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Should I Sell My House Now in St. Augustine & Ponte Vedra? The St. Johns County Numbers

The recorded closings, market speed, price direction, and failed-listing count for St. Johns County — from MLS records, not opinion — and the honest framework for the sell-now-or-wait call.

SOURCE  MLS community statistics + failed-listing records WINDOW  12 months ending Aug 15, 2026 COMPILED  August 15, 2026
Median 1-yr price change
-2.7%
median across St. Johns County communities
Typical market time
60 days
median community days-on-market
Listings that failed, 12 mo
12,791
canceled / expired / withdrawn in St. Johns County

The quick answer

St. Johns County is transacting — 8,008 recorded closings in the last 12 months, with the median community selling in 60 days (mid-pack for market speed among large Florida counties). But pricing power leans to buyers: the median community’s price change over the year was -2.7%, among the firmest of Florida's large-market declines. In the same window, 12,791 St. Johns County listings failed to sell — canceled, expired, or withdrawn — which is the cost of pricing against last year instead of last quarter. The verdict the data supports: selling now works at today’s prices; waiting is a bet this page won’t make for you.

Where St. Johns County sits in Florida

Against the 14 largest-volume counties we track: #9 for market speed (60 days vs. a 46–72 day range) and #12 for price softness (-2.7% vs. a −7.1% to −1.3% range). The full side-by-side lives on our statewide sell-now-or-wait page; the statewide failed-listing record — 201,552 listings in 12 months and why they failed — is at why isn’t my house selling.

If you list in St. Augustine & Ponte Vedra

Three moves the records support here: price against the last 90 days of closed sales in your community (our St. Johns County pages publish them by community); correct early and decisively if the first two weeks are quiet — statewide, 71.6% of failed listings cut price and still failed because the cut came late; and know your true payoff before you commit with the seller net-proceeds tool.

What this page won’t do

No 2027 forecast, no guaranteed outcomes, no algorithmic value estimate. County medians hide wide community spreads — some St. Johns County communities are still appreciating. For a records-based read on yours: a hand-prepared valuation from actual closings, not an algorithm.

Your selling path in St. Johns County
  1. 1.What is it worth? — Records-based value, not an algorithm
  2. 2.Cash offer vs. listing — Both numbers on paper before you decide
  3. 3.Sell now or wait? (you are here) — What the last 12 months say about timing
  4. 4.Best month to list — Seasonality from the county's closings
  5. 5.Why it isn't selling — Price cuts, days on market, what buyers skip
  6. 6.Your net proceeds — County doc stamps, title, commission, payoff
  7. 7.What selling costs — Line by line, Florida and Georgia

One form, one local agent, no call center: every step above lands on the same seller form or a records-based answer.

Get your two numbers

A records-based listing net sheet from your community’s actual closings — and where available, written cash-offer interest to hold next to it. No algorithm, no obligation.

Methodology

Methodology: county figures aggregate per-community MLS statistics (median community days-on-market and median community 1-year price change; closings as recorded) for the 12 months ending August 15, 2026, from the MLS feeds Momentum Realty licenses. Failed-listing counts (where shown) are Canceled/Expired/Withdrawn records deduplicated per listing over the same window; counties outside those feeds show no count rather than an estimate. Compiled from MLS records; deemed reliable but not guaranteed. General information, not advice about any specific property.