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Delray Trails

Delray Trails is a new-construction, 55-and-better, gated Lennar community on the former Villa Delray Golf Club site in Delray Beach, anchored by a roughly 28,000-square-foot Grand Clubhouse and 13 tennis courts, with Villas priced from $437,990.

Located in Delray Beach, part of the The Palm Beaches region.

  • 55+ Age-Restricted
  • Gated

Delray Trails is an age-restricted, 55-and-better, gated masterplan community built by Lennar on the former Villa Delray Golf Club site in Delray Beach, Palm Beach County. The 120-acre site was originally acquired by 13th Floor Homes and converted from its prior life as a golf club into this new active-adult community, with Lennar serving as the homebuilder for the new construction. Delray Trails sits adjacent to and shares a boundary with the separate, older "Palm Greens at Villa Delray" association framework, which includes Palm Greens Condo 1, Palm Greens Condo 2, and the Palm Greens Recreation Association — these are distinct legal entities and communities from Lennar’s new-construction Delray Trails, despite the physical adjacency and shared historical site name, and content or fee figures for one should never be presented as applying to the other. Delray Trails launched in June 2025 and offers two home collections. The Villas collection consists of duplex, attached homes across 3 models — Orchid, Hibiscus, and Larkspur — each spanning 1,305 to 1,308 square feet with 2 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms, priced from $437,990. The Woods collection consists of single-family homes at a higher price tier than the Villas, though specific current Woods pricing could not be confirmed in this research. A total planned or built-out home count for the community also could not be verified with confidence: one source describes the community as already in "final phase, final homes selling now," a characterization that appears inconsistent with the reported June 2025 launch date for what would need to be a fairly substantial community to reach a final phase so quickly. This inconsistency should be verified directly against Lennar’s official Delray Trails community page before being treated as settled fact in any published content. The community’s centerpiece is a roughly 28,115-square-foot Grand Clubhouse, featuring a resort-style pool with beach entry, a separate lap pool, a spa, a fitness center, and a yoga studio, alongside dedicated arts and crafts space. Racquet-sport infrastructure is substantial, with 13 tennis courts confirmed across multiple sources; additional amenities reported by one source, including 4 pickleball courts, 2 bocce courts, and 10 shuffleboard courts, should be double-checked against Lennar’s own current amenity page before being presented as fully confirmed. An HOA fee figure of $371 to $411 per month was located in this research, but it was sourced from a page specifically titled for the "Palm Greens Recreation Association" rather than clearly and unambiguously identified as applying to Lennar’s new-construction Delray Trails. Given the genuine adjacency and shared-association structure between Delray Trails and the older Palm Greens/Delray Trails condo association described above, this figure should not be published as Lennar’s Delray Trails HOA fee without first confirming directly which specific entity it actually belongs to — publishing it without that confirmation risks materially misleading prospective buyers about their true carrying costs. Specific Community Development District information was similarly not independently confirmed and should be verified directly with Palm Beach County or the HOA. For healthcare access, Delray Medical Center is confirmed to exist at 5352 Linton Boulevard in Delray Beach, though no source gave a specific mile or minute distance from Delray Trails itself; this should be verified via a direct mapping check once the community’s exact entrance address is confirmed. For air travel, Palm Beach International Airport is reported at roughly 19 to 23 miles, about a 22-minute drive, from Delray Beach generally — a citywide figure rather than one calculated specifically from Delray Trails’ own address, though it offers a reasonable approximation given the community’s location within the city. Delray Trails’ site history as a former golf club, now redeveloped into a new-construction, age-restricted community, is genuinely representative of a broader trend across South Florida, where aging golf properties are increasingly being converted into residential development as course maintenance costs and shrinking membership bases make continued golf operation less viable for many private clubs. For buyers, this redevelopment history is generally a positive: it typically means mature, established tree canopy and established road infrastructure inherited from the former golf course layout, combined with entirely new home construction and modern amenities like the Grand Clubhouse’s resort-style pool and fitness center. Delray Beach’s broader reputation as a walkable, downtown-oriented coastal city, combined with Delray Trails’ genuine proximity to Delray Medical Center and Palm Beach International Airport, positions the community as a strong option for buyers who want new-construction active-adult living within a well-established, amenity-rich Palm Beach County city rather than in a more remote or still-developing suburb.

