Coming soon near Clermont, FL
Trout Lake
A new Beazer community coming to the Wellness Way corridor, with 23 homesites on the water
329 single-family homes planned on Schofield Road in the hill country south of Clermont, on lots 40 to 60 feet wide with three parks along the lake. Beazer Homes is the builder under contract for the homesites. The plat is approved and construction plans are filed, but nothing is for sale yet and no pricing has been released.
- Area
- Clermont, FL
- Homes
- 329
- Builder
- Beazer Homes
- Status
- Coming soon
At a glance
Trout Lake 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 Clermont, FL
- County
- Unincorporated Lake County
- Homes planned
- 329
- Home type
- Single-family, detached
- Lot widths
- 40 to 60 feet
- Lakefront homesites
- 23 back onto the lake
- Parks
- Three, all on the lake
- Builder
- Beazer Homes
- Status
- Platted, construction plans filed
- Corridor
- Wellness Way, south Lake County
- Sales launch
- Not announcedGet notified
- Floor plans
- Not publishedGet notified
- Pricing
- Not yet releasedGet notified
- Model home opening
- Not yet announcedGet notified
Details on this page are compiled from public records and reporting 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
On Schofield Road in the Wellness Way corridor of south Lake County, just outside Clermont. Individual home addresses have not been assigned yet.
Twenty-three homesites back onto the water
On a 329-home community, that is the inventory everyone wants and it goes in the first release. Add your name, email and phone and you will hear the day Trout Lake opens.
Why this one is worth watching
A national builder has held this land for years
Most communities we track this early have no builder attached, just an approval and a landowner. Trout Lake is further along than that. Beazer Homes, a national homebuilder, is under contract for the homesites, and has been tied to this property for several years while a land developer worked the entitlement and the engineering through the county.
The paperwork is at the stage that usually comes right before dirt moves. The preliminary plat is approved and construction plans have been filed with the county, which is the step where a project stops being a plan and becomes a schedule.
Being clear about what this is and is not: Beazer Homes is named in the public reporting on this project as the builder under contract for the homesites. Nothing is for sale here yet. There is no model home, no price sheet and no floor plan library, and Trout Lake does not appear on Beazer's own list of Orlando-area communities. We name Beazer because the public record does, not because anyone is selling. The gap between a builder being on the record and homes going on sale is exactly the window this list is built for.
What is coming
329 homes, three parks and a lake
The approved plan is 329 detached single-family homes on lots between 40 and 60 feet wide, across roughly 120 acres of residential land. That range of lot widths usually means a real mix of home sizes rather than one repeated product, and it is worth asking which plans fit which homesites when the builder publishes.
The lake is the organizing idea. Twenty-three homesites back directly onto Trout Lake, and the plan sets aside three neighborhood parks, all on the water. In a market where most new communities are built around a retention pond, a real lake with public frontage inside the neighborhood is a genuine difference.
The plan was also revised down slightly on its way through the county, from 341 lots to 329, which is the kind of change that usually buys a little more room somewhere in the layout.
What has not been released: home designs and sizes, elevations, the amenity program beyond the parks, a phasing plan, a model date and pricing. Those come from the builder at launch, and the day they land for Trout Lake they go out to this list.
The area
Living in the hills around Clermont
Clermont is the part of Florida that does not behave like Florida. The old citrus ridge running through south Lake County gives this area real elevation and real hills, and that one geographic accident has shaped everything about the place. It is the state's endurance-sports capital: the National Training Center is here, the climbs are known to cyclists across the Southeast, and professional triathletes winter here to train.
Lake Louisa State Park is minutes away, 4,500 acres with six lakes, cabins and horse trails. The paved South Lake Trail runs from Clermont toward Winter Garden and connects into the West Orange Trail, giving you something close to a continuous ride into Orlando's western suburbs. And Sugarloaf Mountain, the highest point on peninsular Florida, is about twenty minutes north through what is left of the citrus country.
The town itself is better than its sprawl suggests. Downtown Clermont sits on Lake Minneola, with a waterfront park, the boathouse, a walkable historic main street, breweries and a Sunday market. It is a real downtown, not a lifestyle center.
On access: Walt Disney World is roughly twenty-five minutes, downtown Orlando about forty, and Orlando International Airport around forty-five. That is the trade this corridor offers, hills and lakes and a small-town main street, with the entire Orlando economy inside a normal commute.
