Approved and pre-construction near Auburndale, FL
Berkley Crossings
About 170 new homes coming to the countryside northwest of Auburndale
A new community of about 170 homes is planned on the wooded edge of Polk County, northwest of Auburndale, right on Florida's I-4 corridor between Tampa and Orlando. The plan mixes smaller detached homes with attached townhomes, the county has already approved it, and a walking connection to the Auburndale TECO Trail is built in. No builder has been named yet and nothing is for sale. Join the list and you will hear the day it opens.
- Area
- Auburndale, FL
- Homes
- About 170
- Site
- About 18 ac
- Approved
- 2026
At a glance
Berkley Crossings fast facts
Here is what is known today and what has not been released. Anything marked not yet released, join the interest list and it goes out the day it drops.
- Area
- Near Auburndale, FL
- County
- Unincorporated Polk County
- Site
- About 18 acres
- Approved plan
- 170 homes
- Product
- Detached and attached
- Zoning
- Planned Development
- Approved
- August 2026
- Minimum lot
- 2,850 square feet
- Open space
- About 6 acres
- Trail access
- Auburndale TECO Trail connection required
- Home builder
- None named yetGet notified
- Home plans and sizes
- Not yet releasedGet notified
- Pricing
- Not yet releasedGet notified
- Model home opening
- Not yet announcedGet notified
Details on this page are compiled from public records and are targets, not commitments. Pricing, floor plans, the home count and timing have not been released by the builder and are subject to change without notice.
Where it is
East of the Polk Parkway, west of Berkley Road, south of Berkley Knights Drive and north of Pace Road, in unincorporated Polk County northwest of Auburndale. No street addresses yet.
Approved, and still waiting on a builder
That gap is the whole reason this page exists. About 170 homes are approved and ready to build, and no homebuilder has been named yet. Add your name, email and phone and you will hear when a builder is announced or a first phase is priced, and be registered as represented before your first visit.
Why this one is worth watching
Approved and shovel-ready, with no builder attached yet
Most communities we track this early are just a line on a map, a developer holding land with no approval and no plan. Berkley Crossings is further along than that. The plan is approved, the layout is set, and the site is ready for a homebuilder to step in.
What is missing is the builder. The land was entitled by its owners and a land-use attorney, which is the classic pattern of a project that gets its approvals first and then sells to a national or regional builder who brings the floor plans, the model home and the pricing. When that builder is named, this community goes from a quiet approval to an active sales launch, and communities like this often move fast once they do.
Being clear about what this is and is not: the plan is approved and on the public record, but nothing is for sale here yet. No builder has been named, there is no model home, no price sheet and no floor plans. That gap, between an approved community and homes actually going on sale, is exactly the window this list is built for.
What is coming
A compact, walkable community near the Polk Parkway
The plan calls for about 170 homes on roughly 18 acres northwest of Auburndale. It mixes smaller detached houses on narrow, low-maintenance lots with attached townhomes, a design aimed at buyers who want a brand-new home without a big yard to keep up.
The applicant described the detached homes to the county as a cottage-style product, chosen specifically because they mean minimal outdoor upkeep compared with a conventional larger lot. Alongside them are attached townhomes in small buildings. That is a meaningful signal about who this community is being designed for, even though no floor plan or price exists yet.
The site keeps a good share of open space, with tot lots, dog parks and passive recreation, and the county required a masonry wall along the Berkley Road frontage and landscaped buffers along the edges. It also required a pedestrian connection to the Auburndale TECO Trail, so walking and biking access is built into the plan rather than left to chance.
What has not been released: home designs and sizes, the amenity details, a phasing plan, a model date and pricing. Those come from the builder at launch, and the day they land for Berkley Crossings they go out to this list.
Do not confuse it with
Everything else called Berkley around here
This pocket of Polk County is saturated with the Berkley name, and searching for new construction here will surface several things that are not this community.
Berkley Ridge and Berkley Pointe are existing, built communities. Their homes resell on the open market, which means their listings own the search results for anything starting with the word Berkley.
Berkley Park is a different development entirely, approved years earlier for single-family homes, sitting across the road to the southeast of this site.