Age Restriction

Delray Trails is an age-restricted, 55-and-better, gated masterplan community built by Lennar on the former Villa Delray Golf Club site in Delray Beach, Palm Beach County. The 120-acre site was originally acquired by 13th Floor Homes, with Lennar serving as the homebuilder. Delray Trails sits adjacent to and shares a boundary with the separate, older "Palm Greens at Villa Delray" association framework (including Palm Greens Condo 1, Palm Greens Condo 2, and the Palm Greens Recreation Association), which are distinct legal entities from Lennar’s new-construction Delray Trails; content and fee figures should not be conflated between the two.

Housing Types

  • The Villas (duplex/attached homes)
  • The Woods (single-family homes)

Pricing

Delray Trails launched in June 2025 and offers two home collections: The Villas, duplex/attached homes across 3 models (Orchid, Hibiscus, and Larkspur), 1,305-1,308 square feet, 2 bed/2 bath, priced from $437,990; and The Woods, single-family homes at a higher price tier than the Villas, though specific current Woods pricing was not confirmed in this research. A total planned or built-out home count for the community could not be verified; one source describes the community as already in "final phase, final homes selling now," which appears inconsistent with the reported June 2025 launch date for a community of any substantial size, and should be verified directly against Lennar’s official Delray Trails page before being treated as settled.

Fees & Assessments

HOA Dues: An HOA fee figure of $371 to $411 per month was found, but it was sourced from a page specifically titled for the "Palm Greens Recreation Association" rather than clearly identified as applying to Lennar’s new-construction Delray Trails; given the adjacency and shared-association structure with the older Palm Greens/Delray Trails condo association described above, this figure should not be published as Lennar’s Delray Trails HOA fee without direct confirmation of which entity it actually belongs to.

CDD Assessment: Specific Community Development District information for Delray Trails was not independently confirmed in this research; buyers should verify directly with Palm Beach County or the HOA.

Amenities

  • A roughly 28,115-square-foot Grand Clubhouse with a resort-style pool (beach entry), lap pool, spa, fitness center, and yoga studio
  • Arts and crafts space
  • 13 tennis courts
  • 4 pickleball courts (reported by one source; recommend confirming against Lennar’s official amenity page)
  • 2 bocce courts and 10 shuffleboard courts (reported by one source; recommend confirming)

Getting Around

Healthcare: Delray Medical Center is confirmed to exist at 5352 Linton Boulevard, Delray Beach, but no source gave a specific mile or minute distance from Delray Trails itself; this should be verified via a mapping check once the community’s exact entrance address is confirmed.

Airport: Palm Beach International Airport is reported at roughly 19-23 miles / about 22 minutes from Delray Beach generally; this is a Delray Beach-wide figure rather than one calculated specifically from Delray Trails’ address.

Similar Communities to Consider

  • Aberdeen

    Aberdeen is a large, mostly age-restricted, gated golf community in unincorporated Boynton Beach built out by developer UDC between 1983 and 1990, combining 25 separate residential villages — some under mandatory country-club membership, some not — around the private Aberdeen Golf & Country Club.

  • Kings Point in Delray Beach

    Kings Point in Delray Beach is a large, age-restricted 55-plus gated condominium community of 7,200 units built between 1973 and 1985, organized into three sections (Brittany, Flanders, and Monaco) and anchored by two Robert Trent Jones-designed golf courses.

  • Valencia Falls

    Valencia Falls is a 724-home, 55-plus gated GL Homes community in West Delray, built 2001-2004 and now resale-only, with a full amenity center including tennis, pickleball, and an on-site restaurant.

  • Valencia Palms

    Valencia Palms is a roughly 600-home, 55-plus gated GL Homes community on Jog Road in West Delray, built 2005-2007, anchored by a resort-style clubhouse with six Har-Tru tennis courts and stocked fishing lakes.

  • Valencia Grand

    Valencia Grand is GL Homes’ 11th and most expensive Boynton Beach Valencia community, a roughly 660-to-710-home, 55-plus gated development priced from $1.1 million, anchored by a 44,000-square-foot clubhouse with an indoor pickleball court.

