Buy a Home in The Estates at TwinEagles, FL

Updated September 2026 · By Jesse McGreevy and Marc Comisar, Domain Realty

Buying a home in The Estates at TwinEagles means buying one of 63 custom homes on six short streets at the front of the gated TwinEagles club community on Immokalee Road in North Naples, Collier County, Florida 34120, most of them on large homesites beside the Jack Nicklaus Talon course, with three lots still vacant. Every Estates home is deeded one club category, the buyer pays The TwinEagles Club an initiation fee at closing, and the neighborhood runs under its own design guidelines, the strictest in the gate. This page is the step by step purchase path. For the full portrait of the neighborhood itself, its enclaves, history, homesite prices, permit record and hurricane record, read our Estates at TwinEagles neighborhood guide, for the whole gate our TwinEagles community guide, and for the wider city our Naples guide.

If you are choosing an agent before you choose a house, our guide to the best real estate agents in Naples sets the city’s teams side by side on the public record. If you already own on Golden Eagle Court, Peregrine Court, Aerie Lane, Talon Drive, Bald Eagle Way or Five Oaks Lane and are selling to move, start with how we sell homes in The Estates and a free Estates home valuation. Weighing the rest of the gate as well? Our TwinEagles buyer guide applies the same record-first method to all 12 neighborhoods, and further down this page we set The Estates beside the neighborhood buyers most often confuse it with, Lake Estates at TwinEagles.

Call Marc Comisar at (239) 287-5873 or Jesse McGreevy at (239) 898-6072. We have been Top 1% Real Estate Agents Nationally Since 2008, and in a neighborhood of 63 homes that has averaged about two MLS closings a year for five years, we would rather you be ready before the next Estates home lists than hear about it after it closes.

What Does It Take to Buy a Home in The Estates at TwinEagles?

Buying a home in The Estates at TwinEagles takes five things most Naples resales do not: the deeded club category, a TwinEagles initiation fee of $45,000 to $150,000 paid at closing, the club’s approval before closing, two estoppel certificates, and a reading of the Estates design guidelines, because on a large lot the house you buy is often the house you will remodel or rebuild.

Data updated: September 2026 (Southwest Florida MLS, pulled 24 Sep 2026; Collier County recorded deeds, newest recorded sale 30 Jun 2026; The TwinEagles Club membership page, read Sep 2026; TwinEagles HOA 2024 Approved Budget; Design Review Guidelines, The Estates at TwinEagles, approved 15 Feb 2023; FEMA National Flood Hazard Layer, queried 24 Sep 2026)

Everything below comes from The TwinEagles Club’s own membership page, its 2024 Membership Agreement, its Initiation Fee Policy and its last public dues schedule, from the master association’s 2024 Approved Budget, 2024 Use Restrictions and the Design Review Guidelines for The Estates at TwinEagles, from FEMA’s flood layers, from Collier County’s recorded deeds, roll and permit files, and from the Southwest Florida MLS, pulled September 24, 2026. Where the public record is silent, and in a private club it is silent on several things a buyer wants to know, this page says so rather than guessing.

Six Streets, Six Enclaves, One Neighborhood

The Estates is one recorded plat, TwinEagles Phase One, and six streets. The developer marketed each street as a named enclave: Strathmore on Golden Eagle Court, Thornhill on Peregrine Court, Sterling Hill on Aerie Lane, Glasgow on Talon Drive, Inverness on Bald Eagle Way and Lochlomond on Five Oaks Lane. The master association still bills the Estates on six budget lines that match those enclaves exactly, 66 units in all, because vacant lots are billed like homes (TwinEagles HOA 2024 Approved Budget). On the 2026 county roll those 66 homesites hold 63 custom homes and 3 vacant lots, one on Aerie Lane and two on Five Oaks Lane.

The enclave names are not on any deed. A title commitment for an Estates home reads a lot and block in TwinEagles Phase One, and a buyer searching listings will usually find these homes filed under TwinEagles with the street address, sometimes with the enclave name in the subdivision field and sometimes not. That is why we track the neighborhood by street, and why a portal search for “The Estates” will miss homes.

Three Eras of Custom Homes

The Estates is the original section of TwinEagles. The Talon course opened on January 15, 1999, and the first estate lots were laid out around it; the first homes carry a county year built of 1999. The Bonita Bay Group era followed from 2000, The Ronto Group sold the last homesites to custom buyers from 2010, and the final platted Estates lots sold in the first months of 2022 (TwinEagles HOA Community FAQs and history). By county year built, 5 homes date from 1999 to 2001, 18 from 2002 to 2009, 22 from 2010 to 2019 and 18 from 2020 to 2024.

That spread is the first thing an Estates buyer has to price. A 2001 home and a 2022 home can sit on the same street, and the difference between them is the roof, the windows and doors, the building code edition, the flood paperwork and, often, whether you are buying a house to live in or a homesite with a house on it. Eighteen homes carry a year built of 2020 or later, several on parcels whose county sale history shows a finished home years earlier, the pattern of a teardown and rebuild or a reconstruction large enough to reset the year built.

What The Estates Does Not Have

The Estates has no neighborhood association: the only Florida entity with the name was the developer’s limited partnership, dissolved in 2016 (Florida Division of Corporations record), and the master association lists The Estates among the neighborhoods where owners handle their own landscaping. A sale needs only the club and master association estoppels (club estoppel requirements by street). It has no shared pool, clubhouse or maintenance crew of its own; the amenities belong to the club. TwinEagles as a whole has no community development district, no beach club, marina or boat access, and no non-resident memberships. And The Estates has no builder inventory: the last platted Estates lots sold in early 2022, so the only land left is the three vacant lots on the 2026 roll, and every home for sale is a resale or a teardown.

The Club Category Comes Before the House

The fact most listing remarks leave out is the one that changes the check you write. The club says it plainly: “Each residence is deeded a Membership, so homeownership within TwinEagles is required to have a Membership (Golf, Sports or Social),” and the buyer pays the initiation fee at closing (club membership page). As posted in September 2026, that fee is $150,000 for Golf, $60,000 for Sports and $45,000 for Social. Golf is capped at 614 memberships across the 717 TwinEagles homes, so an Estates buyer must confirm which category a specific home is deeded before writing an offer.

Older marketing from the developer years promoted club membership with new construction. That was the developer’s sales program, and it ended with the member turnover of 2018 and 2019; the master association’s own history describes The TwinEagles Club as “a private club as opposed to a bundled community” (TwinEagles HOA Community FAQs). Budget the initiation fee as a closing cost on every Estates resale, and never assume a home near the Talon is deeded Golf.

Not to Be Confused With Lake Estates

The Estates and Lake Estates at TwinEagles are different neighborhoods on different plats, from different eras, under different design guidelines and on different lines of the master budget. Lake Estates is 19 homes built 2015 to 2022 on the 34-acre lake along TwinEagles Boulevard, deep inside the gate; The Estates is 63 custom homes from 1999 to 2024 on six streets near the entrance. Listing portals, and sometimes listing remarks, mix the two names. We compare them side by side further down this page.

Why Do Estates Buyers Work With McGreevy and Comisar?

Buyers in The Estates at TwinEagles work with McGreevy and Comisar because the facts that decide a purchase here, the deeded club category, the Phase One balance, the Estates design guidelines, the elevation certificate for the lot, the age of the house against the value of the land, and a thin sales record, live in club documents, association files and county records, not listing remarks.

Data updated: September 2026 (Southwest Florida MLS, pulled 24 Sep 2026; Collier County recorded deeds, newest recorded sale 30 Jun 2026)

We have been Top 1% Real Estate Agents Nationally Since 2008 and the #1 Team in Southwest Florida since 2012, and we read every one of those records before we write an offer. In a neighborhood where the MLS-marketed sales of the last five years closed at a median 90.00 percent of final list price, and where the one home listed on September 24, 2026 asked more than any Estates home has sold for in five years, the record is where the negotiation starts.

The Record, Stated Plainly

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

Those are career numbers across Lee and Collier County. McGreevy and Comisar lead Domain Realty Group, a full-service Southwest Florida real estate team. Learn more about our team at DomainRealtyGroup.com.

What Buyers Say About Working With Us

McGreevy and Comisar are a top-reviewed buyer’s team on Google, and the quotes below are genuine five-star client reviews reproduced in each reviewer’s own words. We publish no aggregate score and no star average. Read the full set on the McGreevy and Comisar Google reviews profile.

★★★★★ “We used Jesse to represent us on purchasing a property in Naples, and he worked our deal like it was for him! 100% satisfied.” Verified Google review

★★★★★ “Marc has been a great help in securing a great price for our home during its build phase. Negotiated a much better deal from the builder.” Verified Google review

★★★★★ “We have used his services for 5 transactions and every one has gone smoothly. He is a fantastic communicator, offers great representation, and is extremely honest.” Verified Google review

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What a Buyer’s Agent Owes You in The Estates

The Estates is governed by a private club and a Chapter 720 master association, with no neighborhood association in between, and by a 53-page set of design guidelines written for these six streets alone. The club bills three categories on its own fiscal year and has not posted a dues schedule publicly since fiscal 2022; the master association billed each Estates home $5,559.42 to $5,586.19 in its 2024 budget, the highest lines in TwinEagles, and has not posted a newer figure; and the flood answer at the street is not always the answer at the house pad. An agent who has not read those documents cannot tell you what you will pay, what you may build or change, or whether you can play golf the day you close.

What we owe you is specific: the club estoppel ordered as soon as the contract is signed, so the deeded category, current dues and the remaining Phase One balance are known before your deposit goes hard; the master estoppel on the same calendar; the Membership Agreement delivered to the club at least seven days before closing; the elevation certificate and any FEMA letter pulled for the exact lot; the permit history and roof age read against the house’s build year; the approval letters for every exterior change the seller made under the Estates guidelines; a view of the land value under the house when the house is older; and a carrying-cost model built on the tax bill you will pay rather than the one the seller pays today.

What Should an Estates Buyer Know First?

An Estates at TwinEagles buyer should know ten recorded facts before touring: the home count and build years, the recent price band, the deeded club category and initiation fee, the master assessment with no neighborhood layer, the Estates design guidelines, the flood picture by lot, the leasing cap, the schools, the drive to the gate and the absence of a CDD.

Data updated: September 2026 (Southwest Florida MLS, pulled 24 Sep 2026; Collier County recorded deeds and 2026 preliminary roll; TwinEagles HOA 2024 Approved Budget; Estates Design Review Guidelines, 15 Feb 2023; FEMA National Flood Hazard Layer; Collier County Public Schools zone locator)

• 63 custom single-family homes and 3 vacant lots on six streets, built 1999 to 2024 by county year built with a median of 2013, and county building areas of 3,472 to 9,588 square feet with a median of 4,662.
• 11 MLS closings in 60 months, $1,725,000 to $3,250,000, median $2,600,000, and three in the last twelve months, at $2,425,000, $3,100,000 and $3,150,000 (Southwest Florida MLS, pulled September 24, 2026).
• The club category is deeded to the house. The buyer pays the initiation fee at closing: $150,000 Golf, $60,000 Sports or $45,000 Social as posted in September 2026, plus a $3,500 transfer fee (club membership page).
• One association, not two. The master association billed each Estates home $5,559.42 to $5,586.19 in its 2024 budget, depending on the enclave; there is no Estates association and no quarterly neighborhood fee (2024 Approved Budget).
• Current club dues are not public. The last posted schedule, fiscal 2022, put Full Golf at about $18,328 a year before sales tax, counting the Phase One capital assessment a buyer takes over (FY2022 Dues and Fees).
• The Estates has its own design guidelines, approved February 15, 2023: at least 3,500 square feet under air, clay or concrete tile roofs at a 6-in-12 pitch, a side-entry garage for at least two cars, paver driveways, no fences or walls and at least ten shade trees on every homesite.
• Flood is read at the house, not the street. All six Estates street points read Zone X on FEMA’s effective and preliminary maps, yet the two newest county-filed elevation certificates on Estates homes list Zone AH at a 15.5-foot base flood elevation, and one FEMA letter from November 2024 sits on Golden Eagle Court.
• Leasing is capped at three leases a calendar year, each at least 30 consecutive days, on the association’s approved form with tenant screening.
• Schools by address: Bear Creek Elementary, Oakridge Middle and Gulf Coast High for all six streets, all graded A for 2025-26.
• No CDD, and a short drive to the gate: the 2025 TwinEagles tax bills we checked carry one non-ad-valorem line, the $261.91 county garbage charge, and the six Estates streets sit about 0.5 to 1.5 miles by road from the Immokalee Road entrance.

How Do We Track The Estates Market for a Buyer?

We track The Estates at TwinEagles market through two independent records rather than a portal: the Southwest Florida MLS, which shows 11 Estates closings in the 60 months to September 24, 2026, and Collier County’s recorded deeds, which show 7 qualified Estates home sales from September 2021 to June 2026, each labelled with its own count and its own square-foot measure.

Data updated: September 2026 (Southwest Florida MLS, pulled 24 Sep 2026; Collier County recorded deeds, 60 months ending September 24, 2026, newest recorded sale June 30, 2026)

What We Tracked

We tracked every Estates closing in both systems, allocated by street to Golden Eagle Court, Peregrine Court, Aerie Lane, Talon Drive, Bald Eagle Way and Five Oaks Lane, because the MLS subdivision field is inconsistent: some Estates rows carry the enclave name, and others read only TwinEagles. The MLS count is 11 closings from September 25, 2021 to September 24, 2026, two of them non-MLS sales entered in the MLS after closing. The county count is 7 qualified, arm’s-length sales of Estates homes over $100,000 using the Florida Department of Revenue’s sale qualification codes 01 and 02 only, which leaves out $100 transfers, quitclaims and related-party deeds.

