Sarasota has many world-class golf courses, prestigious golf clubs, and exclusive golf communities with beautiful homes and properties for sale.  Today, we want to introduce you to real estate at The Founders Club, an exclusive golf community with only 262 home sites across 700 lush acres.

The Founders Club offers both social and elegant atmosphere, along with a par 72 18-hole golf course set against the backdrop of nature. Homes for sale include move-in-ready single family homes as well as a choice of new home styles (Golf Cottages, Fairway Homes, and Estate Homes) with home prices of $350,000 and up.  Real estate amenities include:

• The Founders Golf and Social Club provides the privilege of year-round golf with no tee times required
• Golf Hall (over 24,000 s/f) includes a fine dining room, private dining room, and bar and grille
• Swimming pool and fitness facility
• Har-Tru courts for a friendly game of tennis
• Outdoor sports area with basketball, sand volleyball and picnic pavilion
• Golf Shop with fully equipped men's and women's locker facilities and lounge areas
• In-season reciprocal partnership with Sarasota Yacht Club

Contact us for a list of homes for sale or real estate tour of The Founder's Club. Since we don't accept listings ourselves, we are able to show you any and every available property for salewithout any pressure to you or conflict of interest from sellers.  As Exclusive Buyer Agents for Sarasota real estate, we've helped home buyers and real estate investors around the world discover and purchase the very best homes for sale, waterfront properties, beach houses, maintenance-free condos, properties in prestigious gated communities, and more luxury real estate in Sarasota, Siesta Key, Lido Key, Bird Key, Casey Key, Longboat Key, Palmer Ranch, Lakewood Ranch, Osprey, Nokomis, Venice Island, and the surrounding areas on Florida's Gulf Coast.

The Astonishing Founders Club Model Tour Continues.  Now open daily from 10am to 5pm, the luxurious models at Founders Club are available for viewing and purchase.

First stop is the Laurel Cottage with 3 bedrooms, 3 baths, study, great room, cafe area, dining room and outdoor living with 2,505 square feet of living area. On our visit we were greeted by the affable Kathy White, who graciously answered our questions and let us tour the model freely. The furnished model is available for $1,095,000.  The Cottage Collection at Founders Club is a series of maintenance free single family homes on a section of home sites near the Founders Golf Club.  Lot prices start at $150,000 and home prices begin at $399,000.  All of the home sites have stunning golf course and/or preserve views.

Next on the tour is the Isabella with 3 bedrooms, 3 baths, study, great room, cafe area, dining room and outdoor area with 2,879 square feet of living area.  The furnished model is available for $1,123,500.  The base price of the Isabella model is $587,000 and is one of several models in the Reserve Collection.  Kathy Weghorst was staffing the model on our visit, her sunny and pleasant disposition added to our tour.

The third and final model is the Traviata with 4 bedrooms, 4.5 baths, study, great room, cafe area, dining room and outdoor living with 4,040 square feet of living area.  Jack Garin met us at the Traviata and was very professional.  The furnished model is available for $1,619,000.  The base price of the Traviata model is $676,500.  The Traviata is another available floor plan in the Reserve Collection.  Home sites for the Reserve Collection begin at $129,000 and go up to $598,000.

The remaining 86 home sites in the Founders Club are currently owned by London Bay Homes who are also managing the sales and marketing for Founders Club.  London Bay Homes has been building in Southwest Florida for more than 20 years and is also currently building at The Lake Club in Lakewood Ranch. 

London Bay Homes is known for their ability to work closely with their clients, masterful design expertise, outstanding construction and dependable warranty service.  No wonder 90% of their clients refer their friends.  London Bay Homes is also the proud recipient of the 2008 America's Best Builder award.

For more information on London Bay Homes at Founders Club, or a personal tour please contact me.  Just one more reason to live and play in Florida's best little city, Sarasota!

The Founders Club - One Of Sarasota'a Finest Private Golf Club Communities!  The Founders Club is a handsome country club community just minutes from downtown Sarasota on Fruitville Road, a short distance east of I-75.  The Founders Club is private and gated, but there is a Sales Center just outside the gates where you will be pleasantly greeted and be able to get an overview of the community and a preview of the homes available for sale.