  • Century Village at Boca Raton

    Century Village at Boca Raton is one of four separately governed Century Village communities across Florida, a large, fully built-out 55-plus condominium community of 7,500 units across 105 buildings on 700 acres in western Boca Raton, built between 1970 and 1995 and organized as 16 separate neighborhood associations.

How Delray Beach Compares

  • Lake Worth Beach vs Delray Beach for Retirement: Costs, Housing & Lifestyle Compared

    Lake Worth Beach and Delray Beach are neighboring Palm Beach County beach cities with genuinely walkable historic downtowns, but they sit at very different points on price, demographics, and retirement-community depth. Lake Worth Beach is the more affordable, younger-skewing, and more demographically diverse of the two, roughly 43,365 residents with a median age of 36.6 and a majority-Hispanic population, anchored by a 46-building Historic Old Town Commercial District and the rebuilt William O. Lockhart Municipal Pier. Delray Beach is a larger, more established city of roughly 69,809 with a median age of 51.3, home to the nationally recognized Atlantic Avenue ("Most Fun Small Town in America" in 2012), the area’s confirmed Level I trauma center at Delray Medical Center, and an unusually deep bench of age-restricted 55-plus communities including Kings Point and Gleneagles Country Club. Choosing between them largely comes down to whether a retiree wants Lake Worth Beach’s comparative affordability and diverse, mixed-generation energy, or Delray Beach’s deeper retirement-community infrastructure and confirmed trauma-center access. Both cities also illustrate the same broader Palm Beach County pattern of genuinely walkable historic downtowns built around a single defining commercial corridor, each with real coastal flood exposure and comparable property tax and homestead rules. The core difference is really about maturity and scale: Delray Beach has spent decades building out a formal retirement-community infrastructure and secured a Level I trauma center, while Lake Worth Beach remains a more actively redeveloping, historically affordable, younger-skewing city without a dedicated large-scale 55-plus community or an in-city hospital of its own.

  • Boca Raton vs Delray Beach for Retirement: Country-Club Sprawl vs Walkable Main Street Compared

    Boca Raton and Delray Beach sit directly adjacent to one another in South Palm Beach County, sharing a genuinely upscale identity but delivering it through very different physical layouts. Boca Raton splits into a compact, cultured East Boca core around Mizner Park and a far larger, more suburban West Boca dominated by an unusually dense concentration of gated golf and country-club communities, including Broken Sound, Boca West, and the age-restricted Century Village. Delray Beach, by contrast, concentrates its identity around Atlantic Avenue, a genuinely walkable Main Street corridor once named "Most Fun Small Town in America," backed by an unusually deep bench of established 55-plus communities like Kings Point and Gleneagles. Healthcare draws a real, meaningful distinction: Delray Medical Center holds the area’s confirmed Level I trauma-center designation, a role Boca Raton Regional Hospital does not hold, meaning Boca Raton residents needing that level of emergency care rely on the hospital in neighboring Delray Beach. Both cities carry genuinely high costs relative to inland Florida, but Boca Raton runs meaningfully higher on average, reflecting its larger scale, deeper luxury retail base, and broader inventory of exclusive country-club real estate. The practical choice tends to come down to whether a buyer wants Boca Raton’s scale, cultural depth, and country-club variety, or Delray Beach’s more compact, walkable Main Street identity and its confirmed local trauma center.

Guides Worth Reading Before You Buy

  • Is 55+ Community Living Actually Right for You?

    A lifestyle-fit guide, not a fee guide — this covers whether age-restricted living actually matches how a specific retiree wants to spend their days, how to genuinely test that fit before buying, and the real tradeoffs of choosing age segregation over an age-mixed neighborhood.

  • HOA Fees and Governance in Florida

    A statewide explainer on how Florida homeowners associations and condominium associations are legally structured, funded, and regulated, and what buyers are entitled to review before closing.

  • Community Development District (CDD) Fees in Florida

    A Community Development District (CDD) is a Florida unit of local government, created under Chapter 190, financing a development’s roads, utilities, and amenities through bond and O&M assessments billed with property taxes.

Sources

Last reviewed 2026-09-29.

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