Golf Communities North of Jupiter
Jupiter Hills is a Tequesta mailing address, but the community itself sits in unincorporated Martin County, on genuinely hilly, sandy terrain that is unlike anywhere else in the region. It is also the one community here where owning a home gives you no claim on the club at all. Here is how it compares. Click into any community to browse its listings.
Jupiter Hills
213 residences across Prestwick, Pineneedle, Birkdale Run and the Village, with two Fazio courses on rolling dune terrain. The club is invitation-only and legally separate from the association.
The Loxahatchee Club
The most comparable club you can actually buy into: 285 homes, one Nicklaus course, no boating, and a membership that is required with the house and published.
The Bear's Club
The other invitation-only club in the area, with a town-enforced membership cap and no published fees. Fewer homes, and closed sales several times higher.
Four Reasons Buyers Choose Jupiter Hills
Terrain that does not exist elsewhere here
South Florida golf is famously flat, built on fill with water as the only defence. Jupiter Hills sits on a relict sand dune ridge with genuine elevation change, reported at roughly 60 to 75 feet depending on the source. The Hills Course routes through that topography rather than around it. For a golfer who finds the regional product monotonous, this is the reason to be here, and it is not a claim any competitor can copy.
Two courses for a very small community
The Hills Course and the Village Course serve just 213 residences. Even allowing for the substantial non-resident membership, that ratio is unusual, and it is the practical reason members describe access as easy. The Village Course's origins are genuinely disputed in the record, credited to George and Tom Fazio in 1978 by one authority and to Tom Fazio alone in 1982 by the USGA.
A championship record, and more coming
The USGA's own records confirm the club hosted the 1987 U.S. Amateur and the 2018 U.S. Amateur Four-Ball, and has been awarded the 2027 U.S. Mid-Amateur and the 2032 U.S. Women's Mid-Amateur. That is a governing body choosing to return, which is a more meaningful endorsement than a magazine ranking. Note it has never hosted a PGA Tour event, despite what some summaries suggest.
A wider range of entry points than you would expect
The 213 residential parcels are not all estates. The 2026 county roll breaks down to 132 single-family homes, 34 attached single-family, 32 townhomes, and 15 condominiums, and closed sales over the past year ran from about $492,000 to $4.1 million. For a club community of this reputation, that lower band is unusual and genuinely widens who can consider it.
Jupiter Hills: The Facts That Actually Matter
This is the single most important thing to understand about Jupiter Hills, and it is unlike every other community on this site. The homeowners association's own disclosure summary, given to buyers as a contract addendum, states that the association has no ownership interest in Jupiter Hills Club and that membership is by invitation only. The same document states that non-members are not permitted on golf course property. So the house and the club are two entirely separate propositions: you can own here and never set foot on the course. Anyone considering a purchase on the assumption that the golf comes with it, or that ownership puts them in a queue, is working from a false premise. Resolve your membership position before you commit to the house, not after.
| County and jurisdiction | Unincorporated Martin County, confirmed by the U.S. Census geocoder, the Martin County Property Appraiser parcel roll, and the taxing district on every parcel. The Tequesta 33469 mailing address is postal only; the Village of Tequesta itself is in Palm Beach County. Schools are the Martin County School District, and the property appraiser and tax collector are Martin County. |
| Millage | District Three MSTU, levy code 3003, totalling 15.7549 mills per the appraiser's 2025 final millage codes. This is a Martin County rate and is not comparable to Palm Beach County millage. |
| Size / product | 213 residential parcels on the 2026 county roll: 132 single-family, 34 attached single-family, 32 townhomes, and 15 condominiums. Median market value on that roll is $1,947,020. Brokerage sources commonly say 212 or 215; we use the county roll. |
| Acreage | Frequently published as 366 acres, which we could not reproduce. The appraiser's parcel data totals roughly 431.6 acres, about 329.1 of it golf and 102.5 residential. Because the definitions behind these figures differ, we are not asserting a single number. |
| Neighbourhoods | Prestwick with 38 homes, Pineneedle with 14, and Birkdale Run with 61 plus 6, alongside Jupiter Hills Village and the Village Condominium and Prestwick Villas subdivisions on the county roll. |
| Club access | By invitation only. The association has no ownership interest in the club, and non-members are barred from golf course property. See the note above. |
| Club fees | Not published anywhere. The club's website is a members-only portal with no public content, one industry directory displays literal placeholder characters instead of figures, and a fee aggregator that publishes hard numbers for seventeen peer clubs states that Jupiter Hills does not disclose. We are therefore publishing no initiation, dues, or minimum figures at all. Any number you find elsewhere for this club should be treated with suspicion. |
| Association capital contribution | $10,000, payable at closing, per the association's disclosure summary. |
| Association assessments | A general assessment of $4,495 a year plus a village assessment, bringing the total to roughly $7,425 to $8,465 a year depending on which neighbourhood the home is in. These are association charges only and are entirely separate from any club cost. |
| Club financial scale | The club is a not-for-profit social club under section 501(c)(7). Its public filings show revenue of about $14.0 million and assets of about $52.2 million for the 2023 fiscal year, rising to about $15.3 million of revenue in 2024. That is useful context for a club that publishes nothing else. |
| Boating | None. This is an inland ridge site with no marina, dockage, or water access. |
Sources: Jupiter Hills Village homeowners association disclosure summary, a contract addendum, for the membership language, capital contribution, and assessments; Martin County Property Appraiser 2026 parcel roll and 2025 final millage codes for parcel counts, values, acreage, and tax rate; U.S. Census geocoder for county, incorporation status, and school district; USGA championship records; IRS Form 990 filings for the club's financial scale. Verified July 2026. The club publishes no fee information, so those rows are stated as unknown rather than estimated. Dylan can confirm the association assessment on a specific property and tell you candidly how the membership question actually works before you write an offer.
