Shirley Shores Homes for Sale

5 Beds ⋅ 3 Baths ⋅ Shirley Shores SubDv. ⋅ 32778 Zip Code

Welcome to 16206 E Shirley Shores Rd in Tavares! If you want weekends on the water and movie nights at home, this property offers both. Outside, the property features 146 feet of canal frontage with a lake view and direct water access to the Harris Chain of Lakes, including Lake Beauclair and Lake Dora. There is a covered wood dock with electric, a boathouse, a covered boat lift, and a covered seating area right on the water. Walk back up the paver path to a fire pit under the shade trees, a screened-in pool, an outdoor kitchen with built-in grills and a bar for hosting. Inside, this 2019 home has 5 bedrooms, 3 baths, and about 3,256 square feet of heated living space. Vaulted ceilings, tall windows, and sliding doors fill the open floor plan with light, and a fireplace provides warmth for cooler nights. The kitchen has a big granite island with seating, stainless appliances, a tile backsplash, and plenty of cabinets, with a wine fridge nearby. The home also has a first-floor primary suite with his and her walk-in closets and a spa-style bath featuring dual vanities, a large tub, and a walk-in shower. One of the bedrooms has been turned into a movie theater, and there's a game room too. A one-bedroom in-law suite and a balcony give guests their own space, and the 3-car garage has room for the toys. It all sits on .85 acres with no HOA and no CDD, plus public water and sewer.

16206 East Shirley Shores Road, Tavares

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Shirley Shores, Tavares

Shirley Shores is a neighborhood in southeast Tavares, in the 32778 zip code, built most often in the 1990s. Homes are block and stucco, predominantly single story. Most homes fall between about 2,300 and 4,300 square feet under air, and the median lot is about 1.14 acres.

Most of Shirley Shores carries no mandatory HOA.

What the homes are

Built Most often built in the 1990s (26% of homes), with homes from 1957 to 2024.
Construction Block and stucco. Shingle roofs on 78% of homes.
Style Custom, Contemporary, Ranch. Predominantly single story.
Size Most homes fall between about 2,300 and 4,300 square feet under air.
Bedrooms Four bedrooms is the most common plan, then three.
Lot The median lot is about 1.14 acres.
HOA Most of the neighborhood carries no mandatory HOA. Confirm on a specific parcel before relying on it.

Where Shirley Shores is

Shirley Shores, centered at 28.776003, -81.688732. Drag to explore.

Street level, inside the neighborhood. Drag to look around.

Drive times below are measured on the road network from the center of Shirley Shores, not straight-line distance, in free-flowing traffic. Treat them as the floor rather than the school-run average.

Driving to	Time	Miles
Downtown Orlando	47 min	34.6
Walt Disney World	52 min	45.1
AdventHealth Waterman	19 min	10.7
Downtown Mount Dora	20 min	10.6

Public schools nearby

Triangle Elementary School 23 min, 13.3 mi
Tavares Elementary School 19 min, 9.7 mi
Tavares High School 17 min, 9.1 mi

Private schools nearby

Liberty Christian Preparatory School 20 min, 11.0 mi
Mount Dora Christian Academy 22 min, 11.2 mi
Adonai Academy 16 min, 9.4 mi

Parks and recreation

Lake Jem Park 6 min, 3.4 mi
Lake Saunders Park 20 min, 10.9 mi
Trimble Park 14 min, 7.9 mi
Sylvan Shores Park 22 min, 12.1 mi

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Nearest is not the same as zoned. The schools above are the closest ones to Shirley Shores by distance. School attendance zones are set by the district, change from year to year, and can differ street to street inside one neighborhood. Confirm the assignment for a specific address with Lake County Public Schools before it matters to a decision.

Places and drive times from Google, checked 12 September 2026. Businesses open and close; if something here has changed, tell me and I will correct it.

This page tracks what homes in Shirley Shores actually sold for over the last twelve months, how long they took, and what moved the price. It is built from 4 verified closed sales in the Stellar MLS feed, not from public estimates. Every figure is a net-of-concessions number, which is explained at the bottom. Updated October 2026.

Read this one loosely. Fewer than eight homes closed here in the last year, so every median on this page rests on a small sample and can swing on a single sale.

What homes sold for in Shirley Shores

$1,035,000Median sale price

$385Median per square foot

68 daysMedian days to contract

4Homes sold in 12 months

Sale prices ran from $825,000 to $1,198,000.

By size

Home size	Sales	Median price	Median $/sq ft	Median days
2,000 to 3,000 sq ft	3	$880,000	$379	113 days

A price per foot taken from the whole neighborhood should never be applied straight to one house.

Price cuts and time to contract

Median days to go under contract. Shorter is better.

Never reduced 2 sales, closed at 99.5% of asking18 days

Reduced at least once 2 sales, closed at 98.4% of the reduced price140 days

Sellers who held their number went under contract in a median 18 days. Sellers who had to reduce took 140 days and still closed at 98.4% of their already reduced price, after a typical cut of $63,700.

How buyers paid

Conventional 3 sales75%

Cash 1 sale25%

Cash was 25% of purchases. A high cash share means a seller has buyers who do not depend on an appraisal, and a buyer using a loan is competing against offers that can close faster.

Questions about a specific home in Shirley Shores, or want to know what yours would sell for?
Call or text Brenden Rendo at 407-616-9019 or send a message.

About this data. Source is the Stellar MLS feed for Shirley Shores in Tavares, Lake County, covering closed sales from 31 October 2025 through 26 October 2026, refreshed monthly and current as of October 2026. Prices are net of seller concessions, so they reflect what the seller actually received rather than the headline number. Data believed accurate but not guaranteed; listings and closings change daily.