Vintage Oaks and Avenir: What the Connection Actually Is
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Vintage Oaks is not part of Avenir. It is a separate, gated D.R. Horton townhome community on Northlake Boulevard in Palm Beach Gardens, near Avenir but not inside it. Vintage Oaks has its own entrance, its own HOA, and its own amenities. Avenir has its own, and they are not shared.
People mix these two up constantly, including some listing sites. Here is the actual relationship and why it matters if you are buying.
What Avenir is
Avenir is a very large master-planned development in the western part of Palm Beach Gardens.
A master-planned development is not a builder, and it is not one neighborhood. It is a big piece of land divided into separate communities, with different builders building inside each one. Avenir contains several of these, each with its own name, its own price range, and its own rules.
Builders with communities inside Avenir include Toll Brothers and DiVosta. Some of those communities are age-restricted, and some are not, which matters a great deal, and we come back to it below.
What Vintage Oaks is
Vintage Oaks is one gated townhome community, built entirely by D.R. Horton, at 11471 Vintage Oaks Circle West on Northlake Boulevard.
It has four floor plans—Abingdon, Banbury, Callington, and Dawley—running from about 1,640 to about 1,871 square feet. All four are two-story townhomes with three bedrooms and a one-car garage. The full breakdown is in our four-plan comparison.
It has its own gated entrance, its own streets—Vintage Oaks Circle West and East, Vintage Oaks Drive, and Vintage Oaks Lane—and its own planned amenities.
So why does everyone confuse them?
Three reasons, and all three are understandable.
They are close together. Both are in the western part of Palm Beach Gardens, off the same main road.
Both are new. If you search for new construction in this city, results from both come back mixed together.
Avenir is the name people know. It has been marketed heavily. Vintage Oaks is one community; Avenir is a whole district. When a buyer describes where they are looking, "near Avenir" is the easiest shorthand—and then it gets written down as "in Avenir."
Why the difference actually matters
This is not a technicality. Four things change depending on which side of the line a community sits on.
1. The HOA. Vintage Oaks has its own homeowners association. Communities inside Avenir have their own, and some also sit under a wider master association. Those are different documents with different costs and different rules. Never assume one tells you anything about the other.
2. The amenities. Vintage Oaks residents use Vintage Oaks amenities. Avenir's community amenities belong to Avenir's communities. Buying near a big amenity center does not give you access to it.
3. The price. This is the big one. A Vintage Oaks townhome has recently started in the low $660,000s. Inside Avenir, Toll Brothers' Regency at Avenir starts in the mid-$660,000s, and DiVosta's Avondale at Avenir starts in the low-$740,000s. Those are different products at different prices, and comparing a townhome to a single-family home as though they are the same thing will mislead you.
4. The age restriction. Regency at Avenir is a 55+ community. Vintage Oaks is not. If you are under 55, that entire community is off your list regardless of the price—and if a search result lumps them together, you will not know that until you have driven out there.
We lay all of this out with the real numbers in new home communities in Palm Beach Gardens.
What being near Avenir is actually worth
Being next to a large master-planned development is not nothing, even when you are not inside it.
Big developments bring roads, utilities, and commercial development with them. When thousands of homes go in, shops and services follow, because the rooftops justify them. That is generally good for the area around it too.
What it does not do is give you access to another community's pool. Be clear with yourself about which one you are buying.
The honest version
If you want a single-family home in Palm Beach Gardens and you are over 55, look hard at Regency at Avenir. If you want a single-family home and you are under 55, Avondale at Avenir is the nearest all-ages option, and it starts roughly eighty thousand dollars above a Vintage Oaks townhome.
If a townhome works for your life, Vintage Oaks is the lowest-cost way into a brand-new home in this city, with granite counters, impact glass, and a tankless water heater already in the base price. The full standard list is in what comes with a Vintage Oaks home.
We will tell you which of those is the better fit, including when the answer is not us.
Before you drive out there
The western end of Palm Beach Gardens is genuinely different from the older parts of the city near the coast. If you have not spent time out here, read about living in Palm Beach Gardens along Northlake Boulevard and things to do near Vintage Oaks first.
Then call 561-704-0091 or book at nationalhousesearch.com/schedule and we will plan a route that gets you through more than one of them in an afternoon.
How to tell which community you are actually standing in
This sounds obvious until you are out there. The western end of Palm Beach Gardens is a large area of new construction with a lot of similar-looking entrances, and the signage assumes you already know where you are.
Three ways to be certain:
Use the street address, not the community name. Vintage Oaks is at 11471 Vintage Oaks Circle West. The internal streets are Vintage Oaks Circle West and East, Vintage Oaks Drive, and Vintage Oaks Lane. If the street you are on does not say Vintage Oaks, you are somewhere else.
Check who the builder is at the gate. Vintage Oaks is entirely D.R. Horton. If the model home signage says Toll Brothers, DiVosta, or Kolter, you are in a different community with different pricing and possibly an age restriction.
Ask which HOA you would be joining. It is the cleanest question there is, and the answer is a document rather than an opinion.
Do this before you fill in a registration card at a sales office, because that card is tied to a specific community and a specific builder. What that means for your own representation is covered in new home communities in Palm Beach Gardens.
Common Questions
Is Vintage Oaks part of Avenir?
No. Vintage Oaks is a separate gated D.R. Horton townhome community on Northlake Boulevard, near Avenir but not inside it. It has its own entrance, its own HOA and its own amenities.
What is Avenir?
A large master-planned development in western Palm Beach Gardens. It is not a builder. It contains several separate communities, each built by a different builder, each with its own name, price range and rules.
Who builds homes in Avenir?
Toll Brothers and DiVosta both have communities inside Avenir. Toll Brothers' Regency at Avenir is 55+; DiVosta's Avondale at Avenir has no age restriction. Confirm directly with each builder before planning around it.
Can Vintage Oaks residents use Avenir's amenities?
No. Amenities belong to the community that owns them. Vintage Oaks residents use Vintage Oaks amenities. Buying near a large amenity centre does not give you access to it.
Is Avenir cheaper than Vintage Oaks?
No. Vintage Oaks townhomes have recently started in the low \$660,000s. The communities inside Avenir are single-family homes starting from from the mid \$660,000s to the mid \$950,000s depending on the collection. Call 561-704-0091 for current numbers on any of them.
Is there an age limit at Vintage Oaks?
No. Vintage Oaks has no age restriction. Regency at Avenir, which is a different community inside Avenir, is 55+.
Not sure which community you have actually been looking at? Call 561-704-0091 or book at nationalhousesearch.com/schedule and we will sort it out in five minutes.