New Lennar offering in Palencia, The Classic Collection under $300,000.    Palencia is about to get a tad more affordable, to include the under $300K homebuyer market. Lennar will introduce a smaller, 50' product called "The Classic Collection," which Lennar advertises as pricing out as low as $226K. The Classic Collection homes will run from 1,500 to 2,700 square feet, three to five bedrooms, and you still get full access to the Palencia amenities, up to and including the golf course.
As with all Lennar product, they do an Everything Included, or "EI" offering, which gives buyers about everything they'd want to upgrade baked into the purchase price.    Also by Lennar in Palencia, The Imperial Collection, at 2,361 to 3,398 square feet…

  
Mattamy has recently completed its purchase of the RiverTown development from St. Joe Company.

 

By: Alan Aptheker

It’s been the rap for RiverTown in St. Johns County that it is too far off the beaten path to attract as many Jacksonville and St. Augustine new home buyers as they would have liked. But how do you move a neighborhood?

Mattamy Homes (who has just concluded its RiverTown purchase from St. Joe Company) figured out it was mostly the long trek down State Road 13 that put most buyers off, as well as the distance between 1-95 and the community entrance on SR13. As the new owner/developer, Mattamy has decided to move the official RiverTown entrance road entrance to its eastern end, thus roughly cutting in half the 15 mile distance

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