St. Augustine Lakes Homes for Sale

St. Augustine Lakes is a Lennar-built lake community south of State Road 16 near I-95, with Everything’s Included pricing and a Next Gen multigenerational plan offered. The lineup runs nine floor plans across two collections, the 40s on 40-foot homesites and the 50s on 50-foot homesites, in single- and two-story designs of roughly 1,663 to 2,670 square feet, generally 2 to 4 bedrooms. The neighborhood is laid out around a series of lakes, so water-view homesites are part of the plan.

This is attainable, new-construction Lennar product, recently priced from about $337,000 into the $500s, which is how it stays below the big master plans up the corridor. Because it is a single-builder community, the variables that move value are the collection, the floor plan, the lot premium for a water view, and the timing of Lennar incentives. Confirm the currently available plans, sizes, and homesites with the builder, and read any builder incentive against the resale math.

St. Augustine Lakes is honest about what it is: the amenity center near the front of the community offers a swimming pool, a covered seating and picnic area, a playground, and open green space , and the neighborhood itself is laid out around a series of lakes with water-view homesites threaded through the plan. There is no fitness campus, no kayak launch, no café, and that is by design, because every amenity a community builds shows up in somebody's fees.

The real lifestyle amenity is the address. The St. Augustine Premium Outlets sit at SR-16 and I-95 minutes away, the U.S. 1 corridor carries the groceries and big-box errands, and historic downtown St. Augustine , with its restaurants, waterfront, and 450 years of landmarks, is about 15 minutes from the gate, with the beaches of Anastasia Island roughly 20-25. Few new communities at this price sit this close to a genuine destination. If you want resort amenities inside the gates, the bigger master plans up the corridor do it better, at a meaningfully higher price and fee load.

• The CDD and HOA stack — confirm the exact CDD assessment for the specific homesite (operations plus debt service, recently ~$2,400 to $2,700 a year) and the current HOA, since the fee stack is the real carrying-cost story here.
• The lot premium — price the difference between a water-view homesite and an interior one; the lot is the part of your money the market gives back at resale.
• New-build taxes — St. Johns millage plus the CDD line, and budget for taxes resetting upward after the first year as the home is assessed as improved.
• Lennar incentives — read any rate buydown or closing-cost incentive against the resale comp, not just the headline price.
• Flood and insurance — a lake community means address-specific flood and wind quotes; confirm the flood zone for the parcel.
• School zoning — verify the current zoned schools by address with St. Johns County, since the county redraws boundaries as it grows.

St. Augustine Lakes is the attainable Lennar entry into St. Johns County, so the honest comparison is against the other newer communities near St. Augustine, each a different trade-off on price, fees, and amenities.

The honest verdict: if you want a new Lennar home in St. Johns County at one of the lowest entries, fifteen minutes from historic downtown, and you are comfortable with a modest amenity package, St. Augustine Lakes is hard to beat on price. If you want a fuller amenity campus, the bigger master plans up the corridor do it better at a meaningfully higher fee load.