Altessa at Wilton Manors in Wilton Manors: The New Construction Guide (Floor Plans, Pricing, What to Know)

If you’re searching altessa at wilton manors wilton-manors new construction, here’s the short version: Altessa at Wilton Manors is Lennar’s new-construction townhome community going up on NE 26th Street in Wilton Manors, Broward County, built around Lennar’s Skyview floor plans with rooftop terraces, priced roughly $793,990 to $1,001,990, with an HOA around $325 a month and, based on the builder’s own paperwork, no CDD. That combination, new construction plus walkable urban location plus no second tax layer, is rare in Broward right now. Here’s what you need to know before you tour it.

This guide walks through the floor plan lineup, what Lennar’s “Everything’s Included” package actually includes, the real tradeoffs of the location, the HOA and CDD situation, and how to approach the builder so you don’t leave money or leverage on the table.

What Is Altessa at Wilton Manors?

Altessa at Wilton Manors sits at 1550 NE 26th St, Wilton Manors, FL 33305, with homesites running along NE 16th Avenue, Manor Way, and NE 26th Street. Lennar is building 2-story and 3-story Skyview townhomes, the builder’s line that pairs a compact urban footprint with a rooftop terrace and, on the 3-story plans, a dedicated game room.

Wilton Manors itself is a small, tightly built city wedged between Fort Lauderdale and Oakland Park, best known for Wilton Drive, the walkable strip of restaurants, coffee shops, and nightlife that runs through the heart of town. It’s also one of the most established LGBTQ-friendly communities in South Florida, and that identity shows up in how the city markets itself and how buyers talk about it. If you’re relocating and walkability plus community feel matter more to you than a big yard, Wilton Manors is the answer a lot of Fort Lauderdale-area agents give without hesitation.

The community includes an onsite dog park, and the real amenity is location: you’re a short walk from Wilton Drive, a short drive from Downtown Fort Lauderdale (under 15 minutes most times of day), and close to US-1 and I-95 for anyone commuting toward Miami-Dade or Palm Beach County. This is not a suburban master-planned community with a clubhouse and resort pool. It’s infill new construction in an already-loved neighborhood, and that’s the entire pitch.

Floor Plan Lineup: What’s Actually Being Built

Lennar’s builder package lists nine Skyview floor plans at Altessa. Here’s what’s confirmed from the brochure (printed April 7, 2026) and the more recent availability sheet (June 27, 2026), which shows base pricing running about $55,000 under the original brochure numbers, a real signal that pre-construction pricing has softened as the community has moved toward vertical construction.

The lineup continues beyond these five into the larger 3-story Skyview plans, which is where the rooftop terrace and third-floor game room come into play, and where pricing climbs toward the top of the range at roughly $1,001,990. If a rooftop terrace and a flexible bonus room are non-negotiables for you, ask your sales rep to walk you through the full nine-plan matrix in person, because floor plan availability at any given moment depends on which homesites are still open and which phase Lennar is releasing.

A few patterns worth noting if you’re comparing plans:

Smallest entry point. The Astor at 1,485 square feet with a single-car garage is the most accessible price point in the community, and it’s a genuine 3-bedroom, not a 2-bedroom-plus-den dressed up as a 3-bedroom.

Garage matters more than square footage here. Notice that Fulton (1,605 sq ft) has only a 1-car garage while Chelsea (1,596 sq ft, smaller) gets 2-car. If garage space is a priority, don’t assume the bigger unit automatically has more parking. Check the plan sheet.

4-bedroom options start at Hudson. If you need a genuine fourth bedroom for a home office or a kid’s room, Hudson at 1,666 square feet is the first plan on the list that gives you one, and it comes with the 2-car garage.

This kind of plan-by-plan comparison is exactly what we walked through for Parkland Royale Floor Plans Explained and Solterra Floor Plans Explained, two other Lennar communities in Broward. The lesson carries over here: don’t shop by square footage alone. Shop by garage count, bedroom count, and how the floor plan actually flows, because two plans that are 10 square feet apart can live very differently.

