KB Homes Lake Nona: Stratford Pointe & Eagle Creek

The oldest company on the Lake Nona builders list, and the one whose homes here are now old enough that the roof decides the deal.

By David Myers, Broker Associate · NonaOrlandoProperties.com · Last updated August 2026

KB Home built two Lake Nona area neighborhoods: Stratford Pointe, where it was developer and sole builder, and part of Eagle Creek, where it was one of six builders. KB Home was founded on December 10, 1957 in Detroit as Kaufman and Broad by Donald Bruce Kaufman and Eli Broad, on $25,000 of borrowed money, and took the KB Home name in January 2001. It was the first homebuilder listed on the New York Stock Exchange and trades as KBH; headquarters is in Los Angeles. Stratford Pointe was built in roughly 2005 to 2007 and has about 130 homes, block and stucco with shingle roofs, from roughly 1,800 to 3,400 square feet. It is not gated, has two entrances off Kirby Smith Road, and backs the 417 on its north side behind a sound barrier wall. Both KB neighborhoods here are fully built out and trade as resale.

KB Home is the oldest company on the Lake Nona builders list by a comfortable margin. Kaufman and Broad opened for business in December 1957, twenty-one years before D.R. Horton and Mattamy, twenty-eight before Meritage and Beazer. It was also the first homebuilder ever traded on the New York Stock Exchange.

None of which tells you much about buying a house here. What matters is that both KB neighborhoods in Lake Nona went up around twenty years ago, which puts them in a specific and consequential moment: built after Florida rewrote its building code, and now at the age where roofs, systems and insurance underwriting drive every transaction. That is the honest center of this post.

Which Lake Nona neighborhoods did KB Home build?

Two: Stratford Pointe, where KB was the developer and sole builder, and part of Eagle Creek, where it was one of several.

The distinction matters. In Stratford Pointe every house is KB's. In Eagle Creek, KB built a portion of a very large multi-builder golf community, so "KB Home — Eagle Creek" describes a slice, not the neighborhood.

Who is KB Home, and why is it the oldest name on this list?

Because it started in December 1957, with $25,000 and two model homes in a Detroit suburb.

Donald Bruce Kaufman and Eli Broad borrowed the money and built two models in Madison Heights, Michigan. Their idea was arithmetic: strip out the basement, put in a carport, streamline the build, and price the house so the monthly mortgage came in under the rent on a two-bedroom apartment. They called the model the Award Winner and priced it at $13,700. Seventeen sold in a weekend. Six hundred homes followed within two years.

The company left Detroit for Phoenix in 1960 out of concern that the local economy leaned too hard on the auto industry, reached California in 1963, and in 1967 became the first American homebuilder to expand into France. It was also the first homebuilder to trade on the New York Stock Exchange. Kaufman and Broad Home Corporation became KB Home in January 2001. Headquarters is in Los Angeles; the ticker is KBH.

Eli Broad went on to build a second Fortune 500 company in SunAmerica and became one of the country's better-known philanthropists. That is unrelated to your house, but it is the kind of thing worth knowing about the name on your permit.

What is Built-to-Order, and does it matter to a resale buyer?

Built-to-Order means KB sells the homesite and plan first and lets the buyer personalize through a design studio, rather than building finished inventory and selling it off the shelf.

It is the company's central positioning and it runs against where most of the industry has gone. Several large builders now lean on speculative inventory because a finished house closes faster. KB's argument is that buyers would rather choose.

For someone buying new, that is a real difference. For someone buying a twenty-year-old KB house in Lake Nona, it matters in one practical way: the original buyers made different choices, so two homes with the same floor plan on the same street can differ noticeably in finishes, layout options and what is behind the walls. Do not assume that because you toured one Stratford Pointe home you know what the one down the street looks like.

KB also builds to ENERGY STAR certification across its homes, and has for a long time. On a 2006 house the certification tells you something about the original specification and very little about the current condition of the equipment.

What is Stratford Pointe actually like?

Roughly 130 traditional block-and-stucco homes on mostly zero-lot-line homesites, not gated, with two entrances off Kirby Smith Road — and the 417 along its northern edge.

Homes run roughly 1,800 to 3,400 square feet, three to five bedrooms, block and stucco with shingle roofs. Some back to conservation or water. About a quarter back to the neighborhood's brick wall along Kirby Smith Road. There is a community park with a playground and sidewalks throughout. It sits just east of Narcoossee Road, directly north of the Shores at Lake Whippoorwill, with a shopping plaza right outside the entrance and Lake Nona Landing and Cornerstone at Lake Hart within a mile.

