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

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Barefoot Estates at Barefoot Beach: Seven Estate Homesites on Felipe Lane and Saint Eustacius Lane

Barefoot Estates is a seven-plot estate enclave inside Barefoot Beach, the gated Gulf-front barrier-island community south of Bonita Beach Road, in unincorporated Collier County with a Bonita Springs, Florida mailing address. A plat recorded April 10, 1995 created seven homesites and one common tract, and the county roll shows six improved homes built between 1997 and 2008.

Data updated: October 2026

Bonita Springs or Naples? Barefoot Estates carries a Bonita Springs, Florida 34134 mailing address, but it sits in unincorporated Collier County and belongs to neither city, so Collier County, not a city, issues its permits and runs its flood program.

It is one of the smallest and least documented addresses on the Southwest Florida coast, and it is expensive. The county’s 2026 preliminary median just value for the six homes is about $6.26 million, and the county’s qualified-sales record holds only six Barefoot Estates sales in all recorded history, the newest a $7,800,000 sale on April 22, 2026. With a sample that small, no average, median or price-per-square-foot trend is worth publishing, so this page lists every sale instead.

We wrote this page the way we would brief a buyer or seller we were representing. Every fact carries a source, every conflict between sources is printed with both sides, every fee, rule and assessment is stated only as far as a recorded document supports it, and every figure that comes from the Southwest Florida MLS is from our pull of October 3, 2026 and is stated as a count or an actual sale, never as an estimate.

Where Barefoot Estates is, precisely

Barefoot Estates lies inside the Lely Barefoot Beach planned unit development, on the Gulf side of the barrier island that carries Barefoot Beach. The plat is bounded by Saint Eustacius Lane on the north and Felipe Lane on the south, and the homes carry the addresses 101, 105 and 109 Felipe Ln, 102 and 110 Saint Eustacius Ln, and 215 Barefoot Beach Blvd. The common tract carries the address 115 Felipe Ln. The other houses on those two lanes are not part of the Estates; they belong to the older Unit One lane grid, which our Barefoot Beach hub page covers.

The enclave is in unincorporated Collier County, in County Commission District 2, served by North Collier Fire Control and Rescue District, the Collier County Sheriff’s Office and Collier County Public Schools. The county’s 2026 preliminary tax roll puts every parcel in the Estates in the same taxing area, with a combined millage rate of 9.4020.

Seven plots, six homes: how the count works

The recorded plat divided Lots 1 to 11 of Block E and the old Beach Garden E tract into seven homesites, numbered 1 to 7, plus a common tract that took the Beach Garden E name and is now called Tract A. The county roll shows seven parcels: six improved homesite parcels and the common tract. The six improved parcels hold six homes because Lots 1 and 2 were combined under one house at 110 Saint Eustacius Ln. So seven plots, six homes and seven roll parcels are all true at once, and this page uses each number only for what it counts.

Which Barefoot Estates parcels reach the Gulf

Not every address in the Estates is Gulf front, and we will not describe the whole enclave that way. Three of the seven roll parcels reach the Gulf: 109 Felipe Ln, 115 Felipe Ln and 110 Saint Eustacius Ln. Because 115 Felipe Ln is Tract A, the common area, two of the six homes sit on Gulf-reaching parcels. The other four homes are near-Gulf. We base this on our reading of the public map layers, which show the Gulf-reaching parcels carrying the high-velocity VE flood zone, and we explain that reading in the flood section below.

Barefoot Estates, the lanes and the Club are three different places

Three names get confused here. Barefoot Estates is this seven-plot enclave. The Barefoot Beach lanes are the grid of lane addresses around it: 80 homes in the county’s file for Lely Barefoot Beach Units 1 to 5 and the one-lot plat at Plat Book 24, pages 3 to 4, 78 of them in Units One and Two. The condominium communities, including Barefoot Beach Club, are separate associations on their own parcels. The private member club at 105 Shell Dr, The Club at Barefoot Beach, is a separate entity as well, and nothing on this page says a Barefoot Estates home includes membership in it. Outside this community the Barefoot name also belongs to unrelated hotels in Pinellas County, a Brevard County community called Barefoot Bay and the Barefoot Pelican condominium at Vanderbilt Beach in Naples. When this page says Barefoot Estates it means the plat described above.

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Why McGreevy and Comisar Are the Best Realtor for Barefoot Estates

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Recent Barefoot Estates track record (last 12 months): The Southwest Florida MLS, pulled October 3, 2026, shows one Barefoot Estates resale in the 12 months to that date: a home on Felipe Lane at $7,800,000, closed April 24, 2026, which is also the highest-priced sale of the period. It sold at 91.8% of its final list price of $8,500,000. Our team’s share of those transactions is 0 of 1: McGreevy and Comisar closed no sale at Barefoot Estates through the Southwest Florida MLS in the 60 months to October 3, 2026, on either the listing or the buying side. What we can state from public records: Collier County’s qualified-sales record shows one Barefoot Estates sale in the last 12 months, $7,800,000 on April 22, 2026, and the two sources count differently. We tracked every one of the 6 Barefoot Estates closings in the county record, going back to 1997, for this page.

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Living in Barefoot Estates as a Homebuyer

A Barefoot Estates homebuyer gets one of six large single-family homes on a 1995 estate plat inside the gated Barefoot Beach community, with a county beach preserve nearby, a Gulf-side flood and coastal-construction regime, and association fees that no public document states. The trade is scarcity: six qualified sales on county record since 1997. Our guide to buying a home in Barefoot Estates at Barefoot Beach covers what a buyer should read first: the recorded sales, the documents and the costs.

Data updated: October 2026

What the recorded documents say the Estates offer

We looked for a Barefoot Estates website, amenity list or brochure and found none. What the recorded instruments establish is a short list: single-family use under the 1995 covenants, membership in the Barefoot Beach Property Owners Association, access through a gate that the Master Association staffs around the clock, and a Gulf-side location that carries real coastal rules. Everything beyond that, including dues, pool or beach rights, guest procedures and the management company, is not confirmed in a public document, and we say so each time it comes up.

Who Barefoot Estates suits

Barefoot Estates suits a buyer who wants a large house on a very small street, inside a gated barrier island, and who is comfortable buying on documents and not on a brochure. It suits someone who values scarcity: with six homes, a new listing is an event, and the buyer’s pool of comparable sales is the whole history of the enclave. It also suits a buyer who is prepared for coastal construction rules, Gulf-side flood zones and a flood and wind insurance bill that follows the address.

Who should look harder before buying

It does not suit a buyer who needs a published fee schedule on day one, because we could not find a dollar figure for the association assessment in any public record. It does not suit a buyer who needs short-term rental flexibility, because both governing documents set minimum lease terms, and the two documents disagree. And it does not suit anyone who assumes every address in the enclave is Gulf front or that every home can be rebuilt or insured the same way, because three of the seven parcels carry the high-velocity flood zone and the coastal rules differ by lot.

The three document requests every Barefoot Estates buyer should make

Florida requires a disclosure summary for buyers of homes in a mandatory-membership association. Under Florida Statute 720.401, the seller of a parcel in a community governed by an association must present the buyer with a disclosure summary before the contract is signed, and the buyer may cancel within 3 days after receiving it, or before closing if that comes first, when it arrives late. The statute does not require delivery of the governing documents themselves, so a careful buyer asks for them. For Barefoot Estates, ask for three things first:

• The 1995 Declaration of Restrictive Covenants and the 2009 Amended and Restated Declaration of the Barefoot Beach Property Owners Association, plus both amendments recorded in 2010 and 2012, and a statement from the association of which rule governs leasing.
• An estoppel certificate from the association that states current assessments, any resale assessment, unpaid amounts, fines and any approval requirement, issued under Florida Statute 720.30851.
• A current survey and an elevation certificate for the specific home, together with the state coastal construction permit history for the lot, because the flood zone, the setback line and the permit record decide what you can insure, repair and rebuild.

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Barefoot Estates Market Snapshot: What Have Homes Sold For?

The Collier County Property Appraiser’s qualified-sales record shows six Barefoot Estates sales in all recorded history and one in the last 60 months. Because every window holds fewer than ten sales, we list each sale below instead of publishing a median, and we show the one deed the county did not qualify separately and never blend it in.

Data updated: October 2026

The county record first: windows, counts and file date

The figures in this section come from the Collier County Property Appraiser’s files dated August 29, 2026, built from the 2026 preliminary tax roll and the recorded-sales index, and the newest recorded sale in the file is dated August 24, 2026. County-qualified sales are a county record and not MLS: they are arms-length transfers the county flags for its own assessment ratio studies, they carry no days on market or list price, and some real sales are left out of them.

A window of one sale has no median, only a price. A window of six sales spread across 29 years has a median that mixes a 1997 homesite deed with a 2026 trade, which says nothing about today. So the table of every sale below is the market snapshot.

Every Barefoot Estates qualified sale on record

The six sales total $27,730,000. Three of them are the same house: 105 Felipe Ln traded in 2011, 2021 and 2026. No qualified sale is on record for 102 Saint Eustacius Ln or 110 Saint Eustacius Ln. Prices per square foot use the county’s base area, not living area, so they are a yardstick for comparing these six against each other and are not comparable with a figure quoted from a listing.

What these six sales can and cannot tell you

The March 1997 deed predates the year the county gives for that house, 2000, so it reads as a homesite sale and we do not divide it by building area. The five sales of finished homes run from $3,300,000 to $7,800,000, and the spread is mostly explained by year and by house, not by a market trend. The 2026 sale at $7,800,000 is the highest county-qualified price on record for the enclave, and the one recorded deed the county did not qualify, shown below, is higher. Measured against the same house, it is $2,170,000 above the January 2021 price of $5,630,000, which is 38.5 percent more in five years and three months, and 23.8 percent above the 2011 price of $6,300,000.

None of that makes a forecast. One house, sold three times, is a single line of evidence. A buyer or seller should treat the six sales as the full list of known comparables, adjust for frontage, view, lot, age and storm repair, and look to the neighboring lanes for a second opinion, which is what the benchmark table below does.

The one recorded deed the county did not qualify

The county’s index shows one more recorded transfer in the last 60 months that it did not flag as qualified: a deed dated December 8, 2022 for $16,100,000 at 110 Saint Eustacius Ln, the combined Lots 1 and 2 parcel, recorded at OR 6198 PG 83. On the county’s base area of 2,370 square feet it would work out to $6,793 per square foot, which is why we do not use it as a comparable. It is dated 71 days after Hurricane Ian made landfall on September 28, 2022. The county’s qualified flag is applied sparsely in some years, 2022 and 2024 among them, so an unflagged deed is not necessarily unusual. We print it as a recorded fact, draw no conclusion about why it was excluded, and keep it out of every count above. The county’s 2026 preliminary just value for that parcel is $14,286,845.

The county’s 2026 preliminary median just value, re-derived

Just value is the county’s valuation for tax purposes. It is not a price and not an appraisal. We re-derived the median from the six improved parcels on the 2026 preliminary roll, sorted from low to high:

With six values the median is the mean of the middle pair, the third and fourth: ($5,733,120 plus $6,782,867) divided by 2 equals $6,257,993.50, which we round to $6,257,994, or about $6.26 million. The six values sum to $46,863,869. The largest parcel is more than two and a half times the smallest, and the one combined-lot parcel pulls the average to $7,810,645, well above the median, which is why we quote the median. The tax roll’s own value for the common Tract A at 115 Felipe Ln is $100 and is excluded.

