Town of Tioga market snapshot (as of June 27, 2026): the median sale price is about $706K ($267 per sq ft), with homes averaging 83 days on market and 4.4 months of supply, a balanced market. Based on 33 recent closings in live Stellar MLS data.
Town of Tioga is an award-winning New Urbanist, or neo-traditional, master-planned community in Newberry, west of Gainesville in Alachua County, ZIP 32669 (Town of Tioga developer materials and Gainesville-area neighborhood guides, 2026). It broke ground in 1996 as a roughly 500-acre traditional-town plan and was developed by the Diaz family, local Gainesville builders, inspired by historic neighborhoods and New Urbanist towns such as Seaside and Celebration.
The community is built around Tioga Town Center, a walkable mixed-use lifestyle center with retail, dining, offices, and luxury apartments. Pennsylvania-based Hankin Group acquired the town center in 2017 and has since expanded it; the center is described as a roughly 23-acre district with over 30 businesses and a growing apartment count, including a Phase II addition (Greater Gainesville Chamber, 2022). Confirm the current mix of shops, services, and residences, which changes over time.
Because this is a master-planned community spanning many years of construction, the money is made or lost on the section, the home era, the lot, and the HOA, not on the address alone. Drivers include the HOA dues and any sub-association rules, the architectural and design controls common to New Urbanist communities, the specific street and lot, and the condition and age of the individual home, all of which should be read from the listing and the current HOA documents.
The pitch is a walkable, design-controlled neighborhood on the growth side of Gainesville: Tioga Town Center is at the door, the University of Florida and west Gainesville job centers are a manageable drive, and the SW Newberry Road and SW 134th corridor connects toward I-75. The work is the diligence: read the HOA, confirm the section and home era, and verify the zoned schools by address before you buy the streetscape.
