Shady Brooke
Homes for Sale in Mulberry, FL

Shady Brooke is a small community of 89 homes in Mulberry, Polk County, built mostly around 1990 on compact floor plans. With no amenities identified from current listings and a homestead share just under half, it reads as a modest, primarily owner-occupied pocket rather than a lifestyle-driven development.

Stellar MLS sales records identify 24 homes in SHADY BROOKE that have changed hands since 2005, built between 1982 and 2005 (median 1991), with a median living area of about 1,248 sq ft and a typical 3-bedroom, 2-bath layout. Source: Stellar MLS closed-sale history compiled by Momentum Research; counts reflect homes with a recorded MLS sale, not every home in the community.

Pre-construction details are compiled from public records, builder announcements and builder listings, and are subject to change without notice; figures are deemed reliable but not guaranteed. Momentum Research figures are our own analysis. This page describes homes, pricing and community attributes, not residents.

Shady Brooke is a small community — 15 recorded sales on file, most recently in 2018 — too few for its own price trend. Here is the market around it.

In ZIP 33860, 101 homes are on the market and 25% are under contract — a steady corner of Mulberry.

Across Polk County, 5,189 homes are active and 1,757 pending (25% under contract).

The housing mix here is 77% manufactured home - post 1977, 19% ?, 4% manufactured home.

In ZIP 33860 (Mulberry), 105 homes closed in the last 12 months at a median of $314K ($189/sq ft), down 2.3% year over year, with a median 44 days on market. See the live ZIP 33860 housing market and the Polk County market.

ZIP and county figures describe the wider market, not Shady Brooke specifically. Momentum Research analysis of MLS records.

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The housing here is small-format: a median of roughly 970 living square feet puts most homes in efficient, single-story territory. The build range from 1981 to 2023 tells you there's been some infill over the decades, but the median year of 1990 anchors the character to early-'90s construction. Expect to underwrite each home on its own updates - roof, systems, kitchens, baths - because that's where value separates in a market this uniform in size.

No community amenities surfaced from the current MLS data, so you're buying the house and the location, not a pool or clubhouse. A homestead share around 46 percent suggests a mix of owner-occupants and non-homesteaded holdings, which is worth factoring if you care about long-term owner density on a street.

A market with no active listings rewards being early and prepared. We track Shady Brooke's limited turnover closely and can get you positioned to act the moment a home lists, while helping you read each property's condition and updates against a median-1990, sub-1,000-square-foot baseline so you pay for what's actually there.