Jupiter Hills Market Context, July 2026
The figures below come from Martin County deed records rather than from a portal estimate, which makes them unusually solid for a community this small. The honest headline is not about price. It is that transaction volume has doubled.
Source: Martin County Property Appraiser sales records, extracted July 21, 2026, excluding non-arm's-length transfers recorded at nominal consideration. Over the twelve months to July 20, 2026 there were 10 closed sales with a median of $2,250,000, ranging from $492,000 to $4,100,000. In the preceding twelve months there were 5 sales at a median of $1,937,500. That is nominally a 16 percent rise, but comparing 10 sales against 5, in a window where the earlier period included one $6.5 million estate, is not a trend and we are not presenting it as one. What the data does support is a recovery in volume: nine closings had already recorded by mid-June 2026, the highest pace since 2021. Median days on market is not available, because deed records do not carry it and no citable MLS figure exists for this community. Ask Dylan for the closed comparables that match the neighbourhood and product type you are considering.
When Jupiter Hills May Not Be the Right Fit
The terrain and the golf are exceptional. The structure around them is unusual enough that it disqualifies a lot of otherwise well-suited buyers.
Then this is probably the wrong community, and it is worth being blunt about it. The association's disclosure summary states that membership is by invitation only and that non-members may not go on golf course property. Ownership conveys nothing and confers no standing to apply. If you want a club that comes with the house, The Loxahatchee Club requires membership with the purchase and publishes what it costs, and Admirals Cove does the same at greater scale.
The association side is well documented, at a $10,000 contribution on closing and roughly $7,425 to $8,465 a year. The club side is a blank. No initiation, dues, or minimum figures are published anywhere credible, and the figures that do circulate come from a machine-generated site that disclaims its own numbers. If a fully costed decision is a prerequisite for you, that information only becomes available through the club, and only if you are invited.
The Tequesta mailing address misleads a lot of buyers. The community is in unincorporated Martin County, so the property appraiser, the tax collector, the millage rate, and the school district are all Martin County, and none of the Palm Beach County comparisons carry over. If a Palm Beach County address or its school assignments matter to you, look at Tequesta itself or Jupiter.
This is an inland ridge community with no marina, no dockage, and no water access. It is also small and golf-centred rather than a resort-scale operation with extensive racquet, spa, and family programming. For golf paired with deep-water boating, Admirals Cove; for a large amenity-rich club, BallenIsles.
Jupiter Hills vs. the Communities Buyers Shortlist Against It
vs. The Loxahatchee Club
Both are small, golf-first, and have no boating, which makes the structural difference stand out sharply. At The Loxahatchee Club a membership is required with the house and its cost, while dated, is at least published. At Jupiter Hills the club is legally separate from the association, membership is invitation-only, and nothing is published. Jupiter Hills answers with two courses instead of one and terrain nothing else in the region can match.
The Loxahatchee Club if you need certainty that you can join and what it costs; Jupiter Hills for the golf itself, if the membership question is already resolved for you.
vs. The Bear's Club
The two invitation-only clubs in the area, and both publish no fees, so the comparison comes down to scale and price. The Bear's Club has roughly a hundred estate homes with closed sales from $14 million upward and a town-enforced membership cap. Jupiter Hills has 213 residences of genuinely mixed product, with closings over the past year from $492,000 to $4.1 million.
