Bradenton, FL
The Trails
An established neighborhood of 233 houses on the county roll across four platted phases, built between 1989 and 1999, with a median around 1,991 square feet and two thirds carrying a private pool. A straightforward deed-restricted community with a $587 to $665 annual HOA and no CDD, in the band of east Bradenton neighborhoods where the fee buys grounds maintenance and little else.
Home Types
Single-family
Amenity Level
Low
HOA (Yearly) Est.
$587 - $665
CDD (Yearly) Est.
None
Flood Zone
X
Fee estimates may vary by lot size and sub-association. View all community fees →
Community size
233
homes, as the community reports it
community record
176
completed homes on the county roll
Manatee County property appraiser roll, read October 2026
185
recorded residential lots
Manatee County property appraiser roll, read October 2026
These two figures are 24% apart. These two figures count different things and have not been reconciled. The roll counts parcels inside the boundary matched to this name; the community figure may cover plats the roll matched separately, or an association roster. Neither is presented here as the size of the community.
Amenities & lifestyle
- Deed-restricted
- Community common areas
Michael’s Take
No CDD, confirmed against the county roll.
How The Trails compares
From the county records
$490,000
Median of 21 recorded sales since October 2023, the middle eighty percent between $400,000 and $578,000.
73%
Of the 176 matched residential units here claim a homestead exemption, which reads as most homes here are claimed as a permanent residence.
Newest completion recorded 2007. The roll records no completions here in the last three years. Most of what trades is resale, though an absence of recent completions is not by itself proof a community is closed to new building.
Arm’s-length sales recorded with Manatee County, read October 2026. Quitclaims, foreclosures, family transfers and pre-construction sales are excluded. Homestead requires the property to be a permanent residence, so the share carrying one is reported here as a share of matched residential units rather than as a count of who lives here. Homestead is a tax filing, not an occupancy count. A rented home can house full-time residents and will never carry the exemption, and an owner who lives here but never filed does not appear in it either. Read it as what share of matched residential units claim the exemption, not as who lives here.
At an estimated $626 a year in combined HOA and CDD, The Trails sits about 65% below the Bradenton median of $1,783, ranking 6 of the 23 Bradenton communities whose fees this site tracks. There is no CDD assessment here, which is what keeps that figure down.
Estimates from the same dataset behind the fee pages and the True Cost Index. Fees vary by lot size and sub-association, and change with each budget.
Governing Documents
HOA & community documents for The Trails
0 documents published by the association and linked to the page each one lives on. Nothing is copied here, so you read whatever they publish today.
The Trails Owners Association, Inc.
AssociationMatched to The Trails because: Florida’s Division of Corporations register records this as an ACTIVE not-for-profit corporation, document number N28692, filed on 4 October 1988, with its principal address at 3701 South Osprey Avenue, Sarasota. THE DATE IS THE EVIDENCE. Manatee County plats this community as THE TRAILS PHASE I, PHASE II-A, PHASE III and PHASE IV, and this site records 233 houses on the county roll across those four phases built from 1989 to 1999. A developer forms the association shortly before it starts selling, and an October 1988 filing sits exactly there. The managing office is also the Sarasota firm the register gives for six other associations already recorded on this site, including Pinestone at Palmer Ranch, Fairways at Bent Tree and Greenfield Plantation. TWO OTHER CANDIDATES WERE REFUSED: The Trails Homeowners Association, filed 1975, is managed from West Plant Street in the Orlando area, and The Trails Homeowners and Maintenance Association, filed 1996, is managed from Gainesville.
Applicability not settled. THE NAME IS NOT UNIQUE AND NOTHING READ NAMES MANATEE COUNTY. Florida has several associations called The Trails, in Merritt Island, Montverde, Palm Coast, Pembroke Pines, Callahan and Countryside among others, so this match rests on the filing date against the plat dates and on a Gulf-coast managing agent, not on an address inside the community. Confirm which corporation issues the estoppel letter before relying on it.
