Michael K. Johnson

Buying a real estate in Windermere Florida - If you are interested in buying real estate in Windermere Florida, you will enjoy searching all the Windermere MLS listings. You can even save your favorites! There are some terrific foreclosure homes for sale in Windermere right now. Just ask Michael about them. Just recently we've seen some beautiful town homes in foreclosure for 40 cents on the dollar!  We pride ourselves on having all the MLS listings of homes for sale, condos, and we even have vacant land and other property listings. If you see a listing you like, or just have question about properties you may have seen while driving around, we can help you with all your Windermere real estate needs.

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Selling a home in Windermere - If you’re selling a home in Windermere, Florida, you will appreciate our no pressure approach to helping you with this potentially stressful endeavor. You will feel a great sense of relief once you request our FREE real estate market analysis (CMA) of your home. While we are doing this thorough evaluation of your homes marketability, we can go over every detail of the home selling process.

Should you decide to enlist the help of an expert Windermere Realtor, you will undoubtedly be impressed by our detailed, state-of-the-art marking plan. Not only do we ensure that you know exactly what needs to be done to prepare your home for sale, we will help you with home staging, move planning and relocation assistance. If you’re ready to get started now, or if you just have some general questions about the Windermere real estate market, please feel free to contact us now.

 

  

About Windermere Florida - Nestled among the spring-fed Butler Chain of Lakes, the cozy Town of Windermere, population 2,300, has emerged as the region’s new-money address of choice.

With Lake Butler on the west, Lake Down on the east and Lake Bessie on the southeast, Windermere is a lush peninsula where nearly 40 percent of the homes are waterfront. Windermere—or at least the area surrounding it—is also home to some of Central Florida’s most upscale new communities.

But although they advertise Windermere addresses, most of these ritzy developments aren’t technically in Windermere, much to the chagrin of some locals who object to the alleged misappropriation of the town’s proud name.

In fact, Windermere itself is just 689 acres, and consists largely of a laid-back retail district with a few mom-and-pop stores and a scattering of older homes lining sandy streets. Those streets remain unpaved, to discourage traffic and prevent runoff from damaging the Butler Chain, which consists of eight pristine lakes connected by a canal system.

The lakes attracted one of Windermere’s first investors, Joseph Hill Scott, an English clergyman who in 1885 bought 150 acres. Scott’s son, Stanley, homesteaded the property and supposedly named it after Lake Windermere in England.

The railroad connected Windermere and Kissimmee in 1889, but freezes in 1894 and 1895 destroyed the town’s citrus industry. Little changed until 1910, when a pair of Ohio investors named D.H. Johnson and J. Calvin Palmer bought all the land they could piece together and formed the Windermere Improvement Company for the purpose of developing it. The pair promoted “Beautiful Lakes of Pure Spring Water” and aimed their marketing at moneyed Northerners.

Although few who live here want to see the town change significantly, Windermere city officials are making concessions to the growth surrounding it. The town recently completed a $2.5 million public works project—the largest in its history—to revamp the downtown area, bricking three blocks of Main and Frontage streets, expanding parking lots, replacing stop signs with roundabouts and generally upgrading its appearance.