St Cloud, Florida

It's a growing lakeside town in Osceola County that stays quieter than the tourist corridor while keeping Orlando within a 45-minute drive. Assigned schools include St. Cloud High School and Narcoossee Elementary, and community options range from gated communities to acreage in places like Deer Creek. The mix of water access, new subdivisions, and older neighborhoods gives most buyers a fit.

It's moderate for the Orlando metro, with a median list price of $425,000 and an average of $236 per square foot. Entry-level listings start around $97,500 while the top of the market reaches $3.8M, so you can browse by price to match your budget. Median rent runs about $2,369 a month.

The median list price is $425,000 and homes that sold over the past year closed at a median of $409,990. Most listings are single-family homes, with townhouses, villas, and manufactured homes rounding out the mix. Median home size is about 1,978 square feet.

It's active but balanced: 1,255 homes are listed and 2,560 have sold in the past 12 months, with a median of 33 days on market. Sellers are getting about 98% of asking on average, so well-priced homes move without huge bidding pressure. Watching just reduced listings can surface negotiable deals.

The median HOA is a modest $100 per month, though newer and gated neighborhoods can run higher. Median property tax is about $4,373 a year. Communities like Mallard Pond and other planned developments will carry their own dues, so confirm the figure for any specific home.