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By Jesse McGreevy and Marc Comisar, McGreevy and Comisar, Domain Realty Group. Updated October 2026.

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Barefoot Bay at Barefoot Beach: Nine Homes on Barefoot Bay Court, Outside the Barefoot Beach Gate

Barefoot Bay is a nine-home, single-family enclave on Barefoot Bay Court in unincorporated Collier County, with the Barefoot name and a Bonita Springs, Florida 34134 mailing address, but it sits outside the Lely Barefoot Beach planned unit development and outside the Barefoot Beach guard gate, on a private court that opens directly onto Bonita Beach Road.

That is the single most important fact on this page, so we say it first and plainly. The county zones the court RSF-5, a straight single-family district, and not as part of the Barefoot Beach planned unit development. The nine homes belong to their own association, formed in 2000 under their own recorded declaration, and the Barefoot Beach Master Association’s recorded 2011 bylaws do not list Barefoot Bay among its eight member entities. Buyers who hear “Barefoot Beach” and picture a guard-gated boulevard with a clubhouse are describing the neighborhood next door, not this one.

Is it Bonita Springs or Naples? Barefoot Bay is in unincorporated Collier County, which means it is not inside the City of Bonita Springs and not inside the City of Naples, and the U.S. Postal Service address is Bonita Springs, FL 34134. Collier County taxes, Collier County Public Schools and Collier County rules apply. The mailing city and the county line are different things, and this page keeps them apart.

We wrote this page the way we would brief a buyer or seller we represent. Every fact carries a source, every conflict between sources is printed with both sides, every inference is labeled as ours, and every figure that comes from the Southwest Florida MLS is from our pull of October 3, 2026, printed as counts and actual sales instead of estimates.

Where Barefoot Bay is, precisely

Barefoot Bay Court holds house numbers 5320 through 5352, and those numbers follow the Bonita Beach Road address grid, not the Barefoot Beach Boulevard grid. The Boat Club next door is 5025 Bonita Beach Road. The county’s address and parcel layers place the lots at the far north edge of Section 6 on the Collier side of the county line, and the association told the county in March 2025 that the subdivision consists of nine homes with addresses from 5320 to 5352 Barefoot Bay Court, according to the Hearing Examiner backup for a 2025 dock case. The county roll agrees: nine improved homes.

The recorded plat is Plat Book 35, Pages 61 and 62, which the county’s plat index dates to December 13, 2000. Collier County’s Board of County Commissioners granted final acceptance of the Barefoot Bay private road and drainage on November 12, 2019, according to the Board’s agenda item for that date.

What “outside the gate” means in practice

Three things are documented and one is our inference, and we label each. Documented: the court is zoned RSF-5 by Ordinance 91-20 and sits in no planned unit development; its association is separate from the Barefoot Beach associations; and the Master Association’s 2011 bylaws list eight member entities that do not include Barefoot Bay. Documented: the Collier County Parks pages treat the Barefoot Beach Access and the Barefoot Beach Preserve as public pay-to-park beach parks.

Our inference, from the Master bylaws’ member list and not from any statement about Barefoot Bay itself: because Barefoot Bay is not a Master member, its owners are not assessed by the Master Association for the boulevard and the guardhouse. No document we read says that directly. The Master’s member list is silent on how Barefoot Bay is treated, and the same research that found the omission flagged it as an open question. Confirm it with the Barefoot Bay association’s manager before you rely on it.

Other places that share the name

The bare phrase “Barefoot Bay” mostly returns a large retirement community in Brevard County, on Florida’s east coast, which has nothing to do with this court. Collier County’s own Land Development Code Appendix F list of planned unit development ordinances also carries an entry named “Lands End Preserve (Barefoot Bay),” an unrelated East Naples project whose first ordinance, 94-43, is marked repealed. Barefoot Beach Club is the condominium community inside the gate, and The Club at Barefoot Beach is a separate private member club. The Barefoot Boat Club, next door on Bonita Beach Road, is a separate condominium of 90 dry storage units and 18 wet slips and is not part of Barefoot Bay. When this page says Barefoot Bay, it means the nine homes on Barefoot Bay Court, Bonita Springs, Florida 34134.

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Why McGreevy and Comisar Are the Best Realtor for Barefoot Bay

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Recent Barefoot Bay track record (last 12 months): Domain Realty, our brokerage, closed 24 transaction sides in ZIP code 34134, the ZIP code Barefoot Beach shares, in the 12 months to October 5, 2026, for $24.0 million in volume counted by side, per the Southwest Florida MLS pulled that day. The Southwest Florida MLS, pulled October 3, 2026, shows 1 Barefoot Bay closing in the 12 months to that date, at $3,475,000 on December 5, 2025, after 111 days on market and at 92.7% of its final list price of $3,749,000. It is also the highest-priced of the 3 MLS sales in the last 60 months. One sale is too few for a median, so we print the sale itself. What we can state from public records: the Collier County Property Appraiser’s files show one county-qualified Barefoot Bay sale in the last 12 months, at $3,475,000 on November 26, 2025; the county and the MLS count and date sales differently. We tracked every one of the 21 Barefoot Bay sales in the county’s qualified record for this page, and we list all 21 below.

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Living in Barefoot Bay as a Homebuyer

A Barefoot Bay homebuyer gets one of nine large, multi-story single-family homes on a short private court off Bonita Beach Road, under an association with recorded rules on leasing, guests, exterior changes and resale approval, and without the gate, clubhouse or Master Association of the community next door. The trade is scale: nine homes means few neighbors, few comparable sales and few documents to read. Our guide to buying a home in Barefoot Bay in Bonita Springs covers what a buyer should read first: the recorded sales, the documents and the costs.

Data updated: October 2026

What the neighborhood is like, from the record

Every home on the court is a multi-story house on a small lot. The county roll shows base areas of 1,317 to 2,624 square feet and adjusted areas, which include garages, porches and other roofed space, of 3,487 to 5,623 square feet, on small lots, about 1.61 acres in total across all 13 roll parcels according to the county’s parcel data. The declaration requires every residence to have an attached garage for two to four cars, bans carports and detached garages, and requires uniform mailboxes and front-yard lamp posts, according to the recorded declaration. The association, not each owner, maintains lawns and irrigation on every lot as a common expense. The result is a visually consistent court.

Who Barefoot Bay suits

It suits a buyer who wants a newer single-family home within a short drive of the sand, Collier County schools and a Bonita Springs address, who values an association small enough to know every neighbor, and who is comfortable with an association that reviews exterior color, roofing, fences, pools and signs. It suits an owner who plans to live in the home, or to rent it in recorded-rule terms, and who will read the 2023-recorded amendment before making an offer. It also suits a buyer who prefers a ground-up home to a condominium and wants to avoid the Chapter 718 milestone inspection and reserve study regime, which does not apply to a single-family homeowners association.

Who should look harder before buying

Look harder if you expect a guard gate, a staffed boulevard, a clubhouse or beach club, or Master Association amenities. None of these is part of a Barefoot Bay deed. Look harder if you plan short-term vacation rentals, because the recorded rules set a 30-day minimum and a limit of three leases in 12 months. Look harder if you want to buy quickly, because the recorded 2023 amendment makes a sale subject to board approval with a 30-day review. Look harder if you want to keep a boat at the house, because the declaration bars boats outside a garage and bars docks in water management areas without written permission. And look harder if you need many comparable sales, because the county shows three qualified sales in five years.

The three document requests every Barefoot Bay buyer should make

First, ask the association’s manager for the full current declaration and every recorded amendment, so you can read all four recorded instruments listed in the declaration section below. Second, ask for the current budget, the most recent financial report and the rules and regulations, and for the disclosure summary that Florida Statute 720.401 requires the seller to present before contract; if the summary was not provided first, the buyer may cancel by written notice within 3 days after receiving it or before closing, whichever occurs first. Third, ask for the estoppel certificate, which under Florida Statute 720.30851 the association must issue within 10 business days of a request.

Buying in Barefoot Bay? Call Marc at (239) 287-5873, or start with our buyer page and we will request the document set before you make an offer. Choosing an agent for the area more broadly? See our guide to the best real estate agents in Barefoot Beach.

Barefoot Bay Market Snapshot: What Have the Homes Sold For?

Barefoot Bay’s county record shows one qualified sale in the last 12 months, $3,475,000 on November 26, 2025, three in the last 60 months from $1,950,000 to $3,475,000, and 21 since December 2003, so with nine homes and so few recent deals this page lists the sales one by one instead of quoting a median that would mislead.

Data updated: October 2026

The county recorded-sales record

The figures here come from the Collier County Property Appraiser’s public data files dated August 29 and 31, 2026. The newest recorded sale anywhere in that file is August 24, 2026. Qualified sales are a county record of arm’s-length improved sales over $1,000, not MLS closings, and we say so every time. We counted the file’s windows exactly as it gives them.

Only the last row has 10 or more sales, and it spans nearly 23 years, apparent land-only deals in 2004 and several market cycles, so we treat its median as a historical statistic and not as today’s value. The county file labels 6 of the 21 sales builder-direct and 15 resales, an inference it makes from the sale date relative to the roll’s year built.

What the Southwest Florida MLS shows

The Southwest Florida MLS, pulled October 3, 2026, shows 1 Barefoot Bay closing in the 12 months to that date and 3 in the 60 months. Three sales are too few for a median, so we print each one: $3,475,000 on December 5, 2025, after 111 days on market against a final list price of $3,749,000; $3,100,000 on February 5, 2024, after 193 days against a final list price of $3,475,000; and $1,950,000 on October 15, 2021, after 29 days against a final list price of $1,975,000. No Barefoot Bay home was listed for sale or under contract in the Southwest Florida MLS on October 3, 2026. These MLS closings sit beside the county record on this page; the two sources count and date sales differently, and we do not blend them.

The three sales in the last 60 months, with the arithmetic

County base area is the roll’s measure for the largest building on the parcel and is not the MLS living area. The county’s adjusted area adds garages, porches and other roofed space. Because these homes are tall and compact, the two measures differ by a factor of about two to 3.3, so a price per square foot on base area alone overstates how expensive a Barefoot Bay home is against a house with a wider footprint. We show both so that you can see the spread. We do not claim either is the right yardstick.

Every qualified sale on the county record since 2003

All 21 are below, with recording references from the county file. Addresses and recording references of sales are public record. We do not publish buyer or seller names.

We tracked every one of the 21 Barefoot Bay closings in the county record, and these are the ones the county marked qualified. Eight of the nine homes have at least one qualified sale on the record. The ninth, at 5320 Barefoot Bay Ct, has none in the county file.

Three things the sales list shows that a median hides

First, the three $795,000 sales recorded on March 1, 2004 for the homes now at 5332, 5336 and 5340 Barefoot Bay Ct are the same price on the same day, and the roll dates those homes to 2004, 2006 and 2017. Our inference, which we label as ours, is that these were sales of land, not of finished homes. The county file’s “builder-direct” label is a date inference, not a document.

Second, the home at 5340 Barefoot Bay Ct sold in 2004 as land, resold in December 2009 for $1,500,000, again in March 2015 for $1,700,000 and again in February 2020 for $1,800,000, yet the roll’s year built is 2017. A home that sold as a finished home in 2009 and carries a 2017 year built was most likely rebuilt or substantially renovated; we did not read the permit file, so we do not say which.

Third, the three resales closing between December 21, 2009 and January 29, 2010 ($1,450,000, $1,500,000 and $1,350,000) cluster just after September 1, 2009, the date by which a recorded 2006 amendment says a resort membership club had to stop using lots in the neighborhood. That timing is a coincidence we noticed, not a finding. We did not read the deeds’ parties and we do not say who sold.

Not county-qualified deeds

Recorded deeds over $100,000 that the county did not mark qualified are shown separately and are never folded into the series above. For Barefoot Bay the county file lists none in the last 60 months. Its by-year count shows one such deed in 2018. We did not itemize it, because the file does not list it beyond the count. The county’s qualified flag is thin in some years, so a missing deed is not proof that none was recorded.

The latest qualified sale at each home

Five of the nine homes last sold more than five years ago, and two have not had a county-qualified sale since 2009 or 2007. That matters for pricing: a seller’s nearest comparable is often a different house, a different year or both, and an appraiser has to adjust for it.

How much of Barefoot Bay turns over in a year?

One qualified sale in the last 12 months against nine homes is a turnover of 1 / 9 = 11.1 percent for the year. Three qualified sales in the last 60 months against nine homes is 3 / 9 = 33.3 percent over five years, or about 6.7 percent a year. With so few homes, a single sale moves the percentage by 11 points, so we read the pace as slow and irregular. We do not read it as a trend.

