Deal of the Week: 3,952 Square Feet for $505,000 — How One Clermont Listing Beat 270 Others

Every week I pull the full MLS single-line export for Clermont and go looking for the one listing that is priced differently than everything around it. Not the cheapest house — the cheapest value. There is a difference, and most buyers never get to see it, because a portal shows you homes one at a time and never shows you the field.

This week the field was 271 active single-family homes and townhomes in Clermont priced between $400,000 and $600,000, across 34711 and 34714. I ranked all 271 by asking price per heated square foot. The median came in at $221.85 a foot.

One listing came in at $127.78.

The Deal of the Week

3312 White Blossom Lane, Clermont, FL 34711 — Magnolia Park
MLS# O6413059 · $505,000 · 3,952 heated square feet · 6 bedrooms, 4 full baths, 1 half bath · built 2004 · Fee Simple · $127.78 per square foot · 75 days on market · annual taxes $8,203

That is the lowest price per square foot of any of the 271 active listings in the range. Not in the top ten. Number one.

Why this is the deal — three checks, not one

Anybody can find the lowest number in a spreadsheet and call it a deal. That is not analysis, that is sorting. So I ran this listing through three separate tests, and I want to show you the one that almost disqualified it.

Check 1: Against the whole market

At $127.78 a foot against a market median of $221.85, this home is asking 42% less per square foot than the typical active Clermont listing in its price band. That is the headline number. It is also the weakest of the three, and here is why.

Check 2: Against homes its own size (this is the honest one)

Big houses always price lower per square foot. Always. The land, the kitchen, the roof, the driveway — a lot of a home's cost does not scale with bedroom count, so the per-foot number naturally falls as square footage rises. Watch it happen in this week's own data:

• 1,400–1,800 sq ft — median $261.44/sq ft
• 1,800–2,200 sq ft — median $233.15/sq ft
• 2,200–2,600 sq ft — median $213.40/sq ft
• 2,600–3,000 sq ft — median $193.22/sq ft
• 3,000–3,500 sq ft — median $166.24/sq ft

So a chunk of that 42% discount is just physics, and any agent who quotes you the 42% without telling you that is selling you a number instead of a house.

The real test is against its own weight class. There are 11 active Clermont listings at 3,200 square feet or more in this price range. Their median is $163.93 a foot. The second-cheapest of the eleven is $145.56.

3312 White Blossom is still 22% under the median of its own cohort, and 12% under the next-cheapest big home in the entire city. The discount survives the adjustment. That is what makes it real.

Check 3: Against its own neighbor

This is the one that settles it. There is a second active listing in the same subdivision, Magnolia Park:

2960 White Magnolia Loop — 6 bedrooms, 3,072 heated square feet, built 2003, asking $535,000 — $174.15 per square foot.

Same neighborhood. Same bedroom count. Built one year earlier. 880 square feet smaller — and asking $30,000 more.

Two homes, one street apart, and the bigger one is the cheaper one by thirty thousand dollars. When two listings in the same subdivision disagree that violently about price, one of them is wrong. I have an opinion about which.

What the spread is worth

Here is what 3,952 square feet would be asking at each of the benchmarks above:

• At its neighbor's $174.15/sq ft — about $688,000
• At the big-home cohort median of $163.93/sq ft — about $648,000
• At the next-cheapest big home's $145.56/sq ft — about $575,000

The asking price is $505,000. Even the most conservative of those three benchmarks — comparing it to the single most aggressively priced large home in Clermont — lands $70,000 above where this one is listed.

Now the caveat, and I mean it: those are asking prices, not sold prices. This week's export is active inventory. Asking prices tell you what sellers hope for, not what buyers paid. A closed-sale analysis is a different document and I will run one for you on request. What this data proves is that this listing is priced unlike its competition. It does not prove what it will appraise for.

Who this house is actually for

Six bedrooms, four and a half baths, nearly four thousand square feet, under $510,000. In today's Clermont market that combination has one obvious buyer: the multigenerational family. Parents moving in. An adult kid who came home. A sibling. Two households that would rather buy one roof than two, and cannot find a floor plan that lets them do it without living on top of each other.

I am working with more of those families every month, and there is almost nothing built for them under $600,000. This is one of the few homes in the city with enough separated space to make it work.

Three things I do not like about it

If I only tell you the good part, I am an advertisement, not an advisor. So:

1. The tax bill is the highest of any big home in the set. $8,203 a year — roughly $684 a month before you pay a dime of principal, interest, or insurance. The other ten large homes on my list run $2,443 to $8,011. Underwrite this house with the real number, not a neighborhood average.

2. No private pool. In Clermont, at this size and price, a lot of buyers expect one. Adding one later is a five-figure project. Price that in now if it matters to you.

3. Seventy-five days on the market means something. In a market where the median Clermont listing in this range has been sitting 65 to 68 days, 75 is not alarming — but a home priced this far under its neighbors should have moved faster than average, not slower. Something is holding it back. It could be photography. It could be the tax line. It could be condition, layout, or a repair that shows up the second you walk in. I have not been inside this home. Neither has any other agent who posts about it online without saying so.

That is exactly why the next step is a showing and an inspection, not a wire transfer.

One more thing worth knowing

This listing is held by an institutional seller — a company that buys and resells homes, not a family with a moving truck booked. That changes the negotiation. There is no emotional attachment to a number, no "we raised our kids here." There is a carrying cost that grows every month and a decision made on a spreadsheet. In my experience that is a seller who responds to a clean, well-documented offer. It is also a seller who will not be talked into anything by charm.

What to do if this is your house

Deals like this get seen by everyone eventually. The advantage is not secrecy, it is speed and preparation. If you want to see 3312 White Blossom Lane:

1. Call or text me at 315-335-4622. I will schedule a private showing, usually same or next day.
2. Come with financing already handled. Against an institutional seller, a buyer who is fully underwritten beats a buyer who is merely pre-qualified. I will introduce you to a lender who can do that in 48 hours.
3. Let me pull the closed comps first. Before you write, I will show you what large Magnolia Park homes have actually sold for — not what they are asking. That is the number your offer should be built on.

And if this particular house is not the one, that is fine. The point of Deal of the Week is that I am reading the entire market every week whether you are shopping or not. When the right one shows up, I want you to hear it from me before you see it on a portal.

Get your free home evaluation or call 315-335-4622. Don't gamble with your biggest investment. Call the Boss.

Deal of the Week! This property is listed by another brokerage. Shared for informational purposes only. If you'd like more information, a private showing, or buyer representation, contact Troy Boss with Lifestyle International Realty. I am happy to help you purchase this property.

Listing courtesy of Opendoor Brokerage LLC (Karen Albright). MLS# O6413059. All data sourced from the Stellar MLS single-line agent export dated August 21, 2026, and is deemed reliable but not guaranteed. Price, availability, square footage, and tax figures are subject to change and should be independently verified. Analysis reflects active asking prices only and is not an appraisal, a valuation, or a guarantee of value. Troy Boss, REALTOR®, Lifestyle International Realty.