We price a Casa Bonita I condo from the nearest recorded sale and request the budget, the milestone papers and the estoppel before you write an offer.
Updated October 2026 · Jesse McGreevy and Marc Comisar, Domain Realty · Prices from the Lee County Property Appraiser and Florida Department of Revenue recorded-sale files, index built 1 October 2026
McGreevy and Comisar are a Bonita Springs buyer’s team, and this is our guide to buying a condo in Casa Bonita I at Bonita Beach, the 54-unit, eight-story Gulf-side condominium at 26000 Hickory Blvd on Little Hickory Island. Casa Bonita I sits inside the City of Bonita Springs and belongs to our Bonita Beach coverage, and our Casa Bonita I at Bonita Beach guide carries the full building record behind this page.
This is the Casa Bonita I at 26000 Hickory Blvd, Bonita Springs, Florida 34134. It is not the Casa Bonita subdivision in Cape Coral, and it is a separate corporation from Casa Bonita II, Casa Bonita Grande and Casa Bonita Royale, which have their own declarations, budgets and boards.
The short version for a condo buyer is this. In the 60 months since October 2021 the county recorded 8 qualified Casa Bonita I sales, from $550,000 to $1,215,000, and the median of these 8 sales is $824,500. The association keeps its declaration, bylaws, rules and insurance pages behind an owner login and publishes no regular assessment, its public lease form says the declaration prohibits all animals, the board must approve every purchase, FEMA maps the building in Zone VE at a base flood elevation of 13 feet, and a 1973 building falls under Florida’s milestone inspection and reserve study rules. None of that is a reason to walk away, and all of it is a reason to read the documents before you offer.
We wrote this page the way we would brief a buyer we represent. Every fact carries a source, every conflict between sources is printed with both sides, and every figure that comes from the Southwest Florida MLS, which we could not pull on the publication date, is marked as unavailable and never estimated.
To buy a condo in Casa Bonita I at Bonita Beach in 2026, choose your plan and floor, price it from the nearest recorded sales, request the budget, milestone and reserve documents and estoppel certificate before you offer, get a flood and wind quote for the exact unit, and sign a written buyer agreement before touring.
Data updated: October 2026 (Lee County Property Appraiser and Florida DOR recorded sales, index built 1 Oct 2026)
The order matters because Casa Bonita I looks uniform from the beach and is not. All 54 units are two bedrooms and two baths, but they sit on three plans of 1,058, 1,089 and 1,148 square feet across eight floors, and recorded prices in the last 60 months run from $519.85 to $1,148.39 per heated square foot. We build that picture for your short list before you tour, and the Casa Bonita I at Bonita Beach guide holds the full association record.
These are the facts a Casa Bonita I condo buyer should know in October 2026, each drawn from the Lee County property roll, Florida Department of Revenue recorded sales, the association’s own public forms, state and federal records, and each explained in the section that covers it.
Data updated: October 2026 (Lee County Property Appraiser and Florida DOR recorded sales, index built 1 Oct 2026)
Casa Bonita I at Bonita Beach for condo buyers, section by section. Each link below jumps to its part of this guide, from the market read and the fee stack to the documents, the flood map, the comparison with Casa Bonita II, the buyer consultation and the sources behind every figure on the page.
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McGreevy and Comisar are a Bonita Springs team, Top 1% Real Estate Agents Nationally Since 2008 and the #1 team in Southwest Florida since 2012, who represent Casa Bonita I condo buyers with the same county-record data we use to price listings. We show you what your plan and floor recorded, what the documents say, and where they are silent.
If you’re searching for the best buyer’s agent for a condo in Casa Bonita I at Bonita Beach, McGreevy and Comisar represent homebuyers across Bonita Springs, Estero, Naples, Fort Myers and Lee and Collier Counties, whether you are buying a first Florida home, a winter home you will lock and leave, or a Gulf-side condo you plan to rent for a season. With our Domain Realty Group team we have sold over $2.5 billion in real estate, and McGreevy and Comisar alone have over $900 million in personal sales. Our office is at 24031 S Tamiami Trl #101, Bonita Springs, FL 34134. For a side-by-side look at how to choose an agent in this city, see our comparison of the best real estate agents in Bonita Springs.
Marc Comisar leads our buyer representation and Jesse McGreevy leads our listings, so a Casa Bonita I buyer hears how Bonita Beach sellers think about price, timing and repairs from the people who advise sellers every week. Selling a condo to buy here? Our Casa Bonita I home valuation and Casa Bonita I seller’s guide explain the other side of the same transaction. Call Jesse direct at (239) 898-6072.
We will not tell you Casa Bonita I’s monthly dues, because no public document states them. We will not say an owner may keep a pet, because the only public statement is the lease form’s line that the declaration prohibits all animals. We will not call a unit outside the flood zone from the street, and we will not use the $1,215,000 third-floor sale as a comparable for a typical unit. As Top 1% Real Estate Agents Nationally Since 2008, our business runs on repeat clients and referrals, and those come from buyers who got what we said they would get.
McGreevy and Comisar’s own closing history at Casa Bonita I is part of the Southwest Florida MLS pull that was not available on the publication date. Information not available at time of publishing (checked 2026-10-01). This page does not claim that we sold, listed or represented a sale at Casa Bonita I. What we bring is the record itself: we tracked every one of the 32 Casa Bonita I sales in the county record since 2009, when the record is complete, every one of the 54 unit parcels on the Lee County roll, and every public form the association posts, before writing any advice here.
Casa Bonita I at Bonita Beach recorded 8 qualified condo sales in Lee County’s county record in the 60 months since October 2021, from $550,000 to $1,215,000, and the median of these 8 sales is $824,500. These are county recorded sales, not Southwest Florida MLS closings, and the newest is dated June 8, 2026.
Data updated: October 2026 (Lee County Property Appraiser and Florida DOR recorded sales, index built 1 Oct 2026)
Our method leads with the first window of 12, 24, 36 or 60 months that holds at least 10 qualified sales. No Casa Bonita I window does, so we show the window test, then list every sale. The county index was built October 1, 2026 from the property appraiser’s September 27, 2026 roll export. The roll keeps each unit’s last four sales with exact dates and the state sale files add every recorded sale from 2009 on, so the record is complete from 2009 and only partial before 2009.
| Window | Qualified sales | Median of these sales | Low | High | Median per heated sq ft |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 months since October 2025 | 1 | $850,000 | $850,000 | $850,000 | $780.53 |
| 24 months since October 2024 | 4 | $824,500 | $550,000 | $950,000 | $767.87 |
| 36 months since October 2023 | 5 | $850,000 | $550,000 | $1,215,000 | $780.53 |
| 60 months since October 2021 | 8 | $824,500 | $550,000 | $1,215,000 | $767.87 |
Read each row as the median of those n sales and never as a market signal. The 12-month row is a single sale. The 24-month and 60-month medians are each the mean of the middle pair, $799,000 and $850,000, because both counts are even.