Does the county’s value track the price?

The county’s 2026 preliminary just value is an assessment, not an appraisal and not a price. For the three sales in the last 60 months, the sale price divided by the home’s 2026 preliminary just value is $1,950,000 / $2,104,066 = 0.93 for 5324, $3,100,000 / $2,394,983 = 1.29 for 5344 and $3,475,000 / $2,099,621 = 1.66 for 5332. Two of the three sold well above the county’s number. The reason is not in the record, and three sales are too few to build a rule. The honest use of the county value is as a floor for tax math, not as a ceiling on price.

Barefoot Bay beside three neighbors, on the same yardsticks

No median is shown for the three small samples (3, 6 and 4 sales), and the windows are the same 60 months for every column. Southport on the Bay’s median rests on 29 sales and is the only one in the row. Read the Bayfront Gardens page and the Southport on the Bay page for each neighbor’s own audit.

What Is Your Barefoot Bay Home Worth? Get a Free Valuation From People Who Read the Record

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Where Did Barefoot Bay Come From? Origins, Declaration and Plat

Barefoot Bay began as a county-approved nine-lot plat, Plat Book 35, Pages 61 and 62, dated December 13, 2000 in the county’s plat index, developed by Damon Custom Structures, Inc. under a 46-page recorded declaration that creates a single-family neighborhood and a not-for-profit property owner’s association, with homes following from 2002 to 2006 and one roll date of 2017.

Data updated: October 2026

The zoning that came first

Before the plat, the land was rezoned. The county’s zoning layer shows the Barefoot Bay court as RSF-5, a residential single-family district allowing up to five units to the acre, from rezone petition R-90-30 adopted as Ordinance 91-20 on February 26, 1991, on a polygon of about 1.8 acres. The county’s land use layer places it in the Urban Residential Subdistrict. No planned unit development covers it. That fact separates Barefoot Bay from the Lely Barefoot Beach planned unit development next door, which is why a page about Barefoot Bay cannot cite the Barefoot Beach planned unit development ordinances for its rules.

The plat and the county agreements

The final plat was processed as county application 00-36. The Board’s agenda item records a construction and maintenance agreement between the county and the developer dated November 14, 2000, preliminary acceptance on November 14, 2001 and final acceptance of the private road and drainage on November 12, 2019, according to the Board’s November 12, 2019 agenda item. Eighteen years between preliminary and final acceptance is long, and the agenda does not explain it. We note it and draw no conclusion.

The declaration, OR 2754 PG 899

The Declaration of Covenants, Conditions, Restrictions and Easements for Barefoot Bay is recorded in Official Records Book 2754 beginning at Page 899 and runs 46 pages. We downloaded the image from the Collier County Clerk’s public records and read it by optical character recognition. The declaration image names Damon Custom Structures, Inc., a Florida corporation, as the developer, and the Clerk’s recording stamp on the first page reads December 19, 2000 at 2:01 p.m.

The date conflict is real, and we print both. The Clerk’s index gives December 13, 2000, and the first recorded amendment recites that the declaration was recorded “effective December 13, 2000.” That is also the plat date in the county’s plat index. The clerk’s stamp reads December 19. We cannot tell from the image whether December 13 is an effective date written into the document or a plat date carried over, so we use “December 2000” for the declaration and quote each date with its source.

What the declaration does, in plain words: it makes each owner a member of the association, with one vote per lot; it gives the association the power to levy assessments on an equal one-ninth share per lot; it sets architectural control; it fixes use restrictions on pets, parking, signs, garages and pools; it sets insurance and rebuilding duties for owners; it gives the association lien rights; and it states that the neighborhood is not a condominium and not subject to Chapter 718 except where a section of that chapter is expressly borrowed.

Four recorded instruments, in order

You can open the First Amendment, the Second Amendment and the 2023 certificate and amendment in the same public records system.

The resort-club chapter, 2004 to 2009

The history matters because it explains why the current leasing rules read the way they do. The 2004 First Amendment rewrote the residential-use section so that a resort membership program, and it named Exclusive Resorts as an example, could use homes in the neighborhood without that counting as business use, and it rewrote the leasing section to remove any minimum or maximum lease term. The 2006 Second Amendment, adopted by the unanimous written consent of all owners, restored the original residential-use and leasing text and added a section allowing Exclusive Resorts, LLC and its affiliates to operate a resort membership club, including transient use, on up to eight lots until September 1, 2006, six until September 1, 2007, four until September 1, 2008, two until September 1, 2009, and none after that. The 2023 amendment deleted that section.

That is a documented fact about a recorded instrument. We do not say how many homes were used that way, whether any home still is, or who owns any home today.

Duration of the covenants

The declaration says its covenants run for an initial period that ends on the 30th anniversary of recording, which puts the end of the first term in December 2030, and then renew automatically for successive ten-year periods unless at least three-fourths of the votes cast at a meeting in the last year of a period vote to end it. The declaration also says no amendment may change a lot’s share of assessments or an owner’s voting rights without that owner’s consent.

How the association is organized

The Barefoot Bay Property Owner’s Association, Inc. is a Florida not-for-profit corporation, filed September 25, 2000 and active with no recorded events on the Florida Division of Corporations record. Its registered agent is a Naples management company’s address. We do not name individuals, and we do not name the management company on this page. The declaration lets the association hire a management agent for proposals, assessment collection, records and rule enforcement, and requires the association to follow Sections 720.301 to 720.312 of the Florida Statutes.

What Are the Nine Barefoot Bay Homes Like?

The nine Barefoot Bay homes are multi-story single-family houses on small platted lots, built from 2002 to 2006 with one roll date of 2017, with county base areas of 1,317 to 2,624 square feet, county adjusted areas of 3,487 to 5,623 square feet, and 2026 preliminary just values of $1,879,666 to $3,418,192.

Data updated: October 2026

Home by home, from the county roll

Source: Collier County Property Appraiser, 2026 preliminary tax roll. The median base area is 1,543 square feet and the median adjusted area is 4,575 square feet. The nine homes’ just values add to $21,932,529. The year-built counts are two homes in 2002, two in 2003, one each in 2004 and 2005, two in 2006 and one in 2017.

The year-built spread, and a 2001 that is not a home

Tallies of the county roll sometimes read 2001 to 2017 and sometimes 2002 to 2017. Both are correct for what they count. The roll carries three small common tracts and the road as four separate parcels valued at $100 each, and one of the tracts has an 804 square foot structure with a roll year of 2001. The nine homes themselves run 2002 to 2017. We use 2002 to 2017 for homes.

The 2017 roll year at 5340

One home carries a roll year of 2017, but it sold as a finished home in 2009, 2015 and 2020. That fits a rebuild or major renovation, and we did not read permits to say which. A buyer or an appraiser should treat that home as a different age than its neighbors for systems, roof and insurance purposes, and should ask for the permit history, which the county’s permit portal holds from 2011 and its older system holds from 1989 to 2011.

Garages, driveways and what the declaration requires

Every residence must have an attached or built-in garage for two to four automobiles, with a 16-foot overhead door or two 8-foot doors, according to the declaration. Carports and detached garages are banned, and a garage may not be permanently converted without substituting another and getting approval. Owners are responsible for their driveways. Boats, campers and recreational vehicles may be kept only inside a garage.

Landscaping and exteriors

The association maintains lawn care and irrigation on every lot and charges the cost as a common expense, except in areas designated as areas of high maintenance, such as a rose garden, and within an enclosed courtyard, which the owner maintains. Stone, gravel or paving may not replace grass. Exterior color changes, roofing material changes, fences, outdoor lighting and landscaping changes need the board’s prior written approval, and the board may refuse on purely aesthetic grounds.

Waterfront: not documented

The county roll carries no waterfront flag for these parcels, and no recorded document we read states which lots, if any, touch the back bay. The declaration’s own water language is about retention and drainage areas, not a bay: it bars any structure, including docks, in a water management area without the written permission of the association and the developer, and it bars fishing, boating, swimming and wading in those areas. It also bars keeping a boat anywhere in the neighborhood except inside a garage.

The one boating statement we found is secondhand. The association’s March 2025 letter in the Collier County Hearing Examiner backup for a neighboring dock petition is reported to say that a Barefoot Bay resident keeps a 27.5-foot boat and that Barefoot Bay lot owners boat from the same waterway as their neighbors. We have not reopened that backup file, because the Clerk’s agenda viewer opens only in a browser, and the letter does not say where the boat is kept. We therefore make no claim about water frontage, riparian rights, seawalls or docks. A buyer who is paying for water should ask for the survey, the plat, any dock permit and the association’s written answer on boat storage.

What Amenities Does Barefoot Bay Have?

Barefoot Bay’s documented amenities are the common areas its declaration describes, namely a surface water management system, entry features, walls, entrance gates, project signage, commonly used utility facilities and a decorative fountain, with no clubhouse, pool or beach club documented, and nothing that comes from the Barefoot Beach Master Association or The Club at Barefoot Beach.

Data updated: October 2026

Tier one: inside Barefoot Bay

The declaration lists those common areas as descriptive examples, not as a promise that each exists. We found no official association website and no amenity page for Barefoot Bay, so we cannot confirm which items are built today. In particular, we cannot confirm that the court has an operating gate. The declaration lists entrance gates among its common area examples and also states that the association may, but need not, provide security. A buyer should look at the entrance in person and ask the manager.

Tier two: the Master and umbrella associations

None. Barefoot Bay is not one of the eight entities the Barefoot Beach Master Association’s recorded 2011 bylaws list as members, and we found nothing granting Barefoot Bay owners any right in the Master’s boulevard, guardhouse or other facilities. The Master’s bylaws describe its purpose as owning and maintaining about 1.8 miles of Barefoot Beach Boulevard and providing security.

Tier three: separate memberships and public facilities

The Club at Barefoot Beach is a separate private member club with a stated capacity of 425, and its own site says that as of June 1, 2026 it is temporarily not accepting waitlist applications, according to its membership page. Membership is not conveyed with any deed. The county’s public beach parks are open to everyone: the Barefoot Beach Preserve page shows the preserve open year-round from 8 a.m. to sunset, and the county places the separate Barefoot Beach Access 20 feet off Bonita Beach Road. The county’s beach parking information says Collier residents are eligible for a free beach parking permit upon proof of residency, and non-residents pay a flat daily fee.

What we do not list

We do not list a pool, tennis court, dock, playground or any other amenity for Barefoot Bay, because no recorded document or county record we read establishes one. If you are told Barefoot Bay has an amenity, ask which instrument or permit says so.

What Does the Barefoot Bay Fee Bundle Cover?

No dollar assessment figure for Barefoot Bay appears in any recorded document or public page we found, so we publish none, but the recorded declaration says what the assessments cover: landscape, lawn and irrigation maintenance on every lot, the surface water management system, conservation areas, common area insurance and the association’s costs, shared one-ninth per lot.

Data updated: October 2026

What the declaration says assessments pay for

The declaration defines common expenses to include the operation, maintenance, repair, replacement or protection of the common areas and association property, insurance for the association and its directors and officers, and any expense the governing documents designate. It specifically makes these common expenses: lawn care and irrigation maintenance on each lot; the operation and maintenance of the surface water management system; perpetual maintenance and signage for the conservation areas; mowing and maintenance of off-site drainage improvements required by agreements with governmental entities; the premiums on the association’s property, liability and fidelity insurance; the cost of treated-effluent irrigation if the association uses it; and a bulk cable or satellite contract if the board enters one.

How the cost is shared

Each lot owes an equal share of every annual and special assessment, a fraction with one as the numerator and the total number of lots as the denominator. The declaration says the denominator is conclusively presumed to be nine until the neighborhood is complete. A lot’s share does not depend on its size, value or street position. The association may also levy service assessments against fewer than all lots for services it provides to particular lots, and it may charge an owner for maintenance it performs because the owner failed to do it.

What happens when an owner does not pay

An unpaid assessment becomes a charge and continuing lien on the lot once the association records a claim of lien. The declaration says the lien is superior to homestead rights and subordinate to a recorded institutional first mortgage unless the claim of lien was recorded first. A transferee is jointly and severally liable with the transferor for assessments unpaid before the transfer. The association may charge interest at the highest legal rate and a late fee of the greater of $25 or the legal maximum, may suspend voting rights after 90 days’ delinquency and may foreclose. That is why the estoppel certificate matters at closing.

