Pleasant Park
Homes for Sale in Jacksonville, FL
True comps, carrying-cost math, and listings before the portals.
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Price in Pleasant Park is driven by condition and vintage more than by any uniform product type. With a housing stock spanning 1920 to 2024 and a median build year of 1978, you are looking at a genuinely mixed inventory — early-century homes, mid-century stock, and a thin layer of new construction all trading under one community name. The median sits at $289,900, or about $173.80 per square foot on a median footprint of roughly 1,629 square feet, but the spread around that median is wide because you are pricing renovation level, not a standardized floor plan.
The market posture here is patient. A median of 73 days on market tells sellers this is not a place where you name a price on Friday and field offers by Monday; homes that are priced to their actual condition move, and homes that are priced to their aspiration sit. For buyers, that same number is leverage — there is time to inspect an older home properly and negotiate on what the inspection turns up.
The 60-Second Overview
Pleasant Park market snapshot (as of August 21, 2026): the median sale price is about $290K ($174 per sq ft over the trailing 12 months of closed sales), and a median 73 days on market for closed sales.
Pleasant Park is a mixed-vintage Jacksonville community in Du val County where the housing stock runs from 1920 through 2024, so two listings at similar prices can be very different houses. Read each home on its own merits — the community label tells you less than the condition report.
The setting & the homes.
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Who Pleasant Park is best for.
Best for
- Buyers with a renovation budget who want to price a home to its condition rather than a market average
- Patient buyers who value a longer days-on-market window to inspect and negotiate
- Buyers seeking a Jacksonville entry point around the community median who will vet each home individually
Probably not for
- Buyers who need standardized, newer construction with a predictable price per square foot
- Buyers who want a fast, competitive close and no room to negotiate on condition
- Buyers unwilling to budget for the maintenance risk that comes with older housing stock
Price History: What Homes Here Have Actually Sold For
Median sale price over the trailing 12 months ending August 21 of each year, from record-level realMLS closed sales. Same methodology as every appreciation figure on this page: the 2026 point ($290K) IS the median in the snapshot above.
Windows contain 0 to 6 sales each (5 in the current window); every figure carries its sample size, and thin markets swing on single closings. Source: Data provided by realMLS. Deemed reliable but not guaranteed.
33% of homes for sale in ZIP 32218 are already under contract (under contract ÷ under contract + active listings) — a read on how much of the available inventory buyers have already claimed. Source: MLS data (2026-08-18).
Pleasant Park Market Scorecard
Pleasant Park is currently a balanced market..
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Live data: realMLS, refreshed twice daily. Market metrics only; these describe homes for sale and recent sales, not residents.
Housing distress & ownership in Pleasant Park, Jacksonville
Who owns here, how much is not owner-occupied, and how much for-sale inventory is under distress.
Source: Momentum Realty Research. Ownership & parcels from the FL DOR 2025 tax roll; distress from MLS active-listing status/remarks; price from MLS closed sales. Source: Data provided by realMLS. Deemed reliable but not guaranteed.
Pleasant Park on the map.
Every active, pending, and recently sold home, plotted. Toggle the layers and tap a home for the details.
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The Pleasant Park buying strategy.
If we were buying in Pleasant Park 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 Pleasant Park.
Pricing an uneven housing stock
The gap between the oldest and newest homes here is more than a century, and the median build year of 1978 sits closer to the middle than the front of that range. That matters because a buyer is often choosing between an original older home that needs work and a renovated or newer one that does not — same neighborhood, very different carrying costs and inspection risk. The median price and the per-square-foot figure are useful anchors, but treat them as the center of a broad band rather than a going rate.
A homestead share of 48 percent means owner-occupancy and non-homestead ownership are split close to evenly. For a buyer, that mix is worth noting when you compare a specific listing's history and holding pattern; for a seller, it means your competition on the market can include both long-held owner homes and turnover stock, and pricing to condition is what separates a 73-day listing from a longer one.
The location and the amenities are priced into every listing in Pleasant Park. The deal is won or lost on condition, the comps, and the renovation math.
Why work with Momentum here
In a community where a single median hides a wide range of ages and conditions, the value we add is reading the individual house against the block, not the headline number. We will walk an older home's bones with you, tell you where the 73-day market gives you room to negotiate, and be direct when a listing is priced to its ambition rather than its condition.
Pleasant Park in 15 seconds.
HOA, CDD & Fees
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Tools for a Pleasant Park buy.