All eight sales are at 26000 Hickory Blvd. The roll does not state floors, so we read each floor from the first digit of the unit number, which is our inference. The two highest prices are both on the third floor.
| Recorded date | Building address | Floor (our inference) | Heated sq ft | Price | Per heated sq ft |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 2, 2021 | 26000 Hickory Blvd | Fifth | 1,089 | $775,000 | $711.66 |
| June 2, 2023 | 26000 Hickory Blvd | First | 1,089 | $775,000 | $711.66 |
| August 16, 2023 | 26000 Hickory Blvd | Third | 1,089 | $1,025,000 | $941.23 |
| November 20, 2023 | 26000 Hickory Blvd | Third | 1,058 | $1,215,000 | $1,148.39 |
| May 12, 2025 | 26000 Hickory Blvd | Seventh | 1,148 | $950,000 | $827.53 |
| May 22, 2025 | 26000 Hickory Blvd | Second | 1,058 | $550,000 | $519.85 |
| September 30, 2025 | 26000 Hickory Blvd | Sixth | 1,058 | $799,000 | $755.20 |
| June 8, 2026 | 26000 Hickory Blvd | Second | 1,089 | $850,000 | $780.53 |
The price per heated square foot runs from $519.85 to $1,148.39, and the median price per heated square foot of these 8 sales is $767.87. The $550,000 sale on the second floor in May 2025 closed ten days after a $950,000 sale on the seventh floor, on a plan 90 square feet larger. The roll records prices and not condition, so we do not treat either extreme as typical, and we ask you to price a unit from its own plan, floor and condition.
Information not available at time of publishing (checked 2026-10-01). That sentence covers every figure that comes from the Southwest Florida MLS for Casa Bonita I: closed-sale count and median from the MLS, days on market, sale-to-list ratio and negotiation room, active and pending listings, months of supply, list-price history and our own closings in the building. We do not estimate any of them from the county record, because the two sources measure different things.
The roll also shows six transfers since 2021 that carry a transfer code the county file does not count as a qualified sale. We list them with no median, because they are not comparables without the deed and the closing details.
| Recorded date | Building address | Floor (our inference) | Heated sq ft | Recorded price | Per heated sq ft |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 25, 2022 | 26000 Hickory Blvd | Seventh | 1,089 | $995,000 | $913.68 |
| May 10, 2022 | 26000 Hickory Blvd | Second | 1,058 | $700,011 | $661.64 |
| February 14, 2023 | 26000 Hickory Blvd | Sixth | 1,058 | $755,000 | $713.61 |
| January 12, 2024 | 26000 Hickory Blvd | Fourth | 1,089 | $875,000 | $803.49 |
| April 19, 2024 | 26000 Hickory Blvd | Sixth | 1,148 | $955,000 | $831.88 |
| July 12, 2024 | 26000 Hickory Blvd | Seventh | 1,058 | $750,000 | $708.88 |
Three of the six, at $875,000 to $995,000, sit above the median of the qualified record, so a buyer who sees a higher number in another record is probably looking at one of these. We never blend them into a median.
Since January 2021 the county file holds 12 qualified sales, from $500,000 to $1,215,000, and the median of these 12 sales is $775,000, the mean of the sixth and seventh prices, which are both $775,000. The file holds 127 qualified sales since 1973 and 32 since 2009, the years the record is complete. We publish no median across all 127, because it would describe where the building has traded across five decades and not what a unit is worth today. Eight of the 127 are builder-direct first sales of new units in 1973 and 1974, from $40,300 to $65,000.
One third-floor condo of 1,058 square feet is in the qualified record twice, at $500,000 on June 4, 2021 ($472.59 per heated square foot) and at $1,215,000 on November 20, 2023 ($1,148.39). That is $715,000 more in about two years and five months, which is 143.0 percent of the first price. This is a public-record sale, not one of ours, and the roll cannot tell us what was renovated, which is the point: two condos of one plan and floor can record far apart when condition differs.
A sixth-floor condo of 1,058 square feet recorded $755,000 on February 14, 2023, a transfer the county file does not count, and $799,000 on September 30, 2025, which is $44,000 more, or 5.8 percent. Before you offer, ask us for the recorded history of the unit and of its nearest twins.
Casa Bonita I’s 54 condos are all two bedrooms and two baths on three plans of 1,058, 1,089 and 1,148 square feet, with 22, 16 and 16 units, across eight floors. Since January 2021 the 1,058 plan has the lowest median and the 1,089 plan the highest of the two plans with enough sales to state one.
Data updated: October 2026 (Lee County Property Appraiser and Florida DOR recorded sales, index built 1 Oct 2026)
The plans repeat on every floor, so plan, floor and position along the building separate one unit from another in a price comparison. We have not seen the association’s drawings, and the grouping comes from the county roll’s heated area. The table uses the 12 qualified sales since January 2021, a longer window than the 60-month list above, and each median is the median of those sales.
| Plan, heated sq ft | Qualified sales since January 2021 | Median price | Median per heated sq ft |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1,058 | 6 | $637,500 | $602.6 |
| 1,089 | 4 | $812,500 | $746.1 |
| 1,148 | 2 | $729,630 and $950,000, no median stated | $635.6 and $827.5 |
The 1,148 square foot plan has only two qualified sales, $729,630 on September 23, 2021 ($635.57 per square foot) and $950,000 on May 12, 2025 ($827.53), so we list them and state no median. The 1,058 plan holds 22 of the 54 units and has the lowest median, but it also holds both the $500,000 and the $1,215,000 sale, so test the pattern against a specific floor and condition before you rely on it.
Floor one has five units and floors two through eight have seven each, which is 5 + (7 x 7) = 54. We infer eight floors from the pattern of unit numbers on the roll, because the roll’s story field returns 8 on seven parcels, 7 on 42 and 1 on five, which does not read as one building height. The 8 qualified sales in the last 60 months fall on the first floor once, the second twice, the third twice and the fifth, sixth and seventh once each, so the record cannot tell you what a floor premium is, and we do not guess. The two third-floor sales, $1,025,000 and $1,215,000, are the highest.
Owning a Casa Bonita I condo costs the price plus a regular assessment the association does not publish, property tax, your own condo insurance and closing costs. The documented fees are a $100 purchase application, a $75 Certificate of Approval and, for a landlord, $150 per tenant per year.
The association’s purchase application asks for a $100 application fee payable to Casa Bonita I and a $75 fee for the Certificate of Approval payable to Resort Management, which is $175 in all. Florida Statutes section 718.112(2)(k) allows a transfer fee only where the governing documents provide for it and caps it at $150 per applicant, adjusted for inflation every five years. Whether $175 in two payments fits that cap is a legal question we do not answer, and the manager’s written current schedule controls. The form does not say who bears the fees, so the contract decides, and we write the allocation in.
