A variety of neighborhoods dot this peaceful, family-friendly, and mostly upper-middle-class community, including large acreage next to densely packed subdivisions. Available for sale are single-family homes, condominiums and town-homes, and lots for building a custom castle of your very own. While the median home price is $260,000, you will also find two-bedroom townhomes starting at $50,000. Brentwood Hills is a popular deed-restricted community of more than 1,000 homes, with its own swim and tennis club, a private onsite preschool, a playground and soccer field. Units in upscale communities like Oak Valley and Savannah Landings run upwards of $300,000. Also available are well-weathered single-family homes in the $100,000-neighborhood, common in older communities like Camden Oaks and Mulrennan Groves.
Lakefront homes are another option; residents living along the shores of the 124-acre Valrico Lake enjoy fishing, water-skiing and air-boating, as well as an abundance of wildlife from raccoons and foxes to geese, ducks and alligators. New, larger estate homes with pools and lavish landscaping are also available for those with larger budgets and tastes, up to the $700,000 range, in communities like Country Gates and River Hills. River Hills, a member of the Audubon Society, has within its borders several areas designated as wildlife preserves.