What’s Included: Lennar’s “Everything’s Included” Package

Lennar builds Altessa under its Everything’s Included® program, which means the features below come standard rather than as an upgrade list you negotiate line by line. Based on the builder’s brochure, that includes:

• Concrete block construction and a concrete roof tile, the standard for hurricane-resistant Florida construction
• Impact-resistant glass windows and doors (a real cost saver, since impact glass typically runs buyers thousands out of pocket as an aftermarket retrofit)
• Brick-paver driveways
• Quartz kitchen countertops with a 6-inch backsplash
• Stainless steel appliances
• 36-inch flat-panel cabinets
• A GE washer and dryer
• Smoke and CO detectors, central A/C

On the 3-story Skyview plans specifically, the third floor is built out as a game room with a covered terrace and rooftop deck, which is the signature feature that separates Skyview from a standard townhome layout. If a rooftop deck is the reason you’re looking at Altessa in the first place, confirm which specific plans in the current release include it, since not every unit in the community is a 3-story Skyview.

The impact glass and concrete block construction matter more than they might sound like on paper. In Broward County, insurance underwriters increasingly price wind mitigation and impact protection into your homeowner’s policy, so a community that includes these standard, rather than as a $15,000 to $25,000 upgrade, has a real, ongoing cost advantage over resale homes without them.

Location Tradeoffs: What You Gain and What You Give Up

Every new-construction community involves tradeoffs, and Altessa’s are worth being honest about upfront rather than discovering them after you’ve signed a contract.

What you gain

You gain walkability that almost no other new-construction community in Broward can match. Wilton Drive is a genuine walkable corridor, restaurants, coffee shops, bars, small retail, and it’s a five to ten minute walk from most of the Altessa homesites depending on exact location. Compare that to a community like Cascata at MiraLago in Parkland or Saltgrass at Heron Bay in Parkland, both excellent communities in their own right, but both built around a car-dependent, master-planned suburban model. Altessa is the opposite bet: urban infill, walkable, small-footprint.

You also gain proximity. Downtown Fort Lauderdale is a short drive, Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport is roughly 20 minutes depending on traffic, and both I-95 and US-1 give you north-south access without needing to cross into the Sawgrass Expressway corridor that a lot of western Broward and Parkland communities rely on.

What you give up

You give up land. This is a townhome community on a tight urban infill site, not a single-family community with a yard. If a private backyard is a requirement, Altessa isn’t the fit, no matter how much you like Wilton Drive.

You also give up the resort-style amenity package. There’s no clubhouse, no resort pool, no fitness center listed in the builder package, just the onsite dog park and the walkable location. If you’re the kind of buyer who wants a private community pool and gym, communities like Solterra in Sunrise (see Is Solterra Worth It?) are built around a different amenity philosophy. Altessa’s philosophy is “the neighborhood is the amenity,” and Wilton Drive genuinely delivers on that, but it’s a different lifestyle than a gated, amenity-heavy suburban community.

Finally, you’re buying into a busier, denser corridor than a suburban new-construction community. NE 26th Street and the surrounding grid see real local traffic, especially during Wilton Drive’s evening hours. If you want total quiet, this isn’t it. If you want to walk to dinner on a Tuesday night, this is exactly it.

Schools

Wilton Manors falls under Broward County Public Schools. Families relocating for schools specifically should verify current zoning directly with Broward County Public Schools’ boundary tool before writing a contract, since zoning lines can shift and Lennar’s sales office isn’t the authoritative source on school assignment. This is true of every new-construction community, not just Altessa, but it’s worth repeating because school zoning is one of the most common surprises buyers run into after closing.

HOA and CDD: The Real Monthly Number

This is where Altessa genuinely stands out from a lot of new construction in Broward and Palm Beach County right now.

Based on Lennar’s brochure, the HOA runs approximately $325.29 a month, and the property tax rate referenced is roughly 1.56%. The special assessment field on the brochure, where a CDD (Community Development District) fee would show up if one existed, is blank. That points to an HOA-only fee structure with no CDD, which is a real differentiator against communities like Solterra or several Parkland-area communities that layer a CDD on top of the HOA to finance roads, drainage, and other infrastructure.