Founders Club is comprised of 700 acres of beautiful landscape with many majestic oaks, a private Robert Trent Jones, Jr. golf course and a plethora of small lakes.  There are 262 home sites with many homes already built, but many more to choose from for your own custom home.  Every home site backs onto either the golf course, water, natural landscape or a combination of all three!  No homes back onto other homes in this masterfully designed community.

For golf lovers, the Founders Club Golf Club is an equity club that offers a Signature Equity Golf Membership as well as an Equity Social Membership.  There is also an upgrade to the social membership that offers limited rounds of golf.  Details are available at the club itself.  Homeowners of Founders Club are not required to be members of the club.  At the same time, you do not have to own a home at Founders Club to be a club member.

Homes at Founders Club range from the $500's to over a million.  There are several new homes already available as well as resales and  a substantial availability of home sites to build a custom home on.  For more information on the beautiful homes or home sites at Founders Club, or a personal tour please contact me at keith@keithkropp.com

The Founders Club in Sarasota is an exclusive private golf course country club neighborhood just east of I-75 in Sarasota, Florida.  The Founders Club's location makes it convenient to downtown Sarasota, world class shopping at St. Armand's Circle, and the arts and entertainments of the Sarasota area. 
The Founders Club in Sarasota was established as a private-member owned club with a limit of 275 golf memberships. 

 

The Founders Club golf and homes consists of a total of 700 acres of natural Florida landscaping with over 100 acres of lakes and natural wetlands.  After you enter through the gated and guarded entrance to the Founders Club you will notice that the homes are spread out giving you a country feel to the area.   The golf course has been designed by Robert Trent Jones, Jr. and is an 18 hole, 7,094 yard, par 72 course.

The course is challenging and picturesque with lakes and 150 year old oak tress through-out the course.  The course was designed so that golfers do not cross any of the residential streets within the Founders Club, and the stately homes along the course have been set back to give the course a very open feel. 

 





The Founders Club golf course is a little different than most traditional courses in that there are no tee times required, and The Founders Club has a traditional caddie program so that you can walk or ride and enjoy the natural beauty of this majestic golf course. 

The Founders Club has a prestigious clubhouse, Golf Hall, that is 24,000 sq. ft. in size.  This state of the art club house has a gracious main dining room, a formal dining room, and a club bar and grille with a fireplace.  The club house also has a state of the art fitness center, massage therapy treatment room, and fully equipped men's and ladies locker facilities.  

There are just 262 home and homesites available at The Founders Club in Sarasota.  You may choose from the selection of homes that are now available for sale by visiting The Founders Club or you can choose to have a custom home built on one of the golf course or natural preserve lots that are available. 


Currently prices are ranging from $750,000 for a 4 bedroom 3,400 sq. ft home

to

$3,650,000 for a 5 bedroom, 5 bathroom 6,367 stately home with a custom pool, second floor, media room, library, exercise room and much more.






The Founders Club is one of the many exclusive Golf Course Communities in Sarasota. 

Other exclusive clubs include Laurel Oak,    TPC Prestancia,    and    The Oaks Club.

To those who can already afford- and would want to move out of the fast lane, the best real estate options can be found at The Founders Club, a prime choice in the Sarasota real estate market. The Founders Club real estate development was inspired by the founding fathers of Sarasota led by John Hamilton Gillespie, one of the immigrants from Scotland who introduced the game of golf to the US in the 1880s. Eventually, he became Sarasota mayor in the early 1900s which certainly helped to entrench the sport in the country and for golf to later become a catalyzing adjunct to the real estate industry in our area.

Exclusivity and luxury are the main features of this golf enclave. Any lavish elegance, however, is tempered by the values and tradition so revered in the ancient and royal game. Sustainable development was likewise adopted in setting up golf complex, resulting in the preservation and enhancement of the property's 700-acre natural setting.

All together, there are 100 acres of lakes, woodlands, and wetlands at The Founders. Within this expanse is a magnificent 24,000-square-foot clubhouse dubbed as the Golf Hall that provides a rich source of club member privileges. It has splendid dining areas including a bar and grille. Also accessible to members are a modern fitness center, locker rooms and cozy lounges, in addition to courts for playing tennis, basketball, and volleyball. There are miles of paved pathways meandering within the lush environs of the complex for leisurely walks and meditation.

