Coming soon to Port St. Lucie, FL
Siena at Solaeris
679 homes by K. Hovnanian Homes on about 200 acres inside the Solaeris master plan
In unincorporated St. Lucie County, west of Range Line Road. Pricing and floor plans have not been released, but the annual community district assessment already has been, and it is the number that decides whether this is affordable to you. We put it on this page. Join the list and be first in line when the first release drops.
- Area
- Port St. Lucie, FL
- Builder
- K. Hovnanian
- Homes
- 679
- Land
- About 200 acres
At a glance
Siena at Solaeris fast facts
Here is what has been reported about this neighborhood and what has not been released yet. Anything marked not yet released, get on our list and it goes out the day it drops.
- Area
- Western Port St. Lucie, FL
- County
- Unincorporated St. Lucie County
- Builder
- K. Hovnanian Homes, as reported
- Homes
- 679, as reported
- Land
- About 200 acres
- Density
- Roughly 3.4 homes per acre
- Amenity center
- About 5 acres, within the neighborhood
- District assessment
- About $1,027 a year, 2027 budget
- Pricing
- Not yet publishedGet notified
- Floor plans
- Not yet publishedGet notified
- Site plan and lot map
- Not yet releasedGet notified
- HOA dues
- Not yet publishedGet notified
Home counts, acreage and timing are as reported in county approval coverage rather than as published by the builder, and dates are targets rather than commitments. Assessment figures come from the district's own adopted budget for its 2027 fiscal year and change in future budget years. All details are subject to change without notice.
Where it is
Inside the Solaeris master plan in unincorporated St. Lucie County, west of Range Line Road and northwest of Glades Cut-Off Road, roughly five to eight miles west of Tradition. Individual home addresses have not been assigned yet.
679 homes means the first phase and the last look very different
Which phase your homesite sits in decides what is finished around you on move-in day and how long you live beside construction. That gets decided at the first release.
What a local would tell you
You will be quoted three times what the neighbourhood next door quotes. Here is why that is fine.
Solaeris is financed through a community development district, which issues bonds to build the roads, drainage, utilities, landscaping and amenities and repays them through an annual assessment on every home. The important structural detail is that the district assesses per pod, not across the master plan, and the pods are at different stages.
For the district's current fiscal year, Siena at Solaeris is assessed at about $1,027 a year: roughly $439 of operations and maintenance plus about $588 of bond debt service, running for something like thirty years. Another neighbourhood inside the same Solaeris district is assessed at about $329. If you shop both on the same afternoon, that gap will look damning.
It is not what it appears to be. That other pod has not issued its bonds yet, so its figure is operations only, with no debt service attached to it. Siena at Solaeris's bonds are issued, so what you are being shown here is the complete, mature number. When the other pod finances, it picks up a debt assessment in the same region as this one and the gap largely closes.
We are raising this because it cuts both ways and both directions are useful to you. It means you should not reject Siena at Solaeris on an assessment comparison against a neighbourhood whose number is provisional. It also means that if you do shop the rest of the master plan, compare the pods on what each will pay once financed, not on what each shows today, and ask every sales office in Solaeris the same question: have your bonds been issued, and if not, what is the projected total once they are.
Two things to add to your budget either way. These assessments are currently billed as off-roll net amounts, so when they move onto the county tax bill they get grossed up by roughly six or seven percent for collection costs and the early-payment discount. And the operations half of the assessment rose about ninety percent in a single year as the district's field operations expanded, which is normal for a district at this stage and will keep happening as amenities come online. Get the current adopted figure for your homesite in writing before you contract.
What is coming
679 homes on 200 acres, at real suburban density
County pod approvals reported in December 2024 describe Siena at Solaeris as 679 single-family homes on about 200 acres with an amenity area of roughly five acres, and name K. Hovnanian Homes as the builder. That works out to about 3.4 homes per acre, which is worth pausing on: it is conventional suburban density rather than the tightly packed product that a large master plan sometimes produces, and the five-acre amenity area is generous for a neighborhood this size. The 679 figure is corroborated by the district's own budget documents, so it is firmer than most numbers at this stage.
K. Hovnanian Homes has published nothing about Siena at Solaeris themselves, so everything here is reported rather than announced. Their own list of communities in this county currently shows two others and not this one.
The wider setting is Solaeris, also called Oak Ridge Ranches: a Kolter master plan of roughly 3,200 acres in unincorporated St. Lucie County, split into about a dozen pods each assigned to a different national builder, planned at full build for several thousand homes plus commercial space, parks, a golf course and two K-8 school sites. Those school sites are planned with no construction timeline announced, which is an important distinction: nobody should buy here assuming a child moving in next year attends a school inside the community.
One piece of jurisdictional context that works in your favour today. Solaeris is in unincorporated St. Lucie County, not inside the City of Port St. Lucie. Every approval has gone through the county commission rather than the city, and no annexation has been identified. The unincorporated tax rate is meaningfully lower than the city rate, though nobody can promise that arrangement is permanent.
What has not been released: pricing, floor plans and elevations, the site plan and lot map, homesite premiums, HOA dues and what they cover on top of the district assessment, the amenity delivery schedule, phase boundaries, and the model and first release dates. Those arrive as the neighborhood approaches launch, and the day they land we send them to this list.
