Winter Park sits just south of the Dommerich community, and for most Dommerich residents it functions as the neighborhood’s downtown: the restaurants, the shops, the farmers market, and — for Erin’s clients — the brokerage. This page is context for the area Erin serves beyond the Dommerich community itself.
The Park Avenue center of gravity
Winter Park grew up around Park Avenue — a brick-lined main street of boutiques, galleries, and sidewalk dining that has anchored the city since the late 1800s. Rollins College closes the avenue’s south end; Central Park runs along its west side and hosts the weekly farmers market. The Charles Hosmer Morse Museum, home to the world’s most comprehensive collection of Tiffany glass, sits a block north. It is one of the few genuinely walkable town centers in Central Florida.
The avenue and its park also carry the city’s calendar: the Sidewalk Art Festival each spring, the Saturday farmers market, Fourth of July on the Central Park lawn, Dinner on the Avenue, and Christmas in the Park to close the year. For Dommerich residents, all of it is minutes from home.
The chain of lakes
Winter Park’s six-lake chain — including Lakes Virginia, Osceola, and Maitland — threads through the city and connects by navigable canals, which is why the Scenic Boat Tour has run continuously since 1938. Lake Maitland, the chain’s largest, reaches north toward the Dommerich neighborhoods; some Dommerich community homes sit on or near the same water. Boating access is a fixture of life on both sides of the city line.
Housing character
The housing stock spans lakefront estates, historic homes on brick streets, mid-century neighborhoods, and luxury condominiums near the avenue. It is one of the most competitive markets in Central Florida, with a price spectrum that runs far wider than the Dommerich community’s. Buyers priced out of Winter Park proper often find that the Maitland neighborhoods a few minutes north deliver the same oak-canopy character with a top-rated school attached — that’s the comparison Erin walks clients through most often.
Erin’s home turf
Erin’s brokerage, Fannie Hillman & Associates, has been Winter Park’s independent brokerage since 1981, with offices on Park Avenue and Fairbanks Avenue. Erin serves buyers and sellers across Winter Park, Maitland, and greater Orlando — with this site focused on the Dommerich community where she has the deepest personal roots.
Where Winter Park sits
Considering Winter Park or weighing it against the Dommerich community? Talk to Erin — she works both markets every week.