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Sell a house in 32086, south of St. Augustine
32086 carries a St. Augustine mailing name, and barely any of it is inside the City of St. Augustine. The ZIP is unincorporated St. Johns County from end to end, give or take a fraction of a per cent.
Prefer to talk? Call (269) 389-9961 — no form needed.
The housing here
What 32086 covers.
32086 runs south from the city. Its land is overwhelmingly unincorporated — the incorporated city accounts for a fraction of one per cent of it. The communities people name here, St. Augustine Shores and St. Augustine South, are census-designated places, which means they are recognised areas rather than municipalities. They have no city hall, no independent building department and no code office of their own.
So for practical purposes: if your property is in 32086, the county will be the office that handles its permits and its code matters. That is worth knowing before you go looking for the wrong office.
Housing here is varied and later on the whole than in the old city — suburban development of several periods, some of it deed-restricted and some of it not. Some properties are association-governed; many are not. Some are on private septic; many are on connected services. None of that is uniform across the ZIP, and no page should tell you which applies to your house.
What is worth checking for any specific property: whether an association has any authority over a sale, what the flood-zone position is, and whether water and waste are connected or private.
A description of the area 32086 covers, not a statement about any particular property. ZIP codes are postal areas and do not follow neighbourhood or municipal boundaries.
What comes up here
The situations behind a sale here.
- An inherited houseWhat can be signed depends on the estate rather than on who has the keys. See the probate guide.
- A property with an associationWhere there is a declaration, it is the document that answers nearly every question about approval, transfer charges and assessments. Some properties here have one and some do not. The association guide covers what to check.
- A rental, occupied or between tenantsA sale does not by itself end a valid tenancy, and an association may have leasing rules on top. See the rental guide.
- Owning it from another stateDistance is workable. Authority to sign is the part to establish first — the out-of-state guide covers it.
- Flood zone and storm historyPosition varies across this ZIP. The FEMA Flood Map Service Center is authoritative, and the storm and water guide covers what follows.
- Septic, where the property is on itA private septic system is ordinary for some properties here and irrelevant to others. If yours is on one, mention it; it is a fact about your property rather than about the area.
- Deferred repairsRoof, air conditioning, plumbing. Selling as-is explains what you can leave.
Before you call
What the first conversation is like.
Where the property is, what condition it is in, whether anyone is living in it, and whether an association is involved. If you know the answer to the last one, it shortens everything that follows.
The St. Johns County Property Appraiser lists building characteristics and sale history, which is a quick way to confirm what year the systems date from.
The St. Johns County page lists the rest of the county offices — records, probate, permits, code and flood.
Questions we actually get
32086 questions
My address says St. Augustine. Am I in the city?
If you are in 32086, very probably not. The city accounts for a negligible share of this ZIP. In practice St. Johns County handles permits and code for property here.
Is St. Augustine Shores a town?
No. It is a census-designated place — a recognised area rather than an incorporated municipality. The same is true of St. Augustine South. Neither has a city hall of its own, so county offices are the ones you deal with.
Does my property have an association?
Some here do and some do not, and the ones that do differ from each other. The recorded declaration is the answer. If there is one, it decides whether approval, an estoppel or a right of first refusal applies — see the association guide.
The house is on septic and I do not know its condition.
That is fine. It is worth saying at the start so it is factored in rather than discovered, and it does not need investigating before a first conversation.
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Other St. Johns County areas
We also have pages for St. Augustine as a whole, ZIP 32084, ZIP 32145 and the Hastings area, and St. Johns County.
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