We also tracked the club’s three initiation fees and their history since 2021, the last public club dues schedule, the master assessment for each of the six enclaves in 2024, the qualified sales of vacant Estates homesites back to 2001, the flood zone at a street point on each of the six streets, the FEMA letter on the plat, the county-filed elevation certificates, 31 months of Collier County building permits on all six streets, the zoned schools for an address on each street, and the drive times from each street to the gate and the clubhouse.

Two Records, Side by Side

The two records overlap on six sales and differ on the rest for ordinary reasons. The county treats three recorded Estates transfers at $2,950,000, $2,500,000 and $2,425,000, the same prices as three MLS closings, as not qualified; the MLS carries the September 2026 closing, which the county file had not yet received, and a November 2021 closing on Aerie Lane that is not among the county’s qualified sales; and the county holds one qualified sale the MLS list does not, $2,131,200 on Five Oaks Lane in January 2022. That is why the MLS shows 11 sales at a median of $2,600,000 and the county 7 at a median of $2,355,000; neither difference is a price change. The county’s price per square foot uses the roll’s building-area field, which counts more than air-conditioned space, while the MLS uses living area, so we never set one against the other.

Why the Numbers on This Page Are the Market’s, Not Ours

Every figure on this page describes The Estates market, not McGreevy and Comisar. Our credentials sit in the section above as career numbers across Lee and Collier County. A buyer deciding what to offer on a Golf-deeded home on Aerie Lane needs the Aerie Lane record, the club estoppel, the elevation certificate for that lot and the approval history of the house, not an agent’s scoreboard.

What We Bring to an Estates Offer

A written comparison of your target home against the recent Estates closings, read against final list price, days on market, living area and year built; the value of the homesite on its own, from the qualified vacant-lot sales of 2020 to 2022; the full one-time and annual club cost for the category deeded to that address; the flood position of the exact lot, including whether FEMA has issued a letter for it; the permit and roof history of the house; the approval letters behind every exterior change; and a contract calendar built around the club’s seven-day rule and the estoppel clock.

What Is The Estates Market Like for Buyers Right Now?

The Estates at TwinEagles market for buyers is thin, slow and negotiable: three MLS closings in the twelve months to September 24, 2026, at $2,425,000 to $3,150,000, and one active listing asking $3,897,000 after 290 days. Over 60 months the median closing was $2,600,000 on 11 sales, and marketed homes closed at a median 90.00 percent of final list.

Data updated: September 2026 (Southwest Florida MLS, TwinEagles development allocated by street to the six Estates streets, pulled 24 Sep 2026)

The 60-month window is the first one with at least ten Estates closings: the 12, 24 and 36-month windows hold 3, 4 and 4, which is why this page leads with 60 months for a median and lists every sale. The 9 homes marketed on the MLS in that window sold after a median 32 days on market at a median 90.00 percent of final list price, and 3 of the 9 closed at or above list, all three in the autumn of 2021. The median sale price per square foot of MLS living area is $570.84, the mean of the middle pair ($568.22 and $573.46) across the 10 sales that carry a living area, and total volume is $28,969,680.

Every Estates MLS Closing in the Last 60 Months

Source: Southwest Florida MLS, 60 months (September 25, 2021 to September 24, 2026), pulled September 24, 2026; homes assigned to The Estates by street. With 11 sales, an odd count, the $2,600,000 median is an observed sale, the January 2023 closing on Golden Eagle Court. Days on market and sale to list leave out the two non-MLS sales, whose list price equals the sale price by construction.

The Last Twelve Months

Three Estates homes closed in the twelve months to September 24, 2026, too few for a meaningful median, so here they are: $2,425,000 on Five Oaks Lane in January 2026 after 32 days, a 3,500-square-foot home that closed at 89.81 percent of its final list; $3,100,000 on Talon Drive in July 2026, a non-MLS sale entered after closing; and $3,150,000 on Peregrine Court in September 2026 after 267 days, at 90.00 percent of list. The two marketed sales both closed about ten percent below their final asking price, and the per-square-foot figures ran from $463.52 to $692.86 of MLS living area, a spread that tells you how much of an Estates price is land, age and size rather than a neighborhood rate.

Those three are 3 of the 50 TwinEagles closings the MLS counted in the same twelve months, 6 percent of the community’s sales from 63 of its 717 homes, about 9 percent. The Estates trades a little below its share of the gate, which is what a neighborhood of long-held, largely homesteaded homes looks like.

What Is for Sale Right Now

On September 24, 2026 the MLS showed one active Estates listing: a five-bedroom home of 3,825 square feet of MLS living area on Five Oaks Lane, asking $3,897,000 after 290 days on market. Pending sales were not part of that pull. The ask sits $647,000, about 20 percent, above the highest Estates closing of the last five years, $3,250,000 in January 2025, and $747,000, about 24 percent, above the September 2026 sale at $3,150,000, by our arithmetic from the MLS rows.

One listing against three closings a year is about four months of supply by our arithmetic from the two MLS counts. In a neighborhood this small that number moves with a single listing, so read it as direction: today’s Estates buyer is not competing for a crowded shelf, and today’s asking price is testing a level the neighborhood has not reached. Listings change weekly, so this page publishes the shape of the inventory rather than an address to chase.

The 2021 Rush and the Long Waits Since

The clearest negotiation evidence in The Estates is the difference between 2021 and everything after. The four marketed Estates sales from October to December 2021 spent 7 to 30 days on market and closed at 94.24 to 100.65 percent of final list, three of them at or above it. Every marketed Estates sale since has closed at or below 90.00 percent of list: 89.39 percent after 165 days in March 2022, 89.81 percent after 95 days in January 2023, 87.86 percent after 63 days in January 2025, 89.81 percent after 32 days in January 2026 and 90.00 percent after 267 days in September 2026.

For a buyer, that history says two things. Estates sellers have been listing well above where the market settles, six of the nine marketed sales in five years closed below 95 percent of list, and prices have still risen: the two highest MLS closings, $3,250,000 and $3,150,000, are both from 2025 and 2026. Our job is to tell you whether the house you want is priced at the level the market has paid, or at the level the next seller hopes for.

The County Deed Record Beside the MLS

Collier County’s recorded deeds tell the same story from a different system. The county file holds 7 qualified Estates home sales from September 2021 to June 2026, from $1,725,000 to $3,250,000, a median of $2,355,000 and a median of $549.22 per square foot of county building area, with $17,310,200 in recorded volume. The last 12 months on the county file hold one sale, $3,100,000 on Talon Drive, and the last 24 months two, $3,250,000 and $3,100,000 (Collier County recorded deeds, windows ending September 24, 2026, newest recorded sale June 30, 2026).

Eleven MLS closings on 63 homes in five years is roughly 3.5 percent of the homes a year, about two sales a year. That is the pace an Estates buyer has to plan around: the right street may not come up this season.

Ready to Buy in The Estates? Talk to Us Before You Tour

McGreevy and Comisar are Top 1% Real Estate Agents Nationally Since 2008. With three Estates closings in twelve months and one home on the market, the buyer who wins the right house is the one already financed, already clear on the club cost for that home’s category, already holding the elevation certificate for the lot and already aware of what the Estates guidelines let them change. Start with how we represent buyers in Naples or call Marc at (239) 287-5873. Selling a home to buy here? Get a free Estates home valuation or Call Jesse direct at (239) 898-6072.

What Does an Estates Home Cost, and What Do You Get?

An Estates at TwinEagles home has recently cost $2,425,000 to $3,150,000 on the MLS, and $1,725,000 to $3,250,000 over 60 months, for a custom home of about 4,400 square feet of living area on one of the largest homesites in TwinEagles, built anywhere from 1999 to 2024, a short drive from the Immokalee Road gate.

Data updated: September 2026 (Southwest Florida MLS, pulled 24 Sep 2026; Collier County 2026 preliminary roll and recorded deeds, newest recorded sale 30 Jun 2026)

The deeded club category sits on top of every price below and is not in any of them, because the initiation fee is paid to the club, not to the seller. A buyer comparing a $2,600,000 Social-deeded Estates home with the same house deeded Golf is really comparing $2,648,500 with $2,753,500 once the one-time club costs are added, by our arithmetic from the club’s posted fees.

The Homes on the County Roll

Source: Collier County 2026 preliminary roll; Southwest Florida MLS; Design Review Guidelines, The Estates at TwinEagles. The county’s building-area field counts more than air-conditioned space, so it runs larger than MLS living area; the 3,500-square-foot minimum is measured under air.

The Six Enclaves Side by Side

Source: Collier County 2026 preliminary roll; developer site plan for the enclave names (archived TwinEagles site plan); driving distances routed on OpenStreetMap data (OSRM), off-peak, from a point on each street to the Immokalee Road entrance and to the clubhouse at 11725 TwinEagles Boulevard, approximate. Medians ending in .5 are the mean of the middle pair. Strathmore and Inverness have the newest median year built because five and four of their homes, respectively, carry a year built of 2020 or later; Thornhill has the largest homes; Lochlomond is closest to the gate and holds two of the three vacant lots.

Builders and Custom Plans

The Estates has no builder of record: each owner hired one, designed a house for the lot and took it through architectural review. The names in the public record are Arthur Rutenberg Homes, whose “Tuscany” model in Inverness measured 4,539 square feet in 2008, Divco Custom Homes, Stock Signature Homes, and Frey and Son Homes, which showed a 3,831-square-foot “Grand Francesca” model at TwinEagles in 2006; county permits since 2024 add London Bay Construction, holder of a $600,000 building permit on Talon Drive issued September 19, 2024. In 2016 the developer marketed its last Sterling Hill and Inverness homesites as “Legacy estate neighborhoods at the front of the community,” built by “A.R.B.C. Arthur Rutenberg Homes, Divco Custom Homes and Stock Signature Homes” (Naples Daily News, April 17, 2016).

For a buyer that means there are no repeat floor plans to price against. Two Estates homes of the same size can differ by decades of construction, by the quality of the custom build and by what the lot backs to, which is why we compare an Estates home to the land under it as well as to the other houses.

The Homesite Is Half the Price

The Estates homesites are the largest in TwinEagles. The developer described its last six Sterling Hill and Inverness sites in 2016 as ranging “from nearly an acre to nearly two acres” and “priced from $632,500 to $775,000”; the county roll we use does not carry a lot area for each Estates parcel, so the survey for the specific lot is the only reliable measure. What the county does carry is the price of land, from the qualified sales of vacant Estates homesites:

Source: Collier County recorded deeds, every year since 2001 with a qualified sale coded vacant at sale; single-sale years are one data point, not a market, and the 2007 and 2008 sales came as the Bonita Bay Group years wound down. The master association’s history records that the final remaining lots in the estate section sold in the first three months of 2022 (TwinEagles HOA Community FAQs and history). With homesites at $705,000 and $730,000 in 2022 and finished homes at $2,425,000 to $3,250,000 since 2025, a buyer of an older Estates home is often paying for the land and pricing what it would cost to renovate or rebuild on it.

Rebuilds and Teardowns

Eighteen of the 63 Estates homes carry a county year built of 2020 or later, although the last platted lots sold only in 2022. Several of those parcels show a finished-home sale years before their current year built: a lot on Aerie Lane that sold for $2,240,000 in 2010 now shows a 2024 home, and a Bald Eagle Way parcel that sold for $3,280,000 in 2006 now shows 2022. That is the pattern of teardown and rebuild, or of reconstruction large enough to reset the county’s year built; the county file does not say which. For a buyer it means two things: an older Estates home on a good lot has a real alternative use, and a new Estates home next door can change the view and the comparable set of the one you are buying.

Price per Square Foot, and Which Denominator

An Estates buyer will see two price-per-foot figures and should use only one at a time. On the MLS, the 60-month median is $570.84 per square foot of living area, and the three closings of the last twelve months ran from $463.52 to $692.86. On the county’s deeds, the 60-month median is $549.22 per square foot of the roll’s building area. Because the two denominators measure different things, we never set one against the other; and in The Estates even the MLS figure is a weak guide, because so much of the price is land. The highest per-foot Estates closing of the last five years, $721.90 in January 2025, was a 4,502-square-foot home built in 2022; the lowest, $408.64 in March 2022, was a 7,219-square-foot home. We price your offer on the house, the lot and the age together.

What Does It Cost to Join The TwinEagles Club When You Buy in The Estates?

Joining The TwinEagles Club costs an Estates at TwinEagles buyer the initiation fee for the category deeded to that home, posted in September 2026 at $150,000 for Golf, $60,000 for Sports and $45,000 for Social, plus a $3,500 transfer fee: $153,500, $63,500 or $48,500 in one-time club costs, paid on top of the price.

Data updated: September 2026 (The TwinEagles Club membership page, read Sep 2026; 2024 Membership Agreement; Initiation Fee Policy, revised 20 Oct 2023; FY2022 Dues and Fees)

The one-time totals are our arithmetic from the club’s membership page and its 2024 Membership Agreement. The club posts no effective date for the current fees, so we request the current Initiation Fee Policy with your contract and confirm the figure on the club estoppel for the specific home.

Three Categories, Deeded to the House

The TwinEagles Club sells no membership apart from the houses. Each Estates home carries one category, and the category runs with the property rather than with the owner, so a buyer inherits the category recorded for that address: “Membership is mandatory for all 717 Homeowners.” The recorded Golf and Sports Declaration of Recreational Covenant provides that a Golf or Sports membership subject to it transfers with title, subject to the club’s reasonable approval of the purchaser and payment of the transfer fees, that the club must act within 30 days of a complete application, and that seller and buyer are jointly responsible to the club for dues incurred before the sale.

No public document lists the category for each Estates home, so the only reliable answer for an address is the club estoppel for that house. Many Estates homesites face the Talon, and buyers here usually ask about Golf first; the deeded category is one of the largest price variables on any Estates listing.

