Partridge Court at The Forest, South Fort Myers
Sixteen identical 1981 walk-up condominiums at The Forest's Back Gate, two associations, fees no one publishes and no sale in the last year. We price your offer from every recorded sale, watch for the next listing and order both estoppels on day one. Call Marc at (239) 287-5873.
Updated September 2026 · By Jesse McGreevy and Marc Comisar, Domain Realty
Buying a home in Partridge Court means buying one of 16 identical two-bedroom, two-bath walk-up condominium units of 1,161 heated square feet, in two buildings finished in 1981 beside The Forest’s Back Gate in south Fort Myers, in a neighborhood that recorded no MLS sale in the last 12 months and had nothing listed on September 23, 2026. Patience and preparation, not speed, decide the purchase.
The full record of the neighborhood, its two buildings, its association, its flood map, every MLS sale of the last four years and the county deeds the MLS never carried, is on our Partridge Court guide, which this buyer page sits beside. The wider community, its two golf courses, its gates and its neighborhoods, is covered in our complete guide to The Forest, and the community-wide purchase path is on buying a home in The Forest. This page is about the Partridge Court purchase itself: what to check, in what order, and what it costs to own. Owners on the other side of the table should read how we sell Partridge Court homes or start with a free Partridge Court home valuation. Call Marc Comisar at (239) 287-5873 to talk through a specific unit.
If you are searching for the best buyer’s agent for Partridge Court in Fort Myers, Florida, McGreevy and Comisar represents homebuyers across Fort Myers, Estero, Bonita Springs, Naples, Lee County and Collier County. Whether you are buying a first home in Southwest Florida, a seasonal condominium or a lock-and-leave unit behind a gate, including in The Forest, its neighboring golf communities and the US 41 corridor of south Fort Myers, our team provides honest market guidance, pre-market awareness, partner-level negotiation and a clear plan to help you buy confidently.
Partridge Court and its neighbor Partridge Place are the least expensive way into The Forest. Partridge Court’s nine MLS closings in the 48 months to September 23, 2026 ran $132,000 to $280,000, and the most recent three, from May 2024 to September 2025, ran $132,000 to $180,000, while condominiums and villas across The Forest sold at a median of $286,500 in the last 12 months alone. The Forest is non-bundled: buying a home does not make you a member of The Forest Country Club, and you pay club dues only if you choose to join. The gates, the private streets and sidewalks, Ruthie’s Park and Partridge Court’s own pool come with the home.
Every Partridge Court unit is the same plan on the Lee County parcel roll: two bedrooms, two baths, 1,161 heated square feet, in one of two two-story buildings of eight units, Building 1 at 16540 Partridge Club Road and Building 2 at 16530. Every owner belongs to two associations: Partridge Court Condominium Association, Inc., which insures the buildings and keeps the pool and common elements, and The Forest Property Owners’ Association, the master association that runs the gates and streets.
Partridge Court has no elevator, no garage or carport on any unit record, no building finished after 1981, no published fee at any association layer, no association website and no unit outside FEMA flood Zone AE. A buyer who needs more space from the same era should look at Quail Cove at The Forest; a buyer who needs a garage should look at Fairway Woods at The Forest; a buyer who needs a unit on the market today should look next door at Partridge Place, and we cover all three.
Partridge Court buyers work with McGreevy and Comisar because a Partridge Court purchase turns on records a general agent rarely reads: nine MLS sales in four years, four county-recorded deeds that never reached the MLS, two estoppel certificates, an unpublished budget and reserve schedule in a 16-unit association with no website, and a twin condominium next door that sets the working price. Jesse McGreevy and Marc Comisar are Top 1% Real Estate Agents Nationally Since 2008.
Those are career numbers across Lee and Collier County. As the leaders of Domain Realty Group, the #1 real estate team in Southwest Florida since 2012, our team has closed over $2.5 billion in real estate; learn more at DomainRealtyGroup.com. If you are comparing teams, our guide to the best real estate agents in Fort Myers sets them side by side on the public record.
Your agent should tell you what every Partridge Court unit actually closed for since 2022, which of those sales the county recorded without an MLS listing, what the same floor plan is selling for at Partridge Place this season, and what the association’s budget, reserves, insurance and minutes say before your inspection period ends. Your agent should order the condominium estoppel and the master estoppel the day you sign, and read the resale package with you. That is the job, and it is the job we do.
Marc Comisar runs the buy side in the field: gate access, tours, inspections, contractor quotes and the walk-through. Jesse McGreevy runs the data, the documents and the association paperwork. Reach Marc at (239) 287-5873 or Jesse at (239) 898-6072, and read more on our about McGreevy and Comisar page.
We track the Partridge Court market for a buyer from two independent records: every closed and active Partridge Court listing in the Southwest Florida MLS over the last four years, and Lee County’s parcel roll and recorded deeds, which place each sale in its building and catch the arm’s-length sales the MLS never carried. Each figure on this page names its window and its count.
Data updated: September 2026 (Southwest Florida MLS Matrix, pulled September 23, 2026; Lee County parcel roll and sale records, queried September 24, 2026)
In the last 12 months we tracked 0 Partridge Court closings in the Southwest Florida MLS, covering closings dated September 24, 2025 to September 23, 2026, and no Partridge Court unit was listed or pending on the pull date. We tracked all 9 closings of the last 48 months as well, $1,725,700 in total, and matched each one by street address to its building on the county roll.
Domain Realty, our brokerage, closed 856 transaction sides in Fort Myers in the 60 months to October 5, 2026, $443.4 million in volume counted by side, per the Southwest Florida MLS pulled that day. McGreevy and Comisar are the #5 real estate team in Florida in the 2026 RealTrends rankings. A buyer needs the whole neighborhood’s record to judge a price, and the whole record is what follows. These are market figures we tracked.
A 16-unit condominium does not produce enough sales for a median to mean anything. Our rule for a thin market is to widen the window from 12 months to 24, 36 and 48 and, if no window reaches 10 closings, to list every sale. Partridge Court had 0 closings in 12 months, 1 in 24, 6 in 36 and 9 in 48, so every sale is listed below, n is stated beside every figure, and no Partridge Court median is published anywhere on this page.
Every recorded sale, MLS and county, the live competition next door at Partridge Place, the building and unit record, the flood panel and ground elevation, and the list of documents to request, assembled before you tour, so that when a Partridge Court unit does come up you can write a clean offer inside days rather than weeks.
The Partridge Court market is the quietest in The Forest: the Southwest Florida MLS counts no closing in the 12 months to September 23, 2026 and no listing or pending sale that day, one closing in 24 months, $132,000 in September 2025, and nine in 48 months at $132,000 to $280,000. A buyer here waits for a unit and prices it from the full record.
Data updated: September 2026 (Southwest Florida MLS Matrix, pulled September 23, 2026)
From September 24, 2025 to September 23, 2026, no Partridge Court unit closed on the Southwest Florida MLS, and Lee County recorded no arm’s-length Partridge Court deed in the same period either. The most recent sale on both records is Building 2, unit 102, which closed on September 18, 2025 at $132,000, 94.96 percent of its $139,000 list price, after 209 days on market. There is no 12-month volume, sale-to-list ratio or days-on-market figure to report, and we do not borrow one from a wider window and call it current.
Window (ending September 23, 2026) | MLS closings | Closed volume | Sold price range | At or above asking |
|---|---|---|---|---|
12 months (from September 24, 2025) | 0 | $0 | none | 0 |
24 months (from September 24, 2024) | 1 | $132,000 | $132,000 | 0 |
36 months (from September 24, 2023) | 6 | $1,105,500 | $132,000 to $280,000 | 1 |
48 months (from September 24, 2022), the widest we hold | 9 | $1,725,700 | $132,000 to $280,000 | 2 |
Source: Southwest Florida MLS Matrix, pulled September 23, 2026, recomputed from the closed records for the MLS neighborhood name Partridge Court. No window reaches ten closings, so no median is published for any window.
On September 23, 2026 the MLS showed no active and no pending Partridge Court listing. The nearest direct competition was two Partridge Place units of the same 1,161-square-foot plan across the Back Gate entry road.
Neighborhood and building | Living sq ft (MLS) | Asking | Asking per sq ft (our arithmetic) | Days on market |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Partridge Place, 16590 Partridge Place Road | 1,161 | $179,000 | $154.18 | 63 |
Partridge Place, 16560 Partridge Place Road | 1,161 | $174,000 | $149.87 | 9 |
A buyer who wants this floor plan this season will tour those two first. A buyer who wants Partridge Court specifically needs a saved search and a plan to move the day a unit lists, because with 16 units and no listing, the next one may not come for months.