The lease application, updated June 6, 2026, states $150 per tenant per year, which matters to a buyer who plans to rent. No capital contribution is published. The regular assessment, the budget and any special assessment are not on the association’s public pages.
Under Florida Statutes section 718.116, the certificate costs up to $299, with up to $119 more for an expedited request and up to $179 more where the account is delinquent. Those are the statute’s $250, $100 and $150 base amounts as adjusted for inflation and published by the Florida DBPR, and the largest combined fee is $299 + $119 + $179 = $597. If the association does not deliver within 10 business days, it may not charge for it.
The association’s renovation plan, effective August 25, 2026, requires an owner-paid underlayment under every non-carpeted floor from the second floor up, two coats of RedGard waterproofing on lanai floors, a pan under a new water heater and a satin nickel lock keyed to the master key. Debris may not go in the trash chutes or building dumpsters, and the owner pays for its removal. Price a renovation with these lines before you decide a dated unit is a bargain.
Check five groups of Casa Bonita I documents before you offer: the declaration, bylaws and rules, the budget and reserve schedule, the milestone and structural reserve papers, the insurance summary and the estoppel certificate. Florida Statute 718.503 requires the seller to furnish most of them at the seller’s expense, and the association keeps several behind an owner login.
The association’s declarations-and-bylaws page, condo rules page and insurance and wind-mitigation page each returned a password-protected response when we requested them on October 1, 2026. We therefore did not read the declaration text, the bylaws or the rules, and nothing on this page is stated to come from them. What the association posts openly is a lease application, a purchase application, a renovation plan and public pages on rentals, lockboxes, smoking, turtle season, trash, storm preparation, its board and its residents.
Under Florida Statute 718.503, the seller must give the buyer the declaration, articles, bylaws and rules, the annual financial statement and budget, the milestone inspection summary if applicable, the most recent structural integrity reserve study or a statement that none has been completed, and the frequently asked questions document described in section 718.504. A resale contract signed after December 31, 2024 must carry a conspicuous statement on the association’s milestone and reserve status. The contract must also either acknowledge that you received the documents more than seven days before signing or make the contract voidable within seven days, excluding weekends and legal holidays, after signing and receipt. That right ends at closing, and the contract controls.
| Document | What a Casa Bonita I buyer reads for | Where it comes from |
|---|---|---|
| Declaration, articles, bylaws | Pets, leasing, approvals, who repairs what, how assessments are shared | Seller’s package, 718.503 |
| Rules | Pool, Club Room, parking, guests, move-in, renovation | Seller’s package, 718.503 |
| Budget and financial statement | Insurance line, reserve line, management fee, any loan | Seller’s package, 718.503 |
| Milestone summary and reserve study | Condition, deferred items, funding plan | Seller’s package, 718.503 |
| Insurance summary | Carrier, wind and flood limits, deductibles, expiry | Manager |
| Estoppel certificate | Dues status, approval, any transfer fee | Association, 718.116 |
We compared every public page and form against the others and publish both sides of each conflict, because we cannot tell which version is current.
| Topic | One document says | Another says |
|---|---|---|
| Management | Association home page: Sterling Property Services | Property manager page, lease, purchase and renovation forms: Resort Management |
| Lease lead time | Lease form, updated June 6, 2026: 10 days before the lease starts | Rental rules page: at least 30 days before move-in |
| Contractor hours | Renovation plan, effective August 25, 2026: 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM weekdays | Rebuild and remodel page: 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM weekdays |
| Lease fee payee | Lease form: Casa Bonita I | Rental rules page: Casa Bonita One Association |
| Pet rule | Lease form: the declarations prohibit all animals | The declaration is not public, so we have not seen the wording |
Casa Bonita I is an eight-story building the county dates to 1973, so under Florida Statutes section 553.899 its initial milestone inspection was due before December 31, 2024, and a structural integrity reserve study was due by December 31, 2025. The association’s actual status on either is not published.
The county year built is 1973, and 1973 + 30 = 2003, so the building reached 30 years before July 1, 2022, which sets the December 31, 2024 deadline in section 553.899. The statute applies to buildings of three habitable stories or more, and we infer eight from the unit numbering. The certificate of occupancy date, which the statute uses, may differ from the roll year. A building of 1973 is 53 years old in 2026.
A Phase 1 milestone inspection is a visual inspection by a licensed architect or engineer, and Phase 2 follows only if substantial structural deterioration is found. The association distributes the inspector’s summary to owners within 45 days. The structural integrity reserve study, required by section 718.112(2)(g) at least every 10 years for buildings of three habitable stories or more, sets reserve amounts for the structural components the statute names.
We do not state whether Casa Bonita I completed either, what it found or what the association has reserved or assessed, because those records are available to members and prospective purchasers on request and are not public. Ask for both documents, ask whether the City of Bonita Springs, as local enforcement agency, issued a notice, and ask when the association responded. An association that answers quickly and in writing is telling you something, and one that cannot is telling you something else.
Every purchase at Casa Bonita I needs approval from the Board of Directors before closing, leases of one month or longer need a yearly application, and the lease form says the declaration prohibits all animals. We could read only the association’s public forms and pages, so each rule below names its source.
The association’s notices page says board approval is required to buy. The purchase application asks for your name, spouse, address and how title will be held, a signed statement that you have read and will abide by the declaration, bylaws and rules, a credit and background authorization, a copy of the purchase agreement, and the $100 and $75 fees. Both cash and financed buyers need it.
We found no published number of days in which the board must act, and no right of first refusal on any public page, which is not proof that none exists in the declaration. We therefore submit your packet the day the contract is signed, write the approval into the contract as a condition with a closing date that leaves room, and ask the manager in writing for the board’s timeline before we draft the offer.
The rental rules page says every renter files a lease application each year, the minimum term is one month, and renting for less may be fined. The lease form states a 30-day minimum and a $150 fee per tenant per year, and warns that an occupant of a rental under 30 days can be barred from the pool and parking lot. Neither document states a fine amount. The two documents disagree on lead time, 10 days on the form and 30 days on the page, so a landlord should apply 30 days ahead and get the manager’s confirmation in writing.
A one-month minimum rules out weekly vacation rentals, which is a buyer-pool and an income decision. A rental of 30 days or more falls outside Florida’s transient-rental licensing trigger, and the City of Bonita Springs rental permit does not apply to condominiums of more than six units. Lee County Ordinance 13-14, which sets the 5 percent tourist development tax, applies to rentals of six months or less and names condominiums, so confirm whether a given lease is taxable. Section 718.110(13) provides that an amendment limiting rentals applies only to owners who consent and to owners who acquire title after it takes effect. We could not trace this declaration’s history, so a buyer who wants shorter terms should ask counsel.
