Seems like a lot. But now tell it you need a garage with 3 parking spaces -- in other words, a golf cart garage. I count 28 total. When I bought my place 5 years ago, I had hundreds to choose from. Now, if you want to live near Sumter with 2 cars and a golf cart, you have ONE to choose from (at least on MLS), and it'll cost you $1.8M. 5 years ago, the only place over a mil in the entire Villages was a 3000 sqft house in the Morse compound, and it came with an acre and a barn.
And for some reason, most of the houses currently available on MLS seem to be smaller houses. To me, that's more significant than the raw number of houses on the market. I would never consider my 2004 sqft Lantana to be a large house. But right now there's only about 100 available over 2000 sqft -- in a development the size of my home town Tulsa, in both area and population, when I was growing up.
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