7299 Serrano Terrace, Delray Beach, FL 33446
Local realty services provided by:Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate Florida 1st
Listed by: lynell diane d. harbison
Office: keller williams realty - welli
MLS#:R11161526
Source:RMLS
Price summary
- Price:$1,260,000
- Price per sq. ft.:$269.35
- Monthly HOA dues:$395
About this home
Picture yourself enjoying a South Florida sunset in January from your heated spa, overlooking the lake, while your neighbors up north shovel their driveways. This is the true South Florida lifestyle. This is Monterey Estates — a boutique gated community of only 48 homes in Delray Beach, where life moves at the pace you always said you wanted. Five bedrooms, four baths, 3,376 SF with a brand-new standing seam metal roof and a first-floor guest suite for parents who stay the winter. Warren American Whiskey Kitchen is five minutes up Lyons Road. Atlantic Avenue is twelve minutes east. Toes in the sand at Delray Beach under twenty. Zoned for Spanish River High. American Heritage School eight minutes away. Let me tell you about Monterey Estates on the lake. Let me tell you about Monterey Estates, because most people drive right past it and never know it exists. That is by design. Tucked just south of Lake Ida Road, one block east of Hagen Ranch, this boutique gated community of Mediterranean-style estate homes was built in the early 2000s and has quietly become one of the best-kept residential secrets in all of Delray Beach. There are no billboards. No model homes. No banner ads pushing you toward it. In the last two years, only three homes in the entire community have changed hands. That is not a coincidence people who live in Monterey Estates do not leave. The community wraps around a lake that catches the last light of the day in a way that makes your evening walk feel like it belongs in a different time zone. The streets inside the gate are exactly the kind of place where everyone cruise on golf carts after dinner because in Delray Beach, street-legal golf carts are a way of life, and these roads were made for it. This home has been owner-occupied and cared for not rented, not flipped, not staged to hide problems. The kind of home where the owners invested in a brand-new metal roof because they planned to stay. Life had other plans, and now it is available.
7299 Serrano Terrace sits on a quarter-acre estate lot with direct lake views. Five bedrooms, four full bathrooms, 3,376 square feet of open-concept living and five real bedrooms, not an office someone relabeled to boost the listing. The five bedrooms work the way your life actually works: a guest wing for anyone who visits every winter, an office with a real door, an upstairs living area the grandkids take over on holidays or bedrooms for teenagers who need their own space and a media room for movie nights. This home fits however your is shaped right now. The main floor flows from the gourmet kitchen through the family room and out to the lanai in one unbroken sightline the kind of layout where you are prepping dinner at the island, watching the pool through the sliders, and carrying on a conversation with guests in the living room all at the same time. Volume ceilings give the main floor a sense of scale that photos do not capture you feel it when you walk in. A first-floor guest suite with a full bathroom gives visiting guest their own wing their own space, their own privacy, no one stepping over anyone. A three-car garage tiled and fitted with built-in cabinets handles the golf cart, the bikes, and the storage that South Florida homes never seem to have enough of. The sellers also installed a brand-new standing seam metal roof, which means decades of hurricane-rated protection already paid for and an insurance quote that reflects it.
THE BACKYARD THAT BECOMES YOUR SOCIAL LIFE
The private backyard faces the community lake, and because of the home's west-facing orientation, you are watching sunsets from your heated spa while the water turns orange and pink in front of you. That is what a Tuesday evening looks like at this address. The outdoor space is where this home separates itself from everything else at this price point. The paver deck runs wide and deep enough room to install an outdoor kitchen with a built-in grill and bar top where you flip steaks while your guests sit lakeside with a drink. Or picture a tiki hut bar with stools and string lights where Friday nights become the thing your friends look forward to all week. Add a pergola over the dining area and you have a covered outdoor living room that works twelve months a year in this climate. Thanksgiving dinner outside. Super Bowl parties by the pool. Sunday mornings with coffee and the sound of nothing but water and birds. The lot is a quarter acre oversized for this community which means you have real yard space beyond the pool deck. Enough for kids, enough for a dog, enough for the kind of entertaining where nobody goes inside until someone notices it is midnight.
