Sarasota, FL
Turtle Rock
One of Palmer Ranch's largest communities, 758 homes (610 single-family and 148 maintenance-free villas in the Savannah and Somerset neighborhoods) spread across 500+ acres, built between 1994 and 2006. Seventeen lakes and ponds thread through the community, with a heated pool, community center, tennis, and basketball.
Status
Established · resale
Home Types
Single Family & Maintenance-Free Villas
Amenity Level
Medium
HOA (Yearly) Est.
$3,300 - $6,400
CDD (Yearly) Est.
None
Flood Zone
X
Fee estimates may vary by lot size and sub-association. View all community fees →
Community size
758
homes
community record
758
completed homes on the county roll
Sarasota County property appraiser roll, read October 2026
764
recorded residential lots
Sarasota County property appraiser roll, read October 2026
Amenities & lifestyle
- Community center & heated pool
- Tennis & basketball courts
- 17 lakes & ponds
- Walking & nature trails
- Gated entry · 500+ acres
- Savannah & Somerset villa neighborhoods
How Turtle Rock compares
From the county records
$670,000
Median of 94 recorded sales since October 2023, the middle eighty percent between $549,000 and $925,000.
50%
Of the 758 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 2017. 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 $4,850 a year in combined HOA and CDD, Turtle Rock sits about 65% below the Sarasota median of $13,676, ranking 18 of the 90 Sarasota 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.
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Governing Documents
HOA & community documents for Turtle Rock
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.
Turtle Rock Community Association, Inc.
Master associationMatched to Turtle Rock because: Florida’s Division of Corporations register records this as an ACTIVE not-for-profit corporation, document number N93000004733, filed on 14 October 1993, with its principal address at 8500 Turtle Rock Boulevard, Sarasota, FL 34238. THE ADDRESS IS THE EVIDENCE, NOT THE NAME. Florida is full of identically named associations, and a search of the register for the communities on this site returned active corporations of the right name in Orlando, Bonita Springs, Melbourne, Ormond Beach, Sanford, Estero, Lakeland, Miami and Deerfield Beach. Only a corporation registered in Sarasota at an address consistent with the community was accepted.
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 corporate register publishes all three 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.
Turtle Rock Community 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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Turtle Rock FAQ
Can you still buy a new home in Turtle Rock?+
Turtle Rock 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 Turtle Rock?+
Turtle Rock offers single family & maintenance-free 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.
What amenities does Turtle Rock have?+
Turtle Rock offers Community center & heated pool, Tennis & basketball courts, 17 lakes & ponds, Walking & nature trails, Gated entry · 500+ acres, 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.
What have homes in Turtle Rock actually sold for?+
94 arm's-length sales have been recorded in Turtle Rock since October 2023, at a median of $670,000. The middle eighty percent of those sales fell between $549,000 and $925,000, 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 Turtle Rock year round?+
50% of the 758 matched residential units in Turtle Rock 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 Turtle Rock still being built?+
The most recent home the county records in Turtle Rock was completed in 2017, across 764 platted parcels of which 758 carry a finished home. The county records no completions in Turtle Rock 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 Turtle Rock have an HOA or CDD fee?+
Turtle Rock has an HOA fee estimated at $3,300 - $6,400 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 Turtle Rock in?+
The flood zone recorded for Turtle Rock 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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