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Recent Developments in Pleasant Park
Development, infrastructure, retail, and school activity affecting Pleasant Park, tracked by our team and summarized from public reporting and official sources, with links to the original coverage. Last updated August 2026.
- July 2026Development
JWB secures funding for 108 affordable housing units in Jacksonville
Jacksonville Today reported that JWB Real Estate Capital secured about $28.59 million in gap funding for 108 income-restricted units across three Westside sites on Tracy, Justina and Ricker roads. Plans include 38 townhome-style units and two sets of 35 efficiency units, priced at or below 60% of area median income for 50 years. Groundbreaking is expected by September 2026 with completion in 2027.
What it may mean for the marketAdds new income-restricted rental and townhome housing supply on the Westside, increasing the stock of long-term affordable units and drawing public and tax-credit investment into three infill sites. The project is about 17 miles southwest of Pleasant Park, elsewhere in Duval County.
Source: Jacksonville Today - July 2026Development
Culinary Institute of America selects Jacksonville for Southeast campus
News4Jax reported that the Culinary Institute of America chose downtown Jacksonville for its Southeast hub, to be located at 330 E. Bay Street on the Northbank riverfront. The campus would anchor a $160.5 million hotel and convention center development. The city previously approved up to $35 million in incentives, and the Downtown Investment Authority is finalizing agreements on design and property details.
What it may mean for the marketAnchors a major downtown riverfront redevelopment that pairs an educational campus with hotel and convention space, adding institutional and commercial investment to the urban core alongside Riverfront Plaza and Pearl Square. The project is about 10 miles west of Pleasant Park, elsewhere in Duval County.
Source: News4Jax - June 2026Development
Hillwood contracts with the City of Jacksonville for 192 acres at AllianceFlorida at Cecil Commerce Center
Master developer Hillwood contracted with the City of Jacksonville for 192 acres at AllianceFlorida at Cecil Commerce Center on Jacksonville's Westside, continuing the buildout of the former Naval Air Station Cecil Field into an industrial and logistics park.
What it may mean for the marketContinued absorption of large industrial parcels at Cecil signals sustained employment growth on the Westside, which can support housing demand across nearby communities. The project is about 25 miles west of Pleasant Park, elsewhere in Duval County.
Source: Jax Daily Record - April 2026Development
Southeast Toyota opens $170M vehicle-processing facility at JAXPORT's Blount Island, adding 400-plus jobs
Southeast Toyota Distributors dedicated a new vehicle processing facility at JAXPORT's Blount Island Marine Terminal in April 2026. The company put the investment at $170 million and said the facility created more than 400 full-time jobs, most of them hired locally.
What it may mean for the marketA large new employment center on Blount Island adds sustained local job demand, a factor that has historically supported nearby housing absorption. The site is about 3 miles northwest of Pleasant Park.
Source: JAXPORT - April 2026Development
Hillwood seeks to mass-grade an AllianceFlorida site for a possible 1 million-square-foot building
Hillwood asked to mass grade a site at AllianceFlorida at Cecil Commerce Center to prepare for a possible 1 million-square-foot building, a step that typically precedes a large industrial or distribution user committing to the Westside park.
What it may mean for the marketA build-ready million-square-foot pad points to a potential large employer on the Westside, the kind of jobs anchor that can lift demand for nearby housing. The project is about 25 miles west of Pleasant Park, elsewhere in Duval County.
Source: Jax Daily Record - February 2026Infrastructure
JAXPORT details $250M Blount Island modernization and record cargo in 2026 State of the Ports
At its February 2026 State of the Ports address, JAXPORT outlined a $250 million modernization of Blount Island's container and vehicle-handling capabilities and reported record fiscal-2025 cargo volumes. The port also said an air-draft expansion to accommodate larger ships is on track to finish by the end of 2026.
What it may mean for the marketContinued heavy investment in the Blount Island port complex anchors long-term industrial employment on the northeast side, a structural demand driver for the surrounding area. The site is about 3 miles northwest of Pleasant Park.
Source: News4Jax
Summaries reflect public reporting and official sources linked above as of the dates shown. Project details, timelines, and approvals can change. Commentary on potential market effects is general observation, not investment advice or a prediction for any specific property. For the freshest items across the whole region, see This Week in Northeast Florida.
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Data sources & freshness
| Live listings | realMLS, refreshed twice daily (last: August 21, 2026) |
| Community market stats | realMLS closed sales, 12-month windows ending August 21, 2026 |
| Under-contract shares | realMLS records, as of 2026-08-18 |
| Historical depth | Closed-sale records back to 2002 (34 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 realMLS 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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