The Bear's Club for estate-scale privacy at a price floor in the teens of millions; Jupiter Hills for the same invitation-only exclusivity at a fraction of the cost, with better golf variety.
Buying in Jupiter Hills: What to Know
If I buy a home in Jupiter Hills, do I get a club membership?
No, and you do not even acquire the right to apply. The homeowners association's disclosure summary, provided to buyers as a contract addendum, states that the association has no ownership interest in Jupiter Hills Club and that membership is by invitation only, and separately that non-members are not permitted on golf course property. The home and the club are two independent things. This is the most important single fact about buying here and the one most often misunderstood.
What does club membership cost?
Nobody outside the club knows, and we are not going to invent a figure. The club's website is a members-only portal with no public content. One private-club directory shows placeholder characters where the numbers would be. A club-fee aggregator that publishes specific initiation and dues figures for seventeen other Palm Beach County clubs states plainly that Jupiter Hills does not disclose. The one site that does publish a number is machine-generated and carries its own disclaimer that its figures are estimates not to be relied upon. What we can tell you is the association side: a $10,000 capital contribution at closing and roughly $7,425 to $8,465 a year in assessments.
Is Jupiter Hills in Palm Beach County?
No. Despite the Tequesta, Florida 33469 mailing address, the community lies in unincorporated Martin County. We verified this three ways: the U.S. Census geocoder returns Martin County with no match in the incorporated-places layer, the Martin County Property Appraiser carries the parcels on its roll, and every parcel sits in a Martin County taxing district. The practical consequences are real. Your property appraiser, tax collector, millage rate, and school district are all Martin County, and the schools are the Martin County School District. It is also not Hobe Sound, and it is not the highest point in Palm Beach County, a claim repeated in several places that cannot be true given the county.
What are the golf courses like?
Two courses, the Hills Course and the Village Course, laid out over a relict sand dune ridge with real elevation change, reported at roughly 60 to 75 feet depending on which source you read. That topography is genuinely rare in South Florida golf and is the club's defining physical characteristic. The Village Course's attribution is disputed in the record: one authority credits George and Tom Fazio in 1978, while the USGA credits Tom Fazio alone in 1982. We state both rather than pick one.
What championships has the club hosted?
Per the USGA's own records, the 1987 U.S. Amateur and the 2018 U.S. Amateur Four-Ball, with the 2027 U.S. Mid-Amateur and the 2032 U.S. Women's Mid-Amateur already awarded. The forward bookings matter more than the history: they represent the governing body choosing to come back twice more. The club has never hosted a PGA Tour event, notwithstanding claims to the contrary in some community summaries.
How many homes are there, and what types?
213 residential parcels on the 2026 Martin County roll, comprising 132 single-family homes, 34 attached single-family, 32 townhomes, and 15 condominiums, with a median market value on that roll of $1,947,020. Neighbourhoods include Prestwick with 38 homes, Pineneedle with 14, and Birkdale Run with 61 plus 6, alongside Jupiter Hills Village. Published counts of 212 or 215 appear in brokerage material; we use the county roll. On acreage, the commonly cited 366 acres could not be reproduced from parcel data, which totals closer to 431 acres including the golf land.
About Dylan Snyder
Dylan Snyder is a second-generation real estate professional and lifelong Floridian based in Palm Beach, and the founder of the Snyder Group, one of the top-producing teams in the state with over $100 million in annual sales. A licensed Realtor with more than 20 years of experience, he holds the e-PRO, Seller Representative Specialist, Certified Luxury Home Marketing Specialist, and Graduate Realtor Institute (GRI) designations and is a member of the National Association of Realtors. He advises buyers and sellers across Jupiter, Tequesta, and the Martin County line, including Jupiter Hills, and can confirm the association assessment on a specific property, explain how the membership question actually works here, and pull Martin County closed comparables before you write an offer.
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Equal Housing Opportunity. Compass Florida, LLC is committed to compliance with all federal, state, and local fair housing laws. Property, community, club, and market information is deemed reliable but not guaranteed; club membership at Jupiter Hills is by invitation and its terms are not published, and association assessments, tax rates, and closed-sale data should be verified with the association, the Martin County Property Appraiser, and the MLS before relying on them for an offer. © 2026 Dylan Snyder, The Snyder Group, brokered by Compass Florida, LLC, palmbeachhomesearcher.com. Data last verified July 2026.