Across the nine Partridge Court MLS sales, sold-to-list ratios ran from 75.96 to 111.26 percent, and 2 of the 9 closed at or above asking, both in 2023. The five sales that closed within about a month of listing did so at 94.72 to 111.26 percent of list; the three that waited more than 200 days closed at 75.96 to 94.96 percent. Speed and price went together: a unit priced inside what the market had just paid sold fast, and a unit priced above it sat and then sold lower.
Months of supply divides listings by the monthly pace of sales. With no Partridge Court listing and no Partridge Court sale in the last 12 months, the figure cannot be computed, and we do not invent one. For context, The Forest as a whole carried 29 listings against 45 closings in the prior 12 months on September 23, 2026, about 7.7 months of supply by our arithmetic, which by the usual rule of thumb leans toward buyers.
With no listing and no sale in a year, the buyer who is ready when a Partridge Court unit comes up gets it at the right price. McGreevy and Comisar are Top 1% Real Estate Agents Nationally Since 2008; call Marc at (239) 287-5873 or read how we represent buyers in Southwest Florida. Selling a home to buy here? Get a free Partridge Court home valuation or call Jesse direct at (239) 898-6072.
Partridge Court condos have sold for $132,000 to $280,000 over the last 48 months, on 9 MLS closings of the same recorded two-bedroom plan, $1,725,700 in total. With fewer than 10 sales we publish every sale rather than a median; the nine show six 2023 sales at $150,200 to $280,000 and three since May 2024 at $132,000 to $180,000.
Data updated: September 2026 (Southwest Florida MLS Matrix, pulled September 23, 2026; closed sales September 24, 2022 to September 23, 2026)
Closed | Building and unit | Beds and baths (MLS) | Living sq ft (MLS) | List price | Sold | Price per sq ft | Sold-to-list | Days on market |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
September 2025 | Building 2 (16530), unit 102 | 2 bed, 2 bath | 1,161 | $139,000 | $132,000 | $113.70 | 94.96% | 209 |
September 2024 | Building 1 (16540), unit 103 | 2 bed, 2 bath | 1,161 | $190,900 | $145,000 | $124.89 | 75.96% | 316 |
May 2024 | Building 1 (16540), unit 104 | 2 bed, 2 bath | 1,161 | $199,000 | $180,000 | $155.04 | 90.45% | 106 |
November 2023 | Building 1 (16540), unit 202 | 2 bed, 2 bath | 1,200 | $199,900 | $180,000 | $150.00 | 90.05% | 213 |
November 2023 | Building 1 (16540), unit 204 | 2 bed, 2 bath | 1,161 | $199,000 | $188,500 | $162.36 | 94.72% | 31 |
November 2023 | Building 2 (16530), unit 104 | 3 bed, 2 bath (county: 2 bed) | 1,161 | $265,000 | $280,000 | $241.17 | 105.66% | 30 |
September 2023 | Building 1 (16540), unit 201 | 2 bed, 2 bath | 1,200 | $225,000 | $220,000 | $183.33 | 97.78% | 19 |
April 2023 | Building 2 (16530), unit 201 | 2 bed, 2 bath | 1,161 | $255,000 | $250,000 | $215.33 | 98.04% | 21 |
March 2023 | Building 1 (16540), unit 103 | 2 bed, 2 bath | 1,161 | $135,000 | $150,200 | $129.37 | 111.26% | 1 |
Window: September 24, 2022 to September 23, 2026. Nine closings, $1,725,700 in volume, $132,000 to $280,000. Price per square foot is each sale’s sold price divided by its MLS living area; sold-to-list is each sale’s own ratio. Building and unit are resolved by street address against the Lee County parcel roll.
Three patterns stand out. First, the spread is wide for one floor plan: $132,000 to $280,000, or $113.70 to $241.17 per square foot of MLS living area, which is a condition and pricing story, not a size story. Second, the market’s arc: six 2023 sales ran $150,200 to $280,000, and the three since May 2024 ran $180,000, $145,000 and $132,000, each lower than the one before. Third, Building 1 has carried most of the trading, six of the nine sales, against three in Building 2. The simple average of the nine per-sale prices per square foot is $163.91, by our arithmetic; it describes these nine sales, not a market rate.
The MLS rows do not grade condition, and nine sales across four years, none in the last twelve months, cannot describe today’s price. The middle of the nine is not a current value, which is why we do not print it as one. Read the list with the county deeds below, then with the Partridge Place sales in the pricing section, and then with the condition of the specific unit you are looking at.
Building 1, unit 103 sold in March 2023 for $150,200 after 1 day on market, 111.26 percent of its $135,000 list, and sold again in September 2024 for $145,000 after 316 days, 75.96 percent of a $190,900 list. The same unit, eighteen months apart, sold for about the same price; what changed was the asking price. That is the clearest single lesson in the Partridge Court record for a buyer: an asking price far above the recorded sales is a starting point for a negotiation, not a value.
Calendar year | MLS closings | Sold prices (every sale) | Days on market |
|---|---|---|---|
2022, from September 24 | 0 | none on the MLS | none |
2023 | 6 | $150,200, $250,000, $220,000, $280,000, $188,500, $180,000 | 1 to 213 |
2024 | 2 | $180,000, $145,000 | 106 and 316 |
2025 | 1 | $132,000 | 209 |
2026, to September 23 | 0 | none | none |
Source: Southwest Florida MLS Matrix, pulled September 23, 2026. With no year above six sales, every sale is listed and no yearly median is shown.
The MLS is not the only record of a sale. Lee County codes every recorded deed; code 01 marks a transfer “qualified as arm’s length,” per the county’s real property transfer codes. On the county roll, 13 Partridge Court transfers in the same 48 months carry code 01. Nine are the MLS sales above; four never appeared on the MLS.
Deed date | Building and unit | Recorded price | Qualification code | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
November 29, 2022 | Building 2 (16530), unit 101 | $275,500 | 01 | Post-Ian window; not on the MLS |
December 9, 2022 | Building 2 (16530), unit 104 | $130,000 | 01 | Post-Ian window; not on the MLS; the same unit sold on the MLS for $280,000 in November 2023 |
January 13, 2023 | Building 2 (16530), unit 103 | $130,000 | 01 | Not on the MLS |
January 23, 2025 | Building 1 (16540), unit 202 | $265,000 | 01 | Not on the MLS; the same unit sold on the MLS for $180,000 in November 2023 |
Source: Lee County Property Appraiser sale records on the county parcel roll, queried September 24, 2026. These four are recorded, qualified sales, but they carry no listing, no days on market and no description, so no one can tell from the record what condition each unit was in or how it was marketed. An appraiser for a financed buyer will find them, so we show them.
Hurricane Ian made landfall in Southwest Florida on September 28, 2022. None of the nine Partridge Court MLS sales falls in November or December 2022, but two county-recorded sales do, $275,500 on November 29 and $130,000 on December 9, 2022, and they point in opposite directions. Next door, eight Partridge Place units closed between November 10 and December 2, 2022 at $75,000 to $145,000, most within days of listing, which read as as-is or investor transactions in a disrupted market. Any Partridge figure that spans those weeks should be read with that in mind, and we exclude them when we price a unit today.
The county roll records every Partridge Court unit at 1,161 heated square feet with two bedrooms and two baths. Two of the nine MLS sales, Building 1 units 201 and 202, were entered at 1,200 square feet of living area, and the November 2023 sale of Building 2, unit 104 was entered as three bedrooms. Those are listing entries by different people, not a bigger or different unit. When a listing’s bedroom count or square footage differs from the county, ask what was changed, whether it was permitted and whether the association approved it; every price per foot on this page uses MLS living area, because that is what an appraiser sees on the listing.
Lee County’s 2026 just values put 11 of the 16 Partridge Court units at $119,694, two at $125,869 and three at $132,126, a median of $119,694, all of it assigned to the building with no separate land value, per the county parcel roll. Just value is a mass-appraisal figure for taxation and not a market price, and it runs below every Partridge Court MLS sale of the last four years, which is why an assessment is not a price.
You price a Partridge Court unit when nothing sold this year from three records, in order: Partridge Court’s own nine MLS sales and four county deeds, Partridge Place’s 24-month sales of the identical 1,161-square-foot plan next door, and the condition, updates and location of the specific unit. The benchmark sets the band; the unit sets the place inside it.
Data updated: September 2026 (Southwest Florida MLS Matrix, pulled September 23, 2026)
Partridge Place is the working benchmark because it is the same product: 1,161-square-foot, two-bedroom, two-story walk-ups built by the same developer in the same year, on the other side of the Back Gate entry road. Its 24-month window is the first to reach ten closings.