The lease form puts the animal rule in capital letters: the condominium declarations prohibit all animals, and no animal of any kind may be brought into the unit, onto the condominium property or onto the beach. We could not read the declaration, so we cannot say how an owner’s pet is handled, and we do not guess. Treat the rule as unknown until the manager supplies the declaration section in writing before you sign.
Under HUD’s assistance animal guidance, an assistance animal is not a pet, and a request is handled as a reasonable accommodation. Raise it early and in writing. Lee County’s Bonita Beach Park and public accesses also state “No pets allowed” on their county pages.
FEMA maps Casa Bonita I in Zone VE, the coastal high-hazard zone, at a base flood elevation of 13 feet NAVD88 on panel 12071C0651G, effective November 17, 2022, and Lee County puts it in evacuation Zone A. No public source gives this building’s premium, so the route to a number is a quote on the exact unit.
We queried the FEMA National Flood Hazard Layer at the building’s county parcel centroid on October 1, 2026 and read the zone, base flood elevation and panel. The federal 3D Elevation Program gives bare-earth ground of 7.2 feet NAVD88 at the same point, so the base flood elevation is 5.8 feet above ground (13 minus 7.16). A second point on the common-elements parcel, about 20 meters away, returns Zone AE at 11 feet, so the VE and AE boundary runs through or beside the property. Ask for the building’s elevation certificate or order a flood determination at the unit’s address.
The City of Bonita Springs treats the design flood elevation as the base flood elevation plus one foot, which is 14 feet here, 6.8 feet above ground (14 minus 7.16). The association’s storm preparation page states “We are in evacuation Zone A,” and the county’s layer returned Zone A, surge zone 1. The City’s initial flood insurance rate map is dated September 19, 1984 and the roll dates the building to 1973, so the building is pre-FIRM by our reading, which affects how flood insurance can be rated. The coastal construction control lines, the Coastal High Hazard Area and the Coastal Building Zone that the county maps at the building are covered in the permits section below.
The City is rated Class 5 in the Community Rating System, which carries a 25 percent discount on flood premiums in special flood hazard areas per FEMA’s table, and the City’s page notes FEMA announced in 2024 that it planned to revise the rating. Whether the discount reaches a given policy is a rating question for your agent.
Casa Bonita I’s master policy terms are not published, and its insurance page is behind the owner login. Florida Statutes section 718.111(11) requires adequate property insurance, a replacement-cost appraisal at least every three years and coverage of the condominium property as originally installed. It excludes the unit’s floor, wall and ceiling coverings, fixtures, appliances, water heaters, built-in cabinets and window treatments, which you insure. We do not state the carrier, premium, deductible or limits, because none is published.
FEMA’s summary of coverage for condominium buildings describes building coverage of up to $250,000 per unit, which for 54 units is a $13,500,000 ceiling. Whether the association carries the full amount is not published, so ask.
Carry an HO-6 policy with loss assessment coverage, contents coverage and, for a Gulf-side unit, a separate flood policy for contents and interior improvements. Your insurer will ask about hurricane protection, and the renovation plan requires protection up to the lanai wall, with white roll-down shutters or white-framed hurricane glass. The My Safe Florida Condo pilot offers eligible associations free wind inspections, and we did not find whether this association applied. We get your quotes after we read the master policy and before your inspection period ends.
Hurricane Ian’s surge at Bonita Beach reached 8 to 12 feet above ground per the National Hurricane Center, and the U.S. Geological Survey surveyed a high-water mark of 11.3 feet NAVD88 in a ground-floor unit at 25901 Hickory Blvd, about 170 meters from Casa Bonita I. We found no public damage or repair record for this building.
The NHC report on Ian puts maximum inundation of 8 to 12 feet above ground at Bonita Beach, and the USGS high-water mark is 2.53 feet above the ground at its point. The county roll shows 25901 Hickory Blvd as the address of Casa Bonita Royale’s 40 units, so the mark is nearby evidence and not a measurement of this building. It is on the same NAVD88 datum as the 13-foot base flood elevation, and 13 minus 11.3 is 1.7 feet, but a different building on a different parcel can see different water. The NHC reports 3 to 5 feet of surge for Helene and 4 to 6 feet for Milton at Bonita Beach, and WGCU reported damage to about 1,300 Bonita Springs homes after Milton and 30 to 35 feet of erosion on the south end of Bonita Beach.
The City defines substantial damage as repair cost equal to or above 50 percent of a structure’s pre-damage market value, and substantial improvement as five-year improvements at or above 50 percent. A building that crosses either line must come up to the 14-foot design flood elevation, per the City’s notice. For a condominium the building is the structure, so an owner’s kitchen renovation does not on its own trigger the rule, but a major association project or storm repair can. We make no claim about this building’s condition.
Casa Bonita I is inside the City of Bonita Springs, so permits and substantial-damage decisions come from the City’s Community Development Department. Interior alterations, windows, doors, electrical and plumbing work generally need City permits and licensed contractors, plus the association’s approval. The City publishes a post-storm permitting guide. Our point check against the state and county map layers places the building about 78 meters from the 1991 coastal construction control line and about 10 meters from the 1978 line, so major exterior work may need a state coastal permit as well as a City one, which we label our inference from the line geometry. The county also maps a Coastal High Hazard Area there.
A Casa Bonita I condo can be bought with a mortgage or with cash, and a lender reviews the condominium project as well as you. Because the association publishes no budget, reserve or insurance terms, we ask the manager early for the lender’s condominium questionnaire and who completes it.
Many lenders ask the association or its manager to complete a questionnaire covering reserves, litigation, owner-occupancy and insurance, and the answers can affect approval. We could not read this association’s financial records, so we cannot say how it will score. We do not name a lender here, and your own lender’s rules decide what it will fund. A cash buyer skips the questionnaire and still needs the same documents.
A lender decides whether flood insurance is required, and a cash buyer chooses. Because the building is in a VE zone, a mortgage lender will typically ask about it, and the association’s flood policy limit matters to them as well. Get pre-approved before you tour, ask how long the questionnaire takes and expect questions about the structural reserve study. Our buyer guide explains how we line up the lender, the insurer and the manager.
Property tax on a Casa Bonita I condo is billed by the Lee County Tax Collector from the Property Appraiser’s assessment and resets after a sale, so never carry the seller’s bill forward. At the $824,500 median of the 8 recorded sales, one mill is $824.50 and deed stamps are $5,771.50, which the seller customarily pays.
Data updated: October 2026 (Lee County Property Appraiser and Florida DOR recorded sales, index built 1 Oct 2026; Florida Department of Revenue tax rates, retrieved 1 Oct 2026)
The roll at leepa.org shows each unit’s assessed value, exemptions and taxing authorities, including the City of Bonita Springs. A change of ownership resets a capped assessment to market value. We publish no Casa Bonita I millage rate, because we did not confirm the taxing district’s current millage and a made-up rate would mislead you. Ask us for an estimate at your price. Each mill is $1 for every $1,000 of taxable value, so the table shows one mill at three recorded prices.
