Panther National sits inside Avenir rather than across the road from it. Avenir is a 4,752-acre master plan in Palm Beach Gardens with seven builders and homes starting in the low $600s. Panther National is a 218-lot private golf enclave within Avenir’s third phase, where estate homes are offered from $5,195,000.
That makes this a question of where you sit inside one development. Your position sets your builder, your price floor, your annual district assessment, and whether golf comes with a membership contract.
Photo by Kindel Media on Pexels. Illustrative image, not Avenir or Panther National.
Key Takeaways
– Panther National sits inside the Avenir Planned Community Development, on 390-plus acres (Cotleur & Hearing, project approval update, retrieved September 2026).
– Avenir’s own builder page lists prices from the low $600s, though that entry point is Toll Brothers’ Regency active-adult collection; Panther National lists estate homes from $5,195,000 (developer sites, 2026).
– Residential district assessments for fiscal 2026/2027 run from $3,310.99 to $9,333.69 a year depending on the parcel (Avenir CDD Final Budget FY2026/2027).
– Golf is where the two split hardest: a city-run par 3 open to anyone versus a private club capped at 300 members.
Our broader overview of new construction homes in Palm Beach Gardens and Jupiter covers the region and the contract basics. This piece narrows to two addresses inside Avenir and the parcel-level numbers most buyers never see until closing.
Are Avenir and Panther National the same community?
They share a footprint, but they are sold and run separately. Panther National is a “390+ acre” community located within “the Avenir Planned Community Development (PCD) in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida,” according to the project’s land planning firm Cotleur & Hearing in its approval update on the Panther National clubhouse, retrieved in September 2026. Avenir overall covers 4,752 acres, per the developer’s own site.
The public record spells out the relationship. In its Final Budget for Fiscal Year 2026/2027, the Avenir Community Development District lists Panther National as three of its own parcels: Parcel A-12 with 139 lots, Parcel A-13/14 at 125 feet with 55 lots, and Parcel A-13/14 at 175 feet with 24 lots. Those three add to 218 homesites, and all three fall inside the district’s Third Phase.
The difference is scale. Avenir is the master plan you drive through, and Panther National is one private enclave inside it with its own architecture program and its own club.
How far apart are the price floors?
The published starting points are roughly eight times apart. Avenir’s own builder page lists starting ranges by builder: Toll Brothers from the “Low $600s,” DiVosta from the “$700s to over $1M,” Kolter Homes from the “mid $800s to over $1M,” GL Homes and Akel Homes in the $900s, WL Homes from the “$900’s to $3M,” and Kenco Communities from “$1.5M to over $3M.” Panther National, on its own real estate page in 2026, lists Estate Homes “offered from $5,195,000” and Estate Homesites “offered from $2,095,000.”
One thing the range hides: Avenir’s own builder page lists a single Toll Brothers collection, “Regency Active Adult From The Lower $600s.” The lowest entry price in Avenir is age-restricted housing, so if you are shopping for a household with children, the practical floor is DiVosta’s “$700s to over $1M” instead. Kolter’s page describes Esprit at Avenir as an active adult enclave too, and L’Ambiance as a gated neighborhood of fewer than 150 homes with three to five bedrooms.
The cheapest way into Panther National is land only, and at $2,095,000 that is more than three times the entry price of a finished Toll Brothers home elsewhere in the same district. What you get for it is a lot, not a design package: Panther National sells turnkey Estate Homes “designed by architect Max Strang,” whose approach the community describes as environmental modernism, alongside custom homesites it calls “the blank canvas,” offering “the freedom to design and build within the community.” If you want Strang’s hand on the house, that is the turnkey product, not the homesite.
The product differs too. Panther National lists turnkey homes of 5,000 to 10,000 square feet with four to seven bedrooms, and separately offers one-third-acre, half-acre and one-acre custom homesites. Avenir’s seven-builder lineup covers a much wider band, including the active-adult neighborhoods above and the villa product the district’s own budget lists as S.F. Villas at Essex, which is why its range stretches from the $600s past $3 million.
If you are weighing this against established clubs rather than new builds, the comparison of BallenIsles, Mirasol and Frenchman’s Reserve covers the resale side of Palm Beach Gardens golf communities.
What do the annual district assessments actually cost?
Every home inside Avenir, Panther National included, pays a Community Development District assessment on top of property tax, and it is worth asking for the number early rather than finding it on your first tax bill. The Avenir Community Development District bills through the Palm Beach County Tax Collector, and the charge appears in the non-ad valorem section of the property tax bill.
For fiscal year 2026/2027, which runs October 1, 2026 through September 30, 2027, the district’s Final Budget sets the operations and maintenance assessment at $1,422.69 per unit, calculated as $6,650,878 spread across 4,675 assessable units. Debt service is layered on top of that, and it varies by parcel because each parcel carries a different bond series.