What each category allowed on the last public privileges schedule (fiscal 2022 Dues and Fees):

Privileges are set each fiscal year, and the 2022 schedule is the newest one posted publicly, so we confirm the current privileges for the category on the home you are buying.

The Initiation Fee, Category by Category

The club’s Initiation Fee Policy sets the three fees in a fixed 10 to 4 to 3 ratio, requires at least 120 days’ notice of any increase, says the fee “must be paid to the Club at the closing of the home sale” and “is to be used for Club Capital expenditures.” It charges nothing to a member moving to another TwinEagles home in the same or a lower category within a year, charges the difference when a member moves up, and exempts gratuitous transfers to a spouse or surviving spouse, transfers under a divorce decree, bona fide estate-planning transfers to family members or trusts, and club foreclosures. For an Estates buyer the practical difference between a Golf home and a Social home is $105,000 in initiation alone, before a single year of dues; on the $2,600,000 60-month median price, the Golf initiation is about 5.8 percent of the price and the Social one-time cost about 1.9 percent.

How the Initiation Fee Has Risen

The Golf fee has risen fivefold in about five years. The Estates buyers of the autumn 2021 rush closed while the Golf fee stood at its first level, $30,000; today’s buyer pays $150,000 for the same Golf category. The fee goes to the club, not to the seller, so it is not a figure the seller can discount, although it belongs in how you price the house; and when you later sell, your buyer will weigh whatever the fee is then.

The $3,500 Transfer Fee and the Seven-Day Rule

The club’s 2024 Membership Agreement sets a $3,500 transfer fee, paid with the agreement, and states that the signed agreement “must be received by the Club SEVEN (7) DAYS PRIOR to the closing.” Membership “is contingent upon approval by the Club,” the application authorizes credit and law-enforcement record checks, both spouses sign, membership disputes go to binding arbitration, and if the club does not approve the applicant, the transfer fee is refunded.

Moving Up a Category, and the 614 Cap

Golf is capped at 614 memberships across the 717 TwinEagles homes, and the club states that “Resident Golf Memberships are immediately available with homes deeded Golf,” so the buyer of a Golf-deeded Estates home does not wait for a slot. Moving a Sports or Social home up to Golf is a different matter. The recorded covenant makes an upgrade to Golf subject to availability, and the Initiation Fee Policy charges the difference in fees when a member moves up, but no public club document says how upgrades are handled once all 614 Golf memberships are taken. That sits in the club’s Membership Plan and bylaws, which are not posted publicly; a buyer receives them in the membership package. If golf on the Talon behind your house matters to you, buy an Estates home already deeded Golf.

Refunds, Equity and What Member-Owned Means

The TwinEagles Club is private and member-owned, a tax-exempt social club with a fiscal year that runs November 1 to October 31 (IRS filings via ProPublica). The developer signed a turnover agreement with the club on November 16, 2018, and members approved the transfer in January 2019, 97.5 percent in favor according to trade-press reports (The Golf Wire). None of the club’s public documents describes a refund of the initiation fee when a member sells; the only refund the Membership Agreement names is of the transfer fee if the club does not approve the applicant. Budget the initiation fee as a cost rather than a deposit, and read the Membership Plan and bylaws in the membership package before you rely on any other answer.

For the fiscal year ending October 31, 2024, the club reported $18.18 million in revenue, with $10.21 million in member dues and $3.48 million in initiation fees, $39.18 million in net assets, and about $23.3 million outstanding on the loan that financed the $22.5 million Phase One program (FY2024 Form 990 via ProPublica). Those are club-wide figures, not a per-member dues rate, and we do not divide them to invent one.

What Are the Steps to Buy a Home in The Estates?

Buying a home in The Estates at TwinEagles runs in eight steps: confirm the deeded club category, choose the street and the lot, check the lot’s flood record, read the Estates guidelines against your plans, price the full fee stack, write the offer on the right calendar, order both estoppels and clear club approval, then close with the Membership Agreement already at the club.

Data updated: September 2026 (The TwinEagles Club 2024 Membership Agreement and estoppel requirements by street; TwinEagles HOA 2024 Use Restrictions; Estates Design Review Guidelines, 15 Feb 2023; Florida Statutes, current text)

The order matters because three of those steps run on outside clocks: the club’s seven-day rule for the Membership Agreement, the club’s 30-day window to act on a complete application under the recorded covenant, and the ten business day statutory clock on the master association’s estoppel certificate under Section 720.30851 of the Florida Statutes. Put all three in the contract at the start and none of them will push your closing date.

Step 1: Confirm the Deeded Category Before You Fall for the House

We ask the listing agent which category, Golf, Sports or Social, is deeded to the home before the first showing, and confirm it on the club estoppel once you are under contract. The category decides a one-time club cost of $153,500, $63,500 or $48,500 at the September 2026 fees, and whether you can play the Talon on the day you close. A Social-deeded Estates home is not a Golf home at a discount; whether it can move up while the 614 Golf memberships are taken is not stated in any public club document.

Step 2: Choose the Street and the Lot

Decide which of the six streets fits how you live. Five Oaks Lane and Talon Drive sit closest to the gate, at about 0.5 and 0.7 miles; Bald Eagle Way sits about a quarter mile from the clubhouse and 1.5 miles from the gate; Golden Eagle Court, Peregrine Court and Aerie Lane fall between. Then decide what the lot should back to: a Talon fairway, a lake or preserve. The street decides your comparable set and the age mix around you; the lot decides the view, the privacy, the setbacks behind the house and often the flood paperwork.

Step 3: Check the Flood Record for the Lot, Not the Street

Before touring, look up the address on FEMA’s Map Service Center and check FEMA’s letters of map change layer for a letter naming the lot. Ask the seller for the elevation certificate, or check Collier County’s elevation certificates layer. Every Estates street point reads Zone X, but part of a lot can still map as Zone AH, and the certificate, not the street, is what an insurer and a lender read.

Step 4: Read the Estates Guidelines Against Your Plans

If you plan to add a pool, an addition, a summer kitchen, a generator or solar, or to rebuild, read the Estates Design Review Guidelines against the survey before you go firm: 50-foot front and 30-foot side setbacks, rear setbacks of 30 feet on golf and 20 feet on a lake for the house, tile roofs only, a side-entry garage, no fences and a two-foot fill limit. In The Estates the rules shape what the house can become, so they belong in the offer, not in the first month of ownership.

Step 5: Price the Full Fee Stack

Put four documents side by side: the club’s membership page for the initiation fee, the club estoppel or the last public dues schedule for annual dues and the Phase One balance, the master association’s 2024 Approved Budget for the enclave’s assessment, and the seller’s latest tax bill. Add your own landscaping contract, which on an Estates homesite held to ten shade trees and native hedgerows is a real line, and the irrigation bill.

Step 6: Write the Offer With the Right Calendar

Write the inspection period long enough to receive the club estoppel, the master estoppel, the elevation certificate, any FEMA letter, the permit history, the design approvals and the wind mitigation report. Write the closing date so the signed Membership Agreement and the $3,500 transfer fee reach the club at least seven days before it, and so the club’s approval can land inside its 30-day window. Price the offer against the Estates record, the land value and the home’s own listing history rather than against the asking price alone.

Step 7: Order Both Estoppels and Clear Club Approval

Every Estates sale needs an estoppel from the club and one from the master association, and nothing more: all six Estates streets are on the club’s list of addresses that need only those two, per the estoppel requirements by street, because there is no neighborhood association. By Collier County practice the seller orders and pays for them. In parallel, submit the club’s Membership Agreement with both spouses’ signatures and the transfer fee, complete the master association’s online buyer screening through its application process, and order a general inspection, a wind mitigation inspection on Florida form OIR-B1-1802 and a roof inspection or certification on any home with an older roof.

Step 8: Close With the Club Already Approved

With the club’s approval in hand and the Membership Agreement at the club at least seven days ahead, the closing statement carries the initiation and transfer fees as buyer charges, the prorated club dues and master assessment, and the remaining Phase One capital assessment that transfers to you. Bind flood coverage early if the lender requires it, because a new National Flood Insurance Program policy typically carries a 30-day waiting period unless it is bought in connection with a loan. We confirm with your title agent that every estoppel figure and the club’s approval are in the closing file before the day.

What Will You Pay Each Year to Own an Estates Home?

An Estates at TwinEagles owner pays annual club dues for the deeded category, the Phase One capital assessment, the master assessment, $5,559.42 to $5,586.19 in the 2024 budget, an irrigation bill, Collier County taxes and their own landscaping. There is no neighborhood assessment and no CDD. The last public figures put Full Golf dues at about $18,328 a year before tax.

Data updated: September 2026 (The TwinEagles Club FY2022 Dues and Fees, the last public schedule; TwinEagles HOA 2024 Approved Budget; Collier County Tax Collector, 2025 bills; Resource Conservation Systems 2026 tariff)

A buyer should know up front which of these figures are current and which are the last public ones. The club has not posted a dues schedule since fiscal 2022, and the master association’s 2025 and 2026 budgets sit behind its owner portal. The estoppels for a specific home state the current figures, and they arrive during your inspection period, not before your offer, which is why we model the fee stack on the last public figures first and replace them as soon as the estoppels land.

Annual Club Dues, Fiscal 2022

Source: FY2022 Dues and Fees; the annual totals are our arithmetic on those lines. Current dues are set each fiscal year and appear on the club’s estoppel for a specific home, and the initiation fee has risen 2.3 times since that schedule, so expect current dues to differ.

The Phase One Capital Assessment You Take Over

In June 2020 members approved a $22.5 million Phase One Master Plan, a Talon renovation and a new and expanded clubhouse, funded through a 12-year capital assessment that began in September 2020 (Phase One Master Plan). The fiscal 2022 schedule set it at $244 a month for Golf, $98 for Sports and $73 for Social, and when a home sells, “the buyer will be responsible for all remaining monthly payments.”

By our arithmetic, 144 monthly payments from September 2020 run through August 2032, so 71 remain after the September 2026 payment. As an illustration at the fiscal 2022 Golf rate, 71 remaining payments of $244 come to $17,324, at the Sports rate about $7,000 and at the Social rate about $5,200. Those are illustrations on the last public rate, not balances; the club estoppel states the current monthly amount and the remaining term, and that is the number that belongs in your offer.

One more point matters only to Estates buyers. The Estates’ recorded plat is named TwinEagles Phase One, and the club’s capital program is also called Phase One. The two share a name and nothing else: an Estates owner pays the club’s Phase One assessment because of the club membership, exactly as an owner anywhere else in TwinEagles does, not because of the plat.

The Master Association Assessment by Enclave

Source: TwinEagles HOA Approved 2024 Budget, adopted November 8, 2023. The 66 Estates units together carried $367,885.30, about 13.5 percent of the master budget. The Estates lines are the highest in TwinEagles; the same budget billed Hedgestone $5,017.84, Lake Estates $4,895.73 and Covent Garden $3,300.46 per unit. The assessment is billed once a year, due January 1, and pays for the gate and security contract, private roads, lakes and lake banks, preserves, common landscaping, street lights and reserves; it does not pay for the club. The 2025 and 2026 budgets are not public, so the master estoppel is where the current figure comes from.

No Neighborhood Assessment, and Your Own Landscaping

Seven TwinEagles neighborhoods add a quarterly neighborhood or condominium assessment, and two more pay a separate landscaping assessment through the master association. The Estates does neither. The master association’s newsletter explains why: “Since homeowners on Hedgestone (with Maidstone), Lake Estates, and the Estates handle landscaping individually, they do not have separate Neighborhood HOAs” (February 2024 newsletter). The trade is a landscape and irrigation contract of your own, held to the Estates standard: at least ten shade trees of 15 feet or more on every homesite, multi-layered native hedgerows between homesites, St. Augustine or Zoysia lawn only, and the owner’s own care of the strip between the property line and the street. No public figure prices that contract, so we ask the seller for the current one.

Irrigation Water Is a Separate Bill

Irrigation water in The Estates is a separate monthly bill from Resource Conservation Systems, a private non-potable irrigation utility, and the Estates guidelines require every lot to connect to the non-potable system. Its 2026 tariff sets base charges by lot class plus $1.56 per 1,000 gallons; its “Large Estate” class, lots of 35,000 square feet or more, carries a base rate of $47.57 a month. Most Estates homesites appear to fall in that class, but the class for a specific lot is on its utility account, so we ask the seller for recent bills.

No Community Development District

TwinEagles has no community development district. The three 2025 Collier County tax bills we checked across TwinEagles, one of them on an Estates property, each carry exactly one non-ad-valorem line, the $261.91 county garbage assessment, and the state’s Official List of Special Districts names no TwinEagles district. There is no district bond line on an Estates tax bill.

A Floor for the Annual Cost, Built From the Last Public Figures

Add the last public club dues, the 2024 master assessment and the 2025 county garbage charge, and the recurring cost of an Estates home before property tax, insurance, landscaping and irrigation looks like this:

These are our arithmetic on published figures from three different years, and they are a floor rather than a bill: the club figure predates two initiation increases and excludes the 7 percent sales tax on operating dues, the master figure is two budgets old, and landscaping, irrigation, cart and dining costs are not in them. The estoppels replace every column with the current figure for the specific home.

Special Assessments

The club’s one major special charge is the Phase One capital assessment above, and the club’s federal filing states that its bylaws require a member vote on any special capital assessment over $500,000 (Form 990 via ProPublica). The master association funded its multi-phase lake-bank restoration, scheduled into 2027 and 2028, without a special assessment (HOA lake-bank update, June 2026), and it has said its entry landscape project is fully funded (landscape project notice). That is a statement about the record, not a guarantee; the estoppels are where a pending or approved special assessment has to be disclosed.

Which Documents Should an Estates Buyer Request Before Going Firm?

