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The Alafaya market right now (mid-2026)

Alafaya is a suburban East Orlando community — an unincorporated Orange County CDP wrapped around the University of Central Florida — and its housing market moves with the wider Orlando metro. The most recent city-level read put Alafaya's median sale price near $425,000, down about 10.3% year over year, with homes selling in a median 39 days (Redfin, November 2025). That YoY drop reflects a mix shift and normalization off the 2024 peak more than a collapse: the metro underneath it is essentially flat, not falling.

Zoom out to the market Alafaya actually trades inside and the picture steadies. The Orlando metro median sits at $416,308, up 1.6% year over year, with 4.1 months of supply and homes taking a median 62 days to sell (ORRA, June 2026) — conditions that have shifted from a seller's market toward balance for the first time in years. Buyers have regained negotiating leverage, yet closed sales rose through the first half of 2026. For agents, that means deals are absolutely happening in Alafaya; they just take more showings, sharper pricing, and real negotiation to close.

Single-family vs. townhome: reading Alafaya's product mix

Alafaya is a planned-community landscape — master-planned neighborhoods, HOAs, and a heavy dose of townhomes and villas alongside detached single-family. That product split matters, because the metro numbers diverge sharply by type: single-family homes (about 79% of metro closings) posted a $451,922 median, while condos and townhomes (about 21% of closings) sit at $301,057 (ORRA, June 2026).

In Alafaya specifically, that spread plays out neighborhood by neighborhood. Waterford Lakes townhomes and villas trade from the upper $200,000s into the low $300,000s, while detached single-family there runs the mid-$300,000s into the $500,000s, with lakefront and conservation lots higher (Waterford Lakes market reporting, 2026). Avalon Park's new-urbanist core blends both, drawing family buyers for its schools and walkable town center. Agents who can price a townhome against the metro's softer attached-product segment — and steer a family buyer toward the right single-family lane — are the ones winning listings here.

Who's buying: families, UCF, and East Orlando relocation

Alafaya's demand runs on three engines. First, families: Waterford Lakes, Avalon Park, Eastwood, and Stoneybrook East draw move-up and relocation buyers for their schools, the Waterford Lakes Town Center retail hub, and quick 408/417 access into greater Orlando. Second, the University of Central Florida — one of the largest universities in the country — anchors a dense student-adjacent rental market along the Alafaya Trail and University Boulevard corridors, where off-campus rents run roughly $800–$1,400 per person in shared units and $1,200–$1,800 for singles (UCF-area rental reporting, 2026). That feeds a steady investor and buy-and-hold pipeline near campus. Third, broader relocation: Orlando added the most residents of any Florida metro in the past year, and East Orlando's relative affordability and UCF-plus-Research-Park job base keep the inbound pointed this way.

For an agent, that's three distinct playbooks on one MLS — a family buyer touring Avalon Park schools, an out-of-state relocator comparing Eastwood to Lake Nona, and an investor underwriting a rental two blocks from a UCF bus stop — and the flat $499 fee applies the same to all three.

MLS, association, and the commission math

Alafaya agents belong to the Orlando Regional REALTOR® Association (ORRA) and list through Stellar MLS — one of the largest MLSs in the country at roughly 59,000 subscribers across Florida. One Stellar membership covers you from Alafaya and UCF across the entire Orlando metro and most of Central Florida, so a single license lets you work Waterford Lakes families, Oviedo relocations, and downtown Orlando condos without ever changing MLS.

Now the math at Alafaya's real numbers. A 3% side at the CDP's ~$425,000 median (Redfin, November 2025) grosses about $12,750. At a 20% split brokerage, roughly $2,550 of that goes to the house on every deal; at 30%, it's $3,825 — before any monthly fees. Run it across a working year: 10 sides at $425,000 grosses about $127,500 at 3% per side, of which a 20% split hands the house roughly $25,500. At Gromadzki, those ten closings cost $4,990 flat, and about $20,000 stays with the agent. In a 62-days-on-market environment where every deal already costs more time and marketing than it did in 2021, keeping what you earn per closing matters more, not less.