The Panther National figures are $6,524.69 for Parcel A-12, $7,681.69 for the 125-foot lots and $9,333.69 for the 175-foot lots. Only the last of those is the district’s highest residential assessment. Parcels A-17 and A-19 each sit at $8,795.69 and Longview at Parcel A-10 sits at $7,051.69, so two of the three Panther National parcels are beaten by ordinary Avenir parcels. Assessment tracks lot width and bond series, not address prestige. The lowest residential figures belong to the 50-foot and 55-foot product at $3,310.99 to $3,357.69.
They also carry no clubhouse assessment. The district’s budget notes that Parcel A-5, Econ Dev, Town Center and Phase 3 “are Not Assessed For Clubhouse Assessment,” because they receive no special benefit from Avenir’s shared clubhouse. The Phase 1 and Phase 2 parcels that do receive that benefit pay $1,431.20 a year toward clubhouse operations. Panther National sits in Phase 3, so its residents pay nothing into that pot and answer to their own club’s structure instead.
The published numbers are gross figures. They already include a 4 percent early-payment discount, a 1 percent county tax collector fee and a 1 percent property appraiser fee, per the same budget.
CDD assessments are a separate obligation from homeowners association dues, and buyers routinely conflate them. Our breakdown of HOA costs in Palm Beach Gardens covers what association dues do and do not cover here.
What about property taxes on top of that?
Ad valorem tax is the other half of the bill, and it is set by rate, not by community. For the 2026 tax year, the Palm Beach County Property Appraiser’s TRIM hearing schedule lists a proposed City of Palm Beach Gardens millage of 5.0537, unchanged from the 2025 final rate. Palm Beach County proposed 4.5000 plus 0.0210 for debt service. The School Board’s local rate was proposed at 3.2480 and the state-set rate at 3.0390.
Both communities sit inside the same city, so those rates apply identically. Other countywide taxing authorities appear on the bill too, so treat the figures above as the largest published components, not the full rate. What differs is the taxable value the millage lands on, plus the non-ad valorem assessment underneath.
In practice, on a $5.2 million Panther National estate the ad valorem side dwarfs the CDD line. On a $700,000 home in one of the higher-assessed parcels, that district charge is a meaningful share of the monthly carry. Run both numbers before you fall in love with a floor plan, and check where you land on closing costs for Florida buyers.
How different is the golf?
Panther National is built around a course its own site calls “the first and only golf course designed by Jack Nicklaus and Justin Thomas.” Nicklaus Design lists the course, called The Big Cat, as open for play, stretching close to 8,000 yards from the back tees and playing as short as roughly 4,500 yards from the forward tees. Panther National describes itself as a private community and club “reserved for 300 members,” with a nine-hole par 3 short course, a putting course spanning nearly an acre and a short game training area. Cotleur & Hearing lists a “55,000+ square foot golf course clubhouse” designed by Max Strang with Peacock + Lewis Architects.
Avenir’s golf is public in the literal sense. The community’s amenities page points residents to two courses, Sandhill Crane and The Nest, connected by dedicated cart paths. Both are City of Palm Beach Gardens municipal facilities: Sandhill Crane Golf Club at 9500 Sandhill Crane Drive and The Nest Par 3 at 9900 Sandhill Crane Drive. The city posts a summer Monday closure for both, running June 1 through September 28, and lists The Nest as open 7am to sunset the rest of the week. The Nest plays 3,100 yards from the tips, with holes up to 256 yards, a 30,000 square foot putting green and a 19th hole with an island green. The city publishes its rates, and they move by season. For July 1 through September 30, 2026, prime and midday play was listed at $49 with twilight at $29; for January 1 through April 30, 2026 the posted rate was $84 with twilight at $59. Check the city’s current rate sheet before you plan around either number. Palm Beach Gardens residents can buy a $25 annual pass for 15 percent off prime, midday and nine-hole riding rates.
In Avenir you can book a tee time tomorrow at a posted rate. At Panther National, golf is a membership question with a hard cap on how many people get in, and the club does not publish initiation or dues figures. Ask for current terms in writing before you commit to a lot.
Buyers weighing golf-specific tradeoffs will find more in our golf course home buyer’s guide and the comparison of Old Palm and The Bear’s Club.
What is actually built and open right now?
Parts of Avenir are already open and in daily use. Publix opened its 48,387 square foot Avenir Town Center store at 12535 Northlake Blvd on May 21, 2026, per Publix Super Markets’ own newsroom announcement. The developer’s Town Center page puts the approvals at “up to 200,000 SF of retail and commercial space” and 1.8 million square feet of class A offices, with more tenants opening in phases. Avenir’s home page cites larger figures for the same project, so treat either number as a planning ceiling rather than a delivered count.
