Community Details at a Glance
The Homes
Product
Condominium units, 2 to 3 bedrooms, roughly 1,100 to 1,574 square feet
Building
320 units in gated four-story buildings, completed 2003
Ownership
Condominium, not fee-simple; verify the association name on any unit
Variation
Floor, view, and building set the value; pool-facing and pond exposures carry a premium
Costs & Fees
Condo fee
Not published by third-party sources; get the current amount, coverage, and budget in writing
CDD
None; the stack is condo dues plus taxes
Reality
Comp quality is the hazard; portals blend this complex with the one across the street, so use association-verified comps
Amenities
Gate
Controlled access to the 320-unit community
Clubhouse
Clubhouse with an on-site fitness center
Pool
Community pool at the courtyard center
Extras
A car-care wash-and-vacuum station and a lighted walking path
Location
Setting
Deerwood and Gate Parkway area of Southside Jacksonville, ZIP 32256
Shopping
St. Johns Town Center about 5 minutes; Baymeadows strip just south
Access
Minutes to J. Turner Butler Boulevard, I-95, and I-295
Work
Deerwood Park office corridor about 5 minutes
The Homes & Style
Per aggregated listing data from 2025, Point Meadows Place units ran roughly 170,000 to 265,000 dollars, with 2 bedrooms around 183,000 to 230,000 dollars and 3 bedrooms around 185,000 to 252,000 dollars; treat those as a 2025 snapshot and confirm live comps.
The buyer pool is Deerwood Park and Gate Parkway professionals, first-time buyers running the rent-versus-own math, downsizers who want gated and low-maintenance, and investors chasing the corridor tenant base.
Comp quality is the local hazard: cross-contaminated data from the complex next door skews portal estimates in both directions, so pricing here demands association-verified comps, not algorithm guesses.
Point Meadows Place is one association and a tight unit menu, but the surrounding data is messy, so the homework here is plan, floor, and making sure you are even looking at the right complex.
The core of the 320, from about 1,100 square feet; per aggregated listing data from 2025, they traded around 183,000 to 230,000 dollars.
The larger plans up to about 1,574 square feet, around 185,000 to 252,000 dollars per the same 2025 data, the larger and roommate-friendly end of the complex.
Top-floor units trade quiet for stairs in the four-story buildings; confirm elevator access building by building, and pool-facing exposures carry modest premiums.
This complex is 7801 Point Meadows Drive; The Reserve at Pointe Meadows is 7800, across the street. Listings, reviews, and even some portals blend them, so verify the association name on any unit before you comp it.
Living Here
The amenity package covers the practical condo-living bases, with the gate and the clubhouse campus as the anchors.
Controlled access to the 320-unit community.
The community anchor, with an on-site gym that saves a membership.
The courtyard centerpiece of the complex.
The practical extras: a wash-and-vacuum station and an evening-safe loop for walkers.
St. Johns Town Center is about five minutes for the full retail and dining run, the Gate Parkway corridor covers groceries and daily errands, and the Baymeadows restaurant strip adds depth just south.
The Reserve at Pointe Meadows at 7800 and Point Meadows Place at 7801 are separate complexes with separate associations and fees, but aggregator sites blend the names, photos, and even sold data; every comp you rely on here needs the association name verified, not just the street.
Because the portals cross-contaminate the two complexes, automated estimates here are less reliable than usual; a buyer or seller working from verified in-association comps has a genuine information edge over anyone trusting the algorithm.
A wash-and-vacuum station sounds trivial until you price what condo dwellers spend at car washes; it is the kind of practical amenity that tenants mention in reviews, which quietly supports the rental case.
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 Point Meadows Place 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 Point Meadows Place 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.
Comparisons
Point Meadows Place's natural cross-shops are the other gated condo communities in the Deerwood and Gate Parkway corridor. The closest comparison is the complex directly across the street, which shares the street name and trades in an overlapping price band; the practical difference is that they are separate associations with separate budgets and fees, and because portals blend them, the buyer who verifies the association name on every comp has a real information edge here. Against Esplanade at Town Center, Point Meadows Place gives up walkability to the mall and garage parking but answers with a clubhouse and fitness campus, a courtyard pool, and larger top-end plans. And against the fee-simple townhomes a few streets over, such as Ironwood, this community trades condo ownership, with its association budget and lender-review considerations, for a lower entry price and a maintenance-free profile. The honest summary: Point Meadows Place wins on price and the amenity campus among nearby condos, and gives ground on walkability to the town-center condos and on financing simplicity to the fee-simple product.
Who It Fits
Point Meadows Place fits the Deerwood Park and Gate Parkway professional who wants a gated, low-maintenance address minutes from work and the Town Center, the first-time buyer running the rent-versus-own math at a condo entry price, the downsizer who wants gated and maintenance-free living, and the investor targeting the corridor tenant base. It also fits the buyer who is willing to read the association budget and verify in-association comps rather than trusting a portal estimate. It does not fit the buyer who needs fee-simple ownership with no association, the buyer who wants new construction or a large private lot, or the buyer who plans conventional financing without first confirming the lender condo review, the investor ratio, and the leasing rules. And anyone who comps this complex off the building across the street, without verifying the association, will misprice the unit in either direction.

