The prices are the low, the median and the high of the 8 qualified sales in the 60 months since October 2021. The financed rows assume 20 percent down, which is our example and not a recommendation, and the rates are the Florida Department of Revenue’s published rates for mortgage documentary stamps (35 cents per $100 of the amount secured) and the nonrecurring intangible tax (2 mills on the amount secured).
| Item | $550,000 (low) | $824,500 (median of these 8 sales) | $1,215,000 (high) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deed stamps at $0.70 per $100, customarily the seller’s | $3,850.00 | $5,771.50 | $8,505.00 |
| One mill of property tax (before exemptions) | $550.00 | $824.50 | $1,215.00 |
| Loan with 20 percent down | $440,000 | $659,600 | $972,000 |
| Mortgage documentary stamps at $0.35 per $100 | $1,540.00 | $2,308.60 | $3,402.00 |
| Nonrecurring intangible tax at 2 mills | $880.00 | $1,319.20 | $1,944.00 |
The table omits the lender’s and owner’s title premiums, recording, appraisal, inspection, survey, prepaid insurance, escrows, prorations, the $175 application and certificate fees, an estoppel fee of up to $299 and any special-assessment installment that falls after closing. In Lee County the seller customarily pays the owner’s title policy and chooses the closing agent, and the contract controls both. Your Loan Estimate and the title company’s settlement statement control every number, and we review them with you before you sign.
Since August 17, 2024, an MLS participant working with a buyer must sign a written agreement with the buyer before touring a home, in person or by live video, and it must state the compensation as an objectively ascertainable amount or rate. That makes our fee a conversation you have before the first tour.
Data updated: October 2026 (National Association of Realtors guidance)
According to the National Association of Realtors, the agreement must conspicuously disclose the compensation and how it is determined, state that the agent may not receive more than the amount agreed with you, and state that broker commissions are not set by law and are fully negotiable. It should also say what services you receive and how long the agreement lasts.
We put the agreement and the fee in writing before we open the first door, and we explain who pays what: you can ask the seller in your offer to cover some or all of our fee, and any part the seller does not cover is yours. We walk you through the NAR settlement FAQs in plain terms before you sign. Start your Casa Bonita I buyer consultation or Call Marc at (239) 287-5873.
Casa Bonita I sits in Lee County School District elementary proximity zone Q, middle school proximity zone GG and high school zone South 3, per the county’s 2026-27 school proximity layer, which we queried at the building’s coordinates on October 1, 2026. The district uses a choice plan, so a zone is a starting list and not a guaranteed seat.
In the district’s Student Enrollment Plan for 2024-2025, zone Q lists Bonita Springs, Pinewoods, San Carlos, Spring Creek and Three Oaks elementary schools, with barrier island schools as optional, and zone GG lists Bonita Springs Middle and Three Oaks Middle. We read the plan from 2024-2025 and the layer from 2026-27, so the lists may have changed. High school assignment uses sub-zones, which is why we report the layer’s South 3 result and send you to the district’s locator.
Open the district’s school zones page and the School Site Locator for Lee County, enter 26000 Hickory Blvd and print the result for your file. Schools are rarely the deciding factor in a seasonal Gulf-side building, but a resale buyer with children will ask, so we give the address-level answer from the district’s own tools and do not rank schools.
Daily life at Casa Bonita I runs on Hickory Blvd. The beach is steps away through the building’s own gates, the public county accesses are a short drive south, and groceries, US 41 and the interstate are on the mainland via Bonita Beach Road. We estimate 25 to 27 miles to Southwest Florida International Airport by map routing.
Data updated: October 2026
The association’s trash page places recycling bins near the gate to the beach at each end of the building, so owners reach the sand through their own gates. A contracted crew cleans the Club Room, stairs, lobbies, walkways and trash rooms on Tuesdays and Fridays. The trash and recycling page gives trash pickup Monday and Thursday all year and recycling on both days from January 1 to April 30, then Thursday only, and only one chute stays open in the off season. No pool hours, amenity fee or Club Room reservation rule is published.
Lee County’s pages list the lot at Bonita Beach Park (27954 Hickory Blvd) as closed from September 8, 2026, the lot at Access 1 (27890 Hickory Blvd) as closing on November 1, 2026 and the lot at Little Hickory Island Park, Access 10 (26082 Hickory Blvd) as closed on September 8, 2026. Accesses 2 through 9 offer free parking at addresses from 26220 through 27720, and pedestrian access continues at all of them, per WGCU’s report. Owners use their own gates, so guests feel the closures, and Access 10 is the numbered public access closest to this building by street number.
Hickory Blvd leads south to Bonita Beach Road, which runs east to the mainland, US 41 and the I-75 interchange. We estimate 16 to 19 miles to the Naples Pier and label both distances as map-routing estimates. We did not verify the current status of the Big Hickory Pass bridge, so we describe no route north to Fort Myers Beach. Bonita Springs Utilities serves the City and Florida Power and Light supplies electricity.
Casa Bonita II is the closest comparable to Casa Bonita I: both are 54-unit, eight-story Gulf-side condominiums the county dates to 1973, both on three plans of 1,058, 1,089 and 1,148 square feet, both in FEMA Zone VE at the county’s map point. They differ in what the public record lets a buyer read before offering.
Data updated: October 2026 (Lee County Property Appraiser and Florida DOR recorded sales, index built 1 Oct 2026)
Casa Bonita II sits at 25870 Hickory Blvd, about 180 meters from Casa Bonita I by county parcel centroid, and it is a separate corporation with its own declaration, budget and board. Our Casa Bonita II buyer page covers its record on its own, and this table sets the two side by side on the same yardstick.
| Question | Casa Bonita I | Casa Bonita II | Who it fits |
|---|---|---|---|
| Address | 26000 Hickory Blvd | 25870 Hickory Blvd | Tour both in one afternoon |
| Units and height | 54 units, eight stories (our inference) | 54 units, eight stories per the county building record | Equal |
| Built | 1973 per the county roll | 1973 per the county roll | Equal |
| Plans | 1,058, 1,089 and 1,148 sq ft, two bedrooms and two baths | The same three heated sizes, two bedrooms and two baths | Equal |
| County sales, 60 months since October 2021 | 8 sales, $550,000 to $1,215,000, median of these 8 sales $824,500 | 8 sales, $675,000 to $1,305,000, median of these 8 sales $749,500 | Neither window reaches 10, so directional only |
| Median per heated sq ft, same 60 months | $767.87 | $672.77 | Directional only |
| Sales since October 2025 | 1 sale, $850,000 | 5 sales, $675,000 to $796,000, median of these 5 sales $700,000 | A buyer after the lowest recent entry looks at Casa Bonita II |
| FEMA zone | VE, 13 ft | VE 13 at the county’s map point, with AE 12 also touching the building | Read each elevation certificate |
| What is public | Lease, purchase and renovation forms, 16 association pages | No association website, declaration, rules or budget found | Casa Bonita I if you want to read before you offer |
| Rental terms | One-month minimum, $150 per tenant per year | Not published | Casa Bonita I if you need a documented rental rule |
| Pets | Lease form says the declaration prohibits all animals | Not published | Confirm in writing at either building |
| Board approval | Required, $100 application plus $75 Certificate of Approval | Not published | Confirm at either building |
The gap between the two medians is arithmetic: $824,500 less $749,500 is $75,000, which is 10.0 percent of $749,500, and per heated square foot $767.87 is 14.1 percent above $672.77. Both medians rest on 8 sales, so one unusual sale moves either. Three of Casa Bonita II’s 8 sales are from 2022 and 2023 at $1,045,000 to $1,305,000, while all five since October 2025 are at $675,000 to $796,000.