An Estates at TwinEagles buyer should hold ten documents before going firm: the club estoppel, the master association estoppel, the 2024 Membership Agreement, the Initiation Fee Policy, the Use Restrictions, the Estates design guidelines with the seller’s approval letters, the survey, the seller’s tax bill, the elevation certificate with any FEMA letter, and a wind mitigation report.

Data updated: September 2026 (The TwinEagles Club published documents; TwinEagles HOA public documents; FEMA National Flood Hazard Layer; Collier County elevation certificates layer)

Many of those documents are public. The club posts its Membership Agreement, Initiation Fee Policy, last dues schedule and estoppel rules; the master association posts its 2024 budget, Use Restrictions, the Estates guidelines and the recorded club covenants; Collier County holds elevation certificates filed with building permits; and FEMA holds the letters. The documents that come only through the transaction are the estoppels, the seller’s disclosures, the survey, the design approval letters and the club’s Membership Plan and bylaws.

The Checklist, In Order

How Do You Check Flood Zone and Elevation for an Estates Address?

Check an Estates at TwinEagles address in three steps: read its zone on FEMA panels 12021C0217H and 12021C0219H, effective May 16, 2012, where all six Estates street points read Zone X; look for a FEMA letter naming the lot, as one November 2024 letter on Golden Eagle Court does; and pull the elevation certificate, where the two newest list Zone AH at 15.5 feet.

Data updated: September 2026 (FEMA National Flood Hazard Layer, effective and preliminary, and letters of map change, queried 24 Sep 2026; Collier County elevation certificates layer; USGS 3D Elevation Program)

The Estates reads better on the flood map than most of TwinEagles, and that is exactly where buyers get careless. The map is drawn over land; much of the golf, lake and preserve land around the Estates streets maps as shallow-ponding Zone AH, and a large Estates lot can reach from a Zone X street into it. A street point is not a house pad, so this page reports street results and never states a zone for any one home.

Street Points on All Six Streets

Sources: FEMA National Flood Hazard Layer (effective panels 12021C0217H and 12021C0219H, May 16, 2012) and the preliminary flood hazard layer (panels 0217J and 0219J, March 20, 2025), with ground read on the USGS elevation service, queried September 24, 2026; elevations in feet NAVD88. Each point is on the street centerline, not on a house pad, and within 30 meters of the Five Oaks Lane and Aerie Lane points the map also shows AE or AH land. Each row summarizes a street point, never a statement about any house on that street.

What Zone X at the Street Does and Does Not Mean

Zone X on the effective map means the street point sits outside FEMA’s Special Flood Hazard Area, the land expected to flood in a 1 percent annual-chance event. It does not mean every Estates lot is outside it. Zone AH, the shallow-ponding designation that covers much of the golf and lake land in TwinEagles, is part of the Special Flood Hazard Area, and a home in it with a federally backed mortgage must carry flood insurance; a home whose structure has been removed from it by a FEMA letter is no longer under the federal requirement, though a lender may still require coverage (FEMA, LOMA and LOMR-F process). A Talon fairway or a lake behind the house and a flood question often arrive together, even on a Zone X street.

What the Elevation Certificates Show

Collier County posts FEMA elevation certificates filed with building permits (elevation certificates layer). On the ten Estates certificates read for our neighborhood guide, the legible first-floor elevations run from 17.4 to 19.6 feet. The two most recent, signed in February and August 2024, list Zone AH with a base flood elevation of 15.5 feet and first floors at 18.0 and 18.8 feet, 2.5 and 3.3 feet above it. The Estates guidelines explain how new homes reach that height: fill is limited to two feet above the roadway in front of the homesite, and a stem wall is required when the finished floor sits more than 18 inches above the street centerline. The certificate, not the street, is the number an insurer rates.

The FEMA Letter on Golden Eagle Court

FEMA issued a Letter of Map Revision based on Fill in November 2024 for a new home on Golden Eagle Court, reading “structure removed, property partially inundated”: the house is out of the high-risk area while part of the lot is still in it (FEMA letters of map change layer). It is the only such letter on the Estates plat in FEMA’s database; the other TwinEagles letters sit on later sections of the community. On every Estates purchase we ask whether a letter exists for the lot and get a copy, because it can decide whether a lender requires flood insurance.

New Maps in 2027

FEMA released preliminary replacement panels on March 20, 2025, and all six Estates street points keep Zone X on them. Collier County opened the 90-day appeal period on August 19, 2026 and targets summer 2027 for the new maps to take effect, per the county’s August 2026 release. Letters issued under the old maps are revalidated, superseded or re-determined when a new map takes effect (FEMA revalidation guidance), so if you close after summer 2027 on a home with a letter, we check its status.

Evacuation Zone E and the Surge Record

All six Estates streets fall in Collier County evacuation Zone E on the Florida Division of Emergency Management’s Know Your Zone layer; confirm your address on the county evacuation lookup each season. On the state’s storm-surge zone layer, built from worst-case National Hurricane Center model runs, Five Oaks Lane, Aerie Lane and Peregrine Court fall in the Category 4 surge zone and Talon Drive, Bald Eagle Way and Golden Eagle Court in Category 5, with no modeled surge from a Category 1 to 3 hurricane. The Estates’ flood exposure is rain and ponding from the lakes and golf land, not the Gulf. We found no Estates-specific damage record for Hurricanes Irma, Ian, Helene or Milton in county permit files, association documents or regional news, which is a search result, not proof of absence; the seller’s disclosure and claims history are the record for a specific home.

Your Flood Checklist Before You Go Firm

1. Read the zone for the exact address on FEMA’s current map, not in the listing remarks.
2. Look at where the lot’s rear line sits against any AH land behind it.
3. Search FEMA’s letter layer for a letter naming the lot, and get a copy if one exists.
4. Obtain the elevation certificate from the seller or the county, and read the first-floor elevation against the base flood elevation it lists.
5. Get a flood quote on the certificate’s figures before your inspection period ends.
6. If the lender requires flood coverage, bind it early enough to clear any waiting period.

What Will It Cost to Insure an Estates Home?

Insuring an Estates at TwinEagles home is priced one house at a time, so this page publishes no premium. What moves the quote is known: roof age and material, the construction year on homes as old as 1999, wind mitigation features, the elevation certificate and any FEMA letter, and whether Citizens, which requires flood coverage on every wind policy from 2027, writes it.

Data updated: September 2026 (Citizens Property Insurance flood requirement and 2026 rates; FEMA Community Rating System list, 1 Apr 2026; Florida Building Commission effective dates; Collier County building permit reports, January 2024 to July 2026)

Two homes on the same Estates street can quote very differently, one built in 2001 and one in 2023, so below is what moves the number, with the rule or record behind each item, so you can gather the right documents before asking for quotes.

What Drives an Estates Homeowners Premium

• Roof age and condition. Under Section 627.7011 of the Florida Statutes, an insurer may not refuse to write or renew a homeowner’s policy solely because the roof is less than 15 years old, and for an older roof an inspection showing at least five years of useful life remaining bars refusal on roof age alone. The Estates guidelines allow only clay or concrete tile, so every reroof is a tile reroof; ask for the roof permit date.
• Wind mitigation features. Florida requires insurers to offer windstorm discounts for verified features documented on form OIR-B1-1802, which scores the roof covering, roof-deck and roof-to-wall attachment, roof shape, secondary water resistance and opening protection.
• Code era. Five Estates homes carry a county year built of 1999 to 2001, before Florida’s first statewide building code took effect on March 1, 2002; the current code maps place all of TwinEagles in the wind-borne debris region with a design wind speed of about 160 mph, read from the statewide contours published by UF GeoPlan.
• Flood rating. Under FEMA’s Risk Rating 2.0, flood premiums use each building’s own risk features rather than the zone alone, so a first floor several feet above the base flood elevation shows up in the price.
• The flood discount. Unincorporated Collier County holds Community Rating System Class 5, a 25 percent discount on eligible National Flood Insurance Program premiums, per FEMA’s eligible-communities list effective April 1, 2026, and under Risk Rating 2.0 it applies inside or outside the high-risk zone. On a Zone X Estates home many owners carry a lower-cost flood policy by choice.

Citizens and the 2027 Flood Requirement

Citizens Property Insurance, the state-backed insurer, requires flood insurance on wind-covered personal residential policies on a schedule by dwelling value, reaching every such policy from January 1, 2027, and homes in the high-risk zone must carry flood regardless of value, per the Citizens flood page. Estates homes trade well above the earlier value thresholds, so an Estates house insured with Citizens has likely needed flood coverage already. Citizens’ approved 2026 homeowners multiperil rates fell 8.8 percent on average statewide for new business and renewals from July 1, 2026, per Citizens.

Which Building Code Each Era Was Built Under

Source: Collier County 2026 preliminary roll and the Florida Building Commission’s effective-date schedule. A home is governed by the code in force when its permit was issued, which can be a year or more before the year the county records as built, so treat this as a starting point, not a per-house answer.

What the Permit File Shows

Collier County’s monthly issued-permit files for January 2024 through July 2026 show 51 permit records on the six Estates streets, 7 of them plan revisions, and no new-home permit (Collier County monthly building permit reports). The largest was a $600,000 building permit on Talon Drive in September 2024. There were two reroofs, both in November 2025, the larger $180,999 on Peregrine Court; three pool permits up to $80,000; four screen-enclosure permits up to $104,300; seven electrical permits, mostly standby generators; three shutter, door and window permits up to $30,488; and fifteen mechanical permits, mostly air conditioning. No storm-repair permit appears on any Estates street after Hurricane Milton. For a buyer the point is plain: five homes predate 2002 and only two Estates homes pulled a reroof permit in 31 months, so on an older home we look for a reroof, a roof certification and opening-protection permits, closed out with final inspections.

Shutters, Generators and What the Association Approves

Adding or upgrading storm shutters, impact windows, solar or a standby generator at an Estates home requires architectural approval, per the association’s ARC application, revised February 16, 2024. The Estates guidelines add their own standard: a whole-house generator must be “completely screened from view” from the street, the rear and the neighbors by a dense hedge of at least 7-gallon plants that hides it within three months, with the county permit filed with the association; solar is allowed with approval, preferably on a rear or side roof with dark panels and painted conduit. The state’s My Safe Florida Home grants reach only homesteaded homes built before January 1, 2008 with an insured value of $700,000 or less, a value limit few Estates homes are likely to meet.

How Much Will Property Taxes Be After You Buy in The Estates?

Property taxes on an Estates at TwinEagles home ran at 12.2558 mills of taxable value on 2025 bills, plus the $261.91 county garbage charge and no CDD. As an illustration at the $2,600,000 60-month median price with no exemption, that is about $31,865 in ad valorem tax, and your bill resets to your purchase the year after you buy.

Data updated: September 2026 (Collier County Tax Collector, 2025 bills; Collier County tax roll, 2026 preliminary; Florida Statutes 193.155; Florida Department of Revenue)

The Millage, From the Bill Itself

The 2025 ad valorem rate on the TwinEagles bills we checked was 12.2558 mills, or $12.2558 per $1,000 of taxable value, of which 3.75 mills is the North Collier Fire Control and Rescue District, per the Collier County Tax Collector. At that rate each $1,000,000 of taxable value costs about $12,255.80 a year. The county garbage charge, $261.91 on the 2025 bills, rides on the same bill as the only non-ad-valorem line. Of the three 2025 TwinEagles bills we checked, the highest, about $29,104, was on an Estates property.

The Illustration, Stated Carefully

The Estates 60-month median sale of $2,600,000 at 12.2558 mills with no exemption is about $31,865 a year before the garbage line, or about $32,127 with it; at the $3,150,000 September 2026 sale the same arithmetic gives about $38,606 before the garbage line. That is an illustration of the mechanism, not a quote for any home: the Property Appraiser’s assessed value after your purchase, not your price, is what the millage is applied to, and the millage itself is set each year.

Why Your Bill Will Not Look Like the Seller’s

Florida’s Save Our Homes rule, Section 193.155 of the Florida Statutes, caps the annual rise in a homesteaded home’s assessed value at 3 percent or the change in the Consumer Price Index, whichever is lower. In The Estates, where 68 percent of homes are homesteaded and many owners have held for years, a seller may be taxed on an assessed value far below today’s market. When you buy, that cap resets: the home is reassessed as of the next January 1, and your first full bill reflects it. The seller must give you a property tax disclosure summary warning you not to rely on the seller’s taxes, under Section 689.261.

Homestead, If You Will Live Here

If the Estates home will be your permanent Florida residence, file for the homestead exemption with the Collier County Property Appraiser by March 1 of the year after you take title. The exemption removes up to $50,000 of assessed value from taxation, with the second $25,000 not applying to school levies, and it starts the Save Our Homes cap on your own assessment, per the Florida Department of Revenue’s exemption guide. On the 2026 preliminary roll, 43 of the 63 Estates homes carried a homestead exemption; a seasonal owner does not qualify and is taxed on full value from the first year.

Which Rules Decide Whether an Estates Home Works for You?

The rules that most often decide an Estates at TwinEagles purchase are the Estates design guidelines (3,500 square feet under air, tile roofs, side-entry garages, no fences, 50-foot front and 30-foot side setbacks), architectural review before any exterior change, leasing (three leases a year, 30 days minimum), vehicles garaged, and the shutter calendar.

Data updated: September 2026 (Design Review Guidelines, The Estates at TwinEagles, approved 15 Feb 2023; TwinEagles HOA Approved Use Restrictions, 2024; Rules and Regulations; HOA ARC application, revised 16 Feb 2024)

Everything in this section comes from the master association’s recorded 2024 Use Restrictions, its Rules and Regulations and the 53-page Design Review Guidelines for The Estates at TwinEagles, approved February 15, 2023, which replaced the May 31, 2018 version. The rest of TwinEagles builds under separate Grand Arbors guidelines, so an Estates buyer should read this document, not a neighbor’s. The Estates guidelines supersede neighborhood documents unless those are more restrictive, and where they conflict with the recorded Declaration, the Declaration controls.

