Approved and pre-construction near Bradenton, FL
Bradenton Estates II
80 homes on 80 acres, approved 4-3 over its own planning commission's unanimous objection
In February 2026 the Manatee County commission approved this community by a single vote, after the county planning commission had recommended denying it without a dissenting voice. What was approved is 80 detached homes on 80.70 acres. No builder has been assigned and nothing is for sale.
- Area
- Bradenton, FL
- Homes
- 80 approved
- Site
- 80.70 ac
- Approved
- Feb 2026
At a glance
Bradenton Estates II fast facts: approved February 2026
Here is what is on the public record 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 Bradenton, FL
- County
- Unincorporated Manatee County
- Site
- 80.70 acres
- Approved plan
- 80 single-family detached homes
- Density
- About one home per acre
- Board vote
- Approved 4-3, February 2026
- Planning Commission
- Recommended denial, unanimously
- Scaled back from
- An earlier plan of 200 plus homes
- Applicant of record
- Yoder Land Holdings LLC
- Home builder
- None named yetGet notified
- Lot sizes
- Not in the recordGet notified
- Sales name at launch
- Very likely to changeGet notified
- Pricing
- Not yet releasedGet notified
- Model home opening
- Not yet announcedGet notified
Details on this page are compiled from public entitlement records and are targets, not commitments. Pricing, floor plans, home counts, and timing have not been released by the builder and are subject to change without notice.
Where it is
Unincorporated Manatee County, in the Bradenton area. We are not publishing a street address or an intersection, because the location descriptions we could verify are not specific enough to put a pin in without guessing.
Approved by one vote. No builder. No name.
Eighty acres with an approval on it and nobody attached to it yet. Add your name, email and phone and you will hear when a builder shows up, when the name changes, and when the first homesites are released.
The part nobody puts in a brochure
The county's own planning commission said no, unanimously, and it was approved anyway
Applications in this county are reviewed by a planning commission before they reach the board of county commissioners. The planning commission is advisory: it hears the case, takes public comment, and makes a recommendation. On this application it recommended denial, without a dissenting vote.
The board of county commissioners then approved it 4-3. Three of seven commissioners voted no. That is the narrowest possible margin, on an application that arrived carrying a unanimous recommendation against it.
We are not going to spin this in either direction. Boards overrule their planning commissions routinely and it is entirely lawful, and the application that was approved was already scaled back from an earlier version of more than 200 homes to 80, which is a large concession and is very likely why it got the fourth vote. But a contested approval tends to mean the file contains a real dispute about the surrounding area, and that dispute does not vanish when the homes go on sale.
Why we are telling you: because you will not hear it at the sales trailer, and because it is the sort of thing a buyer would rather know before choosing a lot than after. If you want to understand the neighbourhood you are moving into, the recording of that hearing is public and it is a more honest introduction than any site plan.
About the plan
What was actually approved
The approval covers 80.70 acres and 80 single-family detached dwelling units. Detached is stated in the record, so this is houses on their own lots rather than an attached product. The overall density is about one home per acre, which for this county is unusually low and is the defining characteristic of the plan.
Do not read one home per acre as one-acre lots. Gross density counts the whole site, and open space, stormwater ponds, preserve areas and roads all come out of the 80 acres before anyone draws a lot line. The record does not publish a lot size, so we will not either. What the number does tell you reliably is that this is not a tight-lot production subdivision, and that it will very probably not be priced like one.
An earlier version of this application proposed more than 200 homes on the same land. That version is gone. If you find older coverage describing a much larger project here, it is describing a plan that was not approved.
What we did not verify for this page: the executed and recorded instrument. We have the board's approving vote and its tally from the county's own hearing record, and that is why this page carries no ordinance number, no effective date and no recording reference. We would rather show you the hole than paper over it. If the finality of this approval matters to a decision you are making, pull the recorded document from the county first.
One thing to be careful about
There is no builder here, and that changes what this listing is
The applicant of record is Yoder Land Holdings LLC, a land holding company. No homebuilder appears anywhere in the file. Nothing is listed for sale under this name, there is no sales page, no model and no price sheet.
An entitled 80-acre parcel with no builder attached is, in practice, a product for sale to builders rather than to buyers. The most likely next event is not a groundbreaking, it is a land transaction. Whoever buys it chooses the product, the price and the name.
That is a longer runway than a community with a builder already committed, and it is worth being honest that it may be a year or more before anything is purchasable, or that the land may trade and be re-planned. The upside is that people who are on a list this early hear about the first release before there is any competition for it.
Location and costs
County land near Bradenton, and what to ask about
The site is in unincorporated Manatee County in the Bradenton area. It is county land, not inside the City of Bradenton, so a buyer here would pay county millage with no municipal millage component, and would receive county rather than city services. The mailing address will very likely say Bradenton regardless, which is a common source of confusion in this market.
