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Last Updated October 2026 · By Jesse McGreevy and Marc Comisar, McGreevy and Comisar at Domain Realty · More about Jesse McGreevy, Marc Comisar and our team on the about page.

McGreevy and Comisar lead Domain Realty Group, the #1 real estate team in Southwest Florida, selling and buying homes in Barefoot Beach. Top 1% Nationally since 2008. Over $900 million in personal sales and $2.5 billion+ sold as a team. The team Barefoot Beach homeowners call first.

If you are searching for the best realtor in Barefoot Beach, Florida, or typed “Barefoot Beach realtor near me” from a balcony on Barefoot Beach Boulevard, this page is the full record we work from. Barefoot Beach is a gated Gulf-front community at the north tip of Collier County. The county roll counts 635 homes and condominiums under the Barefoot Beach name: 626 in the seven neighborhoods of the gated community and nine on Barefoot Bay Court, just outside the gate. Is it Bonita Springs or Naples? Neither city: every address is in unincorporated Collier County, and the mail is addressed Bonita Springs, FL 34134.

Three things share the name, and most confusion starts there. Barefoot Beach the community is private and gated. Barefoot Beach Preserve County Park is a public county park at the south end of the same road. Barefoot Beach Access is a public county beach lot at the north end, beside Bonita Beach Road. The hotels called Barefoot Beach Club on the Pinellas County beaches, and the Barefoot Pelican condominium at Vanderbilt Beach in Naples, are unrelated to all three.

Selling your Barefoot Beach home? Start with a free Barefoot Beach home valuation, read how we sell a home in Barefoot Beach, or call Jesse direct at (239) 898-6072 (text or call, same-day response).

Buying in Barefoot Beach? Call Marc at (239) 287-5873, read our guide to buying a home in Barefoot Beach, or see how we work with buyers across Southwest Florida.

Why McGreevy and Comisar Are the Best Barefoot Beach Realtors

McGreevy and Comisar are the best realtor choice in Barefoot Beach for sellers and buyers who want the record, not a brochure. We lead Domain Realty Group, the #1 team in Southwest Florida since 2012, Top 1% nationally since 2008, with over $2.5 billion sold as a team and $900 million in personal sales between Jesse and Marc.

Barefoot Beach punishes generic representation. One community holds condominium units recorded at $1,000,000 and lane homes recorded above $15,000,000, ten neighborhood-level associations beneath two master-level bodies, two planned unit developments, and a flood map that changes from one building footprint to the next. A price opinion that averages the community fits no home in it. We read the recorded declarations, tracked every county-recorded sale, and queried the federal flood layer at 61 addresses so that a seller’s price and a buyer’s offer rest on documents.

Recent Barefoot Beach track record (last 12 months): Domain Realty, our brokerage, closed 24 transaction sides in ZIP code 34134, the ZIP code Barefoot Beach shares, in the 12 months to October 5, 2026, for $24.0 million in volume counted by side, per the Southwest Florida MLS pulled that day. One of them was a Domain Realty listing at Barefoot Beach Club, 257 Barefoot Beach Blvd, which closed on August 21, 2026 at $1,200,000, and over 60 months the brokerage’s count in the ZIP code is 129 transaction sides and $90.2 million in volume counted by side. McGreevy and Comisar are the #5 real estate team in Florida and the #1 real estate team in Bonita Springs in the 2026 RealTrends rankings. The community’s own figures, Southwest Florida MLS, pulled October 3, 2026: 37 closings in the 12 months to October 3, 2026, from $750,000 to $8,850,000, with a median of $2,600,000, a median of 171 days on market and a median sale-to-list ratio of 91.8 percent of the final list price. What the public record shows: Collier County’s recorded-sales file holds 25 county-qualified Barefoot Beach sales since October 2025, from $1,000,000 to $7,800,000, with a median of $2,800,000; the county and the MLS count sales differently, so the two totals do not match. We tracked every one of the 85 Barefoot Beach closings in the county’s qualified record since October 2021, neighborhood by neighborhood, for this page.

Honors and recognition:

• Top 1% Real Estate Agents Nationally Since 2008
• 5 Star Award for Customer Satisfaction for 21 Straight Years. Only 5 out of 21k+ Licensees (Gulfshore Life Magazine)
• #1 Team in Southwest Florida since 2012
• McGreevy and Comisar and their Domain Realty Group team have sold over $2.5 Billion in Real Estate
• McGreevy and Comisar alone have over $900 million in Sales
• Nationally Recognized Top Producing Realtors
• Platinum Sales Production Award Winners

Selling your Barefoot Beach home? Get a free home valuation at mcgreevyandcomisar.com/home-valuation OR call Jesse direct at (239) 898-6072 (text or call, same-day response).

Buying a home in Barefoot Beach? Call Marc at (239) 287-5873 for a buyer consultation built on the recorded sales, and read how we represent buyers.

Before you hire anyone, compare the best real estate agents in Barefoot Beach on the public record. That comparison covers the agents and teams addressed in ZIP code 34134, the ZIP code Barefoot Beach shares with the west side of Bonita Springs.

Jesse McGreevy is a top-reviewed Southwest Florida realtor. The three reviews below are genuine five-star Google reviews from Southwest Florida clients, reproduced word for word from our Google Business Profile. We publish no aggregate rating. We do not edit, combine or summarize client words.

★★★★★ “Marc Comisar did an excellent job working with a very difficult client (me) selling our condo in a tough condo market. He went above and beyond.” Verified Google review

★★★★★ “So knowledgeable! You can tell they truly have a high level of expertise and were incredibly professional from start to finish.” Verified Google review

★★★★★ “Jesse listened to what we were looking for and found us exactly what we wanted. Jesse was always available to answer any questions and helped us through the entire process.” Verified Google review

Office: 24031 S Tamiami Trl #101, Bonita Springs, FL 34134

Key Takeaways

Barefoot Beach in ten lines. Each line is backed below by a recorded document, a government data layer or the county roll, with the source beside the figure.

• Barefoot Beach is not in a city. All 635 dwellings on the county roll sit in unincorporated Collier County with a Bonita Springs, FL 34134 mailing address, Collier County Public Schools, the North Collier Fire Control and Rescue District and no municipal tax.
• The community is private; the preserve is public. The boulevard is owned by the Barefoot Beach Master Association and is burdened by a recorded State of Florida easement that reaches the county park at its south end.
• Seven neighborhoods make up the gated community: Barefoot Beach Club (348 condominium units in four separately recorded condominiums), the Villas (50), the Cottages (15), Bayfront Gardens with Bayside (27 homes on 33 homesites), Southport on the Bay (100 homes), Barefoot Estates (6 homes) and the beach lanes (80 homes). Barefoot Bay (9 homes) and Barefoot Boat Club (108 boat-storage units) carry the name and sit outside the gate and outside the planned unit development.
• The county-recorded market: 25 county-qualified sales in the 12 months from October 2025, median $2,800,000, low $1,000,000, high $7,800,000. That is a county record, not MLS.
• There is no single “Barefoot Beach HOA.” Two master-level bodies exist, the Master Association (boulevard, gate, 716 “doors”) and the Property Owners Association (the single-family lanes, 136 shares), above ten neighborhood-level associations, five of them inside Barefoot Beach Club alone.
• No dollar assessment is published for any association in any recorded or public document we found. The estoppel certificate and the current budget are the route to the number.
• Every address we tested is in a Special Flood Hazard Area. Zones run from AE with a 10 foot base flood elevation on the bay side to VE with 13 on the Gulf-front lanes. No home or building is inside a Coastal Barrier Resources System unit, so federal flood insurance is available.
• Hurricane Ian’s high-water mark inside the gate was 11.76 feet NAVD88 at Barefoot Beach Boulevard and Anguilla Lane (U.S. Geological Survey). The preserve was closed from the storm until November 24, 2023.
• Recorded lease minimums differ by neighborhood: 30 days in the Club, the Villas, Bayside and Barefoot Bay, 60 days in Southport on the Bay, 90 days and one lease a year on the lanes. Barefoot Estates carries that rule beside 1995 covenants that read a one-month minimum.
• 2026 adopted millage is 9.3696 on every parcel, and in Collier County the buyer customarily pays the owner’s title policy.

Table of Contents

This Barefoot Beach guide runs from the place questions to the market, the neighborhoods, the rules, the flood and storm record, and the seller and buyer sections. Jump to any part.

• Where Is Barefoot Beach, and Is It in Bonita Springs or Naples?
• Is Barefoot Beach Private or Public? The Community, the Preserve and the Beach Access
• Who Owns Barefoot Beach Boulevard, and How Does the Gate Work?
• Barefoot Beach Preserve County Park: Hours, Parking, Rules and Current Status
• What Is It Like to Live in Barefoot Beach?
• Barefoot Beach Market Snapshot: What Have Homes Sold For?
• What Neighborhoods Are in Barefoot Beach? Every Neighborhood and Condominium in One Table
• Barefoot Beach Club: 348 Condominium Units in Twelve Buildings, Eight on the Gulf Side
• Villas at Barefoot Beach: 50 Fee-Simple Villas at the North Tip
• The Cottages at Barefoot Beach: 15 Detached Homes Held as a Condominium
• Bayfront Gardens and Bayside at Barefoot Beach: 33 Homesites, Two Associations
• Southport on the Bay: 100 Homes, Private Docks and the Street Called Southport Cove
• Barefoot Estates: Six Homes on Seven Plots Between Felipe and Saint Eustacius Lanes
• The Barefoot Beach Lanes: 80 Homes on Lely Barefoot Beach Units One and Two
• Barefoot Bay: Nine Homes on a Private Court Outside the Gate
• Barefoot Boat Club: 108 Boat-Storage Condominium Units on Bonita Beach Road
• Who Runs Barefoot Beach? The Association Layers Explained Simply
• The Club at Barefoot Beach: A Separate Private Beach and Tennis Club
• How Did Barefoot Beach Come to Be? The Zoning History and the Developer Lineage
• Who Governs Barefoot Beach? The Collier County Offices an Owner Deals With
• What Flood Zone Is Barefoot Beach In? Neighborhood by Neighborhood
• Is Barefoot Beach in the Coastal Barrier Resources System?
• How Did Barefoot Beach Fare in Hurricanes Ian, Helene and Milton?
• Hurricane Evacuation From Barefoot Beach: Zone A and One Road Out
• How Does Property Insurance Work at Barefoot Beach?
• Which Schools Serve Barefoot Beach?
• County Permits, Zoning and Coastal Rules at Barefoot Beach
• Is There New Construction at Barefoot Beach? Unbuilt Homesites and What Can Still Be Built
• Daily Life at Barefoot Beach: Mail, Trash, Utilities, Health Care, Groceries and Drive Times
• Boating From Barefoot Beach: Docks, the Boat Club, the Passes and the Bridges
• Can You Rent Out a Barefoot Beach Home? Recorded Lease Rules, the Rental Market and Property Management
• Are Pets Allowed at Barefoot Beach?
• What Does It Cost to Own in Barefoot Beach? Property Tax, Closing Customs and Association Fees
• Barefoot Beach vs Bonita Beach: Which Side of the County Line Fits You?
• Pros and Cons of Owning at Barefoot Beach
• Civic and Volunteer Spotlight: The Organizations Around Barefoot Beach
• How We Researched Barefoot Beach, and What We Tracked First-Hand
• Thinking of Selling Your Barefoot Beach Home? List With the #1 Team in Southwest Florida Since 2012
• Thinking of Buying in Barefoot Beach?
• Your Local Real Estate Experts
• Frequently Asked Questions, Barefoot Beach Buyer Edition
• Frequently Asked Questions, Barefoot Beach Seller Edition
• Frequently Asked Questions, Barefoot Beach Rental and Visitor Edition
• What We Could Not Verify
• Sources and Authoritative References
• Downloadable Documents

Where Is Barefoot Beach, and Is It in Bonita Springs or Naples?

Barefoot Beach is in unincorporated Collier County, Florida, at the northern end of the county’s Gulf beachfront, immediately south of Bonita Beach Road and the Lee County line. Barefoot Beach is not inside the City of Bonita Springs and not inside the City of Naples. “Bonita Springs, FL 34134” is only the mailing address.

Data updated: October 2026

The short answer, with the tests we ran

People ask whether Barefoot Beach is Bonita Springs or Naples because both names appear on official records for the same parcels. The postal city is Bonita Springs. The county is Collier, whose seat is Naples, and some state files print “Naples” as the physical city. Neither one is a municipality that contains the property.

Four independent public sources say there is no city here. The U.S. Census Bureau’s TIGERweb boundary service returns no incorporated place at any Barefoot Beach point we queried, and returns “Bonita Springs city” at a point on Hickory Boulevard just north of Bonita Beach Road, so the tool does report a city where one exists. Collier County’s own city limits layer returns nothing here. Every Barefoot Beach parcel on the county parcel layer carries a municipal millage of zero. And the county zoning map shows county zoning, not city zoning, on every neighborhood.

The City of Bonita Springs stops at the Lee and Collier county line, which runs along Bonita Beach Road at the community’s gate. The zoning ordinance for the Villas describes its own north boundary as “the north Collier County line” and the south right-of-way line of Bonita Beach Road.

Barefoot Beach jurisdiction in one table

Why the mailing address says Bonita Springs

Mail routes follow post offices, not government boundaries. The only road to Barefoot Beach leaves Bonita Beach Road, on the Bonita Springs side of the bay, so the Postal Service delivers the community from Bonita Springs and assigns ZIP code 34134. The address tells you where the mail truck comes from. It does not tell you who taxes the home, who issues the building permit, which school a child attends or whose evacuation order applies. All four of those are Collier County.

What the jurisdiction changes for an owner

• Taxes. No city levy. The 2026 adopted rate is 9.3696 mills on every Barefoot Beach parcel.
• Permits and flood rules. Collier County Growth Management issues permits, and Collier County’s floodplain ordinance and Flood Insurance Rate Map panels apply.
• Evacuation. Owners follow Collier County orders for Zone A, even though the only road out runs into Lee County.
• Schools. Collier County Public Schools zones apply, not Lee County School Choice.
• Short-term rentals. Collier County’s registration ordinance applies, not the City of Bonita Springs rental permit.
• Title insurance custom. In Collier County the buyer customarily pays the owner’s title policy and chooses the closing agent. The contract controls.

For the county-wide picture of taxes, flood zones and government, see our Collier County guide. For the two cities whose names get attached to Barefoot Beach, see our Bonita Springs guide and our Naples guide.

Names that are not Barefoot Beach

Is Barefoot Beach Private or Public? The Community, the Preserve and the Beach Access

Barefoot Beach is both, because the name covers three places. The residential community is private and gated. Barefoot Beach Preserve County Park, at the south end, is a public Collier County park. Barefoot Beach Access, at the north end beside Bonita Beach Road, is a public county beach lot. Visitors can use the two public places, not the community.

Three places with one name

The county’s own park page describes the access as “located 20 feet off Bonita Beach Road on Lely Barefoot Boulevard,” with the preserve “just South of this access point” and Lee County’s Bonita Beach Park just north. The county treats the two as separate pay-to-park beach parks.

Where the public beach lot came from

The north access is older than most of the homes. The developer deeded a beach tract with 600 feet of Gulf frontage, 180 feet deep, at the Lee County line to the Board of County Commissioners on July 17, 1978, and the zoning ordinance required a public parking area for at least 100 cars. The ordinance for the Villas, which sit just south of it, describes the villa site as separated from the Gulf “in part by a 180 x 600 foot strip of county owned beach.” That strip is today’s Barefoot Beach Access, and its parking area carries a Bonita Beach Road address.

Is the sand in front of the homes private?

The dry sand and dunes in front of the homes are private or association-owned land. On the lanes, each block ends at a recorded “Beach Garden” tract, and a beachfront common tract runs along the Gulf; a 2007 court judgment recorded in the county’s official records ordered that common beachfront tract deeded to the Property Owners Association. In front of the Club, the Villas and the Cottages, the upland belongs to those associations or their owners.

Under Florida law the wet sand seaward of the mean high water line is held by the State for the public, and where an erosion control line has been set after a beach project, that surveyed line governs. We do not draw that line for any lot. A buyer who cares about it should order a boundary survey, and should read the temporary beach restoration easements recorded in 2023, which we cover in the storm section.

What the difference means for an owner

Owners get a private road, a staffed guardhouse and association-controlled beach paths. They also live beside two public beach parks, which is why traffic to the preserve passes through the community during park hours. Neither fact is hidden in the records, and both belong in a buyer’s thinking before an offer and in a seller’s disclosure before a listing.

Who Owns Barefoot Beach Boulevard, and How Does the Gate Work?

Barefoot Beach Boulevard is a private road owned by Barefoot Beach Master Association, Inc., which must staff the guardhouse 24 hours a day under a recorded agreement. The same road corridor is burdened by a permanent easement the State of Florida holds for access to its land at the south end, now Barefoot Beach Preserve County Park.

The recorded chain, in date order

What the State’s easement says

The 1988 Easement Agreement gives the State “a permanent easement for ingress and egress over a 60-foot easement corridor,” and says the easement “shall specifically include the right to use any road now or hereafter constructed within such corridor.” The rights run to the State’s successors, assignees or transferees and, in the document’s words, “shall not be restricted in any way.” The developer agreed to build a paved road to county standards and to maintain it “until such time as ownership of the road is transferred to the homeowners’ association.” If the association fails to maintain the road, the State may do the work and bill for it.

What the zoning ordinance says

The county wrote the same idea into the zoning. In 1977 the county reserved the decision on whether the main road “may be private or must be platted as a public street” because of uncertainty about the land to the south. The 1985 ordinance that still governs the community, Ordinance 85-83, reads: “Vehicular access to the state owned lands south of the Barefoot Beach project is to occur via this north/south access road. No modification may be made to this road as planned which would interfere with access.” It adds that “Public access through or around the entry gate, along the principal access road, and to publicly owned and operated facilities shall be permitted as directed by the public agencies which operate the public facilities.”

What the Master Association must do

The 2009 Turnover Agreement conveyed the “Main Roadway” (Tract R of Unit One and Lot 5 of Unit Two) from the property owners association to the Master Association. The property owners association kept the twelve side lanes. The agreement requires the Master Association to:

• maintain the guardhouse and staff it 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, with a licensed security guard;
• maintain the street lighting and the 20 mile per hour speed humps;
• keep the pull-off and parking areas for the boat docks along the boulevard;
• install no beach access signs other than the existing signs north of the guardhouse; and
• permit no public parking anywhere on or adjacent to the Main Roadway.

The Master Association’s 2011 bylaws describe its purpose as the ownership, maintenance and control of “the entire north/south roadway originating at Bonita Beach Road and extending south to the entrance of the Collier County Park and Preserve for a distance of approximately 1.8 miles,” together with security.

So is Barefoot Beach Boulevard a public road?

No. Barefoot Beach Boulevard is a private road, gated at Bonita Beach Road, owned by the Master Association. Yes, the public reaches a public park over it, under a recorded State easement and the zoning ordinance. Both statements are true at once, and both come straight from recorded instruments. We state the two facts and characterize nothing beyond them.

What we could not confirm about the gate

The guardhouse phone number published on the Villas at Barefoot Beach association’s own site is (239) 992-5500. The guest and vendor registration procedure, resident decals or transponders, and the way the guardhouse handles park visitors day to day are not in any recorded document or public page we found. The route to those answers is the Master Association’s manager and, for the park, Collier County Parks and Recreation.

The road has two names

The plats, the zoning ordinance and several state records call the road Lely Beach Boulevard. County addresses, the Master Association’s bylaws and everyone who lives here call it Barefoot Beach Boulevard. It is one road, about nine tenths of a mile from the gate corner to the middle of Barefoot Beach Club by a routing estimate, and about a mile and a half from Bonita Beach Road to the preserve entrance by the preserve’s volunteer group.

Barefoot Beach Preserve County Park: Hours, Parking, Rules and Current Status

Barefoot Beach Preserve County Park is 342 acres of undeveloped barrier island between the gated community and Wiggins Pass, on State land that Collier County has managed under a fifty-year lease since 1990. Barefoot Beach Preserve is open year-round from 8 a.m. to sunset, parking costs $10 a day without a county beach parking permit, and dogs are not permitted.

Data updated: October 2026

Visitor facts from the county, checked October 1, 2026

Can a part-time Barefoot Beach owner get the free beach permit?

Yes, with paperwork. The county’s beach parking page says a part-time resident who owns property needs a valid driver license from any state, a valid vehicle registration or rental agreement, and a current Collier County property tax bill, or a warranty deed if the closing was within three months, all in the owner’s name. Full-time residents show a Collier County registration and license. The permit is a sticker fixed to the windshield and is not transferable between vehicles.

