Weston FL Real Estate
Where is Weston, Florida?
Welcome to hometown life at it’s best. Where the children still ride bikes to school, the manager of the grocery knows you by your first name and every little league game is like the World Series.
In November 2011, the median sale price for a home in Weston was $404,000. The average sales price in November 2011 was actually $427,780. The Multiple Listing Service has recorded 691 single family homes closed sales for the year as of December 31, 2011. The highest priced home sold for $3,300,000 while the lowest priced home sold for $137,500. As of January 7, 2012, there were 290 Single Family Homes active on the market of which 16 were foreclosed properties.
Weston, FL is located in Southwest Broward County, west of Ft. Lauderdale, Weston is a 10,000-acre master planned community which was recently rated the number 1 selling master planned community in Florida and number 3 in all of the United States.
Many Weston neighborhoods provide scenic walkways along streets, with tree-lined sidewalks frequently populated by joggers, bikers and stroller-pushing parents. Several parks are provided for various types of fun and relaxation, from passive Peace Mound Park at Weston and Indian Trace roads — with a path-lined lake, benches, pavilions and playground, gentle hills and towering trees — to Tequesta Trace Park, dedicated to sports with baseball, softball, soccer and football fields, plus a roller rink and children’s playground, also on Indian Trace.
Heron Park, next to Country Isles Elementary, is devoted primarily to sports activities, whilerealty weston florida Village Park at Arvida Parkway and Country Isles Road is a playground. Oscar Wind Park on New River Circle in nearby Sunrise offers playground, ballfields and volleyball courts, while Markham Park, in nearby Sunrise at State Road 84 and Weston Road, is a full-scale county park with wilderness camping area, pools, and playgrounds. Favorite activities at Markham include the Target Range, Fox Observatory, and the area dedicated to model plane enthusiasts. There are also two boat ramps popular with Everglades fisherfolk and jet skiers.
Weston Regional Park is now in full swing, offering several baseball fields, hockey rinks and basketball courts as well as soccer and football fields. The soccer fields are home to the Weston Soccer Club. A concession stand and tot lot provide everything but shade at this sports park on the edge of the Everglades at 20200 Saddle Club Road. One of the newest medical centers in the state of Florida, Cleveland Clinic Florida in Weston – located in southwest Broward County, Florida – is also one of the most advanced. Like its twin facility in Naples, Cleveland Clinic Florida Weston is a fully-integrated campus including a state-of-the-art Clinic housing a medical staff with more than 100 physicians practicing more than 40 different medical specialties, as well as a full-service hospital with 150 beds. A 24-hour emergency department, open heart surgery, and kidney transplantation are among the many services available.
Weston residents can join the Athletic Club for fitness facilities, located at the Weston Community Center which also offers interesting classes in a variety of subjects ranging from drama to computers, plus pool, tennis courts, and band shell. A bit northwest finds The Bonaventure Town Center, which offers pools, indoor skating rink, fitness center, racquetball and tennis courts plus meeting rooms; a new tennis center is under construction at Bonaventure Boulevard and Racquet Club Road.
Several private schools are conveniently located for Weston students, including Sagemont on Town Center road, which serves kindergarten through eighth-grade and which has added an upper school just off Arvida Parkway near State Road 84. Other private schools nearby are St. Bonaventure Catholic preschool and elementary in Davie, St. Marks elementary in Cooper City and the McCarthy High in Cooper City. American Heritage serves elementary through high school students in Plantation.
Currently, there are six elementary schools, two middle schools, and one high school serving Weston area students. Scores for all of the area schools are consistently in the top range for Broward County, Florida, and the nation. This reputation for academic excellence is one of the primary reasons families select Weston as their community of choice.
Weston has become one of the most affluential and desirable communities in Broward County. In 2006, Money Magazine ranked Weston 20th in America in the “Biggest Earners” category. It was also ranked as the city with largest job growth in Florida and 18th largest in the nation. Business Week ranked Weston as one of the “best affordable suburbs” in the United States in November 2006. The city is sometimes jokingly referred to as “Westonzuela” due to the large number of Venezuelan immigrants who have made the city their home.
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