Four neighborhoods, three price tiers, and one builder name that means something different in each of them.
Toll Brothers has built in four Lake Nona area neighborhoods: Eagle Creek, the Shores at Lake Whippoorwill, Laurel Pointe, and Alora. The company was founded in 1967 by brothers Robert and Bruce Toll, went public on the New York Stock Exchange in 1986 under the ticker TOL, and now builds in more than 60 U.S. markets. Its Lake Nona work runs from three-story townhomes at Alora, which opened with pricing from $499,995, to gated estate homes at Laurel Pointe, priced from $1.7 million when the final release was announced in May 2025. Toll Brothers broke ground at Eagle Creek in 2015 and is no longer building there. The Shores at Lake Whippoorwill is a 14-home neighborhood built out around 2021 to 2022. Several of the same floor plans — Bordeaux, Grenache, Marsanne, Corbeil, Dolcetto, Barbera — were offered in both Laurel Pointe and the Shores.
Look at the Lake Nona home builders list and you will notice something odd about Toll Brothers: it is the only name that appears twice, once under production builders and once under semi-custom. That is not a formatting mistake. It is the most useful single fact about this builder in Lake Nona.
Most national builders occupy one lane here. Lennar builds a value product. The custom shops build one-off estates inside the country club gates. Toll Brothers covers a spread that runs from a three-story townhome under 2,100 square feet to a gated estate over 5,800 square feet backing a conservation area. Same badge on the front of the house. Very different purchase. If you walked out of a Toll Brothers sales center in one Lake Nona neighborhood with a number in your head, that number tells you almost nothing about the other three.
Which Lake Nona neighborhoods did Toll Brothers build?
Toll Brothers has built in four Lake Nona area neighborhoods: Eagle Creek, the Shores at Lake Whippoorwill, Laurel Pointe, and Alora.
Two of those — the Shores and Laurel Pointe — were Toll Brothers exclusives, meaning every home in the neighborhood came from one builder. Eagle Creek was the opposite: a large, multi-builder golf community where Toll Brothers built one slice alongside Centerline, Standard Pacific, CalAtlantic, Lennar, and KB Home. Alora is the newest and the smallest per-home product.
| Neighborhood | Product | Toll Brothers role |
|---|---|---|
| Eagle Creek | Single-family, including estate homes on the golf course | One of several builders; ground broken 2015, no longer building |
| Shores at Lake Whippoorwill | 14 estate homes, four backing Lake Whippoorwill | Exclusive builder; built out around 2021–2022 |
| Laurel Pointe | Gated single-family estate homes | Exclusive builder and developer; final release announced May 2025 |
| Alora | 125 three-story townhomes, three plans, 2–4 bedrooms, up to 2,037 sq ft | Exclusive builder; opened for sale 2025 |
Who is Toll Brothers, and how long have they been building?
Toll Brothers was founded in 1967 in suburban Philadelphia by brothers Robert and Bruce Toll, and has been a publicly traded company on the New York Stock Exchange since 1986.
The company started with two model homes outside Philadelphia and grew into a Fortune 500 builder operating in 24 states and more than 60 markets. It is unusual among national builders in that it runs its own architectural, engineering, land development, mortgage, title, and building-components operations rather than outsourcing them. Fortune named it the top-ranked home builder on its World's Most Admired Companies list in 2026, the ninth time the company has held that spot.
Robert Toll, the older brother and the company's long-serving chairman, died in October 2022. The Orlando division is run by division president Brock Fanning, whose name appears on the announcements for both Laurel Pointe and Alora.
The part that matters to a buyer is the design studio model. Toll Brothers sells personalization as the product, not just square footage — buyers select finishes at a central design studio rather than picking from three packages at a sales trailer. That is why the builder sits in the semi-custom column on our builders list even though it operates at national production scale.
When did Toll Brothers start building in Lake Nona?
Toll Brothers entered the Lake Nona area at Eagle Creek, breaking ground on estate homes there in the spring of 2015.
Eagle Creek was already well underway by then — the community was platted around its 18-hole golf course and had been absorbing builders for years. Toll Brothers came in for the higher end of it, with an Estate Collection and a Signature Collection of single-family plans behind the 24-hour guard gate.