Choose Casa Bonita I if you want to read a current lease form, purchase application and renovation plan before you spend money on an inspection, if a one-month minimum lease suits a seasonal plan, or if you want the building whose recorded median sits higher on the same plans. It also gives you a named list of fees, which is $175 at purchase, where the other building publishes none.
Choose Casa Bonita II if the most recent entry price matters most, because its five sales since October 2025 ran from $675,000 to $796,000, and if you are comfortable asking the manager for every rule in writing because none is public. Read our Casa Bonita II guide for its own audit, and confirm its pet and rental terms before you tour.
Among Bonita Beach condominiums, Casa Bonita I is one of four Gulf-side buildings mapped in FEMA Zone VE at 13 feet, one of the oldest by roll year, and one of the many strip associations too small to state a median from 10 sales. This table copies each association’s county figures with its own window beside every number.
Data updated: October 2026 (Lee County Property Appraiser and Florida DOR recorded sales, index built 1 Oct 2026)
An association that did not reach 10 qualified sales in 60 months shows “not stated” for its median, because a median of fewer than 10 sales is not a market signal. Read the rows as directional, since the windows differ.
| Association | Side | Units (documents) | Built (roll) | FEMA zone, BFE | Window used | Qualified sales | Median | Range | Median per heated sq ft |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Casa Bonita I | Gulf | 54 (DBPR) | 1973 | VE 13 | 60 months, fewer than 10 | 8 | not stated | $550,000 to $1,215,000 | not stated |
| Casa Bonita II | Gulf | 54 (DBPR) | 1973 | VE 13 | 60 months, fewer than 10 | 8 | not stated | $675,000 to $1,305,000 | not stated |
| Casa Bonita Grande | Gulf | 54 (DBPR) | 1976 | VE 13 | 60 months, fewer than 10 | 3 | not stated | $900,000 to $1,010,000 | not stated |
| Casa Bonita Royale | Bay | 40 (DBPR) | 1979 | AE 11 | 60 months, fewer than 10 | 2 | not stated | $490,000 to $520,000 | not stated |
| Silver Sands of Bonita Beach | Gulf | 24 (DBPR) | 1982 | VE 13 | 60 months, fewer than 10 | 1 | not stated | $1,400,000 to $1,400,000 | not stated |
| The Egret | Gulf | 40 (DBPR) | 1972 | AE 11 | 60 months, fewer than 10 | 6 | not stated | $575,000 to $970,000 | not stated |
| Bonita Beach Club | Gulf | 198 (DBPR) | 1977 to 2009 | AE 12 | 24 months | 17 | $690,000 | $455,000 to $1,075,000 | $608.61 |
| Seascape | Gulf | 136 (DBPR) | 1979 | AE 12 | 60 months | 10 | $592,500 | $370,000 to $850,000 | $568.39 |
| Bay Harbor Club | Bay | 104 (DBPR), 103 on roll | 1983 to 1984 | AE 11 | 24 months | 12 | $555,000 | $450,000 to $750,000 | $412.64 |
| Bonita Beach and Tennis Club | Bay (Bonita Beach Rd SW) | 360 (DBPR, five projects of 72) | 1977 to 1980 | AE 10 | 12 months | 20 | $280,000 | $199,900 to $425,000 | $551.18 |
| Sea Isles | Bay | 84 (DBPR) | 1980 | AE 11 | 60 months, fewer than 10 | 8 | not stated | $395,000 to $833,000 | not stated |
| Ambassador | Gulf | 60 (DBPR) | 1982 | AE 11 | 60 months, fewer than 10 | 4 | not stated | $712,500 to $1,147,000 | not stated |
| Windsong | Gulf | 24 (DBPR) | 1979 | AE 11 | 60 months, fewer than 10 | 2 | not stated | $620,000 to $680,000 | not stated |
The four VE 13 buildings on the strip are Casa Bonita I, Casa Bonita II, Casa Bonita Grande and Silver Sands of Bonita Beach, and every other association in the table is mapped AE at 10 to 12 feet, a lower-velocity class of flood zone. The Egret is the only association in the table with an older roll year, 1972. Casa Bonita Grande is the next building along the beach, with plans from 1,030 to 1,496 square feet, a 1976 roll year and 3 qualified sales in 60 months, so its range of $900,000 to $1,010,000 rests on very little.
The big campuses price differently. Bonita Beach Club has 198 units and a median of $690,000 on 17 sales in 24 months, and Bay Harbor Club is a bay-side building with a median of $555,000 on 12 sales in 24 months. Neither is a like-for-like price check for a Casa Bonita I condo, because the windows, sides and ages differ. For the same read across the whole city, see our Bonita Springs buyer page, and for the wider area read Bonita Beach.
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A Casa Bonita I condo offers a small Gulf-side building of 54 two-bedroom, two-bath homes, beach gates at both ends and current public lease and renovation forms. The costs are an unpublished budget, a coastal high-hazard flood zone, a 1973 building under milestone and reserve rules, and a lease form that says the declaration prohibits all animals.
Data updated: October 2026 (Lee County Property Appraiser and Florida DOR recorded sales, index built 1 Oct 2026)
Casa Bonita I suits a buyer who wants a quiet, owner-oriented Gulf-side condominium, accepts a no-animals building and has priced a VE zone. It suits less a buyer who needs weekly vacation rental income, a pet, or the dues in hand before the first tour.
To see Casa Bonita I condos for sale, search current listings on DomainRealtyGroup.com, then send us your favorites, and we pull the flood, permit, fee and document file for each before you tour. Some homes are discussed before they reach the MLS, one reason buyers choose McGreevy and Comisar, Top 1% Real Estate Agents Nationally Since 2008.
Information not available at time of publishing (checked 2026-10-01). That covers the number of Casa Bonita I condos active and pending, their list prices and the months of supply, all of which come from the Southwest Florida MLS. A saved search is how you see the next one first, and if Casa Bonita I supply is thin we also represent buyers across Bonita Springs.