Barefoot Estates against its neighbors: the benchmark table

The closest benchmark is the Barefoot Beach lanes, the 80 homes in the county’s file for Lely Barefoot Beach Units 1 to 5 and the one-lot plat at Plat Book 24, pages 3 to 4 (78 of them in Units One and Two), and the lanes are covered in depth on the Barefoot Beach hub page. The other rows are the neighboring associations on the island. Windows are 60 months, all from the same county files, and any row with fewer than ten sales is directional only.

The Estates’ median just value is 95.1 percent of the lanes’ ($6,257,993.50 divided by $6,578,899), so the county values the two groups at similar levels, and the lanes’ nine sales ranged from $5,500,000 to $15,350,000. Turnover tells a different story. One sale in the last 12 months is 1 of 6 homes, or 16.7 percent, but over 60 months the Estates averaged one sale across six homes in five years, 3.3 percent a year, against 2.25 percent a year in the lanes (9 sales across 80 homes in five years). Both are thin: one sale in five years against nine.

Southwest Florida MLS figures for Barefoot Estates

The Southwest Florida MLS, pulled October 3, 2026, shows 1 Barefoot Estates closing in the 12 months to that date and 2 in the last 60 months. We publish no median on 2 sales. The 12-month sale, on Felipe Lane, closed April 24, 2026 at $7,800,000, which is 91.8% of its final list price of $8,500,000, after 99 days on market, with 8,255 square feet of MLS living area, or $945 per square foot. The other, on Saint Eustacius Lane, closed December 12, 2022 at $16,100,000 against a final list price of $16,875,000, with 5,269 square feet of MLS living area and 1 day on market recorded. No Barefoot Estates home was listed for sale or under contract in the MLS on October 3, 2026, so months of supply is zero, an indicative figure on 1 closing in 12 months. We keep these figures apart from the county record, because the two sources count differently.

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Where Did Barefoot Estates Come From? Origins, PUD, Declaration and Plat

Barefoot Estates came from a 1995 replat of Block E of Lely Barefoot Beach Unit One, recorded in Plat Book 25, pages 1 to 2, which turned the old Block E lots and a beach garden tract into seven homesites and a common tract. It sits inside a planned unit development first approved in 1977, and the homes followed from 1997.

Data updated: October 2026

The 1995 plat and the 1995 covenants

The replat was recorded April 10, 1995 and covers what had been Lots 1 to 11 of Block E and the Beach Garden E tract. Seven homesites came out of it, plus Tract A, the common area that took over the Beach Garden E land. A Declaration of Restrictive Covenants for the replatted lots was recorded November 17, 1995 at OR 2120 PG 1745, a 17-page instrument signed by the individual developers of the lots. It names Beach Garden “E” Association, Inc., which merged into the Barefoot Beach Property Owners Association on March 27, 2000, according to the state’s corporate records. That is why no stand-alone Estates association exists today: the covenants survive, and the merged association’s role now belongs to the larger one.

The 1995 covenants are short on dollars and long on use rules. They restrict the lots to single-family use, allow leasing to a single family for a period of at least one month (the scan of the recorded page is partly garbled at the word month, so confirm it against the original image), and allow dogs, cats, caged birds and aquarium fish on a leash, with other animals needing approval. We cover the rental and pet rules in their own sections because a later document says something different.

The Lely Barefoot Beach PUD, from 1977 to 2019

Lely Barefoot Beach is a planned unit development, county PUD number 132, petition R-77-19, under an ordinance chain that starts with Ordinance 77-48 on September 27, 1977 and runs through 81-76, 85-21, 85-83 (December 17, 1985), 87-53, 88-63, 94-28, 2001-35, 2006-22, 2011-04, 2018-41 and 2019-44. The county’s future land use designation is Urban Residential Subdistrict. The 1985 ordinance settled two lawsuits filed that year, one by an environmental organization, and it is the document that sets the dwelling-unit cap and the section structure the Estates still live under.

Section III of the PUD is the lane-grid residential section, Unit One Blocks A to K. It allowed 91 homesites in 1985 and 106 after Ordinance 2011-04. The county roll shows 89 homesite parcels in that section today: 83 in Unit One and 6 in the Estates. You can read the ordinances in the Clerk’s records, linked in the sources below.

The dwelling-unit cap: two numbers, one we can attribute

Ordinance 85-83, section 2.4, caps the PUD at 690 dwelling units, and that is the figure we publish as the 1985 ordinance text. A different figure, 750, appears in later amendment text starting with Ordinance 87-53 and in the sum of the tract allocations after that amendment. We do not treat either as the one settled number. If the cap matters to a decision, such as a request to add a unit, read the current consolidated PUD text and ask Collier County for a written confirmation, because the answer depends on which amendment controls.

Ordinance 2019-44 and the third habitable floor

Ordinance 2019-44, which was on the Board of County Commissioners’ December 10, 2019 agenda under petition PUDA-PL20190001138, amended the PUD in three ways that matter here. It clarified that the replat of Block E known as Barefoot Estates remains in Section III. It raised the height rule in section 9.4.7 for Tract D from two stories above the minimum base flood elevation to three habitable floors, and the amendment applies to Tract D and to the Barefoot Estates section. And its subject property is described as Barefoot Estates and Lely Barefoot Beach Unit Two. That is the recorded fact.

Our two readings of the county’s materials differ in emphasis, and we print both. The ordinance text reads as a Tract D rule that extends to the Estates section. The county’s staff report to the Board of County Commissioners for the same ordinance describes the Estates as governed by Section III at three habitable floors over parking and a 70-foot height, the same rule the lanes received in Ordinance 2001-35 on June 26, 2001. Read the ordinance and the staff report together, and ask Collier County Growth Management for a written zoning verification, before you promise anyone a third floor. Elevation rules, the state coastal construction line and the county’s flood freeboard all apply on top of the PUD.

Which Recorded Instruments Govern Barefoot Estates?

Four layers of recorded documents govern a Barefoot Estates home: the 1995 covenants for the replatted lots, the Barefoot Beach Property Owners Association declaration of 2009 and its two amendments, the Master Association documents for the gate and the boulevard, and the PUD ordinances. The table below lists each with its Official Records book and page.

Data updated: October 2026

The instruments, with recording references

How the layers fit together

The Barefoot Beach Property Owners Association, Inc. was filed with the state on November 16, 1978 and is the Estates’ parent association. Its 2009 declaration counts the community in 136 shares: 125 plots at one share each and the seven Estates plots together counted as 11, so the Estates hold 11 of 136 shares, about 8.1 percent. The Association sits beneath the Barefoot Beach Master Association, Inc., whose bylaws were recorded in 2011 and which has eight member entities and 716 doors, the Property Owners Association being one member with 136 of them. The Association pays sums owed to the Master Association, and that is a reason to ask both for an estoppel.

The Master Association, the gate and the boulevard

The Master Association owns the roughly 1.8-mile main boulevard and staffs the guardhouse around the clock under the 2009 Turnover Agreement, which also bars it from permitting public parking on the main roadway. The Property Owners Association kept the twelve side lanes, and Felipe and Saint Eustacius are two of them. Separately, the State of Florida holds a permanent 60-foot ingress and egress easement over the boulevard corridor, recorded in 1988. We state both facts and characterize no dispute about them. Buyers should know that the road in is private and the lanes are the Association’s, so road maintenance, gate rules and guest procedures all come from the community’s documents, not from the county.

The 2006 to 2008 beachfront tract litigation: the recorded outcome

In Collier County Circuit Court case 06-0627-CA, the Property Owners Association sued over the beachfront common open-space tract on Unit One’s Gulf frontage, Tract BF, Plat Book 12, pages 34 to 37, and a final summary judgment recorded January 17, 2007 at OR 4169 PG 4112 and January 26, 2007 at OR 4174 PG 2136 rescinded the deed at OR 3966 PG 2883, voided the later deeds at OR 4032 PG 3525 and OR 4153 PG 2035, and ordered the tract deeded to the Association within 30 days. The appeal was dismissed in 2008, reported as a table decision at 978 So. 2d 170 (Fla. 2d DCA April 2, 2008). A lis pendens at OR 4023 PG 2476 and a notice at OR 4180 PG 2345 are part of the same recorded history. Tract BF is not part of Barefoot Estates, and we report the outcome only because it shows how the community’s recorded documents have been enforced.

What Do the 1978 and 1980 Protective Covenants Say About Floors and Wind?

The 1978 Declaration of Protective Covenants for Barefoot Beach, made by Lely Estates, Inc., recorded at OR 745 PG 1699, set coastal construction figures: a first finished floor not below +14.5 feet MSL, a lowest structural member not below +13.0 feet MSL, pile foundations, 200 mph wind design and breakaway enclosures below +13.0. A 1980 instrument amended and replaced it, and the 1980 text controls.

Data updated: October 2026

What the 1978 declaration reads

The 1978 declaration was recorded April 17, 1978, runs nine pages, and covers Sections 5, 6, 7 and 8 of Township 48 South, Range 25 East. As we read the optical-character transcription of the recorded pages, it requires a first finished floor not below +14.5 feet MSL, a lowest structural member not below +13.0 feet MSL, pile foundations, a wind design of 200 miles per hour, and frangible enclosures below +13.0, and it bars construction in the tracts seaward of the Coastal Construction Setback Line. Those are figures from a 1978 document, quoted from a machine transcription, and a buyer should not treat any of them as a current requirement.

The 1980 amendment and what controls

The declaration was amended and replaced in May 1980 at OR 867 PG 1318, and re-recorded May 23, 1980 at OR 869 PG 1961, an 11-page instrument. The 1980 text controls, and we have not separately quoted its figures, so confirm each of the numbers above against the 1980 pages before relying on it. Whether and how either declaration binds a particular Estates lot is a title question: ask the title agent whether the instrument appears in that lot’s chain.

MSL is not NAVD88

The 1978 and 1980 figures use mean sea level, an older vertical reference. Today’s FEMA flood maps use the North American Vertical Datum of 1988, and the two do not match by a fixed amount at every location. A first floor at +14.5 feet MSL cannot be compared directly with a base flood elevation of 11 or 12 feet NAVD88. An elevation certificate, which states the datum, is the only safe way to compare a house to either number, and the buyer’s flood insurance rating will use the certificate, not the covenant.

Why a 1978 covenant still matters in 2026

It matters for two reasons. First, covenants of this kind run with the land, and a title company or architect reviewing a rebuild or major renovation will look for them. Second, they show that coastal construction limits at Barefoot Beach predate the state’s current control line of record, which dates to 1989. County records also show a 1974 coastal setback line and a setback line variance, 74-75-V40, approved December 17, 1974. We cover the modern state and county overlays in the coastal rules section below.

What Are the Barefoot Estates Homes Like?

The six Barefoot Estates homes were built between 1997 and 2008 on homesites numbered 1 to 7, with county base areas from 2,263 to 3,112 square feet and a median of 2,672. Two of the six sit on parcels that reach the Gulf, and the other four are near-Gulf.

Data updated: October 2026

The six homes, side by side

Lots, parcels and what is vacant

Every one of the seven homesite lots is improved. Lots 1 and 2 were combined into one parcel under one house, which is why seven lots carry six homes. There are no vacant Estates homesites on the 2026 roll. The seventh roll parcel is Tract A at 115 Felipe Ln, the common area, which the county codes under use code 35 with a $100 value and a 2000 structure date and 1,508 square feet of base area for the improvements on it. The county’s coding does not say what those improvements are.

