Are you considering a Jacksonville real estate purchase?  Now is a grate time to explore the city and familiarize yourself with this metropolis that thousands of individuals and families have chosen to call home, especially now during the holidays.  Here’s a list of what there is to see and do.

Taking place until New Year’s Eve is the Festival of lights at Heritage Park Village.  You’ll find nativity displays, enriching museum tours or you can even watch as canes are grinded, all in a dazzling display centered on the theme of Joy to the World.

Do your part to put food on the table for a needy during this giving season and donate to the St Johns County Food Bank during the Food for Fines.  You’ll receive a waiver that can be used toward library fines as an incentive but you’ll probably care more about the act of goodwill than anything else.

If perhaps you’re looking for northeast Florida real estate, bring the whole family and check out the Winter Wonderland Festival on a Saturday until January 3rd at the St Augustine Amphitheatre.  The holiday centric festival features snow, s’mores, sleigh rides, visit from Santa, reindeer games, ice skating, a performance by the Veddy Theatre Group called “A Time for Everything” and much more awaits.  Admission to the event is free.