Jupiter Farms homes for sale, market update

Jupiter Farms is a great place to raise a family.  Located just 10 minutes west of the Town of Jupiter, homes here are on 1.25 acre lots and offer plenty of room to do exactly as you please.  In fact, when thinking of Jupiter Farms you should think FREEDOM!  And yet you are still just 15 minutes from our great beaches.

On August 14, there were only 97 homes on the market here priced from $ 9.8 million to $ 127,500.  Actually, the $ 9.8 million dollar home is in Ranch Colony, but still they enjoy the same freedom and open spaces as the Farms.

Right after the boom, there were near 200 houses for sale out here so you can see this might be the best time to get your house sold.  Going back to the listings for a minute, if you take out the highest and lowest priced homes you find the median price is just under $ 400,000 for a 2,500 square foot home.

As for sales, there have been 44 sales in the last 60 days with a median price of $ 245,000 for 2,200 feet.  So sales are very brisk.  If you have been trying to sell without success, or are thinking of selling, give me a call.  I have lived in the Farms for 12 years and know how to get properties sold.  In fact, I just closed on a pool home for a young CT family.  Often it takes only a 1% improvement in your value proposition to get the home sold.

You can reach me at 561-762-4073.

Old Trail in Ranch Colony

 To see all Old Trail homes for sale contact Richard Sites at 561-762-4073.

Ranch Colony in Jupiter Farms

 To see all Ranch Colony homes for sale contact Richard Sites at 561-762-4073.

Jupiter Farms, another beautiful morning

So you are looking for a new home and see nothing but zero lot line opportunities.  Hey, come on out to the Farms.  Here homesites are 1.25 acres and more and this is what morning looks like out here.

Jupiter Farms live oak

Real estate in Jupiter Farms offers space and the freedom to do as you please.  Some parcels of land are as big as 20 acres and there is no Homeowner's Association here so you will not be choked by regulations.

Jupiter Farms is 16 square miles of dedicated equestrian area which means you will see horses out here.  We share the road with them and give them the right of way.

Does Jupiter Farms sound like it might be right for you?  Send me an email and I can answer that question for you since I have lived in the Farms for 12 years.  Or call me at 561-762-4073.

NETA Trail Event, June 2012

Life is good in Jupiter Farms!  Take a look.

Sonoma Isles: Jupiter Farms gets new DiVosta homes

Jupiter Farms, a semi-rural area west of the Town of Jupiter, is slated to get around 300 new DiVosta homes soon.  Just west of the Florida Turnpike is a parcel of land where cows once grazed. WCI, a builder casualty of the boom gone bust period here, owned the land and sold it to Toll Brothers and the Jupiter Country Club was built.  Except that there wasn't quite enough room on the south side of Indiantown Road for everything they wanted or needed to build so they bought a key hole shaped parcel on the north side to build the clubhouse and three golf holes.  The surrounding land remained fallow.  Enter DiVosta.

Several decades ago Buzz DiVosta started his company, Berg and DiVosta and began building condos using a repetitive formula.   This area is peppered with DiVosta condos.  Then they began building houses using a similar formula.  No variations were allowed to the floor plan, only the upgrades.  You couldn't even change colors on the exterior.  If you wanted your house yellow, you had to buy the one they offered in yellow since no changes were allowed.

A couple of years back, Pulte homes paid a reported $140 million for DiVosta.  They are currently building Windsor Park in Abacoa, Jupiter.  And now the company plans to build around the parcel Toll Brothers owns.  It is called Sonoma Isles.

Jupiter Farms residents have long protected their idyllic lifestyle on large home sites and the threat of more building is always met with an uneasy feeling.  While it is true that Riverbend Park provides a buffer for the Farms from too much development, the Farms residents can always feel the pressure of developers breathing down their necks.

Heck, you move to the Farms to get away from people...like they did in the TV show "Green Acres".

Homes in Jupiter Farms are built on 1.25 acres or more where you can ride horses or have a big garden.  You can see all Jupiter Farms homes for sale at Coastal Florida Real Estate or if you need some guidance, I have lived here for 25 years and can show you the best locations.  You can contact me at 561-762-4073.

Jersey Giants coming to the neighborhood

Sustainability is a big thing these days.  People are growing more food in their gardens and everybody is interested in backyard chickens.  I have kept chickens for 6 years since I sold a house here in Jupiter Farms and found a place for their play set, rabbit, pool and some other things, but could not find a home for their chickens.

So, I took them.

6 years and 19 birds later I am still at it.  And I'm always meeting people who want to get some birds and need advice on the care and feeding thereof.  My girls produce about a dozen eggs a day.

Chickens can be fascinating friends.  They are very social and curious and will hang around you every time you are in the yard if you will let them.

About a year ago, my new neighbors moved in with 2 horses, 2 miniature donkeys and a couple of chickens.  Well, they did not have the sturdiest of cages and the local predators soon gave them a personal invitation for dinner.  So they are replenishing the flock... with Jersey Giants.

Jersey Giants were originally bred to replace turkeys.  In fact, the roosters can get to 17 pounds.  They are docile and friendly by nature and good layers and breeders.  You see, in the world of chickens, each breed is known by these characteristics.  Just like any other animals be they horses, dogs or humans.

However, roosters do crow.  Loudly.  And at all hours if they feel like it.

So for the next few months while the chicks are growing all is quiet.  Roosters can't crow until they are mature.  Then they have to "find" their cock-a-doodle-do by practicing.

So I guess we are in for some crowing.  But if they breed, and the roosters always do their part it's the hens that don't sit the eggs (called broody) maybe there will be some extra birds that can cross the fence and come live over here. 

If living in Jupiter Farms sounds like fun...it is!  You can see all Jupiter Farms homes for sale at my website Coastal Florida Real Estate where all homes and pictures are there in real time.  Or for personal, Farms resident service, you can call me at 561-762-4073 or coastalflrealestate@gmail.com.  Or head over to my You Tube channel where there are over 150 videos on the Jupiter lifestyle.