Sarasota, FL
Palmer Ranch
Sarasota's largest master-planned community, 10,000 acres and 36 distinct neighborhoods home to over 30,000 residents. Twenty-six of the neighborhoods are gated. Prices range from $100K condos to $2.5M+ estates, all connected by the Legacy Trail bike path and minutes from Siesta Key.
Status
Established · resale & select new construction
Home Types
Single Family, Villas, Condos & Townhomes
Amenity Level
High
Community size
1,184
completed homes on the county roll
Sarasota County property appraiser roll, read October 2026
1,209
recorded residential lots
Sarasota County property appraiser roll, read October 2026
How Palmer Ranch compares
From the county records
$425,000
Median of 158 recorded sales since October 2023, the middle eighty percent between $180,000 and $1,700,000.
30%
Of the 1,184 matched residential units here claim a homestead exemption, which reads as a minority of homes here are claimed as a permanent residence.
Newest completion recorded 2023. 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.
Governing Documents
HOA & community documents for Palmer Ranch
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.
Palmer Ranch Master Property Owners Association, Inc.
Master associationMatched to Palmer Ranch because: Florida’s Division of Corporations register records this as an ACTIVE not-for-profit corporation, document number N17154, filed 7 October 1986, with its principal address at 5589 Marquesas Circle, Suite 201, Sarasota, FL 34233. The name is explicit and unique in the register, and a 1986 filing matches the decade Palmer Ranch began developing. THE PRINCIPAL ADDRESS IS A MANAGEMENT OFFICE RATHER THAN AN ADDRESS INSIDE THE COMMUNITY, so the address could not do the confirming and the match rests on the other facts named here.
Applicability not settled. THIS IS THE MASTER OVER A 10,000-ACRE DEVELOPMENT, and this site lists dozens of neighbourhoods inside it. A master normally binds every parcel in its development and would apply ON TOP OF each neighbourhood’s own association, but which neighbourhoods are members has to come from the recorded declaration and that has not been read. Do not assume it reaches a specific address, and do not assume it does not.
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.
Palmer Ranch Master Property Owners Association, Inc.
THIS IS THE MASTER OVER A 10,000-ACRE DEVELOPMENT, and this site lists dozens of neighbourhoods inside it. A master normally binds every parcel in its development and would apply ON TOP OF each neighbourhood’s own association, but which neighbourhoods are members has to come from the recorded declaration and that has not been read. Do not assume it reaches a specific address, and do not assume it does not.
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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Palmer Ranch FAQ
Can you still buy a new home in Palmer Ranch?+
Palmer Ranch 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 Palmer Ranch?+
Palmer Ranch offers single family, villas, condos & townhomes. 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.
What have homes in Palmer Ranch actually sold for?+
158 arm's-length sales have been recorded in Palmer Ranch since October 2023, at a median of $425,000. The middle eighty percent of those sales fell between $180,000 and $1,700,000, 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 Palmer Ranch year round?+
30% of the 1,184 matched residential units in Palmer Ranch 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 minority of 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 Palmer Ranch still being built?+
The most recent home the county records in Palmer Ranch was completed in 2023, across 1,209 platted parcels of which 1,184 carry a finished home. The county records no completions in Palmer Ranch 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.
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