Latitude Margaritaville Daytona Beach

Latitude Margaritaville Daytona Beach is a Jimmy Buffett/Margaritaville-branded, 55-plus active-adult community built by Minto Communities under license from Margaritaville Holdings, sited on LPGA Boulevard in Daytona Beach. The community sold out at its full planned build-out of 3,763 homes, ranging from roughly 1,200 to more than 2,500 square feet, and was named "Best 55+ Community of the Year" by the National Association of Home Builders, a genuine national industry recognition this page states plainly as a documented award rather than developer marketing language. Its defining amenity, distinguishing it from most other Florida 55-plus communities covered on this site, is a private beach club with dedicated shuttle service giving residents organized access to the Atlantic beach without needing a public beach-access parking spot or a long walk from a public lot; the community also offers two swimming pools, a performance theater and entertainment venue reflecting the Margaritaville brand’s music and entertainment identity, pickleball courts, and a dog park. A genuine, worth-stating point of potential buyer confusion: Latitude Margaritaville sits on the same LPGA Boulevard corridor as LPGA International, a separate, well-established 36-hole golf community (Arthur Hills-designed Champions course and Rees Jones-designed Legends course, home of the LPGA since 1994) documented on this site’s own Daytona Beach page — but LPGA International itself is not age-restricted, despite its geographic proximity to a Margaritaville-branded community that is. A buyer specifically wanting golf as a daily amenity should understand that Latitude Margaritaville itself does not include a golf course within its own gates; golf-oriented residents there typically access LPGA International or other area courses as a separate, non-bundled amenity rather than a component of their HOA dues. Governance runs through a standard flat monthly HOA fee (roughly $300-$450 depending on home collection, per this site’s own Daytona Beach research) plus a separate Community Development District assessment collected through the property tax bill, a two-tier cost structure buyers should budget for distinctly rather than assuming a single number covers both. Since the community is now fully sold out, prospective buyers access it exclusively through the resale market; original build-out pricing ($300,000-$800,000) should be treated as historical rather than a reliable guide to current resale values, and a buyer should work with a local agent for current listings. Healthcare and airport access for Latitude Margaritaville residents follow the broader Daytona Beach pattern documented on this site’s own Daytona Beach page: Halifax Health Medical Center’s Level II trauma center and AdventHealth Daytona Beach’s separate acute-care campus roughly 3.8 miles apart, plus direct commercial-airport access via Daytona Beach International Airport within city limits. Latitude Margaritaville’s brand-driven identity is itself worth understanding as a genuine differentiator rather than marketing gloss: the Margaritaville hospitality brand’s "island escape" theming extends beyond surface-level branding into the community’s actual programming, with regularly scheduled live music, a tiki-bar-style social scene, and an overall lifestyle marketing pitch aimed specifically at retirees who want a resort-adjacent, laid-back daily atmosphere rather than a traditional golf-and-country-club identity. This positions the community somewhat differently from a conventional Del Webb- or Toll Brothers-branded 55-plus development, and buyers should weigh whether that specific brand identity and social atmosphere is a genuine draw or simply neutral before choosing it over a differently themed alternative elsewhere on the First Coast or Central Florida’s Gulf and Atlantic coastlines. Minto Communities has developed multiple Margaritaville-branded 55-plus communities across Florida under the same licensing arrangement, and this Daytona Beach community was among the earlier entries in that broader Margaritaville lifestyle-community concept, giving it a genuine track record and an established resident base rather than an untested, first-of-its-kind development; the National Association of Home Builders recognition it received reflects that maturity and execution rather than a speculative, still-unproven concept. Because the community is now fully built out and sold out, buyers evaluating it should also expect a settled, largely stable resident population and social culture rather than the ongoing construction noise and phased-amenity rollout typical of a still-selling new-construction 55-plus community elsewhere on this site.

Age Restriction

Latitude Margaritaville Daytona Beach is a confirmed 55-plus, age-restricted active-adult community built and branded by Minto Communities under license from Margaritaville Holdings, Jimmy Buffett’s hospitality company. It sits on LPGA Boulevard, the same corridor as the separate, non-age-restricted LPGA International golf community documented on this site’s Daytona Beach page; buyers should keep the two developments clearly distinct, since only Latitude Margaritaville carries the 55-plus age restriction.

Housing Types

• Single-family homes
• Attached villas

Pricing

Latitude Margaritaville Daytona Beach sold out at its planned 3,763 homes, ranging from roughly 1,200 to more than 2,500 square feet, originally priced $300,000-$800,000 at build-out per this site’s own Daytona Beach research; since the community is fully sold out, current buyers access it exclusively through the resale market rather than new construction directly from the developer, and resale pricing should be confirmed directly with a local agent rather than assumed from original build-out figures, which likely understate current resale values given broader Florida price appreciation since the community’s initial sales period. Home styles at build-out spanned single-family and attached villa product across multiple named home collections, giving buyers a genuine range of floor plans and price points within a single, unified Margaritaville-branded aesthetic rather than a single standardized model.

Fees & Assessments

HOA Dues: HOA fees at Latitude Margaritaville Daytona Beach were reported at roughly $300-$450 per month depending on home collection, per this site’s own Daytona Beach research, alongside one-time fees including a $100 community foundation fee (matched by Minto), a $35 transfer fee, and a $2,070 "Working Fund Contribution" due at closing. Buyers should confirm current fee figures directly, since a fully sold-out, established community like this one may see association dues adjust over time as reserve requirements and operating costs evolve.

CDD Assessment: Latitude Margaritaville Daytona Beach sits within a Community Development District, with CDD assessments layered on top of the flat monthly HOA dues and collected separately through the Volusia County property tax bill rather than folded into the HOA payment; buyers should request the specific CDD bond balance and remaining repayment term for any individual address before purchasing.

Amenities

• A private beach club with dedicated shuttle service to the Atlantic beach
• Two swimming pools
• A performance theater/entertainment venue reflecting the Margaritaville brand’s music and entertainment identity
• Pickleball courts
• A dog park
• A fitness center
• Resident-organized clubs and social programming typical of a large, established Margaritaville-branded community
• Named "Best 55+ Community of the Year" by the National Association of Home Builders

Getting Around

Healthcare: Daytona Beach is served by two genuinely separate hospital systems roughly 3.8 miles apart, per this site’s own Daytona Beach research: Halifax Health Medical Center of Daytona Beach, a public hospital holding the area’s only Level II trauma-center designation, and AdventHealth Daytona Beach, a private faith-based hospital without trauma designation. This research did not independently confirm Latitude Margaritaville’s specific drive time to either facility from its LPGA Boulevard location.

Airport: Daytona Beach International Airport (DAB) sits directly within Daytona Beach city limits, per this site’s own Daytona Beach research, giving Latitude Margaritaville residents direct commercial-airport access without the longer drive some other Florida 55-plus communities require to reach a comparable airport.