Then there is the road network and the schools: Berkley Road, Berkley Knights Drive, Old Berkley Road, Berkley Charter Elementary and a Berkley Accelerated Middle School being built on land nearby. That school is a separate project on separate land. It is not an amenity of this community and we are not going to present it as one, though its proximity is a real fact about the area.
Berkley Crossings is the new, roughly 170-home community east of the Polk Parkway. If what you found has prices or an address, it is one of the others.
The area
Living in Auburndale and Polk County
Auburndale sits near the center of Polk County, right on the Interstate 4 corridor almost exactly halfway between Tampa and Orlando. That location is the practical headline: two major metros, two international airports, Gulf beaches and the Orlando theme parks are all roughly an hour or less away, which makes this one of the easiest places in Central Florida to live in one city and work, fly or play in another.
This is Florida's chain-of-lakes country. Polk County has hundreds of freshwater lakes, and Auburndale is ringed by them, with Lake Ariana, Lake Juliana and Lake Myrtle among the closest. For anyone who likes bass fishing, boating, kayaking or just a water view, the lakes are the everyday backdrop here rather than a vacation.
Auburndale is also home to Lake Myrtle Sports Park, a large amateur-sports complex that draws baseball, soccer and track tournaments from around the country, so youth sports are a big part of life here. The paved Auburndale TECO Trail, which Berkley Crossings will connect to, runs through town for walking, running and cycling, and Lakeland's Detroit Tigers spring training and Bok Tower Gardens are both a short drive.
Families have Legoland Florida just down the road in Winter Haven, and the full slate of Orlando parks about forty-five minutes east. Winter Haven and Lakeland, the county's two largest cities, sit on either side of Auburndale and cover the day-to-day: hospitals, big-box shopping, restaurants and a large employer base anchored by Publix, whose headquarters and distribution operations are in Lakeland, along with a growing roster of logistics jobs up and down the I-4 corridor.
Underpinning all of it is price. Polk County has long been one of the more affordable places to buy new construction in Central Florida, noticeably cheaper than comparable homes closer to Tampa or Orlando, which is a large part of why the county is one of the fastest-growing in the state and why builders keep moving in. Getting on a list like this early, before a builder sets its first release pricing, is how you stay ahead of that growth rather than chase it.
One practical note on costs: this is unincorporated Polk County, not inside the City of Auburndale, so a buyer here pays county taxes with no separate city tax on top, though the mailing address will still read Auburndale. Many Florida communities also carry a community development district, which repays infrastructure bonds through an annual assessment on your tax bill on top of any HOA dues. None has been published for Berkley Crossings, and on a project this size it is less likely than on a huge master-planned community, but it is one of the first questions to ask when pricing is released.
What you need to know
Buying new construction, the smart way
Whoever ends up building the homes at Berkley Crossings, the same rule applies: the person at the model's sales desk works for the builder, not for you. They are usually helpful and usually honest, and they still represent the seller's side of the transaction. You are allowed, and smart, to have your own representation, and in almost every case it costs you nothing, because the builder budgets a cooperating commission into the deal whether you bring an agent or not.
The catch is timing. Most builders require your agent to register you on your first visit. Tour or sign in alone and bring an agent later, and the builder can refuse to recognize them, and you lose your representation for that community. Get connected before you tour, have your agent register you, and let them read the contract, the addenda, and, in Florida, any CDD disclosure.
There is a specific reason to be early on a community this small. At about 170 homes across two product types, the number of any one plan on any one lot type is limited, and the lots backing the open space and the trail connection are genuinely scarce. On a thousand-home community you get several release windows. Here you may get very few.
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Questions and answers
Berkley Crossings FAQ
What is Berkley Crossings?
Berkley Crossings is a new community of about 170 homes planned on the wooded edge of unincorporated Polk County, northwest of Auburndale. It mixes smaller detached houses with attached townhomes, and the county has already approved the plan. Nothing has been built yet, no builder has been named, and nothing is for sale. This page exists so you can hear the moment it opens.
What kind of homes will these be?
Two products on one site. The plan allows detached single-family houses on narrow, low-maintenance lots alongside attached townhomes in small buildings. The applicant described the detached product to the county as a cottage-style home, chosen specifically because it means minimal outdoor upkeep compared with a conventional larger lot. That is a meaningful signal about who this community is being designed for, even though no floor plan or price exists yet.
