It’s rare someone buys a home and doesn’t want to change anything.
“In real estate, I say every house is going to have a but factor. You love it, but. Here, there really wasn’t an identifiable but factor for this home,” said listing agent Emily Lewis of Lakeside Realty Windermere about a house she recently sold in Keene’s Pointe. “It’s really rare to find a home that you walk into and you don’t [say] oh, I’d have to redo that. This house did not have a but factor.”
The home on Carillon Park Dr sold for $5 million after 84 days on the market. It was listed for $5.25 million, and Lewis said it sold more quickly than some others at a similar price point.
“Once people got inside, they understood why it was priced the way that it was,” she said. “Every single person that walked in felt the wow.”
The 7,600-square-foot home was built in 2014 but went through a two-year overhaul.
The two-year renovation included a facelift for the outdoor area, with a new cabana and outdoor kitchen near the pool. (Photo by VTR Image)
“After my clients purchased it in 2021, it underwent a complete renovation, basically to the studs, so really this was basically brand new construction,” Lewis told GrowthSpotter.
She also represented the sellers when they first bought the house during the pandemic, when houses were flying off the market.
“It was kind of just left unfinished for a variety of reasons. But when my clients bought it, the house needed some deferred maintenance, and they were fine to take on the project.” Lewis explained. “It was unique to find a house that was 7,600 square feet that they could put their own touches on, but it was still large enough that they could live in it while they were renovating it.”
The home has five bedrooms and six full bathrooms, including a guest suite.
“When they purchased the home, the guest suite was simply framing. It was not completed, and they completed that,” she said. “So you have a full guest suite with its own private entrance, which is spectacular for properties, especially those near Disney, when you have people visiting.”
The corner lot in the gated Keene’s Pointe golf community sits on .85 acres and overlooks a pond. (Photo by VTR Image)
The sellers added all new lighting, including a unique fixture in the 32-foot entryway, and renovated all the bathrooms, completed the theater room. They updated the color palette, taking it from the Mediterranean browns popular in the 2010s to one popular with current luxury buyers.
The primary suite is downstairs, and three bedrooms are upstairs in one wing of the house, separated from the theater and other public spaces, which are in another wing.
“None of those areas are connected other than if you’re upstairs, you have to go downstairs to go to the other side,” Lewis explained, adding there are three staircases and while each wing might be separate, there is a cohesive feel thanks to lighting, flooring, and more.
The outdoor area also got a facelift, with a new cabana and outdoor kitchen near the pool with an elevated spa and a beach-entry area.
“It’s really spectacular, and what’s so nice is that the way the lot sits, it’s really private. It’s a corner lot, so you only have a home on one side, and then directly behind you have a pond,” she said, adding Lake Tibet is nearby.
According to public records, the sellers are Curtis and Jodi Frost, and the buyers are Timothy and Lindsay Quirt.
Lewis said the amenities of the Keene’s Pointe neighborhood and the almost one-acre size of the lot attracted the buyers.
“[Also] the fact that they could move right in and didn’t need to make any changes at all,” she said. “It was a spectacularly easy transaction and showing simply because I didn’t have to say anything, because the house really spoke for itself.”
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