What is open and what is not

The county page lists beach rentals and sundries daily from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., and says kayak and paddleboard rentals are “coming soon” to parking lot 3 and food and beverage to parking lot 1. The Friends of Barefoot Beach Preserve, the volunteer group that has supported the park since 1990, says on its own pages that no rentals or vendors are available and that the Learning Center, the gardens and the nature trail are “closed pending repairs.” Neither page carries a date. We publish both statements, and the county’s page is the one to check on the day you go.

The preserve after Hurricane Ian

The preserve closed with Hurricane Ian on September 28, 2022 and reopened on November 24, 2023. In a statement carried by Gulf Coast News on December 29, 2022, county parks staff said that “nearly all of the boardwalks and beach accesses were totally destroyed” and that roadways and parking areas were undermined. The county then expected an early 2024 opening. The News-Press reported the reopening on November 24, 2023, after almost 14 months, with parking lots two and three open, and the Naples Daily News noted days later that parking lot one, the restrooms, the boardwalks and the trail were still closed.

After Hurricane Milton in October 2024 the Naples Daily News reported the access and preserve “closed for now.” We did not find the date they reopened. The county page showed normal hours when we checked on October 1, 2026.

Rules a first-time visitor meets

• No dogs in the preserve, per the county.
• Prohibited items listed by the Friends group: grills, fires, fireworks, alcohol, glass and pets; campers over 20 feet and trailers are not allowed, and bicycles are not allowed on the trails.
• Sea turtle nesting season runs May 1 to October 31 under the county’s Land Development Code. County staff monitor nests daily and inspect beachfront lighting through the season.
• Gopher tortoises live in the preserve and are protected: the county code prohibits taking a tortoise or destroying a burrow.
• Shelling and water quality: we found no county shelling rule for the preserve and did not research state rules on live shells or current water-quality readings. Ask the docents, and check the state’s own beach water and red tide reports before you swim.

Why the preserve matters to a home’s value and risk

Three facts follow from the park next door. First, the south end of the community can never be built out, because the land is public and held for conservation. Second, the preserve is inside the federal Coastal Barrier Resources System and the homes are not, a distinction we explain in the flood sections. Third, the State’s sand-placement record shows the engineered beach projects before 2023 were all placed on the preserve shoreline, not in front of the homes.

What Is It Like to Live in Barefoot Beach?

Living in Barefoot Beach means one private boulevard between the Gulf of Mexico and Little Hickory Bay, a staffed gate at the north end, a county preserve at the south end and no through traffic to anywhere else. Barefoot Beach is low-rise by Southwest Florida beach standards: twelve seven-level condominium buildings and otherwise houses, villas and cottages.

Data updated: October 2026

The layout, north to south

Start at Bonita Beach Road. The county’s public beach lot and the Villas at Barefoot Beach sit at the north tip. South of them the lanes begin: short dead-end streets running west from the boulevard to the Gulf, named in alphabetical order for Caribbean islands, from Anguilla and Bonaire to Jumento Cay and Kaula. Each lane ends at a recorded Beach Garden tract on the Gulf. East of the boulevard, on the bay side, are Southport on the Bay and Bayfront Gardens, the two boating neighborhoods. Farther south stand the twelve buildings of Barefoot Beach Club, eight on the Gulf side and four east of the boulevard. Shell Drive, at the south end, holds the private Club at Barefoot Beach and the fifteen Cottages. Then the road enters the preserve.

Who lives here, as far as the record shows

The county roll shows a homestead exemption on 247 of the 635 dwellings, or 38.9 percent. A homestead exemption requires Florida permanent residency on January 1, so that share is a proxy for full-time residency, not a measurement of it: second-home owners, investors, homes held in an entity and recent buyers all read as non-homestead. The share is lowest in Barefoot Beach Club (90 of 348, 25.9 percent) and highest in the Cottages (11 of 15) and Southport on the Bay (61 of 100). By that proxy most dwellings are not homesteaded, and the single-family neighborhoods carry the highest homestead shares.

How old are the homes?

The oldest homes on the roll date from 1985, on the lanes. The Club buildings date from 1991 to 1995. The county roll dates 44 dwellings to 2023, 2024 or 2025, including 14 of the 15 Cottages, and Southport on the Bay alone has 28 homes dated 2022 or later. We read that as rebuilding and re-dating after Hurricane Ian, which is an inference from the roll: we did not read the permits.

Daily rhythm

There is no store, gas station or hotel inside the gate. The zoning tracts are residential, recreation and preserve, and the nearest supermarket is about three miles from the middle of the community, on Bonita Beach Road, by a routing estimate. Life here is the beach, the bay, the private club for those who belong to it, and a ten to fifteen minute drive for everything else. Our guide to the Lee County strip just north, Bonita Beach, covers the restaurants and public beach parks that Barefoot Beach residents use most.

Thinking of selling or buying in Barefoot Beach? Start with the record for your street

If you own here, request a free Barefoot Beach home valuation and we will answer with the county-recorded sales for your neighborhood, your flood zone by address and the association documents a buyer will ask for, or call Jesse at (239) 898-6072. If you are buying, call Marc at (239) 287-5873 or start with how we represent buyers. This page documents 635 dwellings and 85 recorded sales, so the conversation starts from facts.

Barefoot Beach Market Snapshot: What Have Homes Sold For?

Barefoot Beach recorded 25 county-qualified sales in the 12 months from October 2025, with a median of $2,800,000, a low of $1,000,000 and a high of $7,800,000, all of them resales. These are Collier County records of qualified sales, not Southwest Florida MLS closings, and the newest sale in the county file is dated August 24, 2026.

Data updated: October 2026

The county recorded-sales record for the whole community

Our method widens the window until it holds at least 10 county-qualified sales, then stops. For Barefoot Beach as a whole the first window that qualifies is the shortest one, 12 months. The figures come from the Collier County Property Appraiser’s public data files dated August 29 and 31 and October 27, 2026, 2026 certified tax roll, which carry every recorded sale and the county’s own flag for whether a sale is qualified, meaning an arm’s-length transfer of improved property.

County-qualified sales are a county record, not MLS. They can lag a closing by weeks, they leave out transfers the county does not treat as arm’s length, and they say nothing about how long a home was on the market or what it was listed for. A community-wide median also mixes $1,000,000 condominium units with $7,000,000 houses, so use it to size the market, never to price a home.

The last 12 months by neighborhood

Inside the Club, six of the twelve sales were in Club II, four in Club III, two in Club IV and none in Club I. Six were on the Gulf side of the boulevard, from $1,150,000 to $2,450,000, and six were on the east side, from $1,000,000 to $3,000,000, the top one a penthouse. Those are twelve recorded sales with overlapping ranges, an observation and not a measured premium.

Every county-qualified sale in the last 12 months

Unit numbers and street addresses of recorded sales are public record. We do not publish buyer or seller names.

Five years of recorded sales, and the two thin years

The 85 county-qualified sales since October 2021 fall by year like this: 10 in the last three months of 2021, 10 in 2022, 10 in 2023, 8 in 2024, 27 in 2025 and 20 in 2026 through August 24. Eighteen of the 85 recorded at $5,000,000 or more. The highest county-qualified price on record is $15,350,000, for 110 Kaula Ln on December 9, 2021.

The low counts in 2022 and 2024 are not the whole market. In those two years the county flagged far fewer deeds as qualified than it recorded.

Recorded deeds the county did not mark qualified

Separately from the qualified series, the same county file holds 60 recorded deeds over $100,000 on improved Barefoot Beach property since October 2021 that the Property Appraiser did not code as qualified. They range from $191,400 to $16,100,000. Twenty-one of them are dated 2022 and sixteen 2024, the two years of major storm damage on this coast. That pattern is consistent with the county disqualifying sales of storm-changed property, which is our inference: the file does not carry the reason. We never fold these deeds into the qualified median and never average the two series.

Ten of those deeds fall in the last 12 months:

The two largest recorded deeds of the last 60 months, $16,100,000 for 110 Saint Eustacius Ln in December 2022 and $15,500,000 for 109 Curacao Ln in July 2026, are both in this not-qualified series. A seller or buyer pricing a Gulf-front home needs both lists side by side, with each one labelled for what it is.

What the Southwest Florida MLS showed in June and October 2026

We hold two MLS pulls for the community. This block is the older one, now four months old, and the figures from the pull dated October 3, 2026 are stated separately on this page. Every figure in this block is Southwest Florida MLS, pulled June 2026: residential listings under the MLS development name Barefoot Beach, closed in the 365 days before June 11, 2026, and active listings on that date.

In the Southwest Florida MLS, pulled June 2026, 51 active listings against 35 closings in a year works out to about 17.5 months of supply on that June date (51 divided by 35, times 12). The MLS count is higher than the county-qualified count because the two windows differ, the MLS includes closings the county did not flag as qualified, and the county file stops at August 24, 2026. The highest sale in the Southwest Florida MLS, pulled June 2026, $7,800,000, is the same figure as the deed recorded for 105 Felipe Ln on April 22, 2026.

Current MLS figures for October 2026 (closed sales, days on market, sale-to-list ratio, active listings and months of supply), Southwest Florida MLS, pulled October 3, 2026: 37 closed sales in the 12 months to October 3, 2026, from $750,000 to $8,850,000 with a median of $2,600,000; a median of 171 days on market; a median sale-to-list ratio of 91.8 percent of the final list price; 37 active listings with a median list price of $2,500,000 and none pending; and 12.0 months of supply. This pull matches each listing to Barefoot Beach by site address, not by MLS development name, so its counts are not like for like with the June figures.

Turnover: how often Barefoot Beach homes change hands

Twenty-five county-qualified sales in 12 months across 635 dwellings is a turnover of 3.9 percent a year (25 divided by 635). Over 60 months the rate is 2.7 percent a year (85 divided by 635, divided by 5). Add the deeds the county did not qualify and the true rate is higher, but those two numbers are the conservative floor from the public record.

What the county says the homes are worth

The 2026 certified tax roll gives the 635 dwellings a combined just value of $1,625,404,320, with a median of $1,878,934, a low of $419,040 and a high of $15,245,478. Seventy-one dwellings carry a just value of $5,000,000 or more, and thirteen carry $10,000,000 or more. Thirty-eight, all condominium units in the east-side Club buildings, are under $1,000,000. Just value is the county property appraiser’s assessed value for tax purposes, not a sale price or an offer.

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What Neighborhoods Are in Barefoot Beach? Every Neighborhood and Condominium in One Table

Barefoot Beach has seven residential neighborhoods inside the gated community, holding 626 homes and condominiums, and two more places that carry the Barefoot name outside the gate: Barefoot Bay, with nine homes, and Barefoot Boat Club, a boat-storage condominium. Each one has its own rules, flood profile and sales record, and all but Barefoot Estates has its own association.

Data updated: October 2026

The Barefoot Beach benchmark table

Sources: Collier County Property Appraiser, 2026 preliminary and certified tax rolls and recorded-sales files dated August 29 and October 27, 2026; recorded declarations and rules cited in each section below; Federal Emergency Management Agency National Flood Hazard Layer queried October 1, 2026. Where a neighborhood has fewer than 10 sales in the window we show the count and the low-to-high range instead of a median. The four Club rows are parts of the first row and are not added to it.

How the count adds up

The county roll holds 694 parcels in the residential neighborhoods: 635 dwellings, 18 unbuilt homesite parcels and 41 common, road, lake, preserve and recreation parcels. The dwellings add up as 348 in the Club, 50 Villas, 15 Cottages, 27 in Bayfront Gardens, 100 in Southport on the Bay, 6 in Barefoot Estates, 80 on the lanes and 9 in Barefoot Bay. The 108 Boat Club units are counted separately because nobody can live in one.

Gulf side, bay side and outside the gate

Not every home on the Gulf side is Gulf front. The lanes run several lots deep, by our reading of the public map layers only three of the seven Barefoot Estates roll parcels reach the Gulf, and one of the three is a common-area tract, not a home, and the Villas sit behind the county’s public beach strip for part of their frontage. Each neighborhood section below says what the records show.

Barefoot Beach Club: 348 Condominium Units in Twelve Buildings, Eight on the Gulf Side

Barefoot Beach Club is 348 residential condominium units in twelve seven-level buildings at 253 through 269 Barefoot Beach Boulevard, eight on the Gulf side of the boulevard and four east of it. Barefoot Beach Club is four recorded condominiums, Club I, II, III and IV, under one umbrella association, and it holds more than half the homes in Barefoot Beach.

Data updated: October 2026

The four condominiums, building by building

The numbering is a trap worth knowing. Club III holds Buildings VIII, X and XII, and Club IV holds Buildings IX and XI, so the building number does not tell you the condominium. A resale package ordered from the wrong association is a closing delay.

What the buildings are

Every Club building is six residential levels over ground-level parking, seven levels in all: floors 2 through 6 plus a penthouse level, with no first-floor units on the county roll. State elevator records show 18 passenger elevators in the twelve buildings, two in each of the six 34-unit buildings and one in each of the six 24-unit buildings, each serving seven landings. The county roll shows five floor plans by base area: 1,604 square feet (60 units), 1,726 (132 units), 2,003 (132 units), and two penthouse plans of 2,226 and 2,408 square feet (12 units each).

Eight buildings, with 232 units, stand on the Gulf side: 253, 255, 257, 261, 263, 265, 267 and 269. Four buildings, with 116 units, exactly one third of the Club, stand on the east side of the boulevard: 260, 262, 264 and 266. Never read “Barefoot Beach Club” as “Gulf front” without checking the street number.

Five corporations, three layers of assessment

The Club is five Florida not-for-profit corporations: one condominium association for each of the four condominiums and an umbrella, Barefoot Beach Club Condominium Owners Association, Inc., which owns the pools, the clubhouse and the grounds and has 348 members, each bearing a 1/348 share under the Amended and Restated Master Declaration recorded at Official Records Book 4612, Page 3203. An owner therefore funds three layers: the unit’s own condominium association, the Club umbrella, and through the umbrella the Barefoot Beach Master Association for the boulevard, the gate and security. No dollar figure for any of the three is published.

The recorded rules in brief

The Master Declaration sets a 30-day minimum lease, no more than three leases a year, board approval of every lease and sale, and an occupancy limit of four people in a two-bedroom unit and six in a three-bedroom unit. Pets are limited to an aggregate 45 pounds, and to 20 pounds in Club I under its own declaration, with no pets on the beach. The Rules and Regulations themselves are not recorded. The Club’s own community website gives its office as 259 Barefoot Beach Boulevard and carries request forms for the estoppel certificate, the resale documents and a certificate of insurance.

What the Club has sold for

The county record shows 12 county-qualified Club sales in the 12 months from October 2025, with a median of $1,300,000, and 32 in 60 months, with a median of $1,862,500. Over those five years the 19 Gulf-side sales ran from $1,150,000 to $3,335,000 and the 13 east-side sales from $1,000,000 to $3,000,000. That is an observation of 32 recorded sales with overlapping ranges, not a measured premium, and each unit is priced from its own plan, floor and side.

Milestone inspection and reserve study: the statutory dates only

Florida’s milestone inspection law (Florida Statute 553.899) and the structural integrity reserve study requirement (Florida Statute 718.112(2)(g)) reach condominium buildings of three habitable stories or more, so they reach all twelve Club buildings. Computed from the county roll year built, the statutory initial milestone deadline falls on December 31, 2024 or December 31, 2025 for every building, and the structural integrity reserve study deadline for each of the four associations is December 31, 2025, with a statutory outer limit of December 31, 2026 where the study is done with a milestone inspection. Those are deadlines computed from the statute, not statements about any building. The reserve study is required at least every 10 years and must be performed or verified by a licensed engineer, a licensed architect, or a certified reserve specialist or professional reserve analyst. Under Florida Statute 718.503 a resale buyer is entitled, at the seller’s expense, to the milestone inspection summary where one applies and the most recent structural integrity reserve study or a statement that none has been completed.

Where to read more about the Club

Our Barefoot Beach Club overview covers the umbrella association, the floor-plan stack map and every county-qualified sale of the last five years. Each condominium then has its own page: Barefoot Beach Club I is the only one with the 20-pound pet limit, Barefoot Beach Club II is the only one split across the boulevard, Barefoot Beach Club III is the three Gulf-side buildings at the south end, and Barefoot Beach Club IV is the two newest buildings, both east of the boulevard.

Villas at Barefoot Beach: 50 Fee-Simple Villas at the North Tip

Villas at Barefoot Beach is a community of 50 fee-simple, party-wall villas on Barefoot Circle, at the north end of Barefoot Beach beside the county’s public beach strip. The Villas are not a condominium: each owner holds a deed to a villa parcel under a homeowners association, on a planned unit development separate from the rest of Barefoot Beach.

Data updated: October 2026

A tower was approved here twice and never built

The Villas sit on the Lely Barefoot Beach Condominium PUD, a small planned unit development at the county line with its own ordinance history. The county approved up to 220 units and a 180-foot height limit there in 1981, cut that to 110 units and 100 feet in 1985, and cut it again to 50 units in 1987 at the developer’s petition, with a condition that there be no access from Anguilla Lane into the site. Fifty villas were built instead: 32 between 1989 and 1992 and 18 between 1997 and 2002, by the county roll.

What the roll and the declaration show

The villas run from 1,723 to 3,352 square feet of county base area, with a median of 2,136, and from $1,117,000 to $2,449,200 in 2026 certified just value, with a median of $1,328,000. Ten villas carry a just value above $2,000,000. The Amended and Restated Declaration recorded at Official Records Book 2970, Page 2281 allows leasing no more than four times a year with a 30-day minimum and board approval, limits pets to two, and makes each owner insure the owner’s own villa while the association insures the common areas.

Because the Villas are a homeowners association under chapter 720, the condominium resale statute, the milestone inspection law and the reserve study law do not apply. The county roll codes the villas under a condominium use code anyway, so a reader who relies on the use code alone will mistake the villas for condominiums.

Sales and flood, briefly

The county record shows 4 county-qualified Villas sales in 60 months, from $1,500,000 to $3,500,000, one of them in the last 12 months. Every address we tested is in flood zone AE with a base flood elevation of 10 or 11 feet, and, by our reading of the public map layers, no villa parcel touches a VE zone. Whether the villa entrance on Barefoot Circle sits before or after the Master Association’s guardhouse is not settled by the public record.

Our Villas at Barefoot Beach page lists every recorded sale of the last five years and explains what fee-simple party-wall ownership means for insurance and disclosure.

The Cottages at Barefoot Beach: 15 Detached Homes Held as a Condominium

The Cottages at Barefoot Beach is a group of 15 detached houses on Shell Drive, at the south end of the boulevard beside the county preserve, held in condominium form. The recorded name is The Cottages at Barefoot, a Condominium, and each owner holds a one-fifteenth share under a declaration recorded on December 28, 1990.

Data updated: October 2026

Houses that are legally condominium units

The declaration at Official Records Book 1582, Page 18 created a condominium of prepared building sites for detached single-family residences. The homes look like houses and are taxed and sold as condominium units, so a buyer receives the condominium resale documents under chapter 718, not a homeowners association disclosure. Street numbers run from 125 to 405 Shell Drive in steps of 20.

What the county roll says about age

The county roll dates 14 of the 15 homes to 2023 and one, 205 Shell Drive, to 1997. Recorded completion certificates run from 1994 to 2002, and the county’s sales file shows Cottages sales from October 1994 onward. The 2023 dates follow Hurricane Ian. We read them as post-storm rebuilding or re-dating, which is an inference: the permits were not read.

Rules we could and could not read

The declaration requires association approval of a lease. A 2014 amendment requires flat white cement tile or white metal roofs. A recorded restrictive covenant ties the land to a state coastal agreement and requires the dune enhancement to be maintained in perpetuity and restored within 60 days after storm damage. The minimum lease term and the pet clause were not legible in the recorded copy we read, so both are not confirmed: ask the association for the current rules before you rely on either.

Sales and flood, briefly

One county-qualified Cottages sale is on record in the last 60 months, $5,500,000 for 165 Shell Drive on June 24, 2026, and 20 since 1994. The homes we tested are in zone AE with a base flood elevation of 10 or 11 feet, and the shared land runs to the Gulf and carries VE zones. By our measurement of the federal map layer, the Cottages’ land comes within about 26 feet of the preserve’s Coastal Barrier Resources System boundary and is not inside it.

Read the full record on our Cottages at Barefoot Beach page, including the insurance question that detached condominium homes raise.

Bayfront Gardens and Bayside at Barefoot Beach: 33 Homesites, Two Associations

Bayfront Gardens is a bay-side neighborhood of 27 single-family homes on 33 platted homesites, east of the boulevard on Little Hickory Bay. One 1988 plat holds two separate homeowners associations: Bayfront Gardens, for the 23 lots on Bayfront Drive, and Bayside at Barefoot Beach, for the 10 lots that front Barefoot Beach Boulevard.