Partridge Place window | Closings | Median sold | Median per sq ft of living area | Median sold-to-list | Median days on market |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
12 months | 2 | $157,500 (n=2, even: mean of $145,000 and $170,000) | $133.63 | 92.56% | 84.5 |
24 months, the first window with 10 or more | 11 | $165,000 (n=11, odd: an observed sale) | $142.12 | 94.34% | 101 |
48 months, all sales, including eight post-Ian sales | 28 | $157,500 (n=28, even: mean of $155,000 and $160,000) | $135.66 | 98.93% | 52 |
Source: Southwest Florida MLS Matrix, pulled September 23, 2026, recomputed from the closed records for the MLS neighborhood name Partridge Place. Per-square-foot figures are medians of each sale’s own ratio on MLS living area. Partridge Place’s 24-month sales ran $145,000 to $195,000.
Partridge Place’s 24-month median, $142.12 per square foot of living area, times Partridge Court’s 1,161 square feet is about $165,000 by our arithmetic. Partridge Court’s three MLS sales since May 2024 ran $132,000 to $180,000, and the county’s one off-MLS sale in that period recorded $265,000 in January 2025. That is a starting range, not an appraisal: two units of the same plan in the same building have sold more than $100,000 apart, as the 2023 sales show, and condition is usually the reason. We show you every one of those sales before we suggest a number.
Over the same 48 months, Quail Cove, the nearest step up from the same developer and era, closed 9 MLS sales at $190,000 to $370,000 for units of 1,372 to 1,538 heated square feet. Dove Hollow closed 10 at $180,000 to $355,000 and Dove’s Nest 10 at $192,500 to $365,000, for units of a median of about 1,419 heated square feet. The two Partridge condominiums are the price floor of The Forest’s condominiums, and they share its lowest 2026 median just value, $119,694.
You choose a Partridge Court unit by building and then by unit, because the floor plan never changes: Building 1 at 16540 Partridge Club Road has carried six of the nine MLS sales since 2022 and Building 2 at 16530 three, each building shares the association’s roof record, and the unit number alone does not tell you which floor a unit is on.
Data updated: September 2026 (Lee County parcel roll and permitting index, read September 2026; Southwest Florida MLS Matrix, pulled September 23, 2026)
Building | Street address, Partridge Club Road | Units | MLS closings, 48 months | County-only deeds, 48 months | Homesteaded units, 2026 roll | 2026 just values |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Building 1 | 16540 | 8 (101 to 104, 201 to 204) | 6 | 1 | 2 | $119,694 on six units, $125,869 on units 101 and 104 |
Building 2 | 16530 | 8 (101 to 104, 201 to 204) | 3 | 3 | 3 | $119,694 on five units, $132,126 on units 102, 104 and 201 |
Source: Lee County parcel roll (site address, unit, homestead flag and 2026 just value on each of the 16 unit parcels); closings from the Southwest Florida MLS, pulled September 23, 2026, by street address; county-only deeds from the county’s sale records, code 01. Both buildings are recorded at two stories and 1981.
Each building numbers its units 101 to 104 and 201 to 204. The county records each building at two stories but does not record which units are upstairs, and elsewhere in The Forest the leading digit of a unit number names the building rather than the floor. Do not rely on the number: the listing description, the declaration’s unit description and a walk-through settle which floor a unit is on, and in a walk-up with exterior stairs and no elevator, that is a real question.
The county’s permitting index for the Partridge Court common-element parcel shows two 2018 re-roof permits, shingle to shingle, covering both buildings (ROF2018-14237 and ROF2018-13191), and a 2023 re-roof permit filed as Hurricane Ian damage, ROF2023-06816, now closed. The same permit index shows no open structural permit on the parcel. That is a different record from Partridge Place next door, where four of seven buildings carry open 2023 re-roof and truss permits.
The permit index does not show what the roof work cost, how it was paid, or what the association has in reserve for the next roof. Those answers are in the association’s budget, reserve schedule, minutes and estoppel certificate. We do not assume a special assessment exists, and we do not assume it does not; we get the association’s answer in writing before your inspection period ends.
The association’s common-element parcel at 16640 Island Park Road covers 1.54 acres and carries the county’s legal description “POOL + ALL COMMON ELEMENTS,” per its Property Appraiser record; the master association’s street map draws the pool between the two buildings. Parking is a common element: Lee County development order LDO2025-00150, “Reseal and restripe parking” at 16540 Partridge Club Road, closed and finaled on May 13, 2025. The Back Gate, which the master association calls the Island Park Gate, is beside the buildings, and the entry road from it runs past Partridge Court toward the clubhouse.
The steps to buy a home in Partridge Court are: set up alerts before a unit lists, collect the fee layers, check the flood file, write the offer with the documents in the calendar, order both estoppels on day one, read the resale package and minutes, clear inspection and insurance, confirm the tax reset, and close and register at the gate.
With no Partridge Court listing and no sale in the last 12 months, the first step is a saved search and a pre-approval or proof of funds, so that you can tour and write within days of a listing. Decide in advance whether a Partridge Place unit of the same plan would also do, because that doubles the units you can choose from.
List the condominium association fee, the master assessment, the tax bill with the San Carlos Park fire levy and the solid waste line, your unit-owners policy, flood coverage if you finance, sewer, water and fiber, and the club only if you join. The unpublished lines stay blank until the estoppels arrive, and your contract calendar should give them time to arrive.
Every unit is on FEMA panel 12071C0438H in Zone AE at 11 feet, on ground that sits about 4.8 feet below that line at the median. Ask for the building’s elevation certificate with the first disclosures, and quote flood insurance early if you are financing.
Build the inspection period around the documents: both estoppels, the condominium resale package, the last year of board minutes and the association’s written answer on reserves and any special assessment. If the declaration requires association approval of a sale, which we have not read and do not assume, the calendar leaves room for it.
One estoppel certificate comes from Partridge Court Condominium Association and one from The Forest’s master association, ordered through FirstService Residential’s resale and lender documents page. The Partridge Court request itself shows who issues the condominium’s documents today. We order both the day you sign.
The declaration with every amendment, the articles, bylaws and rules, the budget and reserve schedule, the insurance declarations and the last year of minutes. Because Partridge Court has no website, these arrive through the seller and the association, not a portal; this is where the leasing terms, the pet rule and any special assessment live.
A general inspection and a four-point or condition review of the unit’s interior systems, then bind a unit-owners policy against the association’s master policy and deductible, and flood coverage if your lender requires it. Ask whether the association has a current wind-mitigation report for the building.
Budget the tax bill from your price, not the seller’s bill, and if the unit will be your permanent residence, plan the homestead application for March 1 of the next tax year.
At closing the estoppel figures are paid or prorated. Afterward you request vehicle barcodes through the master association’s barcode request form and set up guest access through the DwellingLive visitor system. If you are joining the club, the membership is its own transaction with the club.
A Partridge Court owner pays two association bills, Partridge Court Condominium Association’s and The Forest master association’s, neither of which is published, plus the Lee County tax bill with the San Carlos Park fire levy and a solid waste line, private sewer, county water, a unit-owners policy, flood coverage if financed, and club dues only if you join.
Data updated: September 2026 (San Carlos Park Fire District FY2025/26 final budget, adopted September 15, 2025; Lee County special districts roster and MSTBU layer, queried September 2026)
Layer | Amount | What it covers | Where the amount lives |
|---|---|---|---|
Partridge Court Condominium Association | Not published | master building insurance, reserves, the pool, parking and the 1.54-acre common elements | association budget and estoppel certificate |
The Forest Property Owners’ Association (master) | Not published | private streets, two gates and a nightly patrol, lighting, landscaping, drainage | master budget and estoppel, through the manager’s resale documents page |
Community development district | $0: none exists | n/a | |
County MSTBU | $0: none exists | n/a | |
San Carlos Park Fire Protection and Rescue Service District | 2.3590 mills, fiscal year 2025/26 | fire and rescue | |
Lee County solid waste, garbage district 002 | non-ad-valorem line on the tax bill, at the county’s adopted rate | collection, disposal, recycling | |
Sewer (Forest Utilities, Inc., private) | Not published | wastewater | seller’s bills |
Bulk fiber (Hotwire) | Not published | internet and television | association or Hotwire bill |
Unit-owners (HO-6) policy | Not published; priced per unit | interior, contents, owner liability | your insurer |
Club dues and initiation | Not published; only if you join | club membership |
“Not published” means no public source states the figure, and we do not estimate it.
Partridge Court Condominium Association sets its own fee, which is not published; it appears in the association’s budget and resale estoppel certificate. In a condominium this is usually the largest line, because the association insures the buildings, funds reserves and keeps the pool. With only 16 owners carrying two buildings, a pool and the parking, each owner’s share of any large repair is a sixteenth, which is why the reserve schedule is the line to read first.
