Morningside at Lake Nona is a 2000s neighborhood in southeast Orlando, in the 32827 zip code. Homes are block and stucco. Most homes fall between about 1,300 and 3,100 square feet under air, the median lot is about 0.10 acres, and a two car garage is standard.
Homes here carry an HOA, billed quarterly, typically around $580. Confirm the figure on a specific parcel before relying on it.
What Morningside at Lake Nona is, and who it suits
Morningside is a section of Northlake Park, in the northern part of Lake Nona, built in the mid-2000s. Listings describe it as part of Northlake Park, with the same YMCA family membership included in the HOA, and the MLS files some of its homes under Northlake Park's name. It mixes townhomes with single-family houses, and recent sales have been mostly townhomes.
That makes it one of the lower-cost ways into Northlake Park and its YMCA. A Morningside townhome costs well under a typical Northlake Park house, with the same neighborhood around it.
The homes are now about 20 years old, and the roof cycle is under way. Several recent listings advertise roofs replaced between 2022 and 2026, and one says the community replaced roofs in 2024. Ask whether the roof on a specific home is the owner's or the association's responsibility, and when it was last done, because that changes both the insurance quote and what the HOA fee is carrying.
With only a handful of sales a year, compare a Morningside townhome with townhome sales elsewhere in Northlake Park rather than with this page's median.
A strong fit for buyers who want into Northlake Park and its YMCA at a lower price; first-time buyers and downsizers who want a townhome with a garage rather than a condo; and buyers who value an established neighborhood over new construction.
A weaker fit for buyers who want new construction; buyers who want a gate, which Waters Edge offers inside Northlake Park; and buyers who want a larger single-family house, who will find more of them in the rest of Northlake Park.
What the homes are
Built Essentially all built in the 2000s.
Construction Block and stucco. Shingle roofs are near universal.
Size Most homes fall between about 1,300 and 3,100 square feet under air.
Bedrooms Four bedrooms is the most common plan, then three.
Garage A two car garage is standard.
Lot The median lot is about 0.10 acres.
HOA Billed quarterly, typically around $580. Confirm on a specific parcel before relying on it.
Where Morningside at Lake Nona is
Morningside at Lake Nona, centered at 28.427712, -81.258771. Drag to explore.Street level, inside the neighborhood. Drag to look around.
Drive times below are measured on the road network from the center of Morningside at Lake Nona, not straight-line distance, in free-flowing traffic. Treat them as the floor rather than the school-run average.
Driving to
Time
Miles
Downtown Orlando
25 min
18.7
Walt Disney World
30 min
25.9
Orlando International Airport
13 min
6.4
Universal Orlando
29 min
19.9
Public schools nearby
Northlake Park Community School 4 min, 0.6 mi
Sun Blaze Elementary School 10 min, 3.2 mi
Moss Park Elementary School 10 min, 3.7 mi
Innovation High School 13 min, 5.1 mi
Private schools nearby
Nona Park Montessori School 4 min, 0.8 mi
Orlando academy 6 min, 1.5 mi
AF Academy 7 min, 1.6 mi
Parks and recreation
McCoy Community Park 6 min, 2.2 mi
East Lake Park 6 min, 2.1 mi
Lake District Dog Park 8 min, 2.7 mi
Jubilee Dog Park 10 min, 4.2 mi
Groceries and errands
Publix Super Market at Cornerstone at Lake Hart 5 min, 1.8 mi
Publix Super Market at Shoppes at Storey Park 7 min, 2.8 mi
La caribeña 8 min, 3.1 mi
Wild Fork Meat & Seafood Market, Lake Nona 10 min, 3.3 mi
Nearest is not the same as zoned. The schools above are the closest ones to Morningside at Lake Nona by distance. School attendance zones are set by the district, change from year to year, and can differ street to street inside one neighborhood. Confirm the assignment for a specific address with Orange County Public Schools before it matters to a decision.
Places and drive times from Google, checked 1 September 2026. Businesses open and close; if something here has changed, tell me and I will correct it.
This page tracks what homes in Morningside at Lake Nona actually sold for over the last twelve months, how long they took, and what moved the price. It is built from 5 verified closed sales in the Stellar MLS feed, not from public estimates. Every figure is a net-of-concessions number, which is explained at the bottom. Updated October 2026.
Read this one loosely. Fewer than eight homes closed here in the last year, so every median on this page rests on a small sample and can swing on a single sale.
What homes sold for in Morningside at Lake Nona
$367,000Median sale price
$252Median per square foot
99 daysMedian days to contract
5Homes sold in 12 months
Sale prices ran from $334,000 to $725,100, which is a wide spread and the reason a single neighborhood median is a starting point rather than an answer.
By size
Home size
Sales
Median price
Median $/sq ft
Median days
Under 2,000 sq ft
4
$362,000
$260
105 days
A price per foot taken from the whole neighborhood should never be applied straight to one house.
Price cuts and time to contract
Median days to go under contract. Shorter is better.
Never reduced 2 sales, closed at 97.5% of asking31 days
Reduced at least once 3 sales, closed at 99.2% of the reduced price111 days
Sellers who held their number went under contract in a median 31 days. Sellers who had to reduce took 111 days and still closed at 99.2% of their already reduced price, after a typical cut of $20,000.
Seller concessions
80%Of sales included a seller credit
$7,000Typical credit when there was one
4 of 5Sales carrying a credit
A seller credit covers part of the buyer's closing costs and comes off the seller's proceeds, so the headline sale price overstates what the seller kept. Budget for it if you are selling, and ask for it if you are buying.
How buyers paid
VA 2 sales40%
Assumed 1 sale20%
Cash 1 sale20%
Conventional 1 sale20%
Cash was 20% of purchases. A high cash share means a seller has buyers who do not depend on an appraisal, and a buyer using a loan is competing against offers that can close faster.
Questions about a specific home in Morningside at Lake Nona, or want to know what yours would sell for? Call or text Brenden Rendo at 407-616-9019 or send a message.
About this data. Source is the Stellar MLS feed for Morningside at Lake Nona in Lake Nona, Orange County, covering closed sales from 15 October 2025 through 10 October 2026, refreshed monthly and current as of October 2026. Prices are net of seller concessions, so they reflect what the seller actually received rather than the headline number. Data believed accurate but not guaranteed; listings and closings change daily.
