Where it started

Village of Orange Blossom Gardens

The first village. Orange Blossom Gardens is where The Villages began, on the Lady Lake side in Lake County, and it still has the oldest and least expensive housing stock in the community by a wide margin.

Why Orange Blossom Gardens has its own page

This is the original community, and it is the only village with enough turnover for the MLS to support its own price figures. Everywhere else on this site, village-level prices are suppressed because the MLS names the village on too few records. Here there are enough.

A village gets its own page here only when it has ten or more closed sales in the period, or something written about it that no other page says. Every other village is covered on its section guide, at its own anchor, so the numbers earn the page rather than the name.

What do homes sell for in Orange Blossom Gardens?

Not enough 2026 closed sales in Orange Blossom Gardens to publish a median. The MLS records on its streets show 8 closed, 3 active, 1 under contract, and 0 expired or cancelled. This site publishes a village median only at 10 or more closings, so the number is withheld, not guessed.

Village of Orange Blossom Gardens, January 1 to September 21, 2026, MLS records on its streets
Closed sales8
Active listings3
Under contract1
Expired or cancelled0

For measured prices, the Historic Side guide and the Wealth Report cover the area this village sits in.

What kind of housing is in Orange Blossom Gardens?

Roughly half of what trades here is manufactured housing rather than site-built, which exists almost nowhere else in The Villages and is the main reason the price floor is so much lower. A handful of records are pre-1976 mobile homes, which are a different financing and insurance proposition again. Confirm what a home actually is before you make assumptions about either.

What to check before you buy in Orange Blossom Gardens

  1. Construction type. Manufactured, mobile and site-built all trade here and they finance differently. Ask your lender before you write, not after.
  2. Roof and mechanicals. With a median build year around 1990, almost everything here has been reroofed at least once. The reroof date matters more to a Florida insurer than the build date does.
  3. Bond. Infrastructure debt this old is often paid off or nearly so, which is a real part of why the totals here are lower. It is per parcel, so confirm it.
  4. Lot and land. Some parcels here are leased-land or have unusual configurations by the standards of the newer sections. Read the survey.

Many parcels in this section have bonds that are paid off or nearly paid off, simply because the infrastructure debt was issued decades ago. That is the single biggest reason a Historic Side asking price is not comparable to a Southern Oaks asking price. Confirm the remaining balance per parcel rather than assuming. The bond explainer covers how to pull an exact balance, or send me an address and I will run it.

Which district is Orange Blossom Gardens in?

Orange Blossom Gardens belongs to Lady Lake/Lake County of The Villages Community Development Districts. Your district determines your bond amortization schedule, your utility provider and your sanitation schedule. Villages sometimes span more than one district, so confirm it by address rather than by village name.

Village of Orange Blossom Gardens at a glance
SectionHistoric Side
Community Development DistrictLady Lake/Lake County
Nearest town squareSpanish Springs Town Square
CountyLake County (Lady Lake) and northern Sumter County
BondSet per parcel. No single village figure exists.

Source: district assignment from The Villages Community Development Districts, retrieved September 2026. Section grouping and square proximity are editorial descriptions used for navigation on this site and are not official District designations. Updated September 2026.

Orange Blossom Gardens

What is available here right now?

Send me what you are after and I will come back with what is listed in Orange Blossom Gardens and in the rest of Historic Side, with the bond balance on every one.

What is on the market here?

Send me what you are looking for in the Village of Orange Blossom Gardens and I will send back what is available, with the bond balance on each.

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