The master association does not publish its assessment. The amount appears in its annual budget and on the estoppel certificate issued with every resale. What it pays for is not in doubt: the private streets, a Main Gate staffed 24 hours a day, an Island Park Gate staffed from 7:00 AM to 10:00 PM, a nightly patrol and, because The Forest sits in no county MSTU, street lighting, landscaping and drainage inside the gates. Gate staffing hours are from the association’s 2022 emergency plan.
The San Carlos Park fire district levies 2.3590 mills for fiscal year 2025/26. As an illustration only, a unit at the roll’s most common 2026 just value, $119,694, with no exemption would owe about $282 a year to the fire district, and $165,000 of taxable value would owe about $389, both by our arithmetic. Lee County bills solid waste as a non-ad-valorem assessment and sets the charge by unit type, so read the condominium line on the unit’s own bill rather than a single-family figure.
Florida requires a condominium budget to carry reserves for roof replacement, building painting and pavement resurfacing, and for any other item whose deferred maintenance or replacement cost exceeds $25,000 or the state’s inflation-adjusted figure, under section 718.112(2)(f). Because the buildings are under three stories, the members may vote, by a majority of all voting interests, to fund less than the full amount. Whether Partridge Court has taken such a vote, and what is in reserve now, is in the budget and minutes, which are not published.
Lee County’s utility franchise maps place The Forest in Lee County Utilities’ water service area. Sewer service is provided by Forest Utilities, Inc., a private utility; its rates are not published online. The community has a Hotwire fiber arrangement; whether it is billed through an association is not published. Ask the seller for twelve months of water and sewer bills, and whether water, sewer or Hotwire appear on the association bill.
Each layer is a disclosure from a different party on a different billing cycle, and neither association publishes a figure. A single total assembled from guesses would look precise and be wrong for someone. We put both estoppels, both budgets and the seller’s utility bills side by side for the specific unit before your inspection period ends.
A Partridge Court seller must give you, under Florida Statutes 718.503, the declaration, articles of incorporation, bylaws and rules, the annual financial statement and budget, a structural integrity reserve study or a statement that none was completed, and the state’s frequently asked questions document, and you will also need two estoppel certificates: one from the condominium association and one from the master association.
Data updated: September 2026 (Florida Statutes 718.503, 718.116, 718.111 and 720.30851; Florida Division of Corporations filings, retrieved September 2026)
Because Partridge Court publishes no fee, the budget is the first page that states your number. Read what it funds, the reserve schedule for two 1981 roofs, painting and paving, the insurance line, and the minutes for any repair or assessment under discussion. Neighborhood associations’ special assessments are not published; buyers can find them in the association’s estoppel certificate and meeting minutes.
The declaration is recorded at Official Records Book 1544, Page 228, with the condominium plat at Condominium Plat Book 7, Page 60, and can be retrieved by book and page through the Lee County Clerk’s official records. The declaration is not posted online; it holds the leasing terms, the pet rule, occupancy, alterations and any approval procedure for sales and leases, so read every amendment before you rely on an answer.
The association’s record on the Florida Division of Corporations shows document number 754148, filed September 12, 1980, status active, a reinstatement after administrative dissolution filed November 17, 2005, and an annual report every year since, most recently the 2026 annual report filed April 28, 2026. Its four officers and directors each give a Partridge Club Road unit address, so the board is a quarter of the owners. Since February 23, 2023 its principal and mailing address has been in care of an accounting firm in Fort Myers.
The condominium estoppel under section 718.116 states the fee, any special assessment and the account status; the master estoppel under section 720.30851 does the same for the master assessment. Florida caps the fee at $250 when nothing is delinquent, plus $100 for delivery within three business days, and up to $150 more if an account is delinquent; if the condominium association fails to deliver within 10 business days, no fee may be charged. Who pays for each certificate is a term of the contract.
Florida requires a condominium association of 25 or more units to post its official records, including the declaration, bylaws, rules, budget, financial report and 12 months of approved minutes, on a protected owner-only website or app, under section 718.111(12)(g). With 16 units, Partridge Court is below that line, and we found nothing posted. Partridge Place, at 56 units, is above it. A Partridge Court buyer gets the same documents, but through the resale package, so we ask for them before you write.
Under section 718.503(2), if a buyer does not receive the documents more than seven business days before signing, the contract must let the buyer cancel within seven business days of receiving them. We ask for the package before you write, so the window works for you rather than against the closing date.
No. Florida’s milestone structural inspections and structural integrity reserve studies apply to condominium buildings three or more stories in height, and Lee County records both Partridge Court buildings at two stories. In The Forest only Sparrowood’s buildings reach three stories, so Partridge Court is outside both requirements, though ordinary reserve rules still apply.
Section 553.899 requires milestone inspections of condominium buildings three habitable stories or more in height, and section 718.112(2)(g) requires a structural integrity reserve study for buildings “three habitable stories or higher,” a requirement that “does not apply to buildings less than three stories in height.” A Partridge Court seller still gives the buyer a statement on the reserve study under section 718.503.
Being outside the statutes means no milestone inspection report and no structural integrity reserve study to read at Partridge Court, and it answers a question a lender or insurer reviewing a condominium may ask. It does not make the roofs, paving or painting cheaper: two 1981 buildings still have to be kept up and paid for by 16 owners.
Ask the association for its current budget and reserve schedule, its insurance declarations, the date and funding of the last roof work, and whether any special assessment is proposed or levied. Those are the documents that show whether 1981 buildings have been kept up and paid for.
You check flood zone and insurance for a Partridge Court condo against FEMA panel 12071C0438H, effective November 17, 2022, where every unit is in Zone AE with a base flood elevation of 11 feet NAVD88 and median ground sits at 6.2 feet, then price the association’s master policy, your own unit-owners policy and, if you finance, flood coverage before you go firm.
Data updated: September 2026 (FEMA National Flood Hazard Layer, queried September 2026; Lee County 2018 LiDAR spot elevations; FEMA CRS eligible communities list, April 2025)
Every Partridge Court parcel reads Zone AE, inside the Special Flood Hazard Area and outside any floodway, on FEMA’s National Flood Hazard Layer and Lee County’s own FIRM layer, on panel 12071C0438H. Partridge Place, across the entry road, sits on the neighboring panel, 12071C0576H, in the same zone at the same elevation. For flood insurance the community is NFIP community 125124, Lee County Unincorporated Areas.
The November 2022 map revision raised the base flood elevation across The Forest by one foot, from 10 to 11 feet NAVD88. Lee County keeps the superseded map as a pre-coastal-study layer, on which every Forest parcel read Zone AE at 10 feet. The zone did not change; the elevation did. An older elevation certificate or listing that gives 10 feet predates the current map.
Neighborhood | FIRM panel | Median ground, ft NAVD88 | Base flood elevation minus median ground, ft (our arithmetic) |
|---|---|---|---|
Partridge Court | 12071C0438H | 6.2 (range 6.2 to 6.3) | 4.8 |
Partridge Place | 12071C0576H | 6.3 | 4.7 |
Quail Cove | 12071C0438H | 6.3 | 4.7 |
Pheasant Court Villas (lowest in The Forest) | 12071C0576H | 5.9 | 5.1 |
Fairway Woods (highest in The Forest) | 12071C0438H | 8.5 to 9.1 | 1.9 to 2.5 |
Source: nearest 2018 LiDAR ground point to each parcel in Lee County’s spot elevations layer. That is ground, not a finished floor; only an elevation certificate states a building’s lowest floor for rating.
FEMA’s index of Letters of Map Change shows one Letter of Map Amendment request inside The Forest, for a Partridge Place building, and it was denied, per FEMA’s LOMA layer. None is recorded for Partridge Court. A buyer should not expect a map amendment to remove the flood requirement; pull the current panel from FEMA’s Map Service Center and ask for the elevation certificate.
Under section 718.111(11), the association insures the condominium property under its master policy, and the unit owner insures the interior, contents and improvements under a unit-owners policy. Ask for the master policy declarations, the wind and named-storm deductible and whether the association carries flood coverage on both buildings. We do not publish premiums, because a premium quoted without those documents is a guess.
A mortgage from a federally regulated or insured lender on a unit in the Special Flood Hazard Area requires flood coverage, per FEMA’s Risk Rating 2.0 page, and NFIP now prices each building from its own characteristics, with most rates limited to 18 percent increases per year. Unincorporated Lee County is a Class 5 community in FEMA’s Community Rating System, worth 25 percent off NFIP premiums inside the flood zone, per the April 2025 CRS list and the county’s CRS discount page. Partridge Court has a Fort Myers mailing address but is not in the City of Fort Myers, so make sure any quote uses the county’s class.
