The Highlands of Innisbrook is an established, mature golf course community located within the prestigious Innisbrook Resort and Golf Club. Once upon a time, opportunities to live inside The Highlands were plentiful, but the best lots have gradually been built on. Only two premier lots, which happen to be the largest lots left both featuring fairway views, remain, and they will be up for auction Saturday, August 23, 2008.

American Heritage Auctioneers, Inc., will be conducting the auctions on-site at Playmoor Drive at 11:00 A. M. There are a number of factors creating a sense of urgency and anticipation surrounding these properties. The auction format is enticing for buyers; one of the lots will be sold by absolute auction, which constitutes a sale regardless of price. In addition to the absolute format, new ownership at Innisbrook has created a real buzz surrounding the resort and its communities.

Already recognized as a world-class destination and home to an annual PGA Tour event, now known as the Transitions Championship, hosted by the resort’s Copperhead Course, Innisbrook was purchased by new ownership just over a year ago and is being driven to new heights by a highly successful entrepreneur.

The Hollywood of the Southeast? You might get that feeling if you’re pondering golf community living in the Orlando area. The landlocked but lake-heavy community that sprang from endless orange groves when Walt Disney World opened in 1971, Orlando’s reputation as a home for golfers has exploded right along with the growth of the Disney empire. In fact, like Disney’s other American home in Southern California with its exclusive Brentwood, Bel Air and Malibu enclaves, Orlando’s private golf communities are better known than any of the area’s 125 courses. Arnold Palmer’s Bay Hill development has hosted a PGA TOUR event since 1979 and the Tavistock Cup, which matches residents of the Isleworth and Lake Nona communities, annually brings together more star-power than the Ryder Cup.

The area known to the rest of the world for its theme parks, entertainment attractions and convention business is “golf central” for more than just being home to Tiger, Ernie, Sergio, Annika and Faldo. Many of the more than 50 members of the various tours have made Orlando their homes because those homes may cost only one-third of some of the more higher-end digs near the west coast Hollywood, the exceptional weather, one of the world’s best airports, and no personal income taxes. One of Orlando’s negatives can also be a positive, depending on how you look at it. The area’s incredible growth (1.2-million residents in 1990 is now nearly 1.9-million on the way to a projected 2.1 million by 2009) has also spurred homes to appreciate by nearly 30 percent in the past year. Orlando’s size and influx of well-healed visitors from the north have also meant great support for an orchestra, opera, ballet and other cultural endeavors that are the envy of much larger, more established cities.