Market Brief

Our new-home tracker lists nine Clay County communities with builder or listing pages checked from October 14 to 25, 2026, seven of them in ZIP code 32043 around Green Cove Springs, with listed starts from $284,990.

Seven of nine Clay County new-home communities in our tracker sit in ZIP 32043. New construction took 24 of 41 Green Cove Springs contracts from October 13 to 26.

Our new-home tracker lists nine Clay County communities whose builder or listing pages we checked from October 14 to 25, 2026. Seven are in ZIP code 32043 around Green Cove Springs, one is in Middleburg and one is in Orange Park. Six list a starting price or price range, from $284,990 at Dream Finders Homes' Amberly to $399,990 at Richmond American's Alder Creek at Laurelton, and three are marked coming soon. That compares with a September 2026 Clay County single-family median of $355,000. In our NEFAR MLS feed, new construction made up 24 of the 41 Green Cove Springs listings that went under contract from October 13 to 26, and 37 of 143 countywide.

This is a roundup of new-home supply in the Clay County part of the Jacksonville market. Our September articles on the Jacksonville median price, days on market and closed sales cover completed-month metrics, and the full series sits on the Jacksonville market data hub. Our recent piece on St. Johns County new-construction listings covers the county to the east. The statewide list is on our Florida coming-soon communities page.

Which Clay County new-home communities list prices?

Source: Momentum Research new-home tracker, from builder pages, NewHomeSource and Jome listings checked October 14 to 25, 2026. Starting prices change often and may exclude lot premiums, options and fees.

Starting prices usually apply to the smallest plan on the smallest lot. Dream Finders listed Amberly plans on 40-foot lots from $284,990, 50-foot lots from $319,990 and 60-foot lots from $345,990, with homes from 1,622 to 3,498 square feet, on October 25. At Anabelle Island, its 55-foot homes started at $329,990. Richmond American listed five plans at Alder Creek at Laurelton, from the 2,078-square-foot Agate at $399,990 to the 2,930-square-foot Yorktown at $474,990, plus three quick move-in homes from $503,340 to $522,465.

Where is Clay County new construction concentrated?

Green Cove Springs is the center of activity on both measures. Seven of the nine tracker communities sit in ZIP 32043, and our NEFAR MLS feed shows the same pattern in contracts.

Source: Momentum Research, computed from NEFAR MLS records, October 13 to 26, 2026. City is the city named on the listing. Deemed reliable but not guaranteed.

Countywide, new construction made up 26 percent of contracts in the two weeks to October 26, close to the 25 percent (34 of 135) in the two weeks before. New-construction contracts had a median list price of $379,990, against $326,950 for resale homes.

Community pages: Amberly, Anabelle Island, Granary Park, Asbury Creek, Oakwood Estates, Alder Creek at Laurelton, The Preserve at Laurelton, Wilford Preserve and Pine Preserve.

How do new-home prices compare with recent sales?

Our September 2026 NEFAR Market Pulse, with closings through October 24, recorded 223 single-family sales in Clay County at a median of $355,000, down 2.7 percent from a year earlier and 7.8 percent below the county's peak. The median home took 56 days to sell, longer than in Duval County (33 days) or St. Johns County (42.5 days).

Amberly and Anabelle Island start below that median, and the Laurelton and Oakwood Estates starts sit about $45,000 above it. Buyers comparing a new home with a resale should compare finished square footage, lot width and association costs, not just the headline price. Recent sale prices are on the Green Cove Springs, Middleburg, Orange Park and Fleming Island market pages.

What should buyers ask about fees?

Fees vary by community. Century Communities describes Asbury Creek as having no community development district, according to our tracker notes, while most other builders in this list had not published HOA or CDD amounts on the pages we checked. Buyers should ask each builder for the CDD assessment, the full HOA budget, the lot's flood zone and an insurance quote before signing. Our Clay County HOA fees by community, Green Cove Springs home insurance cost, Middleburg home insurance cost and Orange Park home insurance cost pages cover those costs. Builders active in the county are on our Clay County home builders and Clay County new construction pages, and resale price reductions are tracked on Clay County price cuts.

People also ask

What new home communities are in Green Cove Springs in 2026?

Our tracker lists Anabelle Island, Granary Park, Asbury Creek, Oakwood Estates, Alder Creek at Laurelton and The Preserve at Laurelton in Green Cove Springs, plus Amberly in the same 32043 ZIP code, with pages checked from October 14 to 25, 2026.

What is the cheapest new construction in Clay County, Florida?

Among communities in our tracker, Dream Finders Homes' Amberly listed the lowest starting price, $284,990 on a 40-foot lot, on October 25, 2026. Anabelle Island, also by Dream Finders, started at $309,990. Starting prices change often.

How much of Clay County's housing market is new construction?

New construction made up 37 of the 143 Clay County listings that went under contract from October 13 to 26, 2026, about 26 percent, in our NEFAR MLS feed. In Green Cove Springs the share was 24 of 41.

Limitations

The tracker lists communities found on builder pages and new-home listing sites, checked on the dates shown. It is not a complete list of every community selling in Clay County. Statuses, prices and fees come from those pages on the date checked and change often. Starting prices are not sale prices. New construction is identified by the MLS new-construction field. Contract counts are listings moving to pending or under-contract status in the change log of our live NEFAR MLS feed; a listing is counted once, and changes that happen and reverse between refreshes may be missed. County sale figures are September 2026 single-family closings and may be revised. This article is general information, not advice about any specific property, community or transaction.

Sources and links

• Momentum Research new-home tracker (data/upcoming), built from builder community pages for Dream Finders Homes, Century Communities, KB Home and David Weekley Homes, and NewHomeSource and Jome listings, checked October 14 to 25, 2026.
• Momentum Research, computed from NEFAR MLS records (listing change log, September 29 to October 26, 2026).
• Momentum Research, September 2026 NEFAR Market Pulse, closings through October 24, 2026.
• Full monthly series and per-feed attribution: Jacksonville market data

Disclosure: Jon Brooks is a co-founder of Momentum Realty, a Florida real estate brokerage that owns and funds Florida Housing Intelligence. Momentum has a financial interest in Florida real estate transactions, including in markets named here. See our editorial standards.