Steven Koleno

Homesites like this one are what buyers wait for in North River Ranch. This four-bedroom, three-bathroom Cardel home sits on a rare pond lot in gated Riverfield, with eastern exposure that puts the morning light over the water and no rear neighbors looking back at you. North River Ranch is building out to more than 6,000 homes at full build, and a private water view with open sky behind it is the kind of lot that doesn't cycle back onto the market often. Inside, the 2,500 square feet is laid out to actually live in. The kitchen and great room open into each other for everyday flow and easy hosting, and a flex or bonus room off the kitchen takes on whatever you throw at it, media room, playroom, or a second living space. A private den toward the rear, looking out over the pond, gives you a real work-from-home or quiet room instead of a converted closet. Four bedrooms and three full baths leave room for guests, growing kids, or an out-of-state move that needs space to land. Riverfield is a gated neighborhood inside North River Ranch, minutes from the community pools, fitness facilities, scenic trails, and the Brightwood Pavilion. Step outside and the amenities read like a resort, multiple clubhouses, resort-style pools with water slides, fitness centers, game rooms, dog parks, and more than twenty miles of trails and paved paths at build-out. A full-time lifestyle director runs a year-round calendar of fitness classes, live music, food trucks, and community events, so there's genuinely something happening most weeks. North River Ranch has won Bradenton's Best Gold Award for Best Master-Planned Community four years running, 2022 through 2025, and took Best of Show for Overall Community Development at the 2025 Parade of Homes Manatee-Sarasota. That's local voters and industry judges landing on the same conclusion, repeatedly. The community is served by Manatee County Schools, and Barbara A. Harvey K-8 opened on-site inside North River Ranch for the 2025-2026 school year, with a STEM and engineering program that includes hands-on robotics and 3D printing. Buffalo Creek Middle and Parrish Community High round out the school lineup. The infrastructure is catching up to the lifestyle. HCA Florida North River Ranch Emergency, a freestanding 24/7 ER, opened inside the community in October 2025, with a larger hospital campus planned behind it. Market Walk, the Publix-anchored plaza, is open and serving residents today, the broader Village Center of restaurants and retail is underway, and State College of Florida broke ground on a new Parrish campus that will bring a nursing program to the area starting fall 2027. This is a community still adding to itself, not one that's finished building. Location closes it. North River Ranch sits in Parrish, FL 34219, in North Manatee County, with quick access to I-75 and U.S. 301 and an easy reach to Bradenton, Sarasota, Tampa, and St. Petersburg. Gulf beaches are a short drive west.