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Coral SpringsCity Guide
Florida's first master-planned city: 49 parks, top-of-Broward schools, a new downtown rising.
Coral Springs sits in northwest Broward County, roughly twenty miles northwest of Fort Lauderdale and forty-five miles north of Miami, with an estimated 2026 population of 144,121 across a thirteen-mile-wide planned grid. The city was chartered on July 10, 1963 — one of Florida's earliest fully master-planned municipalities — after Coral Ridge Properties principals James S. Hunt and Joe Taravella bought 3,869 acres from the Lyons family green-bean farm in December 1961 for one million dollars and laid down a master plan for a 50,000-resident city built around brick-colonial aesthetic codes, dedicated commercial zones insulated from neighborhoods, and an engineered canal network for drainage.
A suburb built on a 1960s master plan — and a downtown finally being built
For six decades the city was almost entirely single-family residential — gated golf communities like Heron Bay and Eagle Trace anchoring the upper end, and a forty-nine-park municipal system carrying most of the daily-life weight. That changed with Cornerstone at Downtown Coral Springs, a 7-acre mixed-use development on the southwest corner of University Drive and West Sample Road inside the city's 136-acre downtown CRA. Cornerstone is approved for roughly 41,500 square feet of retail and restaurants, a 140-room hotel, 712 apartments, and 1,350 garage spaces. The first residential phase (Modera Coral Springs, 351 units) opened leasing, Mitch's Downtown Bagel Cafe and Big Whiskey's are in the first wave of food tenants, and the CRA continues issuing rebates to fill the rest of the ground floor.
The 2026 market reflects how tightly inventory has pulled in. March 2026 data from the MIAMI Realtors monthly release put Coral Springs at a 2.6-month single-family supply (tightest in Broward), a 25-day median days-to-contract (lowest in the county), inventory down 34% year-over-year, and a $657,000 single-family median against a $600,000 Broward countywide figure. Condo and townhouse sales surged 78% year-over-year off the smaller base. See homes for sale in Coral Springs for the live inventory.
Key Details
What makes Coral Springs special
What to Expect
A planned, low-density suburb running on a tight grid of arterial roads and engineered canals. Days revolve around schools, parks, and youth sports more than restaurants or nightlife. The new Cornerstone downtown is the first time the city has had a walkable core; most residents still drive everywhere else.
The Market
March 2026 single-family median was $657,000 against $600,000 countywide, with a 2.6-month supply — the tightest in Broward — and a 25-day median days-to-contract, the lowest in the county. Single-family sales were down 4% YoY while condo and townhouse sales rose 78%; condo median was $219,000. Source: April 26, 2026 MIAMI Realtors release via Coral Springs FL News.
Districts
Heron Bay is the large gated community on the north end with 30-plus sub-neighborhoods, Audubon-certified golf, and direct Sawgrass Expressway access. Eagle Trace, built around its private course in 1983, runs 903 homes and 11 Har-Tru tennis courts. City Center / Cornerstone is the emerging walkable core (Walk Score 70). Coral Creek, Westchester, and the Country Club neighborhoods make up most of the non-gated single-family interior.
Getting Around
Car-dependent: the Sawgrass Expressway (SR 869) is the north-south spine, with I-95 about seven miles east via Atlantic Boulevard. There is no Tri-Rail or Brightline station in the city; Broward County Transit runs Green and Blue community shuttle routes. Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood (FLL) is roughly twenty miles southeast, Palm Beach International about twenty-eight miles north, Miami International about forty-five miles south.
Schools
Marjory Stoneman Douglas High in adjacent Parkland — fed in part by Coral Springs zoning — ranked 81st nationally and 6th in Broward in the U.S. News 2025–26 list (GreatSchools 9, Niche A+). Inside city limits, Coral Glades High ranks 14th in Broward, Coral Springs Charter 18th, and Coral Springs High 28th; the city's district schools earned an A grade from the Florida DOE.
Parks & Recreation
Forty-nine parks run by city Parks and Recreation. Anchors include the Sportsplex athletic complex (2 baseball, 1 football, 1 soccer field, 4 basketball courts), Mullins Park with Mullins Hall and an outdoor performance space, Tall Cypress Natural Area, the Coral Springs Tennis Center, the Aquatic Complex, and the Mullins and Cypress pools.
Storm & Flood Risk
First Street places about 84% of buildings at significant flood risk citywide, with 56 census tracts above the threshold for high-tide, pluvial, and riverine flooding, and an average ~28% chance of a 10-inch flood over thirty years for at-risk buildings. Hurricane wind exposure is high, but inland Coral Springs is not in a coastal evacuation zone — a meaningful difference from Broward's barrier-island cities.
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Market Intelligence
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