By Scout Eveleth,
Licensed Florida Realtor (FL License # BK3491000)
LaBelle is a Central Area village built in 2015 in Sumter County (ZIP 32163), with approximately 800 homes across Patio Villas, Courtyard Villas, and Designer Homes. Belle Glade Country Club is directly adjacent to the village's edge — a 27-hole championship complex with three distinct 9-hole courses (Seminole, Calusa, and Tequesta) and an on-site restaurant, one of the most accessible championship golf situations in this section of The Villages. The Sharon Rose Wiechens Preserve runs along LaBelle's eastern side — a marshy wetland with a birding trail that also borders the Village of Pine Hills to the east. CDD bond balances are still active but carry a low annual assessment — roughly $883 to $1,448 per home per year under District 10's schedules, scheduled to reach zero in 2044. Brownwood Paddock Square is approximately 4 miles away.
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Belle Glade Country Club runs along LaBelle's western edge — three named 9-hole courses (Seminole, Calusa, and Tequesta) comprising a 27-hole championship facility, with an on-site restaurant and full club infrastructure. The course is confirmed as one of the more challenging in this corridor of The Villages, and the adjacency means LaBelle residents walk or cart directly to the first tee without a separate drive. LaBelle Recreation Center is the village's own facility, providing a local gathering point within the neighborhood. On the eastern edge, the Sharon Rose Wiechens Preserve provides a marshy wetland birding trail — a natural open buffer between LaBelle and the Village of Pine Hills, uncommon in a Brownwood-area village where many lots run directly to one another. Buyers looking for both championship golf adjacency and a natural preserve boundary on opposite edges of the village have limited equivalents in this build era.
Colony Plaza is the primary shopping hub for this section of The Villages — Publix, Walgreens, Bob Evans, McDonald's, Sakura Japanese Steakhouse, banking, and dental services, all golf-cart accessible from LaBelle. Barnsed Recreation Center is available as an additional recreational option in the corridor. Brownwood Paddock Square is approximately 4 miles away, accessible by cart, and provides free nightly live entertainment, dining, and retail in a country and Western horse-themed setting. The cost picture is straightforward: LaBelle was built in 2015, so CDD bond balances are still active and scheduled to reach zero in 2044 — but the annual assessment is low. District 10's per-unit schedules run roughly $883 to $1,448 per home per year, not the $3,000-plus a mid-2010s build often implies. The effective Sumter County property tax rate is approximately 1.0% (2024). Buyers comparing LaBelle against older central-area or northern-area villages with reduced or paid-off bonds should run the full annual carrying cost — bond assessment, tax rate, and amenity fee — side by side before making a decision.
LaBelle is in the Central Area of The Villages, in Sumter County, ZIP 32163. It sits in the Brownwood cluster — approximately 4 miles by golf cart from Brownwood Paddock Square, between CR 466 and SR 44. Belle Glade Country Club is directly adjacent to the village.
Homes in LaBelle were built in 2015. The village has active CDD bond balances scheduled to reach zero in 2044, but the annual amount is low — roughly $883 to $1,448 per home per year under District 10's schedules, not the $3,000-plus a mid-2010s build often implies. Always verify the specific bond balance by address in writing before making an offer.
LaBelle has Patio Villas, Courtyard Villas, and Designer Homes across approximately 800 homes, making it one of the smaller villages in the Brownwood cluster — a size that some buyers prefer for the more immediate neighbor connections.
Brownwood Paddock Square is the closest, approximately 4 miles by golf cart. It opened in 2012 with a country and Western horse-themed character and offers free nightly live entertainment.
Belle Glade Country Club is directly adjacent to LaBelle — a 27-hole championship complex with three separate 9-hole courses: Seminole, Calusa, and Tequesta. An on-site restaurant operates at the club.
Belle Glade Country Club has three distinct 9-hole championship courses: the Seminole Course, the Calusa Course, and the Tequesta Course. The 27-hole layout means golfers can play a different combination of nines on each visit. The club includes an on-site restaurant and is confirmed as one of the more challenging championship facilities in this section of The Villages.
The Sharon Rose Wiechens Preserve is a natural marshy wetland with a birding trail that runs along LaBelle's eastern edge. It is the same preserve that borders the Village of Pine Hills (Lake County, Fruitland Park section) to the east. The preserve provides an open natural buffer between the two villages — an uncommon feature in the Brownwood cluster where most village boundaries are built-up rather than natural.
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