If you're thinking about moving to Brevard County, Florida, the question on your mind is probably the big one: is the Space Coast still affordable in 2026? The honest answer is that Brevard isn't cheap the way old Florida used to be, but for a coastal county with …

Which Cocoa, FL neighborhoods have no HOA?

Cocoa has plenty. Dalehurst Ranches, The Ranch, Hidden Pines Ranch, Broadview Manor, River Heights, Poinsett Shores, Cocoa Rico Ranchettes, Plantation Estates, Fannings and Crestview all carry no association dues.

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Cocoa Beach is the most recognizable beach town on Florida's Space Coast and the one most relocation buyers ask about first. The Pier, Ron Jon Surf Shop, and the cruise ships pulling out of Port Canaveral show up in every video about the area. But living in Cocoa Beach …

Cocoa Beach has something almost no other beach town in Florida has: a grid of navigable finger canals cut through the middle of a barrier island, with the ocean on one side and the Banana River on the other. Fifty-six canal-front homes closed here in the last year. If …

What is Phoenix Business Park in Palm Bay, Florida?

Phoenix Business Park is a planned industrial and commercial park in Palm Bay, Florida that just received a $3.5 million Florida Job Growth Grant Fund award for wastewater infrastructure. The project is expected to unlock roughly 960,000 square feet of …

It is the first question almost every Palm Bay seller asks, and the honest answer is that it depends on which number you are looking at. Two reputable data sources will tell you Palm Bay homes sell in 20 days and in 70 days, and both are technically correct. …

What new construction neighborhoods are in Cocoa, FL?

Cocoa has three communities still delivering new homes: Riverwalk of Cocoa and Adamson Creek, both by D.R. Horton, and Watermark by Stanley Martin Homes. Hickory Ridge, Panther Ridge, Lakeside Palms and Summer Breeze Plantation are finished.

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West Melbourne is the fastest-growing city in Brevard County, and it is not close. The population has gone from under 10,000 in 2000 to roughly 32,000 today, a jump of more than 180 percent. That kind of growth changes a place. It also means the neighborhood you pick here …

Which Brevard County neighborhoods have no mandatory HOA?

Across the 398 Space Coast neighborhoods on this site with association records, 57 show no mandatory association. They cluster heavily in Merritt Island and Cocoa.

Plenty of buyers moving to Brevard County tell me the same thing in …

Buyers ask me about this constantly, usually after leaving a community somewhere else that told them what color to paint the front door. Here is the short answer for Cocoa Beach: of the 212 single-family homes that closed in Cocoa Beach and Cape Canaveral in the last year, 202 …