Waters Edge:
Forty-Four Homes. One 25-Acre Lake. The Smallest Door into 33076.

Waters Edge homes are 2000s-era single-family builds — barrel-tile roofs, stucco exteriors, screened pool enclosures, two-car garages. The lots here are sized for a private backyard rather than a half-acre estate, but what they lack in raw acreage they make up for in lake exposure: the community is laid out so the majority of homes have a direct or partial water view from the rear of the house. Expect 3- to 5-bedroom layouts, most concentrated in the 2,400–3,400 square foot range.

Because the community is only 44 homes deep, individual house characteristics matter more than they do in a 600-home master-planned community. There is no “model A” flooded inventory effect. Every listing is its own micro-market within the loop, and the lot position — direct lakefront vs. across-the-street vs. interior — is the variable that drives most of the spread between the floor and ceiling of the price band.

The Setting: One Loop, One Lake, Forty-Four Front Doors

Waters Edge is laid out as a single loop road threaded around the community's 25-acre lake. There is no maze of cul-de-sacs, no multi-phase build-out spread over different decades, no mismatched architecture from sub-developer to sub-developer. The result is a neighborhood where you actually know your neighbors' cars by sight, and where a morning walk around the loop is a 15-minute commitment rather than a half-day expedition.

The HOA handles the common landscaping along the loop and the lake perimeter, which keeps the visual consistency of the community high. The gate is keypad access — functional, low-overhead, and consistent with the small-community ethic of the place. There is no clubhouse, no on-site pool, and no fitness center. The smallness is the point.

Waters Edge Market Report: The 33076 Numbers as of April 2026

Zip 33076 is holding as a seller's market — about 5.29 months of inventory, list-to-sale at 96.8%, and median days on market at 35. With only 44 homes in Waters Edge, on-the-market activity is thin: expect two to four resales in a typical year, occasionally fewer. The thin supply means listings here move quickly when priced correctly, and a mispriced home can sit visibly because there isn't a flood of comparable inventory to absorb the noise.

Schools: The 33076 A-Rated Feeder, Same as the Resort Communities

Waters Edge falls inside the same Broward County public school pipeline as Watercrest, Parkland Bay, and Cascata — Heron Heights or Park Trails Elementary, Westglades Middle, and Marjory Stoneman Douglas High. The zip is the zip, regardless of whether you're in a 44-home community or a 596-home community. Verify the specific elementary assignment with Broward County Public Schools before relying on it; boundaries can split at unexpected points in north Parkland.

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

Location: 33076, Close to the Things That Made Parkland the Address

Waters Edge sits inside Parkland's eastern 33076 zip — close to the University Drive commercial corridor, the Sawgrass Expressway ramps, and Pine Trails Park. The community's small footprint means low ambient traffic into and out of the loop, which is part of the appeal. Daily logistics — grocery, schools, parks, expressway access — all sit within a five-to-fifteen-minute radius of the gate.

Average commute out of the 33076 zip runs about 33 minutes — consistent with the broader Parkland baseline. Waters Edge's position in the eastern half of the zip puts the expressway closer than the western Parkland communities, which trims a couple of minutes off the daily run.

Why Buy in Waters Edge?

• ◆Small-by-design 44-homesite footprint — neighborhood-scale community feel rather than master-plan scale
• ◆25-acre community lake at the center — most homes have direct or partial water exposure from the rear
• ◆Gated entry with keypad access — controlled entry without the staffed-gatehouse HOA premium
• ◆2000s-era single-family construction — barrel-tile roofs, screened pools, two-car garages, established landscaping
• ◆33076 zip — same A-rated Broward feeder as Watercrest, Parkland Bay, and Cascata
• ◆84% owner-occupancy zip — long-tenured ownership base, stable resale dynamics
• ◆Entry tier from $700K — one of the few doors into 33076 that opens below the resort-community floor
• ◆No state income tax — a household earning $300K saves $15K–$25K per year vs. NJ/NY/CA
• ◆Five to ten minutes to Pine Trails Park, the Sawgrass Expressway, and the University Drive corridor
• ◆Parkland is consistently ranked one of the safest cities in Florida

The Honest Summary

Waters Edge is for the buyer who wants the 33076 zip and the Parkland schools without paying the resort-community premium. The community is small on purpose — forty-four homesites, one lake, one loop road, one gate. There is no clubhouse, no waterpark, no 27-hole golf course, and the price reflects the absence of those things rather than their presence. What you get is the lake, the schools, the zip, and a community small enough that you actually know who lives in it.

Beth and Griff can walk you through which of the 44 lots have the best lake exposure and which ones face the loop, what to expect on inspection for 2000s-era South Florida construction, and the rhythm of how the thin Waters Edge resale market actually works in practice. That context is hard to get from listing photos alone.