Anthony, FLORIDA
Real Estate Anthony, FL
Anthony doesn’t show up on many radars outside Marion County, and the people who live there tend to like it that way. The Next Steps Group helps buyers and sellers navigate Anthony, FL real estate with the kind of specific, on-the-ground knowledge a countywide search engine can’t give you.
eXp Realty’s April 2026 report named The Next Steps Group the number 3 large team in Florida by closed units, a ranking that includes teams from every major metro in the state. If you want to buy homes in Anthony, FL or sell homes in Anthony, FL, you’re working with a team whose scale didn’t come at the cost of knowing a community this small this well.
Quick facts: ~4,500 residents · ZIP 32617 · unincorporated community, Marion County · Top 3 large team in Florida, April 2026
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Why buyers look at Anthony
Anthony is on County Road 200A northeast of Ocala, close enough to reach the World Equestrian Center and Ocala Breeders’ Sales in minutes. But far enough out that it never picked up the subdivision sprawl found closer to town. Buyers who want horse property without a long drive to the show grounds, or who simply want the acreage and quiet that a named community like Anthony still offers, tend to land here on purpose rather than by accident.
The area has been a recognized settlement since a post office opened there in 1877, named for Colonel E.C. Anthony, an Indiana developer who platted the original lots. Around 4,500 people call it home today, spread across a mix of old in-town lots and larger acreage parcels rather than concentrated into a single dense center.
Fun fact: Anthony was briefly an incorporated town in 1892, driven by a phosphate mining boom that also fueled growth across Marion County at the time. It later reverted to unincorporated status, which is how it stands today, a real place with a real history that most of Florida has simply never heard of!
Neighborhoods and housing types in Anthony
Anthony’s housing stock splits along a pretty clean line. Near the old platted core, homes are on smaller in-town lots that trace back to the community’s original railway-era layout. Head out along NE roads off CR 200A, and the story shifts to working horse farms and larger acreage tracts, several with barns, cross-fencing, and paddocks already in place.
This split is a big part of why the median price of the property for sale in Anthony, FL has climbed well above the county average.
- In-town lots near the historic core, generally smaller and older, appealing to buyers who want Anthony's identity without the acreage upkeep.
- Working horse farms and hobby-farm acreage along the NE corridor, priced for barns, fencing, and pasture as much as the house itself.
- A smaller number of newer builds on larger tracts, reflecting buyers who moved out from Ocala proper for space without leaving the area entirely.
Where The Next Steps Group
Actually works in Anthony
We don’t talk about Levy County in the abstract. We show up in real towns and communities.
Bronson
County seat with a small core population, surrounded by farms and wooded tracts. We help buyers compare in-town homes versus nearby acreage, and help sellers frame land, wells, and outbuildings in a way portal-driven buyers can actually understand.
Williston
County seat with a small core population, surrounded by farms and wooded tracts. We help buyers compare in-town homes versus nearby acreage, and help sellers frame land, wells, and outbuildings in a way portal-driven buyers can actually understand.
Chiefland
County seat with a small core population, surrounded by farms and wooded tracts. We help buyers compare in-town homes versus nearby acreage, and help sellers frame land, wells, and outbuildings in a way portal-driven buyers can actually understand.
Cedar Key
County seat with a small core population, surrounded by farms and wooded tracts. We help buyers compare in-town homes versus nearby acreage, and help sellers frame land, wells, and outbuildings in a way portal-driven buyers can actually understand.
Inglis & Yankeetown
County seat with a small core population, surrounded by farms and wooded tracts. We help buyers compare in-town homes versus nearby acreage, and help sellers frame land, wells, and outbuildings in a way portal-driven buyers can actually understand.
Fun fact: Levy County has seven incorporated towns and cities spread across more than a thousand square miles. A single “Levy County” search can span an entire hour of driving and three completely different buyer types if you don’t filter it smartly, which is exactly why we start with a conversation instead of a listing dump.
Schools, By Town
Families weighing a house for sale in Anthony, FL fall inside the Marion County Public Schools system, with Anthony Elementary School serving the community directly before students move on to North Marion Middle and North Marion High.
That zoning keeps Anthony families inside a north-county school cluster rather than pulled toward Ocala’s more central schools. It matters for anyone cross-shopping commute time against school assignment.
How life feels here:
horse country without the crowds
Anthony is close enough to the equestrian events at HITS and the Ocala Breeders’ Sales grounds that residents feel the industry without living inside its busiest corridor. We help buyers weigh that trade-off- shorter drives to the show ring versus a quieter address- when they’re shopping real estate in Anthony, FL against the more built-up equestrian zones closer to the WEC.
