Alachua County

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Alachua County offers a unique blend of academic excellence, growing business opportunities, and family-friendly neighborhoods. Centered around Gainesville, the area is known for its strong healthcare, education, and technology sectors. Residents enjoy a lively community atmosphere, beautiful parks, and a diverse range of housing options.

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10 +/- Acre Incredible French Country Estate offers peace, privacy, and the enjoyment of having your own private estate. Magnificent, professionally designed, and sculpted 7,918 +/- SF 5-bedroom, 5.5 bath stone residence combines the best of elegance, style, and craftsmanship and offers gorgeous, expansive views of the surrounding Granddaddy Oaks and grounds. The foyer opens to a grand staircase, formal dining, and a large living room with a carved stone fireplace. Beautiful chef’s kitchen with hidden pantry, butler’s pantry, expansive center island, the bar seats five, and a separate family room with fireplace and family dining area. The open floor plan makes the home perfect for entertaining friends and family. French doors open onto expansive verandas with a summer kitchen, outdoor dining, and gathering areas around a double-sided fireplace overlooking an exquisite pool. Spacious owner’s suite offers a seating area, dual closets, and access to the pool. The incredible features that make this French home elegant and warm include Travertine floors, soaring architectural ceilings, impressive beam works, five fireplaces, and intricate moldings. Private office, exercise room, wine room, game room with beautiful beverage bar and seating area for watching games, planning your next duck, deer, or turkey hunt. This resort-like property is unsurpassed. 4- Car garage. Located just minutes from Williston airport. Additional adjoining acreage is also available.

$9,250,000 Active

15305 NW Hwy 320 Micanopy, Florida

5 Beds 6 Baths 7,985 SqFt 10 Acres

Set on 6.81 secluded acres in the exclusive Tomoka Hills enclave, this extraordinary French Provincial estate offers a rare blend of privacy, elegance, and resort-style living. Exceptionally designed and spanning nearly 6,000 square feet in the main home and over 2000sf in the new guest house, the residence showcases a thoughtfully designed floor plan that flows effortlessly for both comfortable daily living and sophisticated entertaining.Remodeled by local custom builders, the home features impeccable craftsmanship and high-end custom details throughout, reflecting remarkable attention to fit and finish. The main residence includes four spacious bedroom suites, all en suite, along with 5.5 bathrooms.Inside, gorgeous hardwood floors unify the entire home while a dramatic two-story foyer with intricate woodwork welcomes guests and frames immediate views through French doors to the pool and completely private backyard. The first floor offers multiple gathering spaces, including a sitting room with fireplace, formal dining room that flows through a Butler's Pantry to the kitchen and a spacious family room with a nearby half bath and wine bar—ideal for entertaining.The luxurious primary wing serves as a private retreat, featuring a sitting room (or office), a spa-inspired bath with a free standing tub, separate marble vanities, and a large walk-in shower finished in Calacatta marble with rain shower head and multiple shower heads. A large dressing room with an extensive organizational closet system completes the suite.Designed with entertaining in mind, the formal dining room connects to the stunning chef’s kitchen through a separate butler’s pantry, providing the perfect space for catering prep and seamless hosting. Upstairs, a gracious landing with open-air balcony access leads to three additional private suites, plus a flexible bonus room with built ins.Adding tremendous value and versatility to the property is a newly constructed 2,100-square-foot detached guest house. This luxurious residence offers two bedrooms (one BR is currently used as a GYM with rubber mat flooring), one bathroom, a spacious living room, and a full high-end designer kitchen with premium finishes. Perfect for guests or extended stays, the guest house also features a large summer kitchen with motorized screens, creating a seamless indoor-outdoor living experience that flows beautifully to the resort-style pool area. With its designer finishes, spacious layout, and luxurious feel, this guest residence functions as a private retreat within the estate.This remarkable property combines refined European-inspired architecture, modern luxury updates, and expansive grounds, creating a truly exceptional estate setting located in a prime location in SW Gainesville.

