625 W 2nd Ave, Windermere, FL 34786

What the county record says

The twentieth-dearest foot in the roll

At $881.70 a square foot this parcel ranks twentieth of the 1,042 in the roll where an area is filed. It achieves that on 2,092 sq ft — 956th by living area, so barely into the smallest tenth of the roll — inside a plat whose average house is 4,609 sq ft.

Small and expensive per foot is a consistent pattern in this roll, not an accident of one parcel. What makes it worth flagging here is that the house is not old: a 1996 build with a rate three times its neighbour at 745, built 1950, on 2.7 times the floor area.

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.

On a narrow lot, how much of that mapped frontage is usable matters more than the flag itself. The deed and the plat describe the lot line; only the town and the water management district describe what may be placed on it.

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 statement that the house is small for a family. Four bedrooms in 2,092 sq ft is what the roll files.

Windermere adds municipal review

Inside the Town of Windermere, exterior work and tree removal run through the town as well as the county. On a compact lot, an addition faces coverage limits before it faces a permit fee.

Keep reading

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