You might want to get an outside realtor if there is a particular area you are interested in and the villages doesn’t have any listings there, but you can find homes for sale there on outside sites. For instance, right now the Villages has few listings in Virginia Trace/Sabel Chase/Largo, but there are quite a few available on Realtor.com. However, if you are interested in Fenney, the Villages has over 20 pre-owned homes listed, while outside realtors have 2.
On our lifestyle visit our village realtor wouldn’t show us anything, including pre-owned homes, north of 466A, and this was 4 years ago. I was ready to write The Villages off as a retirement area. My husband would not give up. He rented a home for a month near Lake Sumter Landing, we contacted a new Village realtor there, and now we own three homes here, all in our preferred area around Lake Sumter Landing. So if you happen to be assigned a Village realtor that has an area he or she is more comfortable with you might have to push for other areas.
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