What the dollar amounts would be

Not published. The route is the current budget, the most recent financial report and the estoppel certificate from the association’s manager, which Florida Statute 720.303 and Florida Statute 720.401 make available: the records to owners, and to a prospective buyer only the disclosure summary, which states the assessment amount. The statute does not require a seller to deliver the budget or the financial report, so a buyer asks for them. Every figure we have seen quoted for a Barefoot Bay association fee in a listing or directory, we have not used.

Is there a Master Association assessment?

Our inference, labeled as ours, is no: Barefoot Bay is not on the Master Association’s 2011 member list, and the Master’s bylaws describe assessing its member entities. We found no document that states how, or whether, Barefoot Bay owners contribute to the boulevard and guardhouse through any other body. Ask the manager to confirm in writing.

What Are the Layered Costs of Owning in Barefoot Bay?

Owning in Barefoot Bay layers a Collier County property tax bill, the association’s assessments, the owner’s required property and flood insurance, a sale approval and processing step set by the 2023-recorded amendment, and a statutory estoppel fee, and the only layer with published numbers is the county tax roll, where the median home’s preliminary 2026 bill is $22,635.42.

Data updated: October 2026

Property tax, worked from the county roll

The 2026 preliminary millage is 9.4020 mills on every parcel in the area: the county 3.9293, the school board 4.1470 and other taxing authorities 1.3257, with no municipal levy (the Florida Department of Revenue groups the taxing authorities in its Collier taxing authority code descriptions). The median 2026 preliminary just value for the nine homes is $2,407,512. As an illustration for a non-homestead purchase at that value, before exemptions and non-ad valorem charges, $2,407,512 x 9.4020 / 1,000 = $22,635.43. The county’s actual median 2026 preliminary tax bill for the nine homes is $22,635.42. The one-cent difference is rounding.

That match is not a coincidence. For the six homes without a homestead exemption, the roll’s tax bill equals the just value times 9.4020 mills to within a cent. The three homesteaded homes pay less than that arithmetic gives, by $1,262.02 at 5324, $373.84 at 5332 and $4,920.76 at 5344, because of the homestead exemption and the assessment cap that apply to homesteaded property. We did not separate the two effects. Homestead is a proxy for full-time residency: 3 of 9 homes, or 33.3 percent, carry it.

Your own bill depends on your exemptions, the final roll and any non-ad valorem charges. The preliminary 2026 numbers are not a quote for your bill.

Insurance: the owner’s duty and the market’s rules

The declaration requires each owner to keep property insurance on the residence and all insurable improvements at full replacement cost and makes the association an additional insured on property and flood policies. If an owner lets coverage lapse, the association may buy coverage and charge the owner. The association carries its own liability, casualty and fidelity coverage on common areas.

The market adds its own rules. Under Florida Statute 627.351, Citizens Property Insurance does not cover a structure whose dwelling replacement cost is $700,000 or more, with a $1 million ceiling in counties where the Office of Insurance Regulation finds no reasonable competition, and Citizens requires a personal-lines policyholder whose home is inside a FEMA special flood hazard area, as every Barefoot Bay address we tested is, to carry flood coverage, from issuance for new policies since April 1, 2023 and at renewal since July 1, 2023. Outside those areas the requirement phases in by dwelling replacement cost and reaches all other personal lines residential property on January 1, 2027. We cannot say whether any Barefoot Bay home qualifies, because a dwelling’s replacement cost is a different number from the county’s just value, which includes land. Whether Collier County currently has the higher ceiling is not in the statute text we read. We give no premium figure, because we found no document that supports one.

Approval and transfer costs

The 2023-recorded amendment lets the association charge a processing fee for approving a sale, in an amount not exceeding the maximum permitted by law, and a transfer fee for each lease applicant in an amount the board sets, which unless it specifies otherwise is the legal maximum. It also allows a reasonable estoppel fee set by board resolution. No dollar amount appears in the instrument. A lender, closing agent and title company will each ask for the figures.

The estoppel certificate

Under Florida Statute 720.30851, the association must issue an estoppel certificate within 10 business days after a written request, and may charge a fee that is capped by statute. The statute adjusts the caps every five years for inflation and directs the Department of Business and Professional Regulation to publish the adjusted amounts, so check the current figures before you budget. The declaration’s older text gives the association 15 days to certify assessments, and the statute’s 10 business days controls the timing.

The deed tax and the title policy

Florida’s documentary stamp tax on a deed is 70 cents per $100 of consideration under Florida Statute 201.02. As an illustration only, on the $3,475,000 sale recorded on November 26, 2025, 34,750 x $0.70 = $24,325. The contract decides who pays it, and in Florida the seller customarily does. In Collier County, the buyer customarily pays the owner’s title policy and chooses the closing agent. Treat both as custom, not law, and read your contract.

Other costs we cannot price

Move-in deposits, lease application fees, the sale approval fee and any special assessment are not in any public record we read. We found no public notice of a Barefoot Bay special assessment or capital project, and we do not say none exists. Ask for the budget and the minutes.

Declaration, Bylaws, Rules and Approvals in Barefoot Bay

Barefoot Bay owners are governed by a 2000 declaration, three recorded amendments and rules the board adopts, and the provisions that most affect a buyer are board approval of exterior changes and signs, a 30-day review of leases, limits on overnight guests and, under the 2023-recorded amendment, board approval of a sale before it can close.

Data updated: October 2026

What a buyer can read before contract

Every recorded instrument is public. The declaration and the three amendments are in the Collier County Clerk’s records at the book and page numbers above, and the seller must present a prospective buyer with the disclosure summary required by Florida Statute 720.401. The declaration says the articles of incorporation and the bylaws are attached to it as exhibits. We read the declaration body and the three amendments in full. We did not read the exhibits, and we state nothing about the bylaws.

How to read the 2023 amendment

The 2023 instrument is an 11-page redline in which additions are underlined and deletions are struck through. We read a scanned image by optical character recognition, which cannot tell an underline from plain text, so we describe the clean text as the operative text, and we mark every rule below as our reading of the image. The image controls. A Florida real estate attorney or your title agent should read it before you sign.

The certificate on the first page says the amendment was approved at a duly noticed members’ meeting on a Monday in May. Our reading of the scan gives May 7, 2012, and the notary block fits a 2012 signing, but the instrument was recorded on January 10, 2023. The declaration says an amendment is effective when its certificate and a copy of the amendment are recorded in the Collier County public records. We do not give a legal opinion on how a ten-year gap between a vote and a recording affects the amendment. Put that question to your attorney and your title agent.

Governance in brief

Each lot has one vote. The board acts for the association, and the declaration says the officers and directors have a fiduciary relationship to the members. The board needs the prior approval of at least three-fourths of the voting interests before it pays legal fees in contemplation of a lawsuit, except for collecting assessments, enforcing the governing documents, emergencies and compulsory counterclaims. Official records are open to members within 10 business days of a written request, according to both the declaration and Florida Statute 720.303.

Architectural control and exterior changes

After the developer’s initial construction, no owner may materially change the exterior color of the residence or any appurtenant structure, or the color or style of roofing, without the board’s prior written approval. No building, structure or improvement may be erected or altered, and no grading, excavation, landscaping or other work that materially alters the exterior appearance may be done, without prior written approval. The board may refuse on purely aesthetic grounds. Fences, walls and hedges, exterior lighting, satellite equipment above the federal 18-inch exemption, mailboxes, pools and landscaping changes are each separately addressed. No above-ground pool is permitted, and pool appurtenances need approval.

Signs, flags and holiday lighting

The declaration bars any sign visible from the street, and it names brokerage and for-sale or for-lease signs, without the board’s prior written approval. One United States flag per home is permitted subject to location and size rules. The board may set standards for holiday lights. For a seller, the sign rule is practical: ask the manager how a for-sale sign is approved before you list. Picketing and posting negative signs are prohibited.

Selling: board approval of sales

This is the provision a seller and a buyer both need to read. As we read the 2023 amendment, no owner may dispose of a home by sale, gift, agreement for deed, installment sale, lease-option or other title transfer without the board’s prior written approval. The owner gives the board notice with the purchase contract and exhibits, and the board may require credit history, a criminal background investigation, past residency or employment verification, personal references and a personal interview with the buyer and all proposed occupants. The board must approve or disapprove within 30 days after receiving the notice and information. If the buyer is an entity, or more than one individual who are not married, approval is conditioned on approval of a primary occupant.

If the board says no

The amendment separates disapproval without good cause from disapproval for good cause. If the board disapproves a bona fide sale without good cause, then within 30 days the association must deliver an agreement for the association or an approved purchaser to buy the home, at the price in the disapproved contract or at fair market value set by two appraisers, at the association’s option, paid in cash and closed within 30 days or within 10 days after a price is set, whichever is later. If the association fails to do this, the sale is deemed approved. The listed grounds for good cause are conduct inconsistent with the governing documents, a conviction for a crime of violence, dishonesty or moral turpitude, any felony or a sexual offense, a record of financial irresponsibility including bankruptcies, foreclosures or bad debts, a history of disruptive behavior, failure to provide information or fees, unpaid fines and unpaid assessments. For a good-cause disapproval the association has no duty to buy.

What this means for contracts

A contract on a Barefoot Bay home should say that closing depends on board approval and should leave time for a 30-day review plus the association’s estoppel. Many single-family associations have no sale-approval right at all, so a right of approval over sales is the kind of provision that a Florida attorney should read in the recorded image before a buyer relies on our summary.

Fines and the hearing panel

The declaration allows fines of up to $100 per violation, assessed daily for a continuing violation with one notice and opportunity for a hearing, with an aggregate cap of $1,000. A fine or suspension needs at least 14 days’ notice and a hearing before a panel of at least three members appointed by the board who are not officers, directors or employees or their close relatives, and a majority of the panel must approve it. Fines are a special charge due 10 days after written notice.

How the documents change

Amendments may be proposed by the board or by a petition of one-fourth of the voting interests and are adopted by two-thirds of the voting interests present and voting at a meeting called for the purpose. No amendment may change a lot’s share of assessment liability or an owner’s voting rights without that owner’s consent. An amendment takes effect on recording. The 2004 amendment passed by more than two-thirds of the owners at a special meeting, the 2006 amendment by the unanimous written consent of all owners, and the 2023 certificate recites approval by the required voting interests at a meeting.

Selling a Barefoot Bay home? Get a free valuation or call Jesse at (239) 898-6072. Buying? Call Marc at (239) 287-5873 or see our buyer page.

Can You Rent Out a Barefoot Bay Home?

Yes, under recorded limits: leases must be written, last at least 30 consecutive days, occur no more than three times in a 12-month period, and receive board approval, tenants may not keep pets and may park no more than two vehicles, and a home may not be used for transient lodging, according to the 2023-recorded amendment as we read it.

Data updated: October 2026

What the recorded rules say

All leases must be in writing. No individual rooms may be rented, no transient occupants may be accommodated, and rent-sharing and subleasing are prohibited. The minimum lease period is 30 days. A home may not be leased more than three times in a 12-month period. The leasing privilege is described as a privilege and not a right, and the board may revoke it if an owner abuses it. The amendment’s stated purpose is to foster a stable residential community and prevent a transient atmosphere.

The board’s approval process

The board approves every lease, renewal and extension and every occupant, and may require a uniform lease form, an addendum, an application and an interview. An owner must submit the proposed lease, an application and any required fee at least 30 days before the lease or renewal begins. The association has 30 days to approve or disapprove in writing, and a request not acted on within 30 days is deemed approved. A disapproval must state its reason briefly. The listed grounds include a violent or dishonest criminal conviction, signs the applicant intends to violate the governing documents, a disruptive history, failure to provide information or fees, unpaid assessments, fines or charges against the home, and the owner’s own history of poor screening or leasing without approval. The board may also require a security deposit of up to one month’s rent, held in an association escrow account.

Tenant conduct, rent redirection and fees

Every lease is subject to the declaration. A violation is a material breach and the association may evict in its own name or as the owner’s agent and recover costs and attorney’s fees from the owner, secured by a continuing lien. The association may direct that rent be paid to it until past-due obligations are paid in full. The owner pays a transfer fee for each applicant, in an amount the board sets, which unless specified is the legal maximum.

Guests are regulated too

The amendment defines a guest as someone present on a temporary basis, without consideration, for seven days or less, and defines a lease to include any right to occupy for consideration for any length of time and any no-consideration occupancy longer than seven days. It limits overnight guests to two persons per bedroom. Overnight guests in the owner’s or tenant’s absence are allowed for seven days or less, limited to two occupancies a calendar year with 10 days’ prior written notice. Non-overnight guests in the owner’s absence are not permitted, though owners may have caretakers, friends or relatives inspect the home. The board may ask for proof that an occupancy held out as a guest stay involved no payment.

