
- Buyers who need substantially more than roughly 1,350 square feet of living space
- Buyers expecting turnkey new construction at the neighborhood median
- Sellers anchored to last year's pricing who won't account for the year-over-year decline
Price History: What Homes Here Have Actually Sold For
Median sale price over the trailing 12 months ending July 15 of each year, from record-level Stellar MLS closed sales. Same methodology as every appreciation figure on this page: the 2026 point ($295K) IS the median in the snapshot above, and the move from 2025 ($356K) IS the -17.3% one-year change.
Windows contain 0 to 15 sales each (7 in the current window); every figure carries its sample size, and thin markets swing on single closings. Based on Stellar MLS data distributed by MLS GRID for the period %s through %s. Deemed reliable but not guaranteed.
The Meadow Lawn 5Th Add buying strategy.
If we were buying in Meadow Lawn 5Th Add 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 Meadow Lawn 5Th Add.
A condition-driven mid-century market
The building stock here is the story. A median year built of 1957, with the range starting in 1938 and running to 2023, tells you this is a neighborhood that has been infilled and rebuilt over decades. That mix means the median price of $295,000 covers a lot of ground in practice — some homes reflect original systems and layouts, others have been taken down to the studs or replaced entirely. The single median figure is a starting point, not a substitute for walking the specific house.
The homestead share near 75% points to stability: this is a place people hold rather than flip. Combined with a compact median living area just under 1,350 square feet, the inventory leans toward manageable single-family homes rather than sprawling new construction. That's worth weighing against the 14.5% year-over-year decline — a settled ownership base tends to limit forced selling, but it does not immunize the neighborhood from the broader price reset.
The location and the amenities are priced into every listing in Meadow Lawn 5Th Add. The deal is won or lost on condition, the comps, and the renovation math.
Momentum Buy Score.
Our proprietary 0 to 10 read across the factors that decide how a home in Meadow Lawn 5Th Add buys, holds, and resells. Momentum Research; not an appraisal.
Momentum Intelligence Scores are our proprietary, qualitative assessment on a 0 to 10 scale, built from the record-level market data on this page. They are a framework for comparing communities, not a guarantee of future value and not advice on a specific home; unlike an automated value estimate they do not price your home, they grade the community on evidence you can inspect. Composite is the plain average of the 3 factors (6.1). Basis: Recent Direction -17.3% year-over-year; Owner Commitment 74% owner-occupied; Pricing Power 98.7% sale-to-list. Refreshed with each data update.
Why work with Momentum here
In a market this condition-dependent, the median tells you almost nothing about the house in front of you. We price and negotiate off the actual structure — age of roof and systems, quality of any renovation, lot — because in Meadow Lawn 5Th Add that is where the real spread lives. With listings moving in about 8 days but prices down year over year, we help you separate genuine urgency from a comp set that no longer holds.
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Data sources & freshness
| Community market stats | Stellar MLS closed sales, 12-month windows ending July 15, 2026 |
| Housing stock & ownership | Florida DOR 2025 assessment roll (street-list match (8 streets, ZIP 33702)) |
| Under-contract shares | Stellar MLS records, as of 2026-07-12 |
| Historical depth | Closed-sale records back to 2010 (86 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 Stellar MLS 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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