Florida makes flood coverage mandatory for Citizens personal-lines policies inside the Special Flood Hazard Area under section 627.351(6), and exempts policies written on a condominium unit-owners form, though a lender may still require it. Under section 627.0629, rate filings must include discounts for wind-resistive features, and under section 627.7011 an insurer may not refuse a homeowner policy solely because a roof is under 15 years old. At Partridge Court the roofs belong to the association, so the building’s roof record is the first question.
Lee County applies FEMA’s substantial improvement and substantial damage rule in unincorporated Lee County: work or damage costing 50 percent or more of a building’s market value brings the whole structure under current flood rules, per the county’s substantial improvement page, and new or substantially improved buildings must sit one foot above the base flood elevation. At Partridge Court that line is 12 feet NAVD88, about 5.8 feet above median ground, by our arithmetic. In a condominium the test is applied to the building, not to one unit, which is why the association’s insurance and reserves matter to every owner.
The Hurricane Ian record for Partridge Court is written in permits and deeds, not anecdotes: a 2023 re-roof permit filed as Ian damage and now closed, two county-recorded sales in the weeks after the storm at $275,500 and $130,000, and no public record we reached that says whether water entered any Partridge Court unit.
U.S. Geological Survey crews surveyed a Hurricane Ian high-water mark about 2.9 feet above ground at a Waters Edge condominium building inside The Forest, per the agency’s Short-Term Network record for Ian. No mark was surveyed at Partridge Court. We do not extend a measurement taken at one building to another.
The 2023 Partridge Court re-roof was filed as hurricane damage from Ian, ROF2023-06816, and the permit is closed. That is the applicant’s own description of storm damage to a roof. It does not say water entered a unit. On the deed record, Building 2, unit 101 sold for $275,500 on November 29, 2022 and Building 2, unit 104 for $130,000 on December 9, 2022, neither on the MLS; the record gives no condition for either.
Interior flooding depends on each building’s finished-floor elevation, which only an elevation certificate records. We do not treat listing descriptions of storm history as evidence. Ask the seller for the flood disclosure Florida law requires under section 689.302 and the association for its insurance claims history.
The 2024 storms left a much lighter record. The USGS holds no surveyed high-water mark within about 6 kilometers of The Forest for either Helene or Milton.
Partridge Court, like all of The Forest, is in Lee County Evacuation Zone A, the first zone told to leave. The master association’s re-entry rules admit contractors with a prior pass or barcode after a storm, and its plan opens the Island Park Gate beside Partridge Court for emergency vehicles. With 11 of 16 units not homesteaded, many owners are away for part of the year, so register a key holder with the association before leaving for the summer.
For a Partridge Court buyer, the non-bundled club means the unit and the golf are two separate decisions and two separate costs. Buying at Partridge Court does not make you a member of The Forest Country Club, you pay no club dues or member assessments unless you join, and a seller’s membership should not be assumed to transfer.
Data updated: September 2026 (The Forest Country Club membership page, retrieved September 2026; club Form 990 filings for 2022 to 2024)
The club’s membership page calls The Forest “a non bundled gated community offering resident and non resident memberships,” and the master association’s resident portal says, independently, “The Forest is a non-bundled gated community.” When two separately governed bodies say the same thing on their own sites, a buyer can rely on it as the community-wide rule.
A Partridge Court owner who never joins still gets the staffed gates and nightly patrol, the private streets and sidewalks, Ruthie’s Park and the association’s own pool. A non-member does not play either course, use the club’s courts or fitness center, or dine at the clubhouse as a matter of right.
The Forest Country Club, at 6100 Club Boulevard, sits about 160 meters from the center of the Partridge Court common-element parcel, straight line, by our arithmetic from the county parcel point and the US Census Bureau geocoder. From the back tees the Bear plays 7,010 yards (rating 75.1, slope 144) and the Bobcat 6,607 yards (rating 71.8, slope 125), per the club’s December 2025 scorecard; the Bear reopened on December 1, 2025 after a full renovation. The club lists tennis, pickleball, bocce and a fitness center on its lifestyle page, and membership categories include full golf, limited golf, racquets and a lifestyle category without golf.
The club describes itself in its federal tax filings as a private, member-owned club, and its filings show special assessments on members in 2022, 2023 and 2024, per its Form 990 filings. Those assessments fall on members only; a Partridge Court owner who does not join pays none of them.
The club does not publish its dues or initiation schedule; figures are provided to prospective members on inquiry through its inquiry form. If you plan to join, get the category’s initiation, dues, any food and beverage minimum and any pending assessment in writing before you are bound on the unit.
Proximity to the club matters only if you join it. For everyone, it means the entry road from the Island Park Gate past Partridge Court is also the route much of the club traffic takes from Island Park Road, which is worth noticing on a weekday morning tour.
Property taxes after you buy at Partridge Court start from your purchase, not the seller’s bill: Florida’s Save Our Homes cap follows the owner, and a sale resets the assessment. The bill adds the San Carlos Park fire levy of 2.3590 mills and a county solid waste line, and there is no CDD or MSTU line.
Data updated: September 2026 (Lee County parcel roll, queried September 2026; San Carlos Park Fire District FY2025/26 final budget)
The Save Our Homes cap limits annual increases in a homesteaded home’s assessed value to 3 percent or the change in the Consumer Price Index, whichever is lower, under section 193.155, and after a sale the home is reassessed. Five of the 16 Partridge Court units carry a homestead exemption on the 2026 roll, so a seller’s bill on one of those five can understate yours by a wide margin; confirm the specific unit’s bill rather than assume.
If the unit becomes your permanent Florida residence on January 1, the exemption removes up to $50,000 of assessed value, the second $25,000 from non-school taxes only, under section 196.031, and starts the Save Our Homes cap. Apply with the Lee County Property Appraiser by March 1 of the tax year; the seller’s exemption does not carry over to you.
The Forest does not appear on Lee County’s official roster of special districts, and the county’s MSTBU layer returns no taxing unit inside the community. The only independent special district that reaches Partridge Court is the San Carlos Park fire district. Compare total tax bills, not millage alone, when you weigh Partridge Court against a newer community that carries a CDD.
The Partridge Court rules that decide fit, leasing terms, pet limits, alterations and parking, are written in the association’s declaration and rules, which are not published online. We have not read the declaration’s text and state no rule we have not read, so read the declaration, every amendment and the rules before your review period ends.
Minimum lease terms and rental frequency are not published. Under section 718.110(13), an amendment prohibiting rentals or changing the rental term or frequency applies only to owners who consent and to owners who acquire title after it takes effect, so any leasing restriction in force the day you close applies to you, even if the seller was grandfathered.
Five of the 16 units carry a homestead exemption on the 2026 county roll, and 11 of the 16 owner mailing addresses are in Florida. That is a higher share of declared permanent residents than Partridge Place next door, where 2 of 56 units are homesteaded. It does not tell anyone how many units are leased, because a seasonal owner and a landlord look the same on the roll.
Pet rules at Partridge Court are set in the declaration and rules, which are not published online, so we do not state a pet limit. Ask in writing how many pets and of what size a unit may keep, whether tenants may keep pets and whether the rule has changed. Florida’s rules on emotional support animals in housing are in section 760.27.
No public record we reached establishes an age restriction at Partridge Court, and this page makes no claim either way. Housing for older persons must meet the statutory tests in section 760.29. Read the declaration before you rely on an answer.
Alterations that touch the building, windows, doors, flooring over another unit or the exterior normally need association approval under the declaration and rules, and interior work that needs a county permit is permitted through Lee County. Ask for the written alteration procedure before you plan a renovation, and ask the seller for any approval letters for work already done, because a buyer inherits an unapproved alteration.
Parking is in the association’s lot, resealed and restriped in 2025, under its rules; golf-cart rules on The Forest’s private streets sit in the master association’s rules. Neither is published. Guests are pre-registered by residents through the DwellingLive visitor system.
Partridge Court and Partridge Place at The Forest are the same 1981, 1,161-square-foot, two-story walk-up design by the same developer, in two separate condominiums with different corporations and different management. Buy at Partridge Court for a 16-unit association with no open structural permit on the county record; buy at Partridge Place for sales depth and listings to choose from today.
