Sales of new homes in 2006 shot up 11 percent at Wilderness Lake Preserve – due, in part, to the strong sales of inventory homes – as a number of builders near sellout in this master-planned community in south central Pasco County.

With award-winning Wilderness Lake Preserve in its third and final phase, builders have seen increased demand for the community’s limited number of inventory homes, re-ports Janice Snow, vice president of sales and marketing for Lindell Properties, which is developing Wilderness Lake Preserve. To date, 830 homes have been sold in the community, and the average price in 2006 was $292,143 including homesite.

Wilderness Lake Preserve was named the best community in the Southeast during the most recent Southeast Building Conference, which covers 13 states in the southeastern United States. For two consecutive years, it also was selected Pasco County’s community of the year by the Pasco Building Association, which honored Wilderness Lake

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Preserve for having the county’s best environmental plan and amenities.

Among its amenities, Wilderness Lake Preserve lists Wilderness Lodge; the Activi-ties Center – complete with big-screen television, pool table, jukebox and fireplace; the nature center with multi-purpose rooms, a theater and an outdoor classroom area. There also are an adjoining bath house and spa, swimming hole, lap pool, massage rooms, exer-cise equipment and a sauna, all overlooking 38-acre Wilderness Lake.

Lindell Properties has set aside nearly half of this community’s 680 acres as con-servation areas and open space, including several parks and lakes.

Preferred builders include Bayfair, David Weekley Homes, Hannah Bartoletta Homes, M/I Homes, Morrison Homes, Smith Family Homes and Standard Pacific Homes. J.D. Power and Associates’ New-Home-Builder Customer Satisfaction Study named David Weekley, M/I and Standard Pacific among its top-five Tampa Bay-area home builders. Models by Weekley, M/I, Morrision, Hannah Bartoletta and Smith Family have won awards in recent Tampa Bay Parade of Homes and other housing-industry events.

The community is on U.S. 41 – 4.9 miles north of State Road 54.

More information about the community may be obtained by calling the welcome center at (813) 995-2485, or visit www.wildernesslakepreserve.com.