Tampa Palms & New Tampa streetscape

Homes near USF and Florida College · About 20-25 minutes

Tampa Palms & New Tampa

Built from the ground up in the ’90s for the Florida lifestyle — pools, courts, parks, and palms — with newer homes to match.

$492,500
Median sold price
29.5
Median days on market
$215
Price per sq ft
25
Median days to lease

ZIP code 33647, as of September 7, 2026.

20 to 25 minutes to either campus, with a choice of routes.

What it’s actually like

Tampa Palms and the wider New Tampa area are master-planned, and that’s the whole idea: consistent streetscapes, community pools and parks, and a newer housing stock than anything closer to campus.

College campuses

Twenty to twenty-five minutes to either Florida College or USF, depending on where in New Tampa you land. Bruce B. Downs, Morris Bridge, and I-75 all get you there — worth knowing all three, since one of them is usually moving better than the others.

A Mediterranean-revival campus building at Florida College, framed by a live oak.The University of South Florida entrance monument with the Bulls logo, seen from the road.

Primary schools

Served by Hillsborough County Public Schools, with elementary, middle, and high school options zoned to the address. See published ratings →

What the homes are like

Predominantly newer single-family, plus a real townhome and condo stock. Many communities are gated with pools, tennis, and pickleball among the amenities. Build quality and age vary by community — some go back to the ’90s, others are considerably newer.

What you get here

Newer construction and planned streets. Community pools, parks, and courts rather than a single backyard. Twenty to twenty-five minutes to either campus with more than one way to get there.

A golf fairway lined with live oaks under a sky full of clouds.
A fairway under oaks and a cloud-filled sky.
A golf clubhouse seen across a putting green, with a lily pond in the foreground.
A clubhouse across the green, with a lily pond in front.
A straight residential street shaded by live oaks and Spanish moss.
A street under live oaks.
Placeholder panel for a photograph: a Tampa Palms residential street with mature landscaping, from the public road.
A Tampa Palms street with mature planting.
Placeholder panel for a photograph: a Tampa Palms park or green space seen from the public right-of-way.
Public green space in Tampa Palms.

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Based on information submitted to the MLS GRID as of 2026-09-07. All data is obtained from various sources and may not have been verified.

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