The Springs
Homes for Sale in Orange Park, FL

The Springs is a tightly built pocket of 78 homes in Orange Park, Clay County, with virtually the entire community constructed in a single seven-year span from 1977 to 1984 rather than developed in phases over multiple decades.

realMLS (Northeast Florida) sales records identify 45 homes in The Springs that have changed hands since 2001, built between 1977 and 1983 (median 1979), with a median living area of about 1,729 sq ft and a typical 3-bedroom, 2-bath layout; 98% 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.

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.

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

In ZIP 32073, 198 homes are on the market and 25% are under contract — a steady corner of Orange Park.

Across Clay County, 1,279 homes are active and 403 pending (24% under contract).

In ZIP 32073 (Orange Park), 943 homes closed in the last 12 months at a median of $302K ($172/sq ft), down 1.9% year over year, with a median 36 days on market. Right now 180 active and 77 pending listings put supply at about 2.3 months — a healthy market. See the live ZIP 32073 housing market and the Clay County market.

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

Every home in The Springs traces back to the same construction era — the range runs from 1977 to 1984, with a median year built of 1979, meaning most homes here are now several decades old. That consistency cuts both ways: floor plans and lot sizing tend to feel familiar from one listing to the next, but it also means much of the community is reaching, or has already reached, the point where major systems are due for replacement if they haven't been swapped out already.

Homes here run a median of just under 1,730 square feet of living space — a solid, unfussy footprint rather than an oversized or undersized outlier. Roughly 85% of homes in the community carry a homestead exemption, pointing to a base of long-term owner-occupancy rather than heavy rental or investor turnover. Current MLS listings show no dedicated community amenities for The Springs, which is worth flagging for buyers who assume HOA-fee amenities come standard in Orange Park subdivisions.

In a single-era community like The Springs, the real work is separating homes that have been properly updated from ones still running original-era systems from initial construction — that's a walk-through-and-inspection-report judgment call, not something a listing sheet tells you. Momentum's agents work Clay County closely enough to know which streets have seen recent renovation activity and which comparable sales actually hold up as apples-to-apples, so pricing conversations start from an informed baseline rather than a guess.