Who to contact
- Contact role
- Not-for-profit corporation registered with the Florida Division of Corporations
No officer, director or registered agent is listed here. The register publishes them by name and several give a home address; none of that belongs in a public directory of community documents.
Board members and officers are not listed here. They change often, and their names are on the association’s own records and in the state’s corporate filings, which is where they should be read from rather than from a page that cannot keep up.
The Trails Owners Association, Inc.
THE NAME IS NOT UNIQUE AND NOTHING READ NAMES MANATEE COUNTY. Florida has several associations called The Trails, in Merritt Island, Montverde, Palm Coast, Pembroke Pines, Callahan and Countryside among others, so this match rests on the filing date against the plat dates and on a Gulf-coast managing agent, not on an address inside the community. Confirm which corporation issues the estoppel letter before relying on it.
Nothing found is not the same as nothing in force. Every community in Florida with an association has governing documents; this says only that they have not been found in a public place.
The governing body is known and nothing it publishes is public. That is a gap in what has been published, not evidence that the community has no restrictions. This list records what has been found in public, not everything that governs the property. Before an offer I pull the full document set for the specific address along with the association’s budget and financials.
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The Trails FAQ
What kind of homes are in The Trails?+
The Trails offers single-family. As single-family housing, the roof, the exterior and the insurance on the structure are yours rather than an association's, which is the main practical difference from a villa or condominium. What a specific home includes, and what the association maintains, is set out in that community's documents and is worth reading before an offer rather than after.
What amenities does The Trails have?+
The Trails offers Deed-restricted, Community common areas. Worth separating two things that often get blurred together: amenities the HOA maintains and which every owner pays for, and club or golf facilities that may require a separate membership on top. Which category each amenity falls into determines your actual annual cost, and it is set out in the community documents rather than in any listing.
What have homes in The Trails actually sold for?+
21 arm's-length sales have been recorded in The Trails since October 2023, at a median of $490,000. The middle eighty percent of those sales fell between $400,000 and $578,000, which is a better guide to the range than the extremes. These are prices recorded with Manatee County, not asking prices, so they describe what buyers and sellers actually agreed. Figures read October 2026; quitclaims, foreclosures and family transfers are excluded.
Do people live in The Trails year round?+
73% of the 176 matched residential units in The Trails claim a homestead exemption, which Florida grants only on an owner's permanent residence, read from the Manatee County roll in October 2026. That reads as most homes here are claimed as a permanent residence. Homestead is a tax filing, not an occupancy count. A rented home can house full-time residents and will never carry the exemption, and an owner who lives here but never filed does not appear in it either. Read it as what share of matched residential units claim the exemption, not as who lives here.
Is The Trails still being built?+
The most recent home the county records in The Trails was completed in 2007, across 185 platted parcels of which 176 carry a finished home. The county records no completions in The Trails in the last three years, so what trades is resale. An absence of recent completions is not by itself proof that no further building is permitted. Build year matters more in Florida than buyers expect, because insurers weight roof age heavily and it drives what a property costs to carry rather than just what it costs to buy.
Does The Trails have an HOA or CDD fee?+
The Trails has an HOA fee estimated at $587 - $665 yearly, and the fee data for this community records no CDD assessment. A community development district bills through your property taxes rather than through the association, and its assessment can carry two separate components: debt service, which repays the bonds that funded roads, drainage and amenities, and an operations and maintenance charge, which does not end with the bonds. A community without a district avoids both as currently assessed. Figures are estimates, assessments are set annually, and both vary by home and phase, so confirm them for the specific address before relying on them.
What flood zone is The Trails in?+
The flood zone recorded for The Trails is X. Zones beginning A or V are the higher-risk categories, where a federally backed mortgage generally requires flood insurance, while zone X is lower risk and coverage is usually optional. Flood zone is assigned per property rather than per community though, and elevation can change both the requirement and the premium substantially, so get the zone and the elevation certificate for the exact address rather than relying on a community-level figure.