Westchase
Master-planned, built out, and twenty minutes from the airport
Hillsborough County · 33626
The market here right now
Few homes for sale. Sellers still hold the cards.
Homes for sale
92
-3.2% vs a year ago
Days on market
71
typical wait
Price cuts
26.2%
share of listings
FHA share
17.8%
Hillsborough County
Westchase is a master-planned community in northwest Hillsborough County, laid out in the late 1980s and finished long ago. It is the Tampa answer to the question of where to live if you want a golf course, a swim and tennis centre, graded schools and a commute that does not cross a bridge.
The detail
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What you are actually buying
Single family houses from the 1990s and early 2000s across a wide size range, plus townhomes and villas around the edges. Because it was built in phases by several builders, the stock varies street to street in a way a single-builder community does not. Roof age is the number to ask about first: a neighborhood built largely in one decade replaces its roofs in one decade too, and Florida insurers price that hard.
The constraint that shapes everything
It is finished. There is no remaining land inside it, so supply is whatever existing owners choose to list, and demand is set by the school assignment and the commute. That combination produces a market that behaves more like an established inner suburb than like the newer communities further north on the Suncoast Parkway.
Fees and what they cover
There is a community development district in addition to the homeowners association, and the two are separate line items. A CDD assessment repays the infrastructure bonds and appears on the tax bill rather than in the association dues, which is why a monthly payment quoted from taxes and insurance alone can be materially wrong here. Get both numbers before you decide what you can afford.
Related reading
From the journal
In Cape Coral, the canal decides the price. Not the house.
Cape Coral has more miles of navigable canal than any city in the world, and two identical houses on two different canals are not the same asset. Here is the distinction that sets the price, and the one most buyers from out of state miss.
Baldwin Park has the tightest supply in the metro, and there is a structural reason
Of every scored ZIP code in Central Florida, one sits at the very top. It is not an accident of demand. It is a consequence of how the neighborhood was built and what cannot happen there.
Next step
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Source: Realtor.com Economic Research, with FHA share from HMDA via CFPB · Data through September 2026