Toscana Isles is a gated, master-planned community by D.R. Horton in Nokomis, in unincorporated Sarasota County, off Laurel Road near the I-75 interchange. The community was built out over roughly a decade, from about 2015 to 2025, and is centered on a large interconnected lake system, with the bigger lake reported around 94 acres and a connected twin near 55 acres (That Florida Life and local community guides, 2026).
The housing is newer single-family homes and attached carriage homes in a range of one-story and two-story floor plans, broadly from the mid-1,000s to roughly 3,700 square feet. Because the plat mixes standard interior lots, premium lakefront lots, and attached product, the lot and the water view drive value as much as the floor plan does.
The amenity campus is the centerpiece: an 8,000-square-foot clubhouse, an infinity-edge pool overlooking the lake, a fitness center, tennis, pickleball, and bocce courts, a dog park, a fire pit, and kayak and canoe launches on the lake system, with a lifestyle director running events. Motorized boats are prohibited on the lakes, which keeps the water quiet for paddling and fishing.
The pitch is a newer gated lake community with resort amenities in a fast-growing South Sarasota County corridor. The work is reading the carrying cost honestly: the HOA varies by product tier, and Toscana Isles sits inside a Community Development District, so a CDD assessment is on the tax bill. Verify both lines, and the exact lot and water view, before you fall for a price.
