St Augustine Shores vs St Augustine Beach: prices, pace & inventory — October 2026

How They Compare

St Augustine Shores or St Augustine Beach?

St. Augustine Shores and St. Augustine Beach face each other across the Matanzas River, fifteen minutes apart over the SR-312 bridge, and the comparison is the county’s cleanest river-versus-ocean decision. The Shores is the 1970 Deltona plan on the west bank: a grid of single-family streets around a golf course, condo and villa sections, the Riverview Club and fishing pier, an association assessment and no district, with current listings around a $339,000 median and homes from the original concrete-block models to 2020s infill. St. Augustine Beach is the island side: the city of St. Augustine Beach and the Anastasia Island beach neighborhoods, a $550,000 median, condos and townhomes as a large share of the stock, the ocean, and the beach-town rental economy.

The structural difference is the water and what it does to the bill. The Shores maps mostly to FEMA Zone X (its river and lake frontage is the exception); the beach carries a far larger share of high-risk zones and the earlier evacuation letters, which sets the insurance conversation before the price does. The Shores buyer pays an association for a club and a pier; the beach buyer pays a condo or townhome association in many buildings, plus the ocean premium. Same county services, same fifteen-minute drive to downtown, a tier apart in price and a different flood map; the live table above is both markets today.