The second wave came six years later and moved north. The Shores at Lake Whippoorwill — off Kirby Smith Road just east of Narcoossee Road, directly south of Stratford Pointe — is a 14-home neighborhood built between 2021 and 2022 with Toll Brothers as the exclusive builder, drawn from six designs ranging from roughly 2,976 square feet up to 4,413 and beyond. Four of the 14 back directly onto Lake Whippoorwill. Fourteen homes is small enough that a single listing moves the whole comp set. Laurel Pointe followed inside the Lake Nona master plan, and Alora, announced in March 2025 near Luminary Boulevard and Centerline Drive, is the most recent.
What does a Toll Brothers home in Lake Nona actually cost?
There is no single answer, because the four neighborhoods sit at three different price tiers.
Two anchor points are on the record. Townhomes at Alora opened at $499,995. When Toll Brothers announced the final new-home release at Laurel Pointe in May 2025, homes there started at $1.7 million. That is a spread of well over a million dollars under one builder name inside one master plan.
Worth noting how much those numbers move. Toll Brothers first floated Alora pricing in the low $600,000s when the community was announced in March 2025; it opened closer to $500,000. Any builder price you read anywhere, including here, is a snapshot. Confirm the current one before you build a budget on it.
Eagle Creek and the Shores at Lake Whippoorwill no longer have a builder price sheet, because Toll Brothers finished building in both. Those homes trade as resale, priced by the market, condition, lot, and view rather than by an options list. A golf-frontage Toll Brothers home in Eagle Creek and a lakefront one at the Shores are not comparable properties just because they share a builder.
Why do the same floor plans show up in two different neighborhoods?
Toll Brothers offered many of the same wine-named plans at both the Shores at Lake Whippoorwill and Laurel Pointe, so cross-shopping the two often means comparing the same house twice.
Bordeaux, Grenache, Marsanne, Corbeil, Dolcetto, Barbera, Varen. If those names look familiar in a listing description, that is why — the plan library carried over. A Marsanne at the Shores and a Marsanne at Laurel Pointe are the same footprint, roughly 3,971 square feet, four to five bedrooms, three to four garage bays.
This is genuinely useful when you are comparing. Hold the floor plan constant and everything left over is neighborhood: the lot, the view, the gate, the HOA, the assessment, the resale pool. Buyers who do not know the plans repeat across both communities end up arguing with themselves about kitchen layouts when the real difference is 400 feet of lot depth and a conservation view.
Can you still buy a new Toll Brothers home in Lake Nona?
New construction from Toll Brothers in Lake Nona has narrowed considerably, and most buying activity under this builder's name is now resale.
Toll Brothers announced Laurel Pointe's last chance to build in May 2025. Alora opened for sale in spring 2025 and is the newer of the two. Both statuses change as homes sell, which is why this page does not publish an inventory count that would be wrong a month from now. Check the current Lake Nona new construction listings, or call and I will tell you what is actually standing today.
What should you check before buying a Toll Brothers home here?
Check the assessment structure and the amenity package, because they differ sharply across the four neighborhoods.
Eagle Creek does not carry a CDD assessment, which is a real cost difference against several other Lake Nona neighborhoods that do. Do not generalize from that to the other three — districts can cover some phases of a community and not others, and the amounts reset annually. Our CDD fees explainer walks through how to pull the figure for a specific parcel.
Amenities vary as much as the assessments. Eagle Creek comes with a guard gate, an 18-hole course, and a 14,000-square-foot clubhouse. Alora was master-planned without its own pool or clubhouse, but Alora residents have access to Lake Nona amenities including the pool and fitness center at Laureate Park, and the community has its own dog park, barbecues, firepit and lounge seating. The Shores has a park and open field. You can compare the packages side by side on the neighborhood amenities chart.
One more: garage counts. The Toll Brothers estate plans in Laurel Pointe and the Shores were built with three and four-bay garages. That drives lot width, which drives price, and it is a big part of why those two neighborhoods price where they do.
Toll Brothers in Lake Nona: pros and cons
What works. The plan library is deep and the homes were built with real ceiling heights, wide garages, and finish levels that hold up on resale a decade later. Because Toll Brothers ran two of these neighborhoods as the exclusive builder, the streetscapes are consistent and the construction dates are tight, which makes comps cleaner than in a five-builder community. Eagle Creek's lack of a CDD is a durable cost advantage.