Short-term rentals and the county

On our reading, a home leased on these terms does not trigger Collier County’s vacation rental registration, which applies under Ordinance 2021-45 to rentals under 30 consecutive days, or under one full calendar month, more than three times in a calendar year. The county lists fines of up to $500 per violation per day, and it requires a business tax receipt and tourist development tax registration through the Tax Collector for those rentals. The declaration separately deems use of a home as a public lodging establishment to be a business or commercial use, and bans time-sharing, so the association’s rule is stricter than the county’s.

Why rental rules matter for resale and insurance

A buyer who plans to rent needs to know the approval and fee rules before closing, because the three-lease limit and the 30-day review cap what a rental can earn and how quickly a tenant can move in. Insurers also treat tenant occupancy differently from owner occupancy, and a buyer who plans to rent should ask an insurance agent before closing. We found no record of how many Barefoot Bay homes are rented.

Selling a Barefoot Bay home? Get a free valuation or call Jesse at (239) 898-6072. Buying? Call Marc at (239) 287-5873 or see our buyer page.

Are Pets Allowed in Barefoot Bay?

Owners may keep a reasonable number of household pets such as a dog, cat, tropical fish or caged birds, leashed or carried outside, but tenants may not keep any pet, no owner may lease a home where a pet is kept, and reptiles, amphibians, poultry and livestock are barred, according to the recorded declaration and its 2023 amendment.

Data updated: October 2026

What the declaration says

Pets must be carried under the owner’s arm or leashed whenever outside the home, and the owner must clean up after the pet. Keeping a pet is a privilege and not a right, and the board may order the removal of a pet that becomes an unreasonable annoyance. Pets may not be left unattended on screened porches, lanais, yards or in garages. The declaration does not set a weight limit or a count, and it leaves the number to be reasonable and subject to the association’s regulation.

The tenant pet ban

As we read the 2023 amendment, tenants may not keep pets in the neighborhood or in a home, and no owner may lease a home in which a pet of any kind is kept. That is stricter than most associations, and it narrows the rental pool for pet owners. A pet clause does not control a request for an assistance animal as a disability accommodation, which federal and Florida fair housing law governs, so ask the manager and, if needed, a Florida attorney.

Dogs on the beach

The county page for the Barefoot Beach Preserve says no dogs are permitted. The county’s page for the separate Barefoot Beach Access does not state a dog rule, and we did not find a county-wide beach dog rule, so check with Collier County Parks and Recreation at 239-252-4000 before you bring a dog to either.

Barefoot Bay Flood Zone, Storm Posture and Insurance

Every Barefoot Bay address we tested sits in a FEMA Special Flood Hazard Area, Zone AE with a base flood elevation of 10 or 11 feet NAVD88 and no V zone, in evacuation Zone A, and on our reading of the federal map layer no Barefoot Bay parcel is inside a Coastal Barrier Resources System unit, so federal flood insurance is available as mapped.

Data updated: October 2026

What we queried and when

On October 1, 2026 we sent each address’s county address point to FEMA’s National Flood Hazard Layer and read back the zone, the static base flood elevation and the Collier County map panel. We also intersected the county’s 2025 building footprints and the parcel polygons with the flood zone polygons, and we queried the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Coastal Barrier Resources System mapper. Shares of a footprint in a zone and the position of the Limit of Moderate Wave Action are our reading of public map layers, and the effective map panel and an elevation certificate control.

The four addresses we tested

Across all 13 roll parcels on the court, the county’s flood layers put every parcel in AE with a base flood elevation of 10 feet, and 8 of the 13 also touch an AE 11 band. None touches a V zone. A building that touches two zones is rated in the more hazardous one under FEMA’s rule, so the footprint share at 5336 is a reason to read the elevation certificate and not the point lookup.

What AE and the Limit of Moderate Wave Action mean here

Zone AE is a mapped 1 percent annual chance floodplain with a base flood elevation. The Limit of Moderate Wave Action is a line on the flood map. Landward of it, an AE zone is treated as ordinary AE. Seaward of it, the zone is a Coastal A Zone, where breaking waves of 1.5 feet or more are expected and where Florida’s building code applies coastal high hazard design to new construction. By our reading of the county layers, the four Barefoot Bay addresses we tested sit seaward of the line, by 46 to 107 meters. That is our geometry and not a mapped determination. The FIRM panel and an elevation certificate control, and a surveyor can settle any lot.

Elevation certificates

Collier County publishes an index of the elevation certificates it holds, with a link to each certificate. As of October 1, 2026 that layer holds 8 certificate records for Barefoot Bay Ct. We did not open the certificates, so we state no floor elevation. The county’s floodmap search will tell you whether a certificate is on file for an address, or you can call the county’s Flood Info Hotline at (239) 252-2942. If none is on file, a Florida professional surveyor and mapper can prepare one.

The map is changing on paper only

FEMA issued preliminary Collier County flood maps on March 20, 2025. The county says they remain preliminary and should not be treated as the effective maps, and that a 90-day comment and appeal period began on August 19, 2026, which by our arithmetic ends around November 17, 2026. Our query of FEMA’s preliminary layer found the zone and base flood elevation identical to the effective 2024 values at every Barefoot Beach address point it could resolve. The preliminary maps re-issue two of the three panels covering Barefoot Beach, including the one that holds Barefoot Bay, as suffix K, without changing the zones we tested.

The Coastal Barrier Resources System answer, carefully

On our reading of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Coastal Barrier Resources System layer on October 1, 2026, no Barefoot Bay parcel is inside a Coastal Barrier Resources System unit or an otherwise protected area. A System Unit, P17 Lovers Key, lies across the back bay north of Bonita Beach Road and comes within about 88 meters of the nearest Barefoot Bay Court lot, at 5320, but it touches no Barefoot Bay parcel. The USFWS page on federal flood insurance and the Coastal Barrier Resources Act explains that federal flood insurance is available inside a unit only for structures built before the unit’s prohibition date, which is why the question matters. For a specific lot, check the Service’s official mapper and ask a licensed flood insurance agent. Our reading is not a determination.

Evacuation zone and the one road out

Collier County puts every Barefoot Beach address we tested in evacuation Zone A, the first zone ordered out, and Barefoot Bay follows Collier County’s orders, not Lee County’s, even though the mailing address says Bonita Springs. Bonita Beach Road is the one road out for Barefoot Beach, Barefoot Bay’s own court opens directly onto it, and the county’s address lookup will confirm your zone. The county’s evacuation lookup, AlertCollier and the state’s know-your-zone tool are the live sources.

What Hurricane Ian measured nearby

The U.S. Geological Survey surveyed an Ian high-water mark of 11.76 feet NAVD88 inside Barefoot Beach, at the northwest corner of Barefoot Beach Boulevard and Anguilla Lane, 4.5 feet above ground, quality rated Good. By our arithmetic from the published coordinates, that point is roughly 230 to 330 meters from the Barefoot Bay lots we tested. The map’s base flood elevation at that spot is 10 feet, so the mark was about 1.8 feet above it. The mark is not a stillwater mark, so it includes some wave effect, and it is a mark inside the gate, not a measurement at Barefoot Bay Court. The National Hurricane Center’s report gives maximum inundation of 8 to 12 feet above ground in Estero, Bonita Beach, Bonita Springs and North Naples. We state no damage to any Barefoot Bay home, because we found no recorded or government document that does.

Helene and Milton

After Helene and Milton in 2024, Florida DEP’s post-storm report put Barefoot Beach’s Gulf shoreline in its worst dune-erosion class. That is a statement about the beach, not about Barefoot Bay Court. The National Hurricane Center puts Helene’s maximum surge from Englewood to Bonita Beach at 3 to 5 feet above ground, and Milton’s at 4 to 6 feet from south of Boca Grande through Bonita Beach and 3 to 5 feet from Bonita Beach through Marco Island. We did not find a Barefoot Bay-specific damage record for either storm.

Wind

Collier County publishes the Florida Building Code 8th Edition wind-speed contours as map layers. At the Barefoot Beach address points the Risk Category II design wind speed is 161 miles per hour across most of the community, and the Risk Category III value is 175 mph across most of the community and 174 mph at the north-east corner, which includes part of Barefoot Bay Court. These are ultimate design wind speeds, which we read as three-second gusts. They are design values for new construction and not a forecast.

The 50 percent rule and the declaration’s rebuild clock

Under Collier County’s floodplain ordinance, a repair, addition or improvement whose cost equals or exceeds 50 percent of the building’s market value, or repair of substantial damage, is a substantial improvement, and the building must then meet current floodplain standards. The county values the building from the Property Appraiser’s improved value, and it may add 20 percent. The county’s freeboard is one foot above base flood elevation.

The declaration adds a clock. After damage, the owner must remove debris and begin repair within 90 days and finish within nine months, and the association may extend those periods and may step in after 30 days’ notice if the owner does not. The declaration also says repair must restore the home’s original character and use the original foundation and appearance unless otherwise approved. If the 50 percent rule calls for raising a home, the foundation rule and the rule on approval are questions to put to the board and the county before a storm, not after.

Insurance and what we will not say

The owner must keep full replacement-cost property insurance and the association must be named as an additional insured. Unincorporated Collier County holds a Class 5 rating in FEMA’s Community Rating System, which the county’s own flood protection newsletter says gives eligible federal flood policies a 25 percent premium discount. We give no premium or deductible figure. We found no document to support one. A seller’s roof age and a current wind-mitigation inspection are the facts buyers and insurers ask for first.

Selling a Barefoot Bay home? Call Jesse at (239) 898-6072, text or call, and we will pull the flood, elevation and insurance questions before you list.

Milestone Inspection and SIRS: Why They Do Not Apply in Barefoot Bay

Florida’s milestone inspection and structural integrity reserve study requirements apply to condominium and cooperative buildings of three or more habitable stories, and Barefoot Bay is a single-family homeowners association under Chapter 720, whose declaration says it is not a condominium, so a Barefoot Bay buyer should request the association’s budget and reserve statement instead.

Data updated: October 2026

What the statutes cover

Florida Statute 553.899 requires a milestone inspection of a building of three or more habitable stories that is subject to the condominium or cooperative form of ownership, by December 31 of the year the building reaches 30 years old and every 10 years after. The structural integrity reserve study requirement sits in Section 718.112(2)(g), the condominium statute. Barefoot Bay’s homes are individually owned houses on platted lots. The declaration states that the association is not a condominium association, that no portion of the neighborhood is submitted to the condominium form of ownership, and that it is not governed by Chapter 718 except where a section is expressly borrowed.

What to request instead

Request the current annual budget and see whether it includes reserve accounts for capital expenditures and deferred maintenance. Under Section 720.303 a Chapter 720 budget may include reserve accounts, and whether this association funds any is a fact for its documents, not for us. Request the most recent financial report, the minutes of the last two board meetings, any engineering or drainage report on the surface water management system, and any conservation easement or water management permit correspondence the association maintains, which the declaration says it must keep.

The homes still need their own inspection

No association inspection replaces a home inspection, a four-point or wind-mitigation inspection and a roof inspection by a licensed inspector. A buyer should also ask for a copy of the seller’s permit history. Those are the owner’s duties under the declaration. The association is responsible for the surface water system and the common areas, and each owner is responsible for the home.

Which Schools Serve Barefoot Bay? Check by Address

Barefoot Bay is zoned for Naples Park Elementary School, North Naples Middle School and Aubrey Rogers High School in Collier County Public Schools for the 2026-27 school year, according to the district’s address locator, and all three were graded A by the Florida Department of Education for 2025-26, but boundaries change and every buyer should check the exact address.

Data updated: October 2026

What the district’s locator returned

We queried the Collier County Public Schools attendance zone locator for 5320 Barefoot Bay Ct on October 1, 2026, and it returned the same three schools as every other Barefoot Beach address we tested, with no pending boundary change flagged. The district stores these addresses as Bonita Springs, FL 34134, so you must search the locator with the Bonita Springs city name.

Grades are from the Florida Department of Education’s 2025-26 school grades release. Other sources give a Veterans Memorial Boulevard address for the high school, and we print the district locator’s address.

The Bonita Springs mailing address does not mean Lee County schools

School districts in Florida follow county lines, and Barefoot Bay is a Collier County parcel. A Bonita Springs mailing address therefore does not place a home in the Lee County School District. A control check supports that: Lee County addresses a few hundred meters north on Bonita Beach return no record in the Collier locator, while Barefoot Beach addresses do. An MLS school field is agent-entered and is not the zone, so rely on the locator.