$3,500,000 Active

623 SW 93rd Street Gainesville, Florida

5 Beds 7 Baths 8,065 SqFt 6.81 Acres

SADDLE UP! Privately nestled on approximately 40 breathtaking acres, this extraordinary 4-bedroom, 3.5-bath, 3,298-square-foot custom equestrian estate, designed by renowned local architect Jay Reeves, combines architectural artistry, luxury and exceptional privacy. Completely secluded from the road and surrounded by mature hardwoods and majestic oaks, the home is filled with natural light. The dramatic great room features soaring 24-foot cypress ceilings, custom beams and a magnificent wood-burning fireplace crafted from hand-selected tan river rock with a locally made Red Oak mantle. Twelve-foot ceilings continue throughout the bedrooms and baths, while knotty alder doors, custom cherrywood cabinetry and millwork, sinker-cypress accents, granite surfaces and designer lighting showcase exceptional craftsmanship. The gourmet kitchen and cherrywood wet bar are designed for entertaining, with the kitchen overlooking a beautiful rear paddock. The primary retreat features a custom sinker-cypress wall, walk-in closet system and spa-inspired bath. Sonos sound, smart-home security, landscape lighting, fiber optics, automatic gated entry and a standby generator serving the home, barn and main well complete this thoughtfully designed estate.The Exceptional Equestrian Facilities: 17-stall barn with 12'x12' individually lit stalls, each with two electrical outlets and custom fan racks. Amenities include a feed room, 3 indoor and 2 outdoor lighted wash racks, climate-controlled tack room, fly-control system, ceiling fans, cupola ventilation and 220V power for shop equipment. The property features 9 fenced paddocks, each with dedicated water and old-growth oaks for shade, plus 5 run-in sheds. Approximately 3 miles of private, predominantly shaded riding trails with eventing jumps provide the rare opportunity to ride and train without leaving the property. The impressive 176'x256' custom arena features clay-and-sand footing with dedicated irrigation to keep it jump-ready. A private 1-bedroom, 1-bath barn apartment with two entrances, spacious kitchen and laundry provides ideal accommodations for a trainer, caretaker or guests. Additional features include an RV/horse-trailer electrical outlet, two 90-gallon fuel tanks and extensive irrigation. Private, sophisticated and meticulously designed, this remarkable 40-acre estate offers an extraordinary opportunity to live, ride, train and entertain at home. WELLS & SEPTIC: The property is served by two wells. The farm well is an industrial 6-inch well installed by Freeman in 2018 under the supervision of a professional geologist. This well services the whole property. A separate residential well, located to the left of the main residence, was constructed in 2000 is the back up well. It can be run by a standalone generator if the main generator fails, it can be run by a switch on a panel on the south side of the house in case the big well needs servicing. The residence well has a pipe connecting to the barn so the barn also has water in case of something failing. The property also has two septic systems, which are serviced annually. The residence septic is located to the left of the home, while the barn septic is located behind the barn.

