{"id":97671,"date":"2025-12-28T13:21:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T13:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/97671\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T13:21:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T13:21:17","slug":"golden-oak-again-leads-way-for-orlandos-luxury-home-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/97671\/","title":{"rendered":"Golden Oak again leads way for Orlando\u2019s luxury home market"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the second consecutive year, Disney\u2019s exclusive Golden Oak community<\/a> dominated the high end of Central Florida\u2019s luxury home market.\u00a0 And for the first time, no homes in Winter Park were among the top 10 highest sales this year.<\/p>\n

Golden Oak accounted for eight of the homes among the top 10 this year, with three located on the same street \u2014 Enchanted Oak Drive \u2014 and two on Vista Falls Drive.<\/p>\n

The priciest home this year \u2014 located at 10018 Enchanted Oaks Dr. \u2014 sold for $23 million in August. The five-bedroom, six-bathroom mansion was built in 2012 and has 12,718 square feet of living space.<\/p>\n

The Golden Oak community accounted for five of the top 10 home sales in 2024. All five of those transactions involved homes within the sought-after Four Seasons Private Residences<\/a>, with four located on the same street \u2014 Summer Meadow Way.<\/p>\n

Homes in Golden Oak are considered part of the Disney World Resort, and some incorporate Disney themes in construction. Residents get free annual passes to Disney World parks when they move into the community. Homeowners are also granted membership to Golden Oak Club, which includes multiple restaurants, a pool, and a gym.<\/p>\n

Ken Pozek of The Pozek Group<\/a>, in a previous interview, pointed to limited inventory as the main reason Golden Oak commands such high sales prices.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s 5,000 homes in Windermere or whatever the number is, but only 300 in Golden Oak. Winter Park is incredible, but you can do a teardown there. You can create more inventory. You can do things there that you just can\u2019t do in Golden Oak,\u201d Pozek explained.<\/p>\n

The lack of inventory is driving up prices and typically means that homes sell quickly. For example, just weeks into the year Pozek sold a 4,610-square-foot, five-bed, six-bath home at 10200 Carthay Dr. for $6.7 million. The sale closed after one day on the market.<\/p>\n

\"TheThe home at 10242 Summer Meadow Way in Golden Oak sold for $15.75 million in September, representing the Orlando market’s largest home transaction in 2024. It sold again in late January by Ken Pozek of The Pozek Group for $14.5 million \u2014 landing at the No. 2 spot this year.. (Photo provided by The Pozek Group)<\/p>\n

Last year\u2019s priciest home, located at 10242 Summer Meadow Way in Golden Oak<\/a>, sold for $15.76 million. The 9,027-square-foot mansion with six bedrooms and nine baths built in 2017 was owned by Hilda Bacardi, granddaughter of Bacardi rum founder Don Facundo Bacardi Mass\u00f3. However, the new owner put the residence back on the market within about a month.<\/p>\n

The home sold again in late January by Ken Pozek for $14.5 million \u2014 landing at the No. 2 spot this year.<\/p>\n

One of the most distinctive features of the former Bacardi residence is a \u201cStar Wars\u201d-themed media room with a television screen and life-sized replicas of Darth Vader and R2-D2. There are also two Disney-themed children\u2019s bedrooms with designs inspired by \u201cFinding Nemo\u201d and \u201cFrozen.\u201d<\/p>\n

The two non-Golden Oak sales to crack the top 10 were located in Isleworth Country Club and Reunion Resort.<\/p>\n

Osceola County\u2019s most expensive home, the 23,000-square-foot Isol\u00e9 Villa on Reunion\u2019s Grand Traverse Parkway, was bought by Orlando Knight Life LLC, which is managed by Miami lawyer Chris Cook.<\/p>\n

The home that lives like a small resort was initially listed in March for $17 million. It was off the market for a few months this summer and went back on Oct.1 with a listing price of $15.5 million after a market adjustment. The deal closed 30 days later.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s the highest on record in\u00a0Reunion Resort<\/a> itself, and it\u2019s the highest in our Stellar MLS and our local MLS through the Central Florida area in the last six months,\u201d Cynde Velez with Aperture Lifestyle Real Estate said<\/a> in November.\u00a0\u201cIt broke a lot of records.\u201d<\/p>\n

It previously rented for around $4,000 per night. The home has been a popular rental since\u00a0it was built in 2017<\/a>. In 2022, the\u00a0home sold for $11.7 million.<\/a><\/p>\n

\"TheThe 23,000-square-foot Isol\u00e9 Villa vacation home in Reunion Resort sold for $14.24 million, making it the most expensive home in Osceola County. (Photo by DeVore Design)<\/p>\n

Isol\u00e9 Villa has 15 bedrooms \u2014 including two presidential suites and two ambassador suites \u2014 and 15 full bathrooms. There\u2019s also a full spa area, which has also been a popular feature on the rental market, especially for weddings.<\/p>\n

The Four Seasons Private Residences also saw an influx of new residents late in 2025 with the completion of the new condo tower just before Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n

\u201cConstruction of the tower and 31 units was completed in November, and construction of the nine attached boutique homes is expected to be completed in summer 2026,\u201d Page Pierce, Disney\u2019s vice president of real estate development, said in a previous interview. \u201cWe are very pleased with sales and sales interest for this new development. There are a limited number of units still available.\u201d<\/p>\n

Disney won\u2019t comment about specific sales numbers, but according to public records, the developer has closed 13 sales in the last several weeks for a combined total of around $75 million. The sales prices range from $5.28 million to $7.4 million. Each buyer also must pay condo assessments totaling between $100,000 and $200,000 annually.<\/p>\n

Although none of homes in the top 10 this year were in Winter Park \u2014 two made the 2024 list \u2014 and John Pinel, with Premier Sotheby\u2019s International Realty<\/a>, said luxury homes are still selling in the city.<\/p>\n

Earlier this year he said his agency sold for $9.14 million the house at 2040 Venetian Way \u2014 in the posh neighborhood known as The Vias. That\u2019s just shy of making this year\u2019s top 10.<\/p>\n

While Winter Park is a primary-residence community he said Golden Oak consists of many people buying another home, a vacations home or investment property.<\/p>\n

\u201cMost of those are second if not third, fourth and fifth homes for these people,\u201d Pinel said. \u201cThey just want a spectacular place for their grandkids to come and experience Walt Disney World.\u201d<\/p>\n

Although full-year numbers aren\u2019t in yet, he said the sales volume for him and his partner, Mick Night, this year was $165 million versus $155 million for 2024. And looking ahead, he said economists and others in the know seem bullish.<\/p>\n

Plus, there are two words he said work in favor of Central Florida\u2019s luxury real estate market: South Florida.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople moving to Florida look at South Florida and say, \u2018Oh, no,\u2019 because it is so expensive down there,\u201d Pinel said. \u201c$5 million doesn\u2019t get you much down there but $5 million here, in Central Florida, I think is luxury.\u201d<\/p>\n

Brian Bell can be reached at\u00a0bbell@orlandosentinel.com<\/a>. Have a tip about Central Florida development? Email Newsroom@GrowthSpotter.com<\/a>. Follow GrowthSpotter on\u00a0Facebook<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For the second consecutive year, Disney\u2019s exclusive Golden Oak community dominated the high end of Central Florida\u2019s luxury…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":97672,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[558,15891,51648,28,114,15892,1335,11477,139,141,140,1976,480],"class_list":["post-97671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-business","tag-central-florida-notable-home-sales","tag-disney-world-properties","tag-florida","tag-latest-headlines","tag-notable-home-sales","tag-orange-county","tag-orange-county-developments","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-osceola-county","tag-real-estate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}