Nocatee has best sales year in 2010Back to News

With more homes sold last year than in any year previously , Nocatee experienced its best sales year ever in 2010. The Ponte Vedra community offers a private and secluded lifestyle, unrivaled amenities and quick access to St. Augustine, Ponte Vedra Beach and Jacksonville - great perks for the almost 700 families now living there.

One of the biggest milestones for the community was the opening of Nocatee Splash Water Park in February of last year. The signature, interactive amenity includes a water park with an impressive slide tower, lagoon pool, lazy river, interactive sprayground area and an open-air event lawn along with a two-story clubhouse with a banquet room and conference center located by an expansive fitness center.

The amenity center has been heralded by a number of residents as one of the many reasons they moved to the community, including empty nesters Ilene and Bob Thrasher, who moved from Maryland. "We moved to Nocatee in November. We loved the convenience of the whole development. It's easy to get around, it's beautiful, it's quiet and we love the facilities that are available to us," said Ilene Thrasher. "We also enjoy having the shopping center so close by. We just love it. It feels very private. We feel we're away from everything in the world yet we're minutes from everything."

After looking in the St. Augustine area for a while and renting a condo for a few months, they found their dream home, built by David Weekley Homes. "When we saw the house, we knew it was the one," said Thrasher. "We found the people to be very nice when we went to the Nocatee Welcome Center. We worked with an agent and when we came back and looked at houses, we knew we wanted to live here."

Tatia and Jeff Ryan also moved to Willowcove at Nocatee in November with their children Payton (10), Logan (six) and Kendyl (five.) Before relocating from Orlando, the family also looked at neighboring communities.

"We like Nocatee's location and closeness to the beach, along with the growth potential, new homes and the schools," said Tatia Ryan. "Other reasons included the amenity center, the people and the service from our builder."

Not surprisingly, the children's favorite amenity is Nocatee Splash Water Park. The Ryans say they would definitely recommend Nocatee to others and find it to be a very family-friendly community.

Nocatee offers several neighborhoods with single-family homes, maintenance-free homes and condominiums priced from the high $100s to more than $1 million. The community's newest neighborhood, Greenleaf Village, features single-family homes priced from the $170s by David Weekley, Providence, Rylandand Mattamy.

Nocatee's master developer, The PARC Group, is also designing two new communities in Town Center with homes priced from the mid-$100s to the high $200s. Development on these new neighborhoods is scheduled to get underway this summer.

Other Nocatee communities include Austin Park with homes priced from the $200s by Cornerstone Homes, Taylor Morrison and Mattamy; Kelly Pointe, a quaint neighborhood nestled to the north with homes by David Weekley and Richmond American priced in the $200s; Willowcove at Nocatee, a neighborhood featuring single-family homes priced from the $250s to the $450s by Lennar and David Weekley; Toll Brothers' gated Coastal Oaks neighborhood with luxury single-family estate homes, neo-traditional homes, townhomes and village homes priced from the low $300s; and Riverwood, a resort-inspired Del Webb active adult community with single-family detached homes, condominiums and townhomes from the high $100s.

The neighborhoods are enveloped by the Nocatee Greenway, a preservation area of more than 5,000 acres of environmentally-sensitive land. The community's Greenway Trails link all of the neighborhoods to parks, common areas,  the Nocatee Splash Water Park and Nocatee Town Center.

The interconnecting Greenway Trail System includes miles of multi-use pathways and bridges that meander throughout wetlands. The path's first phase is three miles long, with additional phases in the works.

In 2010, St. Johns County opened the trails within the Nocatee Preserve, 2,400 acres of environmentally sensitive lands donated to the county by the community's developer. The Preserve stretches three and one-half miles along the Intracoastal Waterway, and is available for all St. Johns County residents to enjoy.

The PARC Group recently completed Nocatee's initial electric cart network, making it the only community that offers electric carts such as golf carts and other electrically-powered, low-speed vehicles as an alternate form of transportation throughout the entire community.

To learn more about the Nocatee lifestyle, call 1-800-Nocatee or visit www.Nocatee.com.