Parkside West

Parkside West In Palm Bay, Florida

Parkside West Development Company and Parkside West Homeowners Association, Inc. were both registered with the state in 2004, the ground was platted as Parkside West P.U.D., and D.R. Horton did the building. The association is still active. The community itself is finished and sold out, which means there is no builder inventory competing with resale here, a meaningful difference from the newer subdivisions a few miles away.

The defining fact about this place is the length of the build. First houses came out of the ground in 2007, the last around 2016, and the recession sits in the middle of that. So a house with a 2007 roof and a house with 2016 impact rated glass can be four doors apart, governed by the same documents, paying the same assessment, and priced within sixty thousand dollars of each other. Ask the year built before you compare anything else.

Everything carries a Snapdragon Drive address. The street enters through the gate, loops, doubles back on itself and branches at Teaberry Drive, which is why directions from agents read like a riddle. It also means that Snapdragon Drive NW continues outside the gate under the same name, so a listing with that street on it is not automatically inside Parkside West. Check the plat name before you drive out.

Private pools are close to standard here. More than half the properties have one, and salt water systems show up on most of those, which is unusual density for a subdivision at this price. Four of every ten houses sit on lake frontage. The association adds a community pool, playground, sidewalks and grounds maintenance behind the gate for $350 a quarter, the steepest assessment of any comparable community on the west side.

Sale prices land between $360,500 and $515,000, centering at $400,000, roughly $169 a square foot, and houses have taken about six weeks to go under contract. Construction is stucco over block with frame elements, shingle roofs, storm shutters on most, and stone veneer accents on several of the later houses. Garages are two to three bays. Annual tax bills have ranged from under $1,000 to nearly $6,000 depending on homestead status and length of ownership.