Spanish Wells
Homes for Sale in Jacksonville, FL

A compact, owner-occupied pocket of Jacksonville built out almost entirely in a single stretch of the late 1980s and early 1990s, with a median home size of 1,831 square feet.

realMLS (Northeast Florida) sales records identify 14 homes in Spanish Wells that have changed hands since 2001, built between 1985 and 1987 (median 1987), with a median living area of about 2,321 sq ft and a typical 4-bedroom, 2.5-bath layout; 93% are single-family homes. Source: realMLS (Northeast Florida) closed-sale history compiled by Momentum Research; counts reflect homes with a recorded MLS sale, not every home in the community.

County records show 3 qualified sales in Spanish Wells across 2024–2024, median $333,000 — the last recorded sale per parcel on the Florida DOR 2025 assessment roll, independent of the MLS.

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.

Spanish Wells is too small for its own price trend, so here is the market around it.

In ZIP 32257, 149 homes are on the market and 36% are under contract — a fast-moving corner of Jacksonville.

Across Duval County, 4,384 homes are active and 1,562 pending (26% under contract).

In ZIP 32257 (Jacksonville), 795 homes closed in the last 12 months at a median of $359K ($201/sq ft), down 0.4% year over year, with a median 38 days on market. Right now 136 active and 70 pending listings put supply at about 10.3 months — a balanced market. See the live ZIP 32257 housing market and the Duval County market.

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

With only 69 homes and a build window running 1985 to 1994 (median year built 1993), Spanish Wells reads as a single-phase community rather than one that grew in scattered additions over decades. Median living area sits at 1,831 square feet, which puts the typical home here in a mid-sized range — not a starter footprint, not an oversized outlier. Because the housing stock is this uniform in age, differences between individual homes will mostly come down to renovation history and maintenance rather than era of construction.

Current MLS data does not identify any specific community amenities for Spanish Wells, so I would not assume a clubhouse, pool, or organized recreation exists here — verify that directly rather than taking it on faith from a listing sheet. What the data does confirm is ownership character: a homestead share above 82% is a meaningfully high number, and it signals a community where most owners have filed for primary-residence tax status rather than holding the property as a rental or second home.

A 69-home community with no closings in the current window and no listed amenities is exactly the kind of market where a generic search tool gives you noise instead of answers — you need someone who will pull comparable sales from the surrounding build era, verify what amenities actually exist versus what a listing implies, and tell you plainly when the data does not support a claim.