Year built, size and what the county’s area means

Year built runs 1997, 1999, 2000, 2000, 2001 and 2008, an eleven-year spread with a median year of 2000. Base area runs from 2,263 to 3,112 square feet, and the median of 2,672 is the mean of the middle two values, 2,600 and 2,744. Base area is the county’s base-area field for the largest building and is not living area. The roll also carries a larger adjusted-area field, which runs from 5,431 to 8,412 square feet across the six homes because it counts garages, porches and other features, and it is also not a measured living area. For square footage you can rely on, ask the seller for the plans and a current survey.

Waterfront type, said carefully

Gulf front, near-Gulf and Gulf access are three different things in this enclave. Two homes, 109 Felipe Ln and 110 Saint Eustacius Ln, sit on parcels that reach the Gulf and carry the VE flood zone on the county layers. Four do not. The beach itself is reached through the community’s common land and county access points, and deeded or recorded beach rights for each lot are something the title commitment and the Association’s documents must confirm. We did not find a public statement of them.

Homestead share

Three of the six improved parcels, 50.0 percent, carry a homestead exemption on the 2026 preliminary roll. That is a rough indicator of owner-occupied primary residences, and it does not count seasonal owners who have not claimed it. It also changes the tax bills in the next sections, because a homestead parcel’s assessed value is capped by law at the lesser of 3 percent or inflation each year.

What Amenities Does Barefoot Estates Have?

Barefoot Estates has no amenities of its own that we could confirm. The enclave is a seven-plot residential plat with a common tract, so its amenities come in three tiers: what the enclave itself holds, what the gated Barefoot Beach community provides, and what the public and private neighbors offer nearby.

Data updated: October 2026

Tier one: inside the enclave

We found no website, amenity list, clubhouse, pool or beach-access easement attributed to Barefoot Estates in any public record. The common tract at 115 Felipe Ln carries a county structure date of 2000 and 1,508 square feet of base area, and the roll does not say what those improvements are. Whether the tract holds a walkway, a gazebo, landscaping or utilities is a question for the Association and the title commitment. Anything we say about it beyond that would be a guess.

Tier two: inside Barefoot Beach

The community’s gate is staffed around the clock by the Master Association, and that is the one inside-the-gate service we can document. The Master Association also owns and maintains the roughly 1.8-mile main boulevard, and the Property Owners Association keeps the twelve side lanes, including Felipe and Saint Eustacius. The gate guest procedure, the gate telephone number for the Estates and any community beach walkway rights are not confirmed for this enclave. One gate telephone number appears on another community’s website, and we do not repost it because it is not an Estates document.

Tier three: the beach, the preserve and the neighbors

The county’s Barefoot Beach Preserve page describes 342 acres of natural land on one of the last undeveloped barrier islands on the Southwest Florida coast, open year-round from 8 a.m. to sunset, with a $10 pay-to-park fee for visitors without a Collier County Resident Beach Parking Permit, and no dogs. The county page also gives the park address as 505 Barefoot Beach Blvd, while a county press release elsewhere says 503, and the page’s information box says 345 acres where its text says 342. Separately, Barefoot Beach Access is a county access point about 20 feet off Bonita Beach Road, with the preserve to its south and Bonita Beach Park to its north.

The preserve was closed after Hurricane Ian in September 2022 and reopened on November 24, 2023, according to the county’s release. The volunteer Friends of Barefoot Beach website says the Learning Center and a trail are closed pending repairs, on a page that carries no date, and the county page and the Friends page disagree about concessions, so check both before planning a day around either.

The Club at Barefoot Beach at 105 Shell Dr is a separate private member club. Its membership rules are its own, and we found nothing that ties a Barefoot Estates deed to membership. Ask the club directly if its beach service, tennis, dining or pool matter to your decision.

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

What Do the Fee Layers Cover, and How Much Do They Cost?

No public record we found states a dollar amount for what Barefoot Estates owners pay the Barefoot Beach Property Owners Association or the Master Association. Dues are not published, so this section names each layer, quotes the recorded fee rules, and gives the route to the real number, which is an estoppel certificate.

Data updated: October 2026

Layer one: the Master Association

The Master Association’s documents govern the gate and the boulevard, and the Property Owners Association is one of its eight member entities. The Property Owners Association pays sums owed to the Master Association under the 2009 declaration. We could not confirm how the Master Association’s cost is passed through to Estates owners, and we did not find a Master Association budget. Ask for it, along with the Property Owners Association’s.

Layer two: the Property Owners Association

The 2009 declaration, recorded at OR 4430 PG 3692, sets a late fee of the greater of $25 or 5 percent of the unpaid amount and allows fines of up to $100 per violation. A 2010 amendment at OR 4586 PG 823 added a Resale Assessment in section 7.10, set by the board, with no dollar figure in the instrument, so the amount that a seller or buyer pays at a sale is whatever the board has set. The Estates count as 11 of the community’s 136 shares. If the budget is allocated by share, the declaration is where the allocation among the seven Estates plots would be written, and we did not find it stated in dollars.

Layer three: the 1995 Estates covenants

The 1995 covenants name an association, Beach Garden “E” Association, Inc., that no longer exists as a separate corporation. We did not find a separate Estates dues figure in the text we read, and the state’s corporate record shows the old association merged into the Property Owners Association in 2000. If a seller says there is a separate Estates fee, ask for the instrument that creates it.

How to get the real number

Florida law gives you two tools. Florida Statute 720.401 requires the seller to present a disclosure summary before the contract is signed; the governing documents themselves are something a buyer asks for. Florida Statute 720.30851 lets an owner or the owner’s agent request an estoppel certificate that states all assessments, any resale assessment and any unpaid amounts, and requires the association to issue it within a fixed number of business days for a capped fee. The Association’s filing address on the state’s corporate record is a Naples management office, but who manages it today is not confirmed, so the first step is to ask the Association’s registered contact. We will request both documents for any buyer or seller we represent.

What Are the Layered Costs of Owning in Barefoot Estates?

Owning in Barefoot Estates means paying county property tax at a 9.4020 millage rate, Gulf-side insurance, association assessments that are not published, and one-time costs at purchase. The county’s 2026 preliminary tax bills for the six homes run from $22,124 to $134,325, with a median of $51,835.

Data updated: October 2026

Property tax, with a worked example

The county’s 2026 preliminary roll applies one combined millage rate to every Estates parcel: county 3.9293, school 4.1470, other 1.3257 and municipal 0, which add to 9.4020 mills, or $9.402 per $1,000. The 2024 final total was 9.5700, according to the Florida Department of Revenue’s 2024 Collier taxing-authority code summary. The 2026 figures are preliminary, and the final bill follows the notice the county mails in the fall.

The median is the mean of the middle pair, ($50,868.27 plus $52,802.65) divided by 2, which is $51,835.46. For the three parcels without a homestead exemption, the bill is the just value times 9.4020 mills: $6,782,867 times 0.009402 is $63,772.5, $5,616,107 times 0.009402 is $52,802.6, and $14,286,845 times 0.009402 is $134,324.9. The three lower bills belong to homestead parcels, whose assessed value is held below just value by the exemption and the Save Our Homes cap.

A buyer should not assume the seller’s bill. Florida resets the cap after a sale, and a new owner’s first full-year bill is based on the county’s just value, not the prior owner’s capped value. As an illustration only, a non-homestead home assessed at the median just value of $6,257,993.50 would produce a bill of $6,257,993.50 times 0.009402, which is $58,837.65 at the 2026 preliminary rate, and a homestead exemption would reduce it. Florida Statute 689.261 requires sellers to tell buyers that current taxes may not predict future taxes, and the Save Our Homes statute explains the cap.

Insurance

Flood and wind insurance are the cost line most likely to surprise a buyer in a Gulf-side zone, and the flood section below explains why. We do not publish a premium figure because a premium depends on the elevation certificate, the construction year, the wind-mitigation features and the carrier.

Association assessments

The fee section above covers these. The figure is not published, and the estoppel certificate is the route.

One-time costs at purchase

In Collier County the buyer customarily pays the owner’s title insurance policy and chooses the closing agent, and the buyer pays for the survey, inspections, any elevation certificate and lender fees. The seller customarily pays the documentary stamp tax on the deed under Florida Statute 201.02, which is $0.70 per $100 of price, so a sale at $7,800,000 carries $54,600 of deed stamps: $7,800,000 divided by 100, times $0.70. Estoppel fees come with the Association documents, and the statute caps them. We do not list the title policy as a seller cost.

Declaration, Bylaws, Rules and Approvals in Barefoot Estates

The Barefoot Beach Property Owners Association’s 2009 declaration governs membership, assessments, leasing, pets, fines and approvals for Barefoot Estates, alongside the 1995 covenants for the replatted lots. We read the recorded instruments and list what they say with recording references. What they leave to the board, we mark as not published.

Data updated: October 2026

What the Property Owners Association declaration says

The amended and restated declaration, recorded February 26, 2009 at OR 4430 PG 3692, runs 72 pages, with Articles at OR 4430 PG 3736 and Bylaws at OR 4430 PG 3745. It sets the 136-share structure, the late fee and the $100 fine cap described above, a leasing rule in section 10, a pet rule in section 8.22, and a duty to pay the Master Association. Florida’s statute on association fines, 720.305, adds its own procedure, notice and hearing requirements that sit on top of the declaration.

What the 1995 covenants add

The 1995 covenants restrict the lots to single-family use, set the lease and pet rules described below and bind the seven homesites. The rest of the instrument is a 17-page set of covenants that the title agent will read at closing, and we recommend that a buyer’s attorney read it too.

Approvals and who decides

The leasing rule requires 30 days’ notice and board approval. Whether the Association’s architectural review process requires approval for exterior changes, rebuilds or tree removal is not something we found stated in the passages we read, and a 2012 amendment at OR 4841 PG 2808 describes committees for the Beach Garden sections and director elections. Ask for the current architectural guidelines before you plan work, and ask whether Estates owners sit on any committee.

Amendments change the rules

The 2010 Resale Assessment shows that the board can add a fee layer by amendment, and the 2012 amendment shows the committee structure has changed since 2009. A buyer should ask for every recorded amendment since February 2009 and for the board’s current written rules, and compare them to the instruments listed in the table above. The Association’s official records are open to members under Florida Statute 720.303.

Can You Rent Out a Barefoot Estates Home?

Yes, with limits, but two recorded documents give two different minimum terms. The 1995 Barefoot Estates covenants allow leasing to a single family for at least one month, while the 2009 Property Owners Association declaration allows one lease a year with a 90-day minimum. Ask the Association which document it enforces.

Data updated: October 2026

What each document says

The 1995 covenants, OR 2120 PG 1745, allow leasing to a single family for a period of at least one month, and the word month is partly garbled in the scan. The 2009 declaration, OR 4430 PG 3692, section 10, allows one lease per calendar year, with a 90-day minimum and a one-year maximum, 30 days’ notice to the Association, board approval and no subleasing. One lease a year at a 90-day minimum means at most one tenancy a year, so weekly and monthly vacation rentals are not possible under it.

Which document to ask about

We read the later and stricter 2009 rule as the one to plan around, and no document we read says expressly which one prevails. So the right way to settle it is to ask the Association, in writing, for its position on the Estates, and to ask it before you sign a contract, not after. If your plan depends on a one-month lease, get the answer in an estoppel or a letter that you can attach to the contract.

County vacation-rental registration

Collier County’s Ordinance 2021-45, effective January 3, 2022, requires a vacation-rental registration for a home rented for less than 30 days more than three times a year, with fines of up to $500 per violation per day. Under the Association’s 90-day minimum that registration should not be needed, and it is a reason not to rely on a one-month reading without the Association’s written confirmation.

