Palmetto, FL
Fresh Meadows
A mid-1990s neighborhood of single-family homes with larger-than-average lot sizes for the area. Mature oak trees and patches of Florida forest give the community a natural, park-like setting. Amenities include a community pool, basketball courts, playground, and tennis courts. Convenient to US-41 for commuters to Tampa or Bradenton.
Status
Established · resale
Home Types
Single Family
Amenity Level
Medium
HOA (Yearly) Est.
$600
CDD (Yearly) Est.
None
Flood Zone
X
Fee estimates may vary by lot size and sub-association. View all community fees →
Community size
155
completed homes on the county roll
Manatee County property appraiser roll, read October 2026
160
recorded residential lots
Manatee County property appraiser roll, read October 2026
Amenities & lifestyle
- Community pool
- Basketball & tennis courts
- Playground
- Mature oak trees & larger lots
- Near US-41 for easy commuting
Michael’s Take
No CDD, confirmed against the certified roll. 155 homes on the roll, built 1990-1994.
How Fresh Meadows compares
From the county records
$347,000
Median of 22 recorded sales since October 2023, the middle eighty percent between $323,000 and $405,000.
72%
Of the 155 matched residential units here claim a homestead exemption, which reads as most homes here are claimed as a permanent residence.
Newest completion recorded 1998. 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 $600 a year in combined HOA and CDD, Fresh Meadows sits about 83% below the Palmetto median of $3,568, ranking 2 of the 22 Palmetto 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 Fresh Meadows
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.
Fresh Meadows Homeowners’ Association, Inc.
AssociationMatched to Fresh Meadows because: Florida’s Division of Corporations register records this as an ACTIVE not-for-profit corporation, document number N34270, filed on 20 September 1989, with its principal address at care of Stokes Management, 3053 51st Street, Sarasota, FL 34234. The name is unique in the register statewide and the managing agent is on this coast. A 1989 filing is the ordinary timing for the mid-1990s neighbourhood this site records, since a developer forms the association before it sells. The principal address is a management office rather than an address inside the community, so the match rests on the corporate name and the filing date.
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.
Fresh Meadows Homeowners’ Association, Inc.
No public documents have been located for this association yet.
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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Fresh Meadows FAQ
Can you still buy a new home in Fresh Meadows?+
Fresh Meadows is essentially sold out of new construction, so homes here come up as resale. I can set you up with alerts the moment one hits the market and give you an honest read on value before you offer.
What kind of homes are in Fresh Meadows?+
Fresh Meadows 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 Fresh Meadows have?+
Fresh Meadows offers Community pool, Basketball & tennis courts, Playground, Mature oak trees & larger lots, Near US-41 for easy commuting. 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 Fresh Meadows actually sold for?+
22 arm's-length sales have been recorded in Fresh Meadows since October 2023, at a median of $347,000. The middle eighty percent of those sales fell between $323,000 and $405,000, 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 Fresh Meadows year round?+
72% of the 155 matched residential units in Fresh Meadows 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 Fresh Meadows still being built?+
The most recent home the county records in Fresh Meadows was completed in 1998, across 160 platted parcels of which 155 carry a finished home. The county records no completions in Fresh Meadows 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 Fresh Meadows have an HOA or CDD fee?+
Fresh Meadows has an HOA fee estimated at $600 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 Fresh Meadows in?+
The flood zone recorded for Fresh Meadows 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.