Housing in St. Augustine Beach
St. Augustine Beach's housing market is small and coastal, dominated by beach cottages, condos, and single-family homes rather than large-lot suburban product -- and recent price readings genuinely disagree on whether the market is currently rising or falling.
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Learn morePrice readings disagree sharply, on direction as well as magnitude
A November 2025 Redfin reading put the median sale price at $635,000, up 14.3% year over year. A separate trailing-3-month reading through mid-2026 cited $610,000, down 10.0% year over year -- a real disagreement on direction that's worth taking at face value rather than resolving into a single confident trend.
Housing stock is dominated by beach cottages, condos, and coastal single-family homes
St. Augustine Beach's housing stock leans toward smaller beach cottages, condominiums, and coastal single-family lots rather than the larger-lot suburban product typical of Fleming Island or the master-planned scale of Nocatee -- a genuinely different housing type than the other two places in this batch, consistent with its small-beach-town identity.
Both readings agree prices sit well above St. Augustine's downtown-city figure
Despite disagreeing on direction, both price readings for St. Augustine Beach sit above the citywide median cited for historic downtown St. Augustine -- a reminder that the beach town and the historic downtown are separate markets with separate pricing, not interchangeable just because they share part of a name.
Standard Florida closing rules and the 2026 homestead exemption apply
Standard Florida closing costs run roughly 2%-5% of the purchase price, including the state's documentary stamp tax on the deed ($0.70 per $100 of sale price, customarily seller-paid). File for the homestead exemption promptly after closing on a primary residence -- $51,411 for 2026 -- which enrolls the property in the Save Our Homes assessed-value growth cap going forward.
Key takeaways
- Recent median-price readings disagree sharply on direction (up 14.3% YoY per one source, down 10.0% YoY per another) -- treat the current figure as directional, in a roughly $610,000-$635,000 range.
- Housing stock is dominated by beach cottages, condos, and coastal single-family homes rather than large-lot suburban product.
- Both readings agree prices sit above downtown St. Augustine's citywide figure -- the beach town and historic downtown are separate, non-interchangeable markets.
- Standard Florida closing costs (2%-5% of price) apply; the 2026 homestead exemption is $51,411.
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