Data updated: October 2026

One plat, two sets of rules

The plat was recorded on March 1, 1988 in Plat Book 14, pages 114 to 117, on Tract I of the planned unit development. In 1999 the owners of lots 1 through 10 separated under their own Declaration of Covenants recorded at Official Records Book 2590, Page 3271, which allows leasing no more than three times a year with a 30-day minimum and sets a 2,400 square foot minimum home. Lots 11 through 33 remain under the 1988 Bayfront Gardens declaration at Official Records Book 1335, Page 1835; its leasing clause was not captured in our reading, so we state no minimum for those lots. The Master Association’s bylaws count 23 doors for Bayfront Gardens and 10 for Bayside.

What can be built

County Ordinance 2018-41 raised the height limit on Tract I from two to three habitable floors over one level of parking, with a 70-foot maximum actual height. The 1985 zoning permits docks, individual or common, on these lots. The county roll shows 27 improved homes dated 1990 to 2024, four vacant homesites and two parcels in another residential use, with just values for the homes from $1,731,270 to $4,626,093 and a median of $3,108,994.

Sales and flood, briefly

Six county-qualified sales are on record in 60 months, from $3,026,000 to $6,650,000, the highest for 195 Bayfront Drive on January 5, 2024. By our reading of the public map layers, every one of the 35 roll parcels is in zone AE with a base flood elevation of 10 feet, and none touches a VE zone.

Our Bayfront Gardens page covers both associations lot by lot and says which rules apply to which address.

Southport on the Bay: 100 Homes, Private Docks and the Street Called Southport Cove

Southport on the Bay is the largest single-family neighborhood in Barefoot Beach: 100 homes on 106 platted lots along Topanga Drive, San Mateo Drive, Malibu Cove and Southport Cove, on the bay side of the boulevard. Southport on the Bay is the boating neighborhood, with private lot docks and a separate dock owners’ association.

Data updated: October 2026

Southport Cove is a street, not a separate neighborhood

Search results and listings often present “Southport Cove” as its own community. The record says otherwise. No plat, no declaration and no association exists under that name. Southport Cove is the spine road of Southport on the Bay, 41 of the 100 homes carry a Southport Cove address, and those lots are spread across all four recorded Southport plats under the one property owners association. Our Southport on the Bay page covers the street in its own section; an older Southport Cove entry on this site describes the same street.

The record in brief

Docks, shoreline and depth

The planned unit development prohibits hardening the bay shoreline, so there are no seawalls here by design, and county staff describe the Southport shore as a natural mangrove bank inside a recorded conservation easement. Docks are individual to the lots and need county approval when dock and boat together protrude more than 20 feet. The county’s March 2025 hearing file for 185 Topanga Drive is the live local example: a two-slip dock with lifts for a 28-foot and a 35-foot boat, protruding 52.25 feet into a waterway about 209 feet wide. A neighboring association’s letter in that file reports a depth finder reading of 5 feet at high tide and 3.5 feet at low tide in the dead-end waterway north of Topanga Drive on March 1, 2025. That is a resident’s observation, not a survey.

Sales and flood, briefly

Southport has the deepest single-family sales record in the community: 29 county-qualified sales in 60 months with a median of $3,850,000, and 14 in 24 months with a median of $3,737,500. The record price is $7,000,000 for 226 Malibu Cove on November 14, 2024. By our reading of the public map layers, the neighborhood is in zone AE with a base flood elevation of 10 feet, and 11 on 29 parcels.

The Southport on the Bay page lists every county-qualified sale of the last 24 months, explains the 2021 revitalization and covers the dock rules in full.

Barefoot Estates: Six Homes on Seven Plots Between Felipe and Saint Eustacius Lanes

Barefoot Estates is an enclave of seven roll parcels on Felipe Lane and Saint Eustacius Lane, created by a 1995 replat of one block of the original lane grid. Barefoot Estates has six homes, no association of its own, and a median county just value of $6,257,994, second only to the lanes that surround it.

Data updated: October 2026

A replat, not a separate community

The plat, recorded on April 10, 1995 in Plat Book 25, pages 1 to 2, turned Lots 1 to 11 of Block E and its Beach Garden into seven homesites and one common tract. The owners belong to Barefoot Beach Property Owners Association, Inc., the same association as the lanes, where the seven plots count as 11 of the 136 shares, and they are also bound by their own 1995 restrictive covenants at Official Records Book 2120, Page 1745. The addresses are 101, 105 and 109 Felipe Lane, 102 and 110 Saint Eustacius Lane, and 215 Barefoot Beach Boulevard. The other houses on those two lanes are ordinary lane lots, not Barefoot Estates.

Two leasing clauses, both of record

The 1995 covenants allow a lease to a single family for at least one month. The Property Owners Association’s 2009 declaration allows one lease a calendar year with a 90-day minimum. The two instruments cover the same lots and no document we read states which controls, so we publish both and suggest an owner get the association’s written answer before signing a lease.

Not all of it is Gulf front

Barefoot Estates is six homes on seven roll parcels. By our reading of the public map layers, three of the seven parcels reach the Gulf: 109 Felipe Lane, 110 Saint Eustacius Lane and the common-area tract at 115 Felipe Lane, which is not a home. That puts two of the six homes on Gulf-reaching parcels, and the other four homes are interior. One county-qualified sale is on record in 60 months, $7,800,000 for 105 Felipe Lane on April 22, 2026, and one deed the county did not qualify, $16,100,000 for 110 Saint Eustacius Lane in December 2022.

The Barefoot Estates page lists all six qualified sales in the neighborhood’s history and the flood zone at each address.

The Barefoot Beach Lanes: 80 Homes on Lely Barefoot Beach Units One and Two

The Barefoot Beach lanes are the original single-family grid: twelve dead-end lanes running from the boulevard to the Gulf, platted in 1978 as Lely Barefoot Beach Unit One, with a few later lots beside them. The county roll shows 80 homes on the lanes with a median just value of $6,578,899, the highest of any Barefoot Beach neighborhood.

Data updated: October 2026

The lanes have no page of their own on this site, so this section is the full record: the streets, the plats, the association and its rules, every recorded sale in five years, the unbuilt homesites, the flood zones and the coastal permits.

The twelve lanes, north to south

The lanes are named in alphabetical order for Caribbean islands, starting at the gate. Homes on the boulevard itself between the lanes belong to the same plats.

Source: Collier County Property Appraiser, 2026 certified tax roll. The nine unbuilt homesite parcels are eight vacant lots with a real land value and one parcel in another residential use.

The plats behind the lanes

• Lely Barefoot Beach Unit One, Plat Book 12, pages 34 to 37, filed August 7, 1978: Blocks A through K, the lanes from Anguilla to Kaula, 74 homes today.
• Lely Barefoot Beach Unit Two, Plat Book 15, pages 71 to 72: four homes, at 249 Barefoot Beach Boulevard and 99, 101 and 103 Saint Lucia Lane.
• Lely Barefoot Beach Unit Five, Plat Book 49, pages 31 to 32, approved for recording in 2008: one home at 246 Barefoot Beach Boulevard, on what the zoning once reserved as a utility site.
• A separate one-lot plat, Plat Book 24, pages 3 to 4: one home at 235 Barefoot Beach Boulevard.

That is 74 plus 4 plus 1 plus 1, or 80 homes. Units Three and Four are not lane plats: Unit Three is the Club’s land and Unit Four holds the Cottages and the private club.

The zoning ordinance let owners combine lots: “Individual homesites may consist of single platted lots, multiple lots and/or fractions of adjoining lots.” That is why the lane grid, entitled for 91 homesites in 1985 and 106 since a 2011 amendment, a count that includes Barefoot Estates, shows far fewer parcels than lots. A 2011 Continuation of Deed Restrictions at Official Records Book 4679, Page 398 preserves one-home restrictions on listed pairs of combined lots.

Beach Gardens and the common beachfront

Each block of Unit One ends, on the Gulf, at a recorded Beach Garden tract lettered A through K. The original 1977 ordinance provided that the strip west of the westernmost homesites “shall be owned in common by all Lely Barefoot Beach single family homesite owners,” and allowed pools, shaded sitting areas and picnic facilities there. The 2026 certified roll shows new structures dated 2024 or 2025 on eight of Unit One’s Beach Garden tracts and on the Unit Two Beach Garden at 115 Saint Lucia Lane, which we read, as an inference, as rebuilding after the 2022 and 2024 storms.

Three other common tracts matter to a lane owner. Tract A, at 195 Barefoot Beach Boulevard, holds a building dated 1979, the oldest structure on the roll in the community. Tract B, at 212 Barefoot Beach Boulevard, is the recreation site the ordinance says is “owned in common by all owners of residential homesites,” with boat docks among its permitted uses. Tract C, at the entry, holds what county staff describe as a private dock facility owned by the property owners association.

The homes: age, size and what the zoning allows

The 80 homes carry 2026 certified just values from $2,264,159 to $15,245,478, and 12 of them are at $10,000,000 or more. Together they hold $539,574,052 of just value, about a third of the whole community’s, on about an eighth of its homes.

Under the zoning as amended by Ordinance 2001-35, a lane home may be three stories, 70 feet to the highest point of the roof. The minimum floor area is 1,200 square feet for a one-story home or 2,000 for two stories. Gulf-front structures may not extend seaward of the line the Governor and Cabinet approved on December 17, 1974. The protective covenants the developer recorded in 1978, at Official Records Book 745, Page 1699, required pile foundations, a first finished floor at or above 14.5 feet above mean sea level and a 200 mile per hour wind design; they were amended and replaced in 1980.

We do not publish living area for these homes. The county roll’s base area is the footprint of the largest building, not the living area of a three-story house, and the Southwest Florida MLS, pulled October 3, 2026, carries a living area only for a home that was listed or sold, not for every house on the lanes.

The association and its recorded rules

Lane owners belong to Barefoot Beach Property Owners Association, Inc., incorporated in 1978 and renamed in 2009. Its Amended and Restated Declaration, recorded February 26, 2009 at Official Records Book 4430, Page 3692, sets these rules:

• Leasing: no more than one lease per calendar year, a 90-day minimum, a one-year maximum, 30 days’ notice and board approval, no subleasing.
• Pets: household pets in reasonable numbers, leashed.
• Shares: 136 in all, one for each of 125 plots and 11 for the seven Barefoot Estates plots.
• Enforcement: a late fee of the greater of $25 or 5 percent, and fines of up to $100 per violation.
• Resale assessment: created by a 2010 amendment at Official Records Book 4586, Page 823, in an amount set by the board and not stated in the instrument.

The regular assessment is not published in any recorded or public document we found. The association pays the lanes’ share of the Master Association’s costs for the boulevard and the gate, and it kept ownership of the twelve side lanes when it turned the boulevard over in 2009.

Every county-qualified lane sale in the last 60 months

The county record holds nine county-qualified sales on the lanes since October 2021, from $5,500,000 to $15,350,000. With fewer than 10 sales we list them instead of quoting a median.

Six of the nine were recorded between October 2021 and August 2022. Only three have been county-qualified since. Across all recorded history the lanes show 132 county-qualified sales since June 1984, with a median of $3,587,500.

Lane deeds the county did not mark qualified

The same file holds 12 recorded lane deeds over $100,000 in 60 months that the county did not code as qualified, from $1,065,000 to $15,500,000. They are a separate series and are never averaged with the nine above.

Read together, the two tables show 21 recorded lane deeds over $100,000 in five years. An owner pricing a lane home should look at both, and should know which of them the county treats as arm’s-length evidence.

Unbuilt homesites on the lanes

Nine homesite parcels on the lanes have no home on the 2026 certified roll. Their county just values, which are land values, run from $1,311,500 to $8,706,500.

A lot that is vacant on a January 1 roll may have a house under construction today. The State’s coastal permit file shows new single-family dwellings permitted at 112 Anguilla Lane, 108 Bonaire Lane and 104 Guadeloupe Lane in 2023 and 2024.

Flood zones on the lanes

The lanes carry the widest flood range in the community. Interior and boulevard lots are in zone AE with base flood elevations of 10 to 12 feet. The Gulf-front tier is VE. By our reading of the public map layers, 38 of the 114 roll parcels in the lane plats touch a VE zone, with base flood elevations from 12 to 16 feet; that count includes common tracts as well as homes.

Source: FEMA National Flood Hazard Layer, queried October 1, 2026; all panels effective February 8, 2024. Four of the ten rows are homes (114 Anguilla, 109 Curacao, 101 Dominica and 112 Inagua lanes); 108 Bonaire Lane is an unbuilt homesite, and the Guadeloupe, Hispaniola, Jumento Cay, Kaula and Saint Lucia lane addresses are Beach Garden common tracts at the Gulf end of those lanes. A single point can mislead in either direction: at 109 Curacao Lane and 114 Anguilla Lane the address point is in VE while, by our reading, most of the building footprint is in AE 12, and at 112 Inagua Lane the whole footprint reads as VE. The printed panel and a surveyor’s elevation certificate govern.

Coastal permits on the lanes since 2021

The Florida Department of Environmental Protection’s public coastal permit file records new single-family dwellings permitted seaward of the State’s Coastal Construction Control Line at eight lane addresses between December 2021 and August 2024: 112 Bonaire, 106 Inagua, 99 Saint Lucia, 108 Bonaire, 105 Saint Eustacius, 104 Guadeloupe, 110 Hispaniola and 112 Anguilla. The same file records emergency fill, sand removal and dune reconstruction permits at lane addresses between November 2022 and September 2023, and dune walkover permits at five addresses in October 2023. We read those permits as the State’s own record of the work that followed Hurricane Ian.

A new home permitted after July 1, 2015 seaward of that control line is not eligible for Citizens Property Insurance coverage under Florida law, a point we return to in the insurance section.

Taxes on a lane home

The median 2026 certified tax bill on the lanes is $49,751, the median of all 80 lane homes (one homesteaded home owes only the $269.77 line). As an illustration, a non-homestead purchase at the lanes’ median just value of $6,578,899, before exemptions and non-ad valorem charges, works out to $6,578,899 times 9.3696 mills, or about $61,642 a year.

How we work a lane sale

No two lane homes are comparable without adjustment: lot depth, Gulf frontage, elevation, year built and the flood zone at the footprint all move the price. We price from both recorded series, pull the elevation certificate and the coastal permit history for the address, and get the association’s estoppel certificate before the listing goes live. If you own on the lanes, a free home valuation starts that work, and if you are buying one, start with how we represent buyers. The neighboring Barefoot Estates plat is covered on its own page.

Barefoot Bay: Nine Homes on a Private Court Outside the Gate

Barefoot Bay is a nine-home enclave on Barefoot Bay Court that carries the Barefoot name and a Bonita Springs mailing address but sits outside the Barefoot Beach gate and outside the planned unit development. Barefoot Bay opens directly onto Bonita Beach Road, has its own association and its own 2000 plat, and is zoned RSF-5.

Data updated: October 2026

What makes Barefoot Bay different

The declaration at Official Records Book 2754, Page 899 makes the association responsible for the surface water system, the entry features, walls, entrance gates and a fountain. The county accepted the private road and drainage in 2019. The lots are the smallest in the Barefoot Beach area, about 1.6 acres for all thirteen parcels together, with multi-story homes on small pads.

What the record does not settle

Whether Barefoot Bay owners hold any right to use the Barefoot Beach boulevard, beach paths or associations is not determined by any document we read. A buyer should ask for that answer in writing. Three county-qualified sales are on record in 60 months, from $1,950,000 to $3,475,000.

Our Barefoot Bay page lists all 21 qualified sales since 2003. This Barefoot Bay is not the large community of the same name in Brevard County.

Barefoot Boat Club: 108 Boat-Storage Condominium Units on Bonita Beach Road

Barefoot Boat Club is a boat-storage condominium at 5025 Bonita Beach Road, beside the Barefoot Beach entrance and outside the gate: 90 dry-storage units in one building and 18 wet slips on Little Hickory Bay, 108 deeded units in all. Barefoot Boat Club has no dwellings, and nobody can live in a unit.

Data updated: October 2026

What a Boat Club unit is

The Declaration of Condominium recorded June 20, 1996 at Official Records Book 2197, Page 88 created one dry-storage building with 90 units and docks with 18 wet slip units, with a clubhouse, a pool and a boat ramp as common elements. The wet slips sit over State-owned submerged land held under a lease, not in fee, a point a 2000 amendment makes explicit. The parcel is zoned CF, Community Facility, and the Boat Club is not a member of the Barefoot Beach Master Association. The association’s own website describes 90 indoor racks and 18 wet slips, a pool, a clubhouse and a fuel dock.

What units sell for

The county record shows 11 county-qualified Boat Club sales in 36 months, with a median of $45,000, and 17 in 60 months, with a median of $42,500, a low of $20,000 and a high of $170,000, the high being a wet slip in September 2025. Dry racks and wet slips trade in different ranges, so one median hides two markets. The county values the dry units at about $34,000 to $36,000 each and the wet slips at $80,592 for 2026.

Who may own a unit, slip dimensions and rack limits are not published. The condominium resale statute’s seven-day cancellation clause, Florida Statute 718.503, is written for the resale of a residential unit, and the Boat Club declaration creates no residential unit, so ask a closing agent or attorney whether it applies to a Boat Club purchase. Our Barefoot Boat Club page covers the declaration, the submerged land lease and the sales record.

Who Runs Barefoot Beach? The Association Layers Explained Simply

Barefoot Beach has no single homeowners association. Two master-level bodies sit at the top: Barefoot Beach Master Association, which owns the boulevard and staffs the gate, and Barefoot Beach Property Owners Association, which governs the single-family lanes. Beneath them, nearly every neighborhood has its own association, and Barefoot Beach Club alone has five.

Data updated: October 2026

The two master-level bodies

Barefoot Beach Master Association, Inc. was incorporated on March 15, 1990 and took its present name in 2000. Its recorded 2011 bylaws make membership mandatory for eight member entities, which choose 12 delegates casting 17 weighted votes. Its job is narrow and expensive: own, maintain and control the boulevard, and provide security.

Barefoot Beach Property Owners Association, Inc. was incorporated on November 16, 1978, the year the first plat was filed, and was renamed in 2009. It is the single-family association for Lely Barefoot Beach Unit One, Unit Two and Barefoot Estates, with 136 shares. It is also one of the Master Association’s eight members.

County tax records and older documents still show the former names, Lely Barefoot Beach Master Association and Lely Barefoot Beach Property Owners Association. They are the same two corporations.

The Master Association’s eight members and 716 “doors”

The arithmetic: 348 plus 136 plus 104 plus 50 plus 30 plus 23 plus 15 plus 10 is 716. The Club selects five of the twelve delegates. Barefoot Bay and Barefoot Boat Club are not in the exhibit, and the bylaws nickname Bayfront Gardens “Heron Cove.”

A “door” is the Master Association’s counting unit, not a count of houses. It counts the private club at 30, counts the lanes by shares and leaves out Barefoot Bay, which is why 716 does not match the 635 dwellings on the county roll.

Every association, with its recorded governing document

Formation dates come from the Florida Division of Corporations; every book and page was read in the Collier County Clerk’s official records unless the table says otherwise.

Which layers does each owner pay?

What do the assessments cost, and what do they cover?

No dollar amount of any regular assessment, special assessment or initiation fee appears in any recorded document or association page we found, for any neighborhood. We will not import a figure from a listing or a directory. What the recorded documents do say is what each layer pays for:

• Master Association: the boulevard, the guardhouse and its 24-hour staffing, street lighting and the speed humps.
• Club umbrella: the pools, recreation facilities, clubhouse and clubhouse parking, landscaping, private streets and the surface water system, plus the Club’s share of the boulevard.
• Each Club condominium association: its own buildings.
• Property Owners Association: the side lanes, the common beachfront and recreation tracts, and the lanes’ share of the Master Association’s costs.
• Barefoot Bay: the surface water system, entry features, walls, gates and fountain.

Special assessments are adopted by board or member vote and are normally not recorded, so their absence from the Clerk’s index proves nothing either way.

How a buyer or seller gets the real numbers

The estoppel certificate from the association states the current assessment, any special assessment and anything owed. Florida law caps the fee an association may charge for it, and adjusts that cap every five years. Ask for the current budget, the most recent financial report and the rules at the same time.

For a condominium resale, Florida Statute 718.503 entitles a resale buyer, at the seller’s expense, to the governing documents, the budget and financial information, the milestone inspection summary where one applies and the most recent structural integrity reserve study or a statement that none has been completed. The statute’s seven-day cancellation clause, which excludes Saturdays, Sundays and legal holidays, is written for the resale of a residential unit. For a home in a homeowners association, Florida Statute 720.401 requires the seller to present a disclosure summary before the buyer signs; the buyer’s right to cancel within three days of receipt or before closing, whichever comes first, arises only if the summary was not provided before the buyer signed. That statute does not require delivery of the governing documents, the budget or the rules, so a careful buyer asks for them.

