By Kjel Jones, Licensed Real Estate Agent (Idaho) · LPT Realty

Published 2026-08-10

Summerwood subdivision in Rexburg, Idaho

Where Summerwood is and what got platted

The recorded facts first. Summerwood Subdivision was platted with Madison County on March 3, 1995 (instrument 260411), followed by Summerwood Townhouses Subdivision on January 31, 1996 (instrument 259614) — county plat records, pulled August 2026. Together they cover about 17 acres in northwest Rexburg: the main subdivision on Summerwood Drive, Marianne Drive, and K Street with frontage on West 2nd North, and the townhouse section adjoining it. The whole of Summerwood sits inside Rexburg city limits under City of Rexburg jurisdiction.

I grew up right around the corner from Summerwood, so this is a part of Rexburg I know from the ground, not from a map — the data below is the public record; the read on it is mine.

Homes, lots, and what the county records show

• About 17 single-family lots in the main subdivision and 15 townhouse lots next door — 34 parcels in all, including a platted common area and a larger tax-exempt parcel (county parcel records, August 2026).
• Built 1996–2005, most 1996–2001 — the county assessor's records put every home in that ten-year window, so this is a settled 1990s neighborhood, not a construction zone (Madison County assessor detail records, August 2026).
• Above-grade living space runs ~1,256–2,968 sq ft (averaging about 1,700), and most homes carry a basement on top of that; bedroom counts run 2–7 (same assessor records).
• Typical single-family lots run about 0.2 acres; townhouse lots are smaller.
• Assessed values on the residential parcels ranged from about $283,000 to $573,000 in the August 2026 county pull. Assessed value is a taxation number, not a market price — treat it as context, never as a comp.
• Zoning is LDR2 (City of Rexburg low-density residential) on every parcel — no commercial or high-density zoning inside the subdivision.

HOA and covenants: what the recorded documents actually say

Summerwood's covenants are public record, and this page cites the actual documents: the original Declaration of Covenants (recorded June 9, 1995, instrument 256711) and the governing Amended Declaration of Covenants (recorded October 15, 1996, instrument 263294), both viewable free at the Madison County Recorder. What they establish:

• No monthly-dues HOA for the single-family lots. The covenants create no homeowners association for the house lots. Instead, eleven of the lots each own an undivided 1/11 share of the landscaped park strip at the West 2nd North entrance — sign, sidewalk, fencing, and sprinkler system — and each owes 1/11 of its upkeep. That ownership interest runs with the title and transfers with every deed.
• The townhome section is required to have an association. The same covenants direct the twin-townhome area to form an owners' association with mandatory membership for townhome owners. Current dues and status are not stated in the 1996 text — verify with the association during due diligence.
• Single-family, stick-built only: one detached dwelling of at most two stories per lot, with a garage for at least two cars; mobile, manufactured, and modular homes are expressly not permitted.
• Minimum home sizes: 1,300 sq ft of ground-floor area for single-story homes; multi-story and split-level homes need at least 1,600 sq ft excluding basement, garage, and porches.
• Architectural control: house plans and contractors require approval by the subdivision's Architectural Control Committee, and a home business must register with the committee before applying to the city for a permit.
• RV parking is limited: outside a garage, recreational vehicles may sit only in a designated driveway, never more than four consecutive days or 30 cumulative days in a calendar year.
• No rental restriction appears in the recorded text — the covenants even provide for "for rent" signs — which matters if you are weighing a future rental, though any later rule change would be up to the lot owners to record.
• Term: the covenants run with the land for 25 years from the 1996 recording, then extend automatically in ten-year periods unless a majority of lot owners records a change. No later amendment appears in the county index as of August 2026, so the 1996 text still governs on its extended term.

Also settled by the record: the covenants designate the large central parcel (Lot 1, Block 2 — the roughly seven-acre tax-exempt parcel in the county data) as the site of a meetinghouse of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, built during the subdivision's first phase.

Covenants bind a purchase whether or not you read them. Summerwood's are linked above; re-verifying them — and checking for anything recorded after this page's date — through a title company remains standard due diligence.

Utilities, flood, and services

• Flood: no FEMA flood-zone polygon intersects Summerwood in the county GIS flood layer (queried August 2026). A per-property determination at purchase remains standard practice.
• City services: Summerwood is inside Rexburg city limits; utility service details (water, sewer, garbage, plowing) are being confirmed with the city and will be stated here precisely rather than assumed now.

Parks, school district, and the neighborhood

Three city parks sit within about half a mile — Rexburg Nature Park, Evergreen Park, and Eagle Park (city parks data, August 2026). The subdivision is in Madison School District 321, with Kennedy Elementary School about a third of a mile south; attendance boundaries are the district's call, so confirm the current zone for any specific house with District 321.

What Summerwood costs: the honest version

Idaho is a non-disclosure state — sale prices are not public record. Sites quoting a precise "Summerwood median sold price" are estimating without saying so. What can be said honestly: the assessed-value range above, plus the sourced context for the market this subdivision trades in:

• $432,774 — Zillow's modeled typical home value for the city of Rexburg (ZHVI — an estimate, not a sale record; up 5.0% from a year earlier) (Zillow Research ZHVI, June 2026)
• $649,766 — median listing price, Rexburg metro area (Madison + Fremont counties) (Realtor.com via FRED, June 2026)
• $272 — median listing price per square foot, Rexburg metro area (Realtor.com via FRED, June 2026)
• 61 days — median days on market, Rexburg metro area (44 days in April 2026) (Realtor.com via FRED, June 2026)

Note the geography honestly: the ZHVI figure models the whole city of Rexburg, and the metro series blends Madison and Fremont counties — neither isolates Summerwood. Subdivision-level sale data will be added here from MLS records once access and publication permissions are in place.

The buyers who do well here are not the ones who time the market. They are the ones who walk in pre-approved, know what a fair price per square foot looks like on that street, and are willing to walk away.

— Kjel Jones, Licensed Real Estate Agent (Idaho), LPT Realty, 2026

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