Minimum Size, Style and Materials

“All dwellings within The Estates (Phase One of TwinEagles) shall contain a minimum of 3,500 (thirty-five hundred) square feet of enclosed living area under air.” No single architectural style is required, but the guidelines call for “naturalistic and earth tone colors” from the association’s approved color list, with “no pure whites, pastels or primary colors,” stucco in a rough or sand finish, stone laid in a rough ashlar pattern, light brick only as an accent, and equal detail on all four sides. “Vinyl, wood, metal or lap siding is prohibited,” and factory-built modular or mobile homes are not allowed. For a buyer planning to repaint or reclad, the palette and the materials list are not suggestions.

Roofs

Tile only: clay or concrete barrel, flat or S tile, at a 6-in-12 minimum pitch, in warm earth tones. “Asphalt or fiberglass roof shingles and metal roofs are prohibited,” flat roofs are not allowed as a major element, and copper or other metals weathered to a patina may be used only as accents. A reroof on a 2001 Estates home stays in tile, and any change of roof material or color needs approval, which is worth knowing before you price a roof that is nearing the end of its life.

Garages, Driveways and Parking

“A minimum 2 (two)-car, side entry garage is required,” plus two uncovered parking spaces and a driveway turnaround; front-entry garages are prohibited where the lot allows side entry. Driveways must be pavers: “Gravel, porcelain, asphalt, plain concrete, or shell driveways are prohibited.” Electric-vehicle chargers go inside the garage. Combined with the master rule that keeps pickups, boats and trailers garaged, the garage count matters to any Estates buyer with a truck, a boat or a golf cart.

The Estates Setbacks

Source: Design Review Guidelines, The Estates at TwinEagles, Appendix E. With 30-foot sides, neighboring Estates homes stand at least 60 feet apart, which is most of what makes the neighborhood feel private. A buyer planning a pool, summer kitchen or addition should read these numbers against the survey before going firm, because a lot that backs to a Talon fairway keeps 10 more feet clear behind the house than one that backs to a lake.

Grade, Fill and the Height of a New Home

Fill is limited to “a maximum of 2’ (two feet) above the roadway elevation in front of the home site,” and stem walls are required when the finished floor sits more than 18 inches above the street centerline. Together with FEMA’s base flood elevations, those two rules set how high a rebuilt Estates home can sit, consistent with the two newest Estates elevation certificates, which show first floors 2.5 and 3.3 feet above the base flood elevation.

Fences, Walls and Dog Runs

“No fences or walls are allowed,” including perimeter and security fences. The exception is a dog run: black or bronze aluminum, wrought iron or vinyl-coated chain link, 4 feet tall, set back 3 feet and hidden with landscaping. “Underground electric dog signals are allowed,” so an invisible fence is the usual answer for a dog owner. Dog houses, tree houses, playhouses and metal sheds are prohibited, and burglar bars are not allowed. A buyer who needs a fenced yard should plan on a run, not a fence.

Pools, Lanais and Lake Lots

Pools go in the rear yard, integral to the house; above-ground pools are prohibited. Screen enclosures must be bronze or charcoal, follow the roof pitch and avoid “boxy forms,” and front screen enclosures are not permitted. Zero-edge pools are allowed only with a grading plan and no change to the lake bank. On a lake lot, roof drainage must be piped underground to the lake’s dry-season waterline at the owner’s cost, gutters run all around the house, and the owner sods to the water’s edge.

Landscaping and the Streetscape

Every homesite needs at least ten shade trees of 15 feet or more, “multi-layered, naturalistic hedge-rows, consisting predominantly of native species are required as buffers between home sites,” and Collier County separately requires one canopy tree per 3,000 square feet of pervious area, 75 percent native. The owner installs and maintains the strip between the property line and the pavement with sod and street trees. Lawns are St. Augustine or Zoysia only, fruit trees are prohibited and citrus is allowed only in side or rear yards. On a lot of close to an acre or more, that standard is a real annual cost, and it is yours.

Leasing

An Estates home may be leased no more than three times in any calendar year, for at least 30 consecutive days each time, in writing on the Board’s approved lease form, with every tenant screened through the association’s provider. Timesharing and fractional ownership are prohibited, and “the leasing of a Lot shall not be considered a business.” That rules out nightly and weekly vacation rentals; a buyer who plans to rent in season should model a single winter lease of a month or more. With 68 percent of Estates homes homesteaded, the neighborhood is overwhelmingly owner-occupied. A tenant’s use of the club follows the category deeded to the home and the club’s renter rules, and the fiscal 2022 schedule listed renter golf fees and a separate renter fee for Full Golf homes.

Vehicles, Boats and Golf Carts

Pickup trucks, commercial vehicles, recreational vehicles, boats and trailers may be kept only inside an enclosed garage, with a limited loading exception, and there is no street parking from 1 a.m. to 6 a.m. Personal golf carts are allowed on TwinEagles streets but not on the golf courses, must be garaged, and drivers must be 16 or older (HOA March 2024 newsletter); the speed limit inside TwinEagles is 25 mph. From Bald Eagle Way the clubhouse is an easy cart ride; from Five Oaks Lane it is about 1.8 miles.

Pets and Wildlife

The Use Restrictions allow “a reasonable number of dogs, cats, or other usual and common household pets,” leashed or confined outside the home, licensed and inoculated, with no breeding and no livestock, and a nuisance pet can be removed at the Board’s request. The Estates guidelines add that “no dogs, cats or other domestic animals are to be permitted to range freely within TwinEagles or any of the preserves.” That is practical as well as a rule: the master association documents deer, wild turkey, alligators, bobcats and Florida black bears inside the gate, and it relocated 42 deer under a state permit from November 2025 to January 2026 (TwinEagles deer relocation). An assistance animal is an accommodation under Section 760.27 of the Florida Statutes, not a pet.

Architectural Review, Step by Step

Every exterior change, from paint to a pool cage to a new house, needs written approval from the Architectural Review Committee before work starts. The committee meets twice a month and answers a complete application within 30 business days as “Approved,” “Approved With Conditions” or “Not Approved.” A new Estates home runs five steps, from submission of site, floor, elevation, roof, landscape and irrigation plans through construction reviews to a final review and a Certificate of Compliance, with a $3,000 review fee and a $3,000 construction deposit, and there are “no ‘automatic’ approvals,” even for a copy of an approved house. Modifications need contractor insurance of $1,000,000 each for general liability, auto and workers’ compensation; landscaping projects must finish within 45 days of approval, and major projects such as a roof, pool, addition or in-ground propane tank within six months. Violations can bring fines, a special assessment against the lot, removal of the work, and “a Notice of Violation may be recorded in the Collier County records.” For a buyer that means one thing before closing: ask for the seller’s approval letters for every exterior change (HOA architectural review page).

Hurricane Shutters

Rear and side hurricane shutters may go up in season, June 1 to November 30, but front shutters only once a National Hurricane Center forecast cone includes Naples within five days, and all shutters must come down within 14 days, under the association’s Rules and Regulations. For a seasonal owner who leaves in spring, that rule is the difference between a home closed for the summer on its rear and side openings and one that needs someone to put front shutters up and take them down, and it is one reason impact glass is the upgrade Estates buyers ask about first.

Showings, Signs, Trash and the Gate

Open houses run Saturday and Sunday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. only, and the gate admits visitors only to addresses on the open-house list pulled from the MLS each week (Quick Guide for Realtors). Private showings need an appointment and ID. The Estates guidelines allow one “For Sale” sign no larger than 24 by 18 inches in the front yard behind the sidewalk, never facing the golf course, and no information tubes. Trash and recycling go out on Tuesdays and trash again on Fridays, with bins kept in the garage and out no earlier than 6 a.m. on pickup day, and every Estates home has its own mailbox built to the association’s specification. For an Estates buyer the market lives on the MLS and on an agent’s gate list, not on yard signs.

An All-Ages Neighborhood

The Estates is not age-restricted. The master association’s recorded Use Restrictions and its Rules and Regulations contain no housing-for-older-persons language, and the club’s membership form lists children under 23 as family members. The Census block group that contains TwinEagles reports a median age of 66.2 in the 2020 to 2024 American Community Survey, but nothing in the recorded rules limits who may live on the six Estates streets, and Bear Creek Elementary sits about 0.9 miles from the gate.

What Does The TwinEagles Club Give an Estates Owner?

An Estates at TwinEagles owner joins a private club with the Nicklaus Talon, the course most Estates homesites face, and the Smyers Eagle, a clubhouse expanded in a project completed in 2023, two tennis courts, four pickleball courts, four bocce courts, a 2,500-square-foot pool and spa, fitness and three dining outlets, 0.3 to 1.8 miles away by road.

Data updated: September 2026 (The TwinEagles Club golf, club life and dining pages, read Sep 2026; club 2024 scorecards; Curran Young project page; OSRM routing on OpenStreetMap data, 24 Sep 2026)

Two Courses, and the Talon Out Back

Sources: Talon scorecard 2024; Eagle scorecard 2024; Nicklaus Design; Golf Course Architecture. The Talon is the Estates’ home course: the developer’s releases place the Sterling Hill and Inverness homesites along it, and it hosted the PGA TOUR Champions event now known as the Chubb Classic from 2002 to 2006 and 2012 to 2018, per Nicklaus Design. Talon Drive and Aerie Lane are Estates streets as well as course names: the courses are the Talon and the Eagle, and Aerie was the Eagle’s name before its 2012 rebuild. Both courses earned Audubon International Gold Signature Sanctuary certification in 2023 (club certification).

Tee Times and the Summer Rotation

With the Golf roster capped at 614, the club describes “roughly 300 Golf Memberships per course and 9-minute tee times” (club membership page). The club keeps one course open all summer by alternating maintenance closures (club reciprocals page), and Full Golf members use reciprocal golf at area clubs from May 1 to October 31.

Clubhouse, Pool, Racquets and Dining

The clubhouse was renovated and expanded in a member-approved project completed in 2023, and its construction manager lists the project at 71,376 square feet (Curran Young project page). Dining runs through the Grille Room and Terrace, the Midway Café and the Tiki by the pool (club dining page). The club describes a 2,500-square-foot resort-style pool and spa, a fitness center with a group-fitness studio and one spa suite, two Har-Tru clay tennis courts, four pickleball courts, four lighted synthetic bocce courts and the Himalayan, an 18-hole putting course beside the Midway Café (club life page). Two tennis courts is a small program for a 717-home club, and a daily player should know that before comparing clubs.

Distances From Each Estates Street

Driving distances routed on OpenStreetMap data (OSRM), off-peak, from a point on each street to the south end of TwinEagles Boulevard at Immokalee Road and to the clubhouse at 11725 TwinEagles Boulevard; approximate. The Estates is a gate neighborhood: for five of the six streets the gate is the short drive and the club the longer one, the reverse of Hedgestone and Lake Estates deeper inside the gate.

The Estates vs Lake Estates at TwinEagles: Which Should You Buy?

The Estates vs Lake Estates is the choice most TwinEagles buyers at the top of the price ladder face. The Estates offers 63 custom homes from 1999 to 2024 on the largest homesites in TwinEagles, near the gate, with three vacant lots; Lake Estates offers 19 newer homes from 2015 to 2022 on south- or west-facing lots facing the 34-acre lake.

Data updated: September 2026 (Southwest Florida MLS, pulled 24 Sep 2026; Collier County recorded deeds, newest recorded sale 30 Jun 2026, and 2026 preliminary roll; TwinEagles HOA 2024 Approved Budget; Estates and Grand Arbors Design Review Guidelines; FEMA National Flood Hazard Layer, queried 24 Sep 2026)

Both neighborhoods require at least 3,500 square feet, both have no association of their own and owners handle their own landscaping, both pay the same club initiation fee for the same deeded category, and both use the same gate, club and schools. Beyond that they are different products on different plats, from different eras, under different design guidelines. The full portrait of the rival is in our Lake Estates at TwinEagles neighborhood guide.

The Estates vs Lake Estates Decision Table

Sources: Southwest Florida MLS, 60 months to September 24, 2026, neighborhoods assigned by street; Collier County recorded deeds and 2026 preliminary roll; TwinEagles HOA Approved 2024 Budget; Estates Design Review Guidelines; Grand Arbors Design Review Guidelines; FEMA National Flood Hazard Layer; archived developer page for Lake Estates. Lake Estates has fewer than ten MLS closings in 60 months, so its figures are shown for comparison only, with n beside them, and The Estates’ eleven only just clear ten, so compare the bands rather than the exact figures.

Who Should Choose The Estates, and Who Should Choose Lake Estates

Choose The Estates if you want land, privacy and 30-foot side setbacks, a Talon fairway behind the house, a short drive to the gate, a choice of house ages and sizes, and the option to renovate, rebuild or build on one of the last three vacant homesites, and you are comfortable with the highest master assessment in TwinEagles and with pricing an older house partly as land. Choose Lake Estates if you want a house built in 2015 or later, a big-water view from the lanai, less land to keep and a row of owners who mostly live here year-round, and you are prepared to wait, because with 19 homes and nothing listed on September 24, 2026, the next Lake Estates sale may be months away. If Lake Estates is the side you lean to, our Lake Estates buyer guide runs its purchase path the same way this page runs The Estates.

What the Numbers Say for a Buyer

The negotiation picture is where the two differ most. Lake Estates buyers paid at or above list on 5 of 8 MLS closings in five years, and its four closings since October 2024 ran $2,800,000 to $3,500,000; Estates buyers paid below list on six of nine marketed closings, and every marketed Estates sale since the end of 2021 closed at or below 90.00 percent of final list. On the county’s measure Lake Estates trades about $98 higher per square foot of building area, $647.54 against $549.22, because buyers there pay for a finished lakefront house, while an Estates price carries older and larger plans on much bigger lots, where more of the price is land. Per square foot The Estates looks cheaper; per homesite it often is not. For a buyer who wants the top of TwinEagles and room to negotiate, The Estates is where the room has been.