The area
Ranch land, Tradition, and the Treasure Coast beyond it
The honest description of the immediate surroundings is short. This is rural agricultural and ranch land in active conversion, not suburbia. There is essentially no retail, no restaurant and no gas station inside or next to the master plan today. What there is instead is space, quiet, and the fact that everything is new.
Everyday life happens in Tradition, five to eight miles east, and Tradition is genuinely good at being that. It is the newest and most deliberately planned part of western Port St. Lucie, anchored by Tradition Square, a walkable town-center development with a green, regular community events and real dining. The Publix there is your grocery store and the hospital is next door. Functionally you would be a Tradition resident who lives in the county.
Port St. Lucie itself is Florida's seventh-largest city at around a quarter of a million people, but be clear-eyed: it is largely a low-density grid of single-family neighborhoods with no traditional downtown. For that you go to Fort Pierce, fifteen to eighteen miles northeast: a historic main street, the 1923 Sunrise Theatre, a working waterfront with shrimp boats, and a Saturday farmers market at Marina Square that is among the better ones in the state. Stuart, about twenty miles south, has a restored downtown and the Lyric Theatre.
For the outdoors, the standout is Savannas Preserve State Park, protecting the largest freshwater basin marsh remaining on Florida's southeast coast, with more than seventeen miles of trails for three dollars a vehicle. The Oxbow Eco-Center sits on the North Fork of the St. Lucie River, a designated aquatic preserve of blackwater oxbows. On the coast, Fort Pierce Inlet State Park has jetty fishing and the surf break at Dynamite Point, and Avalon State Park is an undeveloped stretch of North Hutchinson Island beach that served as a Navy frogman training area in the Second World War.
And the Indian River Lagoon, which deserves an honest sentence rather than a brochure one. It is a 156-mile estuary, the most biodiverse in North America, and it is under real ecological stress, with seagrass loss, algal blooms and manatee mortality driving a long restoration fight. People here love it and worry about it in equal measure, and you should know that going in.
On practicalities: the nearest grocery is the Publix at Tradition Square, six to eight miles east. Cleveland Clinic Tradition Hospital is seven to nine miles east, a 177-bed hospital with a 24-hour emergency department, maternity, outpatient surgery, imaging and cardiac services, part of Cleveland Clinic Martin Health; for trauma you would go to the larger hospital in Fort Pierce. Palm Beach International is fifty-five to sixty miles south, and Vero Beach Regional, which now has real scheduled commercial service, is closer at thirty-five to forty miles north. The nearest beaches are Jensen Beach and Hutchinson Island, twenty-five to thirty miles southeast, and downtown West Palm Beach is a little over an hour.
On schools, the news is good and recent. St. Lucie Public Schools was graded an A for 2025-26, its second consecutive A, with roughly 77 percent of its schools earning an A or a B, after previously carrying a B, and it is building hard. Because that construction is ongoing, attendance zones are actively being redrawn, so confirm current assignment with the district.
Two closing notes on risk. On flooding, being fifteen-odd miles inland and west of the interstate puts this land outside the coastal storm-surge evacuation zones, which is the real advantage of a western address here. But this is low, flat, historically drained agricultural ground, so the operative risk is rainfall and stormwater rather than surge, which is precisely what St. Lucie experienced during Hurricane Ian. Flood zone is still parcel by parcel and we have not seen a determination for these lots, so pull it for your specific homesite. On insurance, this is Atlantic coastal Florida and the exposure is real, as Frances and Jeanne demonstrated within three weeks of each other in 2004. The encouraging part is direction and code: St. Lucie County's average homeowners premium was about $3,491 in the state's mid-2026 reporting, down slightly year over year, above inland Florida but well below the southeast corner of the state, and a new home built to current wind code with a current mitigation report prices materially better than the average. Get a real quote on a specific homesite before you contract.
The market
Softening, which is a buyer's environment
The home value index for the surrounding ZIP code sat at about $448,600 as of July 2026, down roughly 2.7 percent year over year and about one percent over the preceding six months. The neighbouring ZIP covering St. Lucie West was down about 3.6 percent over the same period.
That is a value index rather than a median sale price, and the direction is the point: this market has been softening. We are not going to write appreciation copy over the top of it. The fair reading is that prices have moderated from the 2022 peak, inventory has improved, and buyers currently have leverage, which in new construction usually arrives as incentives rather than as a lower sticker price. Working out which you are being offered, and what it is actually worth against the carrying costs described above, is exactly what representation is for.
What you need to know
Buying new construction with someone on your side
When Siena at Solaeris opens, the person at the sales desk will work for the builder, not for you. They are usually helpful and usually honest, and they still represent the seller's side of the transaction. It is worth naming because most buyers walk into a sales appointment without registering that the person holding the lot map is the other side of the table.
You are allowed, and it is smart, to have your own representation. 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 have lost your representation for that community permanently.
