What the county record says
| Address | 12824 Jacob Grace Ct, Windermere, FL 34786 |
|---|---|
| Parcel ID | 132327851000560 |
| Subdivision | Tildens Grove Ph 1 |
| Water and frontage | Lake Butler — lakefront |
| County just value | $6,009,380 |
| Living area | 7,822 sq ft |
| Bedrooms | 6 |
| Bathrooms | 6 |
| Year built | 2005 |
| Just value per sq ft | $768 |
Reading the numbers
This parcel is not a variation on Jacob Grace Ct. It is a different price level on the same court. The next-highest assessment on the street is $2,388,670 at 12830 — $3,620,710 below this one. The next-highest rate is $447.5, against $768.3 here, a gap of $321 a foot. Eleven houses share one plat, one lake and one $800,000 land line, and this is $3.6 million clear of all of them.
It sold in 2025 for $7,150,000. That is the only filed sale on the street close in date to this assessment, and the county's figure sits at 84% of it — the tightest of the three price-to-assessment ratios on this court, which run 60%, 70% and this. A just value near a recent recorded price is not a coincidence; it is what a roll does when a sale has just reset the evidence.
The whole difference is in the building line. Land is $800,000 here, exactly as it is on the other ten lakefront parcels. The improvement is therefore $5,209,380 across 7,822 sq ft — $666 a foot of building. Against 12830, the next-highest, the improvement is $1,588,670, or $298 a foot. Three and a third times the building value on one and a half times the floor area. On this street, the ground is a constant and this house is the entire outlier.
The rate reverses the street's own rule. On the ten houses below it, rate falls broadly as floor area rises — the three largest take the three lowest rates. This is the largest house on the court and the dearest foot by a wide margin. Anything written about Jacob Grace Ct that assumes size dilutes rate is describing ten parcels and getting the eleventh wrong.
Six bedrooms and six baths lands exactly on the one-bath-per-bedroom line, level like 12818. 1,304 sq ft of house per bedroom — second only to 12744 on this street, and a far more generous allocation than 12726's 908 on a house 3,283 sq ft smaller.
High for this street; not the ceiling for this roll. $768.3 a foot is the 43rd-highest of the 1,039 houses measured here, well under 9538 Blanche Cove Dr's $1,043.7 and 6462 Deacon Cir's $1,050.1. The honest reading is: extreme for this court, notable across the county roll, and unremarkable at the top of the Butler Chain.
Reading the frontage
Lakefront is a mapped-polygon flag against Lake Butler. The parcel reaches the water. No shoreline length, dock, seawall, lift, mooring or boathouse is recorded against it — and on a parcel of this assessment, none of that is filed anywhere in this row.
The distance field reads 1,861 m, ninth of eleven on a run that climbs without interruption from 1,511 m to 1,936 m. It is a position reference, not a frontage measurement. The largest and most valuable house on the court is not, by this field, the closest to the lake.
One correction to a reasonable assumption: the county roll carries 34 parcels on Jacob Grace Ct, and only twelve of them are on the water. The other twenty-two sit inland at $225,000–$250,000 of land. Everything on this street that reads as waterfront is on one side of one court, under one plat, and the premium the county files for it is $550,000 to $575,000 a lot.
What this page is not
- It is not a listing. Nothing here says the property is for sale now.
- It is not an appraisal. Just value is the county's assessment figure for its own tax year.
- It does not confirm a dock, a seawall or navigable access to Lake Butler.
- It does not say what the $7,150,000 sale in 2025 included, or whether the six baths are attached to bedrooms.
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