Other points the documents settle

• Age restrictions: we found no 55-and-over language in the declarations we read for the Club, the Villas, Bayfront Gardens, Bayside, Southport on the Bay or Barefoot Bay.
• Sale approval: the Club’s Master Declaration gives the board 10 business days to act on a transfer and allows a transfer fee up to the statutory maximum. The Property Owners Association’s declaration has provided for a resale assessment since 2010, in an amount set by its board.
• Managers: each association’s manager and mailing address are on its state corporate filing, and they change. We do not print them here; the estoppel request goes to whoever is on the current filing.

The Club at Barefoot Beach: A Separate Private Beach and Tennis Club

The Club at Barefoot Beach is a private, member-owned beach and tennis club at 105 Shell Drive, near the south end of the boulevard. The Club at Barefoot Beach is a separate corporation from every residential association, its membership is capped at 425, and membership is not conveyed with any Barefoot Beach deed.

Not the condominiums, and not golf

The name invites two mistakes. The Club at Barefoot Beach, Inc. is not Barefoot Beach Club, the 348 condominium units up the road. And it is a beach, dining and tennis club: there is no golf course anywhere in Barefoot Beach. For courts across the county, see our Collier County tennis and pickleball guide. State corporate records show it was formed in 1995 as Miramar Beach and Tennis Club, Inc. and renamed in 2006.

What the club says about itself

The club’s own membership page states a membership capacity of 425 and says that as of June 1, 2026 it is temporarily not accepting waitlist applications. Its site describes a private beach, a zero-entry pool with lap lanes, a bathhouse, two clay tennis courts, casual and formal dining rooms, a coffee and ice cream shop, and a summer reciprocal program with other clubs. Initiation fees and dues are not published.

What the public record adds

The club occupies the tract the zoning calls the Active Community Recreation Area, about 8.2 acres on the county roll, with a building the 2026 certified roll dates to 2025 and State coastal permits for additions issued in 2022 and 2023. The club counts as 30 assessment units in the Master Association. In a 2025 county zoning interpretation about docks on the bay side of that tract, the applicant stated that half the members of the existing club live outside the planned unit development. That statement is the applicant’s, and it is the best public evidence that membership is neither limited to residents nor guaranteed to them.

The 1985 ordinance also records why this tract was reserved for recreation instead of housing: it “is located at the site of former Little Hickory Pass,” and the ordinance says the old pass, the converging back-bay channels and the low elevation give the site “a high potential for island breachment during a major coastal storm.”

What this means when you buy or sell

A seller who belongs to the club should not advertise the membership as part of the sale. A buyer who wants the club should contact it directly before closing and should not assume a place exists. Owners without a membership still have their own association’s beach paths and amenities.

How Did Barefoot Beach Come to Be? The Zoning History and the Developer Lineage

Barefoot Beach began as the Lely Barefoot Beach Planned Unit Development, first zoned by Collier County Ordinance 77-48 on September 27, 1977 and reshaped by Ordinance 85-83 on December 17, 1985, the document that still governs most of the community. The Villas sit on a separate planned unit development, and Barefoot Bay and Barefoot Boat Club are outside both.

The first plan: 499 single-family lots

The 1977 ordinance approved “a low density, single family residential community in a setting where most of the existing normal vegetative and earth form features are preserved”: 499 dwelling units on 285 gross acres, most of them beachfront lots in lettered blocks, with 51 acres of mangrove preserve. It required habitable floors at least 14.5 feet above mean sea level on the beach side and 10 feet on the bay side, achieved “by structurally raising floors above natural ground elevations, rather than by filling.” Only the northern piece of that lot grid was ever platted. It is today’s lanes, Unit One, filed on August 7, 1978.

The 1985 settlement that reshaped the south end

In June 1985 the county re-zoned the project by Ordinance 85-21. The recitals of Ordinance 85-83 record what happened next: two suits were filed in circuit court against the developer and the county, one of them by The Conservancy, Inc., and the parties settled through an amended zoning document. That document replaced the remaining single-family grid with clustered tracts, named Lely Beach North, Lely Beach South, Tract H and Tract I, added a chapter of environmental rules, and required three mangrove tracts to be deeded to the State. County staff reports as late as 2019 still cite the agreement of December 17, 1985 among The Conservancy, the developer and the county as a standing condition on changes to the zoning.

What the 1985 ordinance allowed, tract by tract

The unit cap: two figures, both attributed

Ordinance 85-83, as we read its text, says “No more than a maximum of 690 residential dwelling units, single and multi-family, shall be constructed in the total project area,” on 461.65 gross acres including 128.11 acres of open water. Adding the tract caps as later amended (106, 4, 137, 30, 391 and 82) gives 750, the figure our reading finds in the 1987 amendment, Ordinance 87-53. We publish both with their sources and treat neither as the single settled number. The county roll shows far fewer homes than either figure, and whether any unbuilt allocation could still be used is a legal question for the county’s zoning division, not something this page can answer.

A dated timeline

The full ordinance chain, as listed in Appendix F of the Collier County Land Development Code, is 77-48, 81-76, 85-21, 85-83, 87-53, 88-63, 94-28, 01-35, 06-22, 11-04, 18-41 and 19-44 for the main project, and 85-22 and 87-52 for the Villas’ separate project. We did not read every ordinance in full; the ones we relied on are linked in the Sources.

The developer lineage, from corporate records

• Lely Estates, Inc., a Texas corporation, was the owner and applicant in 1977 and the declarant of the 1978 protective covenants. State records show the same corporation later used the name Lely Development Corporation, which signed the 1988 easement and the 1990 gatehouse lease.
• Coastal Engineering Consultants, Inc. prepared the 1985 zoning document.
• Barefoot Beach Associates, Ltd., a Tampa limited partnership formed in 1988 with three corporate general partners (Barefoot Beach Ventures, Inc., Swiss American Investment Corporation and Peralta Real Estate Investment, Inc.), is the developer of record for all four Club condominiums.
• Wood Eldridge Development Group signed the Villas declaration in 1989, followed by Barefoot Associates Ltd.
• Joiner Winfield Development Co and Naples New York Partners signed the Bayfront Gardens declaration in 1988.
• Southport Venture Associates, with Orion Marketing Inc as a partner, signed the Southport on the Bay declaration in 1988.
• Damon Custom Structures, Inc. developed Barefoot Bay in 2000.

The legal descriptions also refer to a boundary survey prepared for GAC Properties Inc. in 1972 and 1973, before Lely. We did not pull the deed that would date the land purchase, and we name no individual.

Who Governs Barefoot Beach? The Collier County Offices an Owner Deals With

Barefoot Beach is governed by Collier County directly, with no city in between. An owner’s permits, flood rules, zoning hearings, tax bill, sheriff, fire service, parks and schools all come from county-level bodies, and the commissioner for District 2 represents the community on the Board of County Commissioners.

Who to contact for what

A historical permit review before you sell

The county’s own guidance says a historical permit review “may be done when there is a sale of a property” to check for open permits, because “open permits may impact the sale of a property.” We run that search for every Barefoot Beach listing before it goes on the market, and a buyer’s agent should run it during the inspection period.

Changes to the zoning are public and noticed

Any change to the planned unit development goes through a public hearing with a posted legal notice. Recent examples on file include a 2025 dock extension at 185 Topanga Drive, a 2025 setback variance request at 239 Bayfront Drive and the 2025 dock interpretation on the recreation tract. We did not find the outcome of the two hearings. Owners who want to follow these matters can watch the Hearing Examiner notices.

What Flood Zone Is Barefoot Beach In? Neighborhood by Neighborhood

Barefoot Beach has no single flood zone. Every one of the 61 addresses we tested is in a Special Flood Hazard Area, and the zone runs from AE with a 10-foot base flood elevation on the bay side to VE with a 13-foot elevation on the Gulf-front lanes. Collier County panels 12021C0178J, 0179J and 0187J, effective February 8, 2024, govern.

Data updated: October 2026

Flood zones by neighborhood

We located each address with the county’s address points and queried the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s National Flood Hazard Layer at that point on October 1, 2026. Base flood elevations are in feet, NAVD88.

The “VE on the land” column, the shares of a building footprint in each zone and the statements about the wave-action line below are our reading of the public map layers. The printed Flood Insurance Rate Map panel and a surveyor’s elevation certificate govern, and a buyer should get both.

Why the building footprint matters more than the address point

FEMA’s flood insurance rule is that a building located in more than one flood zone is rated in the more hazardous zone. By our reading of the public map layers, the line between VE with a 12-foot elevation and AE with an 11-foot elevation runs through the Gulf side of every one of the eight Gulf-side Club buildings: VE covers about 4 percent of the footprint at 255, 16 to 31 percent at 253, 257, 261, 263, 265 and 269, and about 45 percent at 267. The four east-side Club buildings read as entirely AE. A casual map lookup that says “AE” for a Gulf-side building may be describing only the address point.

The zone no longer sets the price of an individual federal flood policy by itself, but it still drives the building code’s flood design class, the consequences of the 50 percent rule and what a lender’s flood determination says.

The right map panels, and a wrong one to watch for

Barefoot Beach sits on three Collier County panels: 12021C0179J for the Club, Bayfront Gardens, Southport, Barefoot Bay, Barefoot Estates, the Boat Club and most of the lanes; 12021C0178J for the north end of the Gulf front; and 12021C0187J for Shell Drive and the Cottages. Lee County panels overlap the area on a map because panel rectangles ignore the county line, but they do not regulate a Collier County parcel. A flood determination that cites a Lee County panel number for a Barefoot Beach address has the wrong county.

The county’s floodplain management page confirms the February 8, 2024 effective date of the coastal map.

Is a new flood map coming?

FEMA issued preliminary maps for Collier County on March 20, 2025, and the county announced that a 90-day comment and appeal period began on August 19, 2026. The preliminary set re-issues two of Barefoot Beach’s three panels. We queried the preliminary layer at the same 61 addresses: at every address the preliminary layer covers, the zone and base flood elevation are identical to today’s, and the third panel is not being revised. The county says the preliminary maps “should not be treated as the effective regulatory FIRM.”

A map amendment request that was denied

FEMA’s records include a Letter of Map Amendment case for 260 and 264 Barefoot Beach Boulevard, two of the east-side Club buildings, with the outcome “Structure denied” on August 1, 2013. A request to remove those buildings from the mapped floodplain was refused. It was decided on the earlier map, and both buildings remain in zone AE on the current one.

The wave-action line and the county’s one-foot rule

FEMA maps a Limit of Moderate Wave Action inside AE zones. Seaward of it, the area is called a Coastal A Zone, and the Florida Building Code applies coastal high hazard construction standards there. By our reading of the public map layers, the whole Club site, including the four east-side buildings, is seaward of that line, as are the Cottages, the first row of Gulf lots and some bay-front lots; most of Bayfront Gardens, Southport on the Bay and the Villas read as landward of it. Confirm the line on the printed panel before relying on it for any address.

Collier County also requires new residences to have the lowest living floor at least one foot above the base flood elevation.

Elevation certificates already on file

The county keeps a public index of elevation certificates with a document for each. We counted 218 certificate records on Barefoot Beach streets, including 35 on Southport Cove, 31 on Barefoot Beach Boulevard and 24 on Topanga Drive. Among the Club buildings, certificates are indexed for 253, 260, 262, 263 and 266. We did not open the documents, so we state no floor elevation. Search the county’s flood map and certificate viewer, or call the county’s flood information line at (239) 252-2942. If none is on file, a Florida surveyor prepares one.

The flood insurance discount, and what it applies to

Unincorporated Collier County is a Class 5 community in the federal Community Rating System, which gives a 25 percent discount on National Flood Insurance Program policies. The county says it has participated since October 1992. The discount applies to federal policies, not to private flood policies.

The 50 percent rule in Collier County

Collier County’s floodplain ordinance treats a repair or improvement as “substantial” when its cost equals or exceeds 50 percent of the market value of the building before the work or the damage. A substantially improved or damaged building must be brought up to current flood rules. The county’s substantial improvement packet says the county uses the Property Appraiser’s improved value for the structure alone, that staff may add 20 percent to it, and that an owner may submit a private appraisal instead. Pools, landscaping, docks, seawalls, detached structures and permit fees do not count toward the 50 percent; structural work, finishes, built-in appliances, mechanical systems, demolition and contractor profit do. The ordinance sets no multi-year lookback period, though the county counts all open permits together.

How the test applies to one unit in a multi-unit condominium building is not stated in either county document. Put that question to the county’s Floodplain Management Section in writing before you plan a major renovation.

Recorded flood agreements at the Club

In early 2024 the county recorded non-conversion agreements for buildings in Club II and Club III. These standard county instruments limit the enclosed areas beneath an elevated building to parking, storage and access. They are public record, and a buyer of a unit in those condominiums should expect them in the title search.

Is Barefoot Beach in the Coastal Barrier Resources System?

No home, condominium building or boat slip at Barefoot Beach is inside a Coastal Barrier Resources System unit, so federal flood insurance is available throughout the community. Only the neighboring county preserve is inside the system, in a unit named FL-65P, Wiggins Pass, and its boundary begins just south of Shell Drive.

What we tested, and what came back

We queried the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Coastal Barrier Resources System mapping service at all 61 address points and intersected all 694 residential roll parcels and the 108 Boat Club units with the unit boundaries and with the agency’s buffer zone. Every result was empty. The control points behaved as they should: a point in the preserve parking area returned unit FL-65P, a point at Lovers Key returned unit P17, and a point on Bonita Beach Road near U.S. 41 returned nothing.

The two units next door

By our measurement of the federal layer, the closest private land to the preserve’s unit is the Cottages’ shared land, about 26 feet north of the boundary, and the nearest cottage is about 110 feet from it. The Lovers Key unit comes within roughly 290 feet of the nearest Barefoot Bay lot and touches no Barefoot Beach parcel.

Why the belief persists, and what the designation means

People repeat that “you cannot get flood insurance at Barefoot Beach” because the name is shared with the preserve, which is in the system. The Fish and Wildlife Service explains that federal flood insurance is unavailable for most structures built inside a unit after its prohibition date. That restriction applies to the park, not to the homes.

What a Cottages or Shell Drive seller should have ready

Because the boundary is so close, a lender or flood vendor may ask the question. The clean answer is an official determination or validation printout for the specific address from the Fish and Wildlife Service’s mapping tool, ordered before the listing so it is in the file when the question comes.

The second half of the same Florida rule

Florida law bars Citizens Property Insurance from covering certain newer structures that are inside the Coastal Barrier Resources System or seaward of the State’s Coastal Construction Control Line. Barefoot Beach clears the first test everywhere. By our reading of the public map layers, much of its Gulf side does not clear the second, which the insurance section explains.

How Did Barefoot Beach Fare in Hurricanes Ian, Helene and Milton?

Hurricane Ian on September 28, 2022 is the storm of record at Barefoot Beach: the U.S. Geological Survey surveyed a high-water mark of 11.76 feet NAVD88 at Barefoot Beach Boulevard and Anguilla Lane. Helene and Milton in 2024 brought lower water and severe dune erosion. We report measured values and public records and assert no damage to any named building.

Data updated: October 2026

Measured water levels near Barefoot Beach

Hurricane Ian in numbers

The Ian mark is a seed line on a garage wall at the northwest corner of the boulevard and Anguilla Lane, rated good quality by the survey crew. The ground there is about 7.3 feet NAVD88 (11.76 minus 4.5), and the 2024 flood map gives that spot a base flood elevation of 10 feet. So Ian’s water at the north end of the community stood about 1.8 feet above today’s mapped base flood elevation. The mark is not a stillwater mark, so it includes some wave effect.

The National Hurricane Center’s report on Ian says “Maximum inundation levels of 8 to 12 ft AGL occurred in Estero, Bonita Beach, Bonita Springs, and North Naples,” and that in Bonita and North Naples “the most severe impacts were contained to the immediate coastline.” It counts 33 buildings destroyed and more than 3,500 with major damage in Collier County as a whole.

What the county roll and the State’s files show afterward

• The county roll dates 44 Barefoot Beach dwellings to 2023, 2024 or 2025: 23 to 2023, 13 to 2024 and 8 to 2025. Fourteen of the 2023 dates are Cottages. Structures on the Beach Garden tracts and the two club tracts also carry 2024 and 2025 dates.
• The State’s coastal permit file shows 15 permits in the community’s stretch of beach in 2023, against 5 in 2022 and 6 in 2024, including emergency fill and sand-removal permits at lane addresses and at the Cottages.
• The Clerk’s index holds 44 Notices of Commencement under Barefoot Beach Club names between September 28, 2022 and October 1, 2026, among them concrete repairs and door replacement across the buildings in late 2022 and clubhouse repairs described as emergency hurricane repairs. A Notice of Commencement shows work was contracted. It does not show how the work was paid for, and that is not in the public record.

We read the roll dates as rebuilding and re-dating after the storm. That is an inference from dates, not a finding from permits.

The 2023 emergency berm and the recorded easements

Collier County built an emergency sand berm after Ian that, in the Naples Daily News’s words, would “run from Marco Island to Barefoot Beach.” Fox Weather reported in May 2023 that about 300 truckloads of sand a day moved over the community’s brick-paved roads, Monday to Saturday, for about two weeks.

To let that work cross private beachfront, owners signed temporary easements. On May 17, 2023 a block of Temporary Beach Restoration Easements to Collier County was recorded, each stating that it is “Not a Public Dedication” and each ending automatically on December 31, 2043. The grantors include the Master Association, the Property Owners Association for its Beach Gardens, the Villas, the Cottages, The Club at Barefoot Beach, the Club umbrella and Club I, II and III, and individual Gulf-front owners. The Master Association’s easement is at Official Records Book 6248, Page 1091. None is indexed to Club IV, whose two buildings are east of the boulevard.

A buyer of Gulf-front property should read the easement on the lot. It runs to the end of 2043, and the county has said it relies on such easements for later beach work.

Where sand was placed before 2023

By our reading of the State’s sand-placement records, every engineered beach project on “Barefoot Beach” between 2003 and 2020 was placed along the preserve’s shoreline, south of the homes, with sand dredged from Wiggins Pass. The State’s critical erosion designation is also at the preserve end, north of Wiggins Pass. The 2023 emergency berm is the first project in that record in front of the residential shoreline.

Helene and Milton in 2024

Neither storm made landfall here. The National Hurricane Center put Helene’s inundation at 3 to 5 feet above ground from Englewood to Bonita Beach and 2 to 4 feet south of it, and Milton’s at 3 to 5 feet from Bonita Beach through Marco Island. Barefoot Beach sits at that Bonita Beach break point.

The dunes took the damage. The Florida Department of Environmental Protection’s post-storm report rated the Barefoot Beach shoreline at its worst erosion class, with major dune erosion, and wrote that in Collier County the two storms narrowed the beach by 20 to 30 feet and left “between 2 to 6 feet of sand on top of existing elevations of the dune crest zone.” The same report counts only one structure with major structural damage in all of Collier County, a single-family dwelling at a location it does not give, while noting flooding damage to most major structures in the coastal zone. The Naples Daily News reported that Barefoot Beach saw the most debris deposited by Milton among the county’s beaches.

We found no recorded instrument specific to Helene or Milton for any Barefoot Beach association.

Irma and Idalia

Irma in 2017 was a wind event at this latitude: the Gulf-side surge measured at Delnor-Wiggins Pass was about four feet NAVD88, under a foot above the ground. Idalia in 2023 passed offshore, and we found no county or newspaper record tying it to damage at Barefoot Beach.

What the storm record means for a buyer and a seller

For a buyer: ask for the elevation certificate, the permit history since 2022, the insurance claims history the seller will share, and for a condominium the association’s repair and funding record. For a seller: assemble those before listing. A documented repair history sells better than silence, and we would sooner show a buyer the permits than let them guess.

Hurricane Evacuation From Barefoot Beach: Zone A and One Road Out

Barefoot Beach is in Collier County Evacuation Zone A at every address we tested, the first zone ordered out when a storm threatens. Barefoot Beach has one road out: north on Barefoot Beach Boulevard to the gate, then east on Bonita Beach Road. No road leads south, because the boulevard ends in the preserve.

Whose order applies

Residents follow Collier County’s evacuation orders, not Lee County’s, even though the mailing address says Bonita Springs and the only road out runs into Lee County. For Hurricane Milton, Collier County ordered Zones A and B to evacuate beginning at 6 a.m. on October 8, 2024. Check your address in the county’s evacuation zone lookup or the State’s Know Your Zone page.

The route, as estimates

From the boulevard corner at Bonita Beach Road, a public routing service estimates Vanderbilt Drive about 1.4 miles east, U.S. 41 about 2.3 miles and Interstate 75 at exit 116 about 5.8 miles. From the middle of the community it is about nine tenths of a mile to the gate. Those are free-flow estimates with no traffic, and an evacuation is the opposite of free flow. Leave early.

Shelters

Collier County publishes a list of potential shelters and announces which ones open for each storm. The nearest on the list by road from the gate is Aubrey Rogers High School, about 8.7 miles. The county’s listed special needs shelter is Palmetto Ridge High School, about 21.5 miles. Shelter openings are posted through the county’s emergency management pages, and the county’s alert service is AlertCollier.

