512 Honey Locust Lane, Ponte Vedra Beach Pool Home
A 2023 renovated five bedroom pool home in gated Plantation Oaks with the primary down and a protected preserve out back.
512 Honey Locust Lane, Ponte Vedra Beach, FL 32082
$1,749,000
The kids leave for school, and the cul-de-sac goes quiet. You walk back up the driveway, past the oaks that have been here longer than the neighborhood, push through the screened lanai door, and the pool is already warm. The preserve behind the property does not have anyone in it. The coffee is still hot. There is one good hour before the day actually starts, and on Honey Locust Lane, that hour belongs entirely to you.
Plantation Oaks is one of those Ponte Vedra Beach gated communities where the front page features matter less than the daily rhythm. 512 Honey Locust is a home that earned the 2023 kitchen renovation it now wears. Move up buyers who have been comparing every floor plan in 32082 already know how rare this configuration is.
Wow #1: The primary suite, the office, and two guest suites all live on the first floor.
Most homes in this price band ask the buyer to choose between a downstairs primary and enough beds. This one does not.
On the main level, you get the full primary suite with his and hers closets and a tub with a separate shower, an office with its own door, and two guest suites. In-laws can stay through Thanksgiving without anyone climbing stairs. A teenager home from college has her own bath. The guest suite that doubles as a second office on Monday morning becomes a real bedroom by Friday night.
Upstairs is a different zone. Two oversized bedrooms share a Jack and Jill bath, and a loft at the top of the stairs flexes between a fifth bedroom, a media room, an art studio, or a homework wing. Vaulted ceilings make the space feel even larger than the square footage suggests.
The split bedroom design is the kind of layout buyers do not fully appreciate until they have lived without it. Once you have, you will not buy a home that does not have it.
Wow #2: The 2023 kitchen renovation runs the whole house.
A kitchen renovation in 2023 means current materials, current layouts, and warranties that have not run out yet.
Here, that translates to quartz countertops, solid wood cabinetry, stainless steel appliances, and a large island sized for actual cooking with company. The double oven includes an air fryer. The microwave is built into a drawer below the counter rather than mounted over the cooktop, which is how you know someone actually thought about how the kitchen gets used day to day. A walk-in pantry keeps the rest of it out of sight.
What makes this kitchen do its job is the room it opens into. The two-story family room is gracious enough that nobody is crowded around the island while you finish cooking, and the breakfast nook holds the morning crew without the dining room having to be set up for cereal. A gas fireplace anchors one wall.
This is the part of the house that runs the house. Mornings, after school, weeknight dinners, holidays, everything routes through it.
Wow #3: A screened lanai, a heated salt water pool, and a protected preserve where back neighbors used to be.
The lot is a cul-de-sac. The back of the property faces a protected preserve, which in Florida is a rare configuration that does not change. No one is building behind you, ever.
The lanai is fully screened, which in Ponte Vedra Beach is the difference between a pool you use and a pool you wish you used. The pool itself is salt water, gas-heated, with a screen enclosure and pool sweep, so it is ready in March and still comfortable in late November. The spa is integrated. A fire pit sits at the back edge of the yard with the preserve behind it.
What is actually back there:
Screened lanai with covered seating
Heated salt water pool and spa with pool sweep
Fire pit
Preserve view, no rear neighbors
Mature oak canopy on the lot
Sprinklers front and rear
For most family buyers, this is the part of the property that justifies the rest of the search.
The floor plan in 30 seconds.
5 bedrooms, 4 full baths
4,614 square feet across two levels, built in 2002
First floor primary suite with his and hers closets and tub with separate shower
Two additional guest suites and a dedicated office on the first floor
Two oversized bedrooms upstairs sharing a Jack and Jill bath, plus a loft bonus space
2023 renovated eat-in kitchen with quartz, solid wood cabinetry, large island, double oven with air fryer, microwave drawer, and walk-in pantry
Two-story family room with a gas fireplace, open to the kitchen
Screened lanai with heated salt water pool, integrated spa, and fire pit on a preserve lot
3 car attached garage, cul-de-sac, stucco with stone veneer
0.36 acres, tankless water heater, central vacuum, sprinklers front and rear
About Plantation Oaks.
Plantation Oaks is a gated community on the west side of Ponte Vedra Beach, framed by the mature oak trees that give the neighborhood its name. Residents have a community pool with a party pavilion, tennis courts, pickleball courts, and a playground, with sidewalks that run through the neighborhood and continue out to the beach roughly two miles east. HOA dues are $2,542 annually. The community is zoned for Ocean Palms Elementary, Alice B. Landrum Middle, and Ponte Vedra High, all A-rated inside the St. Johns County district. Sawgrass Village is the closest everyday shopping and dining anchor, with TPC Sawgrass, the Ponte Vedra Inn and Club, and Sawgrass Country Club all within the same short radius.
See it before someone else does.
Renovated, primary-down, preserve-lot pool homes in Plantation Oaks do not sit. If you would like a private walk-through of 512 Honey Locust, current comps for how this home is priced against the rest of Ponte Vedra Beach right now, and a few minutes on the lanai before deciding whether to bring the whole family back for a second visit, send me a message, and I will set it up.