Data updated: September 2026 (Southwest Florida MLS Matrix, pulled September 23, 2026; Lee County parcel roll, permit records and spot elevations layer, read September 2026; FEMA National Flood Hazard Layer)
Question | Partridge Court | Partridge Place |
|---|---|---|
What you own | A condominium unit in a two-story walk-up building of eight | A condominium unit in a two-story walk-up building of eight |
Homes | 16, in two buildings | 56, in seven buildings |
Built and unit size (county) | 1981; 1,161 heated sq ft, every unit | 1981; 1,161 heated sq ft, every unit |
Street | Partridge Club Road, east of the Back Gate entry road | Partridge Place Road, west of the Back Gate entry road |
Declaration | Official Records Book 1544, Page 228 | Official Records Book 1488, Page 372 |
State license, developer | December 8, 1980, Timberlakes Ltd. | July 7, 1980, Timberlakes, Ltd. |
Association filed | September 12, 1980 (document 754148) | April 7, 1980 (document 751900) |
Management on the master association’s 2022 list | A professional management company | Self-managed |
Records posted online (25 or more units) | Not required, 16 units | Required, 56 units |
Common-element parcel | 1.54 acres, pool and all common elements | 4.90 acres, pool and pool house |
Closings, last 12 months | 0 | 2: $170,000 and $145,000 |
Closings, last 24 months | 1: $132,000 (September 2025) | 11, median $165,000, $142.12 a sq ft, 94.34% of list |
Closings, 48 months | 9, every sale listed: $132,000 to $280,000 | 28, median $157,500 (middle pair $155,000 and $160,000), including 8 post-Ian sales |
County-only arm’s-length deeds, 48 months | 4, $130,000 to $275,500 | not part of this comparison |
Listings on September 23, 2026 | 0 | 2, asking $174,000 and $179,000 |
Months of supply (our arithmetic) | Not measurable: no sale in 12 months and no listing | 12 on the last 12 months |
Units with a 2026 homestead exemption | 5 of 16 | 2 of 56 |
Owner mailing address in Florida | 11 of 16 | 28 of 56 |
2026 median just value (county, not a price) | $119,694 | $119,694 |
Flood map and median ground | Zone AE, 11 ft, panel 0438H; 6.2 ft | Zone AE, 11 ft, panel 0576H; 6.3 ft |
Map amendment requests | None recorded | One, denied |
Roofs on the county record | Re-roofs of both buildings in 2018; Hurricane Ian re-roof closed in 2023; no open structural permit | Re-roofs 2021 to 2023; open 2023 re-roof and truss permits on four buildings |
Milestone and reserve-study statutes | Outside both (two stories) | Outside both (two stories) |
Club membership | Optional | Optional |
Source: Southwest Florida MLS Matrix closed and active records, pulled September 23, 2026, each sale resolved by street address, with Partridge Place figures recomputed from the same pull by the same method; Lee County parcel roll, sale records, permitting index and spot elevations layer; FEMA panels effective November 17, 2022; the master association’s 2022 plan; the Florida condominium registry and Division of Corporations. Partridge Court’s 48-month figures are listed, not averaged, because nine sales are under our ten-sale floor.
Choose Partridge Court if you want one of the smallest associations in The Forest, its own pool a few steps from both buildings, a board made up of a handful of neighbors, more owners who live here year-round, and no open structural permit on the county record, and you are prepared to wait for a unit and price it from a thin record. Choose Partridge Place if you want more units to choose from today, more recent sales to price against and an association large enough that Florida requires it to post its records online, and you will read its minutes on the open roof and truss work. Our Partridge Place buyer page walks through that purchase building by building.
Partridge Court’s last three MLS sales, from May 2024 to September 2025, closed at $180,000, $145,000 and $132,000, inside or just below Partridge Place’s 24-month band of $145,000 to $195,000. Because Partridge Court recorded no sale in the last 12 months, a Partridge Court buyer is in practice pricing against Partridge Place’s closings, and a buyer with about $175,000 can shop both. Partridge Place owners weighing a move across the road can start with how we sell Partridge Place homes or a free Partridge Place home valuation.
The building does not change. The association, its budget and reserves, its insurance, its manager, its flood panel and its record of recent sales all do. Two identical units on either side of the Back Gate road can therefore carry different monthly costs and different risks, which is why we read both associations’ documents for a buyer who is weighing one against the other.
We find you the right Partridge Court unit by matching your budget to every recorded sale of the plan, watching a neighborhood that had no listing and no sale in the last year so you hear about a unit the day it appears, clearing gate access before every showing, and touring with the questions a listing does not answer.
When every unit is the same plan, price differences come from condition, floor and building. We show you what units in the same building have actually sold for, MLS and county deeds alike, and what the identical Partridge Place units are asking this season, so you know whether your number buys an updated unit or an original one.
Partridge Court sold one unit in the 24 months to September 23, 2026, and the master association estimates The Forest’s population at about 1,000 year-round and about 2,000 in peak season. Seasonal owners often decide while they are here in winter, so we keep your criteria on file and alert you when a Partridge Court unit comes to market, and when a Partridge Place or Quail Cove unit does, because many Partridge Court buyers weigh all three.
Some Partridge Court owners prefer a quiet sale, and four of the last 13 arm’s-length Partridge Court sales never appeared on the MLS. When we learn of a unit before it reaches the MLS, we will tell you whether it fits your budget, and we will price it against the same recorded sales as any listed unit.
Every visitor enters through a staffed gate, and guests are pre-registered through the association’s DwellingLive system, so we arrange access before we schedule. On tour, check which floor the unit is on and the stairs to it, the windows, doors and shutters, the air conditioning and water heater dates, the walk to the pool and to your parking space, and the traffic on the entry road.
Ask Marc at (239) 287-5873 to set up a saved search for Partridge Court by budget and floor, browse current homes for sale in The Forest on DomainRealtyGroup.com, or read how we represent buyers in Southwest Florida and use the buyer form on this page. Alerts route to us directly, so a new listing reaches both you and us the same day.
We negotiate for you at Partridge Court at partner level, with every recorded sale of the same floor plan in hand, the listing’s days on market and price history, the county’s deed record for the unit, the association’s budget, reserves and insurance as leverage, and a contract calendar that gives both estoppels and the resale package time to arrive before your deposit is at risk.
A list price above what the plan has recently sold for has to show why, with updates or a better floor. If it cannot, we write to the sales. The three Partridge Court sales that waited more than 200 days closed at 75.96 to 94.96 percent of list, and the unit that asked $190,900 in 2024 closed at $145,000 after 316 days, which is the market’s own evidence of how Partridge Court treats a price above the record.
A unit’s own deed history belongs on the table. Building 2, unit 104 recorded a $130,000 sale in December 2022 and closed on the MLS at $280,000, entered as three bedrooms, eleven months later; Building 1, unit 202 closed on the MLS at $180,000 in November 2023 and recorded $265,000 fourteen months later. When a unit’s price moved that far, the seller’s record of work on the unit is a fair and necessary question, and we ask it in writing.
A reserve shortfall in the budget, a proposed special assessment, a missing wind-mitigation report, an unapproved alteration or aging air conditioning are all facts that move a price. We put them in writing, tie them to a document or a quote, and use them to negotiate a price, a credit or a repair rather than a vague discount.
The review right under section 718.503, the inspection period and any association approval period give you defined exits. We track every deadline, deliver every notice in writing and on time, and sequence them so your deposit is not at risk before you have read the budget, the minutes and both estoppels.
Closing costs when you buy at Partridge Court include ordinary Florida buyer costs plus condominium items: the estoppel fees the contract assigns to you, prorated condominium and master assessments, prorated taxes including the San Carlos Park fire levy, and on a financed purchase the documentary stamp tax on the note and the intangible tax on the mortgage.
Data updated: September 2026 (Florida Statutes 201.08, 199.133 and 201.02; Florida Administrative Code Rule 69O-186.003)
Florida sets the title premium by rule, Rule 69O-186.003, at $5.75 per $1,000 of coverage up to $100,000 and $5.00 per $1,000 from $100,000 to $1,000,000, so what varies between title companies is the settlement services around it. As an illustration at $165,000, the Partridge Place 24-month median for the same plan, the owner’s premium at those rates is $900, by our arithmetic, before endorsements. Who pays for the owner’s policy and who chooses the title agent is written into the purchase contract.
Documentary stamp tax on the note runs at $0.35 per $100 under section 201.08, and the nonrecurring intangible tax on a new mortgage at 2 mills under section 199.133; neither applies to a cash purchase. As an illustration at $165,000 with an 80 percent loan of $132,000, the note stamps come to $462 and the intangible tax to $264, by our arithmetic.
The condominium fee and the master assessment are prorated to the closing date from the figures on each estoppel certificate, and any special assessment the estoppel shows as due appears as its own line. Property taxes are prorated against the seller’s current bill, which is not a forecast of yours.
The documentary stamp tax on the deed, 70 cents per $100 under section 201.02, is customarily paid by the seller. The contract controls every allocation.
Budget for a general inspection and a four-point or condition review of the unit. If the association has no elevation certificate for the building, ask whether one can be obtained before you bind flood coverage, because it is the document an insurer prices. Lee County’s flood information office can say whether one is on file.