What we did not determine

We did not pull the State’s storm surge zone by hurricane category for Barefoot Beach. Evacuation Zone A is the practical proxy. A barrier island that is ordered out first should be treated as surge-exposed in every category.

How Does Property Insurance Work at Barefoot Beach?

Property insurance at Barefoot Beach has three parts: wind and other perils, flood, and, in a condominium, the split between the association’s master policy and the owner’s own policy. Federal flood insurance is available everywhere in the community. We publish no premium figures, because none is public and a quote depends on the individual structure.

Flood insurance

Every address we tested is in a Special Flood Hazard Area, so a federally backed lender must require flood insurance. Federal policies in unincorporated Collier County receive the 25 percent Community Rating System discount. FEMA’s current rating method prices each federal policy on the structure’s own characteristics, such as elevation, distance to water and replacement cost, so two homes in the same zone can be priced differently. Private flood policies exist and do not get the federal discount.

Citizens Property Insurance: the rules that matter here

Florida Statute 627.351 sets Citizens’ eligibility rules, and four of them bite at Barefoot Beach.

• Flood coverage is a condition. A personal-lines Citizens policyholder whose property is inside a FEMA special flood hazard area must carry flood coverage from policy issuance (new policies since April 1, 2023; renewals since July 1, 2023). Outside special flood hazard areas the requirement phases in by dwelling replacement cost through January 1, 2027. A condominium unit owner’s policy is outside that mandate. The Villas are fee simple, so we do not assume that exemption for them, and the Cottages’ policy form is not confirmed.
• New construction seaward of the control line. A major structure built new, or enlarged by more than 25 percent, under a permit applied for after July 1, 2015 is not eligible for Citizens if it is seaward of the State’s Coastal Construction Control Line. By our reading of the public map layers, the Gulf-side lanes, the Club, the Cottages, the Villas and Barefoot Estates lie seaward of that line. A newly built Gulf-side home here should be assumed ineligible until the insurer says otherwise.
• Replacement cost ceiling. A dwelling with a replacement cost of $700,000 or more is not eligible, with a $1 million ceiling in counties the State finds lack reasonable competition. We did not determine which ceiling applies in Collier County today. Many Barefoot Beach homes exceed either figure.
• Comparable private coverage. A homeowner who is offered comparable coverage by an authorized insurer is generally not eligible for Citizens unless that insurer’s premium is more than 20 percent greater than Citizens’ premium.

In practice the single-family homes here are insured in the private and surplus lines market, and an insurance quote belongs in the inspection period, not after it.

Condominiums: the master policy and the unit owner’s policy

Under Florida Statute 718.111, a condominium association must insure the condominium property as originally built and must have its replacement cost determined at least every three years. The master policy excludes what is inside the unit: floor, wall and ceiling coverings, electrical fixtures, appliances, water heaters, built-in cabinets and countertops, and window treatments. Those are the owner’s to insure.

The association’s deductible is a common expense. That is the mechanism by which a hurricane deductible becomes a special assessment, and it is why Florida Statute 627.714 requires a unit owner’s policy to include at least $2,000 of loss assessment coverage.

No Barefoot Beach association publishes its master policy limits, hurricane deductible or insurance appraisal date. Request the certificate of insurance, the declarations page and the current budget. The Club’s own website has a certificate request form.

The Villas and the Cottages are different

The Villas’ declaration makes each owner insure the owner’s own villa, with the association insuring the common areas. The Cottages are detached houses in condominium form, and the statute lets a declaration shift the insurance of free-standing buildings to the unit owners. Whether the Cottages’ declaration does so was not legible in our copy, so it is not confirmed. Ask the association which policy covers the structure before you bind coverage.

Wind

Collier County’s building code layers give ordinary homes and condominium buildings at Barefoot Beach an ultimate design wind speed of 161 to 162 miles per hour. Openings in new construction need impact-rated or shuttered protection, and Florida law requires insurers to offer premium credits for documented wind-resistant features. A wind mitigation inspection is how those features get documented.

What we tell clients

Get three things before the inspection period ends: a flood quote that uses the elevation certificate, a wind quote that uses a mitigation inspection, and for a condominium the association’s certificate of insurance and deductible. We publish no premiums, and anyone who quotes you a “typical” Barefoot Beach premium without the address is guessing.

Which Schools Serve Barefoot Beach?

Barefoot Beach is zoned for Collier County Public Schools at every address we tested: Naples Park Elementary, North Naples Middle and Aubrey Rogers High for the 2026-27 school year, according to the district’s attendance zone locator. The Bonita Springs mailing address does not place a Barefoot Beach home in Lee County schools, because Florida school districts follow county lines.

Data updated: October 2026

The zoned schools, tested at ten addresses

We ran ten addresses, covering every residential neighborhood, through the district’s attendance zone locator on October 1, 2026: 253 Barefoot Beach Boulevard, 154 Barefoot Beach Boulevard (the entry tract, not a home), 193 Topanga Drive, 58 Southport Cove, 185 Bayfront Drive, 101 Barefoot Circle, 125 Shell Drive, 101 Felipe Lane, 112 Inagua Lane and 5320 Barefoot Bay Court. All ten returned the same three schools, and none carried a pending boundary change.

Zones change, so confirm your own address before you rely on a school. Search the locator with “Bonita Springs” as the city, which is how the district’s address file stores Barefoot Beach addresses. Older descriptions of north Collier communities name other high schools. Aubrey Rogers High opened in 2023 and is the school the locator returns today.

Why a Bonita Springs address still means Collier County schools

The Florida Constitution makes each county a school district, and every Barefoot Beach parcel is on the Collier County tax roll. As a control, we searched two Lee County addresses on Bonita Beach, a few hundred yards north of the gate, in the same locator. Both returned no record, while every Barefoot Beach address returned one. A school named in a listing is typed in by an agent. The district locator is the record.

Buses, grades and other options

All three zoned schools are more than seven road miles from Barefoot Beach, beyond the two-mile distance at which the district provides transportation. Families check eligibility and stops through the district’s transportation page. Whether a bus stops inside the gate or at Bonita Beach Road is not published. State school grades are posted each year on the Florida Department of Education’s school grades page, and the district keeps its own charter school list. For private schools, see our Naples private schools guide.

County Permits, Zoning and Coastal Rules at Barefoot Beach

Barefoot Beach building permits, zoning questions and floodplain reviews all go to Collier County, not to Bonita Springs or Naples. On the Gulf side two more layers apply: the State’s Coastal Construction Control Line and the county’s own coastal setback line. Sea turtle lighting rules reach 300 feet inland, and bay-side docks follow the county dock code.

Zoning by neighborhood

Source: Collier County zoning and planned unit development map layers, queried at every address we tested on October 1, 2026. The county’s future land use designation for the whole community is Urban Residential Subdistrict, and the preserve to the south is designated Conservation. The county’s public planning and zoning map shows the same layers.

Two coastal lines that are not the same line

The State’s Coastal Construction Control Line, set under Florida Statute 161.053, marks the part of the beach and dune system subject to severe fluctuation in a 100-year storm. The Florida Department of Environmental Protection’s control line page is explicit that the line is a boundary of jurisdiction, not a setback: construction seaward of it needs a state permit and special siting and design.

By our reading of the public map layers, the 1989 state line runs inland of the whole Gulf row. Every Barefoot Beach Club building, the Cottages, Barefoot Estates, the Villas and the Gulf-side lanes read as seaward of it. Southport on the Bay, Barefoot Bay, the Boat Club and most of Bayfront Gardens read as landward, with the line crossing or touching a few Bayfront Gardens lots that front the boulevard.

The county’s coastal construction setback line is a different line, recorded in 1974 and regulated by Land Development Code section 9.04.06. It sits much closer to the water. Seaward of it, building, rebuilding, excavating or changing ground elevations is unlawful without a county variance, which requires a public hearing with a sign posted at least 45 days ahead. By the same reading of the public map layers, the Gulf-side Club buildings and the Cottages stand landward of that line, some by only a few meters, and it crosses or nearly touches the building footprint on a handful of Gulf-front lane lots. A survey, not a map layer, settles either line for a specific project.

Sea turtle lighting

Collier County’s sea turtle protection rules, Land Development Code section 3.04.02, apply to development within 300 feet of coastal mean high water. For existing buildings the code says lights must be turned off after 9:00 p.m. between May 1 and October 31, or hooded or positioned so the light source is not visible from the beach. New development may not use floodlights or landscape accent lighting, and windows visible from the beach need tinted glass with a light transmittance of 45 percent or less. Construction within 100 feet of the nesting zone in season needs its own county permit. The county’s sea turtle program inspects for lighting violations through the season.

Dock rules for the bay-side lots

Docks on Little Hickory Bay follow Land Development Code section 5.03.06. The rules that matter most in Southport on the Bay and Bayfront Gardens:

• Protrusion: on a waterway 100 feet wide or more, the dock and the moored boat together may not protrude more than 20 feet. On a narrower waterway the limit is 25 percent of its width or 20 feet, whichever is less.
• Side setbacks: 15 feet on lots with 60 feet or more of water frontage, and 7.5 feet on narrower lots and on lots at the end of a canal.
• Extensions: a dock beyond 20 feet needs Hearing Examiner approval and must meet at least four of five primary criteria and four of six secondary criteria. The code’s own guidance is that typical single-family use is no more than two slips.
• Boathouses: one per site, open on all four sides, no more than 15 feet above the seawall or bank, and only with a house on the lot.
• Boat lift canopies: one per site on a canal lot and up to two on a bay-front lot, and none where a boathouse exists.

The planned unit development and each association’s covenants can be stricter than the county code. We did not check whether they are, so read all three before you design a dock.

Is There New Construction at Barefoot Beach? Unbuilt Homesites and What Can Still Be Built

New construction at Barefoot Beach happens one house at a time. We found no pending application for a new subdivision, tower or condominium phase, and the county roll shows 18 unbuilt homesite parcels: nine on the lanes, six in Bayfront Gardens and three in Southport on the Bay. New homes come from those lots and from replacing older houses.

Data updated: October 2026

Where the unbuilt homesites are

The arithmetic: 9 plus 6 plus 3 is 18, and 635 dwellings plus 18 unbuilt homesite parcels plus 41 common, road, lake, preserve and recreation parcels is the 694 parcels on the roll. A lot that is vacant on a January 1 roll may have a house under construction today.

What the public permit record shows

The State’s coastal permit file records new single-family dwellings permitted seaward of the control line at eight lane addresses between December 2021 and August 2024. The county roll dates 44 Barefoot Beach dwellings to 2023, 2024 or 2025, a pattern we read as rebuilding and re-dating after Hurricane Ian, which is an inference from the roll and not a finding from permits. The private club at 105 Shell Drive carries a building dated 2025 and State coastal permits from 2022 and 2023.

What the zoning still allows, and what limits it

Heights are set tract by tract: three stories and 70 feet on the lanes, three habitable floors over parking in Bayfront Gardens, four in Southport on the Bay. The zoning text allows more dwelling units than were ever built, a point set out in the zoning history above, and whether any unbuilt allocation could still be used is a question for the county’s zoning division. Three rules shape every new house on the Gulf side:

• A state coastal permit is required seaward of the control line, with a county variance as well if the work is seaward of the county setback line.
• Collier County requires the lowest living floor of a new residence at least one foot above the base flood elevation, and VE zones bring coastal high hazard construction standards.
• A home built new under a permit applied for after July 1, 2015 seaward of the State’s control line is not eligible for Citizens Property Insurance, so the builder’s and buyer’s insurance plan belongs at the start of the project.

Buying a lot or a teardown

A buyer weighing a vacant lot or an older house should read the recorded lot-combination restrictions, the association’s architectural review rules, the 50 percent rule described in the flood section, and the State’s permit history for the address before closing. Call Marc at (239) 287-5873 and we will pull those for the lot you are considering.

Daily Life at Barefoot Beach: Mail, Trash, Utilities, Health Care, Groceries and Drive Times

Daily life at Barefoot Beach runs through one gate. There is no store, restaurant open to the public, gas station or hotel inside the community, so groceries, health care and dining are a drive east on Bonita Beach Road. Fire and rescue come from North Collier Station 43, and the nearest emergency room is about 7.6 road miles away.

Data updated: October 2026

Mail, trash and utilities: what is confirmed and what is not

• Mail: the mailing address is Bonita Springs, FL 34134. Which postal unit delivers to the boulevard, and whether a neighborhood uses cluster boxes or building mailrooms, is not confirmed. Ask the association.
• Trash and recycling: Collier County’s residential service provides household waste collection twice a week and weekly recycling, yard waste and bulky pickup, with collection days set by address. The county’s solid waste line is (239) 252-2380. Whether the condominium buildings use county residential service or a private commercial hauler is not confirmed.
• Water and sewer: the 1985 zoning ordinance placed the land in the Collier County Water-Sewer District and required customers to be county customers. The provider on a current bill was not confirmed. The Lee County utility that serves the City of Bonita Springs describes a franchise area that does not include Collier County.
• Electricity: Florida Power and Light lists unincorporated Collier County among the communities it serves.
• Natural gas and internet: availability and providers by address were not confirmed. Ask the association which services are billed in bulk through the assessment.

Fire, sheriff and hospitals

The North Collier Fire Control and Rescue District serves Barefoot Beach from Station 43 at 16325 Vanderbilt Drive, which the district says serves Barefoot Beach and the neighboring communities. Law enforcement is the Collier County Sheriff’s Office, whose North Naples substation is on Vanderbilt Beach Road. The nearest emergency room is the freestanding NCH emergency department on South Tamiami Trail in Bonita Springs. NCH’s North Naples hospital and Lee Health’s Coconut Point campus are each a little over eight road miles away.

Groceries and dining

The nearest supermarket is the Publix at The Center of Bonita Springs on Bonita Beach Road, about 3.1 miles from the middle of the community, with a pharmacy. Restaurants cluster on Bonita Beach Road between the gate and U.S. 41, and the private club on Shell Drive has dining rooms for its members only. For the public beach parks and restaurants on the Lee County strip just north of the gate, see our Bonita Beach guide.

Drive times, as estimates

These are free-flow road routing estimates from 260 Barefoot Beach Boulevard, in the middle of the community, with no traffic and no season factor. Winter traffic on Bonita Beach Road and U.S. 41 adds time.

Roads and transit

Bonita Beach Road is the only road to the gate. We found no bus or trolley route that serves the gate. The Florida Department of Transportation’s study of the U.S. 41 and Bonita Beach Road intersection received its location and design concept acceptance on July 25, 2025 and moves next to design, with no construction year stated. That intersection is on every Barefoot Beach resident’s route to the highway.

Boating From Barefoot Beach: Docks, the Boat Club, the Passes and the Bridges

Boating from Barefoot Beach starts on Little Hickory Bay, on the east side of the boulevard. Southport on the Bay and Bayfront Gardens have private lot docks, Barefoot Boat Club holds 90 dry-storage units and 18 wet slips outside the gate, and the Gulf is reached south through Wiggins Pass or north under two fixed bridges.

Where the docks are

Owning in Barefoot Beach does not come with a slip. A Boat Club unit is a separate purchase, and who may own one is not published. Our Barefoot Boat Club page covers the declaration and the submerged land lease under the wet slips.

Routes to the Gulf

South through Wiggins Pass the run is bridge-free. NOAA’s Coast Pilot describes Wiggins Pass as subject to frequent changes and used by small craft. North, the route passes under the fixed Bonita Beach Road bridge, charted at a vertical clearance of about 12.8 feet, and then the fixed bridge at Big Hickory Pass, which the Coast Pilot gives as 10 feet. The Boat Club’s own site advertises Gulf access by New Pass and Wiggins Pass. Clearances and depths are chart values and dated reports. Verify them on the water, and take local knowledge before running either pass.

Depth, speed zones and the public ramp

The only depth observation in the public record we read is a resident’s: 5 feet at high tide and 3.5 feet at low tide in the dead-end waterway north of Topanga Drive, reported in a 2025 county hearing file. It is not a survey. State manatee protection rules make Wiggins Pass, Wiggins Bay and Water Turkey Bay slow-speed zones all year; the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission’s Collier County zone maps show the boundaries. Little Hickory Bay lies mostly in Lee County under a separate rule we did not research. The nearest public ramp is Collier County’s Cocohatchee River Park on Vanderbilt Drive, with four launch lanes and Gulf access through Wiggins Pass.

Can You Rent Out a Barefoot Beach Home? Recorded Lease Rules, the Rental Market and Property Management

Yes, in every Barefoot Beach neighborhood whose documents we could read, but never by the night or the week. Recorded lease minimums run from 30 days in Barefoot Beach Club to 90 days on the lanes, and every association whose leasing rule we could read caps the number of leases a year.

Data updated: October 2026

Recorded lease rules by neighborhood

Every cell comes from a recorded declaration, amendment or rule we read in the Collier County Clerk’s official records. Boards also adopt unrecorded rules, so ask for the current rules and the lease application before you buy with rental income in mind.

Are short-term vacation rentals allowed at Barefoot Beach?

Not in the ordinary sense of the term. No recorded document we read allows a stay shorter than 30 days, so weekly vacation rentals are out in every neighborhood with a confirmed rule. Collier County adds its own layer under Ordinance 2021-45, in force since January 3, 2022: an owner who rents a home for less than 30 consecutive days, or less than one calendar month, more than three times a year must register it with the county and name a responsible party. The county’s page gives a fine of up to $500 per violation per day. The City of Bonita Springs rental permit does not apply, because Barefoot Beach is not in the city. The Collier County Tax Collector registers owners for the tourist development tax on short-term rentals.

What the rental market looked like in June 2026

Southwest Florida MLS, pulled June 2026: 12 active rental listings under the Barefoot Beach development name on June 11, 2026, and 5 leases closed in the 12 months before that date. With five leases we quote no median. The achieved rents in those five ran from $9,000 to $20,000, reported per month in some listings and per season in others, a mix the MLS does not standardize. The market is seasonal and thin, and most owners do not rent at all.

Median rent, rental days on market, the year-over-year change and the split between seasonal and annual leases for October 2026: the Southwest Florida MLS pull of October 3, 2026 covers homes for sale and closed sales, not leases, so it adds no rental figure. The June 2026 figures in this section remain the latest rental figures on this page, and we check current rents and the seasonal and annual split listing by listing when an owner or a tenant asks.

Rent it or sell it?

The recorded rules answer part of the question before any spreadsheet does. On the lanes, one lease a year with a 90-day minimum means one tenant a year at most. In the Club, three leases of 30 days or more fit a winter season. Against that income sit the assessments, flood and wind insurance, and property tax assessed without a homestead cap. We run that comparison for owners with the county-recorded sales for their neighborhood beside it, so the choice rests on both numbers.

When to engage a property manager

An owner who lives out of state and leases even once a year needs someone local for the board application, the county registration if it applies, the tenant’s gate access and storm preparation. Ask a manager which Barefoot Beach associations they have filed lease applications with, and read the declaration yourself before you sign a management agreement.

Looking for property management in Barefoot Beach? Call us at (239) 898-6072, we’ll connect you with the right local resource.

Are Pets Allowed at Barefoot Beach?

Pets are allowed in every Barefoot Beach neighborhood whose recorded documents we could read, with limits that differ from one association to the next. Barefoot Beach Club caps pets by weight, the Villas by number, and two associations, the Villas and Barefoot Bay, bar a tenant from keeping any pet. Dogs are not permitted in the county preserve.

Recorded pet rules by neighborhood

What “reasonable numbers” means in practice

A rule that says “reasonable” is a rule the board interprets. A buyer with a large dog or several animals should get the board’s practice in writing before making an offer, and should read the pet clause for what happens when a pet becomes a nuisance. Federal and state fair housing law treat assistance animals differently from pets; the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s assistance animal guidance is the starting point, and an association’s weight limit does not settle that question.

What Does It Cost to Own in Barefoot Beach? Property Tax, Closing Customs and Association Fees

Owning in Barefoot Beach costs four things beyond the purchase: property tax at 9.3696 mills with no city levy, one to three layers of association assessments, wind and flood insurance, and closing costs that follow Collier County custom. The tax is public. No association fee is published in any document we found, and no insurance premium is public.

Data updated: October 2026

Property tax, with the arithmetic

The 2026 adopted millage is 9.3696 on every Barefoot Beach parcel: county 3.8969, school 4.1470, other districts 1.3257 and municipal zero. The table sets an illustration beside the county’s own figure. The illustration is the neighborhood’s median 2026 certified just value times the adopted 9.3696 mills, for a non-homestead purchase at that value, before exemptions and non-ad valorem charges. The last column is the median tax bill actually on the 2026 certified roll.