Rental rules next door

Are Pets Allowed in Barefoot Estates?

Yes. The 1995 Barefoot Estates covenants allow dogs, cats, caged birds and aquarium fish, with leashes required, and other animals only with approval. The 2009 Property Owners Association declaration allows reasonable numbers of pets on a leash. We found no breed or weight limit in either pet provision, and the Association’s current rules are not published.

Data updated: October 2026

What the documents say

The 1995 covenants allow dogs, cats, caged birds and aquarium fish, leashed, and other animals with approval. The 2009 declaration, section 8.22, permits pets in reasonable numbers and requires leashes. A rule that says reasonable is a rule the board interprets, so ask what number the board treats as reasonable.

Pets and the beach

Barefoot Beach Preserve does not permit dogs, according to the county’s page. That affects daily routines more than the governing documents do, because the preserve is the nearest public stretch of sand. Ask your neighbors and the Association where a dog may be walked off the lane.

Barefoot Estates Flood Zone, Storm Posture and Insurance

Every Barefoot Estates address we tested sits in a FEMA Special Flood Hazard Area, with base flood elevations of 11 to 12 feet NAVD88 in zone AE, and, by our reading of the public map layers, three of the seven parcels also reach the high-velocity VE zone at 13 to 16 feet. The enclave is in Evacuation Zone A and outside any Coastal Barrier Resources System unit.

Data updated: October 2026

Flood zone by address

The effective Collier County flood map is FIRM panel 12021C0179J, effective February 8, 2024. We queried FEMA’s National Flood Hazard Layer, the county’s address points and parcel layer on October 1, 2026 for five Estates addresses. The columns show the zone at the address point, the share of the building footprint and of the whole parcel in each zone, and where the Limit of Moderate Wave Action falls. These are our reading of the public map layers and not a flood determination.

We did not test 105 Felipe Ln or 109 Felipe Ln at their address points. By our reading of the public map layers, our parcel screen of all seven roll parcels shows zone AE 10 on two parcels, AE 11 on seven, AE 12 on three, VE 13 on three and VE 16 on three. The parcels carrying VE are 109 Felipe Ln, 110 Saint Eustacius Ln and 115 Felipe Ln, so 105 Felipe Ln touches AE only, and 109 Felipe Ln touches the VE zone. A parcel touching a zone does not mean the house is in it: the footprint column is the better guide, and an elevation certificate is the answer.

What the table means for a buyer

FEMA’s rating rule is that a building located in more than one flood zone is rated in the more hazardous zone. The footprint of 110 Saint Eustacius Ln matched VE 13 over 32 percent of its area in our reading of the public map layers, which is why that home deserves a certificate before an offer, not after. The Limit of Moderate Wave Action marks the landward edge of the area where waves of 1.5 feet or more are expected, and the building code treats the area between that line and the VE zone as a Coastal A Zone. A point seaward of the line is nearer the water. Where the line crosses a footprint, as at 101 Felipe Ln and 215 Barefoot Beach Blvd, part of the house is on each side of it, so ask what the foundation and the lowest floor were built to withstand.

The county’s rules: freeboard, the 50 percent rule and elevation certificates

Collier County requires new residences in the floodplain to be built with the lowest living floor above the base flood elevation plus 1 foot, according to the county’s Building Within the Floodplain page. Under the county’s Ordinance 2019-01, a repair or improvement whose cost equals or exceeds 50 percent of the building’s market value triggers the requirement to bring the building to current standards. Market value may be set by an appraiser, by actual cash value, or by the tax assessment adjusted by a factor from the Property Appraiser. We did not find a cumulative look-back provision in the ordinance text. For a $6 million house, the structure value is only the building, not the land, which makes the 50 percent line a question for the county’s floodplain staff before any renovation is priced.

The county keeps an elevation certificate index. It lists five records on Felipe Ln and three on Saint Eustacius Ln across the Estates and the neighboring lane lots, and we could not match them to individual homes. Ask the seller for the certificate on file, and use the county’s flood map viewer and the Flood Information Hotline, (239) 252-2942, for the rest.

The preliminary map and the appeal window

FEMA’s preliminary flood map dated March 20, 2025 re-issues this panel as 0179K. At every tested point the zone and base flood elevation are unchanged from the effective map. The county’s August 2026 notice says a 90-day appeal period begins August 19, 2026, which by our arithmetic runs to about November 17, 2026. The notice does not mention Barefoot Beach, and the map is not final until it is adopted.

Is Barefoot Estates in the Coastal Barrier Resources System?

No. None of our tested points falls inside a Coastal Barrier Resources System unit, and the nearest federal unit we found is FL-65P, which covers the preserve south of Shell Drive. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service explains that federal flood insurance is not available for new or substantially improved structures inside a unit, and the CBRS mapper is the place to check an address. Because the Estates are outside, that rule does not apply to them, and the Citizens rule in the next paragraph turns on the state’s control line instead.

Insurance: what the statute says and what we do not say

Florida’s Citizens Property Insurance Corporation is the state-backed insurer of last resort, and Florida Statute 627.351, subsection 6, makes a major structure ineligible if it was newly built, or rebuilt or enlarged by more than 25 percent, under a permit applied for after July 1, 2015 and sits seaward of the coastal construction control line or in the Coastal Barrier Resources System. That is what the statute says. We do not state whether any Estates home is or is not eligible, because eligibility depends on the permit date, the work done and the line’s position at that lot, and Citizens decides it, not us.

Other Citizens rules a buyer will meet are that flood coverage must be carried where a home is in a Special Flood Hazard Area, that a home whose replacement cost exceeds the program’s ceiling, $700,000 in the text we read or $1 million where the state finds no reasonable competition (we did not verify which applies in Collier County), is not eligible for a standard policy, and that homes valued at $750,000 or more need opening protection. An insurance agent should quote a home of this size before you fall in love with it.

The National Flood Insurance Program caps building coverage at $250,000 and contents at $100,000 for a single-family home, according to FloodSmart, so owners of homes of this value may want to ask about private excess flood coverage. The community’s wind design speed for a Risk Category II house is 161 miles per hour across most of the community, in the wind-borne debris region. Florida Statute 627.0629 requires insurers to offer credits for verified wind-mitigation features, so ask the seller for a current wind-mitigation inspection. The county has a Community Rating System class of 5, which gives a 25 percent discount on National Flood Insurance Program policies under FEMA’s Community Rating System.

Evacuation: one road out

Barefoot Estates is in Evacuation Zone A, the first zone ordered out, and the only way off the island is the gate and then Bonita Beach Road east. Follow Collier County’s orders, not Lee County’s, which can differ for neighbors a few hundred yards away. Check your zone at Florida’s Know Your Zone and sign up for AlertCollier. The nearest shelter we found is Aubrey Rogers High School, about 9.2 miles by road from 253 Barefoot Beach Blvd by our routing estimate.

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

What Happened at Barefoot Beach in Hurricanes Ian, Helene and Milton?

Hurricane Ian made landfall on September 28, 2022, and the National Hurricane Center reported maximum inundation of 8 to 12 feet above ground in Estero, Bonita Beach, Bonita Springs and North Naples. We found no building-level damage report for any Barefoot Estates home, and we assert none.

Data updated: October 2026

Hurricane Ian, in the official record

The National Hurricane Center’s Hurricane Ian report states that maximum inundation levels of 8 to 12 feet above ground level occurred in Estero, Bonita Beach, Bonita Springs and North Naples, and that in Collier County 33 buildings were destroyed and over 3,500 buildings sustained major damage. The U.S. Geological Survey’s high-water-mark database has a mark of 11.76 feet NAVD88 on Barefoot Beach Boulevard at Anguilla Lane, 4.5 feet above ground, where the FIRM base flood elevation is 10. That mark is in the northern part of the community and we have not measured its distance to the Estates, so we use it only to say that Ian’s surge on the island exceeded the mapped base flood elevation at one recorded point.

Helene and Milton

The Florida Department of Environmental Protection’s report on Hurricanes Helene and Milton classifies Barefoot Beach, monitoring stations R-1 to R-16, as Condition IV erosion, and its Collier County narrative describes 20 to 30 feet of beach width lost. The National Hurricane Center’s Helene and Milton reports are the storm-level records. The Milton high-water mark we reviewed is a Lee County mark, not one inside the community.

What the Estates’ own record shows, and does not

The county roll shows no Estates home with a year built after 2008, and we draw no storm conclusion from that. A home rebuilt under an old year-built date, or repaired in place, would not change the field. The county’s permit history and the state’s coastal permit records are the way to learn what each home has been through, and we recommend buyers request both through their attorney.

The beach after the storms

The Association’s common areas, including the Estates’ common area, are listed in temporary beach-restoration easements to Collier County recorded in 2023 and running to the end of 2043, so ask the title agent what those easements allow on a given lot. The county’s April 2026 notice says another renourishment project needs temporary easements and that Naples Beach is scheduled for November 2026. It does not name Barefoot Beach, so we do not say a Barefoot project is scheduled.

Why Do Milestone Inspections and SIRS Not Apply to Barefoot Estates?

Florida’s milestone inspection and structural integrity reserve study rules apply to condominium and cooperative buildings of three habitable stories or more, not to detached single-family homes in a homeowners’ association. Barefoot Estates is six single-family houses under Chapter 720, so neither requirement applies, and a buyer should ask for different documents instead.

Data updated: October 2026

What the two rules cover

Florida Statute 553.899 sets milestone structural inspections for condominium and cooperative buildings that are three habitable stories or more, and Florida Statute 718.112 requires a structural integrity reserve study at least every 10 years for residential condominium buildings of that height. Neither statute reaches a detached single-family house in a community governed by Chapter 720. A condominium building elsewhere on the island, such as Barefoot Beach Club, is a different case, and its page covers it.

What to request instead

Because those two documents do not exist here, a buyer should ask for the next best things: the Property Owners Association’s current budget, reserve schedule and last annual financial statement; the plan and budget for the twelve side lanes the Association owns, including drainage; the Master Association’s reserve for the boulevard and the gate; an inspection report on the home itself, with roof age, windows and doors, and the wind-mitigation form; the elevation certificate; and the state coastal permit history. For a Gulf-side home, an engineer’s review of the foundation and any seawall or dune structure is worth the fee.

Which Schools Serve Barefoot Estates? Check by Address

Collier County Public Schools’ 2026-27 locator, tested at 101 Felipe Ln, assigns Naples Park Elementary, North Naples Middle School and Aubrey Rogers High School. The state’s 2025-26 school grade is A for all three. Attendance zones can change, so verify your address with the district.

Data updated: October 2026

What the district locator returned

We ran the district’s attendance-zone service at one Estates address, 101 Felipe Ln, on October 1, 2026, and it returned the three schools above. We did not test the other five addresses, and zones are assigned by address, so another Estates home could differ. The Florida Department of Education publishes the grades on its school grade report.

Distances and buses

We measured driving distances from two other Barefoot Beach addresses, 253 Barefoot Beach Blvd and 193 Topanga Dr, and our estimates ran from 7.7 to 9.2 miles to the three schools. We did not measure from the Estates, so treat them as a rough guide. District policy offers bus service to students who live two or more miles from school, and where a stop would be placed is not something we could find, so check the district’s transportation page.

County Permits, Zoning and Coastal Rules for Barefoot Estates

Barefoot Estates is zoned under the Lely Barefoot Beach PUD, permitted by Collier County, and regulated seaward of the state’s coastal construction control line by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection. A building project here can need county, state and Association approvals, and the order and the lead times matter more than any single fee.

