Artisan Lakes in Nocatee

Artisan Lakes Quick Facts

What Makes Artisan Lakes Different

It's small.

Del Webb Ponte Vedra has around 1,900 homes. Del Webb Nocatee has around 850. Artisan Lakes has 196. In practice that means the amenity center is rarely busy, the social calendar is run by the residents themselves rather than a lifestyle director, and after a season or so you'll recognize most of the faces at the pool. I'll be honest about the trade-off, too: you get fewer clubs and there's no restaurant at the clubhouse. What you get instead is a neighborhood where people actually know each other, and for a lot of my clients that's exactly what they were looking for.

The lawn is handled.

Your HOA dues cover mowing, edging, hedge trimming, and periodic fertilizing and lawn pest treatment on every home. That's a real difference from the Del Webbs, where the yard is generally on you, and it's the main reason the dues here look a little higher at first glance. Irrigation, your plant beds and pest control for the house itself are still your responsibility.

The setting.

The neighborhood was laid out around a series of lakes and preserve edges, so a good share of the homes look out at water or woods rather than the house behind them. If lot size matters to you, Hatter Drive and Cobbler Trail have the biggest ones, a few approaching four-tenths of an acre, which is unusual in a 55+ community.

The county line.

Artisan Lakes is one of six Nocatee neighborhoods that fall in Duval County. Day to day you'd never notice, but here's what it means: your property tax and CDD are billed by Duval, trash is City of Jacksonville, electric and water come from JEA, and fire and rescue is still St. Johns County Fire Rescue under an agreement with the city. Where it comes up most is when clients compare tax bills with a friend in Del Webb Nocatee, which is across the line in St. Johns.

The Homes

Everything in Artisan Lakes was designed for living on one level: open kitchen, dining and great room, the owner's suite on the main floor, a screened lanai out back, and a two-car garage. The homes were built in two collections on 50-foot and 60-foot lots, and the base plans run from about 1,750 square feet up to roughly 2,850, with two to four bedrooms.

Some plans were offered with an optional second floor of up to about 1,180 square feet, usually a bonus room with a bedroom and bath, which is where the five-bedroom homes and the ones over 3,000 square feet come from. Those are the minority here. If you need a home with no stairs at all, most of what comes on the market will work.

Artisan Lakes Floor Plans

Five single-story plans, all with a 2-car garage. Each could be built with an optional second floor, which is where the larger homes and the five-bedroom layouts come from.

Sizes reflect the plans as originally offered by CalAtlantic and Lennar. Lennar added a second collection later on (the Florence is one of those plans) that took the largest single-story footprint to about 2,839 sq ft. Two-story homes are the minority here, so if you need a home with no stairs, most of what comes on the market will work. Ask us to pull the plan and details on a specific address.

Lennar added a second collection later on (the Florence is one of those plans) that took the largest single-story footprint to about 2,839 square feet. The homes that have actually sold recently range from 1,741 to 2,832 square feet, so the plan sizes above are a good guide to what you'll see.

Homesites

The community was built in phases (you'll see Phase 1 and Phase 2B in the parcel records) across seven streets, all named after old trades: Cobbler, Hatter, Wheelwright, Armorer, Dyer, Furrier and Ropemaker. Of the 196 homes, 128 sit on 50-foot lots and 68 on 60-foot lots. That matters more than it sounds, because the CDD assessment is different for each, and I'll get to that.

Lot sizes run from about 6,100 square feet on the cul-de-sac courts to just over 17,000 on Hatter Drive. Street by street, the average roughly doubles from Armorer Court (around 6,500) to Hatter (around 11,300). So if you want room in the yard, start your search on Hatter and Cobbler.

Market Snapshot: September 2026

Eleven homes closed in Artisan Lakes between December 2025 and August 2026. The low end was $449,000 for a two-bedroom Laurent, and the high was $810,000 for a Laurent with the second floor built out, on a lake lot. The median landed at $650,000, and price per square foot ran anywhere from $232 to $341, with most sales settling between $253 and $293.

Recent Closed Sales

Eleven homes closed between December 2025 and August 2026, from $449,000 to $810,000 with a median of $650,000. Price per square foot ran $232 to $341, most between $253 and $293.

What I'd take from the numbers

These homes sold new for somewhere between $320,000 and $456,000, so anyone who bought early has done well. But the last couple of years have been softer.