Here the questions worth asking are concrete. What is the current adopted district assessment for this exact homesite, split between operations and debt service, and how many years remain on the debt. What are the HOA dues on top of it and what do they cover. Which phase is my lot in, what gets built around it and when, and how many years of construction am I buying next to on a 679-home neighborhood. Which lots back to preserve or water rather than to another house, and what is the premium. What road improvements are actually funded before my phase closes rather than merely studied. What is included in the base price and where does a realistically specified home land. What does the contract say about completion timing and the builder's ability to change price before closing. And which incentives are genuinely available versus tied to using the builder's own lender. Every one of those has a document behind it, and reading those documents is the job.
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Questions and answers
Siena at Solaeris FAQ
What is Siena at Solaeris?
Siena at Solaeris is a planned neighborhood of 679 single-family homes on about 200 acres inside Solaeris, a large master-planned community in unincorporated St. Lucie County, west of Range Line Road and northwest of Glades Cut-Off Road. County pod approvals reported in December 2024 name K. Hovnanian Homes as the builder for this neighborhood and include an amenity area of about five acres. At roughly 3.4 homes per acre this is conventional suburban density rather than anything tightly packed. Pricing, floor plans, the site plan and HOA dues have not been published.
Is it selling yet?
No. As of September 2026 Siena at Solaeris does not appear on the builder's own list of St. Lucie County communities, which currently shows only two other communities in this county. There is no sales office, no model, no published pricing and no plans released. That is normal at this stage, and it is why an early list matters: the first release is when lot selection and introductory pricing are actually decided.
What is Solaeris?
Solaeris, also referred to as Oak Ridge Ranches, is a master-planned community of roughly 3,200 acres in unincorporated western St. Lucie County, developed by Kolter and built out across about a dozen separate neighborhoods, or pods, each assigned to a different homebuilder. At full build it is planned for several thousand homes plus commercial space, parks, a golf course and two K-8 school sites. Siena at Solaeris is one neighborhood inside it, and it is one of the larger ones. The pod structure matters to your wallet, because the community district assessment is set per pod rather than across the whole master plan.
What is the community district assessment here?
About $1,027 a year for the district's current fiscal year, and unlike most communities at this stage, that is the mature number rather than a placeholder. It breaks down as roughly $439 of operations and maintenance plus about $588 of bond debt service, and the debt runs for roughly thirty years. This neighborhood's bonds have already been issued, which is why you can see the full figure now. Two caveats worth knowing: these are budgeted as off-roll net amounts, so when they move onto the county tax bill they get grossed up by about six or seven percent for collection costs and the early-payment discount, and the operations half rose roughly ninety percent in one year as the district's field operations expanded. Ask the sales office to confirm the current adopted assessment for your specific homesite in writing.
A neighbouring community in Solaeris quotes a much lower assessment. Why?
Because it has not issued bonds yet, and you should understand this before you compare the two. Another pod in this same district currently assesses roughly $329 a year, which looks like a third of what Siena at Solaeris costs. The difference is not that Siena at Solaeris is expensive. It is that Siena at Solaeris's bonds are issued and the other pod's are not, so that neighborhood is showing operations only with no debt service attached. When its bonds are issued, and districts of this scale essentially always issue them, it will pick up a debt assessment in the same region as this one. So if you are shopping across Solaeris, compare the pods on what each will pay at maturity rather than what each shows today. Buying here means seeing the real number first, which is a disadvantage in a brochure comparison and an advantage in a budget.
What are the property taxes in St. Lucie County?
High, and worth knowing before you shop rather than after. For 2025 the total millage in unincorporated St. Lucie County came to about 19.01, which is among the highest in Florida. An address inside the City of Port St. Lucie runs higher still at about 22.31. On a home around $500,000 with a homestead exemption, roughly 19 mills is on the order of $8,500 a year in property tax, with the district assessment and HOA dues on top. That does not make this a bad place to buy, but the monthly number you should be running is meaningfully above what the sale price alone suggests.
How are the schools?
Good, and recently improved. St. Lucie Public Schools was graded an A for 2025-26, its second consecutive A, with about 77 percent of its schools earning an A or a B, after previously carrying a B. The district is also building fast: two new high schools opened between 2025 and early 2026, and a new K-8 opened in the Tradition area in August 2026, the nearest new school to this part of the county. Two K-8 school sites are planned within the Solaeris master plan itself, but no construction timeline has been announced, so do not assume a child buying in now would attend a school inside the community. Attendance zones are being redrawn as the new schools open, so confirm current assignment with the district directly.
Why join a list this early?
Because of how new construction actually works. Builders require your agent to register you on your very first visit to a sales office. If you tour alone and try to bring representation in later, the builder can decline to recognize them, and you have lost your own advocate for that community permanently. Getting that arranged now, while Siena at Solaeris is still unreleased, costs you nothing and removes the one mistake that cannot be undone later. Our list is free, creates no obligation, and connects you with a real estate professional licensed in Florida.
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We will send you what gets released as it gets released: pricing, floor plans, the site plan and lot map, homesite premiums, phase boundaries, HOA and district details and the model opening date. And we will connect you with a real estate professional licensed in Florida who represents you rather than the seller, and who can register you before your first visit.
It costs nothing, creates no brokerage relationship by itself, and does not obligate you to anything.