Data updated: October 2026

Zoning and land use

The enclave is in the Lely Barefoot Beach PUD, county PUD number 132, with a future land use designation of Urban Residential Subdistrict. The PUD document, not the base zoning code, sets height, setbacks and use, and Section III governs the Estates under Ordinance 2019-44 as described above. The county’s Land Development Code, Appendix F, is the starting point for planned unit development text, and the Clerk’s records linked in our sources hold each ordinance for the section that applies to your lot.

County permits and permit history

Collier County issues building permits for the Estates, and the county’s permit history search shows what was permitted and when. Buyers should ask for the permit history for the house and any dock, seawall or pool, and ask whether every permit was closed. We did not retrieve permit histories for individual homes, and we do not describe any one home’s permit record.

The state coastal construction control line

Florida Statute 161.053 requires a state permit for most construction seaward of the coastal construction control line, and the Department of Environmental Protection explains the process on its coastal construction control line pages. The line of record for this stretch dates to 1989. By our reading of the public map layers, the Estates lie between 37 and 107 meters seaward of it, which is our inference and not a surveyed measurement. The state’s permit database lists 284 coastal construction control line permit records for Barefoot Beach community-wide from 1981 to 2026, and the recent new single-family permits we saw were for lane lots, not Estates lots.

The county’s 1974 setback line

Collier County also has its own coastal setback line, recorded October 31, 1974 in Coastal Setback Line Book 1, pages 1 to 12. In our reading of the public map layers, it crosses the building footprint at 110 Saint Eustacius Ln, and 115 Felipe Ln lies 18 meters landward of it. A county setback line variance requires a Hearing Examiner hearing with 45 days of sign posting under Land Development Code section 9.04.06. The Governor and Cabinet approved Coastal Setback Line Variance 74-75-V40 for Lely Barefoot Beach on December 17, 1974.

How Does Coastal Construction Control Line Permitting Work for a Gulf-Front Estate?

For a Gulf-front estate such as the Barefoot Estates parcels that reach the water, any new construction, major rebuild or substantial addition seaward of the coastal construction control line needs a state permit before the county permit is issued. The state reviews siting, structural design, dune protection and sea turtle lighting.

Data updated: October 2026

When the state permit applies

Under Florida Statute 161.053, construction seaward of the line needs a Department of Environmental Protection permit, and the department’s rules require structural design that accounts for the forces of a major storm and siting that protects the dune. The department’s application page lists what an application must contain, and its questions page tells you where to ask.

Why permit dates matter to insurance and to value

The Citizens rule in Florida Statute 627.351 turns on whether a permit was applied for after July 1, 2015 for a new, rebuilt or enlarged major structure seaward of the line. So a permit date is both a construction fact and an insurance fact, and a seller who has the date, the permit number and the as-built documents is a seller whose home is easier to underwrite. We do not state any home’s permit date.

Sea turtle lighting and season

Sea turtle nesting season on the Collier County coast runs May 1 to October 31, and lights visible from the beach are regulated year-round for existing buildings and more strictly for new ones. Lights on Gulf-facing structures must be off after 9 p.m. or shielded so they are not visible from the beach. New development within 300 feet of the mean high-water line may not use floodlights and must use glass with a light transmittance of 45 percent or less. The sources are the county’s Land Development Code section 3.04.02, the county’s Sea Turtle Protection page and the state’s Marine Turtle Protection Act. Section 3.04.02 applies within 300 feet of coastal mean high water, and a buyer planning exterior lighting or new glass should read the current code.

Daily Logistics: Gate, Roads, Utilities, Trash, Mail and Getting Around

Daily life in Barefoot Estates runs through one gate and one road: Barefoot Beach Boulevard to Bonita Beach Road. The distances below are estimates measured from other points in the community, not from the Estates, and several services, including the water and sewer provider and trash pickup days, are not confirmed for these addresses.

Data updated: October 2026

Getting around

From a point near 260 Barefoot Beach Blvd, our estimates are about 0.9 miles to the gate corner, 3.2 miles to US 41, 6.7 miles to Interstate 75 exit 116, 22.2 miles to Southwest Florida International Airport, 3.1 miles to the Publix on Bonita Beach Road and 16.4 miles to Fifth Avenue South in Naples. We calculated them from road geometry in a routing service and not from the Estates’ front doors, so test the drive at the hour you would make it.

Water, sewer and power

Bonita Springs Utilities does not serve Barefoot Beach, despite the Bonita Springs mailing address. Collier County Water-Sewer District is the likely provider, but we did not confirm it for the Estates, and whether a given home is on sewer or a septic system is a question for the county and the home inspection. Florida Power and Light serves unincorporated Collier County, which we infer for the Estates. Gas, internet providers and cable are not confirmed.

Trash, recycling and mail

Collier County provides twice-weekly household trash pickup and weekly recycling and yard-waste pickup for residential customers, with days set by address. The county’s customer service line is 239-252-2380, and the county’s 311 portal is the place to confirm service. Whether the Association contracts for its own service is not confirmed. The nearest post office we identified is at 9071 Bonita Beach Rd SE, and which delivery unit serves the Estates is not confirmed.

Emergency services and health care

North Collier Fire Control and Rescue District’s Station 43 is at 16325 Vanderbilt Dr, and the Collier County Sheriff’s District 1 North Naples substation is at 776 Vanderbilt Beach Rd. The nearest emergency department we identified is NCH Emergency Department Bonita at 24040 S Tamiami Trail, about 7.6 miles from the Club building we measured from.

Boating

The Estates are on the Gulf side, and boaters keep a boat on the bay or at a marina elsewhere. The Bonita Beach Road fixed bridge has a vertical clearance of 12.8 feet, according to a charted value with a February 2016 source date on NOAA’s electronic navigational chart, which is a figure to check before you buy a boat.

What Is It Like to Sell a Gulf-Front Estate in Barefoot Estates?

Selling in Barefoot Estates means selling one of six houses to a very small pool of buyers who will read every document. The seller’s job is to arrive with the association papers, the elevation certificate, the coastal permit history and a price tied to the lanes’ comparables, because the enclave’s own sale history is only six deeds.

Data updated: October 2026

The comparable problem

With six recorded sales in 29 years and one in the last five, a seller cannot price from the Estates alone. We price from the nearest like home, which is often in the lanes, where the county’s record shows nine qualified sales in 60 months between $5,500,000 and $15,350,000, and we adjust for frontage, view, lot, age, flood zone and storm repair. A blended average is worthless here, and a seller who hears one is hearing sales talk.

The documents a seller assembles

A seller should have in hand: the 1995 covenants and the 2009 declaration with amendments, the Association’s current budget and a written statement of which leasing rule applies, an estoppel certificate, the elevation certificate, the survey, the wind-mitigation inspection, the coastal permit history for any work after July 2015, and the home’s permit history from the county. Florida Statute 720.401 puts the disclosure duty on the seller, and a seller who has the packet ready closes faster.

Gate access, showings and buyer screening

Showings go through a staffed gate, and the Master Association’s guest procedure for showings and for brokers’ open houses is not published, so we ask for it in writing before listing. For a home at this price, showings are by appointment and buyers are usually pre-qualified, and we confirm proof of funds before a showing.

Costs and taxes a seller should plan for

A seller customarily pays the deed’s documentary stamp tax, $54,600 on a $7,800,000 sale at $0.70 per $100, plus the Association’s estoppel fee, any resale assessment the board has set, and the real estate commission as negotiated. The buyer customarily pays the owner’s title policy and chooses the closing agent in Collier County. Capital gains treatment depends on the seller’s facts, and the IRS explains the home-sale exclusion in Topic 701 and capital gains generally in Topic 409, so talk to a tax adviser before listing.

Barefoot Estates vs the Barefoot Beach Lanes: Which Fits You?

Barefoot Estates and the Barefoot Beach lanes sit side by side inside the same gate and answer to the same Property Owners Association, but they differ in size, recorded history and sale volume. The Estates are six homes with one recent sale, and the lanes are 80 homes with nine sales in 60 months, so the lanes give a buyer more choice and a seller more comparables.

Data updated: October 2026

Barefoot Estates versus the lanes, side by side

The lanes are the single-family homes of Lely Barefoot Beach Units One and Two, plus one home each in Unit Five and the one-lot plat at Plat Book 24, pages 3 to 4, in the same county file, the grid of lane addresses that wraps around the Estates, and the Barefoot Beach hub page covers them in depth. Every figure below comes from the same county files and the same recorded instruments.

When Barefoot Estates is the better fit

Choose Barefoot Estates if you want a very small, quiet street of large houses inside the gate, and if you can accept a thin sales record, an unpublished fee schedule and the work of reading two sets of covenants. It fits a buyer who values scarcity over choice and who will buy on documents.

When the lanes are the better fit

Choose the lanes if you want more choice, a more active resale market and a deeper comparable record, or if you want to build, since the lanes have lots and homes from 1985 to 2025. The lanes’ nine qualified sales in 60 months ranged from $5,500,000 to $15,350,000, and a buyer can see more recent comparables before bidding.

The other neighbors on the island

A buyer who prefers a condominium should read our pages on Barefoot Beach Club, a 348-unit group with a median just value of $1,582,030, and on the 50-unit Villas at Barefoot Beach. The 15-unit Cottages at Barefoot Beach carry a 2023 year built on the county roll for 14 of 15 homes, and we did not read the permits behind that date. A buyer who wants a bay-side single-family home should look at Bayfront Gardens with 27 homes, Southport on the Bay with 100 homes or the nine homes of Barefoot Bay. Those are a different product from a Gulf-side estate lot.

Selling in Barefoot Estates? 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 Estates

Barefoot Estates offers scarcity, size and a gated Gulf-side setting, and it asks for patience with unpublished fees, coastal rules, flood and wind insurance costs and a thin sales record. Here are the strengths and weaknesses of the enclave, stated from the records and without a sales pitch.

Data updated: October 2026

What owners and buyers can count on

• Scarcity. Six homes and one qualified sale in the last five years means a new listing is rare.
• Size and age. Homes built between 1997 and 2008, with a county median just value of about $6.26 million.
• A gated setting. A staffed gate around the clock and a private boulevard, with the preserve nearby.
• Height entitlement. Ordinance 2019-44 allows three habitable floors for the Estates section, subject to the other rules.
• Insurance credit. The county’s Community Rating System class of 5 gives a 25 percent discount on National Flood Insurance Program policies.

What to price in

• Unpublished fees. No public dollar figure for the Association or the Master Association.
• Rental limits. Two documents, two minimum terms, and a 90-day, once-a-year rule that rules out short-term rental.
• Flood and coastal exposure. By our reading of the public map layers, three of seven parcels reach the VE zone, and the state’s coastal rules apply seaward of the 1989 line.
• Insurance. Flood and wind cost, and a statute that limits Citizens eligibility for certain newer or rebuilt structures seaward of the line.
• A thin record. Six sales since 1997 make pricing a judgment, not a formula.
• One road out. Evacuation Zone A, with the gate and Bonita Beach Road as the only exit.

Our honest read

Barefoot Estates is a good fit for a well-advised buyer and a good one for a prepared seller, and a poor fit for someone who wants certainty from a brochure. Everything on the cons list can be answered with a document, and the point of this page is to tell you which one.

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

We built this page from primary records, not a listing feed. We tracked every one of the 6 Barefoot Estates qualified sales in the county record, going back to 1997, and every one of the six improved parcels on the 2026 preliminary roll, read the recorded instruments by book and page, and queried FEMA, Collier County and the U.S. Geological Survey ourselves.