The thing to understand about buying here now is the corridor itself. Wellness Way is Lake County's deliberate attempt to build jobs and housing together rather than another bedroom suburb, anchored by a sports and wellness district, with school siting and road capacity being worked out in public as it fills in. Buying into a corridor at this stage means accepting some construction and some unknowns, and it is also the reason the pricing here still compares favorably with west Orange County.
What you need to know
Buying new construction, the smart way
When Trout Lake opens, the same rule will apply that applies at every builder's model: the person at the 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 deal. 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 very 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 with you.
On a community with a real waterfront component, there is one more thing to settle early: what a lakefront homesite actually costs as a premium, and what the community is allowed to do with the shoreline. Both are answerable in writing.
Subdiview is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Beazer Homes, any homebuilder, the developer, or Lake County. No sales launch has been announced for this community; Beazer Homes is identified here because it is the party named in public reporting on this project as the builder under contract for the homesites, which is a statement of fact about the public record and not a representation of any relationship, and not a statement that any party is selling here. 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
Trout Lake FAQ
What is Trout Lake?
Trout Lake is a new community of 329 single-family homes planned on Schofield Road in the Wellness Way corridor of Lake County, just outside Clermont. It has preliminary plat approval and construction plans are in with the county. Nothing has been built yet, nothing is for sale, and no pricing, floor plans or model date have been released. This page exists so you can hear the moment it opens.
Who is building Trout Lake?
Beazer Homes. Beazer is the builder under contract for the homesites and has been tied to this property for several years, through a land developer that is handling the entitlement and horizontal work. That is a meaningful signal, because a national builder does not stay under contract on a site for years unless it intends to build. It is not a sales launch, though. Nothing is listed for sale under this name anywhere, Beazer's own Orlando-area community list does not include it, and there is no model home and no price sheet. We name Beazer because the public reporting on this project names Beazer, not because anyone is selling here yet.
Is it actually on a lake?
Yes, and that is unusually literal for a community name. The plan puts 23 homesites backing directly onto Trout Lake, and sets aside three neighborhood parks along the water. On a 329-home community, homesites that back to water are always the first to go and almost always carry a lot premium, which is the practical reason to be on a list before a first release rather than after one.
When will homes be for sale?
No sales date has been announced. The plat is approved and construction plans are filed, which puts this further along than most of what we track this early. What normally follows is site work, then a model home, then a first release of homesites. That is typically measured in months rather than weeks. The advantage of joining now is that the earliest buyers hear before a release is advertised, when the most homesites and floor plans are still on the board.
How much will homes at Trout Lake cost?
Pricing has not been released, and any number you find for it today is a guess. Builders publish a starting price when a community opens for sale. The day real pricing is posted for Trout Lake, it goes out to this interest list. For context, south Lake County generally prices below comparable new construction in west Orange County while keeping the same access to Orlando, which is a large part of why builders have moved into this corridor.
How big are the homesites?
The plan calls for lots between 40 and 60 feet wide, so expect a genuine range rather than one standard homesite. Floor plans, square footages and which plans fit which lot widths have not been published. Those come from the builder at launch.
Where exactly is it?
On Schofield Road in the Wellness Way corridor of south Lake County, just south of the Olympus district and outside the Clermont city limits. It is county land rather than inside a city, so a buyer would pay county taxes with no separate city tax on top. Individual home addresses have not been assigned yet, so we have not published drive times to the door, because any mileage would be invented precision.
What is the Wellness Way corridor?
It is Lake County's designated growth corridor in the southeast of the county, planned deliberately to put homes and jobs in the same place rather than building bedroom subdivisions and shipping everyone to Orlando. The anchor concept is a sports, health and wellness district, and the county has been working through school siting and road capacity for the area at the same time. For a buyer it means two things worth weighing: the area will look substantially different in five years, and you are buying early into that rather than after it.
Will there be a CDD or extra assessment?
Nothing has been published for Trout Lake. It is worth asking about anyway, because many Florida communities are built inside a community development district, which issues bonds for roads and utilities and repays them through an annual assessment on your tax notice, separate from and on top of HOA dues, sometimes for decades. Two homes at the same sticker price can carry very different yearly costs depending on whether an assessment rides along. We will surface it here as soon as it is on the record.
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 Trout Lake interest list
329 homes coming to the hills south of Clermont, with a national builder already under contract and construction plans in with the county. The lakefront homesites are the ones people will want, and there are twenty-three of them.
Joining costs nothing, creates no brokerage relationship, and does not obligate you to anything. When homes get close, a real estate professional licensed in Florida will reach out and can register you as represented before your first visit to a sales office.