Distance and buses

We estimated driving distances from 253 Barefoot Beach Blvd, an address inside the Barefoot Beach gate, not from Barefoot Bay Court: about 7.8 miles to the elementary school, 9.0 to the middle school and 9.2 to the high school, free-flow and without traffic. Re-measure from your own address. Collier County Public Schools provides transportation for students who live two miles or more from their zoned schools, and its bus lookup shows eligibility and stops. We could not find where a stop would be for Barefoot Bay or the ride time. Charter options are listed on the district’s charter school page.

What we do not claim

We make no claim about school quality beyond the state’s published grades, and we do not rank schools. Private schools are outside this page, because we did not research them to a publishable standard.

Selling a Barefoot Bay home? Get a free valuation or call Jesse at (239) 898-6072. Buying? Call Marc at (239) 287-5873 or see our buyer page.

County Permits, Zoning and Coastal Rules in Barefoot Bay

Barefoot Bay’s building and land rules come from Collier County, not from a planned unit development: the court is zoned RSF-5, work needs county permits searchable by address, flood rules add a one-foot freeboard and a 50 percent test, and the declaration’s conservation-area and water-management restrictions add private limits on top.

Data updated: October 2026

Zoning: RSF-5

RSF-5 is the county’s residential single-family district allowing up to five units per acre, applied here by Ordinance 91-20. Because the court is in no planned unit development, the Lely Barefoot Beach planned unit development ordinances that govern the community next door do not govern Barefoot Bay. Setbacks, height and lot standards for an RSF-5 lot come from the county’s Land Development Code and the recorded plat. We did not extract them for this page, and a buyer planning an addition or a rebuild should ask the county’s Zoning Division for the standards that apply to a specific lot.

Permits and how to search them

Collier County’s permit portal covers 2011 to the present, with an older system covering 1989 to 2011, and the county encourages a historical permit review at sale to find open permits. The portal and its instructions are on the county’s permit history page. We did not search the permit file for Barefoot Bay Court. A buyer should, particularly for the home whose roll year of 2017 post-dates its earlier sales.

Docks and bay-side structures

Collier County Land Development Code section 5.03.06 governs docks and boathouses. For a lot on a waterway 100 feet wide or more, a dock and moored boat together may protrude no more than 20 feet, side setbacks are 15 feet for lots with 60 feet or more of frontage, and a longer dock needs a Hearing Examiner extension that meets four of five primary and four of six secondary criteria. A 2025 petition for a 52.25-foot protrusion at 185 Topanga Dr in Southport on the Bay shows how that process runs in this area. The code is available on Municode. The declaration is stricter: it bars structures including docks in water management areas without the written permission of the association and the developer. We did not find any dock permit for Barefoot Bay Court.

Coastal construction lines

The state’s Coastal Construction Control Line for Collier County is from 1989. By our geometry from the Department of Environmental Protection and county layers, the Barefoot Bay lots sit 117 to 227 meters landward of it, which means outside the state’s control line jurisdiction, and unlike the Gulf-front homes in the gate. That is our reading, and a survey governs. The county also has a separate 1974 coastal setback line, which is far closer to the water and does not reach this court.

Sea turtle lighting is a separate coastal rule. Collier County’s sea turtle protection rules in the Land Development Code and its Sea Turtle Protection Program include section 3.04.02, which regulates lighting for development within 300 feet of coastal mean high water. We did not test whether any Barefoot Bay lot falls under them, so ask the county before you install or replace exterior lighting.

Conservation areas and preserved land

The declaration warns that land appurtenant to some lots may contain or be adjacent to wetland preservation or mitigation areas and upland buffers protected by conservation easements in favor of the South Florida Water Management District and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The association must maintain those areas in their natural state forever and must install and maintain the required signs, and the declaration prohibits construction, dumping, vegetation removal, excavation, dredging and fencing there. A buyer should ask the manager and the surveyor which lots, if any, carry such an area.

Daily Logistics: Beach Access, Parking, Trash, Mail, Utilities and Getting Around

Daily life at Barefoot Bay runs through Bonita Beach Road: the county’s public beach parks are minutes away, trash follows Collier County’s residential schedule, the water and sewer provider is not confirmed, and the road out for evacuation and shopping is the same road that serves the gated boulevard next door.

Data updated: October 2026

Beach access and parking, checked October 1, 2026

The county lists two public pay-to-park beaches in this area. The Barefoot Beach Preserve is 342 acres of natural land, open year-round from 8 a.m. to sunset, with a $10 pay-to-park fee without a Collier County resident beach parking permit and no dogs permitted. The separate Barefoot Beach Access sits 20 feet off Bonita Beach Road. The county’s parking information page says Collier residents are eligible for a free permit with proof of residency, and part-time resident property owners can qualify with a driver license, a vehicle registration and a current Collier County tax bill or a deed within three months of closing. We could not confirm from a document how the gate handles preserve visitors, and we state only what the county pages say. The county page itself carries two different acreage figures, 342 and 345, and we use 342, which is also the figure in the Florida Attorney General’s published opinion on the beach property.

Preserve status and storm history

Hurricane Ian closed the preserve from September 2022 until it reopened at 8 a.m. on November 24, 2023, almost 14 months later, according to the News-Press. The county page and a volunteer group’s page disagree on whether rentals and some facilities are open, and neither is dated, so call the county at 239-252-4000 before you drive out with guests.

Trash, recycling and yard waste

Collier County’s residential collection page describes twice-weekly household waste, weekly recycling, weekly yard waste and weekly bulky waste, with carts out after 6 p.m. the night before and before 6 a.m. on collection day. Collection days are by address in the county’s lookup, and customer service is at 239-252-2380. The declaration says the board sets trash procedures, bars visible garbage cans and bars outside burning. We did not confirm whether the association contracts a hauler, so ask the manager.

Mail

The nearest U.S. Postal Service retail unit we found is the Bonita Beach Road post office at 9071 Bonita Beach Rd SE, Bonita Springs, open weekdays 9:00 to 4:30. Whether it is the delivery unit for Barefoot Bay is not confirmed. The declaration requires uniform mailboxes.

Water, sewer, power, gas and internet

Not confirmed, with routes. Bonita Springs Utilities’ franchise area is the City of Bonita Springs, part of Estero and unincorporated south Lee County, and does not include Collier County, so it is not the provider. Collier County Water-Sewer District is the likely provider, but its service map did not confirm Barefoot Beach, and we did not verify septic versus sewer. Florida Power and Light’s tariff lists unincorporated Collier among its communities served, which fits an FPL electric account, without an address check. We did not confirm natural gas or internet providers; the FCC National Broadband Map and your own address will settle internet. The declaration separately contemplates irrigation with treated effluent. Ask the manager what Barefoot Bay uses.

Emergency services and health care

North Collier Fire Control and Rescue District Station 43, at 16325 Vanderbilt Drive, says it serves Barefoot Beach. The Collier County Sheriff’s Office has a North Naples substation at 776 Vanderbilt Beach Road, and we infer that Barefoot Bay falls in its district without having read the district map. The nearest emergency room is the NCH Emergency Department Bonita at 24040 S Tamiami Trail, 7.6 miles and about 15 minutes from the Barefoot Beach Club on the boulevard, measured as a free-flow estimate. Publix at 3304 Bonita Beach Rd is about 3.1 miles from the same starting point.

Getting around: estimates from the Barefoot Beach boulevard

These are road-route estimates from a point near 260 Barefoot Beach Blvd, at the Barefoot Beach Club on the boulevard and 0.9 mile from the gate corner, without traffic. Barefoot Bay Court is on Bonita Beach Road itself, so treat them as rough guides and re-measure from your address.

Winter traffic on Bonita Beach Road and US 41 will add time. A Florida Department of Transportation study of the US 41 and Bonita Beach Road intersection reached design concept acceptance in July 2025, with no construction year stated, and Lee County’s long-range plan lists Bonita Beach Road reconstruction from Old US 41 to US 41 for 2041 to 2050.

Boating from Barefoot Bay

A boater leaving this part of Little Hickory Bay has two ways out. South, the route runs through Little Hickory Bay and the waterway behind the preserve to Wiggins Pass with no bridge, and NOAA’s Coast Pilot says Wiggins Pass is subject to frequent changes. North, the fixed Bonita Beach Road bridge beside the Boat Club is charted at 3.9 meters, or 12.8 feet, of vertical clearance and 17.7 feet of horizontal clearance, and the fixed bridge between Big Hickory and Little Hickory Islands is 10 feet vertical. Those are chart values and not a measurement on the water, and NOAA’s Coast Pilot reports severe shoaling in New Pass in 2016. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission’s Collier rule and maps set slow speed all year in the waters of Wiggins Pass and Wiggins Bay. Fuel and public launching are at Cocohatchee River Park, which the county says has four launch lanes, and the Barefoot Boat Club next door offers dry and wet storage as its own condominium. We could not confirm which waterway lots touch.

Barefoot Bay vs Bayfront Gardens: Outside the Gate or Inside It?

Barefoot Bay and Bayfront Gardens are both single-family enclaves with the Barefoot name, but Bayfront Gardens sits inside the Barefoot Beach gate under the Master Association with 27 improved homes, while Barefoot Bay sits outside it on Bonita Beach Road with nine newer homes, its own association and a recorded sale-approval step.

Data updated: October 2026

Side by side

Bayfront Gardens also has four recorded deeds over $100,000 in the last 60 months that the county did not mark qualified, which we show on its own page and do not mix into the 6.

When Barefoot Bay is the better fit

Choose Barefoot Bay if a small, newer set of homes with its own association and no Master Association layer matters more to you than a guard gate, if you want to reach Bonita Beach Road without crossing a boulevard, and if you are comfortable with a board that approves leases, sales, exteriors and signs. The Top 1% Real Estate Agents Nationally Since 2008 on our team will tell you plainly that the thin sales record is the cost of that intimacy.

When Bayfront Gardens is the better fit

Choose Bayfront Gardens if a staffed gate and a larger pool of homes and comparable sales matter, if a documented dock right on the planned unit development’s lots matters, or if you want a street with more full-time residents. Read our Bayfront Gardens page for its Master Association layers and its two sets of documents.

The other neighbors

A buyer who wants a larger bay-side community should read our Southport on the Bay page, where the 60-month county record has 29 qualified sales. A buyer who wants fee-simple villas under the Master Association should read our Villas at Barefoot Beach page. A buyer who wants a condominium on the sand should read our Barefoot Beach Club page.

Selling in Barefoot Bay? Get a free valuation or call Jesse at (239) 898-6072. Buying? Call Marc at (239) 287-5873 or see our buyer page.

Pros and Cons of Owning in Barefoot Bay

Barefoot Bay offers nine newer single-family homes with their own small association, a Bonita Beach Road address and no Master Association layer, and its costs are a thin sales record, board approval of sales and leases, a tenant pet ban and the same AE flood zone as its neighbors.

Data updated: October 2026

What we like

• Scale. Nine homes, one association and one declaration, so a buyer can read every rule.
• Newer homes. Roll years of 2002 to 2017 on every home.
• No gate fee layer, by our inference. Barefoot Bay is not a Master Association member, so the boulevard and guardhouse are not documented as Barefoot Bay costs.
• Direct road access. The court opens onto Bonita Beach Road.
• Public beach access. The county’s Barefoot Beach Access and Preserve are open to any Collier resident with a free resident permit.
• Landscape upkeep is common-expense. The association maintains lawns and irrigation on every lot.
• No condominium reserve regime. Chapter 718 milestone and structural reserve rules do not apply.

What gives us pause

• A thin sales record. Three qualified sales in five years, with the nearest comparable often a different house.
• Board approval of sales. The 2023-recorded amendment gives the board a 30-day review and a right to supply a buyer, which a buyer’s contract must plan for.
• Rental limits. 30-day minimum, three leases in 12 months, board approval, no tenant pets and two tenant vehicles.
• Flood and surge. AE at 10 to 11 feet, our reading seaward of the Limit of Moderate Wave Action, and evacuation Zone A.
• No published fees. No assessment figure in any public document we found.
• No Barefoot Beach guard gate and no clubhouse. Both are in the community next door, and we could not confirm a gate of the court’s own.
• A recorded amendment with a long gap. The 2023 instrument certifies a vote reported as May 2012, and a buyer should have an attorney read it.

Selling a Barefoot Bay home? Get a free valuation or call Jesse at (239) 898-6072. Buying? Call Marc at (239) 287-5873 or see our buyer page.

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

We built this page from recorded documents, county data files and federal and state map services, read in full and checked against each other, and we printed every place where they disagree, so a buyer or seller can see which statements come from a document, which from a query we ran and which are our own inference.

