About Lithia
Lithia, Florida is a land of past and present, old and new. It’s a land of stately oaks, towering pines, hardwood hammocks, and river cypress swamps; yet a land resisting urban sprawl and development from its big brother Brandon just nine miles to the north.
Some say Lithia has been “rediscovered”; until the early 1980s, the community remained largely agrarian, with large farms providing citrus, cattle, and milk to neighboring towns.
Today though, groups like U-CAN (United Citizen Action Network) and R-LAND (the Rural Lithia Area Neighborhood Defense) are working hard to protect their land against what county planners say is inevitable: that the area south of the Alafia River, which includes Lithia, will swell to more than half-a-million people by 2025.
Lithia Real Estate
Lithia is most well known for the famous Fishhawk communities, Fishhawk Trails and Fishhawk Ranch. Fishhawk Trail is a guarded, gated community with custom homes on half-to one -acre sites surrounded by towering oaks.
The community offers a six-mile-long natural preserve trail system with a catwalk over Fishhawk Creek, as well as a recreation center and pavilion, tennis, roller hockey, playgrounds and more.
Fishhawk Ranch is an award-winning, master-planned community offering residens an enclosed community-center life with neighborhood cafes, bars and restaurants, a movie house, skate park, aquatic center with water-slide, on-site daycare, and 20 miles of trails that connect the community’s distinctive villages and parks.
Fishhawk Ranch sits on 4,400 acres, 1500 of which are reserved for conservation: the community received recognition from the National Arbor Day Foundation and the State of Florida for it’s work in saving trees during development. The 9000+ homes in Fishhawk vary in price from $159,000 for a townhome to $700,000+.
Older single-family homes are still available on country acreage outside the major new developments; you can find a 3/2 on a country acres for $260,00, as well as undeveloped acres at reasonable prices. Despite booming planned developments and excellent schools, the median home price in Lithia is still $336,276.
Sale and Rent Prices
- $336,276 Median Price, 1.3% One Year Price Increase
- $1,750 Rent list price
- $0.98 Rent list price / sq ft
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