Esplanade at Artisan Lakes

Esplanade at Artisan Lakes is built by Taylor Morrison. 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.

Esplanade at Artisan Lakes offers 55+ single-family and villas. 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.

Esplanade at Artisan Lakes offers 11,000 sq ft amenity center, Fitness center and movement studio, Massage treatment room, Resort pool and spa, Tennis, pickleball and bocce, among others. 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.

7 arm's-length sales have been recorded in Esplanade at Artisan Lakes since October 2023, at a median of $402,000. The middle eighty percent of those sales fell between $380,000 and $470,000, 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.

78% of the 46 matched residential units in Esplanade at Artisan Lakes 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.

The most recent home the county records in Esplanade at Artisan Lakes was completed in 2017, across 49 platted parcels of which 46 carry a finished home. The county records no completions in Esplanade at Artisan Lakes 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.

Yes. Esplanade at Artisan Lakes carries an estimated CDD assessment of $1,177 - $1,960, on top of an HOA fee estimated at $5,904 - $6,438 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.

The flood zone recorded for Esplanade at Artisan Lakes 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.