Data updated: October 2026

What we read and what we ran

We tracked every one of the 46 pages of the recorded declaration at Official Records Book 2754, Page 899, and every page of its three recorded amendments, including the 11-page amendment recorded in 2023. The Clerk’s scans are images, so we read them by optical character recognition and checked the numbers that matter against the text around them. We also read the recorded plat reference, the Board of County Commissioners’ 2019 road acceptance item, the Master Association’s recorded 2011 bylaws, the county’s property, sales and parcel files dated August 29 and 31, 2026, and the county, federal and state pages cited in the sources list.

On October 1, 2026 we queried FEMA’s National Flood Hazard Layer, the county’s flood and wind layers, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service coastal barrier layer and the U.S. Geological Survey’s Hurricane Ian high-water marks for four addresses on the court. We did not enter any association portal, we did not read any permit file, and we did not open the 8 elevation certificates the county indexes for the court.

What surprised us

Four findings changed how we describe the neighborhood.

• A sale needs board approval. Under the 2023-recorded amendment, as we read it, a sale cannot close without the board’s written approval, with a 30-day review. Most single-family associations have no such right.
• A recorded amendment allowed a resort membership club to use lots here. A recorded 2006 amendment refers to a resort membership club and a date by which it had to stop using lots in the neighborhood. We make no claim about who owned what.
• The 2023 recording carries an older vote. The certificate on the 2023 amendment reads, in our reading of the scan, as a vote in May 2012, recorded more than ten years later.
• Three identical $795,000 sales on one day in 2004. The same price, the same date and three different lots, which we read as land sales and label as our inference.

Where our sources disagree

The clerk’s stamp on the declaration reads December 19, 2000, while the plat and the first amendment point to December 13, 2000. The county’s roll gives a 2001 year built for the common tract and 2002 for the first home. The roll’s 2017 year built at one lot sits beside resales in 2009, 2015 and 2020. We publish both versions each time and do not pick one.

Thinking of Selling Your Barefoot Bay Home? List With the #1 Team in Southwest Florida Since 2012

If you’re searching for a Barefoot Bay listing agent, or thinking, “I need someone to sell my Barefoot Bay home…”, McGreevy and Comisar is the team to call. Jesse McGreevy and Marc Comisar lead Domain Realty Group, and we prepare every Barefoot Bay listing the way a buyer’s attorney will read it: association documents first, the board’s approval step planned for, and price tied to the county record. Our guide to selling a home in Barefoot Bay in Bonita Springs has the recorded sales, the costs and the documents, and our Barefoot Bay in Bonita Springs home value page shows how we price one.

Selling credentials

Top 1% Real Estate Agents Nationally Since 2008 is the credential we list first. The full list of what we bring to a Barefoot Bay listing is below.

• 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

Recent Barefoot Bay sold-listing stats

The Southwest Florida MLS, pulled October 3, 2026, shows 1 Barefoot Bay closing in the 12 months to that date: $3,475,000 on December 5, 2025, which is the whole 12-month dollar volume, after 111 days on market and at 92.7% of its final list price of $3,749,000. The 60 months hold 3 closings totaling $8,525,000, too few for a median or an average. Collier County’s qualified record shows one Barefoot Bay sale in the last 12 months, three in the last 60 months and 21 since December 2003; the county and the MLS count sales differently. With so few sales, each comparable matters.

Why selling in Barefoot Bay is different

A Barefoot Bay sale is an approval-and-documents sale. The recorded 2023 amendment, as we read it, requires the board’s written approval of a sale after notice with the contract, and gives the association 30 days to review. A contract that ignores that clock invites a failed closing, so we write the approval step, the estoppel certificate and the statutory disclosure summary into the timeline before we list. The seller must present the disclosure summary required by Florida Statute 720.401, and the association must issue the estoppel certificate within 10 business days under Florida Statute 720.30851.

Price follows the house, not the court. The nine homes range from 1,317 to 2,624 square feet of county base area and from 3,487 to 5,623 square feet of adjusted area, and the three sales in the last 60 months were $1,950,000, $3,100,000 and $3,475,000. A blended average is useless to a seller here. We price from the nearest like home in the county record, adjust for condition, any water access and flood-elevation facts, and tell you plainly when the nearest comparable is a different house.

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Barefoot Bay seller mini-FAQ

Six questions Barefoot Bay owners ask us before they list.

How much is my Barefoot Bay home worth?

It depends on the house, and the county record is thin: three qualified sales in 60 months, from $1,950,000 to $3,475,000. We use the nearest like home and adjust for it, not a median. A free valuation from our team shows the comparables and the adjustments.

Does the board have to approve my sale?

On our reading of the 2023-recorded amendment, yes. The owner gives the board notice with the contract, and the board has 30 days to review. We build that time into the closing date and ask the association’s manager to confirm the process in writing.

What do I owe the association when I sell?

You owe assessments through closing, and the estoppel certificate states the amount. Under Florida Statute 720.30851 the association must issue it within 10 business days, and the fee is capped. The amendment also allows a processing fee for a sale approval, in an amount no higher than the law permits.

Which documents does a Barefoot Bay buyer receive?

A disclosure summary, which Florida Statute 720.401 requires the seller to present before the buyer signs, and the buyer may cancel by written notice within 3 days after receiving it or before closing, whichever occurs first, if it arrives late. A careful buyer also asks for the governing documents, the current budget and the rules.

Can I put a sign in my yard?

Not without the board’s prior written approval, as the declaration bars any sign visible from the street, and it names for-sale signs. Ask the board for written permission before we plan any signage.

How do I start?

Call Jesse at (239) 898-6072, text or call, or use the free valuation link above. We will ask for your address, pull the nearest recorded sales and request the association documents before you decide on price.

Your Local Real Estate Experts

Jesse McGreevy and Marc Comisar of McGreevy and Comisar, part of Domain Realty Group, are Bonita Springs real estate experts who list and sell homes at Barefoot Beach, including Barefoot Bay. Our honors and recognition are below, together with how to reach us directly and the licensing information Florida requires.

Honors and recognition

Top 1% Real Estate Agents Nationally Since 2008 heads the list of honors below.

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

Contact Jesse and Marc

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

About our team

Learn about Jesse McGreevy and Marc Comisar on their agent pages. 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

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

What does it cost to buy in Barefoot Bay?

The county’s qualified record shows three sales in the last 60 months at $1,950,000, $3,100,000 and $3,475,000, and the newest, on November 26, 2025, was $3,475,000. That is a record of nine homes, not a market quote. Current asking prices come from the Southwest Florida MLS, and no Barefoot Bay home was listed for sale there on October 3, 2026.

What are the association dues in Barefoot Bay and what do they cover?

No dollar figure is published in any document we found. The recorded declaration says assessments pay for lawn and irrigation maintenance on every lot, the surface water management system, conservation areas, common area insurance and administration, shared equally among the lots. The current budget and the estoppel certificate give the number.

Are rentals allowed in Barefoot Bay, and what is the minimum lease?

Yes, within recorded limits: written leases of at least 30 consecutive days, no more than three leases in a 12-month period, board approval of every lease, no tenant pets and no more than two tenant vehicles. This is our reading of the 2023-recorded amendment. Vacation rentals and transient lodging are not permitted.

Are pets allowed in Barefoot Bay?

Owners may keep a reasonable number of household pets, leashed or carried outside, and the declaration bars reptiles, amphibians, poultry and livestock. Tenants may not keep pets, as we read the 2023 amendment. A request for an assistance animal is a separate legal question that a pet clause does not control.

What flood zone is Barefoot Bay in?

Every address we tested is in FEMA Zone AE with a base flood elevation of 10 or 11 feet NAVD88 and no V zone, queried October 1, 2026. Collier County puts the court in evacuation Zone A. The county floodmap lists the elevation certificates it holds, and eight are indexed for the court.

What insurance do Barefoot Bay owners carry, and what does it cost?

The declaration requires each owner to insure the home at full replacement cost and to name the association as an additional insured. We found no premium or deductible figure in any public record and we publish none. Citizens Property Insurance has a replacement-cost ceiling under Florida Statute 627.351 that matters for homes of this value.

How did Barefoot Bay fare in Hurricane Ian, Helene and Milton?

We found no address-level damage record for the court. The U.S. Geological Survey surveyed an Ian high-water mark of 11.76 feet inside Barefoot Beach, roughly 230 to 330 meters from the court by our arithmetic. For Helene and Milton, Florida DEP’s report describes the beach’s dune erosion, not the court. Ask the seller for repair and permit history.

What does the FEMA 50 percent rule mean for a Barefoot Bay home?

If repairs or improvements cost 50 percent or more of the building’s market value, or repair substantial damage, the county treats the work as a substantial improvement and the building must meet current floodplain standards. The county values the building from the Property Appraiser’s roll. The declaration adds its own 90-day start and nine-month finish clock after damage.

Does Barefoot Bay have a special assessment coming?

We found no public notice of a special assessment or capital project, and we do not say none exists. Because the declaration lets the board levy special assessments shared equally among the lots, ask for the current budget, the minutes and the estoppel certificate before you make an offer.

What are the dock and boat rules in Barefoot Bay?

The declaration bars boats outside a garage and bars docks in water management areas without written permission. Collier County’s Land Development Code governs dock facilities on the water. We found one secondhand statement of a 27.5-foot boat kept by a resident and no public depth or lift data, so confirm what each lot’s shoreline allows.

Is Barefoot Bay gated?

Not by the Barefoot Beach gate. The court is outside the Barefoot Beach guard gate, on a private court that opens directly onto Bonita Beach Road. The declaration lists entrance gates among its examples of common areas, and we could not confirm whether the court has a gate of its own, so look at the entrance in person and ask the association’s manager. Guests and contractors are subject to the association’s recorded rules on parking, guests and signs.

How far is Barefoot Bay from the beach, and is the beach private?

The beach is public: the county’s Barefoot Beach Access and the Barefoot Beach Preserve are county pay-to-park beach parks, and the county parking page gives the current rules. Barefoot Bay is a short drive from them. We did not time a walk or a drive, so measure it from the address you are considering.

Is membership in The Club at Barefoot Beach required?

No document we read ties a club membership to a Barefoot Bay deed. The Club at Barefoot Beach is a separate private member club, and its membership page is the place to ask about availability and cost. We publish no membership price, because we did not find a current published fee.

What architectural rules apply in Barefoot Bay?

The board must approve in writing any material change to exterior color, roofing color or style, any new structure or alteration and any grading or landscaping change, and the declaration requires uniform mailboxes and lamp posts. Read the declaration’s architectural sections before you plan a renovation or rebuild.

What zoning and building limits apply to Barefoot Bay lots?

The county zones the court RSF-5, a single-family district under Ordinance 91-20. We did not tabulate setbacks or height limits for each lot, so check the Land Development Code with the county, and confirm any rebuild against the 50 percent rule and the declaration’s design rules before you buy a home you plan to replace.

Are Barefoot Bay homes on sewer or septic?

Not confirmed. Bonita Springs Utilities does not serve Collier County. Collier County Water-Sewer District is the likely provider, but its service map did not confirm the court. Ask the seller for a utility bill and the county for the service record before you rely on either answer.

Is Barefoot Bay in Naples or Bonita Springs, and which taxes apply?

It is in unincorporated Collier County with a Bonita Springs mailing address, so Collier County taxes apply and no city levy does. The 2026 preliminary millage is 9.4020 mills. On the median just value of $2,407,512 that illustrates to about $22,635 before exemptions and non-ad valorem charges.

What is the price per square foot in Barefoot Bay?

On county base area, the three sales in 60 months work out to $1,301, $1,716 and $2,639 per square foot, and on adjusted area to $559, $671 and $808. The two measures differ by a factor of about 2.3 to 3.3 on these three sales because the homes are tall and compact, so use the same measure for every comparison.

Does the Coastal Barrier Resources System affect flood insurance here?

On our reading of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service layer on October 1, 2026, no Barefoot Bay parcel is inside a coastal barrier unit, so federal flood insurance is not barred by that system. Unit P17 comes within about 88 meters but touches no parcel. Confirm with your insurance agent before you rely on our reading.

Which school zone serves Barefoot Bay?

The Collier County Public Schools locator returned Naples Park Elementary, North Naples Middle and Aubrey Rogers High for 2026-27 when we searched 5320 Barefoot Bay Ct on October 1, 2026. Zones change, and the address is stored under Bonita Springs, so search it yourself in the district’s zone map.

How many homes are for sale in Barefoot Bay right now?

None on October 3, 2026. No Barefoot Bay home was listed for sale or under contract in the Southwest Florida MLS on that date, and 1 closed in the 12 months before it, after 111 days on market. Call Marc at (239) 287-5873 and we will send each new listing and the recorded history of the home.