If you don’t already understand the difference between an HOA and a CDD, read What Is a CDD Fee in Florida? before you tour any new-construction community, not just this one. The short version: an HOA covers amenities and upkeep of shared spaces, and that’s usually the whole story. A CDD is a separate taxing district that finances infrastructure like roads and utilities, and it shows up as its own line on your property tax bill, often for 20 to 30 years. Communities like Estates by Turnberry are a good example of what a combined HOA-plus-CDD monthly cost actually looks like when you add both together, and it’s usually a meaningfully bigger number than the HOA number alone.

The reason this matters at Altessa specifically: if the no-CDD structure holds through the full build-out, buyers here are avoiding a second, often-larger fee layer that shows up in a lot of other new Broward and Palm Beach communities. That’s not a small thing over a 20-year hold. But “based on the builder’s brochure” is doing real work in that sentence. Get the CDD question answered in writing from your sales rep before you go under contract. Special assessment structures can be added or adjusted as a community moves through additional phases, and you want that confirmed on paper, not assumed from an early brochure.

How to Approach the Builder

Buying pre-construction or early-phase new construction directly from a builder is a different process than buying resale, and Lennar’s sales process at Altessa follows the pattern common across their Florida communities.

Bring your own representation

Lennar’s onsite sales team, operating here as Lennar Realty Inc. (CGC1518166), represents the seller, not you. That doesn’t mean they’re adversarial, but it does mean their job is to sell you a home at the builder’s price and terms. Having your own buyer’s agent costs you nothing (the builder pays the commission out of their marketing budget either way) and gives you someone reviewing the contract, the HOA documents, and the price history who’s working for you specifically. If you’re touring Altessa or any new-construction community without an agent already in your corner, that’s the first thing to fix, ideally before your first visit, since some builders require you to bring an agent on the initial visit to have them compensated.

Ask about the price gap you’re seeing right now

The gap between Lennar’s April brochure pricing and the June 27 availability sheet, roughly $55,000 lower across the board, is worth asking about directly. Builders adjust base pricing for a mix of reasons: incentive periods, inventory homes they want to move, shifts in absorption pace, or simply repositioning a release. Ask your sales rep plainly what’s driving the current base price and whether it reflects a temporary incentive or a genuine reset. Get the answer in writing where possible, and ask whether current pricing is likely to hold, rise, or come with additional incentives (closing cost credits, rate buydowns) if you go under contract soon.

Compare against what else is moving in Broward

Altessa isn’t the only new-construction option in the county right now. It’s worth cross-shopping against communities we’ve covered like Parkland Royale and Mainstreet in Coconut Creek to understand where Altessa sits on price-per-square-foot, HOA structure, and lifestyle fit. A townhome in a walkable urban infill location is a fundamentally different product than a single-family home in a suburban master-planned community, even if the sticker prices land in a similar range, so the comparison isn’t apples to apples, but it’s still worth doing so you know what you’re trading off.

Get the homesite-specific details before you commit

Because Altessa is a tight infill site along NE 16th Avenue, Manor Way, and NE 26th Street, homesite location matters more here than in a sprawling suburban community. Ask specifically about which units back up to the busier stretches of the corridor versus the quieter interior positions, and ask to see the site plan, not just the model home, before you pick a homesite.

Bottom Line

Altessa at Wilton Manors is a straightforward trade: you give up yard space and a resort amenity package, and in exchange you get brand-new, hurricane-rated construction with impact glass and concrete block standard, walkable access to one of Broward’s most established and lively corridors, and, based on the builder’s own paperwork, no CDD stacked on top of the HOA. At roughly $325 a month for HOA and prices currently running from the high $700s into the $1 million range depending on plan and homesite, it’s a genuinely different product than the suburban new-construction communities dominating most of Broward and Palm Beach’s new-home inventory right now.

If walkability and an established neighborhood matter more to you than square footage and a private yard, this is worth a serious look. If you want the full site plan, current homesite availability, and a walkthrough of which Skyview plans are releasing next, start with the Altessa at Wilton Manors page, then reach out and we’ll set up a tour with someone in your corner, not just the builder’s.

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