Julington Creek Homes For Sale, St. Johns County

Yes — and it works differently than most golf communities. Julington Creek Golf Club sits inside the community at 1111 Durbin Creek Blvd: a public 18-hole, par-72 course that opened in 1992 (longtime locals knew it as The Champions Club), was renovated in summer 2022 — rebuilt bunkers, laser-leveled tees, reconstructed greens — and was purchased in October 2024 by GreatLIFE Golf, a national operator. Public is the key word: you get a course in the neighborhood without a club obligation anywhere on your closing sheet — no initiation, no mandatory dues. Two nearby clubs get confused with it: St. Johns Golf & Country Club down CR-210 is a separate club community, and Cimarrone is another. If golf matters to your search, I’ll walk you through how the three actually differ.

This is Julington Creek Plantation’s quiet advantage. The CDD here doesn’t just fund infrastructure — the district itself owns and operates the amenities: the Plantation Club Recreation Center, the Aquatic Complex with its water park and competition pool, the Sportsplex, eight clay tennis courts, and Plantation Park. The assessment rides the tax bill at $1,385.44 a year for a single-family home (about $846 for a townhome) per the district’s own FY2025 adopted totals — for a district that owns a water park, one of the most modest master-plan lines in the county, because the community is mature and its original build-out is long financed. Newer corridors carry two to three times that for comparable amenity campuses. One wrinkle worth knowing: a few neighborhoods that predate the CDD voted out of membership, and owners there buy recreation access separately — so I confirm the membership status of the specific address on every Julington Creek home my buyers consider. HOA dues on most listings here run around $580 a year on top.

Every big master plan in the county funds its amenities differently, and the HOA line alone will mislead you on all five. Julington Creek: the CDD owns the amenities outright — rec center, water park, Sportsplex — and charges $1,385/yr for a single-family home (FY2025 adopted), one of the county’s most modest district lines because the build-out is long financed; HOA about $580/yr. Aberdeen: HOA about $50/yr, with the Aberdeen CDD carrying the amenity structure at roughly $1,994–$2,803/yr scaled by lot width (FY2026 adopted budget). Murabella: the same inversion — HOA $50–$150/yr, Murabella CDD on the order of $2,800/yr. Markland: a real POA plus the Southaven CDD at roughly $3,000–$3,500/yr scaled by lot width. Silverleaf: the outlier — no CDD at all, with a master HOA near $1,200/yr plus sub-neighborhood dues by section. Every figure comes from the districts’ own adopted budgets or live MLS listings, and the lesson is the same everywhere: compare total carry — HOA plus district line plus taxes — not the association sticker. I run that side-by-side for buyers deciding between these communities.

There’s no automated estimate on this site, on purpose — algorithms average a zip code, and your value turns on the specifics an average can’t see: condition, position, and what the last few Julington Creek sales actually closed for. Every new listing and MLS-recorded sale in Julington Creek surfaces on this page as it happens, so following it is the simplest way to watch your comp set move. When you want a real number, Krista prepares it personally against Julington Creek’s own sales — no algorithm guesses, no obligation.

It depends on the market you list into, not the market you read about — and this page tracks Julington Creek’s pace the honest way, from live MLS activity rather than a static average. The market snapshot above reflects what’s actually happening here right now, and it shifts: the answer in a tight-inventory spring is different from a heavy-inventory fall. Before we ever set a price or a timeline, I read Julington Creek’s current pace — days on market, how recent sales closed against their list prices, and what your home’s specific competition looks like the week we launch.

A few lines beyond the obvious ones. In Julington Creek, plan on: the commission you and Krista agree on, Florida’s documentary stamp tax on the deed, title and closing charges per local custom, the association’s estoppel letter — and because this community carries a district assessment, the CDD line is prorated at closing and must be disclosed to your buyer, which is a paperwork step, not a penalty. Priced and disclosed correctly, it never kills a deal; handled sloppily, it stalls one. Krista runs the full seller’s net sheet against Julington Creek’s actual cost structure before you commit to a number.