Waterside - Avanti

Waterside - Avanti is built by Pulte. Two things matter if you are buying new here. Register your agent on the FIRST visit: most builders pay the buyer-agent fee, but only if representation is declared before you tour, and afterwards it is usually too late. And a builder's contract is their contract, not the standard Florida form, so the deposit terms, the completion date and what happens if the build runs late are worth reading closely.

The published $400s, $800s estimate does not agree with the recorded sales for Waterside - Avanti. The county data, read October 2026, records 171 arm's-length sales since October 2023 at a median of $373,000. These are historical closing prices, not today's asking prices or a valuation of your home. Ask me for current listings and recent comparable sales before setting an investment range or an asking price.

Waterside - Avanti offers single family & townhomes, with floor plans of 2 to 5 bedrooms. Attached homes carry an association that maintains the building itself, so the fee covers more than it would on a single-family home and the association's reserves matter to you directly. 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.

Waterside - Avanti offers Townhome & single-family options, Gated community, Access to Waterside Place, Pulte construction quality, $400s, $800s 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.

171 arm's-length sales have been recorded in Waterside - Avanti since October 2023, at a median of $373,000. The middle eighty percent of those sales fell between $350,000 and $491,000, which is a better guide to the range than the extremes. Waterside - Avanti is new enough that most of these are original builder sales rather than resales, so they read as a price list more than as a resale market. 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.

48% of the 166 matched residential units in Waterside - Avanti 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. Read that figure with care here: Florida homestead is filed the year after a purchase, so a community still being delivered reads lower than it will settle at. 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.

The most recent home the county records in Waterside - Avanti was completed in 2025, across 166 platted parcels of which 166 carry a finished home. 100% of its parcels were completed in the last three years, so Waterside - Avanti is still being delivered: expect construction nearby, and the lot choice that comes with it. 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.

Waterside - Avanti has an HOA fee estimated at $1,861 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.

The flood zone recorded for Waterside - Avanti 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.