I thought my post #58 was creative way to say the same thing

Sounds like you're into all that cr*p, I'm not.

Maybe the buyer wants a golf cart garage but somehow the realtor can produce a lovely used home but no, that golf cart is not included. Next home has a golf cart garage, beautiful but not the pool that was on the check list and so on. I hope no one is so naïve to think that could never happen but perhaps their brains can't think that through.

As noted in my original reply Beth showed us the homes we asked to see, homes that we found doing our own research, none of them were right for us so she showed us a few newly listed pre-owned units that we did not know about, again not to our liking. Finally found exactly what we wanted in a new home. We were not steered there but glad we agreed to look at new builds. At the time there were very few new homes available for sale.

Causes
 

As for the OP on the causes for the inventory glut with homes here in the Villages:

Interest rates affect the market even if the Villages buyers themselves intend to pay cash (less than 50% do). The prospective buyer often may be a retiree and need to sell their home up north. The markets nationwide are unaffordable for most of our youth tying up a retirees hands and their money.

Reoccurring costs like insurance, bond and taxes are on the high side. A buyer will see a new home for 429,000 only to find the actual cost with the bond (around 50k) is 479,000. Not such a deal after all.

The egress of retirees and some still working from Florida (Not just Canadian Nationals and workers required to return to work)is increasing.

Just a few fun facts about the Villages

Just expounding on your Red Riding Hood fun. We are on Fifth house in TV. More than 15 years we have looked at over 200 preowned, with 7 different MLS agencies, and 8 different VLS. There will rarely be the house that ticks every box as a Spec or preowned.

Even build new getting a view lot difficult the agent has zero power to change what lot you win. You may get close to perfect, but there will always be a little something that doesn’t work out. In all the years and hundreds of people, I have never met someone who’s agent convinced them to_______, and didn’t realize until it was too late.
Or maybe their brains still don’t register as you pointed out, they are still naïve of end results.

Then again you must remember the free for all of 2007 “No more houses will be built” comes close to the hundreds who bought whatever house was available, before they were left without. Then the downfall around 2008.

Our VLS agent had no idea if the rumors were true. We didn’t buy into the developer frenzy. Saved us $31,000 for the exact same house 2 years later.