[ElDiabloJoe]

Thank you, NatureBoy, your explanations are useful, educational and enlightening!

Originally Posted by NatureBoy

Hmm... OK, let me see what I can do.

• Browse to the online permit page here.
• Under "Permits", click "Search Permit".
• Login or Register.
• On the "Permit Search" page, select "Description", "Contains" from the two drop down menus.
• Enter the name of a Villages house model. "Monroe" is a current model. (Here you kind of have to guess. You can look at the Villages app or web page, search for new homes and find some model names.)
• "Monroe" returns five pages of results. Click on the arrow at the bottom of the list that takes you to the last page.
• On the last page I see "SAMANTHA CT", "BROOKE LN", and "LACOURSE PL" among the SITE_ADDR values.
• You can now use those values in the "Search By" menus. Select "SITE_ADDR", "Contains", and enter one of the street names.

Does that help?


One: You guess.
Two: If you go to The Villages web page and search for new homes for sale, you'll get a list of "Pending" homes. Use the model names to search the Sumter County permit site.

This approach is imperfect. If you look at the Sumter County interactive map, you can zoom in on the new DeLuna area and see lots of roads and lots. But there's no link from there to the permits. If you're familiar with TV you can kind of guess what sorts of houses are being built where; the shape of the lots gives you good hints.

Note that all this only works for construction in Sumter County. There is also new construction happening on the north side of the Turnpike down toward Leesburg. As far as I can tell, their online resources are not as sophisticated and up to date as Sumter County's; I couldn't find any info on the houses being built there.