Port Malabar Holiday Park, the honest version.
Seven hundred three manufactured homes, deeded and owned outright, funded by a real government taxing district that publishes its own number: $2,097 a year. That is one of the better-sourced fees on this entire site.
Deeded, and governed by a real district.
Residents at Port Malabar Holiday Park own their lot and their home outright. That much matches the site's other deeded manufactured-home guide. What is genuinely different here is who runs the place: a special taxing district, created under Florida Statute Chapter 418 by City of Palm Bay ordinance in 1983, with a nine-member elected board of trustees, funded by a mandatory non-ad valorem assessment rather than a private HOA. Construction began here in 1970, and the original residents purchased the community from its developer in 1981, two years before the district was chartered. That is three genuinely different governance models across the manufactured-home communities I have published on this site so far: a plain deeded HOA subdivision, a special recreation district, and this one, a Chapter 418 taxing district. Confirm which structure you are actually buying into, because the financial mechanics differ in each case.
What 703 homes look like on paper.
I keep the full Brevard property roll on hand, every parcel, not a listing-site sample. This is all of Port Malabar Holiday Park as the county appraiser sees it, across 4 recorded plats. The community's own site reports 704 home sites, within one of the county roll's count, a useful cross-check.
Source: Brevard County Property Appraiser public roll, mid-2026. Sale medians are recorded sale prices, not appraiser market value.
$2,097 a year, and who sets it.
Most community fee numbers you read online cannot be sourced. This one can, directly from the district's own site, not an aggregator's guess.
Source: Holiday Park's own official site. The page publishing the assessment figure was not dated, so confirm the current-year rate directly with the district before you budget.
Three Port Malabar Holiday Park realities to price in.
A government district, not a homeowners' vote, sets your bill
Because this is a Chapter 418 special taxing district rather than a private association, the assessment is set by an elected board operating under state law, and it funds real infrastructure: two pools, one heated, a clubhouse, shuffleboard and billiards courts, RV storage and a self-service laundromat, plus gated, 24-hour monitored access. That is a genuine amenity package for the money, and it is also a public body with a public body's budget cycle, not something a simple HOA vote changes.
The 55+ policy is the operator's own claim, not something I independently verified
The community describes itself as 55 and older on its own site, but the linked recorded deed-restriction document was not accessible to me, so I could not confirm the exact HOPA-compliant language. If an age restriction affects your plans, whether a younger family member might live with you or you are buying as a rental, get the actual recorded restriction, not the marketing page.
Manufactured, even when deeded and district-governed, still means different financing
Owning the land and having a real, auditable public district behind the assessment are both genuine advantages here. The home itself is still manufactured housing, though, and lenders, insurers and appraisers treat that differently than stick-built construction. Ask your lender specifically about manufactured-home financing terms, and confirm whether the specific home is titled as real property, before you assume a conventional mortgage process applies.
Three things I could not source.
Three things I would rather show you the gap on than fill with the operator's marketing copy alone.
The recorded 55+ declaration
As above, the community's own linked document did not load for me. Pull the actual recorded restriction from Brevard County's official records if an age question matters to you.
Whether the district's own DBPR mobile-home-park filings show anything the deeded-ownership claim contradicts
Everything I found supports deeded, fee-simple ownership rather than a land-lease arrangement, but I did not run a direct query inside the state licensing portal itself to rule out a park-license filing entirely. Confirm your specific lot's ownership status on the closing documents.
Your school zoning and flood zone
Both assigned by address, not by subdivision, and both get redrawn. Verify the exact address with Brevard Public Schools, and pull the flood zone at FEMA's Map Service Center. My flood zone guide walks through what it means for your insurance bill.
Three ways to own a manufactured home.
This site now has three genuinely different manufactured-home community structures published. Palm Bay Colony, also in Palm Bay, is a plain deeded subdivision with a resident-run HOA, no government district involved. Barefoot Bay runs a larger special recreation district that owns a golf course and a shopping center. Compare the three directly if the governance structure matters as much to you as the price. The Palm Bay guide covers the wider market.
Questions people actually ask.
Is Port Malabar Holiday Park a land-lease community?
No. Residents own their lot and their home outright, deeded, fee simple. What funds the community's roads, common areas and two pools is not a landlord's lease payment but a real, government-style special taxing district, created under Florida Statute Chapter 418 by City of Palm Bay ordinance in 1983. That is a genuinely different structure from a typical rental mobile home park, and different again from the site's other manufactured-home community guides, worth understanding before you assume any of them work the same way.
What is the assessment at Port Malabar Holiday Park?
$2,097 a year, or $174.75 a month, per the community's own official site. This is a mandatory non-ad valorem assessment levied by the special taxing district's elected board of trustees, not a voluntary HOA fee, and it is one of the more directly sourced figures on this entire site since the number comes from the district's own publication rather than an aggregator. There is a separate, genuinely optional five-dollar-a-year membership in the Holiday Park Property Owners' Association. Do not confuse the two.
Is Port Malabar Holiday Park a 55+ community?
The community describes itself that way on its own site, but I could not open the linked recorded deed-restriction document to confirm the exact HOPA-compliant language, and I am not willing to state it as a legally confirmed fact on that basis alone. Treat it as the operator's own stated policy, and pull the actual recorded restriction if an age question affects your plans.
How old is Port Malabar Holiday Park?
Construction began in 1970. Residents purchased the community from its original developer in 1981, and the special taxing district that now governs it was chartered by the City of Palm Bay in 1983. That makes it one of the older continuously operating manufactured-home communities of this specific deeded, district-governed structure that I have found in Brevard.
Looking at a Port Malabar Holiday Park listing? No pressure.
Tell me the address and I will walk you through exactly what the district assessment covers and what I can actually confirm about the age policy. No drip campaign, no calls.