Lost Tree Village

The first thing to settle about Lost Tree Village is jurisdiction, because the mailing address misleads. Addresses here read “North Palm Beach, FL 33408,” but that is a postal convention, not a municipal one. Lost Tree Village is unincorporated Palm Beach County. We tested five interior points — the golf course, the condominium cluster, the eastern edge, the north end and a western parcel — against two independent authoritative boundary datasets: the County’s own municipal layer returned “Unincorporated / Palm Beach County” at every one, and the Census Bureau’s incorporated-places layer returned no municipality at all. Two control points inside the actual Village of North Palm Beach correctly resolved to the Village on both layers, which proves the method. So county government, not the Village, sets the rules here.

One trap worth naming, because it is what leads other sources astray: the county parcel roll carries a “municipality” field that, for this one community, is split parcel-by-parcel between “North Palm Beach” and “County of Palm Beach.” That field reflects mailing assignment, not the incorporated-limits polygon. The authoritative boundary layers both say unincorporated, so that is what this guide publishes.

The community is organized around several named entities that the county ownership roll confirms: the Lost Tree Village Property Owners Association owns the residential common areas; Lost Tree Club, Inc. owns the golf course and club land, principally a 143.1-acre golf-course parcel at 11520 Lost Tree Way; and Lost Tree Chapel, Inc. owns a chapel parcel at 11149 Turtle Beach Road. A separate Lost Tree Village Corporation runs the community’s corporate site from an office at 11300 US Highway 1.

That corporation attributes the community’s founding to E. Llwyd Ecclestone Sr. and gives a founding year of 1959, and states the community covers 450 acres with 524 residences. Those are figures the corporation publishes itself; no government source publishes a community acreage or home count, so this guide attributes them rather than asserting them.

Lost Tree Village occupies a strip of the mainland with US Highway 1 to the west — the corporate office fronts US-1 — and the Intracoastal Waterway, the Lake Worth lagoon, to the east. Its eastern streets reach toward the water. It is a mainland community facing the Intracoastal; it does not front the open Atlantic.

John D. MacArthur Beach State Park sits immediately to the south and southeast, on the Singer Island barrier across the waterway — a state park with Atlantic beach, a nature center and boardwalk trails. Interior streets recorded in county data include Lost Tree Way, Turtle Beach Road, Palm Way, Old Harbour Road, Village Road, Lake House Drive and Church Lane.

The community falls in ZIP code 33408, the same North Palm Beach ZIP that contains several area private schools. Most of the public schools serving the ZIP sit west and north, in Palm Beach Gardens and Lake Park.

We publish no drive times or “minutes from” figures — none was measured from a dated authoritative source. And a note on the plats: the single-family homes here are recorded under several historical plat names (Old Port Village, Seminole Beach, Ocean House and others), not only “Lost Tree,” so “Lost Tree Village” as a subdivision label captures just part of the community.

Lost Tree Village is a private, gated community, and its housing is dominated by single-family homes. A quirk of the records is worth knowing before searching for it: the homes are platted under several historical subdivision names — Old Port Village, Seminole Beach, Ocean House and others — so the “Lost Tree Village” subdivision label in county records covers only a portion of the community (chiefly the club condominiums and cottages near the Lost Tree Club). A search that keys only on “Lost Tree” will miss most of the single-family homes.

The Lost Tree Village Corporation states the community holds 524 residences across 450 acres. Those are corporation-published figures, not government records, so this guide attributes them to the corporation rather than asserting them as fact — no county or Census source publishes a community home count or acreage.

Governance runs through the Lost Tree Village Property Owners Association, which owns the common areas, alongside the separately incorporated Lost Tree Club, Inc., which owns the golf and club land. Whether membership in the Lost Tree Club is mandatory for residents was not something we could confirm from a primary source, so this guide makes no claim either way — a buyer should confirm the club’s current membership structure and cost directly, because the club publishes neither.

On price, there is nothing authoritative to publish, and we do not substitute press reports for it. No dated, authoritative median sale price, price per square foot, days-on-market or inventory figure for Lost Tree Village exists on any source we checked, and the club publishes no membership or dues figure. Individual record-sale numbers circulate in the press, but they are single transactions from non-authoritative outlets and are not market data — so this guide publishes none of them. Christian works from verifiable, property-specific comparables.

Jurisdiction shapes everything downstream: Lost Tree Village is governed by Palm Beach County, not the Village of North Palm Beach, so county land-development rules and services apply. Confirm the specifics for a given parcel with the county.

Because the homes are platted under several historical subdivision names, a title and records review should not rely on the “Lost Tree Village” label alone — ask a professional to pull the specific plat for the property.

The Lost Tree Club and the Property Owners Association are separate entities. Request the POA’s governing documents and budget, and ask the club directly whether membership is required and what it costs — neither figure is published.

There is no Northern Palm Beach County Improvement District assessment tied to Lost Tree Village, since it is not one of the district’s units of development — one fewer non-ad-valorem line than several inland communities carry.

For a waterfront home, confirm dock permitting, seawall condition and Intracoastal access with qualified professionals, and verify flood zone, elevation and insurance for the specific address.

Life in Lost Tree Village centers on its private club, its golf course and its position on the Intracoastal. The amenities below are described from the community corporation’s own materials; where a detail was not confirmed against a government or independent source, this guide keeps the description general rather than repeating unverified counts.