Bradenton Estates II has no price, because it has no builder. On recurring costs, two things to establish before you commit. First, whether the community will be governed by a homeowners association and what its dues will be. Second, and this is the one people miss, whether a community development district is established over it. A district is a special-purpose unit of local government that issues bonds for infrastructure and repays them through an annual assessment on your property tax notice, separate from and on top of HOA dues. No district has been established for this property at the time of writing, but that can change before homes are sold.
On a low-density community like this one, also ask early about water and sewer. County utility connections are not a given on the fringe of the service area, and the answer affects both the cost of your lot and what the finished streetscape looks like.
We do not publish drive times to Bradenton, Sarasota, Lakewood Ranch, the beaches or Tampa, because Bradenton Estates II has no assigned address or coordinates yet and any mileage would be invented precision.
What you need to know
Buying new construction, the smart way
Whoever ends up building the homes at Bradenton Estates II, 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 and the addenda.
On an 80-lot community, scarcity is real in a way it is not on a thousand-home project. There will not be a second chance at the best homesites, and there will not be years of releases to wait for. Being early is worth more here than it usually is.
Subdiview is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by any homebuilder, the developer, the City of Bradenton, or Manatee County. No homebuilder has been named for this community; the applicant is identified here because it is the party of record in the county's published entitlement documents, which is a statement of fact about the public record and not a representation of any relationship. Community names and marks are the property of their respective owners and are used for identification only. Subdiview is operated by a real estate broker licensed in Illinois. We are not your agent, we do not represent you, and we perform no real estate brokerage services in this state. No one at Subdiview is licensed in this state. If you join an interest list, your information is referred to a real estate professional licensed in the state where the property is located, who will contact you directly. We are compensated by that professional's brokerage, not by you. All community details on this page are compiled from public records, are targets rather than commitments, and are subject to change without notice.
Questions and answers
Bradenton Estates II FAQ
What is Bradenton Estates II?
Bradenton Estates II is an approved community of 80 single-family detached homes on 80.70 acres of unincorporated Manatee County, near Bradenton. The county commission approved the application in February 2026 on a 4-3 vote. Nothing has been built, no builder has been assigned, and nothing is for sale.
Eighty homes on eighty acres? That is unusual.
It is, for this market, and it is the most interesting number on the page. An overall density of about one home per acre is a fraction of what a production subdivision in this county typically runs. It does not tell you the lots will be an acre each, because open space, stormwater and preserve areas come out of the total first, and the record does not publish a lot size. But whatever this turns out to be, it is not a tight-lot production community, and we would expect it to price accordingly.
Why was the vote 4-3?
Because it was contested, and we would rather you heard that from us than found it out later. The county's own planning commission reviewed the application first and recommended denial, unanimously. The board of county commissioners then approved it anyway, with three of the seven commissioners voting no. We are not going to characterise anyone's reasoning, because we did not verify their statements word for word, but we will not describe a 4-3 approval over a unanimous denial recommendation as routine, because it is not.
Is the approval final?
The board voted to approve in February 2026, and the vote and the tally are confirmed in the county's own hearing record. We did not retrieve the executed and recorded instrument, so this page deliberately carries no ordinance number, effective date or recording reference. That is a gap in what we have read, not a claim that anything is wrong, and we would rather show you the gap than fill it with something plausible. If you are relying on the finality of this approval for a decision, get the recorded instrument from the county before you act.
Who is building it?
Nobody yet. No homebuilder appears anywhere in the record. The applicant of record is a land holding company, which is a different thing entirely. An entitled 80-acre parcel with a one-per-acre density and no builder is the kind of property that gets sold on to someone else, and the eventual buyer chooses the name, the product and the price.
The plan used to be bigger, didn't it?
Yes. An earlier version of this application proposed more than 200 homes on the same land. What reached the board and was approved is 80. Anything you find describing a larger project on this site is describing a plan that no longer exists, and 80 is the number that was actually approved.
Will it still be called Bradenton Estates II when it opens?
Very likely not. A place name followed by a Roman numeral is an application label, not a marketing name. When a builder takes this on, it will almost certainly be renamed, and at that point everything written about it today becomes hard to find at exactly the moment it becomes useful. We track this property by its approval and its location as well as by its name, so a rename does not lose the people on this list.
What does joining the interest list actually do?
It puts you on the list we notify when something on this page changes: a builder named, a name change, a plat recorded, a model announced, or first pricing. It costs nothing, it creates no brokerage relationship, and it obligates you to nothing. When you are ready, a real estate professional licensed in Florida can register you as represented before your first visit to a sales office, which is the one step that is very hard to undo later.
Be first in line
Get on the Bradenton Estates II interest list
Eighty homes on eighty acres, approved by one vote, with no builder and a name that is an application label rather than a marketing one. When it is sold on and renamed, most people will not connect it to anything they have read.
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.