You get a personalized Casa Bonita I condo buyer consultation from McGreevy and Comisar by using the buyer form on this page or by calling Marc Comisar at (239) 287-5873. Tell us your budget, timing, preferred plan and floor, and whether a pet, a rental plan or a winter-only stay matters, and we send the condos that fit.
We start with plan, floor and the flood zone, because those decide most of the price and risk. Then we map your budget to the 8 recorded sales we tracked, price the documented fees at $175 for the application and certificate, and list the documents your lender and insurer will ask for.
Start your Casa Bonita I buyer consultation with the form on this page, or read how we represent buyers. Call Marc at (239) 287-5873, or talk to Jesse direct at (239) 898-6072.
If you need to sell to buy, read how we sell Casa Bonita I condos and get a free Casa Bonita I home valuation so the sale and the purchase line up. Call Jesse direct at (239) 898-6072.
A seasonal Casa Bonita I buyer owns a Gulf-side condo that sits empty for months, so plan the storm routine, the insurance and a trusted contact, and read the rental and approval rules first. The building is in evacuation Zone A, the first zone Lee County orders to leave, and turtle season runs May 1 to October 31.
Ask the manager for the storm plan, the shutter or impact-glass status, the elevator shutdown plan and the rule on vehicles, and ask what the association requires of an absent owner. The association’s renovation form requires hurricane protection up to the lanai wall, so confirm yours is in place. Tell your insurer the unit will be unoccupied, because policies can limit coverage for vacancy, and set a water shut-off routine and a caretaker the manager knows.
Florida title companies routinely close with remote online notarization or mail-away signing, and you should confirm wire instructions by phone with the title company, never from an email alone. Foreign buyers should plan ownership with a cross-border tax adviser, because a future sale can face withholding under FIRPTA unless an exemption or certificate applies.
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These are the questions Casa Bonita I condo buyers and searchers ask most, with answers drawn from the records cited above. Where a fact is not published, we say so and name the document that settles it. Every answer names Casa Bonita I at Bonita Beach, and each is one paragraph you can read on its own.
Data updated: October 2026 (Lee County Property Appraiser and Florida DOR recorded sales, index built 1 Oct 2026)
The Lee County Property Appraiser dates Casa Bonita I to 1973 on all 54 unit parcels. The state condominium record shows the declaration recorded June 12, 1972, and the state corporation record shows the association filed August 27, 1973 and amended and restated September 26, 1997. They are three different events, and we use the county’s 1973 as the year built.
Casa Bonita I has 54 residential units, per the state condominium record and the county’s unit parcels. The roll lists 55 parcels because one is a common-elements parcel. The first floor has five units and floors two through eight have seven each, which we infer from the unit numbering.
Casa Bonita I is at 26000 Hickory Blvd, Bonita Springs, Florida 34134, on Little Hickory Island. It is inside the City of Bonita Springs and belongs to our Bonita Beach coverage, and it is not the Casa Bonita subdivision in Cape Coral.
Yes, the county roll codes the land as GULF on all 54 unit parcels, and the building is on the Gulf side of Hickory Blvd. The association’s trash page places its recycling bins near the gate to the beach at each end of the building. We have not verified the view from each unit, so a buyer paying for a view should check it in person.
Casa Bonita I is inside the City of Bonita Springs, with a Bonita Springs mailing city and ZIP 34134 on the county roll. It is not in Fort Myers Beach, and permits and substantial-damage decisions come from the City of Bonita Springs.
Units come to market from time to time, and we can send current listings from the Southwest Florida MLS when you contact us. Information not available at time of publishing (checked 2026-10-01). The county roll shows 18 recorded sales on 16 Casa Bonita I units between January 2021 and June 2026.
The county’s qualified record shows 8 sales in the 60 months since October 2021, from $550,000 to $1,215,000, and the median of these 8 sales is $824,500. The four newest are $950,000 and $550,000 in May 2025, $799,000 in September 2025 and $850,000 in June 2026. These are county recorded prices, not MLS closings.
Every unit is coded two bedrooms and two baths, on three plans of 1,058, 1,089 and 1,148 square feet of heated area per the county roll. There are 22 units on the 1,058 plan, 16 on the 1,089 plan and 16 on the 1,148 plan, and the association’s drawings are not public.
Across the 8 sales in the 60-month window, the median price per heated square foot of these 8 sales is $767.87, from $519.85 to $1,148.39. We compute each ratio from the county roll’s heated area and the recorded price, and a single high or low sale moves the picture.
The regular assessment is not published, so we state no dollar figure, and the public pages do not say what it covers. The documented fees are a $100 purchase application, a $75 Certificate of Approval and, for a landlord, $150 per tenant per year. The current budget and the estoppel certificate are the reliable routes to the number.
None is published. The association’s public pages show no special assessment notice, and the roll cannot show one. Ask for every assessment notice since 2022 and the unit’s ledger, and read the budget for any loan, because a special assessment is the largest unpublished cost a condo buyer can inherit.
Yes, for one month or longer. The association’s rental page gives a one-month minimum, and the lease form asks for a yearly application and $150 per tenant per year. Rentals under 30 days are barred, so weekly vacation rentals are not an option, and the two documents disagree on lead time, 10 days against 30.
The lease form states in capital letters that the condominium declarations prohibit all animals. We could not read the declaration, so we cannot say how an owner’s pet is handled, and we do not guess. Assistance animals are a separate question handled as a reasonable accommodation request under federal fair housing guidance.
FEMA’s flood map places Casa Bonita I in Zone VE, the coastal high-hazard zone, at a base flood elevation of 13 feet NAVD88 on panel 12071C0651G, effective November 17, 2022, per our October 1, 2026 query. Lee County puts it in evacuation Zone A, the first zone ordered to leave. A nearby point returns Zone AE at 11 feet, so ask for the elevation certificate.
We found no public damage or repair record for this building. The National Hurricane Center reported 8 to 12 feet of surge above ground at Bonita Beach in Ian, and the U.S. Geological Survey surveyed a high-water mark about 170 meters away at 11.3 feet NAVD88. That is nearby evidence, not a measurement of this building.
Safe is not a word we can promise, but the risk is measurable. For Casa Bonita I, read the budget, the reserve study, the insurance summary and the repair history, and weigh the VE 13 flood zone before you offer.
Expensive and changing. Florida’s Office of Insurance Regulation data show the statewide average premium per condominium-association policy at $72,570 in mid-2022, $147,381 in mid-2024 and $135,100 in mid-2026. Casa Bonita I’s own carrier, premium and deductible are not published, so ask for the master insurance summary.
If the building has three or more habitable stories, and we infer eight from the unit numbering, Florida law required an initial milestone inspection before December 31, 2024 and a structural integrity reserve study by December 31, 2025. No Casa Bonita I summary or study is public, and we do not assert that any passed or failed.
