Cypress Head:
Acre-Plus Estate Lots Around a 65-Acre Lake.

Cypress Head was developed in phases through the 1990s and early 2000s as an estate-lot alternative to the denser pre-2000 Parkland subdivisions. Most homes were built one at a time on individual lots — meaning floor plans vary significantly from street to street, elevations are mixed (Mediterranean, Colonial, transitional ranch), and a meaningful share of the inventory is semi-custom or fully custom. You'll see four-car garages, detached guesthouses, sport courts, and full pool-and-spa setups that simply don't fit on a quarter-acre Parkland Isles lot.

Acre-plus lots also mean meaningful setbacks from neighbors, room to add or expand inside the existing footprint, and the kind of mature cypress, oak, and ficus stands that make new-construction streets in 33076 look like clear-cut parking lots by comparison. The tradeoff: more roof, more pool deck, more driveway, more landscape — your maintenance budget here is closer to a small estate than a tract home.

The Setting: A 65-Acre Lake, a Real Gatehouse, and Real Privacy

The community is organized around a 65-acre interior lake — large enough that homes on the back side of one cul-de-sac can't see the homes on the back side of another. Streets are wide, looped rather than gridded, and most dead-end into either the lake or the preserve edge, so through-traffic effectively doesn't exist. The 24-hour gatehouse on the main entrance is staffed by a live guard, not a keypad and a camera; visitors are logged in and out, and contractors get checked.

The community sits in the older 33067 side of Parkland, putting it close to Pine Trails Park, the Parkland Equestrian Center, and the older oak-shaded stretches of the city — a different feel than the planned-from-scratch newer builds in 33076. If you want a gated address that doesn't look like a development brochure, this is one of three or four places in Parkland that delivers it.

Cypress Head Market Report: The Estate-Tier Numbers as of April 2026

Cypress Head trades on a different curve than the rest of Parkland. Inventory is thin — usually fewer than ten active listings at a time across the whole community — so individual sales swing the median significantly. Estimated median sold over the trailing twelve months sits around $1150K with a list-to-sale of roughly 96.4%. Days on market run a touch longer than the new-construction tier (38 median) — buyers in this tier underwrite more carefully, and sellers tend to hold out for the right offer rather than chase the market down.

Schools: The Same A-Rated Parkland Feeder

Cypress Head feeds the same A-rated public school path as the seven-figure-plus newer communities in 33076. Elementary zoning depends on the specific street — Riverglades and Park Trails are the two most common — but the middle and high school feeder is uniform: Westglades Middle, then Marjory Stoneman Douglas High. No compromise on schools to get the acre lot.

Verify current zoning with Broward County Public Schools before writing an offer — boundaries shift occasionally, and a street can matter.

Location: South Parkland Off Holmberg Road

Cypress Head sits in south Parkland off Holmberg Road, near the Coconut Creek border — close enough to the Sawgrass Expressway and University Drive corridor for an easy commute, far enough into the city that the noise stops at the gatehouse. The 33067 side of Parkland is the older, more wooded half — fewer master-planned subdivisions, more pockets of mature estate inventory like this one.

Cypress Head's south-Parkland position trades a couple of minutes against the 33076 newer-build communities (you're a touch farther from Boca) for faster access to the Sawgrass and the Coral Springs commercial strip. Most residents work from home or commute south on the Turnpike; a household in Cypress Head is rarely a household commuting north into Boca.

Why Buy in Cypress Head?

• ◆~450-home community on 1- to 1.5-acre lots wrapped around a 65-acre interior lake
• ◆24-hour staffed gatehouse — live guard, not a keypad — with a secondary access gate
• ◆Built ~1990s–2000s as a phased custom and semi-custom community — most floor plans are unique to the lot
• ◆Acre-plus lots fit a pool, tennis court, sport court, summer kitchen, and circular drive without the lot lines fighting back
• ◆Three decades of cypress and oak canopy — privacy and shade that new-construction streets can't fake for fifteen more years
• ◆Riverglades / Park Trails Elementary, Westglades Middle, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High — same A-rated feeder pattern as every flagship Parkland community
• ◆Median sold ~$1150K with 96.4% list-to-sale and ~86% owner-occupancy — low turnover, stable neighbors
• ◆No state income tax — a household earning $300K saves roughly $15K–$25K per year vs. NJ/NY/CA
• ◆Parkland is consistently ranked among the safest cities in Florida
• ◆One of only a handful of Parkland communities offering a 24-hour guard plus acre-plus lots — a vanishingly rare combination at this price tier

The Honest Summary

Cypress Head is the Parkland buy for someone who wants land — actual land, not the marketing-brochure quarter-acre — plus a 24-hour gate and the same A-rated schools as every other flagship neighborhood in the city. The houses are mostly late-1990s through mid-2000s, so finishes vary widely; the smart move is to underwrite the cost of a roof, a kitchen, and the acre's worth of landscape upkeep before you anchor on the list price.

Beth and Griff have walked these streets, know which homes have already had the big-ticket items handled, which lakefront lots get the afternoon sun on the pool deck, and which custom builders did the original work that has actually held up. At this lot size and this build vintage, the difference between the right house and the wrong house is six figures of carry — and none of it shows up in the listing remarks.