Home buyers pay plenty to have view of fake lakes.
Mughis Chaudhry wanted a house on the water and an easy commute to his office — just like many people in the Orlando metropolitan area.
But unlike most home seekers, Chaudhry, 36, was willing to pay nearly $600,000 for a lakefront lot, even though it is a fake lake being carved out of the ground.
Residential developments have long dressed up retention ponds and presented them as lakes, but because of a diminishing supply of waterfront property, the practice is reaching new heights in west Orange County.