306 Hatter sold for $849,000 in May 2024 and again for $775,000 this April. A few 2026 sales closed $50,000 to $75,000 under their original asking price. Roughly speaking, two-bedroom homes are trading in the mid-$400s, three-bedroom single-story homes from the mid-$500s to the mid-$700s, and the bigger plans and two-story homes top out around $800,000. If you're pricing a home here, don't lean on one comp. Whether it's on water, and whether the second floor was built, move the number as much as the square footage does. Get in touch with our team if you need help.

HOA Dues: $440 a Month

Artisan Lakes has its own homeowners association, managed by May Management out of the amenity center. Dues are billed monthly, and they've gone up a little each January:

Note: a fenced yard takes the landscaper longer, so it costs a bit more.

What's included

‍The gate, the amenity center and pool, the common-area landscaping, and full lawn service on your own home. That means mowing, edging, blowing, trimming the hedges around the original footprint of the house, and periodic fertilizing and lawn pest treatment (chinch bugs and fungus included). You can opt out of the lawn service if you really want to, but your dues don't go down.

What's not: irrigation (the system runs on reclaimed water and it's yours to maintain), your plant beds and anything you've added beyond the original landscaping, pest control for the house, and a termite bond.

CDD Fees

The Tolomato Community Development District is the special district that financed and maintains Nocatee's shared infrastructure and amenities, from the water parks to the Greenway. It shows up as a separate line on your property tax bill in two parts: a fixed debt payment that's paying down the original bonds, and an operations and maintenance charge that funds the parks and amenities from year to year.

For the November 2026 tax bill, Artisan Lakes homes are assessed like this:

Putting it all together: a 50-foot-lot home with the bond still in place runs about $5,280 a year in HOA dues plus $2,025 in CDD, so roughly $7,300 a year before property taxes and insurance. With the bond paid off, the CDD portion drops to $676.

Who can live here

Artisan Lakes is a 55+ community under the federal housing-for-older-persons rules. Here's how that works day to day, straight from the recorded declaration:

• At least one person in each home needs to be 55 or older. The board can make exceptions, as long as no more than 20 percent of the homes have no one over 55.
• Anyone under 19 can't live in the community, but they can visit for up to 90 days a year, and they can use the amenities at designated times with an adult. Grandkids for the summer are fine; grandkids full time are not.
• New residents fill out an age verification form, and the community re-checks occupancy every couple of years.
• You can lease your home, but the minimum term is seven months, the lease has to be on the association's approved form, and your tenants have to meet the same age rules before they can use the amenities.

Amenities

The amenity center at 384 Cobbler Trail is a 4,997-square-foot clubhouse that opened in 2016 (it picked up a regional construction award that year) with a fitness room, an aerobics room, a social room with a bar, a demonstration kitchen and space for events. Outside, there's a zero-entry, infinity-edge pool that looks out over the lake, a separate heated spa, cabanas, two pickleball courts, two bocce courts, a putting green, an event lawn, and a patio with a pool table and a firepit. The residents run the social side themselves, with a welcome committee, a Helping Hands group of volunteers, tai chi, and regular get-togethers at the center.

As an Artisan Lakes resident you have full access to everything in Nocatee, including the pools at Cypress Point, Twenty Mile and Crosswater Park. That's Splash Water Park (the Rip Tide slide tower, a 450-foot lazy river, a 377-foot zip line and a 21+ adult pool), the Spray Park, the Swim Club, the 24-hour Fitness Club, the lighted pickleball courts on Nocatee Parkway, the kayak launches at Nocatee Landing on the Tolomato River, the dog parks, and more than 5,000 acres of Greenway trails and preserve you can reach by golf cart.

Baptist HealthPlace at Nocatee opened in 2020 on Nocatee Parkway. It's 83,000 square feet of outpatient care: primary care, cardiology, imaging, labs, rehab, plus a YMCA. Fleet Landing is building a senior-living campus in Nocatee that's set to open in 2027.

More than 120 businesses, including the largest Publix in Northeast Florida and a GreenWise, plus restaurants, medical offices, Starbucks and fitness studios. About six minutes from the gate.

Location and Drive Times

Artisan Lakes sits on the north side of Nocatee, about 25 miles south of downtown Jacksonville and five miles west of the ocean. Town Center is about six minutes away, downtown Jacksonville about 30, and the airport about 45.