Sawgrass Lakes

Sawgrass Lakes In West Melbourne, Florida

D.R. Horton assembled the land west of Minton Road in 2012 and started building in 2014, and what came out of it is the closest thing West Melbourne has to a small town inside a gate. You enter from Norfolk Parkway onto Shallow Creek Boulevard. From there the community fans out across thirteen recorded plats: Phase One, a Phase Two split into A, B, B2, C, D, E and F, Phase Three, Phase Four, and four named pods, The Landings, The Willows, The Sanctuary and The Preserve.

The street names are worth noticing because they tell you what was here first. Alligator Flag, Salt Marsh, Broomsedge, Musgrass, Watergrass, Wiregrass, Catgrass, Sedges, Horsemint, Fiddleleaf and Caladium are all marsh and wetland plants, and Rushing Waters rounds it out. Alligator Flag and Salt Marsh carry the most addresses, with Caladium close behind. Once you learn the plant names you can place almost any address in the community without a map.

The amenity package is the reason people pay what they pay. The Sawgrass Club sits on roughly nine and a half acres and carries a lagoon shaped resort pool, tennis, sand volleyball, tot lots, an outdoor movie area, a fire pit, a pier and walking paths. Behind it is an eight thousand square foot clubhouse with a fitness center, a yoga studio, meeting and multipurpose rooms and dining space. Very few private pools were built here, about one home in ten, because the club covers it.

The houses run 1,649 to 3,718 square feet, with the middle near 2,324, on lots from a tenth of an acre to about a third. Two story plans with a loft and four or five bedrooms are the volume product, and single story plans concentrate in the older phases and in the age restricted section. Water frontage is common rather than exceptional: close to a third of the community sits on a lake or a pond, and that view is the single biggest line item in the price spread from $355,000 to $720,000.

There is one more thing every buyer here needs to understand. Tucked inside Sawgrass Lakes is The Savannahs, a 55 and over neighborhood of 125 single story homes that D.R. Horton built between 2017 and 2020, with its own registered neighborhood association layered under the wider community association. Roughly one in six houses that change hands in Sawgrass Lakes is age restricted. Confirm which side of that line a specific address falls on before you get attached to it.