Data updated: October 2026

What we did, step by step

A team with the Top 1% Real Estate Agents Nationally Since 2008 recognition still has to show its work, so each step below is one a reader can repeat. We pulled the parcel records for all seven roll parcels and recomputed the median, tax and area figures by hand. We read the county’s recorded-sales index dated August 29, 2026 and kept its window and qualification rules intact. We read the 1995 covenants, the 2009 declaration, the two amendments, the Master Association documents, the 1978 covenants and the judgments by recording reference. We read the ordinance chain from 1977 to 2019. We queried FEMA’s National Flood Hazard Layer, the county’s parcel and address layers and the school district’s locator on October 1, 2026. We re-read the county’s park and floodplain pages the same day.

What we found that surprised us

Four things stood out. The 1995 covenants and the 2009 declaration give different minimum lease terms, and neither says which prevails. The Estates count as 11 of 136 shares in the parent association, not seven. No public record gives a dollar figure for dues. And the one deed the county did not qualify, $16,100,000 in December 2022, is more than double the highest qualified price and larger than any sale in the lanes. We print each with its source.

What we could not get

We pulled Southwest Florida MLS data for Barefoot Estates on October 3, 2026. It holds 2 closings in 60 months and no active or pending listing, so every MLS figure on this page is a count or an actual sale and not an estimate. We could not find the association’s assessment amount, the management company, the amenity list or the water and sewer provider, and we could not read the 1980 covenants’ figures separately. We list these gaps again at the end of the page.

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

If you’re searching for a Barefoot Estates listing agent, or thinking, “I need someone to sell my Barefoot Estates home…”, McGreevy and Comisar is the team to call. Jesse McGreevy and Marc Comisar lead Domain Realty Group, and we prepare every Barefoot Estates listing the way a buyer’s attorney will read it: documents first, the lease rule settled in writing, and price tied to the county record and the lanes. Our guide to selling a home in Barefoot Estates at Barefoot Beach has the recorded sales, the costs and the documents, and our Barefoot Estates at Barefoot Beach 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 Estates 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 Estates sold-listing stats

The Southwest Florida MLS, pulled October 3, 2026, shows 1 Barefoot Estates closing in the 12 months to that date, for a dollar volume of $7,800,000: a home on Felipe Lane, closed April 24, 2026. That sale took 99 days on market and closed at 91.8% of its final list price of $8,500,000, and one sale gives no average. It was not our sale: McGreevy and Comisar closed no sale at Barefoot Estates through the Southwest Florida MLS in the 60 months to October 3, 2026, on either the listing or the buying side. Collier County’s qualified record shows one Barefoot Estates sale in the last 12 months, at $7,800,000, and six since 1997, and the two sources count differently. With a sample this small, each Barefoot Estates comparable matters, and we read the nearby lanes’ nine sales in 60 months alongside it.

Why selling in Barefoot Estates is different

A Barefoot Estates sale is a documents sale and a coastal sale. The buyer’s attorney, lender and insurer will ask for the association papers, the elevation certificate, the coastal permit history and the wind-mitigation report, and a home that arrives with them in order sells on its merits. We request the estoppel certificate and the statutory document package before we list, so the first buyer to see the home also sees the facts.

Price follows the lot, the frontage and the house. Two of the six homes sit on parcels that reach the Gulf, the county’s just values run from $5.6 million to $14.3 million, and the one county-qualified sale in five years was $7,800,000, so a blended average is useless to a seller. We price from the nearest like home and adjust for flood zone, age, view and condition.

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Barefoot Estates seller mini-FAQ

Six questions Barefoot Estates owners ask us before they list.

How much is my Barefoot Estates home worth?

It depends on the lot, the frontage, the flood zone, the age and the condition, and the county record is thin: one qualified sale in the last five years, at $7,800,000, and a 2026 median just value of $6,257,994. We use the nearest like home, not the median. A free valuation from our team gives you the comparables and the adjustments.

What do I owe the association when I sell?

You owe any unpaid assessments through closing, and the estoppel certificate states the amount. Under Florida Statute 720.30851 the association must issue it within a fixed number of business days and may charge a capped fee. The certificate also shows any resale assessment set under the 2010 amendment.

Which rental rule applies to my buyer?

The 1995 covenants say at least one month, and the 2009 declaration says 90 days and one lease a year. No document we read says which prevails, so we ask the Association in writing before we list and give the buyer its answer, because a buyer who plans to rent will ask on the first call.

Which documents do I need to give a Barefoot Estates buyer?

The statute requires the disclosure summary that Florida Statute 720.401 describes. The governing documents, the budget and any amendments, the estoppel certificate, the elevation certificate, the survey, a wind-mitigation report and the coastal permit history for any recent work are not required by that statute, but buyers ask for them.

Does being on the Gulf change the price?

Yes, but we have no MLS split by frontage to show how much, and the county’s qualified record is too thin to separate them. Two of the six homes sit on Gulf-reaching parcels, and the highest just value on the roll belongs to one of them. We compare like with like and tell you where the gap is a judgment.

How do I start?

Call Jesse at (239) 898-6072, or use the free valuation link above. We will ask for your address, then pull the nearest comparables and request the document package from the Association 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 Barefoot Estates homes and other Barefoot Beach properties. 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] · Jesse’s agent page
• Marc Comisar: (239) 287-5873 · Marc’s agent page
• Office: 24031 S Tamiami Trl #101, Bonita Springs, FL 34134

About our team

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

Frequently Asked Questions, Buyer Edition

These are the questions Barefoot Estates 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 is Barefoot Estates?

Barefoot Estates is a seven-plot estate enclave inside the gated Barefoot Beach community in unincorporated Collier County, platted in 1995 as a replat of Block E of Lely Barefoot Beach Unit One. It holds six single-family homes built from 1997 to 2008, plus a common tract. It has no stand-alone association and no website of its own.

Is Barefoot Estates in Bonita Springs or Naples?

Barefoot Estates has a Bonita Springs, Florida 34134 mailing address, sits in unincorporated Collier County and belongs to neither city. Collier County issues its permits and runs its flood program, and the county’s park pages sometimes print a Naples address for the same area. Use the Collier County address and the 34134 ZIP code on documents.

How many homes are in Barefoot Estates?

Barefoot Estates has seven homesite plots and six homes, because Lots 1 and 2 were combined under one house at 110 Saint Eustacius Ln. The county roll shows seven parcels: the six improved homesite parcels and the common Tract A at 115 Felipe Ln. No homesite on the 2026 roll is vacant.

Is Barefoot Estates on the Gulf?

Only some of it. Three of the seven roll parcels reach the Gulf: 109 Felipe Ln, 115 Felipe Ln and 110 Saint Eustacius Ln, and 115 Felipe Ln is the common tract. That makes two of the six homes Gulf-reaching and four near-Gulf. This is our reading of the public map layers, so check each home’s survey.

When were the Barefoot Estates homes built?

The county roll gives 1997, 1999, 2000, 2000, 2001 and 2008 as the years built, an eleven-year spread with a median of 2000. The plat was recorded in April 1995, and the covenants in November 1995. The roll shows no Estates home built after 2008, which says nothing by itself about repairs or rebuilds.

How much do Barefoot Estates homes cost?

The county’s 2026 preliminary median just value for the six homes is $6,257,994, and the county’s qualified-sales record holds six sales since 1997, the latest $7,800,000 on April 22, 2026. The Southwest Florida MLS, pulled October 3, 2026, shows 2 closings in the 60 months to that date, at $7,800,000 on April 24, 2026 and $16,100,000 on December 12, 2022, and no home listed for sale on October 3, 2026, so there is no current list price to quote. Two sales support no median, the two sources count differently, and just value is not a sale price.

What are the HOA fees in Barefoot Estates?

No public record we found states them. The community’s governing documents set a late fee and a $100 fine cap, and a 2010 amendment created a board-set resale assessment with no dollar figure. The real number comes from an estoppel certificate under Florida Statute 720.30851, and we request it for any buyer we represent.

Does Barefoot Estates have its own HOA?

No. The association named in the 1995 covenants, Beach Garden “E” Association, Inc., merged into the Barefoot Beach Property Owners Association on March 27, 2000, according to the state’s corporate record, and the Estates now count as 11 of that association’s 136 shares. The 1995 covenants remain recorded, and the Master Association runs the gate and boulevard above the Property Owners Association.

Can I rent my Barefoot Estates home?

Yes, with limits, and the documents differ. The 1995 covenants allow leasing to a single family for at least one month, and the 2009 declaration allows one lease a year, 90 days minimum, with board approval. Ask the Association in writing which it enforces before you sign a contract, and plan around the stricter rule.

Are pets allowed in Barefoot Estates?

Yes. The 1995 covenants allow dogs, cats, caged birds and aquarium fish, leashed, with other animals by approval, and the 2009 declaration allows reasonable numbers of leashed pets. We found no breed or weight limit in either provision. Barefoot Beach Preserve does not allow dogs, so plan where you will walk one.

Is Barefoot Estates in a flood zone?

Yes. Every address we tested is in a Special Flood Hazard Area: zone AE with a base flood elevation of 11 to 12 feet NAVD88, and three of the seven parcels also reach the VE zone at 13 to 16 feet. The effective panel is 12021C0179J. These are our reading of the public map layers, so get an elevation certificate.

Is Barefoot Estates in a Coastal Barrier Resources System zone?

No. None of our tested points falls inside a unit of the system, and the nearest federal unit we found, FL-65P, covers the preserve south of Shell Drive. The state’s coastal construction control line is a separate matter and does affect the Estates, which our permit and insurance sections explain.

How much is flood insurance for a Barefoot Estates home?

We do not publish a premium because it depends on the elevation certificate, the building’s construction year, the foundation, and the carrier. According to FloodSmart, the National Flood Insurance Program caps building coverage at $250,000 for a single-family home, so owners of homes of this value may want to ask about private excess flood coverage. Ask an insurance agent for a quote on the specific address.

Can Citizens insure a Barefoot Estates home?

The statute limits Citizens eligibility for a major structure that was newly built, or rebuilt or enlarged by more than 25 percent, under a permit applied for after July 1, 2015, seaward of the coastal construction control line. We do not state whether any home qualifies. The permit date and the work done decide it, and Citizens makes the call.

What did Hurricane Ian do at Barefoot Beach?

The National Hurricane Center reported maximum inundation of 8 to 12 feet above ground in nearby Bonita Beach, Estero, Bonita Springs and North Naples, and a U.S. Geological Survey high-water mark on Barefoot Beach Boulevard read 11.76 feet NAVD88. We found no building-level damage report for any Barefoot Estates home and assert none.

Do milestone inspections and structural integrity reserve studies apply?

No. Those rules apply to condominium and cooperative buildings of three habitable stories or more, and Barefoot Estates is six single-family homes governed by Chapter 720. A buyer should ask instead for the association budget and reserves, the home inspection, the wind-mitigation report, the elevation certificate and the coastal permit history.

What schools serve Barefoot Estates?

At 101 Felipe Ln the district’s 2026-27 locator returned Naples Park Elementary, North Naples Middle School and Aubrey Rogers High School, and the state’s 2025-26 grade is A for all three. We tested only that address, and attendance zones can change, so verify with the district.

Is the gate staffed, and how do guests get in?

The Master Association staffs the guardhouse around the clock under the 2009 Turnover Agreement. The guest procedure for the Estates, including how a broker or a delivery is admitted, is not confirmed in any public document, so ask the Association for it in writing before a closing or a move.

