Cabana Lane

Cabana Lane REAL ESTATE • DESIGN • BUILD • CREATE
Amelia Island, Fernandina Beach, Nassau County Florida
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August on Amelia Island was busy.154 homes closed, up from 104 last August. More than $100 million changed hands in a si...
09/21/2026

August on Amelia Island was busy.

154 homes closed, up from 104 last August. More than $100 million changed hands in a single month.

Prices tell a quieter story. The median came in at $500,000, lower than a year ago. Most of that is mix, not a slide. Far more homes sold in the $300s this year, and that pulls the midpoint down. Sellers still received 96.4% of their original asking price.

The number we watch most is inventory. 522 homes for sale, down about 11% from last year, and the fifth month in a row below last year's level. At the current pace, that is 4.2 months of supply.

What it means: buyers are here, there is less to choose from, and well-priced homes are finding their people. Not a frenzy. Not a retreat. A steady market with a thinner shelf.

Every street and price point reads a little differently. If you'd like to know what this means for your home or your search, send us a note.

Cabana Lane | Amelia Island, Florida

Source: AINCAR Monthly Market Detail, Single-Family Homes, August 2026

Builder - Designer Dawn Hillman is in the Texas Hill Country this week for the reveal of the 2026 Southern Living Idea H...
09/17/2026

Builder - Designer Dawn Hillman is in the Texas Hill Country this week for the reveal of the 2026 Southern Living Idea House at Friedën — Texas's first Southern Living Inspired Community, and a contemporary farmhouse that takes its cues from the land: white oak overhead, a palette borrowed from the hills, and a casita in the tradition of Fredericksburg's Sunday houses.

We know this program well. Crane Island is Amelia Island's Southern Living Inspired Community, and the Idea House came to our shores in 2019. So we go to these reveals to look closely, compare notes with the builders and designers who make them, and bring the best of it home — where design and construction live under one roof.

Congratulations to the Friedën team, Kurk Homes, Mustard Architects, and designers Jean Liu, Marcus Mohon, and Paloma Contreras on a house worth the trip. Public tours run through December 20.

Dawn Hillman · Building Contractor CBC1268609
Cabana Lane Design + Build · Postcard Living.

The "Just Right Cottage" At Crane IslandThree bedrooms on one living level. A guest cottage across the courtyard for the...
09/16/2026

The "Just Right Cottage" At Crane Island

Three bedrooms on one living level. A guest cottage across the courtyard for the people you love best. A south-facing pool that looks over the tidal marsh instead of at a fence. Nothing to climb, nothing to close off, nothing you'll never use.

Brown Design Studio drew it; Cabana Lane builds it. Land and home offered at $2.55 million, or $2.65 million with the pool.

Twelve homesites remain on Crane Island, where nearly half the land stays wild. Lot 2 is one of them. Inquire at craneisland.com.

Summer Market Update:Active inventory on Amelia Island and across Nassau County is down 9% from last summer, the fourth ...
08/31/2026

Summer Market Update:

Active inventory on Amelia Island and across Nassau County is down 9% from last summer, the fourth month in a row below the prior year. Buyers haven’t gone anywhere. Contracts written rose nearly 6% in July and are running ahead of 2025 year to date.

The median sale price eased to $470,000, but look at what sold rather than what it sold for. This July favored the $400s over the $600s. The number that matters is 97% of original asking price received, the strongest in more than a year.

Homes are taking their time, 74 days to contract on average. When the buyer arrives, they arrive ready.

Fewer homes, steady demand. That keeps a floor under pricing. This is not a market surging or slipping. It is a market holding, and holding is what a place like this does best.

For sellers, price it right and let it find its buyer. For buyers, take your time. Just know the room to negotiate is narrower than the calendar suggests.

Amelia Island–Nassau County Association of REALTORS®, July 2026, single-family homes.

08/30/2026

This week we kicked off a collaboration with the Master of Architecture program at the University of Florida’s JaxLab — a studio partnership exploring sustainability, regenerative hospitality, and the built environment at Congaree & Penn.

Over the coming months, these students will study the farm from every angle: its land, its rhythms, and how thoughtful design can serve both. We can’t wait to see what they dream up.

The Cabana Lane team is proud to represent The Eleven at Congaree & Penn — and prouder still to help bring fresh eyes and big ideas to a place we believe in.

Jacksonville, Florida 🌾

08/23/2026

When you care about the details, you make sure you’ve got the right trim and millwork team. 🔨

Dawn Hillman doesn’t just pick trim off a sample board — she’s on the move, in the field, exploring every option (and a few new ones) to make sure each Cabana Lane home feels as special and unique as the people who’ll live in it.

The right team. The right details. The right home.

👉 Link in bio to see what we’re building next.

08/15/2026

Dawn Hillman, walking a set of plans with the owners at the Cabana Lane Studio.
When design and construction live under one roof, good things happen. For the last sixty days we’ve worked alongside this property owner to take what they pictured and make it real — the floor plan on the screen, the cabinet doors on the table, the materials chosen with intent rather than settled for.
And the part that usually gets left to chance: we locked in their budget along the way. Vision, materials, and number all arrived together, tied up in a bow thx to Cindy Gregory Cindy Gregory & team!
Cabana Lane Design + Build · Amelia Island, Florida
Dawn Hillman · Building Contractor CBC1268609

UNDER CONTRACT · 1622 Park AvenueSome houses sell on the numbers. This one sold on the live oaks that got here first, th...
08/14/2026

UNDER CONTRACT · 1622 Park Avenue
Some houses sell on the numbers. This one sold on the live oaks that got here first, the sidewalk out front, and a door that faces its neighbors on purpose.
Amelia Park was built the old way — porches close to the street, parks you can walk to, downtown Fernandina a few minutes past the shade. It doesn’t ask you to drive anywhere to feel like you live somewhere.
3 bed · 2.5 bath · 1,628 sq ft
Represented by Dawn Hillman, Realtor® & Building Contractor. Congratulations to our buyers — and to the next chapter under those oaks.

08/11/2026

Meet the builder.
Dawn Hillman is happiest with her boots (or flip flops) in the sand. Here she is walking an early foundation with the property owner of a soon-to-be marsh home at Crane Island — block laid, corners set, the whole thing still mostly imagination.
This is the part most people never see. Before the porches and the pine floors and the long view over the grass, there’s a morning like this one: a builder, an owner, and a wall coming out of the ground exactly where it’s supposed to.
Design + build under one roof. From the first course of block to the last light switch.
📍 Crane Island · Amelia Island, Florida
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Sold on Fifth.The oak got here first — everything else was built to sit beneath it. A porch that runs the whole width of...
08/03/2026

Sold on Fifth.
The oak got here first — everything else was built to sit beneath it. A porch that runs the whole width of the house, a pergola gone green with vine, two black lanterns and a door the color of morning water.
This is the part of downtown Fernandina where the walk to Centre Street is short and nobody’s in a hurry to take it.
Congratulations to our buyers, and to Dawn Hillman for getting them to the table. 🌴
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3381 South Fletcher Avenue
Fernandina Beach, FL
32034

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