Sandy Clay

Sandy Clay is an approved 442-home community on about 120 acres of unincorporated Marion County, near Belleview. All 442 are single-family detached houses, built in three phases. The county approved the rezoning in 2025 and gave final approval to the master plan in 2026. Nothing is built, no builder has been assigned, and nothing is for sale. This page exists so you can hear the moment it opens.

It is a soil type, and that is exactly the problem with it. Sandy clay is a standard soil texture classification, so searching the name mostly returns soil science and gardening results. It is also almost certainly not the name this community will be sold under. Sandy Clay is the name of the limited liability company that owns the land, and the county's own records already carry a second version, Sandy Clay Residential. A production builder taking this over will very likely rebrand it. We track the property by its approval and its location as well as its name, so a rename does not lose you.

Yes. It took two separate board actions to get there. The county approved the rezoning to a Planned Unit Development in 2025, on the condition that a final master plan come back to the Board for approval. That final master plan was approved in 2026. There is no further discretionary approval outstanding.

Not quite, and we would rather be precise than let you assume. The zoning and the master plan are done, but the project still has to clear the county's later engineering and concurrency review, the routine test of whether roads, schools, water and sewer can actually absorb it. That review was deferred to a later stage, which is standard practice here rather than a red flag, and a preliminary plat and improvement plan are already in county review. It means a community described as approved still has steps in front of it before a shovel goes in the ground.

The lot mix is the most concrete thing on the record: 239 lots at 40 feet wide by 120 deep, and 203 lots at 50 by 120. That is a modern production-housing pattern with two product widths, at a low density of under four homes per acre, with roughly 25 acres of the site kept as open space. Beyond lot geometry, nothing is public yet: no floor plans, no square footages, no elevations and no pricing exist, because no builder has been assigned.

The county attached a hard trigger, which is genuinely useful. The amenities must be completed and operational by the time the 150th home is finished. The approved amenity list includes a clubhouse, pool, playground, dog parks, pickleball and a gazebo. Buyers in new communities routinely spend years next to a fenced-off future pool, so a condition tying the amenity to a home count rather than to the developer's convenience is a real protection, and it is written into the approval rather than a brochure.

Several conditions that will shape how the place actually looks, and that tend to protect resale. Front setbacks must be staggered so the street does not read as a single flat wall of identical facades. The rear of each home must contrast in color and texture, which matters because rear elevations are what your neighbors see. At least one ornamental or shade tree per lot. All internal roads are private, maintained by the community rather than the county.

At SE 92nd Loop and SE 110th Street Road, in unincorporated Marion County south of Ocala and adjoining Belleview. There are no street addresses or platted lots yet, so we have not published drive times, because any mileage would be invented precision.

No. It is unincorporated Marion County. That matters to your tax bill, because unincorporated property pays no city millage. It does not mean the city is uninvolved, though: water and sewer for this community come from the City of Belleview. So you would have city utilities and county services, which is a common arrangement here and a frequent source of confusion.

Here there is one piece of unusually good news. No community development district exists for this project, and the approval instead requires a property owners association or the developer to maintain the common areas. A district issues bonds for roads and utilities and repays them through an annual assessment on your tax notice, separate from and on top of any HOA dues, sometimes for decades. The likely recurring cost here is HOA dues rather than a district assessment, which is not true of every community in this market. No HOA figure has been published yet.

Pricing has not been released, because no builder has been assigned, and any number you see elsewhere today is a guess. The day real pricing is posted, it goes out to this interest list. For context on the area, south Marion County has long been one of the more affordable places to buy new construction in central Florida, which is a large part of why builders are moving in.

This is south Marion County, between Ocala and The Villages, in the heart of Florida's horse country. It trades big-city traffic for space, oak canopy and an easy pace, with Ocala close for shopping, medical care and an airport, and The Villages a short drive south for even more of the same. US-301 and Interstate 75 put Gainesville, Tampa and Orlando within reach for a day trip. People move here for lower costs, room to breathe and the outdoors, and stay for the small-town feel.

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.

Join the interest list on this page. When a builder is named, a name is announced, or pricing is released, you hear it here first, and because a rename on this one is likely, being on the list is how you stay connected to it when the words on the sign change.