Source: Collier County Property Appraiser, 2026 certified tax roll. The all-dwellings median is the median of all 635 homes (one homesteaded home owes only the $269.77 non-ad valorem line); the lanes median is on all 80 lane homes. The actual medians run below the illustrations because homestead exemptions and assessment caps hold many owners’ taxable values under just value. A buyer does not inherit the seller’s cap: under Florida Statute 193.155(3)(a), after a sale the new owner’s assessment resets to just value as of January 1 of the following year, so plan on the illustration, not the seller’s bill.

Closing customs in Collier County

In Collier County the buyer customarily pays the owner’s title policy and chooses the closing agent, the reverse of the custom a few hundred yards north in Lee County. The seller customarily pays the documentary stamp tax on the deed, which Florida Statute 201.02 sets at 70 cents per $100 of price. On the community’s 12-month median of $2,800,000 that is $19,600 (2,800,000 divided by 100, times 0.70). The contract controls every one of these items, and custom is only the starting point for negotiation.

Association assessments and transfer charges

No dollar amount for a regular assessment, a special assessment, a capital contribution or a club initiation fee is published for any Barefoot Beach association. What the recorded documents say each layer covers is set out in the association section above. Two transfer items are of record: Barefoot Beach Club’s Master Declaration allows a transfer fee up to the statutory maximum, and the Property Owners Association’s 2010 amendment created a resale assessment in an amount its board sets. The estoppel certificate states all of it for a specific home, and Florida law caps what an association may charge for that certificate, a cap adjusted every five years.

Insurance and the costs nobody can quote in advance

Flood insurance is required by any federally backed lender at every address we tested, and wind coverage for the single-family homes is placed mostly in the private and surplus lines market. We publish no premium, for the reasons given in the insurance section. Budget for a flood quote built on the elevation certificate and a wind quote built on a mitigation inspection during the inspection period.

Barefoot Beach vs Bonita Beach: Which Side of the County Line Fits You?

Barefoot Beach and Bonita Beach are the same strand divided by the Lee and Collier county line at Bonita Beach Road. Barefoot Beach is the gated Collier County community south of the line. Bonita Beach is the open Lee County strip along Hickory Boulevard, inside the City of Bonita Springs, with public accesses, older buildings and a lower entry price.

Data updated: October 2026

Side by side

Every Bonita Beach fact in this table comes from our own Bonita Beach guide, which cites Lee County and City of Bonita Springs sources and a Southwest Florida MLS pull from June 2026. The two columns rest on different counties’ records, and that guide’s market figures cover a wider area than the Hickory Boulevard strip, so read the price rows as direction, not as like for like.

Where Barefoot Beach has the edge

Choose Barefoot Beach if you want a staffed gate, a private road that ends at a 342-acre preserve, buildings from the 1990s or a newer house, no city tax levy and Collier County schools. Accept in exchange a higher price, one to three association layers whose fees you will learn from the estoppel certificate, public park traffic on the boulevard during the day, and a drive for every errand.

Where Bonita Beach has the edge

Choose Bonita Beach if your budget is under $1,000,000, the bottom of Barefoot Beach’s 12-month county-qualified range, or if you want to walk to a public access and a restaurant on the sand. Accept in exchange older buildings with the inspection and reserve questions that come with them, a city and county tax rate about a third higher, and an open road. Our Bonita Beach guide lists every building.

And the two cities whose names get borrowed

Buyers who start with “Naples” or “Bonita Springs” in the search box often belong in neither Barefoot Beach nor Bonita Beach. Our Naples guide covers the Collier County beachfront south of Wiggins Pass, and our Bonita Springs guide covers the mainland communities east of the bay. Selling on either side of the line? Start with a free home valuation. Buying? See how we represent buyers.

Pros and Cons of Owning at Barefoot Beach

Barefoot Beach’s strengths are its setting, its low density and a governing record anyone can read. Its weaknesses are layered associations with unpublished fees, flood exposure at every address, one road in and out, and a thin, uneven sales record. For most buyers the documents, not the brochure, decide which side wins.

What we like

• The setting. A private boulevard between the Gulf and Little Hickory Bay, a staffed gate, and a preserve at the south end that can never be built on.
• Low density. Twelve seven-level condominium buildings and otherwise houses, villas and cottages. No towers, no hotels, no commerce inside the gate.
• No city levy. One millage rate, 9.3696, on every parcel.
• Federal flood insurance is available. No home or building is inside a Coastal Barrier Resources System unit.
• Recorded rules you can read. Lease, pet and approval rules for most neighborhoods are in the Clerk’s official records, cited by book and page on this page.
• Choice within one gate. Condominium units recorded from $1,000,000 and lane homes recorded above $15,000,000 on the same road.

What gives us pause

• No published fees. Every assessment has to come from an estoppel certificate and a budget.
• Layers. Two master-level bodies and up to three layers of assessment for one condominium unit.
• Flood exposure everywhere. Every address we tested is in a Special Flood Hazard Area, and Hurricane Ian’s water stood about 1.8 feet above today’s mapped base flood elevation at the north end.
• One road. Evacuation Zone A with a single route out through Bonita Beach Road.
• Public traffic on a private road. Visitors to the county preserve drive the boulevard during park hours.
• A thin record in places. Two neighborhoods, the Cottages and Barefoot Estates, have one county-qualified sale in five years, and the county did not qualify many deeds recorded in 2022 and 2024.
• Thirty-year condominium buildings. Milestone inspection and reserve study laws apply to all twelve Club buildings. We state no building’s status.
• Club membership is separate. The private beach and tennis club has a capacity of 425 and paused waitlist applications from June 1, 2026.

How to weigh it

A buyer who has the estoppel certificate, the budget, the elevation certificate and the insurance quotes can price a Barefoot Beach home on facts. A seller who has them ready before listing removes the reasons a buyer hesitates. That preparation is the main thing we do differently.

Civic and Volunteer Spotlight: The Organizations Around Barefoot Beach

Barefoot Beach’s civic life centers on the preserve next door and on the associations’ own volunteer boards. The Friends of Barefoot Beach Preserve has supported the county park since 1990, and regional conservation groups work the same coast. These are the organizations a new owner is most likely to meet, each described from its own site.

Friends of Barefoot Beach Preserve

The Friends of Barefoot Beach Preserve describes itself as a member-supported 501(c)(3) organization founded in 1990 to help Collier County protect the preserve. Its own pages list Saturday lectures and nature walks from January through April, weekly gardening, docents for the Learning Center, cleanups of the beach and parking lots, osprey pole maintenance and annual scholarships for Collier and Lee County students. Its volunteer page takes sign-ups, and it is the natural first stop for a new resident who wants to know the island.

Conservancy of Southwest Florida

The Conservancy of Southwest Florida says it was founded in 1964 and works to protect the water, land and wildlife of a five-county area through science and research, policy and advocacy and other programs. The 1985 zoning ordinance for Barefoot Beach records a settlement with a party named The Conservancy, Inc. that reshaped the south end of the community; we did not trace the corporate link between that party and today’s organization.

Audubon Western Everglades

Audubon Western Everglades describes itself as an independent nonprofit founded in 1961, with volunteer programs for shorebird monitoring, burrowing owls and gopher tortoises. Shorebirds and tortoises are both part of daily life at the preserve end of the boulevard.

Keep Collier Beautiful

Keep Collier Beautiful organizes volunteer cleanups and litter prevention projects across Collier County, including the Great American Cleanup, which residents can join for a morning.

Friends of Lovers Key

Across the county line, Friends of Lovers Key describes itself as a 501(c)(3) citizen support organization for Lovers Key State Park, a few miles north on the Lee County coast.

Collier County’s sea turtle and docent programs

The county’s sea turtle protection program monitors nests daily through the May 1 to October 31 season, and the county’s park page lists docents at the preserve in season. Neither is a private charity, but both rely on residents who follow the lighting rules and report what they see.

The associations themselves

Every association in Barefoot Beach is governed by a board elected by its owners. For a buyer, a seat at a board meeting in the first year is the fastest way to learn what the budget, the reserves and the next project look like.

How We Researched Barefoot Beach, and What We Tracked First-Hand

We built this Barefoot Beach guide from primary records, not a listing feed. We read the recorded declarations and the Master Association’s bylaws in the Clerk’s official records, we tracked every one of the 85 county-qualified sales since October 2021 across all 694 roll parcels, and we queried the federal flood layer at 61 addresses on October 1, 2026.

Data updated: October 2026

What we did, step by step

A team recognized as Top 1% Real Estate Agents Nationally Since 2008 still has to show its work, so each step is one a reader can repeat.

1. We pulled all 694 residential roll parcels and the 108 Boat Club units from the Collier County Property Appraiser’s 2026 certified tax roll and sorted them into neighborhoods by plat and condominium, not by marketing name.
2. We read the governing documents in the Clerk’s official records: the 1988 State easement, the 2009 Turnover Agreement, the Master Association’s 2011 bylaws, the Property Owners Association’s 2009 declaration, the Club’s 2010 Master Declaration and the declarations for the Villas, the Cottages, Bayfront Gardens, Bayside, Southport on the Bay, Barefoot Estates, Barefoot Bay and the Boat Club.
3. We read Ordinance 85-83, the zoning document that still governs most of the community, and traced the ordinance chain in the county’s own appendix.
4. We kept the county’s qualified-sale flag intact: 85 county-qualified sales in 60 months listed and counted, and the 60 recorded deeds over $100,000 that the county did not qualify reported separately and never averaged in.
5. We queried FEMA’s flood layer, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s coastal barrier service, the county’s evacuation layer and the school district’s zone locator address by address on October 1, 2026, with control points to prove each tool reports a positive where one exists.
6. We read the State’s coastal permit file, the U.S. Geological Survey’s high-water marks and the National Hurricane Center’s reports for Irma, Ian, Helene and Milton.

What surprised us

Four things. Barefoot Beach Club is five corporations, not one. The Villas are not a condominium, whatever the county use code says. “Southport Cove” is a street, not a neighborhood. And the two largest recorded deeds of the last five years, at $16,100,000 and $15,500,000, are both outside the county’s qualified series, so anyone quoting a “record sale” from the qualified record alone is quoting the third-largest deed of those five years.

What we could not get

Southwest Florida MLS figures on this page were pulled in June 2026 and on October 3, 2026. We found no assessment in dollars for any association. We did not obtain certificates of occupancy, milestone inspection reports or reserve studies, and we did not open the elevation certificates on file. The full list is near the end of this page, each item with the route that closes it.

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Recent Barefoot Beach sold stats

Domain Realty, our brokerage, sold 19 listings in ZIP code 34134, the ZIP code Barefoot Beach shares, in the 12 months to October 5, 2026, for $14.9 million, per the Southwest Florida MLS pulled that day, among them a Barefoot Beach Club condominium at 257 Barefoot Beach Blvd that closed on August 21, 2026 at $1,200,000. The community’s figures, Southwest Florida MLS, pulled October 3, 2026: 37 closings in the 12 months to October 3, 2026, with a median of $2,600,000, a median of 171 days on market and a median sale-to-list ratio of 91.8 percent of the final list price, against 37 active listings. The public record for the same period is Collier County’s: 25 county-qualified sales since October 2025, totaling $79,197,500, with a median of $2,800,000; the county and the MLS count sales differently. Twelve of the 25 were Barefoot Beach Club condominium units, with a median of $1,300,000, and the other 13 were houses, villas and cottages recorded from $1,500,000 to $7,800,000. Southwest Florida MLS, pulled June 2026, by MLS development name: 51 active listings against 35 closings in the prior year.

Why selling in Barefoot Beach is different

A community-wide price opinion fits no home here. A $2,800,000 median sits between condominium units at $1,000,000 and single-family homes above $7,000,000. We price from the recorded sales of your own neighborhood, then from your own building, plan, side of the boulevard or lot.

The county record has two series, and a buyer’s agent will find both. In 2022 and 2024 the county left many recorded deeds out of its qualified series. We bring both lists to the pricing conversation, each labelled for what it is, so your price holds up when the other side checks it.

The documents decide the timeline. The estoppel certificate, the current budget, the rules, the board application and, for a condominium, the milestone inspection summary and the reserve study all come from the association. We order them before the listing goes live. In Barefoot Beach Club the package has to come from the right one of four condominium associations.

Flood and insurance questions arrive on day one. We gather the elevation certificate, the flood zone at the building footprint, the permit history since 2022 and, for a home near the preserve, the federal coastal barrier determination before a buyer asks.

The private club is not part of the sale. Membership in The Club at Barefoot Beach is not conveyed with a deed, so we never market it with the home.

What Is Your Barefoot Beach Home Worth? Get a Free Valuation in 60 Seconds.

Request your free Barefoot Beach home valuation and we will come back with the county-recorded sales for your neighborhood, the adjustments for your plan or lot, and the document gaps that could affect your price. Our global home valuation page works for any other Southwest Florida address.

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Want the complete Barefoot Beach seller’s guide? Read our Sell Your Home in Barefoot Beach, FL page for pricing strategy, marketing methodology, and the full McGreevy and Comisar listing process. Selling in order to buy elsewhere on this coast? Marc handles the purchase side, and our buyer page explains how.

Barefoot Beach seller mini-FAQ

Six questions Barefoot Beach owners ask us before they list.

What should I do first if I am thinking of selling in Barefoot Beach?

Find out exactly which association or associations govern your home, then let us order the estoppel certificate and the resale documents. Those two steps reveal the assessment, any special assessment and the approval requirements, which are the facts a Barefoot Beach price depends on.

How do you price a Barefoot Beach home when so few have sold?

We start with every county-recorded sale in your own neighborhood, qualified and not, then widen to the nearest comparable neighborhood and adjust for lot, frontage, elevation, year built and flood zone. Where a neighborhood has one sale in five years, we say so and show the wider evidence.

Do I have to disclose flood history when I sell?

Florida law requires a flood disclosure to a buyer at or before the contract, and a condominium or homeowners association sale adds its own statutory disclosures. We prepare the flood disclosure, the elevation certificate and the permit history together so the buyer’s questions are answered in one package.

Who pays for title insurance when I sell in Collier County?

In Collier County the buyer customarily pays the owner’s title policy and chooses the closing agent. The seller customarily pays the documentary stamp tax on the deed, 70 cents per $100 of price. The contract controls, and both items are negotiable.

Can I sell while my building or my street has repair work under way?

Yes, with disclosure. Recorded Notices of Commencement and State coastal permits are public, so a buyer’s agent can see contracted work. We collect the scope, the schedule and how the work is funded from the association and put it in front of the buyer.

How do I start?

Call or text Jesse at (239) 898-6072, or use the valuation link above. Tell us your address, and we will pull the recorded sales and request the association documents before you decide on a price.

Thinking of Buying in Barefoot Beach?

Buying in Barefoot Beach means choosing among four products behind one gate: a condominium unit, a fee-simple villa, a detached cottage held as a condominium, or a single-family home on the bay or the Gulf. Each has its own association, lease rule, flood profile and sales record, and McGreevy and Comisar check all four before you write an offer.

What buying with us looks like here

• The right neighborhood first. Before you tour, you will know which association governs each home, how many layers of assessment it carries and what its recorded lease and pet rules are.
• Flood zone by footprint, not by address point. We check the zone and base flood elevation at the building, look for an elevation certificate on file with the county, and flag the Gulf-side footprints where, by our reading of the public map layers, a VE line crosses.
• Insurance quotes inside the inspection period. Flood and wind are quoted on the actual property, and for a new Gulf-side home we raise the Citizens eligibility rule before you rely on it.
• Condominium documents before the cancellation window closes. The budget, the most recent structural integrity reserve study or the statement that none has been completed, the milestone inspection summary where one applies and the certificate of insurance for the unit’s own condominium, requested by name.
• The county record, both series. Every recorded sale in the neighborhood, qualified and not, so your offer is anchored to deeds.
• Collier County closing customs. The buyer customarily pays the owner’s title policy and chooses the closing agent here. We plan for it in the offer.

The team behind the process

• Top 1% Real Estate Agents Nationally Since 2008
• 5 Star Award for Customer Satisfaction for 21 Straight Years. Only 5 out of 21k+ Licensees (Gulfshore Life Magazine)
• #1 Team in Southwest Florida since 2012
• McGreevy and Comisar and their Domain Realty Group team have sold over $2.5 Billion in Real Estate
• McGreevy and Comisar alone have over $900 million in Sales
• Nationally Recognized Top Producing Realtors
• Platinum Sales Production Award Winners

Start your Barefoot Beach search

Call Marc at (239) 287-5873 for a buyer consultation, read our guide to buying a home in Barefoot Beach, or see how we represent buyers across Southwest Florida. Selling a home in order to buy here? Jesse runs the listing side at (239) 898-6072, and the free home valuation is the first step.

Your Local Real Estate Experts

Jesse McGreevy and Marc Comisar of McGreevy and Comisar lead Domain Realty Group and are the Southwest Florida real estate experts who list and sell Barefoot Beach homes, villas and condominium units. Our honors are below, together with how to reach us directly and the licensing information Florida requires.

Honors and recognition

Top 1% Real Estate Agents Nationally Since 2008 heads the list of honors below, and it is the standard we hold this page to.

• Top 1% Real Estate Agents Nationally Since 2008
• 5 Star Award for Customer Satisfaction for 21 Straight Years. Only 5 out of 21k+ Licensees (Gulfshore Life Magazine)
• #1 Team in Southwest Florida since 2012
• McGreevy and Comisar and their Domain Realty Group team have sold over $2.5 Billion in Real Estate
• McGreevy and Comisar alone have over $900 million in Sales
• Nationally Recognized Top Producing Realtors
• Platinum Sales Production Award Winners

Contact Jesse and Marc

• Jesse McGreevy: (239) 898-6072 · [email protected]
• Marc Comisar: (239) 287-5873
• Office: 24031 S Tamiami Trl #101, Bonita Springs, FL 34134

Jesse McGreevy (Sales Associate) and Marc Comisar (Broker Associate) are licensed Florida REALTORS® with Domain Realty; Florida real estate licensure is regulated by the Florida Real Estate Commission (FREC).

Read more about Jesse McGreevy and Marc Comisar.

About our team

Learn how we work on our McGreevy and Comisar about page. McGreevy and Comisar lead Domain Realty Group, a full-service Southwest Florida real estate team, and the team’s listing search is linked in the market snapshot above. Selling? Start with a free home valuation. Buying? Start with our buyer page.

Frequently Asked Questions, Barefoot Beach Buyer Edition

These are the questions Barefoot Beach buyers and searchers ask most, rewritten as plain questions, with answers drawn from the records cited above. Where a fact is not published, the answer says so and names the document that settles it.

Is Barefoot Beach in Naples or Bonita Springs?

Barefoot Beach is in neither city. Every Barefoot Beach address is in unincorporated Collier County, whose county seat is Naples, and carries a Bonita Springs, FL 34134 mailing address because the mail comes from the Bonita Springs side of the bay. No city taxes, permits or police apply to a Barefoot Beach home.

What county is Barefoot Beach in, and is it inside any city limits?

Barefoot Beach is in Collier County, Florida, in Sections 6 and 7 of Township 48 South, Range 25 East. Barefoot Beach is not inside the City of Bonita Springs, which ends at the Lee County line along Bonita Beach Road, and it is not inside the City of Naples. The municipal millage on every parcel is zero.

Why does Barefoot Beach have a Bonita Springs mailing address if it is in Collier County?

Mail routes follow post offices, not government boundaries. The only road to Barefoot Beach leaves Bonita Beach Road, so the Postal Service delivers the community from Bonita Springs and assigns ZIP code 34134. Taxes, permits, schools and evacuation orders for Barefoot Beach all come from Collier County.

What is the ZIP code for Barefoot Beach?

The ZIP code for Barefoot Beach is 34134, with Bonita Springs as the postal city. The same ZIP code covers Bonita Beach in Lee County and the Collier County neighborhoods east of Little Hickory Bay, so a 34134 address alone does not tell you the county, the tax rate or the school district.

Is Barefoot Beach gated, and who can enter?

Yes. Barefoot Beach is gated at Bonita Beach Road, and a recorded agreement requires the Master Association to staff the guardhouse 24 hours a day. Residents, their guests and vendors pass the gate, and so do visitors bound for the county preserve, which the public reaches over the same boulevard under a recorded State easement.

Is Barefoot Beach a private beach, or can the public use it?

Both exist under one name. The Barefoot Beach residential community and the dry sand in front of its homes are private. Barefoot Beach Preserve County Park at the south end and Barefoot Beach Access at the north end are public Collier County beach parks where anyone may pay to park and use the beach.

What neighborhoods and buildings are inside Barefoot Beach?

Barefoot Beach has seven neighborhoods inside the gate: Barefoot Beach Club with twelve condominium buildings, the Villas, the Cottages, Bayfront Gardens with Bayside, Southport on the Bay, Barefoot Estates and the beach lanes. Barefoot Bay and Barefoot Boat Club carry the name and sit outside the gate on Bonita Beach Road.

What is Barefoot Beach Club, and how is it different from The Club at Barefoot Beach?