Does Barefoot Estates have a beach access or amenities of its own?

We found none attributed to the enclave in any public record. The county’s Barefoot Beach Preserve and the Barefoot Beach Access point are the nearest public beach options, and rights to any community walkway would come from the recorded documents and the title commitment. Ask the Association and the title agent.

Is Barefoot Estates the same as Barefoot Beach Club or The Club at Barefoot Beach?

No. Barefoot Estates is a seven-plot enclave of single-family homes. Barefoot Beach Club is a separate condominium group of 348 units, and The Club at Barefoot Beach at 105 Shell Dr is a private member club. We found nothing that ties a Barefoot Estates deed to membership in either, so ask each directly.

Can I build a third floor in Barefoot Estates?

Ordinance 2019-44 allows three habitable floors for Tract D and the Barefoot Estates section of the PUD, and the county’s staff report describes the Estates as three habitable floors over parking and a 70-foot height. Flood elevation, coastal rules and the Association’s approvals also apply, so get a written zoning verification first.

What are the property taxes in Barefoot Estates?

The county’s 2026 preliminary bills for the six homes run from $22,124 to $134,325, with a median of $51,835, at a combined millage rate of 9.4020. A new owner’s bill is based on the county’s just value after the cap resets, so do not assume the seller’s bill. Our cost section shows the arithmetic.

Are there homes for sale in Barefoot Estates right now?

None as of October 3, 2026: no Barefoot Estates home was listed for sale or under contract in the Southwest Florida MLS on that date. Homes come to market rarely: one qualified sale in the county record in the last five years, and 2 closings in the MLS in the 60 months to October 3, 2026, and the two sources count differently. We can send current listings from the Southwest Florida MLS when you contact us.

What is the difference between Barefoot Estates and the Barefoot Beach lanes?

The Estates are six homes on a 1995 replat, with one county-qualified sale in 60 months. The lanes are 80 homes with nine such sales, and the two groups share the gate and the Property Owners Association. Our comparison table shows size, value, turnover, flood zone, leasing and height side by side.

Who maintains Felipe Lane and Saint Eustacius Lane?

Under the 2009 Turnover Agreement, the Property Owners Association kept the twelve side lanes, and Felipe and Saint Eustacius are two of them, while the Master Association took the main roadway. Ask the Association who maintains drainage, paving and lighting on each lane and how it is funded.

Frequently Asked Questions, Seller Edition

These are the questions Barefoot Estates owners ask before and during a sale, answered from the records cited on this page. Where an answer depends on your documents, we say which ones.

How do I price my Barefoot Estates home with only seven plots?

We price a Barefoot Estates home from the nearest like sale and adjust, because the enclave has six recorded sales in 29 years. The lanes next door give nine qualified sales in 60 months, and we adjust for frontage, flood zone, age, view and condition. A single average would mislead you, so we show the comparables themselves.

How much is my Barefoot Estates home worth?

The county’s 2026 preliminary just values for the six homes run from $5,616,107 to $14,286,845, and the one qualified sale in five years was $7,800,000. Just value is a tax figure, not a price. A free valuation from our team returns the nearest recorded sales and the adjustments for your lot.

What is the best time of year to sell a Barefoot Estates home?

The Southwest Florida MLS, pulled October 3, 2026, holds 2 Barefoot Estates closings in 60 months, one in April 2026 and one in December 2022, and two sales show no season, so we make no seasonal claim. What we can say is that hurricane season runs June 1 to November 30, buyers’ insurance quotes are slower and more conditional in a storm window, and sea turtle season on the beach runs May 1 to October 31, so we plan listing dates around documents and insurance, not the calendar.

Do I need an elevation certificate before I list?

We recommend one. The certificate states your home’s lowest floor elevation against the base flood elevation, and it is what an insurer uses to rate flood coverage. The county’s index shows eight certificates on Felipe Ln and Saint Eustacius Ln combined, and we could not match them to homes, so ask the county or your surveyor for yours.

Should I order a pre-listing home inspection?

For a Gulf-side home of this value, yes. A buyer will order one, and a seller who knows the roof age, the window and door ratings, the foundation condition and any water intrusion before listing avoids a renegotiation. A wind-mitigation inspection, a pool and a dock or seawall inspection, where they exist, belong on the same list.

What does a buyer’s lender require on a Barefoot Estates home?

A lender will require flood insurance on a home in a Special Flood Hazard Area, and a binder for wind and hazard coverage at closing. According to FloodSmart, the National Flood Insurance Program covers only up to $250,000 of building value, so buyers of these homes may want to ask about excess flood coverage. Ask your lender’s requirements early, because they set the buyer’s budget.

How does a wind-mitigation report affect my sale?

A wind-mitigation inspection documents roof shape, roof covering, roof deck attachment, opening protection and other features that Florida Statute 627.0629 requires insurers to credit. A current report lets a buyer’s agent quote a lower premium and avoids a surprise at binding, so we encourage sellers to bring one to the first showing.

What flood disclosures must I make?

Florida requires a seller to disclose known facts that materially affect the value of the home and are not readily observable, and a flood loss, a claim or a repair is such a fact. Your home’s flood zone, elevation certificate and any flood insurance history should be ready, and your attorney should confirm the current statutory forms.

What documents must I give a Barefoot Estates buyer?

Present the disclosure summary that Florida Statute 720.401 requires before the buyer signs. Buyers also ask for the governing documents, the budget and any amendments, the estoppel certificate, the elevation certificate and the survey. A written statement from the Association on the leasing rule is not required by statute, but it answers the buyer’s first question and avoids a delay.

What is an estoppel certificate and what does it cost?

An estoppel certificate is the Association’s written statement of what you owe and what the buyer will owe, including any resale assessment. Florida Statute 720.30851 requires the association to issue it within a fixed number of business days and caps the fee, with extra charges only for delinquent accounts or expedited delivery. The figure on your certificate controls.

What is the resale assessment in the 2010 amendment?

A July 14, 2010 amendment, recorded at OR 4586 PG 823, created a Resale Assessment in section 7.10 of the declaration, set by the board. The instrument states no dollar figure. Your estoppel certificate will show whether the board has set one and who pays it, which is negotiable between the parties in the contract.

Who pays closing costs in Collier County?

It depends on the contract, and customs apply. In Collier County the seller customarily pays the deed’s documentary stamps, and the buyer customarily pays the owner’s title policy, chooses the closing agent and pays lender and inspection costs. Each can be negotiated. We never list the title policy as a seller cost.

Who pays for title insurance on a Barefoot Estates sale?

The buyer customarily pays the owner’s title insurance policy in Collier County, and the buyer chooses the closing agent. Your contract can say otherwise, and the seller may pay for curative work if the title search shows a defect, such as an unreleased lien or a covenant that needs clarification.

How much are documentary stamps on my Barefoot Estates sale?

Florida’s documentary stamp tax on a deed is $0.70 per $100 of consideration under Florida Statute 201.02, so a sale at $7,800,000 carries $54,600: $7,800,000 divided by 100, times $0.70. The seller customarily pays it in Collier County. At a different price, the arithmetic is the same.

How is capital gains handled when I sell a Barefoot Estates home?

It depends on whether the home is your primary residence and how long you owned and lived in it. The IRS home-sale exclusion applies to primary residences that meet its use test, and gains above it, or on a second home, are taxed as capital gains. Talk to a tax adviser before you list, not after.

Does my homestead exemption move with me?

The exemption itself ends when you sell, because it attaches to the home you live in. Florida’s Save Our Homes cap can in some cases be transferred to a new Florida homestead, within limits that the Property Appraiser administers. Ask the Collier County Property Appraiser about portability before you close on your next home.

What happens to the property tax bill after I sell?

The buyer’s first full-year bill is based on the county’s just value after the cap resets, not your capped assessed value. A buyer who sees your lower homestead bill may be surprised, and Florida Statute 689.261 requires the contract to say taxes may change. Our cost section shows the arithmetic at the median value.

How do I price Gulf frontage against near-Gulf in Barefoot Estates?

Two of the six homes sit on Gulf-reaching parcels, and four are near-Gulf. We have no MLS split to measure the premium, and the qualified record is too thin to isolate it, so we price from the nearest like home, adjust for the view and the flood zone, and explain which part of the price is a judgment.

Should I renovate before I sell?

Check the 50 percent rule first. Under Collier County’s Ordinance 2019-01, a repair or improvement costing 50 percent or more of the building’s market value triggers the requirement to bring it to current standards, and market value can be set by the tax assessment adjusted by a county factor. Cosmetic work is usually safe, and structural work is a question for the county’s floodplain staff.

Does a seawall or dune structure affect my sale?

It can, but we did not confirm any seawall or dune structure on any Estates lot. If your lot has one, a buyer will ask for its permit, its condition and who owns it, and the coastal permit history answers the first question. A coastal engineer’s letter can settle the other two.

Does staging matter at this price?

For a vacant home, yes, and for an occupied home, decluttering and the first photographs matter more than furniture. Buyers of homes at this level are often out of state and decide from photographs, video and a drone view of the lot, so we invest in those and in a floor plan buyers can trust.

How will you market a home that few buyers know exists?

We list it on the Southwest Florida MLS, which feeds the major search sites, we show it to our own buyer network, and we market the lot’s recorded facts: plat, height entitlement, flood zone, frontage and gate. We publish no performance figure of our own here, because we have none to show: McGreevy and Comisar closed no sale at Barefoot Estates through the Southwest Florida MLS in the 60 months to October 3, 2026, on either the listing or the buying side.

Is membership in The Club at Barefoot Beach transferable?

We found no record that ties a Barefoot Estates deed to membership in the private club at 105 Shell Dr, so we do not treat it as part of the sale. If you hold a membership, its rules govern transfer, so ask the club in writing before you list and tell your buyer what to expect.

What restrictions must I disclose to a Barefoot Estates buyer?

Disclose the leasing rules, the approval requirements, the pet rules, the Association’s fine and resale assessment provisions, the flood zone, the coastal construction line and any known permit or violation issue. Give the buyer the recorded documents so the buyer can read them directly, and have your attorney confirm the list.

How should I disclose the lease-rule conflict between the two documents?

Say plainly that the 1995 covenants and the 2009 declaration give different minimum lease terms, give the buyer both documents and attach any written position from the Association. We do not recommend promising a one-month lease. The stricter later rule is the safer assumption, and the Association’s letter is the evidence.

Do I have to disclose storm damage?

Yes, if you know of damage that materially affects value and is not readily observable, and it helps to disclose repairs, claims and permits too. Keep your insurance claim file, contractor invoices and permits together. A buyer who sees documented repairs is easier to satisfy than one who finds an undocumented patch during inspection.

Can I sell to a cash buyer faster?

Often, because there is no lender appraisal or underwriting, but cash does not remove the buyer’s need for an insurance quote, an estoppel certificate or a clear title. At this price level a cash buyer still reads the documents, and we confirm proof of funds before we show the home.

How do showings work through the gate?

The Master Association staffs the gate around the clock, and its guest procedure for brokers and showings is not published for the Estates. We ask for it in writing before we list, set showings by appointment with advance gate notice, and screen buyers first, so the gate does not become a bottleneck.

How are association dues prorated at closing?

Dues are customarily prorated to the closing date, and the estoppel certificate states what is paid through when. If the Association bills in advance, the buyer reimburses the seller for the unused part, and any resale assessment is paid as the contract says. The closing agent applies the figures from the estoppel.

How long will it take to sell my Barefoot Estates home?

