Last updated September 21, 2026.

Official PUD name. Samara Lakes PUD
County map status. Recorded as complete · Residential
General area. Northwest
Ordinance. 2015-59 · PUD2003000010
Also on the county record. Briarwood; River Birch; Stone Block Park; Maltby Farms
Official name: Samara Lakes PUD. Marketing villages include Briarwood, River Birch, and Stone Block Park.
This is the northwest / 210-adjacent belt rather than the beach. Resale is the usual inventory. Confirm which amenity key a given village actually gets.
Zoning and approval
The cap is 860 homes on about 310.6 acres. Of those, 243 affordable homes have been built and sold (county ordinance).
Location
I-95 is 6.2 miles away, Plaza de la Constitucion is 14.7, Jacksonville International Airport is 50.5, and Vilano Beach is 15.5. These are approximate road miles from a point inside the community, not the entrance.
That point is in Census ZIP area 32092.
Homes and builders
These figures come from a sample of St. Johns County Property Appraiser parcel records. The sample does not include every house.
Year built in the sample: 2006 to 2016.
Conditioned area in the sample: 1,535 to 3,148 square feet.
The sampled homes are single-family houses.
A legal-description search matched about 877 parcels.
KB Home and D.R. Horton are sellers on first sales in this sample.
Original new-construction prices recorded in the sample: $210,000 on June 27, 2006; $309,600 on December 20, 2007; $180,000 on June 30, 2014. These are the prices from that year.
Parcel pages from this sample: 0275011460, 0275012320, 0275016780. Source: St. Johns County Property Appraiser.
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Samara Lakes homes for sale
Current MLS listings for this community are on ancientcitystays.com with Coldwell Banker Vanguard Realty.
See Samara Lakes homes for saleLast reviewed September 21, 2026. Source: St. Johns County PUD Development Activity.