What the Choice Costs Each Year

Both neighborhoods pay the master association once a year on January 1: $5,559.42 to $5,586.19 for an Estates home and $4,895.73 for a Lake Estates home on the 2024 budget, so the Estates line runs about $664 to $690 higher. Club dues depend on the deeded category, not the neighborhood, and neither pays a neighborhood assessment. Both owners hire their own landscaping; an Estates homesite simply has far more of it, and the Estates guidelines require at least ten shade trees on every homesite. The real annual difference is the property tax on the price you pay and the insurance on the house you choose, so we model both on the specific homes before you decide.

How Do We Find You the Right Home in The Estates?

We find the right Estates at TwinEagles home by matching your golf, street, lot and plans to the 63 homes first, then watching six streets that have produced about two MLS closings a year so you hear early. The search covers the deeded category, the year built, the roof, the flood file and the design approvals before a showing is booked.

Data updated: September 2026 (Southwest Florida MLS, pulled 24 Sep 2026; Collier County 2026 preliminary roll)

Matching Your Needs to 63 Homes

A price filter on a portal returns every TwinEagles home between two numbers and never shows the club category or the year built next to the lot. We start the other way round. Tell us whether golf is daily, occasional or not at all, which decides whether you need a Golf-deeded home; whether you want a home to move into or a homesite to renovate or rebuild on; which street and distance to the gate or the clubhouse suits you; whether the lot should back to the Talon, a lake or preserve; and how much one-time club cost you want to carry on top of the price. In a neighborhood of 63 custom homes with no two alike, that narrows the field to the handful of houses you would actually buy.

Watching Six Streets That Rarely Sell

Eleven MLS closings in 60 months means the next Estates listing may be the only one for months, and the one on your preferred street may be a year or more away. We track new listings, price changes and relists daily, and tell you when a home that fits reaches the market, with the history of any home that has sold before and what it brought last time. A pre-approval or proof of funds and a saved search let you act in the first days, which in The Estates has mattered: the four marketed 2021 sales spent only 7 to 30 days on market.

Pre-Market and Off-Market Conversations

Some Estates owners prefer a quiet sale, and two of the 11 MLS closings in five years were non-MLS sales entered after they closed. In a gated club community the gate list is the front door, and part of positioning a buyer is being known as a financed, prepared buyer who already understands the club category, the initiation fee, the Estates guidelines and the flood file. When an owner in our network is considering a sale, we can introduce a qualified buyer before a public launch, always within the seller’s instructions.

Set Up Custom Listing Alerts for The Estates

Set up a saved search with alerts for Golden Eagle Court, Peregrine Court, Aerie Lane, Talon Drive, Bald Eagle Way and Five Oaks Lane through our site, and it will notify you when a matching home lists. If you would rather we tune it, call Marc at (239) 287-5873 and describe what you want, or start from our buyer resources for Naples. If you only want to browse what is listed today, our team site at DomainRealtyGroup.com carries the listings search.

Touring: Category, Lot, Roof and Openings

On every Estates tour we check five things a listing does not tell you: the deeded category and what it costs to enter; what the lot backs to, where its lines and setbacks sit, and what that means for privacy, golf traffic and flood mapping; the roof’s age and material, the shutters or impact glass, and the age of the air conditioning, pool equipment and water heater; whether the lot is named in a FEMA letter and what its elevation certificate reads; and whether the pool cage, lanai, generator and any addition carry design approval and closed permits. Private showings need an appointment and ID at the gate, and clubhouse tours are by appointment, so we book both.

Buying to Rebuild

Some Estates buyers are buying land. With qualified homesites at $705,000 and $730,000 in 2022 and eighteen homes built since 2020, an older home on a well-placed lot can be the start of a new house. If that is your plan, we price the purchase on the lot and the house separately, pull the survey and the setbacks before you go firm, read the Estates guidelines for the size, height, roof and garage rules a new home must meet, and budget the $3,000 review fee and $3,000 construction deposit the association requires, plus Collier County permit and impact fees. In The Estates the negotiation that matters most for a rebuild happens before closing, when the price of the lot is set.

How Do We Negotiate for You in The Estates?

We negotiate an Estates at TwinEagles purchase on the record: every marketed Estates sale since the end of 2021 closed at 87.86 to 90.00 percent of final list, the 60-month median was 90.00 percent, and the one home listed on September 24, 2026 asked more than any Estates home has closed for in five years.

Data updated: September 2026 (Southwest Florida MLS, pulled 24 Sep 2026; Collier County recorded deeds, newest recorded sale 30 Jun 2026)

Price: The Estates Record and the Listing’s History

We price your offer against the Estates closings, read per square foot of living area and against the home’s year built and lot, and against the home’s own listing history including any price changes, terminations and relists. The last two marketed closings ran $2,425,000 and $3,150,000 against final asks of $2,700,000 and $3,500,000, and the home listed on September 24 asked $3,897,000 after 290 days. A home priced well ahead of the record is where negotiation room lives; a home priced at it, on the street you want, is one you may need to move on quickly.

The Club Cost Is Part of the Price Conversation

The initiation fee goes to the club, not to the seller, but a buyer weighing a Golf-deeded home against a Social-deeded one is weighing $105,000 of initiation before any dues. That difference belongs in how you value the house, and when a seller’s price assumes a Golf buyer for a Social-deeded home, we say so. The same goes for the remaining Phase One capital assessment you take over, which at the fiscal 2022 Golf rate of $244 a month would still be about $2,900 a year until 2032.

Condition, Age and Land as Leverage

An Estates home built from 1999 to 2009 is now old enough for its roof, windows, air conditioning and pool equipment to be real negotiation items, and old enough that its insurer may want a four-point inspection and a fresh wind mitigation form. A wind report, an elevation certificate, a flood quote and, on an older home, a contractor’s view of what a renovation would cost turn condition into numbers, and numbers are what move a seller. When much of the price is land, the land comparison is leverage too: the qualified homesite sales of 2020 to 2022 are the floor under any Estates negotiation.

The Contract Calendar

An Estates contract has three outside clocks: the club’s seven-day rule for the Membership Agreement, the club’s 30-day window to act on a complete application, and the ten business day estoppel clock for the master association. Flood coverage adds a 30-day waiting period outside a loan. We write the inspection period and closing date around those clocks so none of them becomes the seller’s leverage.

Protecting Your Escrow Deposit

Your deposit is protected by the contract’s contingencies and deadlines, and only if you act inside them. We diary every deadline, deliver every notice in writing and on time, and make sure the deeded category, current dues, the Phase One balance, the master assessment, the flood letter, the permit history, the design approvals and the wind report arrive before the date on which your deposit goes hard.

Appraisal Versus Assessed Value

An appraisal and the county’s assessed value are different numbers built for different purposes, and in a club community the initiation fee is in neither. With 11 Estates MLS closings in five years and custom homes of widely different ages and sizes, an appraiser in The Estates has thin comparables and may reach into Lake Estates, Hedgestone or other North Naples clubs. If an appraisal comes in below contract, we go back to the closed sales and the land sales, not to the tax roll, to decide whether to renegotiate, bridge the gap or walk.

What Are Buyer Closing Costs in The Estates?

An Estates at TwinEagles buyer pays ordinary Florida closing costs plus the club’s charges: the initiation fee for the deeded category, $45,000 to $150,000 as posted in September 2026, the $3,500 transfer fee, prorated dues and the master assessment, and the remaining Phase One capital assessment that transfers. There is no neighborhood transfer fee, because The Estates has no neighborhood association.

Data updated: September 2026 (The TwinEagles Club membership page and 2024 Membership Agreement; FY2022 Dues and Fees; Department of Business and Professional Regulation estoppel fee schedule; Florida Statutes, current text)

The Club Charges at Closing

The initiation fee is the largest check an Estates buyer writes after the price, so it belongs in the proof of funds and, if you are financing, in the conversation with your lender about cash to close. The master association’s buyer screening runs through its online application process, paid by card when you apply.

Title Insurance and the Collier County Custom

Florida is a promulgated-rate state for title insurance: the premium for a given policy amount is set under Section 627.782 of the Florida Statutes rather than by the individual title agent. What varies is the closing and settlement services around it. In Collier County the buyer customarily chooses the closing agent and pays the owner’s title policy, the reverse of Lee County and most of Florida; nothing in the statutes fixes the allocation, so it is negotiable in every contract, and we raise it at the offer stage.

Taxes on a Financed Purchase

Two Florida taxes attach to a financed purchase. Documentary stamp tax on the promissory note runs at $0.35 per $100 of the note amount under Section 201.08, and the non-recurring intangible tax on a new mortgage runs at 2 mills under Section 199.133. As an illustration only, a loan of 80 percent of the $2,600,000 60-month median, $2,080,000, would carry about $7,280 in note stamps and $4,160 in intangible tax. Neither applies to a cash purchase. Deed recording is charged separately by the Collier County Clerk.

Prorations

Property taxes are prorated against the seller’s current bill, which is not a forecast of your future bill after the reset. The master assessment is billed once a year on January 1 and is prorated from that bill, and club dues are prorated on the club’s November 1 fiscal year.

Inspections, Survey and Wind Mitigation

Budget for a general inspection, a wind mitigation inspection on form OIR-B1-1802 if the seller’s report is missing or out of date, a four-point inspection if the insurer asks for one on an older home, a roof inspection or certification on any home with an older tile roof, a pool inspection, and a survey. In The Estates the survey matters more than usual, because the county roll carries no lot area for Estates parcels, and knowing exactly where your lines and the 50-foot and 30-foot setbacks sit before you plan a pool, an addition or a rebuild is cheaper than finding out at architectural review.

What the Seller Customarily Pays

Florida documentary stamp tax on the deed is $0.70 per $100 of consideration under Section 201.02, about $18,200 on the $2,600,000 median by our arithmetic, and is paid by the seller by custom. By Collier County practice the seller also orders and pays for the two estoppel certificates. The master association’s estoppel fee is capped under Section 720.30851 at $299 for a current account, plus $119 for expedited delivery and up to $179 more if the account is delinquent, under the Department of Business and Professional Regulation’s inflation-adjusted estoppel certificate fee schedule; the statute’s base text sets the adjustment, and the actual charge prints on the certificate. The club’s own estoppel fee is a different, club-set charge, $250 on the fiscal 2022 schedule. Because The Estates has no neighborhood association, there is no third certificate and no third fee. Beyond that, seller costs in Collier County are customary rather than statutory and negotiable in every contract. If you are also selling, our page on selling an Estates home runs the seller side in full.

How Does Buyer Representation Work After the NAR Settlement?

Buyer representation for an Estates at TwinEagles purchase changed on August 17, 2024, under the National Association of REALTORS settlement. An agent who participates in a multiple listing service must have a written buyer agreement with you before touring, the agreement must state the agent’s compensation objectively, and offers of compensation are no longer permitted on the MLS.

Data updated: September 2026 (National Association of REALTORS settlement pages, retrieved Sep 2026)

The Written Buyer Agreement Before a Tour

The agreement must be signed before the tour, in person or by live virtual tour. It must state the amount or rate of compensation so that it is objectively ascertainable, it must prohibit the agent from receiving more than that from any source, and it must carry a conspicuous statement that broker fees and commissions are not set by law and are fully negotiable, per NAR’s written buyer agreements guide and consumer guide.

What Does Not Require an Agreement

You do not need a written agreement to talk to an agent about their services, to interview several agents, to ask about The Estates or to visit an open house and speak to the host. You also do not need one to ask us which category a listed home is deeded, what the Estates guidelines would let you build on a lot, or whether FEMA has issued a letter for it. The line is the tour.

Offers of Compensation Are No Longer on the MLS

Compensation to a buyer’s broker can still be negotiated, and a seller can still cover it or offer concessions, but that now happens in the transaction rather than in an MLS field, and the amount your agent may receive is capped by your agreement, per NAR’s settlement questions and answers. You agree what your agent is paid first; then we negotiate separately whether and how much a seller will cover.

What This Means for You in The Estates

In The Estates, representation earns its keep in the diligence: a club category that decides a six-figure closing cost, dues that are not public for the current year, a capital assessment you take over, a 53-page set of design guidelines that decides what the house can become, a flood answer that can differ between the street and the house pad, a roof and window question on the older homes, a land value under every house, a leasing cap and a tax reset. Read any buyer agreement against that list, and read more about our team and our credentials before you decide.

What Schools, Healthcare and Beaches Serve an Estates Address?

Every Estates at TwinEagles street checked is zoned to Bear Creek Elementary, Oakridge Middle and Gulf Coast High, all graded A for 2025-26. NCH’s 24-hour freestanding emergency department on Collier Boulevard is about 3.3 miles from the TwinEagles gate, and Vanderbilt Beach about 22 minutes off-peak, plus two to four minutes from the Estates streets to the gate.

Data updated: September 2026 (Collier County Public Schools zone locator, 2026-27 and 2027-28 lookup years, queried Sep 2026; CCPS 2026 Accountability Brief; OSRM off-peak routing from the TwinEagles gate)

The Three Zoned Public Schools

The district’s own zone locator returned the same three schools for an address on each of the six Estates streets, and a sweep of every district address on the TwinEagles streets returned the same answer for 2026 and 2027:

Grades are the Florida Department of Education grades as reproduced in the district’s 2026 Accountability Brief, and the district itself earned its ninth straight A (district announcement). Bear Creek Elementary opened in August 2025 just west of the TwinEagles entrance (school site), about 0.9 miles from the gate and a short drive from every Estates street. Attendance zones can change for later years, so confirm your address with the district before you rely on it. Private options include Community School of Naples, about 18 minutes from the gate, and Seacrest Country Day School, about 24.