Approvals have kept coming. The City of Palm Beach Gardens’ Approved Projects list shows Avenir Pod 17, a 144-lot single-family subdivision, and Avenir Pod 19, a 149-lot subdivision, both approved on June 4, 2026. Avenir Health Park Phase II was approved on October 9, 2025. On the Panther National side, the city approved Phase 1 of the Panther National Lifestyle Center on September 4, 2025.
For households comparing school logistics, the City of Palm Beach Gardens lists Somerset Academy Avenir, a K-5 charter school, at 12950 Avenir Drive. Confirm assignment, enrollment and boundaries directly with the School District of Palm Beach County for your specific address, since charter enrollment and zoned assignment work differently and both change.
Panther National’s own real estate page describes a limited collection of turnkey estate homes and homesites releasing later in the year, offered first to people on its interest list. Getting on that list ahead of the release is the practical step if you want one of them.
Which one fits which buyer?
Avenir is the better fit if your budget sits under roughly $3 million, if you want a finished home rather than a build, if you want a choice of builders and floor plans, or if you want golf you can play on a green fee. It also puts a working Town Center inside the master plan, reachable on the community’s dedicated cart paths, though that retail is on Northlake Blvd and open to the public rather than resident-only.
Panther National is the better fit if you are building at $5 million and up, if the architecture program matters to you as much as the address, if you want a half-acre or full-acre homesite, and if a capped private club is the reason you are buying at all. The higher district assessment comes with the larger lot, so count it as part of the land cost.
There is a third answer that comes up often: buy elsewhere in Palm Beach Gardens. The Palm Beach Gardens community overview covers the established neighborhoods where you trade new construction for mature landscaping and a shorter drive east.
What should you verify before signing a builder contract?
Get the assessment in writing for your exact parcel. The Avenir CDD budget shows a spread of more than $6,000 a year between the lowest and highest residential parcels in fiscal 2026/2027, and lot width drives that number. A sales associate quoting a community average is not quoting your bill.
Ask which bond series funds your parcel and whether a new series is contemplated. The district’s fiscal 2026/2027 budget adds debt service lines for parcels A-10 and A-11 that do not appear in the prior-year columns, which is how an assessment rises even when the O&M charge falls.
Then handle the standard new-construction items. Order an independent inspection rather than relying on the municipal one, using our home inspection guide for Palm Beach County buyers. Confirm the build’s wind mitigation features and how they affect your insurance quote, covered in our guide to hurricane resilient home buying in South Florida. And read the builder’s escalation, delay and assignment clauses closely, because they are written for the builder, not for you.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Panther National part of Avenir?
Yes. Panther National sits within the Avenir Planned Community Development, per project land planner Cotleur & Hearing in 2026, and the Avenir Community Development District lists Panther National as Parcels A-12 and A-13/14 in its Final Budget for fiscal year 2026/2027. It has its own club, membership and architecture program.
How many homes are in Panther National?
218 homesites. The Avenir CDD’s Final Budget for fiscal 2026/2027 lists 139 lots in Parcel A-12, 55 lots in Parcel A-13/14 at 125 feet, and 24 lots in Parcel A-13/14 at 175 feet, all within the district’s Third Phase.
What is the cheapest way into Avenir?
Toll Brothers is listed from the “Low $600s” on Avenir’s own builders page in 2026, the lowest published starting point among the seven builders. That listing is for Regency, which Avenir’s Toll Brothers page describes as an active-adult collection, so it is age-restricted housing. The lowest published starting point without an age restriction is DiVosta, from the “$700s to over $1M.” Availability and posted ranges change, so confirm current pricing and any age restriction with the specific neighborhood before you plan around it.
Do Avenir homes pay both HOA dues and CDD assessments?
They are separate charges. The Avenir Community Development District collects its assessment through the Palm Beach County Tax Collector in the non-ad valorem section of the property tax bill. Association dues are billed separately by the community association. Budget for both.
Is the golf course at Panther National open?
Nicklaus Design lists the course, The Big Cat, as open for play. It is private, and Panther National describes the community and club as reserved for 300 members. Membership terms are not published publicly, so request them in writing from the club.
The bottom line
Avenir and Panther National are one development at two very different price points, and most of what separates them is already published. Price floors come from the developer sites. The Avenir CDD budget carries the annual assessment down to the parcel and the lot width, and the city posts both the approval calendar and the green fees. You can read all of it without booking a sales appointment.
What the public record cannot tell you is which tradeoff you will actually live with: a $3,311 assessment and a $49 summer tee time, or a one-acre homesite with a club that caps out at 300 people.
If you want the parcel-level assessment for a specific lot before you tour, or a read on which Avenir builders currently have standing inventory, get in touch with The Cahur Group at 561-401-5758. You can also browse current listings through our property search.
