Why Live in Buck Lake
Tallahassee’s Buck Lake trades the city’s bustling downtown and lively football scene for quiet, rural country living. A community on the city’s eastern edge in Leon County, Buck Lake offers homes on spacious lots surrounded by lakes, pine forests and farmland. “If you’re looking for a pace of life that’s less demanding, if you’ve been living in a metro area and grown up in a large city and looking for a place to dial it back a notch or two or looking for an opportunity to go to work without fighting two hours of bumper-to-bumper traffic, then this is a great spot,” says Brien Sorne, who has lived in the community with his wife Annette since the 1980s. “You see people coming from other parts of the country either attending school or working for state governments, but they choose to stay here. Annette and I are among those, and we never regretted it.”
Sorne’s wife has been president of Buck Lake Woods Property Owners Association, a community subdivision, for nearly 18 years. Both Florida State University graduates, Sorne says they wanted a place to spread out as a young family. “We found ourselves as a young couple with one child and one on the way in an apartment complex, and
Home Trends in Buck Lake, FL
On average, homes in Buck Lake, Tallahassee sell after 75 days on the market compared to the national average of 51 days. The median sale price for homes in Buck Lake, Tallahassee over the last 12 months is $420,000, up 2% from the median home sale price over the previous 12 months.
Median Sale Price
$420,000
Median Single Family Sale Price
$430,000
Median Townhouse Sale Price
$371,250
Average Price Per Sq Ft
$224
Number of Homes for Sale
54
Last 12 months Home Sales
219
Median List Price
$430,474
Median Change From 1st List Price
0%
Median Home Sale Price YoY Change
2%