Lost Tree Village and Seminole Landing Home Watch: Why a Gate Is Not the Same as Being Watched

Lost Tree Village & Seminole Landing Owner Guide · Home Watch Behind the Gate · North Palm Beach, FL

By Jean Taveras, Broker-Owner, Atlis Property Management  ·  Updated November 2026

On the barrier strip of North Palm Beach, between MacArthur Beach State Park and Juno Beach, sit two of the most private addresses in the county. Lost Tree Village is 450 acres, 524 residences and a guardhouse that never closes. Seminole Landing, next door against Seminole Golf Club, is a few dozen estates on lots of an acre or more. Owners in both tend to assume the gate handles the worrying. It handles who drives in; everything behind the front door is still yours.

This guide covers what a closed home in either community needs between visits, how the exterior routine changes by lot, and how to set up a home watch and estate care plan that works alongside the security you already pay for.

Lost Tree Village and Seminole Landing at a Glance: What Makes Them Different

Lost Tree: a 1961 village with three kinds of water

E. Llwyd Ecclestone cleared the mangroves starting in 1959 and opened the village in 1961. Today it is fully built out: oceanfront houses along Turtle Beach Road, golf and lake homes around Lake Jane and Pelican Lake, deep-water docks on Little Lake Worth and the Intracoastal, plus condos and golf cottages. The Lost Tree Club is a separate, optional equity club with a Nicklaus-renovated course and a clubhouse rebuilt in 2012. Much of the housing is 1960s and 1970s original and teardowns are common.

Seminole Landing: fewer houses, bigger lots

Sources put Seminole Landing between 45 and 65 homes on roughly 77 acres, wedged between the ocean, Lost Tree Village and the 1929 Donald Ross course at Seminole Golf Club. Lots run more than an acre, houses 8,000 to 20,000 square feet and beyond, with deeded beach access and docks and lifts on some Intracoastal lots. One brokerage reports 68 percent are primary residences, so seasonal owners are a minority here. Its association name and fees are not published; confirm both directly.

Governance, rentals and the village

Lost Tree’s property owners association funds security, roads and common areas through an annual assessment, with separate charges for Lake Jane and Pelican Lake frontage; the governing documents are members-only and rental rules are not published. Rentals inside either gate are rare enough that none show on public listing sites.

What a Closed Lost Tree or Seminole Landing Home Needs Between Visits

What the gate covers, and what it does not

Twenty-four-hour security keeps unauthorized vehicles out and logs who comes in. It does not read your indoor humidity, notice a wet ceiling in a back bedroom or know that your pool pump stopped. A home watch plan is the interior half: two full walk-throughs a month by the same manager, a photo note after each, and someone registered at the gate who can bring the right vendor through.

Turtle Beach Road versus Lake Worth Lane

The exterior routine depends on the street. An oceanfront house on Turtle Beach Road takes salt and wind head-on: dune line, beach stairs, pool deck and every piece of exterior metal get looked at. A house on Little Lake Worth or the Intracoastal has a seawall, a dock and often a lift, checked after king tides for cap movement, scour and hardware.

Seminole Landing’s acre-plus problem

A 12,000-square-foot house on an acre of oaks and banyans is a small campus. The irrigation runs dozens of zones and the interior has enough rooms that a monthly housekeeper will never open every closet. This is where the Estate plan earns its fee: we supervise two vendor visits a month across pool, landscape, pest, A/C and cleaning, and run the quarterly system inspection. Our maintenance coordination sends you every quote first and never adds a markup, which on a property this size adds up over a year.

The 1960s and 70s original

Many Lost Tree houses are originals waiting for a rebuild, bought for the lot and used a few months a year. It is the riskiest kind of house to leave closed: older plumbing, roof and electrical, all in salt air. We look under every sink, at every ceiling and at the panel, and tell you which items deserve a fix now and which can wait for the demolition.

Common Mistakes Lost Tree and Seminole Landing Owners Make

Counting the gate as a home watch. The guard logs cars. He is not inside your house.

Leaving the boat on the lift. If the boat stays, the lift protocol has to be written down and someone has to own it.

Letting the vendor list go stale at the gate. A new A/C technician sits at the guardhouse while your manager tries to reach you.

Treating a Seminole Landing estate like a condo. An acre of irrigation and a 15,000-square-foot house cannot be checked from the driveway.

When to Adjust: Triggers That Change the Plan

A named storm. This strip has been in Palm Beach County’s mandatory evacuation tiers in past storms. Shutters, dock lines and the boat are handled ahead of time on the Estate and Private Client plans, and the post-storm inspection is photographed.

King tide season. Fall tides put water over low seawall caps, so dock and seawall checks move to the top of the list.

A rebuild starts next door. A neighbor’s demolition means dust, vibration and trucks. We add filter changes and a crack check.

Who This Is For

The Lost Tree seasonal owner on the water. Dock, lift, seawall and a closed house for six months. Atlis Estate, $595 a month, covers visits, exterior checks, vendor supervision and hurricane work.

The Seminole Landing estate owner. At 10,000 square feet and up on an acre, the house needs a director, not a checklist. Private Client, from $1,195 a month, adds a dedicated estate director with a 24/7 line and access management.

The owner holding an original for a future build. You want the house to survive until the permits clear. Atlis Watch, $295 a month, gives you two interior visits, photos and a manager who tells you what cannot wait.

“Owners in Lost Tree tell me the village is the safest place they have ever lived, and they are right. Then I ask when someone last opened the door to the guest wing. Security and home watch are two different jobs, and the second one finds the wet ceiling.”

— Jean Taveras, Broker-Owner, Atlis Property Management · FL Broker CQ1071712

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