Explore Heritage Landing: Inside Punta Gorda's Luxurious Golf Community!

Does your Florida dream life include a new gated community with a gorgeous golf course and lots of amenities? Then you are going to love today's video. Yo, I'm Adrienne, longtime Florida realtor, and I'm here to help you get your Florida life. Happy Wednesday, everyone. If you're new here, new videos come out every Wednesday. This is the latest in my neighborhood playlist. In this playlist, I break down the different neighborhoods of Southwest Florida. Today, we're doing Heritage Landing, which, spoiler, has a very interesting history, which I will get into. I make these videos, so if you're looking at a listing online and you're from afar, even if you've been to Punta Gorda before, you might not, or Southwest Florida, you may not have been to all the neighborhoods. This will give you a little bit more of what you need to know when you're looking at homes in an area. If you're an owner and you're thinking about selling, just know that I use these videos in multi-purpose ways. A lot of times when people call me on a listing, I am able to not only tell them about the property and give them a video of the property, but of the neighborhood, because telling people how beautiful Southwest Florida is great, but getting to show them is even better. Speaking of how beautiful Southwest Florida is, wait until you see Heritage Landing. Heritage Landing is located in the southern part of Punta Gorda, off of Burnstore Road. It's about 15 minutes from downtown Punta Gorda and about eight minutes to Burnstore Marina. There is a lot going on in South Punta Gorda. A lot of development happening. I've done a video on that already. I will link to it here and put it in the description. Heritage Landing began in 2019 as a resort-style gated community centered around an 18-hole golf course. It has all the amenities including a beautiful community pool, fitness center, pro shop, sauna, spa, tennis courts, bocce ball, and pickleball, and there are social events for everyone. It did not always look like this though. In 2007, it began as what was supposed to be a community that I imagine was supposed to look a lot like it does now, except they planned a 27-hole golf course back then. It was called Turn Bay. You still see that on some GPS and in some records. I am going from memory here, but I believe there are about 22 houses finished when the market crashed. The rumor swirled around this land for the next 12 years. Allegedly, nobody wanted it. Neither the bank nor the builder, because nobody wanted to pay the taxes on such a big piece of deserted land. I drove people down Bernstor Road for years telling the story of the tropical ghost town that lay behind that right turn. That's exactly what it was too. Many of the streets were not passable due to the layers of palm fronds and other downed landscaping. I only went in it a couple of times and was afraid to drive over the bridges because you couldn't tell what was going on. Then in 2019, Lenar decided the market had returned enough for them to try again. While a few months in the beginning of 2020 were very uncertain times in real estate, they plugged through and it has paid off. Now I love driving into this community. It's exciting to see where it's come from to where it is now. I even see big instruction trucks drive over those bridges and I have driven over them many times now. The talk of the golf course is it's fantastic. Lenar planned about 1,500 homes for this community. There are single family homes and condos. They are finishing up building the last of the condos as of now, which is June 2024. They're still building single family homes. 850 properties were sold with golf course memberships when they were sold new. According to the Lenar rep I recently spoke to, those are all sold out. However, you can get them on the resale market. The condos in this community vary greatly from 1,200 square foot, two bedroom units with carports to 2,200 square foot, three bedroom units with two car garages. Prices in condos range from currently $275,000 about to $550,000. We'll talk about the fees in a moment. The single family homes range from about 1,800 square feet to 2,500 square feet. They range in price from about $350,000 to $850,000. Of course this is June of 2024. We'll see where those prices go. Whether you buy a home or a condo, you will pay fees in heritage landings. Something has to keep this community looking so beautiful. The condos are always going to have more fees because more is typically covered in a condo. Always when you look at these communities with a lot of amenities like this one, you should ask about the fees. Even if you see them posted online somewhere, many websites repost them incorrectly. They copy from each other and it's kind of like that game operator you played as a kid. Sometimes things get lost. I'm going to go over some of the fees now. I want you to remember you're getting something for these fees and we'll talk about that in a moment. In heritage landing, there's a capital contribution to the community you pay at closing. If you buy a property with a golf membership, there's a capital contribution to the golf. Currently these are each $1,500. There's also an HOA fee to take care of the community, the gate, the private roads. Right now that's about $900 to $950 quarterly. In a condo, you're going to have condo fees. There's also a food and beverage minimum that is going to be $750 annually when the clubhouse is complete. Depending on the property, there might be another fee that I am missing because there's a variety of property types in there. You want to call and make sure. You can certainly give me a call or shoot me an email and I will check into the fees on a property for you. Now you may be saying, whoa that's a lot of fees, but in these communities you pay for the luxury and the convenience. You have a myriad of fun activities right outside your front door. You don't have to worry about figuring out gym memberships or where or how you're going to see your friends. You just walk out your door and everything is taken care of for you. Plus every time you drive home, your neighborhood is beautiful. It's low stress living for sure. It feels like you're on vacation when you're there and if it's a second home, maybe you are. If you're interested in learning more about Heritage Landing, give me a call or email me. Thank you for watching. I'll see you next week.