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Ocean, river, Intracoastal, canal & creek frontage — St. Johns, Duval & Nassau

Homes where you can fish from your backyard

458 homes · 42 new this week · median $985,000 · 865 sold in 12 mo at median $900,000 · 104 days avg on market · updated 7 minutes ago

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This page has one honest filter: the MLS waterfront record must say the water is real — ocean frontage, the St. Johns River, the Intracoastal, a navigable canal or creek, or the lagoon systems. If a listing is here, the fishing is part of the property, not a brochure metaphor.

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Market Snapshot

As of November 7, 2026, the median list price for homes where you can fish from your backyard is $985,000 across 458 active listings, averaging $575/sqft; recent MLS-recorded sales show a median sold price of $900,000 across 865 closings.

Median List Price: $985,000
Avg. Price / Sq Ft: $575/sqft
Median Sold (12 mo, MLS): $900,000; ▲ 9.3% vs prior 6 mo
Active Listings: 458
HOA Dues: ~$728/mo typical; 289 of 458 listings carry dues

What’s for sale: 454 homes (median $962,500) · 4 multi-family (median $4.8M)

Market stats are based on homes where you can fish from your backyard, including 865 recent recorded sales — they may not include listings or sales that aren't comparable to this market. Sourced from the MLS; refreshed regularly.

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What homes where you can fish from your backyard actually sold for

Median closed price by year from the MLS, 2019 to 2026: down 1% since 2025. 743 sales closed in 2026 at a median $422 per square foot.

Year	Sales	Median sold	$/sq ft	Of asking	Days on market
2019	33 †	$822K	$267	94.4%	67
2020	72 †	$615K	$267	98%	58
2021	65 †	$640K	$298	98.1%	33
2022	51 †	$695K	$334	97.6%	48
2023	60 †	$807K	$350	96.8%	43
2024	219 †	$900K	$399	95.8%	32
2025	816	$910K	$407	95.2%	53
2026	743	$900K	$422	95.9%	45

Closed sales from the realMLS IDX feed; years with fewer than three sales are omitted. Medians, not estimates of any one home. "Of asking" is the median sold price as a share of the final list price. † A partial year in the feed: it carries only some of that year’s sales, so the median rests on fewer homes and the percent change above starts at the first full year.

This market, from the inside

What it deliberately excludes: the thousand-plus listings on retention ponds and neighborhood lakes. Plenty of those ponds hold bass — a genuinely underrated Florida truth — but a pond lot and a dock on the Tolomato are different purchases, and this page is for the second one. The full fishing geography, spot by spot, lives in the fishing guide linked below.

Frequently asked questions

What counts as “fishable water” on this page?

The MLS waterfront record has to name real water: ocean frontage, river frontage, the Intracoastal, a canal or creek, lagoon, or navigable water. Retention ponds and neighborhood lakes are excluded — many hold bass, but they’re a different product, and mixing them in would make this page dishonest.

Does waterfront mean I can keep a boat there?

Not automatically — that’s dock rights, a separate question from frontage. Existing docks usually transfer; the right to BUILD one depends on state and Army Corps permitting, submerged-land questions, and any HOA rules. It’s the first thing I verify on any fishable-water home, because “canal front” without a dockable shoreline is a view, not a fishery.

Do I need a fishing license to fish from my own backyard?

For saltwater, Florida residents fishing from land or structures attached to land qualify for the free resident shoreline fishing license — you register, you don’t pay. Fish from a boat and you’re into regular license territory. Freshwater has its own license. Rules change; the FWC site is the source of record, and the fishing guide linked above keeps the plain-English version.

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