Now the part a builder's page would not mention: the neighborhood is adjacent to the 417 expressway, and a large sound barrier wall now lines its north side. That wall exists because the highway is right there. If you are looking at a home on the north end, go stand in the back yard at rush hour before you decide how much the wall solves. Homes on the south side of the neighborhood are a different proposition entirely.

The construction timing is genuinely a point in its favor. Florida substantially tightened its building code in the wake of the 2004 hurricane season, and Stratford Pointe went up after that change — block construction, post-revision standards. That is a meaningfully better starting point than a late-1990s house of similar price.

What did KB Home build in Eagle Creek?

A portion of the single-family housing inside the gates — not the golf-front estates, and not most of the neighborhood.

Eagle Creek is a 24-hour guard-gated golf community built out over many years by six builders: Centerline Homes, Standard Pacific, CalAtlantic, Lennar, KB Home and Toll Brothers. It contains townhomes, bungalows and villas, single-family homes, and large estate homes on the course. Toll Brothers handled the estate end.

Two things follow. First, if you want a KB home in Eagle Creek specifically, you are shopping a subset and should ask which sections and years. Second, Eagle Creek carries no CDD assessment, which is a durable cost advantage over several other Lake Nona neighborhoods — and it applies whichever builder put up the house.

One piece of corporate housekeeping that matters for warranty questions: Standard Pacific merged with Ryland to form CalAtlantic in 2015, and Lennar acquired CalAtlantic in 2018. So three of those six builder names now sit under Lennar. KB Home is not one of them; KB remains independent.

What should you check before buying a KB home here?

The roof, and then the roof again. Everything else is secondary.

Stratford Pointe homes were built with shingle roofs in roughly 2005 to 2007. A shingle roof in Central Florida is typically at or past the end of its service life at twenty years, and Florida insurers underwrite hard on roof age — some carriers will not write a policy over a certain age regardless of condition, and others price it in a way that changes what you can afford. Some Stratford Pointe roofs have been replaced. Some have not. Which one you are buying is the single biggest variable in the transaction, and it should be answered before the inspection, not during it.

Behind that: HVAC, water heater and the original electrical panel, all of which are in the same age window. Ask what has been replaced and get documentation, not recollection.

Then the usual. Confirm the assessment on the specific parcel rather than trusting a listing remark — our CDD fees explainer covers how. Confirm school zoning for the exact address, since assignments are set by OCPS and change; our schools guide is a starting point. And in Stratford Pointe, check which way the house faces relative to the highway.

KB Home in Lake Nona: pros and cons

What works. Stratford Pointe is one of the more affordable ways into a Lake Nona address with a real single-family house, not a townhome — and 3,400 square feet at the top of the range is a lot of house for what these trade at. Block construction built after the post-2004 code revision is a genuinely stronger starting point than the price implies. It is not gated, which some buyers prefer and which keeps dues down. Eagle Creek's lack of a CDD is a durable cost advantage. And KB remains an independent company, which is not true of half the builder names on the Eagle Creek list.

What does not. The 417 runs along the north edge of Stratford Pointe, and a sound wall reduces highway noise without eliminating it — that is a permanent condition of the address, not a negotiating point. Twenty-year-old shingle roofs are the defining risk here, and in the current Florida insurance market a roof past its service life can make a home difficult to insure at any price. Most lots are zero-lot-line, meaning limited yard and a neighbor's wall close by. And the neighborhood is small and turns over slowly, so recent comparable sales can be thin when it comes time to price.

What the neighbors know

Stratford Pointe residents will tell you the two entrances off Kirby Smith are the practical advantage — you can get out of the neighborhood two ways, which is more than several larger Lake Nona neighborhoods can say. They will also tell you exactly which streets hear the 417 and which do not, and that the sound wall made a real difference without making it silent.

The other running theme is roofs, which is what happens when a neighborhood built in one two-year window hits twenty at the same time. Neighbors compare contractors and insurance carriers the way people in newer neighborhoods compare landscapers. Over in Eagle Creek, the conversation is the golf course and the guard gate, and most residents there could not tell you which of the six builders put up their house.

Official sources

• KB Home corporate site
• KB Home company overview and financials
• KB Home company history

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Looking at Stratford Pointe or a KB home in Eagle Creek? I can tell you which homes have had roofs replaced, what has recently sold, and what an insurance quote is likely to look like before you write. Call/Text David Myers at 407.801.3286 or use the contact form.

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