Horse country, minus the traffic
Unlike a master-planned community, Anthony grew up around a railway platting and later phosphate mining, and that working-land history still shows in the mix of older homes, active pastures, and unpaved side roads. It’s a genuinely different feel from a subdivision, even one just a few miles away.
A working landscape, not a planned one
Median household income in the Anthony area runs close to $66,700, notably higher than the Marion County average. It tracks with a community built more around horse property and acreage ownership than entry-level housing.
Income and pace
Fun Picture: Your future evening might mean watching a neighbor unload a horse trailer instead of a moving truck, with nothing louder than cicadas competing for your attention once the sun goes down.
Risk, insurance, and the homework most buyers skip
Anthony carries the same inland risk profile as the rest of Marion County, with no hurricane storm surge, with sinkhole activity as the main geological factor worth checking before you commit. Because so much of real estate in Anthony, FL sits on larger acreage parcels, well and septic systems are the norm rather than the exception here. All this adds a layer of inspection most in-town buyers aren’t used to budgeting for.
Our Anthony process
Check well output, septic condition, and any fencing or barn infrastructure on any house for sale in Anthony, FL with acreage, since those systems age differently than a standard city hookup.
Pull sinkhole history for the specific parcel, not just a countywide average, before you get attached to a property.
Weigh land value separately from the structure, since so much of what drives price here is the acreage and improvements, not just square footage.
That level of detail is what keeps a horse-property purchase from turning into a surprise six months after closing.
How we help buyers in Anthony
Buyers looking to buy homes in Anthony, FL usually already know they want space. The real question is how much acreage, how much horse infrastructure, and how far from HITS or the WEC corridor makes sense for their budget and their routine.
Current market: the median sale price in the 32617 ZIP code sits around $394,000, up slightly over the past year, with homes now selling in about 77 days compared to 111 days a year ago. That’s a meaningfully faster pace than this time last year, which changes how buyers should approach an offer on a property they actually want.
- Zip-level pricing data replaces guesswork, since Anthony's numbers look nothing like the Marion County average once acreage enters the picture.
- Our CRM flags new listings and price movement specific to Anthony and the surrounding NE corridor.
- We walk every offer through the same negotiation framework the team uses countywide, adjusted for acreage-specific inspection points.
A faster-moving market like Anthony’s right now rewards buyers who are ready to act, not buyers still deciding what they want.
Homes for Sale in Anthony
See something you like in the listings above? Call or text, and we’ll go through that specific property for sale in Anthony, FL together, acreage, fencing, and well or septic condition included, before you plan a showing.
How we help sellers in Anthony
Sellers who want to sell homes in Anthony, FL with us get pricing built around Anthony’s actual comps. They don’t get a countywide median that undersells what acreage and horse infrastructure are worth here.
- Barns, fencing, pastures, and well systems get valued and marketed as real selling points.
- Pricing reflects the current, faster pace of the 32617 market rather than a stale comp from a slower season.
- A Zillow Preferred, Top 3 statewide team means Anthony's listings reach buyers relocating from outside Marion County who are searching online long before they ever drive out to see the property.
Selling acreage takes a different pitch than selling a subdivision home, and that’s exactly how we approach it.
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Anthony with The Next Steps Group
Because Anthony's market doesn't behave like the rest of the county. The team already works acreage and horse-property sales across Marion County, closed over 700 transactions in 2025, and was ranked the number three large team in Florida by eXp Realty in April 2026, so the local track record is verifiable, not just claimed.
For most acreage properties, yes. In-town lots near the historic core are more likely to have municipal-style hookups, but the moment you move onto a larger parcel, expect to budget for a well and septic inspection as part of due diligence.
Yes. The team's experience with farm and acreage sales elsewhere in Marion County, including a 77-acre, multimillion-dollar transaction, extends directly into Anthony's barns, cross-fencing, and pasture-heavy listings.
Yes. We walk investors through what acreage and horse-property rentals actually command near the HITS and WEC corridors, then help them find and negotiate the right property for sale in Anthony, FL.
Forward us the link. We'll check the acreage, the well and septic condition if applicable, and tell you honestly whether that house for sale in Anthony, FL is priced right before you plan a drive out to see it.
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Ready To Move Past Browsing?
Whether you’re ready to buy homes in Anthony, FL, sell homes in Anthony, FL, or you’re still deciding, you’re working with a Marion County team that just ranked Top 3 in Florida without losing the detail a small community like Anthony deserves.
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- 352-738-7799
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- 40 SW 1st Ave, Ocala, FL 34471
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