745 W 2nd Ave, Windermere, FL 34786

What the county record says

Five thousand square feet at three hundred dollars a foot

Three hundred and eleven dollars and seventy-five cents is the second-lowest rate on W 2nd Ave and ranks 132nd of the 1,042 parcels in the roll measured from the bottom. On 5,621 sq ft, that produces $1,752,330 — the third-lowest assessment on the street, less than half of what 724 carries on 1,178 more square feet.

Built 1950, it is one of seven pre-1950-era houses here that make this the most concentrated pocket of old housing in the entire roll. Twenty-six parcels county-wide predate 1950; seven of them are on this one street.

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.

A house of this size at this rate, on mapped lakefront, is the clearest case on the street for separating what the water is worth from what the building is worth. The roll files one just value and does not split them; this page will not split them either.

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 1950 build at a low rate per foot is not evidence of a defect.

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 house of this age and size, the permit history is worth pulling before anything else is discussed.

Keep reading

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