Maris Cove

Maris Cove is a gated waterfront community by Toll Brothers on the Intracoastal Waterway in Yulee, unincorporated Nassau County, at Blackrock Road. It is an enclave of just 30 single-family homesites with a private community dock. Toll Brothers announced it in August 2026 and anticipates opening for sale in early 2027, with pricing published from the low $900,000s. Floor plans and the site plan have not been released yet.

Yes, and that is the point of it. Thirty homesites is small enough that the community will be finished quickly rather than being a construction site for a decade, and small enough that the dock and the water frontage are genuinely shared among a handful of households rather than several hundred. The trade is that there is no amenity campus here, no clubhouse and no pool complex. What you are buying is the water, the gate and the location.

Direct access to the Intracoastal Waterway from inside the community, which in this part of Nassau County is genuinely scarce. A great deal of the waterfront here is salt marsh rather than dockable water, so a private community dock on the Intracoastal is not a standard feature that happens to be included. From that water you can run north toward Fernandina Beach and Cumberland Sound or south through the Nassau River toward the Talbot Islands, and the inshore fishing is redfish, trout and flounder. What has not been published is how dock access is allocated among 30 homes, whether slips are assigned or first-come, and what it costs to maintain. Those are contract questions and they are worth asking early.

As of September 2026 Toll Brothers publishes an anticipated starting point in the low $900,000s. Individual floor plans, homesite pricing and lot premiums have not been released, and on a 30-lot waterfront community the spread between the least and most expensive homesites is usually significant. For area context, the median sale price across this ZIP code was about $446,000 in June 2026, up roughly ten percent year over year. That ZIP spans both Yulee and Fernandina Beach, so treat it as background rather than a comparable.

More than you would inland, and this is the line item that surprises buyers at this price point rather than the property taxes. This is Intracoastal-front property on the northeast Florida coast, in an area rated at high wind exposure, and a portion of properties in the ZIP carry flood risk. Windstorm and flood coverage are priced separately from a standard policy and vary sharply with elevation, distance to open water, construction and roof age. Get a real quote on a specific homesite and its elevation certificate before you decide what you can afford, not after.

Very likely not, and here is the honest reasoning. Nassau County publishes a list of its community development districts and none of them covers the Blackrock Road area. Beyond that, a district exists to issue bonds against large-scale infrastructure, and a 30-home community is far too small for that to make sense. We are not going to promise you that no district will ever exist, because sales here do not open until 2027, but the structural answer is that this is not the kind of community that forms one. Ask the sales office to confirm in writing, and ask what the HOA covers instead, because on a small gated community with a dock the association carries real responsibilities.

At Blackrock Road in Yulee, on the mainland side of the Intracoastal, west of Amelia Island. Yulee itself is unincorporated Nassau County with no city government and, historically, no center; it was the place you drove through on the highway between the interstate and the island. That has changed a great deal. It now effectively has two centers, the newer Wildlight development near the interstate about four miles away and the older highway retail cluster about six miles the other direction, so everyday errands work in either direction without backtracking.

Downtown Fernandina Beach is roughly eight to ten miles, about fifteen to twenty minutes in light traffic, and the Amelia Island beaches are a little further at around nine to eleven miles. Fernandina is the real town here: a fifty-block Victorian historic district, a working shrimp fleet, independent restaurants and bars on Centre Street running down to the river, and the annual shrimp festival. Fort Clinch State Park at the north tip of the island has a remarkably intact nineteenth-century fort, six miles of beach and a long fishing pier. Amelia Island State Park at the south end is the only Florida state park where you can ride horses on the beach.

Baptist Medical Center Nassau in Fernandina Beach is the nearest hospital and emergency room, roughly nine miles and about seventeen minutes in light traffic. There is a large medical office and rehabilitation campus much closer at Wildlight, but it is not a hospital and has no emergency room, so do not count it for that. Jacksonville International Airport is about twenty-three miles and thirty-seven minutes away, which is genuinely one of the best airport positions of any waterfront community in northeast Florida.

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