Southern Hills Plantation by Vitale Homes

Most golf communities ask buyers to pay for the lifestyle twice: once in the home price and again through 30 years of CDD payments. Southern Hills Plantation is different. Southern Hills Plantation is a 1,685-acre master-planned golf community in Brooksville, Hernando County, Florida. The community features a 27-hole championship golf course and the refined lifestyle that move-up buyers and active adults have spent their careers building toward. The legacy CDD at Southern Hills has nearly retired. Only $6,000 to $8,000 remains, depending on the lot, and Vitale Homes sometimes absorbs that balance at closing. Every home is built to the Vitale Estate Series standard, which includes approximately $170,000 in features that competing builders charge as upgrades. Quartz countertops in every bathroom. Granite or quartz kitchen surfaces. Kohler and Moen plumbing throughout. R38 ceiling insulation. Foam-injected block walls. ZIP System sheathing. 16-inch on-center framing. 3000 PSI concrete. Carrara marble window sills. A covered lanai with pavers. A full smart home package. At the 2026 Tampa Bay Parade of Homes, the Sawgrass model at Southern Hills Plantation won two prestigious honors: the Grand Award in the $750,000 to $799,000 category and Best in Class Outdoor Living, an honor given to just one home in the entire show of more than 70 builders. Every Vitale entry won. Floor plans range from 2,588 to 3,562 square feet. Priced from $769,990. The right community for empty nesters, golf lifestyle buyers, and move-up buyers who want a forever home that matches the life they have built.