Communities

One of my favorite Naples Communities has always been Windstar on Naples Bay primarily because it is the only community of its kind in all of Naples. Windstar combines a Audubon Tom Fazio designed championship golf club with a beautiful marina and Yacht Club with direct access to the Gulf of Mexico through Gordon Pass less than a mile away.

The community is also the only one with its private Gulf Shore Beach Club on Keywaydin Island and a shuttle servicing residents from its private dock. The marina and yacht club houses 72 deep water slips and has its own dockmaster.

The clubhouse was recently re-built from the ground up on Naples Bay and has a wonderful bar and dining facility with magnificant western sunset views out over that Bay and toward the…

Newly developed luxury residences on the water with direct Gulf access in Naples can be vary hard to find.

Fortunately, Aqua at Pelican Isle is now offering three new models all of which are ready for sale. Two of these models have earned the Collier Building Industry Association's prestigious Sand Dollar Award for best interior design. With a limited number of residences and extraordinary resort-style amenities in the midst of an incomparable Naples lifestyle, Aqua represents a unique opportunity and true value for the luxury home buyers.

Aqua is an eleven-story luxury residential tower sitting on 10.45 acres at Vanderbilt Drive and Wiggins Pass in North Naples.The site is adjacent to the Pelican Isle Yacht Club and residents are provided an equity…

Spanish Wells has always been a highly desired gated golf course community in Bonita Springs, but for the past few years with their club in a real state of flux, people have been a bit hesitant to pull the trigger.

That has all changed with the acquisition of the club by Escalante Golf, a boutique owner of luxury golf properties across the country.  With Escalante acquiring the club, the members also have a unique opportunity to be able to utilize another property under Escalanta Golf, the Tarpon Cove Yach and Racquet Club.  The members have access to a number of world-class amenities such as waterfront dining, water sports, spa services and fitness facility.

The excitement shows in the number of sold units in 2011.  Since the first of the year, there…

For the first half of this year, Grey Oaks exceeded $52.2 million in sales and there seems to be no stopping that trend.  That figure represented a 25% increase over the same period last year which is quite significant.

What is interesting is the fact that reslaes in Grey Oaks have declined which shows that the people who have purchased there appreciate the tremendous long-term value that the community represents.

Two of the communities that are doing very well are Torino and Misrmonte which were both purchased by the Ronto Development Group.  New model residences and decorator-ready units will be released in the coming months which should add to the excitment of those two developments within the community.

Look for another community within Grey Oaks,…

About 6 months ago, I began offering weekly reports of statistical data compiled by the very respected firm of Altos Research in California. 

The reports are substantial in depth, although if you prefer, you can opt to receive an Executive Summary for any area of greater Naples or by zip code. For a more extensive report for a certain area, one would opt for the Market Update. 

The Executice Summary will show the Median List Price, Asking Price per Square Foot, Average Days on Market (DOM), Percent of Properties with Price Decrease, Percent Relisted, Percent Flip, Median House Size, Median Lot Size, Median Number of Bedrooms, Median Number of Bathrooms and most importantly the Market Action Index.  All this criteria is geared to show trends in the…

One of the communities that I have always been very partial to in my 20 of doing Naples Real Estate is Hawksridge.  Nestled quietly off Pine Ridge Road on the west side almost directly across from Grey Oaks.  

Hawksridge is an intimate gated community of only 94 homesites, with a wonderful mix of luxury custom homes and large spacious coach/carriage homes.  The community boasts a clubhouse, community pool and tennis courts.  The sidewalks are well lit and wide perfect for running or jogging.

If you are looking for a small friendly community that is close in to everything, including Olde Naples and the beaches, you just might have found home!

The 1,050 acre community that was ambitiously envisioned as Naples first TPC Golf Course Community by the Kuttemperor family or V.K. Development, Treviso Bay, may finally get jumped started again with a new buyer.

Rumored for weeks now, Treviso Bay has a brand new buyer called Treviso Holding LLC thought to be a subsidary of the national builder Lennar Corporation.  The company was founded in 1954 and is headquartered in Miami, Florida.  According to their website, the company's founding principles are quality, value and integrity.

With Lennar as the new owner, Treviso Bay should finally get reved up although there will be many changes.  The developer will be paying back the debt, some $64 million that is currently being held by bondholders that…

Sales at The Estuary at Grey Oaks have been absolutely on fire this season as buyers rush to take advantage of the great new construction pricing, as well as resales.

Located on the east side of Airport-Pulling Road directly across from Grey Oaks, the Estuary is a gated golf community containing 350 acres and only 179 homesites offering a truly exclusive setting.  The preferred builders for the Estuary offer a variety of execptional custom floor plans for the large estate and villa homes that they are currently building.  The colors are very European and give many of the neighborhoods a definite Mediterranean village feel.  Since the first of the year, resales alone have totalled over $14 million.

If an exclusive gated golf community with a special…

If you are not in the mood to pay the high initiation fees at many of the gated golf communbities, bundled golf might just be the way to go!

Bundled golf is exactly what the name implies, golf is bundled in with your homeowner fees.  When you purchase a home in bundled golf community, you automatically become a member of the golf club and all the other community facilities.  Those amenities might include the clubhouse, restaurant, exercise facility, swimming pool, tennis courts, etc.  Not only the golf but all the other amenities make a bundled golf community very attractive to buyers.  The homeowner fees will normally run between $3,000 and $6,000 per year depending on the community and location.

In the greater Naples area, there are a number of…

Copper CovePreserve is on fire and it's not hard to see why!  The Lennar-built community resides just minutes from some of the best beaches in the world on Marco and in Naples, but that's not the prime reason the community has takes off.  It's all about the product and the price.

Lennar, who recently took the community over, is offering 5 new designs with floor plans ranging from 1,861 sq.ft. to 3,283 sq.ft.  The Modena model is the smallest at 1,861 sq.ft. offering 3 bedrooms and 2 baths and a three car garage.  The larger of the models is the Sorrento which is 3,283 sq.ft. and is 5 bedrooms with 4.5 baths with a three car garage.  Prices for the Modena start at $309,900, while the Sorrento starts at $369,900.

We just wrote a contract for the Sorrento…