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Lakewood Ranch, FL

Palisades

D.R. Horton’s Palisades is a small, gated enclave of one-story single-family homes in the heart of the Ranch, quiet, private, and easy to get around, priced from the $400s.

Builder

D.R. Horton

Price Range (est.)

$400s, $500s

Home Types

Single Family

Beds

3 to 4

Baths

2

Garage

2-Car

Amenity Level

Low

HOA (Yearly) Est.

$3,000

CDD (Yearly) Est.

$1,720

Flood Zone

X

Fee estimates may vary by lot size and sub-association. View all community fees →

Community size

192

completed homes on the county roll

Sarasota County property appraiser roll, read October 2026

205

recorded residential lots

Sarasota County property appraiser roll, read October 2026

Amenities & lifestyle

  • All one-story floor plans
  • Small, gated community
  • Heart-of-LWR location
  • Quiet, private setting
  • Competitive pricing

How Palisades compares

From the county records

$455,000

Median of 25 recorded sales since October 2023, the middle eighty percent between $390,000 and $584,000.

56%

Of the 192 matched residential units here claim a homestead exemption, which reads as a mix of homes claimed as a permanent residence and homes that are not.

Newest completion recorded 2021. 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 Sarasota 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 $4,720 a year in combined HOA and CDD, Palisades sits about 20% below the Lakewood Ranch median of $5,923, ranking 11 of the 39 Lakewood Ranch communities whose fees this site tracks.

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.

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Governing Documents

HOA & community documents for Palisades

4 documents from the community development or stewardship district that covers Palisades and linked to the page each one lives on. Nothing is copied here, so you read whatever they publish today. No association documents have been located for Palisades yet, which is a gap in what has been found rather than evidence there are none.

District documents

A community development or stewardship district is a unit of local government, not an association. Its assessment is billed with your property taxes rather than by the association, and its rules are public records of a different kind. Shown separately for that reason.

Lakewood Ranch Stewardship District

Why it applies to Palisades: The district names each community it covers in its own FY2027 adopted assessment schedule or, where a community carries no bond debt, in its adopted FY2027 operations and maintenance budget. It levies two separate yearly assessments, a bond debt service assessment and an operations and maintenance assessment.

  • Budget & assessmentsCurrent, per the source

    Lakewood Ranch Stewardship District adopted debt service fund budget, FY2027

    Open document
  • Budget & assessmentsCurrent, per the source

    Lakewood Ranch Stewardship District adopted operations and maintenance budget, FY2027

    Open document
  • Budget & assessmentsCurrent, per the source

    Lakewood Ranch Stewardship District FY2027 annual assessments by community and lot size

    Open document
  • District documentCurrent, per the source

    Lakewood Ranch District Map

    Open document
The full district record, with how every community was matched →

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.

The full document directory →

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Palisades FAQ

Who builds homes in Palisades?+

Palisades is built by D.R. Horton. Those homes now trade as resales rather than through the builder, so the original warranty has usually expired and the condition of the specific house matters more than who built it. Roof age is the first thing to establish, because Florida insurers weight it heavily.

How much do homes in Palisades cost?+

The published price guidance for Palisades is an estimate in the $400s, $500s range, not a live listing feed or a valuation. Pricing varies by the specific home, condition and lot. Ask me for current listings and recent comparable sales before setting an investment range or an asking price.

What kind of homes are in Palisades?+

Palisades offers single family, with floor plans of 3 to 4 bedrooms. 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 Palisades have?+

Palisades offers All one-story floor plans, Small, gated community, Heart-of-LWR location, Quiet, private setting, Competitive pricing. 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 Palisades actually sold for?+

25 arm's-length sales have been recorded in Palisades since October 2023, at a median of $455,000. The middle eighty percent of those sales fell between $390,000 and $584,000, which is a better guide to the range than the extremes. These are prices recorded with Sarasota 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 Palisades year round?+

56% of the 192 matched residential units in Palisades claim a homestead exemption, which Florida grants only on an owner's permanent residence, read from the Sarasota County roll in October 2026. That reads as a mix of homes claimed as a permanent residence and homes that are not. 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 Palisades still being built?+

The most recent home the county records in Palisades was completed in 2021, across 205 platted parcels of which 192 carry a finished home. The county records no completions in Palisades 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 Palisades have a CDD fee?+

Yes. Palisades carries an estimated CDD assessment of $1,720, on top of an HOA fee estimated at $3,000 yearly. A community development district assessment can have two components, and they behave differently: debt service repays the bonds that funded the roads, drainage and amenities, and ends when those bonds are retired, while an operations and maintenance charge pays to run what the bonds built and does not. Both are billed with your property taxes rather than by the association, and both are separate from the HOA. Assessments are set annually and vary by home and phase, so confirm the current components for the specific address.

What flood zone is Palisades in?+

The flood zone recorded for Palisades 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.

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