All but proper, a golf course of Scottish inspiration was built in The Founders. This 18-hole, par 72 layout is from the drawing boards of Robert Trent Jones, a course architect of worldwide renown. These links tour at 7,094 yards with a gently rolling terrain make more awe-inspiring by the natural preserves created within the golf enclave.

Homes in The Founders Club are of classic styles and designs that mirror the community's easy and laid-back lifestyle. Reflecting their upscale market positioning, sales-listed residences are spacious and sizes can range from 3,000 square feet to over 8,000 square feet. Posted prices can start at around the $750s. Vacant lots out of the 262 home sites in the community can be sales-listed too with prices ranging from $125,000 to more than $1 million.

The Founders Club homes for sale are studies in elegance that express individuality. The spirit of oneness, nonetheless, has been eloquently manifested in several awards of excellence that the community has received which likewise tell of the traditions and values that shaped this golf and residential development.

Alan Atchley is a real estate broker associate with his family run real estate business. His website features all the Sarasota homes for sale currently listed in the MLS.

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Founders Club Property Owners Brace for Foreclosure While Pondering Sarasota Florida Short Sale

Homeowners at Sarasota's prestigious Founders Club community are finding that they are not immune to the Foreclosure pressures impacting the rest of the Florida Gulf Coast region.

Lenders are increasingly realizing that a Short Sale is in their best interest vs. Foreclosure, and property owners throughout Sarasota County are benefiting from this fact.

The SaraMana preForeclosure & Short Sale Assistance Team has successfully helped numerous area homeowners to navigate the Short Sale process and Avoid Deficiency Judgments. To explore your situation and options you can call us directly at 941-822-5221, or you can ask a question, or request more information HERE.

Some of the centuries-old cherished traditions and values of golf will continue to live on, thanks to properties like The Founders Club in Sarasota, Florida. This Sarasota golf community more than deftly combines the advantages that a golf course can bring to a residential community. It was also developed to uphold the values purveyed by US pioneers of the game in the image of a mayor of Sarasota during the early 1900s, John H. Gillespie. A Scot who migrated to the US in the 1880s, Gillespie was among those who brought the game to Florida which eventually helped enrich the Sarasota real estate market with communities benefiting from the splendid environment that golf courses can create.

The Founders Club real estate development is a study in how golf links can help preserve the environment for a residential community. All told, this golf enclave has 100 acres of wetlands, lush woodlands, and lakes. This lush environment has ribbons of paved walkways for community residents to enjoy the natural splendor up close.

Blending in with this verdant setting is an endearing, 24,000-square-foot clubhouse nicknamed as Golf Hall where club members can relish the time-honored tradition of camaraderie, friendship, and family. Its luxurious offerings include elegant facilities for dining in addition to a bar and grille. More active pursuits can be enjoyed at the club’s fitness center which boasts of the latest in exercise equipment. Courts for basketball, tennis, and volleyball, as well as a recreation center and picnic pavilion, further provide member privileges.

The charm and inspiration that golf brings to The Founders Club’ enclave manifest quite aptly in a Scottish-style layout designed by Robert Trent Jones, a course architect of international caliber. This 18-hole, par 72 golf course was opened in 2005 and tours at 7,094 yards from its farthest tee markers. Its has gentle fairways that wind through impressive pines, palms, and oaks that urge a leisurely pace for golfers to best enjoy the scenic grounds. An unhurried tempo is further enhanced by the no-tee-time policy of the club and by a continuous play enabled by the absence of intersection roads within the layout.  
 
The 700-acre property was developed to accommodate only 262 homes in The Founders’ residential community. A listing of The Founders club homes for sale will show spacious residences with classic architectural designs. The floor areas of sales-listed houses can be from 3,000 square feet to over 8,000 square feet. Asking prices can start from the $750s, a level expected in this premium community whose perennial awards in home excellence too has become a tradition at The Founders Club. If you are looking for some of the best Sarasota Florida real estate available, you certainly will find there.