Buyer’s agent compensation at Partridge Court in 2026 follows the National Association of REALTORS practice changes in force since August 17, 2024: you sign a written buyer agreement with your agent before touring, offers of compensation no longer appear on the MLS, and every commission is negotiable and not set by law.
The agreement must be signed before the tour, in person or by live virtual tour, per the NAR settlement FAQs and its guide to written buyer agreements. It must state the amount or rate of compensation, prohibit the agent from receiving more than that from any source, and state conspicuously that broker fees are not set by law and are fully negotiable. You need no agreement to talk to us or to set up an alert.
A seller may offer to contribute toward your agent’s compensation, you may ask for it in your offer, or you may pay it yourself. Florida’s brokerage relationship law, section 475.278, sets out the duties owed to you under each form of representation. We tell you plainly which approach fits the unit and the seller before you write.
Every recorded sale and deed, the Partridge Place benchmark, both estoppels ordered on day one, the budget, minutes and resale package read inside your review period, the flood and insurance file assembled before you bind, and a closing that lands on time.
Daily life around Partridge Court runs through The Forest’s Back Gate on Island Park Road and the US 41 corridor of south Fort Myers: the clubhouse about 160 meters away, a Publix about 4 minutes, Gulf Coast Medical Center about 9 minutes and Southwest Florida International Airport about 16 minutes, measured as free-flow drives from the clubhouse address.
Data updated: September 2026 (routes computed September 23, 2026; Florida Department of Education 2026 school grades file)
The Main Gate on Forest Boulevard at Tamiami Trail is staffed 24 hours a day and the Island Park Gate, the Back Gate beside Partridge Court, from 7:00 AM to 10:00 PM, with a nightly patrol, per the master association’s 2022 Emergency Preparedness Plan. Residents request vehicle barcodes through the association’s barcode request form.
Destination | Road miles | Minutes (free-flow) |
|---|---|---|
Publix, Alico Mission Way | 1.4 | 4 |
Lakes Regional Park | 2.3 | 5 |
Bell Tower Shops | 3.9 | 8 |
Gulf Coast Medical Center (Level II trauma center) | 4.5 | 9 |
Southwest Florida International Airport terminal | 8.6 | 16 |
Downtown Fort Myers River District | 10.3 | 21 |
Fort Myers Beach, Times Square | 10.7 | 21 |
Naples, Old Naples City Hall | 26.5 | 44 |
Routes were computed on the OpenStreetMap road network with the OSRM routing engine from The Forest Country Club’s geocoded address at 6100 Club Boulevard, about 160 meters from Partridge Court, with no traffic model; January to April traffic runs longer.
Lee County assigns students through zones of school choices, not a single school per address. Partridge Court, like every neighborhood in The Forest, sits in Elementary Zone O, Middle School Zone MM and High School South Zone 2, per the district-linked 2026-27 zone map.
Zone choice | School | 2026 grade |
|---|---|---|
Elementary Zone O | Rayma C. Page Elementary | A |
Elementary Zone O | Heights Elementary | A |
Elementary Zone O | Villas Elementary | B |
Elementary Zone O | Tanglewood Elementary | B |
Middle School Zone MM | Cypress Lake Middle | A |
Middle School Zone MM | Lexington Middle | B |
High School South Zone 2 | South Fort Myers High | C |
High School South Zone 2 | Cypress Lake High | A |
High School South Zone 2 | Estero High | B |
High School South Zone 2 | Fort Myers High | A |
High School South Zone 2 | Bonita Springs High | B |
High School South Zone 2 | Dunbar High | C |
Grades are 2026 school grades (Florida Department of Education), from the state’s 2026 school grades file. Dunbar High School is among the South Zone 2 high school choices, but the district’s 2026-27 transportation plan does not provide Dunbar bus service to The Forest’s subzone. Confirm choices for a specific address through the district’s student enrollment page.
Gulf Coast Medical Center, 13681 Doctors Way, is Lee County’s state-designated Level II trauma center, per the Florida Department of Health’s trauma center list, about 4.5 miles and 9 minutes from the clubhouse.
Partridge Court sits on The Forest’s Island Park Road edge, behind an 8-foot perimeter wall the master association built under county variance VAR2012-00007. The nearby changes are commercial and on the US 41 side: an approved convenience store with 16 fuel pumps and a car wash at US 41 and Island Park Road (SEZ2024-00005 and related cases) and a proposed rezoning of about 61 acres to mixed use (DCI2023-00020), per the county’s zoning cases layer. A special exception and variance for a 149-foot wireless monopole on the golf course property (SEZ2026-00001 and VAR2026-00001) were In Review as of September 23, 2026, with no hearing scheduled and no decision made.
You get a personalized Partridge Court buyer consultation by using the buyer form on this page or calling Marc Comisar at (239) 287-5873. We review your budget against every recorded sale of the plan and the Partridge Place benchmark, walk through the two association layers and the documents to request, and set up alerts for Partridge Court and its neighbors inside The Forest.
Your budget against the same-plan sales, which building and floor fit how you will use the unit, the association layers and what each estoppel will state, the roof record and the questions to put to the board, the flood and insurance picture, the rules to read, the club decision and a timeline that fits the season.
Call Marc Comisar at (239) 287-5873 or Jesse McGreevy at (239) 898-6072, or email [email protected]. The office of McGreevy and Comisar is at 24031 S Tamiami Trl #101, Bonita Springs, FL 34134, south of The Forest on the same US 41. Read how we represent buyers in Southwest Florida.
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A Partridge Court specialist matters when you buy because the price turns on nine MLS sales and four county deeds rather than a neighborhood median, the working benchmark sits in a different association across the road, the unit number does not name a floor, the association publishes no fee and has no website, and every unit sits in a FEMA flood zone on ground well below the base flood elevation.
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A general agent may price a Partridge Court unit off the middle of nine sales spread over four years, miss the four county deeds the MLS never carried, trust a three-bedroom MLS entry the county does not record, read unit 201 as proof of an upstairs unit, quote one estoppel instead of two, treat Partridge Court and Partridge Place as one association, or treat a Fort Myers mailing address as a City of Fort Myers flood rating. Each one costs a buyer money or a closing date.
For the whole community, our guide to The Forest covers every neighborhood inside the gates, and our Fort Myers guide covers the city around it. Our neighborhood guides cover Partridge Court, Partridge Place, Quail Cove, Dove Hollow, Dove’s Nest, Eagle’s Landing, Sparrowood, Waters Edge, The Heron and Fairway Woods. Buyers comparing other Forest condominiums can read our buyer pages for Fairway Woods at The Forest and The Heron at The Forest.
These are the questions buyers ask most about Partridge Court at The Forest, answered from the association’s state filings, Lee County’s parcel, deed, permit, flood and tax records, FEMA’s map, Florida statute and the Southwest Florida MLS, each with its window and source. Where the record is silent, the answer says so and names the document that holds it.
A 16-unit condominium of two two-story walk-up buildings of eight inside The Forest, the gated golf community in south Fort Myers, both finished in 1981, where every unit is two bedrooms, two baths and 1,161 heated square feet.
Inside the gates of The Forest, at 16540 and 16530 Partridge Club Road, beside the Back Gate on Island Park Road, in unincorporated Lee County, ZIP 33908. The master association’s street map draws it on the east side of the entry road from the Back Gate, opposite Partridge Place.
Nine MLS closings in the 48 months to September 23, 2026 ran $132,000 to $280,000, and the most recent was $132,000 in September 2025. There is no current median, because nothing closed in the last 12 months; Partridge Place, the same plan next door, had a 24-month median of $165,000.
Because no window reaches ten closings: 0 in 12 months, 1 in 24, 6 in 36 and 9 in 48. We list every sale instead of printing a median that would describe no real unit.
None were active or pending on the Southwest Florida MLS on September 23, 2026. Two Partridge Place units of the same plan were asking $179,000 and $174,000. We can set up an alert for the next Partridge Court listing.
Building 2, unit 102 closed on September 18, 2025 at $132,000, after 209 days on market, per the Southwest Florida MLS. The county records no later arm’s-length Partridge Court deed.
Partridge Court has no listing and no recent sale, so it has no measurable supply at all; The Forest as a whole carried about 7.7 months of supply on September 23, 2026, which leans toward buyers. The Partridge Court record shows units priced above recent sales sat and then sold lower.
Yes. Lee County coded 13 Partridge Court deeds as arm’s-length sales in the 48 months to September 2026; four, from $130,000 to $275,500, were never on the MLS. An appraiser will see them.
Every one of the 16 units is 1,161 heated square feet with two bedrooms and two baths on the Lee County parcel roll. The MLS lists two sales at 1,200 square feet and one as three bedrooms; those are listing entries, not larger units.