FIVE MINUTES FROM YOUR FRONT DOOR
Here is where I stop sounding like an agent and start talking like someone who lives here. Five minutes north on Lyons Road is Warren American Whiskey Kitchen. Over 800 whiskeys behind the bar, a short rib that will ruin every other restaurant for you, and a weekend brunch where you walk in planning to stay an hour and leave two and a half hours later. Five minutes. That is your neighborhood spot. For weekday breakfast, Keke's on West Atlantic is eight minutes east almost a thousand reviews and a line out the door for a reason. Downtown, The Bridge Cafe does a breakfast that makes you forget you have somewhere to be. Green Owl is a cash-only local institution. And Farmhouse Kitchen by Gary Rack is right on the Avenue for the Saturday brunch you actually get dressed for.
ATLANTIC AVENUE AND EVERYTHING THAT COMES WITH IT
Downtown Atlantic Avenue is twelve to fifteen minutes east. That is the honest number. And what you get when you arrive is the most walkable downtown in Palm Beach County maybe in all of South Florida. Tramonti for Italian. Le Colonial for Vietnamese-French. Deck 84 on the Intracoastal where you sit with a glass in your hand and watch the boats slide by. El Camino for tacos and mezcal on a night that needs no plan. Dada tucked into a little bungalow on Swinton that feels like a secret you found on your own. Hyde Park Prime for the steak dinner that means something. Ninety-five percent of the restaurants and shops downtown are independently owned and locally operated. That does not happen by accident and it is the reason Delray feels different from every other town on this coast. For nightlife, Tin Roof has live music seven nights a week. Throw Social has darts, DJs, and a rooftop scene that goes late. You are not driving to Boca or West Palm for a night out. You are already there.
THE BEACH
From this front door to toes in the sand at Delray Municipal Beach is under twenty minutes. Straight east on Atlantic Avenue, over the Intracoastal bridge, and the ocean is right there. No highway, no tolls, no detour. On a Sunday morning before the crowds, you are setting up your chair before most people have finished coffee. And Delray Beach is not a wall of high-rises. It is a real beach town low-rise, walkable, and you can see the water from the road.
SCHOOLS AND WHAT THEY MEAN FOR VALUE
Whether you have children at home or not, school zoning drives property values in Palm Beach County and this zoning is strong. Hagen Road Elementary is nearby. Carver Middle School is eight to ten minutes east. Spanish River Community High School one of the highest-ranked public high schools in Palm Beach County is ten to twelve minutes south on Jog Road. If private school is the preference, American Heritage School on Linton Boulevard is eight minutes from this front door. Eight minutes. That is one of the top college-prep schools in Florida Pre-K through twelve, nationally ranked athletics, serious STEM programs. Saint Andrew's in Boca Raton is another strong option about fifteen minutes south. Strong school zoning protects your investment whether your kids are in the classroom or not.
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Home facts
- Year built:2004
- Listing ID #:R11161526
- Added:19 day(s) ago
- Updated:February 26, 2026 at 04:58 AM
Rooms and interior
- Bedrooms:5
- Total bathrooms:4
- Full bathrooms:4
- Living area:3,376 sq. ft.
Heating and cooling
- Cooling:Ceiling Fans, Central Air
- Heating:Central, Electric
Structure and exterior
- Roof:Metal
- Year built:2004
- Building area:3,376 sq. ft.
Schools
- High school:Spanish River
- Middle school:Carver Community
- Elementary school:Hagen Road
Utilities
- Water:Public, Water Available
- Sewer:Public Sewer, Sewer Available
Finances and disclosures
- Price:$1,260,000
- Price per sq. ft.:$269.35
- Tax amount:$8,074 (2025)
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