Two homes closed inside The Loxahatchee Club within three weeks of each other this spring. On May 12, 2026, a five-bedroom estate on Locha Drive sold for $9 million, or roughly $1,664 a square foot. On April 21, 2026, a three-bedroom home on Echo Drive sold for $1.75 million, or about $569 a square foot. Same guardhouse. Same 340 acres. Same Jack Nicklaus golf course running through both backyards. The price per square foot nearly tripled.
If you're comparing The Loxahatchee Club against other Jupiter communities, the number you've probably already seen is the median list price, which sat at $2,774,500 as of June 5, 2026, against an average of $958 per square foot across 28 active listings. That figure is accurate. It's also close to useless for predicting what any specific house will cost you, because The Loxahatchee Club isn't one housing market wearing one price tag. It's two markets sharing a mailing address, and which one you land in depends less on location inside the gates than on which decade the house was actually built.
A Community That Finished Building Itself
The Loxahatchee Club's golf course opened in 1985, and homes went up around it in phases for roughly the next two and a half decades, with construction and renovation activity continuing well beyond that as owners rebuilt on existing lots. The community now holds somewhere in the neighborhood of 285 single-family homes on those 340 acres, and it reached buildout years ago. There's no raw land left to develop into fresh subdivisions the way a newer Palm Beach Gardens community might still have.
That matters because it means every "new construction" listing you see inside The Loxahatchee Club today is not new land. It's a redevelopment. Someone bought an existing lot, in many cases with an original 1980s or 1990s home already sitting on it, tore the structure down, and built again. One current example: a spec home from builder Maxwell Building, done in collaboration with designer Kara Miller Interiors, carrying an occupancy date of April 2027. The dirt is old. The house is not.
So when you're pricing a Loxahatchee listing against a comparable-sized home in another club, ask a more precise question than "what's the median here?" Ask "am I looking at 1988 construction, a full gut renovation, or a 2025 teardown rebuild?" Those are three different products wearing the same club membership.
What Actually Closed This Spring
Here's the spread in plain numbers, pulled from closed sales in April and May 2026:
| Address | Closed | Square Feet | Sale Price | Price per Sq. Ft. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 194 Locha Dr | 5/12/2026 | 5,411 | $9,000,000 | $1,664 |
| 106 Micco Circle | 5/1/2026 | 2,711 | $2,650,000 | $977 |
| 133 Hawksbill Way | 5/4/2026 | 2,902 | $2,075,000 | $715 |
| 127 Echo Dr | 4/21/2026 | 3,076 | $1,750,000 | $569 |
Notice that square footage alone doesn't explain the ranking. The Echo Drive home is bigger than the Hawksbill Way home and sold for less per foot. Lot size doesn't sort it either, since all four sit within the same built-out footprint. What sorts these four sales is condition and vintage: how recently the structure was updated or rebuilt, and how completely. A three-times gap in price per square foot inside one gated community, closing within the same four weeks, is not something a median list price or a portal search filter is built to surface.
The Course Aged the Same Way the Houses Did
The clearest proof that vintage drives value here isn't even in the housing data. It's in the golf course itself. Golf Digest's Florida rankings show The Loxahatchee Club inside the top 10 in the state in 1989 and 1993, sliding to the top 15 through most of the 1990s, then gradually down: top 30 by the mid-2000s, 35th in 2015-16, 38th in 2021-22, and 39th for 2025-26. The course hasn't gotten worse in any absolute sense. Newer designs simply raised the bar, and much of Jack Nicklaus's original "chocolate drop" mounding around the greens, the styling that defined the course when it opened, has since been removed as tastes moved on.
That's the same forcing function working on the housing stock. A 1988 custom home with its original kitchen and baths isn't a worse house than it was in 1988. It's simply being priced against buyers who can also choose a 2025 rebuild two streets over, with impact glass, updated mechanicals, and a floor plan built for how people actually entertain now. The club's own architectural history is the clearest argument for why "how old" matters more than "how big" once you're inside a finished, no-more-land community.
Questions Worth Asking Before You Compare Two Listings
If you're weighing a Loxahatchee Club property against something in another Jupiter club, a few questions will tell you more than the listing sheet:
- What year was the structure built, and what year was the last full renovation, not just a cosmetic refresh of paint and fixtures?
- If the listing says "renovated," does that mean new kitchen and baths only, or does it include roof, impact windows, electrical, and plumbing?
- Is this a teardown-rebuild lot, and if so, who is the builder? Spec homes from an established local builder carry a different risk profile than an unpermitted owner renovation.
- Where does the lot actually sit: golf frontage, lake frontage, an interior street, or greenbelt? Frontage type shifts value, but it doesn't override condition. A dated home on the golf course can still price below a fully rebuilt home on an interior lot.
- How long has this specific listing been on market relative to similar-vintage homes? Original-condition homes tend to sit longer than move-in-ready ones, even at a lower asking price.
None of these questions show up in a median price. All of them show up in the closing statement.
A Short FAQ
Does a full renovation on an original Loxahatchee Club home match new-construction pricing? Not based on what closed this spring. The gap between a renovated older home and a from-the-ground-up rebuild still runs into the hundreds of dollars per square foot in this community, largely because a rebuild lets a buyer specify systems and layout that a renovation can only approximate.
Are there still vacant lots to build on inside the gates? No. The community reached buildout years ago. Any new construction you see advertised is redevelopment of an existing lot, typically after a teardown.
Does golf course frontage guarantee the highest price per square foot? It helps, but the spring 2026 sales show it isn't decisive on its own. Vintage and finish level moved the needle more than frontage type did among these four closings.
If you're trying to figure out where a specific Loxahatchee Club address actually falls between these two markets, or how a comparable Jupiter club stacks up against it once you adjust for vintage, that's a conversation worth having before you write an offer. Brad and Shannon Ball work this corridor of Jupiter's private club market directly and can walk you through vintage-matched comps for any address you're considering. Get a Free Home Valuation and start with a clear picture of what you'd actually be buying.
