Canterwood Acres

Canterwood Acres is a Maronda Homes single-family community of about 383 homes on roughly 100 acres, on the south side of SW 100th Street in southwest Ocala, in unincorporated Marion County. It is planned in two phases, with lot widths of 45, 50 and 70 feet, and the homes are block construction. The community's development district was established by the county in the spring of 2026. As of September 2026 Maronda Homes publishes a starting point in the upper $200,000s and nothing else.

Maronda Homes publishes a from-price in the upper $200,000s as of September 2026. That is a teaser rather than a plan price, and there is no dedicated community page, no floor plan pricing, no site plan and no lot map released yet. Given that lot widths run from 45 feet to 70 feet, expect a meaningful spread between the entry product and the widest lots. For area context, the median single-family sale price across Marion County was about $295,000 in July 2026, up under one percent year over year.

Yes, and the answer has a catch you need to understand. The district was established in the spring of 2026 and its adopted operating budget assesses roughly $1,172 a year on a 45 foot lot, $1,302 on a 50 foot lot and $1,823 on a 70 foot lot. But that is operations and maintenance only. There is no bond debt service assessment in the budget yet, because the district has not issued bonds. When it does, and districts almost always do, that debt service is typically layered on top and is commonly two to four times larger than the operations portion. So treat those figures as a floor, not as the all-in number, and ask Maronda Homes in writing what the projected total assessment will be once bonds are issued.

This site is in unincorporated Marion County, and for 2025 the total millage there came to about 15.35 across county, school, water management and the county law enforcement and emergency medical services levies. For comparison, an address inside a nearby city runs a mill or so higher. The trade for the unincorporated rate is that your law enforcement and fire protection come from the county rather than a municipal department. Remember that the district assessment above sits on top of this, and that it is a separate line rather than part of the millage.

Southwest Ocala, which is the county's busiest residential growth quadrant, and honestly it is a frontier rather than an established neighborhood. Expect semi-rural pasture and scattered subdivisions converting to production housing, oriented toward the State Road 200 corridor to the north, which is where the retail lives. It is car-dependent and it has no town center of its own. Downtown Ocala is about twelve miles north. What the location does have is proximity to the SR 200 shopping corridor, two large hospitals in Ocala, and unusually good access to the Cross Florida Greenway.

Better than in a lot of Florida growth corridors, and this is a genuine point in the location's favor. The county is four-laning SW 49th Avenue, which is the road along the western edge of this community, in two phases with a raised median, turn lanes and bike lanes, plus a connection toward the SW 42nd Street flyover. Part of it is funded through the county's penny sales tax. The county's own stated rationale is that without the widening the corridor would fall below acceptable service levels by 2040. Work is under way rather than finished, so do not buy on the assumption that it is open, but the money is committed and the road is adjacent.

Two things, and they pull in different directions. Marion County Public Schools was graded a B for 2024-25 and dropped back to a C for 2025-26, so correct any older figure you see. On the other hand, the district has been building capacity in exactly this quadrant: a new high school opened south of here in August 2026, built specifically to relieve several over-capacity high schools, and two new elementary schools opened to address southwest-area overcrowding. That is a district investing where the rooftops are going, which matters for both daily life and resale. Attendance zones move as those schools open, so confirm current assignment with the district rather than any third-party lookup.

Join both. The builder will tell you when plans, real pricing and the lot map drop, and you want that. What we add is a second set of interests, which is to say yours. Builders require your agent to register you on your very first visit to a sales office, and if you tour alone and bring representation in later, the builder can decline to recognize them. On this community in particular there is a specific thing worth having someone chase for you: the projected total district assessment once bonds are issued, which is the difference between a comfortable payment and an uncomfortable one and is not published anywhere today.