Skip the long intro to 2:43

Excellent video!! I’ve lived here 20 years and it’s growing so much.

I actually stayed there by accident when visiting Sarasota and loved how much nature there still was amongst the communities and how clean it was everywhere. The secret is out and I’m sure it has been swamped since even just a year ago!

Lakewood Ranch is a lovely community. However, the traffic flow getting into the community is horrific. Constant traffic jams.

Really nice job and a very impressive! I can see you put alot of time, thought and effort into this video.

Great video. Would love to see some content on Wellen Park as well. Seems like it’s the new, albeit smaller, Lakewood Ranch that’s still in its infancy.

Very well done. Thanks.

I am in awe.

LWR Resident since 2019 and best video highlighting this great community. This really helps me keep abreast of market and future development. Retired here and I wish it wasn’t so popular now 😂, it was a hidden gem until about 2021. Check your video at 19:45 mark, some voice over distortion. Well done!

Still a decent video, thanks for uploading/creating this content, really appreciate. Please don't let me earlier critique of the development itself get to you. Thumbs Up!!

I didn’t know Summerfield was the first neighborhood built

Very cool

The density and intentional design looks great. Any chance developments are looking at architecture more like mid century modern (butterfly fly roofs and post ans beam) or tropical modern (concrete and wood) vs what I'm seeing in these developments as simplified colonial (fake columns), and contemporary. Clearly some love this style but to many of us it looks like an outlet mall even though the planned format is super appealing otherwise.

Do a video on Nocatee, we heard it’s great

I think the expansion of communities like this in south Florida might have its benefits. (Not really for anyone living there already) but I think there will be just as many negatives. It’s definitely a nice area easy to live in but you already have the issue of traffic when snow birds come down in the cooler months like businesses get the benefit of it but then a normal 15 minute drive to the beach turns into 1 hour and you’re just stuck in traffic having to blast AC because otherwise you’ll be drenched in sweat due to the heat. And I hate to say this but Florida has enough 50+ communities like we don’t need anymore especially in the manatee county area I get it people want to retire and be warm most of the year but there’s already so many places like that and it if anything Florida could become the next Puerto Rico or Hawaii where people who are from those states end up pricing other people out of living there, I don’t think Florida will get as far as those two but it just kind of makes me feel protective over what it means to live in Florida and represent Florida while you have people just moving to Florida who will end up just wanting to be catered towards while not really even giving back idk

Imagine living in a country where you get shot for no reason.

Really interesting content. Good luck insuring these homes…in a few years…or even now. 20” of rain this *week* in this area. 😬

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Out of all the neighborhoods you cover in your video, what neighborhoods have no HOA (Home Owner Assocation), CDD (Community Development District) or Deed Restrictions? It would be a real shame if the answer is they all have HOA, CCD and Deed Restrictions one has to put up with.

I've never heard of Lakewood Ranch until now Florida is great and all but I wouldn't invest in real estate there

Why do 90% of the communities don’t have many trees but only palm trees? I live in south Florida and a few years ago they forced us all to have palm trees in front of our townhomes. I feel it’s for insurance reasons. However, trees are so much prettier looking than a damn palm tree. You get zero shade from a palm tree as you would a tree. It’s setting up this city to be an urban island heating affect once it gets more and more dense. If they truly care about the environment, conserving it, they would preserve it and add more trees to these neighborhoods. Just my opinion, of course.

"Complex market" lol The number of seniors leaving Florida each year tells us that it is no longer a retirement destination. Not unless you’re a millionaire.

Not impressed.Too many people and literally living on top of each other.

so a bunch of single family homes? so exciting 😐

Nothing appealing here. The density is suffocating, way too many cars and people.

bubble community

Meh

Fakewood ranch

You forgot to add a very large important part on why they have won so many times. and that would come down to being in a Republican state

Very affordable.... for the rich old farts.