505 W 2nd Ave, Windermere, FL 34786

What the county record says

The biggest house on the street, at the cheapest foot

At 8,183 sq ft this is the largest house on W 2nd Ave — 1,371 sq ft clear of the next largest, 6,971 sq ft at 923, and nearly six times the 1,366 sq ft at 727. It also carries the lowest value per square foot on the street, $244.76, which ranks 989th of the 1,042 parcels in the roll where an area is filed.

Those two facts are the same fact. A 1961 house of this size, assessed at $2,002,900, is not being valued like its neighbours — 46 of the 48 parcels on this street carry a higher figure per foot. A buyer reading "largest on the street" as "most valuable" would be reading it backwards.

Reading the Wauseon Bay frontage

Wauseon Bay opens off Lake Butler on the Town of Windermere side, so an address here is on the Butler Chain without sitting on the main basin. This parcel is screened as lakefront because its boundary reaches a mapped water polygon — a mapping result, not a shoreline survey.

Bay frontage, canal frontage and lake frontage are three different things to a buyer, and a GIS screen does not settle which one a deck faces. The recorded plat and the deed describe the lot; the permitting authority describes what may be built on the water.

What this page is not

• It is not a listing. Nothing here says the property is for sale.
• It is not an appraisal. Just value is the county's figure for its own tax year.
• It is not a condition report. A 1961 build with a low rate per foot is not evidence of a defect, and this page does not claim one.

Windermere adds municipal review

Inside the Town of Windermere, exterior work and tree removal run through the town as well as the county. For a house of this size, any addition or re-roof is a town review before it is a county permit.

Keep reading

• Town of Windermere guide
• Every Butler Chain shoreline address
• Search another county record