Is this the Barefoot Bay in Brevard County?

No. The bare phrase mostly returns a large retirement community in Brevard County on Florida’s east coast. This page covers Barefoot Bay Court, nine homes at 5320 to 5352 Barefoot Bay Court in Collier County, next to the Barefoot Beach entrance. The two places share only a name.

Frequently Asked Questions, Seller Edition

These are the questions Barefoot Bay owners ask us before they sell, with answers drawn from the county record, the recorded documents and Florida law. Where a number comes from the Southwest Florida MLS, it is from our pull of October 3, 2026, and we print counts and actual sales instead of guessing.

How much is my Barefoot Bay home worth today?

We cannot quote a number without your address, and the county record is thin: three qualified sales in 60 months, from $1,950,000 to $3,475,000. The county’s 2026 preliminary median just value is $2,407,512, which is an assessment, not a price. We price from the nearest like home and adjust it.

When is the best time of year to sell in Barefoot Bay?

The county record cannot settle this. Fourteen of the 21 recorded sales closed between November and March, but three of those were the same-day 2004 land deals, and we have no MLS month-by-month data to test a season. We would sooner prepare the approval and document timeline early than aim at a month.

How long does it take to sell a home in Barefoot Bay?

The Southwest Florida MLS, pulled October 3, 2026, shows 1 Barefoot Bay closing in the 12 months to that date, after 111 days on market, and 3 in the 60 months, after 29, 193 and 111 days. Three sales are too few for a median. What we can add is the contract clock: the 2023 amendment gives the board 30 days to review a sale, and the estoppel certificate takes up to 10 business days.

Should I order a pre-listing inspection, elevation certificate or survey?

An elevation certificate is the one we would check first. The county indexes eight certificate records for the court, and a buyer’s insurance agent will ask for a floor elevation we do not state. A current wind-mitigation inspection and a recent survey help too. We would ask you to decide with your own insurance agent.

How do seawall and dock condition affect my price?

We have no sales data that isolates seawall or dock condition, and we will not invent a premium. Buyers of a home with water access will ask about the seawall, any dock permit and what the declaration allows, which includes a bar on docks in water management areas without written permission. Have the permits and any repair records ready.

How does my roof age and wind mitigation report affect insurability and price?

We found no Barefoot Bay premium data, so we cannot put a dollar figure on it. Roof age and a current wind-mitigation inspection are the facts insurers and buyers ask for first, and the declaration requires owners to carry full replacement-cost coverage. A seller who has both documents on hand removes a common question.

What do buyers ask about flood insurance on my home?

They ask the zone, the base flood elevation and the floor elevation. For the court the zone is AE at 10 or 11 feet NAVD88, and on our reading the home is seaward of the Limit of Moderate Wave Action. They also ask about prior claims. Have your elevation certificate and any flood policy declaration page ready.

How do Hurricane Ian repairs and permits affect my disclosures?

Florida requires sellers to disclose known material facts and, under Florida Statute 689.302, flood-related facts. We did not read any Barefoot Bay permit file. Gather your repair invoices and permits, and ask a Florida attorney what your specific history requires you to disclose.

How does a teardown or rebuild value compare with the house value?

We cannot say from public data. What we can say is that the rebuild rules matter: repair or improvement of 50 percent of the building’s market value triggers current floodplain standards, and the declaration requires board approval for new structures and restoration of the home’s original character after damage.

What closing costs does a seller pay in Collier County?

Customarily the seller pays the deed’s documentary stamp tax, brokerage compensation as agreed, any sale-approval processing fee, the estoppel fee when the seller requests it and any lien payoffs, and the buyer pays the owner’s title policy in Collier County. The contract controls. Your attorney or title company will prepare the figures.

Who pays for title insurance when I sell in Barefoot Bay?

In Collier County the buyer customarily pays for the owner’s title insurance policy, and the contract controls who pays. Your side of the closing typically carries the deed preparation and any payoff of your mortgage. We confirm the allocation in the contract before you sign, because customs are not law.

What documentary stamp tax do I owe as a Florida seller?

The deed tax is 70 cents per $100 of consideration under Florida Statute 201.02. As an illustration only, on a $3,475,000 price, 34,750 x $0.70 = $24,325. Who pays is a matter of the contract and custom, and your closing agent prepares the exact figure.

What capital gains tax applies if I sell a second home in Barefoot Bay?

A second home generally does not qualify for the federal exclusion that applies to a primary residence, so a gain may be taxable, and the amount depends on your basis, improvements and holding period. We are not tax advisors. Ask your CPA to model it before you list, because the answer can change your price floor.

How should I price in Barefoot Bay: frontage, view, dock or renovation?

From the nearest like home in the county record, then adjusted for each feature a buyer will pay for. Because the nine homes differ by build year, size and any shoreline position, we use the adjusted-area price per square foot as a cross-check against the base-area price. Neither measure replaces a comparison of the specific houses.

Should I renovate before selling or sell as is?

Any exterior color, roofing, fence or structure change needs the board’s prior written approval, so a renovation has a permit step and an approval step before it starts. That adds time. We would ask whether the work adds more than it costs and delays, and we would not guess without your house in front of us.

How should I stage, photograph and shoot drone video of my home?

Show the court, the house and any water view on a clear day, and send photographers early so the sale-approval clock is not wasted. The declaration bars unapproved signs visible from the street, and we confirm drone and photography access with the association before we shoot, so neighbors know to expect it.

Should I list on the Southwest Florida MLS?

Yes, in our practice, because the MLS is how buyers’ agents and their clients see a home. The court is outside the Barefoot Beach gate, and we could not confirm whether it has an entrance gate of its own, so we ask the manager about showing access first. A listing also has to respect the association’s recorded sign and approval rules. We list on the Southwest Florida MLS and give you the showing plan in writing.

Does a Club at Barefoot Beach membership or dock transfer when I sell?

We found no document that ties either to a Barefoot Bay deed. The Club at Barefoot Beach is a separate private member club, and any membership transfer is a club decision. A dock depends on its permit and the declaration. Ask the club and the county before you tell a buyer anything is part of the sale.

Do rental or association restrictions shrink my buyer pool?

Yes, somewhat. A buyer who wants vacation rentals cannot use the home that way, because leases must run at least 30 days, three a year, and tenants may not keep pets. The sale-approval step may also deter some buyers. Owner-occupant buyers are the likelier pool, though we have no MLS data to measure it.

What does Florida law require me to disclose when I sell?

Florida requires a seller to disclose known facts that materially affect the value and are not readily observable. Under Chapter 720 you must also present the disclosure summary, and a flood disclosure applies under Florida Statute 689.302. A Florida attorney should confirm your specific list.

Who is the best listing agent for Barefoot Bay?

We are, and we say it with the record behind it: Domain Realty Group is the #1 team in Southwest Florida since 2012, and we read every recorded Barefoot Bay document before we list. Call Jesse at (239) 898-6072 and judge us on the documents.

What does it cost to hire a listing agent in Barefoot Bay?

Brokerage compensation is negotiable and set by listing agreement. We do not publish a Barefoot Bay rate on this page. Jesse will give you the number in writing, with what it covers, before you sign. Call or text (239) 898-6072 and we will walk through it against what the sale needs.

How many homes sold in Barefoot Bay in the last year, and at what prices?

One qualified sale in the last 12 months, at $3,475,000 on November 26, 2025, according to Collier County’s data files. The Southwest Florida MLS, pulled October 3, 2026, also shows 1 closing in the 12 months to that date, at $3,475,000 on December 5, 2025. The two sources count and date sales differently, and the MLS may include sales the county did not mark qualified. We list not-qualified deeds separately and never fold them in.

Should I sell now or wait?

We do not forecast prices. The facts are these: the newest qualified sale was November 2025 at $3,475,000, three homes have sold in 60 months, and the county’s flood maps are in a preliminary comment period that by our arithmetic ends around November 17, 2026. We would not time a sale on a map that is not in effect.

How do I handle showings while I live out of state?

We schedule showings through your agent, use a lockbox or accompanied showings as you choose, and keep the association’s guest and parking rules in mind. The court is a short private road with few neighbors, so we tell the board in advance. Ask for the showing plan in writing before we list.

Can I sell to a cash buyer, and how fast can it close?

Yes, a cash buyer can buy a Barefoot Bay home, and a cash closing removes the lender’s timeline. It does not remove the board’s approval and 30-day review, the estoppel certificate or the title work. Plan the closing date around those steps, whatever the buyer’s funding.

How are association dues and prorations handled at my closing?

Assessments are customarily prorated to the closing date, and the estoppel certificate states what is paid and owed. Under Florida Statute 720.30851 the fee is capped and the certificate is due within 10 business days. No Barefoot Bay dollar figure is published, so request the certificate before listing.

With only nine homes, how do I price with so few comparable sales?

By listing the sales and adjusting each, not by averaging. We use the nearest like home in the county record, adjust for size, condition, any water access and age, and tell you when the best comparable is a different house sold years ago. Eight of the nine homes have a qualified sale on record.

What if the board disapproves my buyer?

As we read the 2023 amendment, if the board disapproves a bona fide sale without good cause, the association must within 30 days deliver an agreement for the association or an approved purchaser to buy at the contract price or at fair market value, as the amendment sets out. Have a Florida attorney read that text before you list.

Will a tenant in place affect my sale?

It can. Leases are subject to the declaration and the board’s approval, tenants may not keep pets and the association may direct rent to itself if obligations are past due. A buyer who wants to occupy the home will ask when the lease ends, so we gather the lease and the board’s approval first.

Should I gather permit and rebuild records before listing?

Yes. At least one home carries a 2017 year built with resales in 2009, 2015 and 2020, and buyers’ agents ask about it. We did not read permit files, so we cannot say what the work was. Bring your permit history, plans and contractor invoices, which also help with insurance questions.

Do I need an attorney to review the Barefoot Bay documents?

We are not a law firm and we recommend one. The 2023-recorded amendment gives the board approval rights over sales and leases and certifies a vote reported as May 2012, and we read it by optical character recognition. A Florida real estate attorney should read the recorded originals for you and your buyer.

What is the first step if I want to sell?

Request the free valuation, then ask the association’s manager for the current governing documents, budget and an estoppel certificate request. We start from the county record and your documents, and we tell you what we cannot verify. Call Jesse at (239) 898-6072 or use the valuation page.

What We Could Not Verify

This list gathers every place where this page says a fact or figure is not available. Each item names the document or route that would settle it, so a buyer, a seller or our team can close the gap, and when you want a second pair of eyes on any of it, Jesse and Marc, the Top 1% Real Estate Agents Nationally Since 2008 on this page, will read the documents with you.

