Wellen Park Realtor
A Wellen Park Realtor who publishes the numbers first
Michael Dailey is a REALTOR with Coldwell Banker Realty representing buyers and sellers across Wellen Park in North Port. Wellen Park carries the highest district prevalence of any area tracked on this site, which makes the gap between the advertised HOA and the real annual cost wider here than anywhere else, and that is the thing a buyer most needs explained before touring.
Michael Dailey, REALTOR® · Sales Associate, Coldwell Banker Realty. Florida licence SL3619388. Office at 8334 Market St, Lakewood Ranch, FL 34202.
Who you would be working with
I grew up in Sarasota and I served eight years in the U.S. Army. I am a REALTOR® with Coldwell Banker Realty, licence SL3619388, and I work across Manatee and Sarasota counties from the office on Market Street in Lakewood Ranch.
The part that matters more than the biography: this site publishes the research rather than promising it. The HOA and district assessments, the flood designations and the county-sourced community facts are all up in public, for free, with their sources named, before anyone contacts me. You can check my work on Wellen Park before you decide whether to call, which is roughly the opposite of how this industry usually introduces itself.
When you do call, you get me. I am one member of a team at Coldwell Banker Realty, and the promise is not that I work alone, it is that your call comes to me and I am the one who picks it up.
8 years
U.S. Army, before real estate
5.0★
Across 41 Google reviews
President’s Circle
Coldwell Banker International award
Wellen Park by the numbers I publish
Every figure below is counted from the fee data on this site, not quoted from a listing. It updates when that data is reviewed, so this page and the wellen park fee table cannot disagree with each other.
25
Wellen Park communities with their own page here
18
With published HOA and district estimates
$7,804
Median combined HOA and district, per year
1 of 18
Tracked communities with no district assessment
2 of 18
Wholly or partly in FEMA flood zone AE
HOA and district figures are estimates, annualised, and subject to change; flood designation is assigned parcel by parcel and must be verified for a specific address. Nothing here replaces the non-ad valorem section of the actual tax bill, which is what I pull before a client writes an offer.
What is actually different about buying in Wellen Park
Local knowledge is the most overused phrase in this business, so here is the specific version: three things about this market that decide money, and that an agent working it from forty miles away will not raise with you.
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Nearly every community carries a district assessment
Wellen Park is one of the newest large master plans on the Gulf Coast, and almost every community in it repays infrastructure through a Community Development District on the tax bill. The published fee table here shows only one tracked community without one. If you are comparing Wellen Park against an established market on HOA dues alone, the comparison is wrong by the whole district assessment.
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Every community here bills monthly, which is not how the mainland quotes it
Every Wellen Park community I track bills HOA dues monthly, while Parrish, Lakewood Ranch and Bradenton are quoted annually. That alone causes buyers to under-read the cost by a factor of twelve. The fee table on this site annualises everything so the comparison is like for like.
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Bonds here are early in their repayment schedule
A district assessment has two parts: a debt portion repaying the bonds, which eventually retires, and an operations portion, which does not. Because Wellen Park is new, most of its bonds are early in that schedule rather than partially retired the way an older community’s are. That is a real difference in what you are buying into, and worth understanding rather than discovering later.
Check my work before you call
None of this is gated and none of it asks for your email. It is the research I would do for you anyway, published so you can judge it first.
Buying or selling in Wellen Park?
Tell me the address, the community or just the question. If it is a specific property I will pull the district assessment, the flood designation and the association's own documents before we talk, so the first conversation is about the numbers rather than about me.
Or call or text (941) 350-0224.
Prefer to keep reading first? The Wellen Park new-home guide is the longest thing I have written about Wellen Park, and it is free.
Common Questions
Working with a Wellen Park agent
Why are Wellen Park fees higher than other Southwest Florida communities?
Two reasons that compound. Wellen Park is a newer master plan, so most of its CDD bonds are early in their repayment schedule rather than partially retired. And nearly every community bundles resort amenities, and in several cases a golf course, directly into the HOA. Add a district assessment that is close to universal here and the combined annual figure lands well above an older, established neighbourhood with the same house.
Are Wellen Park HOA fees monthly or annual?
Every Wellen Park community tracked on this site bills monthly, which is the opposite of how Parrish, Lakewood Ranch and Bradenton are normally quoted. That is the single most common reason a buyer under-reads the cost here. Multiply by twelve before comparing against an inland community, or use the fee table on this site, which annualises everything so the comparison is like for like.
Do I need an agent to buy new construction in Wellen Park?
The sales agent in the model works for the builder. A buyer’s agent reads the contract, the CDD schedule and the HOA budget on your behalf, negotiates incentives and upgrades, and represents you through inspection and closing. On most new builds the builder pays the buyer agent’s fee, so it frequently costs you nothing extra, though confirm that per community in writing. Register your agent or bring them to the first visit, because most builders will not allow representation to be added afterwards.
The other markets I work
Each one has its own page, because the thing a buyer needs explained is genuinely different in each.