What does not. You pay for the badge. Toll Brothers prices at the top of whatever tier it competes in, and a mile away in Lake Nona the same budget buys more square footage from a builder with a quieter name. Two of the four neighborhoods are fully built out, so your choice is whatever happens to be listed, not a lot and a plan you pick. Alora is three stories, and the pool is not on site — residents use the Laureate Park amenities rather than walking out their own back gate to one. Stairs and a drive to the pool suit some households and not others. And the estate plans repeat between Laurel Pointe and the Shores, so the two communities are less distinct than the marketing suggests; what actually differs is the lot and the address.
Our take. Toll Brothers is a good fit if you want a large, well-specified home and you value a consistent streetscape over a bargain. It is a poor fit if you are optimizing dollars per square foot — there are Lake Nona neighborhoods where the same money buys noticeably more house. The most common mistake I see is a buyer treating "Toll Brothers" as a price signal on its own. In Lake Nona the name spans sub-$500,000 townhomes to estates well past $2 million, which means it signals almost nothing until you name the neighborhood. Ask which neighborhood, then which plan, then talk about money.
What the neighbors know
Talk to people who live in these four and a pattern shows up. Laurel Pointe and Shores owners talk about the lots — conservation frontage, water views, the depth of the back yard. That is where the money went, and they know it. Eagle Creek owners talk about the gate and the club, because the community identity there is the golf course, not the builder; ask an Eagle Creek resident who built their house and a fair number have to think about it.
The Narcoossee corridor context matters too. The Shores sits right off Narcoossee Road south of the 417, close enough to the retail plaza going in next door that residents got a private gate to it. Laurel Pointe sits inside the master plan with Lake Nona's trail and park network at hand. Alora is walkable to the Luminary Boulevard schools. Those are three different daily lives on the same builder's letterhead.
Official sources
- Toll Brothers company profile and history
- Toll Brothers investor relations
- Toll Brothers announcement: final homes at Laurel Pointe, May 2025
- Toll Brothers announcement: Alora townhomes, March 2025
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Thinking about a Toll Brothers home in Lake Nona — new or resale? I can tell you which of the four neighborhoods actually fits what you are after, and what the same plan is trading for in each. Call/Text David Myers at 407.801.3286 or use the contact form.
Frequently asked questions
Which Lake Nona neighborhoods did Toll Brothers build?
Toll Brothers has built in four Lake Nona area neighborhoods: Eagle Creek, the Shores at Lake Whippoorwill, Laurel Pointe, and Alora. Eagle Creek was a shared community with several other builders; the Shores and Laurel Pointe were Toll Brothers exclusives; Alora is a 125-unit townhome neighborhood.
Is Toll Brothers still building in Lake Nona?
Toll Brothers stopped building in Eagle Creek years ago, and the Shores at Lake Whippoorwill finished construction around 2021 to 2022. Toll Brothers announced the final new-home release at Laurel Pointe in May 2025 and opened Alora for sale in spring 2025. Availability changes constantly, so confirm current status before you plan around it.
How much does a Toll Brothers home in Lake Nona cost?
It depends entirely on which of the four neighborhoods you mean. Townhomes at Alora started at $499,995 at the community's grand opening. When Toll Brothers announced the final release at Laurel Pointe in May 2025, homes there were priced from $1.7 million. Eagle Creek and the Shores at Lake Whippoorwill are resale markets, so their pricing follows the market rather than a builder price sheet. Builder pricing moves, so treat these as reference points and confirm current figures.
Why do the same Toll Brothers floor plans appear in two Lake Nona neighborhoods?
Toll Brothers offered many of the same wine-named plans — Bordeaux, Grenache, Marsanne, Corbeil, Dolcetto, Barbera — at both the Shores at Lake Whippoorwill and Laurel Pointe. A buyer cross-shopping the two is often comparing the same floor plan on a different lot, in a different HOA, at a different price.
Does a Toll Brothers neighborhood in Lake Nona have a CDD?
It varies by neighborhood and sometimes by phase within a neighborhood, and the amounts change annually. Eagle Creek does not carry a CDD assessment. For any other address, confirm the figure on the specific parcel before you write an offer rather than relying on a published list. See our Lake Nona CDD fees explainer.