• Southwest Florida MLS figures. The pull of October 3, 2026 shows 1 Barefoot Bay closing in the last 12 months and 3 in the last 60, at $1,950,000 to $3,475,000, with no active or pending listing. The highest MLS sale is $3,475,000 on December 5, 2025. Three sales are too few for a median, so each sale’s own days on market and final list price are printed above. The pull records the final list price only, so price changes, views and condition are read listing by listing when we prepare a valuation or an offer, and the association fee still needs the budget and the estoppel certificate.
• Association assessments, budget, reserves and fees. No dollar figure appears in any recorded document or public page we found. Route: the current budget, the most recent financial report and the estoppel certificate from the association’s manager, under Florida Statutes 720.303, 720.401 and 720.30851. The sale-approval processing fee, the lease transfer fee and the estoppel fee are not stated in the 2023 instrument either.
• Whether the court has an operating entrance gate. The declaration lists entrance gates among its common area examples and says the association may, but need not, provide security. Route: look at the entrance and ask the manager.
• How, or whether, Barefoot Bay owners contribute to the Barefoot Beach boulevard and guardhouse. The Master Association’s 2011 bylaws do not list Barefoot Bay as a member. Our reading that no Master assessment applies is an inference. Route: the association’s manager, in writing.
• The effective date of the 2023 amendment. The certificate reads, in our optical character recognition of the scan, as a vote in May 2012, recorded January 10, 2023. Route: a Florida real estate attorney and your title agent, reading the recorded image.
• The recording date of the declaration. The Clerk’s stamp reads December 19, 2000, while the plat index and the first amendment point to December 13, 2000. Route: the Clerk’s Official Records, Book 2754, Page 899.
• The declaration’s articles and bylaws exhibits. We read the declaration body and the three amendments in full. We did not read the attached exhibits, so we state nothing about the bylaws. Route: the association’s manager.
• Which lots touch water, and any seawall, dock, depth or riparian right. No recorded document or county record we read says. Route: a current survey, the plat, any dock permit and the association’s written answer on boat storage.
• Amenities built today. The declaration lists common areas as examples. We found no association website. Route: the manager and a visit.
• How many homes were used by the resort membership club between 2006 and 2009, and whether any home still is. The recorded 2006 amendment describes the rights, not the use. We say nothing about who owned or used any home.
• Permit history, including the 2017 roll year at one home and any storm repair. We did not search the permit file. Route: the county permit portal by address and the seller’s records.
• Floor elevations. The county indexes 8 elevation certificate records for the court, and we did not open them. Route: the county flood map search, the Flood Info Hotline or a Florida surveyor.
• Our own geometry. Footprint shares of flood zones, the position of the Limit of Moderate Wave Action, the distance to the Coastal Construction Control Line, the distance to the nearest coastal barrier unit and the distance to the Ian high-water mark are our reading of public map layers. Route: the FIRM panel, an elevation certificate and a surveyor.
• Water and sewer provider, natural gas, internet providers, the hauler’s collection days and the mail delivery unit. Not confirmed for Barefoot Bay Court. Route: Collier County utilities and solid waste, the FCC National Broadband Map, the seller’s recent bills and the Postal Service.
• The Sheriff’s district for the court. We infer, without reading the district map, that the North Naples substation covers it. Route: the Sheriff’s Office.
• School bus stop and ride time, and private school options. Not found or not researched. Route: the district’s bus lookup and the schools.
• Insurance premiums, carrier terms and the Citizens replacement-cost ceiling that applies in Collier County today. Not published or not verified. Route: an independent insurance agent.
• Storm damage to any Barefoot Bay home. No recorded or government document found, so we say nothing. Route: the permit record and the seller’s disclosure.
• The one county deed over $100,000 recorded in 2018 that the county did not mark qualified. The file gives the count by year and does not list the deed. Route: the Clerk’s Official Records.
• RSF-5 setbacks, height and lot standards for a specific lot. We did not tabulate them. Route: the county Zoning Division and the Land Development Code.
• How many Barefoot Bay homes are rented. No record found.
• Distances from Barefoot Bay Court itself. Our drive-time estimates start at the Barefoot Beach Club on the boulevard, not at the court. Re-measure from your address.
• Counts and dates that differ between sources. The 2000 declaration date, the 2001 and 2002 year-built readings, the 342 and 345 preserve acreage, and the roll’s 2017 year built beside resales in 2009, 2015 and 2020 are printed side by side and not resolved.

Sources and Authoritative References

Every link below was opened and returned a working page when we checked on October 1, 2026. Twenty-two county, state, federal and news pages block automated requests with an access error, and we confirmed each of those through a second route that fetched the live page. We list primary documents first, and every entry carries the date we checked it.

Recorded instruments, corporate records and the association

1. Collier County Clerk, Barefoot Bay declaration (OR 2754, page 899): The 46-page declaration of covenants, conditions, restrictions and easements. Checked October 1, 2026.
2. Collier County Clerk, First Amendment (OR 3613, page 1201): Recorded July 26, 2004, rewrote the residential-use and leasing sections. Checked October 1, 2026.
3. Collier County Clerk, Second Amendment (OR 4054, page 3365): Recorded June 13, 2006, restored the leasing text and added the phased resort-club section. Checked October 1, 2026.
4. Collier County Clerk, Certificate of Amendment (OR 6205, page 1993): Recorded January 10, 2023, sale approval, leasing, guest and pet rules as we read the scan. Checked October 1, 2026.
5. Collier County Board of County Commissioners agenda item, November 12, 2019: Final acceptance of the Barefoot Bay private road and drainage. Checked October 1, 2026.
6. Collier County Clerk, Barefoot Beach Master Association bylaws (OR 4675, page 2424): The 2011 bylaws with the member entities and door counts. Checked October 1, 2026.
7. Collier County Clerk, official records search: The public search used to locate the recorded instruments. Checked October 1, 2026.
8. Florida Division of Corporations, Barefoot Bay Property Owner’s Association, Inc.: Entity record, filed September 25, 2000. Checked October 1, 2026.
9. Collier County Property Appraiser: Parcel roll, 2026 preliminary values, millage and sale records. Checked October 1, 2026.
10. Barefoot Boat Club: The condominium next door, dry storage units and wet slips. Checked October 1, 2026.
11. The Club at Barefoot Beach, membership: The separate private member club, capacity and waitlist. Checked October 1, 2026.

Florida statutes and federal tax guidance

12. Florida Statute 720.401, prospective purchasers: Disclosure summary before contract, and the 3-day cancellation right that arises only when the summary was not provided first. Checked October 1, 2026.
13. Florida Statute 720.30851, estoppel certificates: Ten business days and the fee caps. Checked October 1, 2026.
14. Florida Statute 720.303, association powers and records: Budgets and inspection of official records. Checked October 1, 2026.
15. Florida Statute 627.351, Citizens Property Insurance: Eligibility limits. Checked October 1, 2026.
16. Florida Statute 553.899, milestone inspections: Condominium and cooperative buildings only. Checked October 1, 2026.
17. Florida Statute 718.112, condominium bylaws and reserve studies: The reserve study regime that does not apply here. Checked October 1, 2026.
18. Florida Statute 201.02, tax on deeds: Seventy cents per $100. Checked October 1, 2026.
19. Florida Statute 689.302, flood disclosure: The seller’s flood disclosure. Checked October 1, 2026.
20. Florida Statute 196.031, homestead exemption: Exemption rules. Checked October 1, 2026.
21. Florida Statute 193.155, homestead assessments: The assessment limitation. Checked October 1, 2026.
22. Internal Revenue Service, Topic 701, sale of your home: The primary-residence exclusion. Checked October 1, 2026.

Collier County: zoning, floodplain, permits, parks, safety and schools

23. Collier County flood map and elevation certificate search: Current effective flood map and the certificate index. Checked October 1, 2026.
24. Collier County floodplain management: County floodplain program. Checked October 1, 2026.
25. Collier County, building within the floodplain: Standards in the Special Flood Hazard Area. Checked October 1, 2026.
26. Collier County Ordinance 2019-01, floodplain management (PDF): The 50 percent substantial improvement rule and freeboard. Checked October 1, 2026.
27. Collier County flood protection newsletter (PDF): Map-change notices and the Class 5 rating. Checked October 1, 2026.
28. Collier County news, proposed flood insurance rate map, August 2026: Preliminary map status and the comment period. Checked October 1, 2026.
29. Collier County permit history and permit search: Permit lookup by address. Checked October 1, 2026.
30. Collier County planned unit development master list and maps: Planned unit development index. Checked October 1, 2026.
31. Collier County Land Development Code Appendix F, list of planned unit development ordinances (PDF): Includes the Lands End Preserve entry. Checked October 1, 2026.
32. Collier County Land Development Code 5.03.06, dock facilities: Dock protrusion and setback rules. Checked October 1, 2026.
33. Collier County Land Development Code 3.04.02, sea turtle protection: Coastal lighting rules. Checked October 1, 2026.
34. Collier County, short-term vacation rental registration: Ordinance 2021-45. Checked October 1, 2026.
35. Collier County Hearing Examiner notice, 185 Topanga Dr dock petition: The 2025 dock protrusion petition used as an example. Checked October 1, 2026.
36. Florida Department of Revenue, Collier taxing authority code descriptions (PDF): Taxing authority groupings. Checked October 1, 2026.
37. Collier County emergency assistance and evacuation: Evacuation zones and shelters. Checked October 1, 2026.
38. Collier County evacuation zone lookup: Zone by address. Checked October 1, 2026.
39. Collier County Parks, Barefoot Beach Preserve: Acreage, hours, rules and dog policy. Checked October 1, 2026.
40. Collier County Parks, beach parking information: Pay-to-park and resident permits. Checked October 1, 2026.
41. Collier County Parks, sea turtle protection: Nesting program. Checked October 1, 2026.
42. Collier County Sheriff’s Office: North Naples substation. Checked October 1, 2026.
43. North Collier Fire Control and Rescue District: Station 43 and the coverage area. Checked October 1, 2026.
44. Collier County Public Schools, attendance zone map: Zoned schools by address. Checked October 1, 2026.
45. Collier County Public Schools, bus lookup: Transportation eligibility and stops. Checked October 1, 2026.
46. Collier County Public Schools, transportation: Bus eligibility rules. Checked October 1, 2026.
47. Collier County Public Schools, charter schools: Choice options. Checked October 1, 2026.

Federal and state flood, storm, coastal, school and marine sources

48. FEMA National Flood Hazard Layer: Zone, base flood elevation and panel, queried October 1, 2026. Checked October 1, 2026.
49. FEMA Map Service Center: Flood map products and panels. Checked October 1, 2026.
50. FEMA, Risk Rating 2.0: How federal flood insurance is priced. Checked October 1, 2026.
51. FEMA, Community Rating System eligible communities, April 2026 (PDF): Unincorporated Collier County, Class 5. Checked October 1, 2026.
52. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, federal flood insurance and the Coastal Barrier Resources Act: Coastal barrier unit insurance limits. Checked October 1, 2026.
53. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Lovers Key complex unit P17: The unit across the back bay. Checked October 1, 2026.
54. U.S. Geological Survey, Hurricane Ian high-water marks: Surveyed marks near the court. Checked October 1, 2026.
55. National Hurricane Center, Hurricane Ian report: Ian surge ranges. Checked October 1, 2026.
56. National Hurricane Center, Hurricane Helene report: Helene surge ranges. Checked October 1, 2026.
57. National Hurricane Center, Hurricane Milton report: Milton surge ranges. Checked October 1, 2026.
58. Florida DEP, coastal construction control line: State coastal permitting. Checked October 1, 2026.
59. Florida DEP, Hurricane Helene and Milton impact report (PDF): Dune erosion at Barefoot Beach. Checked October 1, 2026.
60. Florida Division of Emergency Management, Know Your Zone: State evacuation zone lookup. Checked October 1, 2026.
61. NOAA Coast Pilot 5, chapter 4 (PDF): Wiggins Pass and the waters behind Barefoot Beach. Checked October 1, 2026.
62. Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Collier manatee protection zone maps (PDF): Slow-speed zones. Checked October 1, 2026.
63. Florida Department of Education, school grades: 2025-26 grades. Checked October 1, 2026.
64. Florida Division of Condominiums, structural integrity reserve study reporting: The condominium regime that does not apply here. Checked October 1, 2026.
65. Florida Division of Condominiums, public records: State condominium records. Checked October 1, 2026.
66. Florida Attorney General, opinion on tourist development tax and beach property: The 342-acre preserve figure. Checked October 1, 2026.

News, local services and volunteer sources

67. News-Press, Barefoot Beach reopens after Hurricane Ian (November 24, 2023): The preserve reopening. Checked October 1, 2026.
68. Friends of Barefoot Beach, the preserve: A volunteer group’s description of the preserve. Checked October 1, 2026.
69. NCH Healthcare System: Emergency department. Checked October 1, 2026.
70. Bonita Springs Utilities: Franchise area, Lee County side. Checked October 1, 2026.

McGreevy and Comisar pages

71. Barefoot Beach: The parent community page. Checked October 1, 2026.
72. Bonita Springs: Area overview. Checked October 1, 2026.
73. Best real estate agents in Barefoot Beach: The agent comparison.
74. Bayfront Gardens: Our audit of the closest comparable inside the gate. Checked October 1, 2026.
75. Southport on the Bay: Our audit of the largest single-family neighbor. Checked October 1, 2026.
76. Villas at Barefoot Beach: Our audit of the villa neighbor. Checked October 1, 2026.
77. Barefoot Beach Club: Our audit of the condominium community inside the gate. Checked October 1, 2026.
78. Free home valuation: Seller valuation request. Checked October 1, 2026.
79. Buying with McGreevy and Comisar: Buyer page. Checked October 1, 2026.
80. Jesse McGreevy: Agent profile. Checked October 1, 2026.
81. Marc Comisar: Agent profile. Checked October 1, 2026.
82. About McGreevy and Comisar: Our team. Checked October 1, 2026.

Downloadable Documents

These are the public primary documents behind the governance sections of this page, hosted by the Collier County Clerk. Each opens in the Clerk’s public records viewer.

Southwest Florida MLS figures pulled October 3, 2026. County recorded sales checked October 1, 2026. McGreevy and Comisar, Best Realtor for Barefoot Bay. Brokered by Domain Realty. Jesse McGreevy, FL Lic. SL3101296 · Marc Comisar, FL Lic. BK3060671.