The Southwest Florida MLS, pulled October 3, 2026, shows 2 Barefoot Estates closings in the 60 months to that date: one after 99 days on market, closed April 24, 2026, and one with 1 day on market recorded, closed December 12, 2022. Two sales give no median. The county record shows one sale in the last five years, and the two sources count differently. Either count tells you the pool is small, not how long a well-priced home waits. We set a timeline with you after the valuation.

Does the new FEMA map change my home’s value?

FEMA’s preliminary map re-issues the panel as 0179K, and at every point we tested the zone and base flood elevation are unchanged. The county’s appeal window opened August 19, 2026 and runs about 90 days. The map is not final, so we watch it and tell buyers it is proposed.

What if my home is in the VE zone?

Tell the buyer early, with an elevation certificate. By our reading of the public map layers, three of the seven parcels reach the VE zone at 13 to 16 feet, and a building in more than one zone is rated in the more hazardous one. Buyers will ask about the foundation, the lowest floor and the insurance quote, and we help you answer them.

What should I know about the beach restoration easement?

In 2023 the Association’s common areas, including the Estates’ common area, were listed in Temporary Beach Restoration Easements to Collier County at OR 6248 PG 1066 to 1357, labeled not a public dedication and ending December 31, 2043. Give the buyer the recorded instrument and ask the title agent what it permits on your lot.

What commission do you charge?

Commission is negotiable and set in your listing agreement, and we explain it fully before you sign. Call Jesse at (239) 898-6072 and we will walk through what we do, what it costs and what we recommend for a Barefoot Estates listing, with no obligation.

How do I get started selling my Barefoot Estates home?

Request the free valuation or call Jesse direct at (239) 898-6072. We will pull the nearest comparables, request the Association’s documents and your elevation certificate, and give you a written pricing recommendation, so you can decide with the facts in hand.

What We Could Not Verify

This list gathers every place where this page says a figure or fact 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.

• Southwest Florida MLS figures. The MLS pull of October 3, 2026 shows 2 Barefoot Estates closings in 60 months ($7,800,000 on April 24, 2026, after 99 days on market at 91.8% of the final list price, and $16,100,000 on December 12, 2022), 1 of them in the last 12 months, no active or pending listing, and a team share of 0 of 2. Two sales support no median and no split by Gulf-reaching and near-Gulf lots. 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.
• Association assessments and what they fund. No dollar figure found in any public record. Route: the Association’s budget and an estoppel certificate under Florida Statute 720.30851.
• How the Master Association’s cost reaches Estates owners. Not confirmed. Route: the Master Association budget and the Property Owners Association’s estoppel.
• Which lease rule the Association enforces. The 1995 covenants and the 2009 declaration differ and neither says which prevails. Route: the Association’s written position.
• The 1980 covenant figures. The 1978 figures come from a machine transcription and the 1980 text controls. Route: the recorded 1980 pages and the title agent.
• Whether the 1978 and 1980 covenants bind a given Estates lot. A title question. Route: the title commitment.
• Management company. The state’s corporate record lists a filing address, and who manages the Association today is not confirmed. Route: the Association’s registered contact.
• Amenities, beach rights and the gate guest procedure for the Estates. None found in public records. Route: the Association and the title commitment.
• Water and sewer provider and gas, internet and trash-pickup days. Not confirmed for these addresses. Route: Collier County Utilities and the county’s solid waste office.
• Flood zone at 105 Felipe Ln and 109 Felipe Ln. Not tested at the address point; only the parcel screen covers them. Route: an elevation certificate and the FIRM panel.
• Footprint, line-position and distance statements. They are our reading of the public map layers. Route: a surveyor and the state and county line records.
• Citizens eligibility of any home. We state the statute only. Route: Citizens and an insurance agent.
• Whether a third floor is allowed on a given lot. The ordinance and the staff report differ in emphasis. Route: a written zoning verification from Collier County.
• The dwelling-unit cap. The 1985 ordinance text says 690, and later amendment sums reach 750. Route: the current consolidated PUD text.
• Distances and school drive times. Measured from other points in the community, not from the Estates. Route: a drive at the hour you would make it.
• Storm damage to any Estates home. No building-level record found, and we assert none. Route: county permit history and the seller’s disclosure.

Sources and Authoritative References

Every link below was opened and returned a working page when we checked on October 1, 2026. Some county and Clerk pages refuse automated requests with a 403 error and loaded normally on a second route, and we note that in our build records. We list primary documents first.

Recorded instruments and Clerk of Court records

1. Declaration of Restrictive Covenants, OR 2120 PG 1745: The 1995 Barefoot Estates covenants.
2. Amended and Restated Declaration, OR 4430 PG 3692: The Barefoot Beach Property Owners Association declaration of February 26, 2009.
3. Resale Assessment amendment, OR 4586 PG 823: July 14, 2010, section 7.10.
4. Amendment on committees and elections, OR 4841 PG 2808: October 3, 2012.
5. Continuation of Deed Restrictions, OR 4679 PG 398: May 5, 2011, for listed Unit One lots.
6. Turnover Agreement, OR 4519 PG 1839: December 15, 2009, main roadway and side lanes.
7. Master Association bylaws, OR 4675 PG 2424: Recorded April 27, 2011.
8. Earlier Master Association bylaws, OR 2843 PG 143: The earlier recorded bylaws.
9. State easement over the boulevard corridor, OR 1376 PG 279: Recorded August 26, 1988.
10. Declaration of Protective Covenants, OR 745 PG 1699: April 17, 1978.
11. 1980 protective covenants, OR 867 PG 1318 and OR 869 PG 1961: May 1980, amended and replaced.
12. Final summary judgment, recorded January 17, 2007: The beachfront tract case, OR 4169 PG 4112.
13. Final summary judgment, recorded January 26, 2007: The same judgment, OR 4174 PG 2136.
14. Temporary Beach Restoration Easement, OR 6248 PG 1091: The 2023 easement block.
15. Ordinance 77-48: The 1977 Lely Barefoot Beach PUD ordinance.
16. Ordinance 85-83: December 17, 1985, the dwelling-unit cap.
17. Ordinance 2001-35: June 26, 2001, Unit One heights.
18. Ordinance 2019-44: Section III, Tract D and the three habitable floors.
19. Board of County Commissioners agenda, December 10, 2019, item 17C: The staff report for Ordinance 2019-44.
20. Collier Clerk official records search: Where to pull any instrument by book and page.

Collier County, Property Appraiser and Florida Department of Revenue

21. Collier County Property Appraiser: Parcel roll, just value, sales and tax data.
22. Collier County Floodplain Management: Effective 2024 map and county program.
23. Building Within the Floodplain: Freeboard of BFE plus 1 foot.
24. Collier County flood map viewer: The interactive map for FEMA information.
25. Proposed Flood Insurance Rate Map notice, August 2026: The 90-day appeal period beginning August 19, 2026.
26. Floodplain Management Ordinance 2019-01: Substantial improvement and damage definitions.
27. Beach renourishment easements notice, April 2026: The county’s easement request.
28. Barefoot Beach Preserve, Collier County Parks: Hours, fee, acreage and rules.
29. Sea Turtle Protection, Collier County Parks: The county program.
30. Land Development Code, Appendix F: Planned unit development material.
31. Land Development Code, section 3.04.02: Protection of listed species, sea turtle lighting.
32. Land Development Code, section 5.03.06: Boat dock facilities.
33. Land Development Code, section 9.04.06: Setback line variances and the Hearing Examiner.
34. Collier County 311 portal: Service requests and trash service.
35. Florida Department of Revenue, 2024 Collier taxing authority codes: The 2024 final millage total.

Florida statutes and state agencies

36. Florida Statute 161.053: Coastal construction and the control line.
37. Florida Statute 379.2431: Marine Turtle Protection Act.
38. Florida Statute 553.899: Milestone inspections.
39. Florida Statute 718.112: Bylaws and structural integrity reserve studies.
40. Florida Statute 627.351: Citizens eligibility, subsection 6.
41. Florida Statute 627.0629: Wind-mitigation credits.
42. Florida Statute 720.401: Buyer disclosure in associations.
43. Florida Statute 720.30851: Estoppel certificates.
44. Florida Statute 720.303: Association official records.
45. Florida Statute 720.305: Fines and enforcement.
46. Florida Statute 689.261: Tax disclosure to buyers.
47. Florida Statute 193.155: Homestead assessments and the cap.
48. Florida Statute 201.02: Documentary stamp tax on deeds.
49. Florida Statute 712.05: Preservation of covenants under the marketable record title act.
50. Florida DEP coastal construction control line program: The state program.
51. Florida DEP, applying for a coastal construction permit: Application contents.
52. Florida DEP, coastal construction control line questions: Who to ask.
53. Florida DEP, Hurricane Helene and Milton impact report: Barefoot Beach erosion condition.
54. Citizens Property Insurance Corporation: The state insurer of last resort.
55. Florida Office of Insurance Regulation: Insurance regulator and consumer resources.
56. Division of Florida Condominiums, SIRS reporting: The condominium reserve-study reporting that does not apply here.
57. Florida Division of Emergency Management, Know Your Zone: Evacuation zone lookup.

Federal storm, flood and coastal sources

58. National Hurricane Center, Hurricane Ian report: Inundation and Collier damage totals.
59. National Hurricane Center, Hurricane Helene report: The 2024 storm record.
60. National Hurricane Center, Hurricane Milton report: The 2024 storm record.
61. FEMA Community Rating System: The premium discount program.
62. FEMA Map Service Center: FIRM panels and the flood map search.
63. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, federal flood insurance and the CBRA: The rule for units.
64. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Wiggins Pass Unit FL-65P: The nearest unit.
65. Coastal Barrier Resources System mapper: The unit boundaries.
66. FloodSmart, buying flood insurance: The $250,000 and $100,000 coverage limits.
67. IRS Topic 701, sale of your home: The home-sale exclusion.
68. IRS Topic 409, capital gains and losses: Capital gains basics.
69. IRS Publication 523, selling your home: Detailed rules.

Schools, services and neighbors

70. Collier County Public Schools attendance zone map: The 2026-27 zone lookup.
71. Florida Department of Education school grades: School grades.
72. Collier County Public Schools transportation: Bus eligibility.
73. Collier County Public Schools charter schools: Choice options.
74. NOAA electronic navigational chart service: The charted Bonita Beach Road bridge clearance.
75. NCH Healthcare System: The nearest emergency department.
76. Publix: The nearest supermarket chain.
77. Florida Power and Light: Electric service.
78. Bonita Springs Utilities: The utility that does not serve Barefoot Beach.
79. Friends of Barefoot Beach, the preserve: Volunteer group page.
80. Friends of Barefoot Beach, about us: The volunteer group.
81. The Club at Barefoot Beach: The separate private member club.

McGreevy and Comisar pages

82. Barefoot Beach hub page: The Barefoot Beach community guide.
83. Free home valuation: Seller valuation request.
84. Buying with McGreevy and Comisar: Buyer page.
85. About McGreevy and Comisar: Our team.

Downloadable Documents

These are the recorded instruments behind the covenants, assessment and leasing sections of this page, hosted by the Collier County Clerk of Courts.

Southwest Florida MLS figures pulled October 3, 2026. County recorded sales and roll data from Collier County Property Appraiser files dated August 29, 2026. McGreevy and Comisar, Best Realtor for Barefoot Estates. Brokered by Domain Realty. Jesse McGreevy, FL Lic. SL3101296 · Marc Comisar, FL Lic. BK3060671.