Yes. The association’s notices page says board approval is required to buy, and the purchase application asks for a $100 fee and a $75 Certificate of Approval fee. No decision deadline is published, so write the approval into the contract as a condition with a closing date that leaves room.
The public record conflicts. The association’s home page names Sterling Property Services, and its property manager page, lease form, purchase form and renovation form name Resort Management. We cannot say which is current, so ask for the current management contact when you request the estoppel certificate.
Under Florida Statute 718.503, a buyer can cancel within seven days, excluding Saturdays, Sundays and legal holidays, after signing and receiving the documents, unless the documents were delivered more than seven days before signing. The right ends at closing, and for a Casa Bonita I contract the contract controls.
An estoppel certificate is the association’s written statement of what a unit owes. It costs up to $299, with up to $119 more for an expedited request and up to $179 more where the account is delinquent, per the Florida DBPR’s inflation-adjusted amounts, and the association must issue it within 10 business days or charge nothing.
It is a negotiated term, and the contract controls. In Lee County the seller customarily pays the deed stamps and the owner’s title policy, and the buyer pays lender items, inspection, survey and association fees. At the $824,500 median of the 8 recorded sales, deed stamps are $5,771.50.
The Lee County Tax Collector bills from the Property Appraiser’s assessment, and a sale resets a capped assessment to market value, so the seller’s bill is not yours. We publish no millage rate. At the median of the 8 sales one mill is $824.50 before exemptions.
A lender reviews the condominium project as well as you, including the budget, reserves, insurance and any assessments, and a VE-zone project draws questions. We do not name a lender here. Ask the manager early for the condominium questionnaire, and get pre-approved before you tour.
That is set in your written agreement and is negotiable. Since August 17, 2024 the agreement must be signed before touring, and you can ask the seller in your offer to cover some or all of the fee. Any part the seller does not cover is yours.
Yes, in the sense that nothing on this page prevents it, but read the approval, rental and animal rules first. Plan the storm routine, tell your insurer the unit will be unoccupied and give the manager a trusted contact, and remember that rentals under 30 days are barred.
They are separate corporations with separate declarations, budgets and boards, about 180 meters apart on Hickory Blvd, with the same three plan sizes. Casa Bonita I recorded 8 qualified sales in 60 months at a median of these 8 sales of $824,500, and Casa Bonita II recorded 8 at $749,500.
Yes. The public pages describe a pool area, a Club Room, shuffleboard courts and a grill area, and the county roll flags a pool on all 54 unit parcels. No pool hours, amenity fee or Club Room rule is published, and occupants of rentals under 30 days are barred from the pool.
Submit the association’s renovation plan with all attachments 30 days before work, and the Architectural Control Committee has up to 30 days to respond. The plan requires an underlayment under non-carpeted floors from the second floor up and waterproofing on lanai floors, so price those lines first.
Lee County’s 2026-27 proximity layer returns elementary zone Q, middle school zone GG and high school zone South 3 at the building. The district uses a choice plan, so a zone is a starting list, and the district’s School Site Locator gives the address-level answer.
It depends on the building and on you. Florida condominium ownership now carries more inspection, reserve and insurance cost than it did a few years ago, so the documents matter more than ever. A building with a funded reserve and clear rules can be a good purchase, and an undocumented one is a risk.
We do not predict returns. For Casa Bonita I, the county recorded 8 qualified sales in 60 months from $550,000 to $1,215,000, and the same third-floor condo recorded $500,000 in June 2021 and $1,215,000 in November 2023. A buyer who rents should account for the one-month minimum, the tourist tax and insurance.
Several pressures overlap: higher association insurance, new reserve and inspection requirements, and storm assessments. We cannot say Casa Bonita I is not selling, because we have no MLS data for it. The county recorded 4 qualified sales in the 24 months since October 2024, a median of these 4 sales of $824,500.
Ask for the budget, the assessment ledger, the estoppel certificate, the milestone summary and reserve study, the insurance summary, the declaration and rules, the board’s approval timeline and the current management contact. We make those requests with you.
Call Marc at (239) 287-5873 or use the buyer form on this page, and tell us your budget, timing and must-haves. If you also need to sell, Call Jesse direct at (239) 898-6072.
A Bonita Beach condo specialist matters because the price is the smaller part of a Casa Bonita I decision: an unpublished budget, a VE flood zone, a 1973 building under milestone rules and a no-animals lease form sit behind it. McGreevy and Comisar, Top 1% Real Estate Agents Nationally Since 2008, read them before we show you a unit.
Sellers thinking about the other side of this market can read how we sell Casa Bonita I condos or request a free Casa Bonita I valuation. Call Jesse direct at (239) 898-6072. For the building record behind this page, read the Casa Bonita I at Bonita Beach guide, and for the wider area see Bonita Beach.
If you are ready to buy a condo in Casa Bonita I, start your Casa Bonita I buyer consultation or Call Marc at (239) 287-5873, and we will send the condos that fit your budget, their recorded sales and the documents to request. McGreevy and Comisar are the #1 team in Southwest Florida since 2012, and our credentials are below.
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Every figure on this page traces to a county, city, state or federal record, an association’s own published document or news reporting, retrieved on or before October 1, 2026. We do not cite brokerage or listing sites. Sale figures are from the Lee County Property Appraiser and Florida Department of Revenue recorded-sale files.
The official documents below are published by the Casa Bonita I association, the City of Bonita Springs, FEMA or the Florida DBPR. They are the ones a Casa Bonita I buyer should read before signing, and each link opens the issuing authority’s own copy.
| Document | Issued by | Date | What it covers | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lease application | Casa Bonita I Condominium Association | Updated June 6, 2026 | Yearly application, $150 per tenant per year and the animal statement | View the form |
| Purchase application | Casa Bonita I Condominium Association | June 2024 form | $100 application fee, $75 Certificate of Approval fee and the credit and background authorization | View the form |
| Architectural renovation plan form | Casa Bonita I Condominium Association | Effective August 25, 2026 | Underlayment, lanai waterproofing, hurricane protection and debris rules | View the form |
| Substantial damage and substantial improvement notice | City of Bonita Springs | 2022 notice | The 50 percent rule and the design flood elevation | View the notice |
| Summary of coverage, residential condominium buildings | FEMA National Flood Insurance Program | May 2024 | Building limit per unit and what the policy covers | View the summary |
| Estoppel certificate fee schedule | Florida DBPR | Current at publication | The inflation-adjusted certificate, expedited and delinquent fees | View the schedule |
County recorded sales: Lee County Property Appraiser and Florida Department of Revenue, index built 1 October 2026. Southwest Florida MLS figures were not available at publication (checked 2026-10-01).
McGreevy and Comisar, Best Realtor for Casa Bonita I at Bonita Beach. Brokered by Domain Realty. Jesse McGreevy, FL Lic. SL3101296 · Marc Comisar, FL Lic. BK3060671.