Barefoot Beach Club is the group of 348 condominium units in twelve buildings at 253 to 269 Barefoot Beach Boulevard. The Club at Barefoot Beach is a separate private beach and tennis club at 105 Shell Drive with a membership capacity of 425. Owning a condominium unit does not make you a member of the private club.

What types of homes are in Barefoot Beach?

Barefoot Beach has 635 dwellings on the county roll: 348 condominium units in Barefoot Beach Club, 50 fee-simple villas, 15 detached cottages held as a condominium, and 222 single-family homes on the lanes, in Southport on the Bay, Bayfront Gardens, Barefoot Estates and Barefoot Bay. There are no towers and no hotels.

How much do homes cost in Barefoot Beach?

Collier County recorded 25 county-qualified Barefoot Beach sales in the 12 months from October 2025, from $1,000,000 to $7,800,000, with a median of $2,800,000. Over 60 months the range reaches $15,350,000. Those are county records, not MLS figures, and the median mixes condominium units with single-family homes.

What does a condo at Barefoot Beach Club cost compared with a single-family home?

The 12 Barefoot Beach Club sales the county qualified since October 2025 ran from $1,000,000 to $3,000,000, with a median of $1,300,000. The 13 other Barefoot Beach sales in the same period, houses, villas and cottages, ran from $1,500,000 to $7,800,000, with a median of $4,000,000.

What are the HOA and condo association fees in Barefoot Beach?

No dollar amount is published for any Barefoot Beach association in any recorded or public document we found. A Barefoot Beach Club owner funds three layers, most other owners two. The estoppel certificate and the current budget from the association state the real figures for a specific home.

Are pets allowed in Barefoot Beach communities?

Yes, with limits that differ by association. Barefoot Beach Club allows pets up to an aggregate 45 pounds, 20 pounds in Club I. The Villas allow an owner two dogs or cats. The lanes and Bayfront Gardens allow household pets in reasonable numbers. The Villas and Barefoot Bay bar tenants from keeping pets, and the Cottages’ rule is not confirmed.

Is Barefoot Beach in a flood zone?

Yes. Every one of the 61 Barefoot Beach addresses we tested is in a Special Flood Hazard Area on the Collier County map effective February 8, 2024. Zones run from AE with a 10-foot base flood elevation on the bay side to VE with a 13-foot elevation on the Gulf-front lanes.

Can you get flood insurance at Barefoot Beach, and what does it cost?

Yes. Federal flood insurance is available throughout Barefoot Beach, because no home or building is inside a Coastal Barrier Resources System unit, and unincorporated Collier County earns a 25 percent discount on federal policies. We publish no premium: a federal policy is priced on the individual structure, so the cost comes from a quote.

Is Barefoot Beach part of the Coastal Barrier Resources System?

No. We tested all 61 address points and all 694 residential roll parcels against the federal layer, and none is inside a unit. Only the county preserve south of Shell Drive is in the system, in unit FL-65P. The belief that flood insurance is unavailable at Barefoot Beach confuses the park with the homes.

How did Barefoot Beach fare in Hurricane Ian?

Hurricane Ian is the storm of record at Barefoot Beach. The U.S. Geological Survey surveyed a high-water mark of 11.76 feet NAVD88, 4.5 feet above the ground, at Barefoot Beach Boulevard and Anguilla Lane. The county preserve stayed closed until November 24, 2023. We assert no damage to any named building.

How did Barefoot Beach fare in Hurricanes Helene and Milton?

Neither 2024 storm made landfall at Barefoot Beach. The nearest gauge readings were about 4.7 feet NAVD88 for Helene and 5.8 feet for Milton, well under Ian’s. The State’s post-storm report rated the Barefoot Beach shoreline at its worst erosion class, with major dune erosion, and counted one structure with major structural damage in all of Collier County.

Which hurricane evacuation zone is Barefoot Beach in?

Barefoot Beach is in Collier County Evacuation Zone A at every address we tested, the first zone ordered to leave. Residents follow Collier County’s orders, not Lee County’s, and the only road out runs north to the gate and east on Bonita Beach Road. The boulevard ends in the preserve to the south.

Who owns Barefoot Beach Boulevard?

Barefoot Beach Master Association, Inc. owns Barefoot Beach Boulevard under a Turnover Agreement recorded in 2009, and the Property Owners Association kept the twelve side lanes. The State of Florida holds a recorded permanent 60-foot ingress and egress easement over the boulevard corridor, which is how the public reaches the county preserve.

Is Barefoot Beach Boulevard a public road?

No. Barefoot Beach Boulevard is a private road owned by the Master Association and gated at Bonita Beach Road. The public still reaches a public park over it, under a State easement recorded in 1988 and under the county zoning ordinance. Both statements come from recorded instruments.

Is Barefoot Pelican part of Barefoot Beach?

No. Barefoot Pelican is a condominium on the bay at Vanderbilt Beach in Naples, ZIP code 34108, several miles south of Barefoot Beach and unrelated to it. The hotels called Barefoot Beach Club in Pinellas County and the community called Barefoot Bay in Brevard County are also unrelated to Barefoot Beach in Collier County.

How does Barefoot Beach compare with Bonita Beach?

Barefoot Beach is the gated Collier County community south of Bonita Beach Road, with 1990s condominium buildings, no city levy and a 9.3696 millage. Bonita Beach is the open Lee County strip on Hickory Boulevard, inside the City of Bonita Springs, with public accesses, older buildings and lower entry prices. The comparison table above sets them side by side.

How does Barefoot Beach compare with Vanderbilt Beach, Pelican Bay and the Naples beachfront?

We did not pull the county record for Vanderbilt Beach or Pelican Bay for this page, so we make no price comparison. What sets Barefoot Beach apart is on the record: a single gated boulevard, no building above seven levels, a preserve at one end and a Bonita Springs mailing address. Our Naples guide covers the beachfront farther south.

What should I know before buying at Barefoot Beach?

Know five things before you buy at Barefoot Beach: which association or associations govern the home, what the estoppel certificate says the assessments are, the flood zone at the building footprint, what flood and wind insurance will cost from real quotes, and the recorded lease and pet rules. Each differs by neighborhood.

Who is the best realtor for buying at Barefoot Beach?

McGreevy and Comisar represent Barefoot Beach buyers with the recorded sales, the flood zone by footprint and the association documents in hand before an offer is written. Marc Comisar leads the buyer side at (239) 287-5873. Compare agents on the public record first, which is what our Bonita Springs agent comparison is for.

How do boat docks and bay access work at Barefoot Beach?

Docks at Barefoot Beach are on Little Hickory Bay. Southport on the Bay and Bayfront Gardens lots may have private docks under the county dock code, which limits a dock and boat to 20 feet of protrusion without a hearing. No docks appear in any document we read for the Club, the Villas or the Cottages, and Barefoot Boat Club, outside the gate, sells boat-storage units separately.

Can anyone buy a slip at Barefoot Boat Club?

Who may own a unit at Barefoot Boat Club is not published. The Boat Club is a separate condominium of 90 dry-storage units and 18 wet slips at 5025 Bonita Beach Road, outside the gate, and its 2007 amendment requires written notice to the board before a sale or lease. Ask the association before you assume, and ask a closing agent or attorney whether the Florida Statute 718.503 seven-day cancellation clause, which is written for the resale of a residential unit, applies to a Boat Club purchase.

Which schools serve Barefoot Beach?

The Collier County Public Schools zone locator returns Naples Park Elementary, North Naples Middle and Aubrey Rogers High for every Barefoot Beach address we tested for the 2026-27 school year. Lee County schools do not serve Barefoot Beach, despite the Bonita Springs mailing address. Confirm your own address in the locator.

What are the property taxes at Barefoot Beach?

The 2026 adopted millage is 9.3696 on every Barefoot Beach parcel, with no city levy. The median 2026 certified tax bill is $15,000 (exactly $14,999.87), the median of all 635 homes (one homesteaded home owes only the $269.77 non-ad valorem line). A non-homestead purchase at the community’s median just value of $1,878,934 illustrates at about $17,605 a year before exemptions and non-ad valorem charges.

What is the history of Barefoot Beach and the Lely Barefoot Beach planned unit development?

Collier County first zoned Barefoot Beach as the Lely Barefoot Beach Planned Unit Development by Ordinance 77-48 in 1977. The lanes were platted in 1978. A 1985 settlement ordinance, 85-83, replaced the rest of the single-family plan with clustered tracts, and the twelve Barefoot Beach Club buildings were completed from 1991 to 1995.

What does the Barefoot Beach zoning allow for rebuilding and renovation?

Barefoot Beach zoning sets height by tract: three stories and 70 feet on the lanes, three habitable floors over parking in Bayfront Gardens and four in Southport on the Bay. A renovation costing 50 percent or more of the building’s value triggers current flood rules, and Gulf-side work may need a State coastal permit.

Does a Barefoot Beach home come with membership in The Club at Barefoot Beach?

No. Membership in The Club at Barefoot Beach is not conveyed with any Barefoot Beach deed. The club’s own site states a membership capacity of 425 and says that from June 1, 2026 it is temporarily not accepting waitlist applications. A buyer who wants the club should contact it directly before closing.

Do Florida’s milestone inspection and reserve study laws apply at Barefoot Beach?

They apply to the twelve Barefoot Beach Club buildings, which are condominium buildings of three habitable stories or more. They do not apply to the Villas or the single-family neighborhoods, which are homeowners associations. The reserve study must be done at least every 10 years by a licensed engineer, a licensed architect, or a certified reserve specialist or professional reserve analyst. Whether they reach the Cottages’ detached condominium homes depends on story counts we did not obtain. We state no building’s status.

Who customarily pays for the owner’s title policy when buying in Barefoot Beach?

The buyer. In Collier County the buyer customarily pays the owner’s title insurance policy and chooses the closing agent, which is the reverse of the Lee County custom just north of the gate. The contract controls, so a Barefoot Beach buyer and seller can agree to something different.

Frequently Asked Questions, Barefoot Beach Seller Edition

These are the questions Barefoot Beach owners ask before and during a sale. The answers use the county record and the recorded documents cited on this page, and each one names Barefoot Beach so it can stand alone.

How do I choose a listing agent for Barefoot Beach?

Ask a prospective Barefoot Beach listing agent three questions: which association governs my home and what its documents require, which recorded sales they would price from and why, and what my flood zone is at the building footprint. An agent who answers all three from records, not memory, knows this community.

Who is the best realtor to sell a home in Barefoot Beach?

McGreevy and Comisar list Barefoot Beach homes with the recorded sales, the association documents and the flood file prepared before the first showing. We lead Domain Realty Group and have been Top 1% Real Estate Agents Nationally Since 2008. Call Jesse at (239) 898-6072 and judge the preparation for yourself.

How much is my Barefoot Beach home worth?

A Barefoot Beach home is worth what the recorded sales of its own neighborhood support, adjusted for its plan or lot, side of the boulevard, elevation and condition. The community median of $2,800,000 fits no single home. Our free valuation returns the county-recorded sales for your neighborhood with those adjustments shown.

When is the best time to sell a Barefoot Beach home or condo?

Of the 85 county-qualified Barefoot Beach sales in 60 months, the most were recorded in April and June, 11 each, and the fewest in August and September, 5 each. Recording follows the contract by weeks, so that pattern points to winter and spring contracts. It is an observation, not a rule.

How long do Barefoot Beach homes take to sell?

Southwest Florida MLS, pulled October 3, 2026: a median of 171 days on market for the Barefoot Beach sales that closed in the 12 months to October 3, 2026 (36 of the 37 closings carry a figure). Over the same 12 months the median was 181 days for the 18 Barefoot Beach Club condominium closings and 158.5 days for the 10 Southport on the Bay closings. The June 2026 pull showed a median of 167 days on market for Barefoot Beach listings that closed in the prior 12 months. The county record carries no marketing time.

How many homes sell in Barefoot Beach each year?

Collier County qualified 25 Barefoot Beach sales in the 12 months from October 2025 and 85 in 60 months, an average of 17 a year. Another 10 recorded deeds over $100,000 in the last 12 months were not county-qualified. The Southwest Florida MLS, pulled June 2026, showed 35 closings in its prior 12 months.

What closing costs does a seller pay at Barefoot Beach?

A Barefoot Beach seller customarily pays the documentary stamp tax on the deed, 70 cents per $100 of price, plus the brokerage fee the seller has agreed to, any association estoppel and transfer charges the contract assigns, and prorated taxes and assessments. In Collier County the buyer customarily pays the owner’s title policy.

Who pays the owner’s title policy when I sell in Barefoot Beach?

The buyer customarily pays the owner’s title policy in Collier County and chooses the closing agent. Barefoot Beach sellers who have sold in Lee County, where the seller customarily pays, are often surprised. The contract controls, and a buyer may still ask for a different split.

How much is the documentary stamp tax on a Barefoot Beach sale?

Florida’s documentary stamp tax on a deed is 70 cents per $100 of the price. On the Barefoot Beach 12-month median of $2,800,000 that is $19,600, and on the Barefoot Beach Club median of $1,300,000 it is $9,100. The seller customarily pays it, and the contract controls.

What documents do I need to sell a Barefoot Beach Club condominium unit?

A Barefoot Beach Club seller gives the buyer the declaration, bylaws, rules, budget and financial information of the unit’s own condominium association, the milestone inspection summary where one applies and the most recent structural integrity reserve study or a statement that none has been completed, at the seller’s expense, under Florida Statute 718.503. The statute’s seven-day cancellation clause, which excludes Saturdays, Sundays and legal holidays, is written for the resale of a residential unit.

What disclosure does a Barefoot Beach seller owe in a homeowners association?

A seller in a Barefoot Beach homeowners association, such as the lanes, Southport on the Bay or the Villas, must present the Florida Statute 720.401 disclosure summary before the buyer signs. The buyer’s right to cancel within three days of receipt or before closing, whichever comes first, arises only if the summary was not provided before the buyer signed.

What is an estoppel certificate, and who orders it for a Barefoot Beach sale?

An estoppel certificate is the association’s written statement of a Barefoot Beach home’s assessments, any special assessment and anything owed. The closing agent usually orders it, and we order it early for our listings. Florida law caps the fee an association may charge and adjusts that cap every five years.

Does my Barefoot Beach association have to approve my buyer?

In Barefoot Beach Club, yes: the Master Declaration requires board approval of every sale and gives the board 10 business days to act. The Property Owners Association’s declaration has provided for a resale assessment since 2010. For other neighborhoods, read the declaration, because approval rules are set association by association.

Do I have to disclose flood damage when I sell my Barefoot Beach home?

Yes. Florida law requires a seller to give a buyer a flood disclosure at or before the contract, covering flood claims and federal flood assistance. Barefoot Beach sellers should also expect questions about Hurricane Ian. A documented repair and permit history answers them better than silence does.

Should I get an elevation certificate before I list my Barefoot Beach home?

Yes, if one is not already on file. Collier County’s public index holds 218 elevation certificate records on Barefoot Beach streets. A certificate lets a buyer get a real flood quote during the inspection period, which removes one of the most common reasons a Barefoot Beach contract stalls.

Will open permits delay my Barefoot Beach closing?

They can. Collier County’s own guidance says a historical permit review may be done when a property is sold, because open permits may affect the sale. We run that search for every Barefoot Beach listing before it goes on the market, so an open permit is closed or disclosed before a buyer’s agent finds it.

How does the 50 percent rule affect the sale of an older Barefoot Beach home?

Collier County treats a repair or improvement costing 50 percent or more of a building’s market value as substantial, which requires the building to meet current flood rules. A buyer planning a large renovation of an older Barefoot Beach home will price that in, so we run the arithmetic before listing.

Why does the county show fewer Barefoot Beach sales than the MLS?

The county’s qualified series counts only deeds the Property Appraiser codes as arm’s-length sales of improved property. In 2022 and 2024 it left many Barefoot Beach deeds out: 60 recorded deeds over $100,000 in 60 months are not in the qualified series. The windows also differ, and the county file stops at August 24, 2026.

What is the highest sale ever recorded in Barefoot Beach?

The highest county-qualified Barefoot Beach sale is $15,350,000 for 110 Kaula Lane on December 9, 2021. The largest recorded deed in the last 60 months is $16,100,000 for 110 Saint Eustacius Lane in December 2022, which the county did not qualify. We report the two series separately.

What are homes on the Barefoot Beach lanes selling for?

The county qualified nine sales on the Barefoot Beach lanes in 60 months, from $5,500,000 to $15,350,000, and two of them in the last 12 months, at $7,250,000 and $5,500,000. Twelve more recorded lane deeds were not qualified. With fewer than 10 qualified sales, we list them instead of quoting a median.

What are Barefoot Beach Club condominium units selling for?

The county record shows 12 county-qualified Barefoot Beach Club sales in the 12 months from October 2025, with a median of $1,300,000 and a range of $1,000,000 to $3,000,000, and 32 in 60 months, with a median of $1,862,500. Each condominium’s own sales are on its page.

What are Southport on the Bay homes selling for?

Southport on the Bay, the largest single-family neighborhood in Barefoot Beach, shows 14 county-qualified sales in 24 months with a median of $3,737,500, and 29 in 60 months with a median of $3,850,000. Six recorded in the last 12 months, from $2,800,000 to $6,000,000.

Does the side of the boulevard change my Barefoot Beach Club unit’s price?

The recorded sales sit in different ranges. Over 60 months, the 19 Gulf-side Barefoot Beach Club sales had a median of $2,160,000 and the 13 east-side sales a median of $1,300,000, with overlapping ranges. That is an observation of 32 sales, not a measured premium, so we price each unit from its own side first.

Can I sell my membership in The Club at Barefoot Beach with my home?

No. Membership in The Club at Barefoot Beach is not conveyed with a Barefoot Beach deed, and the club’s capacity is 425 with waitlist applications paused from June 1, 2026. A seller should not advertise the membership as part of the sale. Refer the buyer to the club.

Should I sell my Barefoot Beach home before or after hurricane season?

There is no recorded rule, and the county record shows Barefoot Beach sales recorded in every month of the year. Barefoot Beach is in Evacuation Zone A, so a storm threat between June and November can delay inspections and closings. A seller who lists in season should have the flood file, the insurance history and the permit record ready.

Can I sell my Barefoot Beach home with a tenant in place?

Yes, subject to the lease and the association’s rules. Barefoot Beach leases need board approval in most neighborhoods, and the recorded minimums run from 30 to 90 days. A buyer takes the home subject to a valid lease, so we disclose the lease term and the association’s approval at the start.

Should I renovate before selling in Barefoot Beach?

Only where the recorded sales show a return. In Barefoot Beach Club the same plan has recorded at different prices on the two sides of the boulevard, which is an observation from 32 recorded sales and not a measured premium. We compare renovated and original sales in your own neighborhood before recommending any work.

How do you market a Barefoot Beach home?

We market a Barefoot Beach home with its record: the right neighborhood name, the association documents, the flood zone at the footprint and the recorded comparable sales, alongside professional photography and full Southwest Florida MLS exposure through Domain Realty Group. Buyers at this price level read the documents, so we lead with them.

How do I find out which flood zone my Barefoot Beach home is in before I list?

Look up the address on FEMA’s Flood Map Service Center or Collier County’s flood map viewer, then check where the zone line crosses the building, not just the address point. On the Gulf side of Barefoot Beach, by our reading of the public map layers, a VE line crosses several footprints. An elevation certificate settles the question for insurance.

What will a buyer’s lender ask my Barefoot Beach condominium association?

A lender reviews the condominium project as well as the buyer: the budget, the reserves, the master insurance policy, flood coverage and the inspection documents. We send the lender’s questionnaire to the right Barefoot Beach Club association early. We cannot promise any lender’s decision.

Does the 2023 beach restoration easement affect my Gulf-front Barefoot Beach sale?

It should be disclosed and read. On May 17, 2023 a block of Temporary Beach Restoration Easements to Collier County was recorded against Gulf-front Barefoot Beach property. Each states that it is not a public dedication and ends automatically on December 31, 2043. A buyer’s title search will show it.

What happens to my homestead tax cap when I sell my Barefoot Beach home?

The cap does not pass to the buyer. Under Florida Statute 193.155(3)(a), after a sale the new owner’s assessment resets to just value as of January 1 of the following year. A homesteaded seller may be able to carry part of the capped difference to a new Florida homestead within limits the statute sets. The Collier County Property Appraiser handles that application.

How do I get a free valuation for my Barefoot Beach home?

Use the free Barefoot Beach home valuation link in the seller section above, or call or text Jesse at (239) 898-6072. Give us the address, and we will return the county-recorded sales for your neighborhood, the adjustments for your home and the documents to gather before listing.

Frequently Asked Questions, Barefoot Beach Rental and Visitor Edition

Most people who search for Barefoot Beach are planning a beach day or a stay, not a purchase. These answers cover the preserve, parking, directions and the rental rules, from the county’s own pages and the recorded documents.

