Community Details at a Glance
The Homes
Product
House-sized townhomes, 3 and 4 bedrooms, roughly 1,720 to 2,065 sq ft
Built
2004 to 2005, when Southside attached product came in house proportions
Format
Two-story attached homes; interior and end units
Status
Resale; established attached community
Costs & Fees
HOA
Covers the townhome exterior and commons; confirm the scope
CDD
Verify per parcel on the Duval tax bill
Taxes
Duval County millage; budget the all-in monthly
Amenities
Space
House-sized three and four bedroom plans
Low maintenance
The HOA handles the townhome exterior
Tinseltown
Retail, dining, and entertainment nearby
Access
Quick Southside connector access
Location
Setting
Southside / Tinseltown, Jacksonville, ZIP 32246
Town Center
A short drive to the St. Johns Town Center
Connectors
Quick access to JTB, I-295, and Southside Boulevard
Downtown
About 20 minutes via the connectors
The Homes & Style
The working numbers: a median sale around $375,000, closed sales roughly $338,000 to $395,000, and about $207 per square foot (neighborhoods.com, June 2026). The per-foot figure is the tell: newer, smaller townhomes nearby frequently trade meaningfully higher per foot, so Oxford Chase is where the corridor buys space instead of a build date. Price off the latest closings; with roughly 16 sales a year (bradofficer.com, May 2026), one or two outliers can distort any average.
The buyer pool is Town Center and Southside corridor professionals who want the location without the compact-plan compromise, move-up buyers leaving smaller attached product, buyers using the 4BR plans as detached substitutes, and the occasional investor running rent math against the corridor apartment stock. The two-car garage widens that pool in a way the comp set mostly cannot match.
The honest comparison is against new and near-new townhomes in the corridor: they win on systems age and warranty, Oxford Chase wins on square feet, the garage, the gate-plus-amenity package, and per-foot price, often with a cleaner tax bill given the no-CDD report (neighborhoods.com, June 2026). Run both as all-in monthlies including realistic maintenance reserves for 2004-2005 systems, and let the math, not the model home, decide.
One build era, a tight plan range, and a thin tape. Figures below are portal-reported; the community turns over roughly 16 units a year (bradofficer.com, May 2026), so verify against the latest closed sales rather than averages.
Roughly 1,720 to 1,900 square feet with 2.5 baths and the two-car garage, these are the bulk of the roughly 250 units and the bulk of the tape. Recent closings have run roughly $338,000 into the $370s at this size (neighborhoods.com, June 2026), and the floor plans live like small single-family homes: real bedrooms, real storage, a garage that actually fits two cars.
Topping out near 2,065 square feet, the four-bedroom plans push toward the top of the closed range, with sales reported up to about $395,000 (neighborhoods.com, June 2026). A 4BR townhome with a two-car garage near the Town Center is close to a category of one; when these list, they draw the buyers who were about to give up and shop detached.
End units carry the extra light and single shared wall and tend to resell on it; units deeper in the community trade gate and Gate Parkway proximity for quiet. At this band the position premiums are modest in dollars, and condition, especially the age of roof, HVAC, and water heater, separates listings more than the lot map does.
Living Here
A full amenity package for a townhome community, funded by a mid-band fee with no CDD reported on top.
The community hub behind the gate: a clubhouse with a meeting room for association business and resident use, the kind of common space most townhome communities of this size skip.
The centerpiece amenity, maintained on the association line rather than your personal one. In a corridor minutes from the Town Center, a pool you do not insure or service is a genuine carrying-cost win.
An on-site gym inside the gate, which at this fee level effectively offsets a commercial gym membership and is uncommon in townhome communities of this vintage and price band.
Controlled access at the entrance, with the Tinseltown district and St. Johns Town Center close enough that the location itself does retail, dining, and entertainment work the dues never have to fund.
St. Johns Town Center, the premier retail and dining cluster in Northeast Florida, sits about five minutes away, the Tinseltown district covers movies and restaurants closer still, and the Gate Parkway and Southside Boulevard corridors handle groceries and daily errands. The weekly run rarely leaves a five-minute radius.
Two-car garages on attached product are rare citywide and effectively unavailable in new townhome construction near the Town Center, where compact one-car plans rule. That makes the spec hard to reproduce: a buyer who needs two covered spaces plus storage at this address has a very short list, and Oxford Chase is most of it. It is the quiet reason resale demand holds despite the build date.
Plenty of 32246 and nearby corridor communities carry CDD assessments that add real money to the tax bill for decades. Oxford Chase is reported without one (neighborhoods.com, June 2026), so a fee comparison against newer communities understates the advantage unless you compare full tax bills. Pull the estimated taxes on any unit you compare against; that is where the gap shows.
Roughly 16 sales a year across about 250 units (bradofficer.com, May 2026) signals owners who stay, which is its own endorsement. It also means thin comps: a single dated unit or a single renovated one can set the visible price for months, and appraisers work from the same short tape. Buyers should price off the latest closings by condition; sellers should document upgrades, because the appraisal will need the help.
Before You Offer
Jacksonville sees coastal, river, and creek flooding, and pockets near the St. Johns River tributaries can sit in higher-risk zones. Jacksonville participates in the FEMA Community Rating System at a class 6, which earns flood-insurance discounts of about 10 percent for homes outside a special flood hazard area and about 20 percent for homes inside one.
The reliable move is to pull the FEMA flood designation for the exact Oxford Chase address before you write an offer, since two homes in the same area can fall in different zones. A home in Zone X can cost far less to insure than one near water in Zone AE. Get a bindable flood and homeowners quote during your inspection period, so the cost is in your monthly math before you commit, not after.
The Jacksonville metro is served by Xfinity (Comcast) cable across nearly all addresses and by AT&T with DSL almost everywhere plus fiber to a growing share of homes. If working from home matters, confirm the options, and fiber in particular, at the specific Oxford Chase address rather than assuming.
Duval County total millage runs roughly 17.9 to 18.5 mills depending on the taxing district. The Florida homestead exemption for 2026 is 51,411 dollars for those who qualify, and the deadline to file a new homestead exemption is March 1.
The trap to plan for is the post-sale reset: when you buy, the Save Our Homes cap from the previous owner ends and the assessed value resets to the new just value, so your second-year tax bill is often higher than the seller current one. Budget the true number, and confirm whether the specific home carries a CDD or other assessment that is billed separately from the millage and is not reduced by the homestead exemption.
How Oxford Chase Compares
The realistic cross-shop is other Southside attached and established options:
| Option | Profile | The honest one-liner |
|---|---|---|
| Sutton Lakes | Established Southside | An established community with single-family options for buyers who want a yard. |
| Tamaya | Amenity community | A newer amenity community for buyers who want a resort campus. |
| Baymeadows | Established Southside | A larger Southside area with a wide range of homes and prices. |
Oxford Chase wins on house-sized townhomes, three and four bedrooms in a low-maintenance product, in a central location near Tinseltown. It concedes a detached yard and resort amenities. If you want a single-family home, shop the comparisons.
Who It Fits
Oxford Chase fits if you want
- A large, low-maintenance townhome
- House-sized space without a yard
- Central Southside and Tinseltown access
- Three or four bedrooms attached
- A scarce, space-forward attached product
Consider elsewhere if you want
- A detached home and a yard
- New construction
- A gated, resort-amenity community
- A small, lowest-price unit
- To avoid attached, shared-wall living

