$2,900,000 Active

19505 NW 184th Terrace High Springs, Florida

4 Beds 4 Baths 3,298 SqFt 40 Acres

Built by Henry Ford’s great grandson as his private estate, this extraordinary 67-acre property offers a rare combination of history, privacy, natural beauty, and self-sufficient country living just minutes from Alachua and Gainesville. A gated, lamp-lined drive winds beneath rows of producing pecan trees before arriving at the nearly 6,700-square-foot main residence, surrounded by creeks, ponds, mature woods, and sweeping views in nearly every direction.Inside, the six-bedroom, five-and-a-half-bath main home is defined by remarkable scale and craftsmanship, with rare heart-of-pine floors, generous living spaces, a billiards room, bonus room, and walls of windows framing the landscape beyond. The main living room overlooks a waterfall and picturesque swimming pond, while four expansive screened porches create nearly 2,000 additional square feet of outdoor living space.The nearly 1,200-square-foot primary suite feels like a private residence of its own. Three sets of French doors open to a porch overlooking the swimming pond, while a fireplace and sitting area create an intimate retreat. Two enormous custom closets lead to an equally impressive bath with dual water closets, mahogany and marble vanities, and a matching mahogany and marble soaking tub positioned to capture extraordinary views across the creek, pond, and pecan orchard.At the heart of the home, the kitchen pairs custom cherry cabinetry with a Wolf gas range, Sub-Zero refrigeration, warming drawer, two wine chillers, dual sinks, a large island, walk-in pantry, and dedicated coffee bar.Across the swimming pond, a roughly 650-square-foot pool house and expansive decks create another exceptional destination on the property—ideal as a gym, private office, guest retreat, or transformed into a spectacular indoor/outdoor entertaining space.Continue across the bridge and through the trees to discover a secluded two-bedroom, one-and-a-half-bath guest house with its own two-stall barn. Elsewhere, an oversized climate-controlled garage, large air-conditioned bunker, and more than 5,000 square feet of covered pole barns provide exceptional space for vehicles, equipment, storage, horses, and recreational toys.The land itself is every bit as compelling as the residences. Acres of producing pecan trees provide agricultural property tax exemptions, while two natural creeks, a stocked fishing pond, open pasture, wooded acreage, and abundant wildlife create a setting that feels worlds away. Extensive solar, buried propane, a multi-thousand-gallon water tank, generator, fuel storage, and a working windmill and pump provide the infrastructure for an almost entirely self-sufficient lifestyle.In total, the estate offers eight bedrooms, seven full and two half baths across multiple structures, with extraordinary flexibility for multigenerational living, guests, recreation, equestrian use, or simply disappearing into your own private piece of Florida.All of this, just 7 minutes from downtown Alachua and approximately 10 minutes from I-75—a legacy estate with a story, scale, and sense of place that would be nearly impossible to recreate today.

$2,795,000 Active

11317 NW 199th Avenue Alachua, Florida

8 Beds 9 Baths 8,231 SqFt 67 Acres

Exceptional 6+ acre equestrian-friendly estate in Hayes Glen featuring a 6,700 sq ft residence with a grand foyer entry, renovated kitchen with waterfall quartz counters, butler’s pantry, 7 bedrooms, 6.5 baths, formal living room with gas fireplace, formal dining room, family room, and 14-ft ceilings. Includes wood, marble and tile flooring, a 4-car garage, and a large bonus area with full kitchen and bathroom for pool area. Outdoor amenities include a heated pool with waterfall and safety enclosure, full tennis/basketball court, treehouse, fruit trees, and garden beds. Energy-efficient upgrades: solar panels, tinted windows, tankless water heaters, concrete block construction. Minutes to Haile Village, Tioga Town Center, Butler Plaza, Celebration Pointe, UF, and top medical facilities.

$2,600,000 Active

1515 SW 112th Street Gainesville, Florida

7 Beds 7 Baths 6,734 SqFt 6.33 Acres

117 acre ranch in Hawthorne with road frontage on SR 20 and Cr 2082. Absolutey stunning property with lush pasture, live oak hammocks throughout, a small stream travels the northern portion of the property and empties into a small pond. Rails to trails runs along the southern boundary. The 3227 sf brick home features a large kitchen with breakfast nook overlooking lush pasture canopied by century live oaks, a good sized living room, separate dining room, family room with bar and fireplace, 4 bedrooms, 4 baths, and much, much more. The property is fenced and crossed fenced for horses, cows and other livestock. The property consists of about 3/4 improved pasture with scattered century live oaks and hammocks. On the property you will also find a variation of fruit trees such as peach, navel, banana, pare and avocado to name a few! Recently added is a fenced riding arena (on grass) that is Olympic size. This is a unique property that even has a platform with a bubble tent to enjoy a beautiful night underneath a starry sky (photos coming soon).

$2,490,000 Active

18001 SE Hawthorne Road Hawthorne, Florida

4 Beds 4 Baths 3,947 SqFt 116.79 Acres

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