Healthcare and the Fire District

NCH Emergency Department Northeast, a freestanding emergency department open 24 hours at 15420 Collier Boulevard, is about 6 minutes and 3.3 miles from the gate (NCH Northeast); NCH North Naples Hospital is about 16 minutes and Physicians Regional Pine Ridge about 17 (Physicians Regional emergency services). North Collier Fire Control and Rescue District Station 10 at 13240 Immokalee Road names TwinEagles among the communities it serves (North Collier Fire).

Beaches, Shopping and Everyday Drives

OSRM off-peak estimates from the gate at TwinEagles Boulevard and Immokalee Road, with no traffic modeled; add the 0.5 to 1.5 miles from your Estates street to the gate, and more time from January to April. Collier County property owners qualify for the county’s resident beach parking permit, which waives the parking fee at Vanderbilt Beach Park and other county beach parks (Collier Parks).

What Is Being Built Nearby, and Does It Matter?

Collier County’s 2025 Annual Update and Inventory Report rates Immokalee Road from Collier Boulevard to Wilson Boulevard, the stretch in front of the TwinEagles gate, over its adopted capacity with no funded widening; the Vanderbilt Beach Road Extension, Phase One, opened in June 2026 as a second east-west path toward the coast (county release). Across Immokalee Road, NC Square was approved July 8, 2025 for up to 129 homes and 50,000 square feet of commercial space (Ordinance 2025-30). The Estates sits at the front of the community, near that corridor; the six streets are short courts and lanes off TwinEagles Boulevard, and the practical effect for a buyer is season-time traffic on the way out. Collier County’s zoning map shows the Estates streets, like all of TwinEagles, as rural agricultural (A-MHO) inside the Rural Fringe Mixed Use receiving area, and the recorded covenants and the Estates guidelines prohibit mobile and modular homes.

Is The Estates the Right Place for You to Buy?

The Estates at TwinEagles is the right place to buy if you want a custom home on one of the largest homesites in TwinEagles, a Talon fairway or preserve behind it, 60 feet to the next house, no neighborhood dues and a short drive to the gate, and accept a club initiation, the highest master assessment in the gate, your own landscaping and a thin sales record.

Data updated: September 2026 (Southwest Florida MLS, pulled 24 Sep 2026; Collier County recorded deeds and 2026 preliminary roll; TwinEagles HOA 2024 Approved Budget; Estates Design Review Guidelines)

The Case For

• Homesites described by the developer at nearly one to nearly two acres in Sterling Hill and Inverness, with 50-foot front and 30-foot side setbacks and no fences.
• Design protection: the strictest guidelines in TwinEagles, with a 3,500-square-foot minimum, tile roofs and side-entry garages.
• The Talon, the Nicklaus course that hosted the PGA TOUR Champions, behind many homesites.
• No neighborhood association, no quarterly neighborhood dues, and only two estoppels at a sale.
• Year-round neighbors: 68 percent of Estates homes are homesteaded.
• Zone X at all six street points, with no modeled storm surge below a Category 4 hurricane.
• Four of the six streets within about a mile of the Immokalee Road entrance, and an A-graded elementary school 0.9 miles from the gate.
• Room to negotiate: every marketed Estates sale since the end of 2021 closed at 87.86 to 90.00 percent of final list.
• No CDD, and an all-ages neighborhood.

The Case Against

• The highest master assessment in TwinEagles, $5,559.42 to $5,586.19 in 2024, with newer budgets not public.
• A mandatory club initiation fee at closing, $150,000 for a Golf-deeded home, on top of the price.
• Your landscaping, your cost, held to ten shade trees and native hedgerows on a large lot.
• Five homes predate the 2002 statewide building code, and some buyers are pricing a renovation or a rebuild.
• A thin market: 11 MLS closings in five years means long waits for the right street and few comparables.
• Two newer elevation certificates list Zone AH at the house, so a Zone X street is not the end of the flood question.
• Immokalee Road over capacity in season, and the beach and downtown 22 to 30 minutes from the gate off-peak.

Get Your Personalized Estates Buyer Consultation

A personalized Estates buyer consultation with McGreevy and Comisar is a conversation, not a sales pitch. We will match your golf to a deeded category and your preferences to a street and a lot, walk the one-time and annual club costs, read the Estates guidelines against any plans you have, check the flood record of any Estates address you have in mind, and tell you honestly whether The Estates or Lake Estates fits how you live.

The consultation form sits near the top of this page. You can also call Jesse McGreevy direct at (239) 898-6072 or Marc Comisar at (239) 287-5873, or read how we represent buyers in Naples first. We have been Top 1% Real Estate Agents Nationally Since 2008.

Jesse McGreevy

Jesse McGreevy started in Southwest Florida real estate in October 2004 and launched his own team in October 2008. He runs the technology, marketing, data and systems side of the partnership, which is why this page is built on the club’s own documents, the master association’s budget and the Estates design guidelines, Collier County’s deeds, roll and permits, FEMA’s flood layers and the Southwest Florida MLS rather than a portal feed. Reach him at (239) 898-6072 or [email protected].

Marc Comisar

Marc Comisar runs the field side of the partnership: in the homes, at the inspections and at the closing table. For an Estates buyer that means the roof, windows and systems on a home built from 1999 onward, the Talon, lake or preserve exposure of a lot and where its lines sit, and the calendar that gets the club approval, the Membership Agreement, both estoppels and the flood file lined up with your closing. Reach him at (239) 287-5873.

How to Reach Us

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

Why Does an Estates Specialist Matter?

An Estates at TwinEagles specialist matters because the facts that decide a purchase here, the deeded club category, the Phase One balance, the Estates design guidelines, the elevation certificate for the lot, the age of the house against the value of the land, and a sales record of about two closings a year, live in documents a general Naples search never surfaces.

Data updated: September 2026 (Southwest Florida MLS, pulled 24 Sep 2026; The TwinEagles Club documents; TwinEagles HOA 2024 budget; Estates Design Review Guidelines; FEMA National Flood Hazard Layer)

Ten Facts a General Naples Agent Will Not Have

1. The Estates is 63 homes and 3 vacant lots on six streets, and its six enclave names appear on the master budget, not on any deed.
2. Every Estates home is deeded one club category, and the buyer pays the matching initiation fee at closing: $150,000, $60,000 or $45,000 as posted in September 2026.
3. Golf is capped at 614 memberships across 717 homes, and no public club document says how a Sports or Social home moves up once the cap is full.
4. The club’s transfer fee is $3,500, and the signed Membership Agreement must reach the club seven days before closing.
5. The Phase One capital assessment runs 12 years from September 2020, and the buyer takes over the remaining payments; it has nothing to do with the Estates plat of the same name.
6. The 2024 master assessment for an Estates home was $5,559.42 to $5,586.19, the highest in TwinEagles, and there is no neighborhood association or neighborhood fee.
7. The Estates has its own design guidelines, approved February 15, 2023, with a 3,500-square-foot minimum, 30-foot side setbacks, tile roofs, side-entry garages and no fences.
8. All six street points read Zone X, but the two newest elevation certificates list Zone AH at a 15.5-foot base flood elevation, and one FEMA letter sits on Golden Eagle Court.
9. Qualified Estates homesites sold for $705,000 and $730,000 in 2022, and eighteen homes carry a year built of 2020 or later.
10. Every marketed Estates sale since the end of 2021 closed at 87.86 to 90.00 percent of final list.

What a First-Hand Estates Buyer Said

When the developer was selling the last Sterling Hill and Inverness homesites in 2016, one couple who built a 6,146-square-foot Divco home told the Naples Daily News why they chose The Estates: “We wanted to be at the front of the community and said it would be nice not to have neighbors behind us so a golf course fairway was what we wanted.” They added that they “decided we’d rather be further back from the water mainly because of hurricane threats and storm surges” (Naples Daily News, April 17, 2016). That is still the Estates buyer profile: a fairway behind the house, land around it, the gate close by and the Gulf well away.

Read the Full Estates Neighborhood Guide

This page is the purchase path. For the neighborhood itself, its origins in the 1997 plan for TwinEagles, the Bonita Bay Group and Ronto years, every enclave in detail, the homesite price history back to 1998, the full design guidelines, the permit file, the hurricane record and what the internet gets wrong about it, read our Estates at TwinEagles neighborhood guide, and for the whole gate our TwinEagles community guide, linked at the top of this page.

Selling Your Current Home to Buy Here?

If you are selling a home to buy in The Estates, including a move from elsewhere inside the gate, see how we sell Estates homes and request a free Estates home valuation, or Call Jesse direct at (239) 898-6072. The club’s Initiation Fee Policy charges nothing to a member moving to another TwinEagles home in the same or a lower category within a year, and charges the difference when a member moves up.

Your Local Real Estate Experts

Jesse McGreevy and Marc Comisar, Top 1% Real Estate Agents Nationally Since 2008, are the local real estate experts behind this Estates buyer page. They co-founded Domain Realty, lead the agent partners of Domain Realty Group across Lee and Collier County, and have spent two decades selling Southwest Florida property, including North Naples and the Immokalee Road corridor. Reach Jesse direct at (239) 898-6072.

More about how we work and the team behind us is on our about McGreevy and Comisar page. Together they operate as McGreevy and Comisar under Domain Realty, a brokerage they co-own rather than simply hang a license with.

The Record on This Point, Stated Plainly

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

Contact McGreevy and Comisar

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

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

McGreevy and Comisar lead Domain Realty Group, a full-service Southwest Florida real estate team. Learn more about our team at DomainRealtyGroup.com.

Frequently Asked Questions, Buyer Edition

Estates buyers ask the same questions before they tour, and the answers below come from The TwinEagles Club’s and the master association’s own documents, the Estates design guidelines, Collier County’s deeds, roll and permits, FEMA’s maps and the Southwest Florida MLS, each in one paragraph. Nothing here is legal, tax or insurance advice.

Data updated: September 2026 (Southwest Florida MLS, pulled 24 Sep 2026; Collier County recorded deeds, newest recorded sale 30 Jun 2026; The TwinEagles Club membership page, read Sep 2026)

What is The Estates at TwinEagles?

The original section of TwinEagles, the gated two-course golf club community on Immokalee Road in North Naples, 34120: 63 custom single-family homes and 3 vacant lots on six streets at the front of the community, built 1999 to 2024, governed by the TwinEagles master association and its own Estates design guidelines, with no association of its own.

What are the six Estates enclaves?

Strathmore on Golden Eagle Court, Thornhill on Peregrine Court, Sterling Hill on Aerie Lane, Glasgow on Talon Drive, Inverness on Bald Eagle Way and Lochlomond on Five Oaks Lane. They are developer names for streets inside one plat, used on the master budget, not separate associations and not names on any deed.

Is The Estates the same as Lake Estates?

No. Lake Estates at TwinEagles is 19 homes built 2015 to 2022 on the 34-acre lake along TwinEagles Boulevard, on a different plat and under the Grand Arbors guidelines. The Estates is 63 custom homes from 1999 to 2024 near the gate, under its own guidelines.

How many homes are in The Estates?

Sixty-three homes on 66 homesites; three lots, one on Aerie Lane and two on Five Oaks Lane, were still vacant on the 2026 county roll. The master association bills all 66 units on six enclave lines.

Can I still buy a lot and build in The Estates?

Rarely. The last platted Estates lots sold in early 2022, and only three were vacant on the 2026 roll. Buyers who want new construction more often buy an older home and renovate or rebuild under the Estates guidelines, with a $3,000 review fee and a $3,000 construction deposit for a new home.

How much does an Estates home cost?

Eleven MLS closings in the 60 months to September 24, 2026 ran from $1,725,000 to $3,250,000, a median of $2,600,000. The three closings of the last twelve months were $2,425,000, $3,100,000 and $3,150,000, and the one home listed on September 24, 2026 asked $3,897,000.

Are Estates prices going up or down?

Up over five years, with sellers asking ahead of the market. The two highest MLS closings, $3,250,000 in January 2025 and $3,150,000 in September 2026, are both recent, yet every marketed sale since the end of 2021 closed at 87.86 to 90.00 percent of final list.

How big are Estates homes?

At least 3,500 square feet under air, by the Estates guidelines. County building areas run from 3,472 to 9,588 square feet, median 4,662, and the MLS living area of the homes sold in five years has a median of 4,444 square feet on 10 sales.

How big are Estates homesites?

The developer described its last Sterling Hill and Inverness sites in 2016 as “nearly an acre to nearly two acres.” The county roll carries no lot area for Estates parcels, so ask for the survey; setbacks are 50 feet in front and 30 feet on each side, so homes stand at least 60 feet apart.

What did Estates homesites sell for?

Qualified vacant-lot sales ran $425,000 to $700,000 in 2021, seven sales at a median of $515,000, and $705,000 and $730,000 in 2022, when the last platted lots sold. In 2012 a single lot sold for $215,000.

Who built the homes in The Estates?

Each owner chose a builder. Names in the public record include Arthur Rutenberg Homes, Divco Custom Homes, Stock Signature Homes, Frey and Son Homes and, on a 2024 remodel permit, London Bay Construction. There are no production floor plans.

Does an Estates home come with a golf membership?

Every Estates home is deeded a club membership, but not necessarily Golf, and never free. The category is Golf, Sports or Social, and the buyer pays the initiation fee at closing: $150,000, $60,000 or $45,000 as posted in September 2026, plus a $3,500 transfer fee.

How do I know which club category an Estates home carries?

From the club estoppel for that house. No public document lists the category for every Estates home, so we ask the listing agent before the first showing and confirm it on the estoppel once you are under contract.

Can I upgrade a Sports or Social Estates home to Golf?

Only subject to availability under the recorded covenant, with the difference in initiation fees charged. Golf is capped at 614 memberships across 717 homes, and no public club document says how upgrades work once the cap is full. If golf matters, buy a home already deeded Golf.

