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Park Place Sebastian: 55+ Manufactured Home Guide

Park Place Sebastian: A 55+ Manufactured Home Community on a Spring-Fed Lake Park Place is a gated, 55+ manufactured home community at 1001 West Lakeview Drive in Sebastian, owned and run by Sun Communities. It’s a land-lease community. You buy the home, you rent the lot, and the lot rent is the number that decides […]

Vista Royale Vero Beach: 55+ Condo Buyer’s Guide

Vista Royale Vero Beach: 55+ Condos on a 27-Hole Golf Course Vista Royale is a 55+ condominium community in Vero Beach’s 32962 zip code, built around the 27-hole golf course now run as American Golf Club. It’s big. Listing data puts it at about 1,500 homes, mostly one- and two-bedroom condos. Condos listed in 2026 […]

Best Coastal Cities In Florida For Retirees

The Best Coastal Cities in Florida for Retirees (2026) The beach is the easy part. Insurance cost, hospital distance, and your condo association’s reserve funding decide whether the retirement actually works. Atlantic coast markets are holding value far better than the Gulf. Indian River County is down 2.5% year over year while Charlotte County is […]

Oak Harbor Vero Beach: Gated 55+ Community Guide

Oak Harbor Vero Beach: Gated 55+ Living With a Member-Run Club Oak Harbor is a gated 55+ community in Vero Beach’s 32967 zip code with about 235 homes, a mix of golf cottages, single-family homes, villas and about 60 condos. It started as the senior living section of Grand Harbor before it was split off […]

Lost Tree Preserve Vero Beach: Homes, Prices, HOA

Lost Tree Preserve Vero Beach: Gated Ryan Homes Community, Now Resale Only Lost Tree Preserve is a gated single-family community in Vero Beach built by Ryan Homes. The builder has sold out, so every home you buy now is a resale. It has about 199 homes, in one- and two-story plans with three to five […]

Vista Gardens Vero Beach: 55+ Condo Buyer’s Guide

Vista Gardens Vero Beach: Affordable 55+ Condos Near McKee Botanical Garden Vista Gardens is a 55+ condo community of 644 units in two-story buildings, just east of US-1 in Vero Beach on land that was once part of McKee Botanical Garden. Units run from about 630 to 1,190 square feet, one or two bedrooms, and […]

Sebastian Highlands: Homes, Prices, Septic and No HOA

Sebastian Highlands: What You’re Buying in Sebastian’s Biggest Neighborhood Sebastian Highlands is the old General Development Corporation plat that covers most of Sebastian’s non-gated neighborhoods, roughly 1,345 acres of mostly quarter-acre lots. There’s no HOA on most Highlands streets, so boats, RVs, and your own paint colors are between you and the city code, not […]

Indian River Club Vero Beach: Homes, Club and HOA Fees

Indian River Club Vero Beach: Homes, Membership, and Fees Indian River Club is a 300-acre gated golf community in south Vero Beach, about a mile west of US-1 on Highland Drive, with a private Ron Garl course that opened in 1995. The club is non-equity, and the club and several local agents describe membership as […]

Grove Isle Vero Beach: 55+ Condos on the Lagoon Side of US 1

Overview Grove Isle is a gated 55+ condo community with 486 units on the east side of US 1, south of Oslo Road, about 10 minutes south of central Vero Beach. Almost every unit is a two-bedroom, two-bath condo, and most list between $150,000-$350,000. HOA fees run about $540 to $571 a month and cover […]

Sebastian River Landing: Gated Homes, Prices and HOA

Sebastian River Landing: A Gated Neighborhood With Low HOA Dues Sebastian River Landing is a gated neighborhood of about 274 single-family homes, built by Maronda Homes from about 2005 to 2016 inside the larger Sebastian Highlands area. HOA dues have been listed around $50 to $69 a month, which is low for a gated community […]