Ville Di Toscana

Ville Di Toscana is an approved community of about 108 for-sale single-family homes on roughly 25 acres in Ridge Manor, in unincorporated Hernando County. The county cleared the plan in 2026. What makes it interesting is what it replaced: the same land was approved years ago for a resort townhome community aimed at tourists and short-term rentals, and that plan was never built. Nothing is built now either, no builder has been assigned, and nothing is for sale. This page exists so you can hear the moment it opens.

Not yet, and this is the most consequential fact on the page, so we are not going to soften it. The county utilities department has stated that it does not currently supply water or wastewater service to these parcels, and that it cannot immediately provide the necessary sewer service from existing infrastructure. The path forward is a water and sewer agreement between the developer and the county. The encouraging half is that a wastewater plant expansion that would serve the area is already under construction. So the constraint is real and it is being solved, and the timing of that plant is, in practical terms, the timing of this community.

Nobody yet. No homebuilder appears anywhere in the record. The land is held by a company that shares its name with the project and put the approval in place. That is the signature of an entitlement play: get the zoning right, then sell to a builder. On a site this size the eventual buyer is likely to be a regional or production builder rather than a national one, and that builder will very likely rename it.

Probably, and you should factor that in. Ville Di Toscana is the name of the landowning company. It is an Italianate name on a compact subdivision in rural Hernando County with no builder attached and no recorded plat yet. Names like that survive to the entrance sign sometimes and get replaced more often. We track this property by its approval and its location as well as its name, so a rename does not lose you, which is a large part of what the interest list on this page is for.

The approved plan describes a compact, low-maintenance community. The lots are on the smaller side, roughly in the 45 to 55 foot range, the kind of tidy yard many buyers are looking for now. Beyond that there is nothing concrete yet: no floor plans, no square footages, no elevations and no prices, because no builder has been assigned. Those all come from the builder at launch, and the day they land for Ville Di Toscana they go out to this list.

On the southwest side of Croom Rital Road, a short distance northwest of Cortez Boulevard, which is State Road 50, in the Ridge Manor area of unincorporated Hernando County. A secondary access to Park Ridge Drive is proposed on the west side. The site sits inside the county's Interstate 75 and State Road 50 planned development overlay, right in the growth corridor of eastern Hernando. There are no street addresses or platted lots yet.

The Withlacoochee State Trail, which is the genuine amenity here and one that already exists rather than being promised. It is a long paved rail-trail built on a former railroad corridor, and the Ridge Manor Trailhead and the Croom River Trail Loop are nearby, connecting into thousands of acres of the Withlacoochee State Forest for hiking, biking, paddling and horseback riding. Trail adjacency is one of very few things a buyer can verify about a community before it is built. Whether the community will have a direct connection to it has not been published, so we are not claiming it will.

Ridge Manor sits at the quiet eastern edge of Hernando County, where State Road 50 meets Interstate 75, so you get real country and easy road access at the same time. The Withlacoochee State Forest and its rail-trail are the backyard, with some of the best off-road cycling and paddling in central Florida. Brooksville, the county seat, is a short drive west for shopping, dining, medical care and a genuine small-town historic downtown, and Tampa and its international airport are a straightforward commute south down I-75 for work, sports and the coast. This is one of the more affordable, lower-key corners of the Tampa Bay region, which is exactly why for-sale houses here make sense in a way a resort never did.

No. Italianate names are common in Florida development and this one collides with several. Bella Toscana is a vacation-villa community in the Kissimmee area marketed heavily to overseas buyers. Toscana Isles is an active, selling community in Venice on the Gulf coast. There are Tuscany Villages and Villa Toscanas scattered around the state. Separately, and confusingly, there is a community literally named Ridge Manor built by a national builder in Webster, Florida, which is a different place from the Ridge Manor area this community sits in. If what you found has prices or photographs of finished homes, it is one of those.

This is unincorporated Hernando County land, so a tax bill would combine county millage, the school board, the water management district and other special districts, with no city millage. No community development district exists for this project, so the recurring cost is more likely to be HOA dues than a CDD assessment on your tax notice, and no HOA figure has been published. Florida has no state income tax, which is often what starts this arithmetic for relocating buyers. When a real number exists we will surface it here.

No date has been announced, and on this project the honest answer is that it depends on a wastewater plant. The zoning is done. The sewer capacity is not there yet and the expansion that would provide it is under construction. Add a builder, platting and the usual construction steps, and you have the sequence. Treat any date you encounter as a target rather than a commitment.

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.