Is the initiation fee refundable when I sell?

None of the club’s public documents describes a refund. The only refund the 2024 Membership Agreement names is the $3,500 transfer fee if the club does not approve the applicant. Budget the initiation fee as a cost, not a deposit.

What are the annual club dues?

Current dues are not public. The last posted schedule, fiscal 2022, came to about $18,328 a year before sales tax for Full Golf, about $7,336 for Sports and about $5,496 for Social, counting the Phase One capital assessment. The club estoppel states the current figures for a specific home.

What is the Phase One capital assessment?

A 12-year club assessment from September 2020 that funds the $22.5 million Talon renovation and clubhouse program, $244 a month for Golf on the fiscal 2022 schedule. The buyer takes over the remaining payments. It is a club charge and has nothing to do with the Estates plat, which is also named Phase One.

What are the HOA fees in The Estates?

The TwinEagles master association’s 2024 budget billed Estates homes $5,559.42 to $5,586.19 a year, depending on the enclave, each with a $660 reserve share, the highest lines in TwinEagles. There is no separate Estates association and no neighborhood fee. The 2025 and 2026 figures are not public; the master estoppel states them.

How many estoppels does an Estates purchase need?

Two: one from the club and one from the master association. All six Estates streets are on the club’s list of addresses that need only those two, because there is no neighborhood association, and by Collier County practice the seller orders and pays for them.

Does the club have to approve my purchase?

Yes. Membership is contingent on the club’s approval, the application authorizes credit and law-enforcement record checks, both spouses sign, and the signed agreement with the $3,500 transfer fee must reach the club at least seven days before closing.

Is there a CDD in The Estates?

No. The 2025 TwinEagles tax bills we checked carry one non-ad-valorem line, the $261.91 county garbage charge, and the state’s official list of special districts names no TwinEagles district.

What are property taxes on an Estates home?

The 2025 rate was 12.2558 mills. As an illustration at the $2,600,000 median with no exemption, that is about $31,865 a year plus the $261.91 garbage charge, and your bill resets to your purchase the year after you buy.

Is The Estates in a flood zone?

All six Estates street points read FEMA Zone X, minimal hazard, on the effective and preliminary maps. Individual lots can reach into Zone AH land, and the two newest county-filed elevation certificates on Estates homes list Zone AH with a 15.5-foot base flood elevation and first floors 2.5 and 3.3 feet above it.

Do I need flood insurance on an Estates home?

A lender requires it when the structure is in the high-risk area. Citizens requires flood coverage on every wind-covered residential policy from January 1, 2027, and every eligible policy in unincorporated Collier gets the 25 percent Community Rating System discount, inside or outside the high-risk zone.

Which Estates lots have FEMA letters?

FEMA’s database holds one letter on the Estates plat, a Letter of Map Revision based on Fill from November 2024 for a new home on Golden Eagle Court, reading “structure removed, property partially inundated.” We check the letter layer for every lot you consider.

What hurricane evacuation zone is The Estates in?

Zone E on the state’s Know Your Zone layer. On the state’s storm-surge layer, three Estates streets fall in the Category 4 surge zone and three in Category 5, with no modeled surge from a Category 1 to 3 hurricane.

What schools serve The Estates?

Bear Creek Elementary, Oakridge Middle and Gulf Coast High, for all six streets, per the district’s address lookup. All three were graded A for 2025-26, and Bear Creek Elementary sits about 0.9 miles from the TwinEagles gate.

Can I rent out an Estates home?

Up to three leases per calendar year, each at least 30 consecutive days, on the association’s approved lease form, with tenant screening. Timesharing and fractional ownership are prohibited, so nightly and weekly vacation rentals are out.

What are the pet rules in The Estates?

A reasonable number of household pets, leashed or confined outdoors, licensed and inoculated, with no breeding or livestock. Pets may not range freely in TwinEagles or the preserves, where the association documents deer, alligators, bobcats and black bears.

Can I put up a fence?

No. The Estates guidelines prohibit fences and walls, including perimeter and security fences. A 4-foot dog run, set back and landscaped, is the only exception, and underground electric dog fences are allowed.

What roof can I put on an Estates home?

Clay or concrete tile only, at a 6-in-12 minimum pitch, in warm earth tones. Asphalt and fiberglass shingles and metal roofs are prohibited, and any change of roof material or color needs architectural approval.

Can I keep a pickup truck, boat or golf cart at an Estates home?

Only inside an enclosed garage. Pickups, commercial vehicles, boats, trailers and RVs are garaged, there is no street parking from 1 a.m. to 6 a.m., and golf carts may use TwinEagles streets but not the courses, with drivers 16 or older.

Can I add a pool, a generator or solar?

Yes, with architectural approval. Pools go in the rear yard with bronze or charcoal screen enclosures, a generator must be fully hidden by a dense hedge and permitted by the county, and solar should sit on a rear or side roof with dark panels.

Is The Estates age-restricted?

No. The recorded Use Restrictions and Rules and Regulations contain no housing-for-older-persons language, and the club counts children under 23 as family members.

Is TwinEagles gated?

Yes. TwinEagles has one guarded gatehouse on Immokalee Road, with resident barcodes and app-registered guests; open-house visitors are admitted only to addresses on the weekly MLS open-house list.

How far is The Estates from the gate and the clubhouse?

From about half a mile (Five Oaks Lane) to 1.5 miles (Bald Eagle Way) to the gate, and from about a third of a mile (Bald Eagle Way) to 1.8 miles (Five Oaks Lane) to the clubhouse, by road.

How far is The Estates from the beach?

Vanderbilt Beach Park is about 12.9 miles and 22 minutes off-peak from the TwinEagles gate, plus the short drive from your Estates street to the gate, and longer from January to April.

How long do Estates homes take to sell?

The 9 MLS-marketed Estates sales of the last 60 months took a median 32 days on market, from 7 days to 267. The four marketed 2021 sales spent 7 to 30 days on market; the September 2026 sale spent 267.

How much room is there to negotiate in The Estates?

More than in most of TwinEagles. The median Estates sale over 60 months closed at 90.00 percent of final list, six of nine marketed sales closed below 95 percent, and every marketed sale since the end of 2021 closed at 87.86 to 90.00 percent.

Should I buy in The Estates or Lake Estates?

The Estates if you want land, privacy, a Talon fairway, a short drive to the gate and the option to rebuild; Lake Estates if you want a 2015-or-later house on the big lake with less land to keep. The decision table above sets them side by side.

Do I need a written buyer agreement before touring an Estates home?

Yes. Since August 17, 2024, an MLS participant must have a written agreement with you before a tour, stating the agent’s compensation. You do not need one to ask questions, interview agents or visit an open house.

How long does it take to buy an Estates home?

The club’s rules set the pace more than the lender does: the Membership Agreement must reach the club seven days before closing, the club acts within 30 days of a complete application, and the master estoppel arrives within ten business days of a request.

Who is the best buyer’s agent for The Estates?

An agent who reads the club estoppel, the Estates guidelines, the elevation certificate, any FEMA letter, the permit history and the design approvals before you commit, and prices your offer against the Estates record and the land rather than the asking price. McGreevy and Comisar are Top 1% Real Estate Agents Nationally Since 2008.

Sources and Authoritative References

Sources below were retrieved and checked in September 2026, with the Southwest Florida MLS pulled 24 September 2026, FEMA’s flood layers queried 24 September 2026 and Collier County’s recorded deed record carrying sales recorded through 30 June 2026. Every figure on this page traces to one of them. No realtor, brokerage or listing portal is cited.

The TwinEagles Club

• The TwinEagles Club, membership page
• The TwinEagles Club, home page
• The TwinEagles Club, golf
• The TwinEagles Club, club life
• The TwinEagles Club, dining
• The TwinEagles Club, reciprocals
• The TwinEagles Club, 2024 Membership Agreement
• The TwinEagles Club, Initiation Fee Policy, revised October 20, 2023
• The TwinEagles Club, Phase One Master Plan
• The TwinEagles Club, FY2022 Dues and Fees
• The TwinEagles Club, estoppel requirements by street, July 29, 2021
• The TwinEagles Club, estoppel request instructions
• The TwinEagles Club, Talon scorecard 2024
• The TwinEagles Club, Eagle scorecard 2024
• The TwinEagles Club, Audubon Gold Signature Sanctuary certification, 2023
• ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer, The TwinEagles Club filings
• ProPublica, The TwinEagles Club Form 990, fiscal 2024

The master association and The Estates record

• TwinEagles Homeowners Association, home page
• TwinEagles HOA, Community FAQs and history, 2026 posting
• TwinEagles HOA, 2024 Approved Budget
• TwinEagles HOA, Design Review Guidelines, The Estates at TwinEagles, approved February 15, 2023
• TwinEagles HOA, Design Review Guidelines, Grand Arbors at TwinEagles, June 2018
• TwinEagles HOA, Approved Use Restrictions, 2024
• TwinEagles HOA, Rules and Regulations
• TwinEagles HOA, architectural review
• TwinEagles HOA, ARC application, revised February 16, 2024
• TwinEagles HOA, Quick Guide for Realtors
• TwinEagles HOA, buyer and tenant evaluation instructions
• TwinEagles HOA, Golf and Sports Declaration of Recreational Covenant
• TwinEagles HOA, February 2024 newsletter
• TwinEagles HOA, March 2024 newsletter
• TwinEagles HOA, lake-bank remediation update, June 2026
• TwinEagles HOA, landscape project notice
• TwinEagles HOA, deer relocation initiative
• Florida Division of Corporations, The Estates at TwinEagles, Ltd. record
• Archived TwinEagles site plan
• Archived Lake Estates neighborhood page, 2019
• Naples Daily News, TwinEagles grand estate homes, April 17, 2016

Market data, Collier County and the State of Florida

• Southwest Florida MLS, Matrix (TwinEagles closed and active listings allocated by street to the six Estates streets, pulled September 24, 2026)
• Collier County Tax Collector, property tax search
• Florida Commerce, Official List of Special Districts
• Florida Department of Revenue, sale qualification codes
• Florida Department of Revenue, property tax exemptions
• Collier County, monthly building permit report, July 2026
• Collier County, elevation certificates layer
• Collier County, proposed flood insurance rate map, August 2026
• Collier County, 2025 Annual Update and Inventory Report
• Collier County, Vanderbilt Beach Road Extension Phase One
• Collier County, NC Square ordinance 2025-30
• Collier County Parks, Vanderbilt Beach Park
• Collier County Public Schools, zone locator
• Collier County Public Schools, 2026 Accountability Brief
• Collier County Public Schools, district A announcement, 2026
• Bear Creek Elementary School
• North Collier Fire Control and Rescue District, fire stations
• Florida Division of Emergency Management, Know Your Zone layer
• Florida Division of Emergency Management, storm surge zones
• Collier County, evacuation zone lookup
• Florida Building Commission, code effective dates
• UF GeoPlan, Florida Building Code wind speed data
• Florida Office of Insurance Regulation, form OIR-B1-1802
• Resource Conservation Systems, 2026 tariff

Florida Statutes

• Section 720.30851, homeowners association estoppel certificates
• Department of Business and Professional Regulation, estoppel certificate fee schedule
• Section 193.155, Save Our Homes assessment cap
• Section 689.261, property tax disclosure summary
• Section 201.02, documentary stamp tax on deeds
• Section 201.08, documentary stamp tax on notes
• Section 199.133, nonrecurring intangible tax
• Section 627.782, title insurance rates
• Section 627.7011, roof age and homeowners coverage
• Section 215.5586, My Safe Florida Home
• Section 760.27, assistance animals

Federal flood and insurance records

• FEMA National Flood Hazard Layer
• FEMA letters of map change layer
• FEMA preliminary flood hazard layer
• FEMA Flood Map Service Center
• FEMA, LOMA and LOMR-F process
• FEMA, revalidation guidance
• FEMA, Community Rating System eligible communities, April 1, 2026
• FEMA, Risk Rating 2.0
• USGS elevation point query service
• Citizens Property Insurance, flood insurance requirement
• Citizens Property Insurance, 2026 multiperil rates

Golf, healthcare and everyday destinations

• Nicklaus Design, TwinEagles
• Golf Course Architecture, Smyers redesigning at TwinEagles
• Curran Young Construction, The TwinEagles Club
• The Golf Wire, TwinEagles ownership transition, 2019
• NCH, Emergency Department Northeast
• Physicians Regional, emergency services
• Community School of Naples
• Seacrest Country Day School

Buyer representation

• National Association of REALTORS, written buyer agreements
• National Association of REALTORS, consumer guide to written buyer agreements
• National Association of REALTORS, settlement questions and answers

Our own pages

• McGreevy and Comisar Estates at TwinEagles neighborhood guide
• McGreevy and Comisar Lake Estates at TwinEagles neighborhood guide
• Buy a home in TwinEagles
• Sell your home in The Estates
• Estates home valuation
• How we represent buyers in Naples
• About McGreevy and Comisar
• Jesse McGreevy agent profile
• Marc Comisar agent profile
• Domain Realty Group
• McGreevy and Comisar Google Business Profile

Downloadable Documents

Every row below links the authority that publishes the document, so an Estates buyer always sees the official, current version rather than a copy. We host nothing ourselves, and the documents that are not public are named at the end with where each comes from.

Four documents that matter to an Estates buyer are not public and cannot be linked: the club estoppel for the specific home, the master association estoppel, the survey of the lot, and the club’s Membership Plan and bylaws, which arrive through the transaction and the membership package.

Market data from Southwest Florida MLS, pulled 24 September 2026, and Collier County recorded deeds of qualified sales recorded through 30 June 2026. McGreevy and Comisar, 24031 S Tamiami Trl #101, Bonita Springs, FL 34134, (239) 898-6072. Brokered by Domain Realty.