Across the nine MLS sales it ran $113.70 to $241.17 per square foot of MLS living area; the simple average of the nine is $163.91, by our arithmetic. The most recent sale, in September 2025, was $113.70.
No. No unit record shows a garage or carport, parking is in the association’s lot, and the two-story buildings are walk-ups with no elevator on the record.
Do not rely on it. Each building numbers its units 101 to 104 and 201 to 204, but the county records only that each building is two stories, not which units are upstairs. The listing, the declaration and a showing settle it.
Two: Partridge Court Condominium Association, Inc., filed September 12, 1980, which insures the buildings and keeps the pool and common elements, and The Forest Property Owners’ Association, the master association that runs the gates and streets.
Not published. The condominium association’s fee appears in its budget and resale estoppel certificate, and the master assessment is not published either. There is no CDD and no county MSTU.
The public record does not say. The county permit index shows no open structural permit on the association’s parcel, but assessments are not public. The estoppel certificate and the board minutes will show any assessment levied or planned.
Two: one from Partridge Court Condominium Association and one from the master association. Florida caps the fee at $250 when nothing is delinquent, plus $100 for delivery within three business days.
The master association’s 2022 contact list recorded a professional management company for Partridge Court, and since February 2023 the association’s state filings use an accounting firm’s address. No public record we reached names today’s manager; the estoppel request shows who issues the documents.
Florida requires a condominium association to post its records online only at 25 units or more, under section 718.111(12)(g). Partridge Court has 16, so buyers receive the documents through the resale package instead.
No. The Forest is non-bundled, per the club’s membership page and the master association’s resident portal. You join only if you choose to.
The club does not publish its dues or initiation schedule; figures are provided to prospective members on inquiry. Get them in writing before you rely on them.
Yes. The county’s common-element record for Partridge Court describes 1.54 acres of “POOL + ALL COMMON ELEMENTS,” and the master association’s map draws the pool between the two buildings. Pool rules are in the association’s rules, which are not published.
The state condominium registry names Timberlakes Ltd., The Forest’s original developer, as developer of record, licensed December 8, 1980, and every unit carries a first-year-built of 1981 on the county roll.
The county’s permit index shows 2018 re-roof permits covering both buildings and a 2023 re-roof filed as Hurricane Ian damage, now closed. How the work was paid and what is in reserve for the next roof are in the association’s budget and minutes.
Yes. Every unit is in FEMA Zone AE, base flood elevation 11 feet NAVD88, on panel 12071C0438H, effective November 17, 2022, with median ground at about 6.2 feet.
With a federally regulated or insured mortgage, yes. Ask whether the association’s master policy includes flood coverage on the building. Unincorporated Lee County’s Class 5 rating cuts NFIP premiums 25 percent.
No public record we reached says whether water entered any Partridge Court unit. A 2023 re-roof permit names Ian as roof damage; it does not say water entered a unit. Ask for the seller’s flood disclosure under section 689.302.
No. Those requirements apply to condominium buildings three or more stories in height, and Lee County records both Partridge Court buildings at two stories. Ordinary reserve rules still apply.
It depends on the declaration and rules, which are not published online, so we state no leasing minimum. Any rental restriction in force when you buy applies to you under section 718.110(13).
Pet rules are set in the declaration and rules, which are not published online, so we do not state a limit. Ask for the pet rule in writing before you sign.
No public record we reached establishes an age restriction at Partridge Court, and this page makes no claim either way. Read the declaration before you rely on an answer.
Budget from your purchase price, not the seller’s bill, and add the San Carlos Park fire levy of 2.3590 mills; there is no CDD. Five of the 16 units carry a homestead exemption today, and those bills will not look like yours.
No. Partridge Court has a Fort Myers mailing address, but every parcel is in unincorporated Lee County, which handles zoning, permits and flood-plain rules.
Lee County Utilities’ water service area covers The Forest, and sewer comes from Forest Utilities, Inc., a private utility whose rates are not published online.
Partridge Court sits in Lee County’s Elementary Zone O, Middle School Zone MM and High School South Zone 2. Rayma C. Page Elementary, a Zone O choice about 1.4 miles from the clubhouse, earned an A in 2026.
About 8.6 miles and 16 minutes to the Southwest Florida International Airport terminal and about 10.7 miles and 21 minutes to Times Square on Fort Myers Beach, free-flow from the clubhouse address.
Same floor plan, same year, same developer, different condominium: Partridge Court has 16 units, one closing in 24 months and none listed; Partridge Place has 56 units, 11 closings in 24 months and two listings. The decision table above sets them side by side.
Guests, including buyers and agents, are pre-registered through the DwellingLive visitor system. We arrange access before we schedule a showing.
The purchase contract decides who pays for the owner’s policy and who chooses the title agent. The premium itself is set by the state’s promulgated rates.
Yes, with an MLS agent. Since August 17, 2024, a written buyer agreement stating the agent’s compensation must be in place before a tour, and compensation is negotiable.
Set your budget against every recorded sale and the Partridge Place benchmark, decide whether Partridge Place would also do, decide whether you want the club, and set up alerts. Call Marc Comisar at (239) 287-5873.
Every Partridge Court figure on this page traces to a primary source below, listed as of September 27, 2026: the association’s filings with the Florida Division of Corporations and the state condominium registry, Lee County’s parcel, deed, permit, flood, tax and development records, Florida Statutes and state agencies, federal flood and storm records, the master association’s and the club’s own pages, and the Southwest Florida MLS. No listing portal or competing brokerage is cited.
Every row below links the authority that publishes the document, so a Partridge Court buyer always opens the official, current copy. We host nothing ourselves. The recorded declaration at Official Records Book 1544, Page 228, the association’s bylaws, rules, budget, reserve schedule, insurance declarations and minutes, and the master association’s homeowner documents are not posted publicly; they come with the resale package.
Document | What it tells a Partridge Court buyer | Official authority |
|---|---|---|
Partridge Court Condominium Association 2026 annual report | The association’s current corporate filing (active, filed April 28, 2026) | |
Partridge Court Condominium Association reinstatement (November 17, 2005) | The filing that restored the association after administrative dissolution | |
Lee County permit index for the Partridge Court common-element parcel | Every permit record on the association’s land, including the 2018 and 2023 re-roofs | |
Lee County permit ROF2023-06816 | The 2023 re-roof filed as Hurricane Ian damage | |
Lee County real property transfer codes (from January 1, 2018) | What code 01, an arm’s-length sale, means on the county’s deed record | |
The Forest Property Owners’ Association Emergency Preparedness Plan (2022) | Gate staffing, board seats, the 2022 contact list, re-entry rules and the street map showing the Back Gate and the Partridge Court pool | |
FEMA FIRM panel 12071C0438H (effective November 17, 2022) | The flood map panel for every Partridge Court unit | |
Lee County Evacuation Zone A map | The evacuation zone that covers all of The Forest | |
FEMA Community Rating System eligible communities (April 2025) | Unincorporated Lee County’s Class 5, a 25 percent NFIP discount | |
San Carlos Park Fire District FY2025/2026 Final Budget | The 2.3590-mill fire levy on every Partridge Court tax bill | |
The Forest Country Club scorecard (December 2025) | Both courses’ tees, yardage, rating and slope | |
Florida Statutes 718.503, disclosure prior to sale | The documents a condominium seller must give you | |
Florida Statutes 718.111, association insurance and records | The master policy split and the 25-unit records rule |
McGreevy and Comisar represent buyers across Southwest Florida from an office in Bonita Springs on US 41, south of The Forest on the same highway, and Partridge Court sits inside the south Fort Myers market we work every week. The first conversation costs nothing, and in a neighborhood that lists a unit this rarely, it is what puts you first in line when one does.
Marc Comisar: (239) 287-5873. Jesse McGreevy: (239) 898-6072, [email protected]. Office: 24031 S Tamiami Trl #101, Bonita Springs, FL 34134. Use the buyer form on this page, return to the buyer consultation section, or read how we represent buyers in Southwest Florida. Video walkthroughs are on McGreevy and Comisar on YouTube, and the team keeps a company page at McGreevy and Comisar on LinkedIn.
Jesse McGreevy (Sales Associate, Florida license SL3101296) and Marc Comisar (Broker Associate, Florida license BK3060671) are licensed Florida REALTORS with Domain Realty; Florida real estate licensure is regulated by the Florida Real Estate Commission (FREC).
McGreevy and Comisar lead Domain Realty Group, a full-service Southwest Florida real estate team; learn more at DomainRealtyGroup.com. McGreevy and Comisar are Top 1% Real Estate Agents Nationally Since 2008. Nothing on this page is legal, tax or insurance advice.
Market data from Southwest Florida MLS, pulled September 23, 2026, through the Southwest Florida MLS Matrix. Brokered by Domain Realty.