Cascades at World Golf Village, St. Augustine

Market snapshot

Nineteen closings were recorded at a median of $361,000 and about $198 a square foot. Homes averaged 129 days on market — the longest of any community on this site — against 2.5 months of supply, which the source still classifies as a seller's market. Median price read roughly 7% below the prior year. Long marketing times in an established 55+ community are normal: the buyer pool is narrower by design, so patience matters more than urgency.

Market figures above are aggregated community sales data taken from the public community-data index published at the website movewithmomentum.com (an unaffiliated third party), dataset generated 2026-07-13, reflecting sales as of 2026-07-09. Figures are area aggregates, not an appraisal or a valuation of any individual home, and they change as new sales record. HOA dues, CDD fees and property taxes are NOT shown here: the only figures available for them are modelled estimates rather than recorded amounts. Ask The Parham Team for the current recorded numbers before you rely on them. Pull the recorded assessed value, exemptions, and current CDD/tax figures for a specific parcel from the St. Johns County Property Appraiser — figures change and should be verified for the specific address.

Is Cascades the right fit?

Cascades fits buyers who want golf-course access, a clubhouse, and maintenance-free HOA living inside the recorded 55+ structure — a match if you want the yard work, the roof, and the common areas handled by the association rather than by you. It suits someone downsizing from a larger property who wants amenities close at hand without a long drive, and who's comfortable with the recorded occupancy rules that come with an age-restricted deed. It's a weaker fit if you want a home with no occupancy restrictions at all, or if the HOA/CDD carrying cost stack doesn't pencil against your budget — in that case, a non-restricted community elsewhere in World Golf Village or St. Augustine may be the better search.

Where it is

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What to check before you buy here

Budget for the full carrying cost, not the mortgage. Ask for the association fee, what it includes, the World Golf Village CDD assessment, and the age of the roof and HVAC — Cascades is an established community and those systems are reaching replacement age on many homes. Read the recorded occupancy rules before you assume a family member can move in with you. Verify the current CDD assessment and parcel tax figures at the St. Johns County Property Appraiser before you budget against them.

Age-restricted communities like Cascades typically qualify for their restriction under the federal Housing for Older Persons Act, which allows a community to require that a set share of occupied homes have at least one resident aged 55 or older, while still permitting some younger residents and visitors under the association's own rules. The exact occupancy percentage, visitor-stay limits and enforcement process are set in Cascades' own recorded declaration, not by us or by this page — get the current documents from the association before you assume a grandchild, adult child or younger spouse can live there full-time.

129 days on market is the longest average of any community covered on this site, and that's normal for an established 55+ product, not a warning sign on its own. The buyer pool is narrower by definition — it excludes most move-up families and first-time buyers outright — so a Cascades listing typically needs to find the right retiree or pre-retiree household rather than the first offer that walks through. Price a Cascades home to compete with other age-restricted inventory in World Golf Village, not against the broader St. Augustine market, and expect the marketing period to run longer even when the price is right.

Ask for the roof and HVAC age on any Cascades home before you get attached to it. This is one of the older active-adult sections in World Golf Village, and replacement-age systems are common — a home that looks move-in ready can still need a roof within a few years, and that changes the real cost of ownership more than the sale price does.

Renting first, and what that tells you about demand

Typical asking rent across ZIP 32092 — the World Golf Village corridor Cascades sits in — reads $2,504.62 a month as of the June 2026 data release, which gives a rough sense of what a Cascades home could carry if a buyer chose to lease it out during a transition, such as testing Florida before committing or bridging a sale elsewhere. St. Johns County's overall investment return profile, measured by a countywide cap rate of about 5.15%, is on the lower end for the region — a function of high purchase prices relative to rents — so most Cascades buyers are living in the home, not running it as a rental math play. That matches what the 129-day average marketing time and the narrower buyer pool already tell you: demand here comes from people choosing a lifestyle, not investors chasing yield.

The value-durability read for a downsizing buyer

Cascades' own median sale price fell about 7% over the past year, the steepest one-year drop of any community on this site, even though the source still classifies it as a seller's market on thin supply. Some of that is the natural churn of an older resale-heavy inventory rather than new construction; some of it likely reflects a narrower buyer pool feeling less urgency than move-up family buyers elsewhere in the county. We work with a lot of downsizing households moving between Putnam County and St. Johns County in both directions, and the honest read is this: St. Johns County as a whole has held value better over five years (up about 4.4%) than it has over the past twelve months (down about 2.7%), and Cascades' 7% pullback is sharper than either. If you're selling a Putnam County home to buy into Cascades, budget for a longer hold and a more patient exit than the county-level averages alone would suggest, and get a specific comparable-sales read on Cascades itself rather than assuming the World Golf Village halo carries the same value everywhere inside it.

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