Who is building the homes?
Nobody yet. No homebuilder has been named. The land was entitled by its owners and a land-use attorney, which is the classic pattern of a project that gets its approvals first and then sells to a national or regional builder who brings the floor plans, the model home and the pricing. When that builder is named, this community goes from a quiet approval to an active sales launch, often quickly. Get on the list and you will hear the day it happens.
Is this the same as Berkley Ridge, Berkley Pointe or Berkley Park?
No. This corner of Polk County is dense with the Berkley name and it is genuinely confusing. Berkley Ridge and Berkley Pointe are existing, built communities whose homes resell today. Berkley Park is a separate development approved years earlier on the road across from this site. There is a Berkley Road, a Berkley Knights Drive, an Old Berkley Road, a Berkley Charter Elementary and a Berkley Accelerated Middle School. Berkley Crossings is none of those. It is the new, roughly 170-home community, and it has no homes yet. If what you found has prices or an address, it is one of the others.
Where exactly is it?
East of the Polk Parkway, west of Berkley Road, south of Berkley Knights Drive and north of Pace Road, in unincorporated Polk County northwest of Auburndale. There are no street addresses or platted lots yet, so we have not published drive times, because any mileage would be invented precision.
What is there to do around Auburndale?
A lot, and it is one of the best reasons to look here. Auburndale sits near the center of Polk County on the I-4 corridor, almost exactly halfway between Tampa and Orlando, so two metros, two airports, Gulf beaches and the Orlando theme parks are all roughly an hour or less away. Locally this is Florida's chain-of-lakes country, ringed by freshwater lakes for bass fishing, boating and kayaking. Auburndale is home to Lake Myrtle Sports Park, a large amateur-sports complex, and the paved Auburndale TECO Trail for walking and cycling. Legoland Florida is just down the road in Winter Haven, and Lakeland and Winter Haven cover shopping, hospitals, dining and jobs.
What is the TECO Trail?
A paved rail-trail in Auburndale built on a former railroad corridor. It matters here because the county made a pedestrian connection to it a condition of approval rather than leaving it to a builder's goodwill. Trail access is one of very few amenities that already exists on the ground before a community is built, so it is a real, checkable feature rather than a rendering.
What schools serve the area?
The area is currently served by Lena Vista Elementary, Jere L. Stambaugh Middle School and Auburndale High School. Treat that as a snapshot rather than a promise, because attendance zones are assigned by physical address, which does not exist here yet, and capacity is re-checked as a project moves forward. Separately, a new charter middle school is being built on land nearby. It is a different project on different land and it is not part of this community, though its proximity is a real fact about the area.
Will there be a CDD or extra assessment?
That has not been published for Berkley Crossings. Many Florida communities are built inside a community development district, which finances roads and utilities through bonds repaid by an annual assessment on your tax notice, separate from and on top of any HOA dues. On a project this size a district is less likely than on a huge master-planned community, but nothing has been published either way. It is one of the first questions to ask when pricing is released, because two homes at the same sticker price can carry very different yearly costs depending on whether an assessment rides along.
When will homes be available?
No date has been announced. The plan is approved, but the project still has to clear detailed site and subdivision engineering, then platting, infrastructure and builder assignment, before anything goes on sale. That can take months. The advantage of getting on the interest list now is simple: the earliest buyers hear about a first release before it is advertised, when the most homesites and floor plans are still available and before any lot premiums climb.
Does it cost anything to join the interest list?
No. Joining is free, it does not obligate you to anything, and it does not create any brokerage relationship. When homes get close to release, a real estate professional licensed in Florida will reach out and can make sure you are properly represented before you ever walk into a builder's sales office, which is the single most valuable thing a buyer can line up in advance.
Be first in line
Get on the Berkley Crossings interest list
About 170 homes approved and ready to build, no builder named yet, and a community small enough that the best lots will not last through many releases. That is exactly why the list is worth being on.
Joining costs nothing, creates no brokerage relationship, and does not obligate you to anything. When you are ready, a real estate professional licensed in Florida will reach out and can register you as represented before your first visit to a sales office.