Where do visitors park for Barefoot Beach Preserve, and what does it cost?

Visitors park in the Collier County lots inside Barefoot Beach Preserve, at the south end of Barefoot Beach Boulevard, or at Barefoot Beach Access beside Bonita Beach Road. Parking costs $10 a day by mobile pay without a Collier County resident beach parking permit, according to the county’s park and beach parking pages.

What are the hours of Barefoot Beach Preserve?

Barefoot Beach Preserve County Park is open year-round from 8 a.m. to sunset, according to Collier County Parks and Recreation. The county page listed normal hours when we checked on October 1, 2026. Check the county’s page on the day you go, because storms have closed the preserve before.

Are dogs allowed at Barefoot Beach Preserve?

No. Collier County’s park page says dogs are not permitted at Barefoot Beach Preserve, and the preserve’s volunteer group lists pets among prohibited items. Inside the residential community, pet rules are set by each association, and Barefoot Beach Club’s recorded rules bar pets from the beach.

Is Barefoot Beach Preserve open after the hurricanes?

Yes, by the county’s page on October 1, 2026. Barefoot Beach Preserve closed with Hurricane Ian on September 28, 2022 and reopened on November 24, 2023. The Naples Daily News reported it closed again after Hurricane Milton in October 2024, and we did not find that reopening date. Some features may still be closed pending repairs.

How do I get to Barefoot Beach from Bonita Beach Road?

From U.S. 41, drive west on Bonita Beach Road about two and a quarter miles and turn south onto Barefoot Beach Boulevard at the guardhouse, just before the public beach at the county line. Barefoot Beach Preserve is at the end of the boulevard, about a mile and a half south of the gate.

How far is Barefoot Beach from Naples, Bonita Springs, Estero and the Fort Myers airport?

By free-flow routing estimates from the middle of Barefoot Beach, downtown Bonita Springs is about 5.6 miles, Coconut Point in Estero about 8.6 miles, Fifth Avenue South in Naples about 16.4 miles and Southwest Florida International Airport about 22.2 miles, roughly 33 minutes without traffic.

Are rentals allowed in Barefoot Beach, and are there minimum stays?

Yes, with recorded minimums. Barefoot Beach Club, the Villas, Bayside and Barefoot Bay require at least 30 days, Southport on the Bay 60 days, and the lanes 90 days with one lease a year. Barefoot Estates sits under that 2009 rule and under 1995 covenants that read one month, so ask the association which it enforces. Every association whose rule we could read also caps the number of leases, and most require board approval.

Are short-term vacation rentals allowed at Barefoot Beach?

Not by the night or the week. No recorded Barefoot Beach document we read allows a stay under 30 days. Collier County also requires registration of short-term vacation rentals under Ordinance 2021-45. The Lee County side of the line has its own rules, set building by building.

What restaurants and amenities are near Barefoot Beach?

There are no public restaurants or shops inside Barefoot Beach. The nearest supermarket is about three miles from the middle of the community, on Bonita Beach Road, restaurants line that road toward U.S. 41, and the Lee County beach just north of the gate has a restaurant on the sand. The private club’s dining rooms are for members.

Is the water at Barefoot Beach safe, and how is red tide reported?

We did not research current water-quality readings for Barefoot Beach, and conditions change week to week. The Florida Department of Health samples beach water, and the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission publishes red tide status. Check both on the day you plan to swim.

Does Barefoot Beach have shelling?

People do shell at Barefoot Beach Preserve, on a natural shoreline that runs to Wiggins Pass. We found no county shelling rule specific to the preserve and did not research the state rules on taking live shells. The county lists docents in parking lot 1 during the season, and they are the people to ask.

Can a Barefoot Beach owner get a free Collier County beach parking permit?

Yes. Collier County residents get the beach parking permit free with proof of residency. A part-time Barefoot Beach owner qualifies with a driver license, a vehicle registration or rental agreement, and a current Collier County property tax bill or recent warranty deed, all in the owner’s name.

What We Could Not Verify

This list gathers every place where this Barefoot Beach guide says a figure or fact is not available. Each item names the document or the route that would settle it, so that a buyer, a seller or our own team can close the gap.

• Current Southwest Florida MLS figures. Closed sales, days on market, sale-to-list ratio, active listings and months of supply are now on this page from a Southwest Florida MLS pull dated October 3, 2026, beside the figures from the pull dated June 11, 2026, and each is labelled with its date. The October pull covers sales, not leases, so the rental figures on this page are from June 2026. It records the final list price only, so original list prices, price changes, views and condition are read listing by listing when we prepare a valuation or an offer.
• Assessments in dollars. Not published for any association. Route: the estoppel certificate and the current budget, under Florida Statute 718.503 for a condominium and by request in a homeowners association.
• Special assessments. None is recorded, and they are normally not recorded. Route: the estoppel certificate and the board’s minutes.
• Milestone inspection and reserve study status. We obtained no report and state no building’s status. Route: the seller’s statutory package for the unit’s own condominium.
• Certificates of occupancy. Not obtained, so statutory deadlines are computed from the county roll year built. Route: the county permit record by address.
• Unrecorded rules and regulations. Boards adopt rules that are not recorded. Route: each association’s office or manager.
• The Cottages’ lease minimum and pet clause. Not legible in the recorded copy. Route: the association.
• The Bayfront Gardens leasing clause for lots 11 to 33. Not captured in our reading. Route: the declaration at Official Records Book 1335, Page 1835, and the association.
• Which leasing clause controls in Barefoot Estates. Two instruments are of record. Route: the Property Owners Association’s written answer.
• Whether Barefoot Bay owners hold any right to use the boulevard, the beach paths or the associations inside the gate. Not determined by any document we read. Route: a written answer from the associations and the title commitment.
• Whether the Villas’ entrance sits before or after the guardhouse. Not settled by the public record.
• Gate procedure, mail delivery, the trash hauler and collection days, the water and sewer provider on a current bill, natural gas and internet providers. Not confirmed. Route: the association office and the utilities.
• Insurance carriers, limits, deductibles and premiums. Not public. Route: the association’s certificate of insurance and your own agent.
• Lowest-floor elevations. The county indexes 218 elevation certificates on Barefoot Beach streets, and we did not open them. Route: the county’s flood map viewer, the flood information line or a surveyor.
• Wave-action line, control-line, setback-line and footprint readings. These are our reading of the public map layers. Route: the printed flood panel, a survey and the State’s determination.
• The project unit cap. The 1985 ordinance text reads 690, and a later-amendment tract sum reaches 750. Route: the county’s zoning division.
• Outcomes of the 2025 hearings at 185 Topanga Drive and 239 Bayfront Drive. Not found. Route: the Hearing Examiner’s decisions.
• The date the preserve reopened after Hurricane Milton, and the current status of the Learning Center and nature trail. Sources conflict or are undated. Route: Collier County Parks and Recreation.
• The State’s storm surge zone by hurricane category. Not pulled. Evacuation Zone A is the practical proxy.
• Dock rights, depths and slip dimensions. Private dock covenants, the two dock associations’ documents and channel depths were not read or surveyed. Route: the associations, a marine survey and the current chart.
• Private club initiation fees and dues, and whether a place is available. Not published. Route: The Club at Barefoot Beach.
• Current water-quality readings. Not researched to a standard we would publish.

Sources and Authoritative References

Every outside link below was checked on October 1 and 2, 2026. Some county, state, federal and newspaper pages refuse automated requests or sit behind a subscription, and open normally in a browser. Primary documents come first. Parcel, value, tax and recorded-sale figures are from the Collier County Property Appraiser, 2026 preliminary and certified tax rolls and recorded-sales files dated August 29 and 31 and October 27, 2026.

Recorded documents, Collier County Clerk of the Circuit Court

1. Collier County Clerk official records search: Book and page search for every recorded instrument cited on this page.
2. Easement Agreement, State of Florida and the developer, OR 1376 PG 279: The State’s permanent 60-foot ingress and egress easement, 1988.
3. Turnover Agreement, OR 4519 PG 1839: The boulevard conveyed to the Master Association and the 24-hour guardhouse duty, 2009.
4. Barefoot Beach Master Association Amended and Restated Bylaws, OR 4675 PG 2424: Purpose, eight member entities, 716 doors, 2011.
5. Master Association earlier bylaws, OR 2843 PG 143: The 2001 bylaws the 2011 restatement replaced.
6. Gatehouse Complex lease, OR 1564 PG 1599: The 1990 lease of the gatehouse to the property owners association.
7. Property Owners Association Amended and Restated Declaration, OR 4430 PG 3692: Lane leasing, pets, shares and enforcement, 2009.
8. Property Owners Association amendment, OR 4586 PG 823: The 2010 resale assessment.
9. Property Owners Association amendment, OR 4841 PG 2808: A later amendment to the 2009 declaration.
10. Continuation of Deed Restrictions, OR 4679 PG 398: One-home restrictions on combined lane lots, 2011.
11. Declaration of Protective Covenants, OR 745 PG 1699: The 1978 coastal construction covenants for the lanes.
12. Amended protective covenants, OR 869 PG 1961: The 1980 replacement of the 1978 covenants.
13. Recorded judgment and notice on the common beachfront tract: The 2007 judgment ordering the tract deeded to the Property Owners Association.
14. Agreement concerning Unit One Block I lots, OR 4944 PG 2617: A 2013 lot line agreement that cites the Master Association’s development approval rights over those lots.
15. Amended and Restated Master Declaration, Barefoot Beach Club, OR 4612 PG 3203: Umbrella structure, 1/348 shares, leasing, pets, approvals, 2010.
16. Amended and Restated Declaration, Barefoot Beach Club I, OR 4612 PG 3276: 82 units and the 20-pound pet limit.
17. Amended and Restated Declaration, Barefoot Beach Club II, OR 4612 PG 3389: 126 units.
18. Amended and Restated Declaration, Barefoot Beach Club III, OR 4612 PG 3498: 92 units.
19. Amended and Restated Declaration, Barefoot Beach Club IV, OR 4613 PG 6: 48 units.
20. Amended and Restated Declaration, Villas at Barefoot Beach, OR 2970 PG 2281: Leasing, pets and insurance for the 50 villas.
21. Declaration of Condominium, The Cottages at Barefoot, OR 1582 PG 18: The 1990 declaration for the 15 cottages.
22. Cottages amendment, OR 5020 PG 437: The 2014 roof material amendment.
23. Restrictive covenant, the Cottages: The dune enhancement covenant.
24. Bayfront Gardens declaration, OR 1335 PG 1835: The 1988 declaration for lots 11 to 33.
25. Bayside at Barefoot Beach Declaration of Covenants, OR 2590 PG 3271: The 1999 declaration for lots 1 to 10.
26. Bayfront Gardens amendment separating lots 1 to 10: The instrument that separated the Bayside lots.
27. Southport on the Bay Restated Declaration, OR 2594 PG 259: The 1999 restatement.
28. Southport on the Bay rules, OR 5640 PG 3564: The 2019 leasing rules.
29. Southport on the Bay Certificate of Revitalization, OR 6052 PG 1658: The 2021 revitalization under chapter 720.
30. Barefoot Estates restrictive covenants, OR 2120 PG 1745: The 1995 covenants.
31. Barefoot Bay declaration, OR 2754 PG 899: The 2000 declaration for the nine homes outside the gate.
32. Barefoot Boat Club Declaration of Condominium, OR 2197 PG 88: 90 dry-storage units and 18 wet slips, 1996.
33. Barefoot Boat Club amendment, OR 2712 PG 1700: An amendment to the Boat Club declaration.
34. Temporary Beach Restoration Easement, OR 6248 PG 1091: The Master Association’s May 17, 2023 easement.
35. Temporary construction easement, OR 5595 PG 1933: The county’s 2019 boardwalk project.

Collier County ordinances and hearing files

36. Ordinance 77-48: The 1977 planned unit development.
37. Ordinance 81-76: The 1981 approval on the north condominium site.
38. Ordinance 85-21: The June 1985 rezoning.
39. Ordinance 85-22: The north site cut to 110 units.
40. Ordinance 85-83: The December 1985 settlement zoning document.
41. Ordinance 87-52: The north site cut to 50 units, the Villas.
42. Ordinance 87-53: The 1987 amendment to the main project.
43. Ordinance 88-63: The mangrove tracts.
44. Ordinance 94-28: Lot yards in Bayfront Gardens.
45. Ordinance 2001-35: Lane homes at three stories and 70 feet.
46. Ordinance 2006-22: The utility site becomes one homesite.
47. Ordinance 2011-04: Fifteen units moved to the lanes.
48. Ordinance 2018-41: Bayfront Gardens at three habitable floors.
49. Ordinance 2019-44: Barefoot Estates and Unit Two.
50. County staff report, December 10, 2019: The staff report for the 2019 amendment.
51. County commission agenda item, July 22, 2008: Final plat of Lely Barefoot Beach Unit Five.
52. County commission agenda item, November 12, 2019: Final acceptance of the Barefoot Bay plat improvements.
53. Land Development Code, Appendix F: The ordinance chain for both planned unit developments.
54. Appendix F ordinance list, PDF: The same list as a document.
55. Official Interpretation, Lely Barefoot Beach PUD, notice: The July 2025 dock interpretation on the recreation tract.
56. Official Interpretation, posting PDF: The interpretation letter.
57. 185 Topanga Drive dock extension, notice: The March 2025 Hearing Examiner item.
58. 185 Topanga Drive hearing file: The staff material and correspondence.
59. 239 Bayfront Drive variance, notice: The September 2025 Hearing Examiner item.
60. 239 Bayfront Drive variance, PDF: The posted notice.
61. Hearing Examiner legal notices: Where zoning changes are noticed.

Collier County code, maps, permits, flood and emergency management

62. Land Development Code 3.04.02: Sea turtle protection and lighting.
63. Land Development Code 5.03.06: Dock facilities.
64. Land Development Code 9.04.06: The county coastal construction setback line.
65. Collier County planning and zoning map: Zoning and planned unit development layers.
66. Collier County planned unit development layer: The map data behind the zoning table.
67. Collier County parcel layer: Millage by parcel, 2026 certified roll, at the adopted 9.3696 mills.
68. Collier County permit portal: Permits from 2011 onward.
69. View Permit History and Permit Search: The county’s permit search tools and guidance.
70. Short-Term Vacation Rental Registration: Ordinance 2021-45.
71. Collier County Floodplain Management: The 2024 flood map, the Class 5 rating and the preliminary map.
72. Substantial improvement packet: How the county applies the 50 percent rule.
73. Collier County flood map and elevation certificate viewer: Certificates on file by address.
74. Collier County emergency assistance: Shelters and alerts.
75. Collier County evacuation zone lookup: Zone A by address.
76. Collier County hurricane evacuation zone layer: The map data behind the lookup.
77. Collier County Solid Waste, residential collection: Collection frequency and contacts.
78. Collier County Tax Collector: Tourist development tax registration and tax bills.
79. Florida Department of Revenue, Collier County taxing authority codes: Taxing authorities by code.

State of Florida records and statutes

80. Florida Statute 718.503: Condominium resale disclosures.
81. Florida Statute 720.401: The homeowners association disclosure summary.
82. Florida Statute 718.111: Association insurance.
83. Florida Statute 718.112: Reserve studies and transfer fees.
84. Florida Statute 553.899: Milestone inspections.
85. Florida Statute 627.351: Citizens eligibility.
86. Florida Statute 627.714: Unit owner policies.
87. Florida Statute 627.0629: Wind mitigation credits.
88. Florida Statute 161.053: The Coastal Construction Control Line.
89. Florida Statute 201.02: Documentary stamp tax on deeds.
90. Florida Statute 196.031: The homestead exemption.
91. Florida Statute 193.155: Homestead assessment caps and reassessment after a sale.
92. Florida Constitution, Article IX, section 4: Each county is a school district.
93. Division of Condominiums public records: The state registry of the condominiums.
94. Condominium project extract: Unit counts and recording dates.
95. Bureau of Elevator Safety public records: Elevators in the Club buildings.
96. Florida DEP, Coastal Construction Control Line: What the line is.
97. Florida DEP coastal permit map: State coastal permits by location.
98. Florida DEP, Helene and Milton post-storm report, March 2025: Erosion conditions by shoreline.
99. Florida Attorney General Opinion 2001-42: The preserve’s acreage and the 1990 lease.
100. Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Collier County manatee protection zones: Speed zones at Wiggins Pass.
101. Florida Division of Emergency Management, Know Your Zone: Evacuation zones statewide.

Federal flood, storm, coastal and census sources

102. FEMA National Flood Hazard Layer: Zones and base flood elevations, queried October 1, 2026.
103. FEMA Flood Map Service Center: Printed panels 12021C0178J, 0179J and 0187J.
104. FEMA, the flood insurance pricing approach: How federal policies are priced.
105. FEMA Community Rating System: The discount program.
106. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, flood insurance and the Coastal Barrier Resources Act: What a unit designation means.
107. Official map, units FL-64P and FL-65P: The preserve’s unit.
108. Coastal Barrier Resources System map service: Queried at 61 addresses and every roll parcel.
109. National Hurricane Center, Hurricane Ian report: Inundation estimates.
110. National Hurricane Center, Hurricane Helene report: 2024 inundation.
111. National Hurricane Center, Hurricane Milton report: 2024 inundation.
112. National Hurricane Center, Hurricane Irma report: The 2017 storm.
113. NOAA tide station 8725110, Naples: Water levels in the storm table.
114. NOAA Coast Pilot 5, Chapter 4: Wiggins Pass, Big Hickory Pass and bridge clearances.
115. U.S. Census Bureau TIGERweb: Incorporated place boundaries.
116. U.S. Census Bureau geocoder: Address matching and mailing city.
117. HUD, assistance animals: Fair housing guidance.

Schools, parks and public services

118. Collier County Public Schools attendance zone locator: Zoned schools, 2026-27.
119. Collier County Public Schools transportation: Bus eligibility.
120. Collier County Public Schools charter schools: The district’s charter list.
121. Florida Department of Education school grades: Annual grades.
122. Barefoot Beach Preserve County Park: Acreage, hours, fee and rules.
123. Collier County beach parking information: Resident permits and fees.
124. Collier County sea turtle protection: Nest monitoring and lighting inspections.
125. North Collier Fire Control and Rescue District stations: Station 43.
126. Collier County Sheriff’s Office: Law enforcement.

News reports

127. Gulf Coast News, December 29, 2022: County statement on preserve damage.
128. The News-Press, November 24, 2023: The preserve reopens.
129. Naples Daily News, November 29, 2023: What remained closed.
130. Naples Daily News, March 3, 2023: The emergency berm.
131. Naples Daily News, October 16, 2024: Beaches after Milton.
132. Fox Weather, May 2023: Sand hauling for the berm.

Association, club and civic websites

133. Barefoot Beach Club: The Club’s own community site.
134. Villas at Barefoot Beach homeowners association: The Villas association’s own site.
135. Barefoot Boat Club: The Boat Club’s own site.
136. The Club at Barefoot Beach: The separate private club.
137. The Club at Barefoot Beach membership: Capacity of 425 and the waitlist notice.
138. Friends of Barefoot Beach Preserve, the preserve: Preserve description and status.
139. Friends of Barefoot Beach Preserve, about: Founding and programs.
140. Friends of Barefoot Beach Preserve, volunteer: Volunteer sign-up.
141. Conservancy of Southwest Florida: Regional conservation organization.
142. Audubon Western Everglades: Shorebird, owl and tortoise programs.
143. Keep Collier Beautiful: Volunteer cleanups.
144. Friends of Lovers Key: Citizen support organization for the state park.

McGreevy and Comisar pages

145. Collier County: The county guide.
146. Bonita Beach: The Lee County strip north of the gate.
147. Bonita Springs: The city whose name is on the mail.
148. Naples: The county seat’s guide.
149. Barefoot Beach Club: The Club overview.
150. Villas at Barefoot Beach: Fee-simple villas at the north tip.
151. The Cottages at Barefoot Beach: Detached homes in condominium form.
152. Bayfront Gardens: Two associations on one plat.
153. Southport on the Bay: Bay-side single-family homes.
154. Barefoot Bay: Nine homes outside the gate.
155. Best real estate agents in Barefoot Beach: The agent comparison.
156. Free home valuation: Seller valuation request.
157. Buying with McGreevy and Comisar: Buyer page.
158. About McGreevy and Comisar: Our team.

Downloadable Documents

These are the recorded instruments and official reports behind the access, governance, zoning and storm sections of this Barefoot Beach guide, each served by the agency that holds it.

Market data from Southwest Florida MLS, pulled June 2026, and from Collier County recorded-sales files dated August 29, 2026. Southwest Florida MLS figures pulled October 3, 2026. McGreevy and Comisar, Best Realtor in Barefoot Beach. Brokered by Domain Realty. Jesse McGreevy, FL Lic. SL3101296 · Marc Comisar, FL Lic. BK3060671.