Bonita Bay - Anchorage
Anchorage is a 37-home single-family neighborhood in Bonita Bay, Bonita Springs, on Riverbank Drive, built 1991 to 1999, with 10 recorded resales in 36 months at a $1,300,000 median. Sell or buy with McGreevy and Comisar.
Anchorage is a 37-home single-family neighborhood in Bonita Bay, Bonita Springs, on Riverbank Drive, built 1991 to 1999, with 10 recorded resales in 36 months at a $1,300,000 median. Sell or buy with McGreevy and Comisar.
McGreevy and Comisar are the #1 real estate team in Southwest Florida selling and buying homes in Anchorage at Bonita Bay. Anchorage at Bonita Bay is a 37-home single-family neighborhood inside the master-planned community of Bonita Bay in Bonita Springs, Florida. Its detached homes sit on platted lots along one street, Riverbank Drive, on Bonita Bay’s southern edge near the Imperial River, built from 1991 to 1999, and 36 of the 37 county cards record a private pool. Nine lots on the south side of the street back onto tidal water that joins the river, and 23 sit on the neighborhood’s two platted lakes. Whether you’re ready to sell your Anchorage home or buy your next one, we’re the team that delivers: Top 1% Real Estate Agents Nationally Since 2008, the #1 team in Southwest Florida since 2012, and over $900 million in personal sales between Jesse McGreevy and Marc Comisar.
The Lee County qualified-deed record shows 10 Anchorage resales in the 36 months since November 2023 at a median of $1,300,000, ranging from $885,000 to $2,250,000. The Southwest Florida MLS, pulled September 30, 2026, counted 5 closings in the 12 months to that date at a $1,250,000 median, with a median of 10 days on market and one home listed for sale on the pull date. If you are choosing an agent to sell or buy here, our comparison of the best real estate agents in Bonita Springs shows how local agents stack up on the public record.
This guide is built from the Lee County Property Appraiser parcel roll, all 37 of its Anchorage single-family field cards and its qualified-sale file (index dated November 1, 2026, newest recorded Anchorage sale August 20, 2026), Lee County’s parcel and hydrography map layers, the three recorded Anchorage plats as the county legal descriptions cite them, the Bonita Bay Community Association’s recorded Declaration and public pages, FEMA’s National Flood Hazard Layer, Lee County’s evacuation layer, the City of Bonita Springs, Florida’s homeowners’ association statute and the Southwest Florida MLS figures pulled on September 30, 2026. Where the public record stops, we say so and name the document that answers the question.
By Jesse McGreevy and Marc Comisar, McGreevy and Comisar, Domain Realty Group. Updated November 2026.
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That matters in Anchorage for a specific reason. Anchorage does not trade as one number. Its 37 homes run from 2,268 to 4,644 heated square feet on lots of 0.17 to 0.55 acre, and the county sorts them into three water classes: nine on tidal water, 23 on a lake and five with no water class. The 10 qualified deeds of the last 36 months run from $885,000 to $2,250,000, and one house on Riverbank Drive recorded $1,550,000 in May 2023, $925,000 in October 2025 and $1,000,000 in August 2026. Water class, one story or two, lot size and the level of renovation move an Anchorage price by several hundred thousand dollars. A listing agent who prices from a Bonita Bay average can miss by a wide margin in either direction.
Recent Anchorage track record (last 12 months): In the last 12 months we tracked 5 qualified Anchorage deeds in the Lee County record (October 2025 through the newest recorded deed, August 20, 2026), at $925,000, $2,250,000, $1,250,000, $1,600,000 and $1,000,000, for $7,025,000 in volume, and the highest-priced Anchorage sale in that window was $2,250,000. The Southwest Florida MLS, pulled September 30, 2026, shows the same 5 closings in the 12 months to that date with a median of 10 days on market and a median sale-to-list ratio of 98.8%. We will walk you through every one of those sales.
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Anchorage at Bonita Bay, section by section. Each link below jumps to its part of this guide, from the county deed record and the three water classes to the flood measurements, the comparison with Riviera, the seller section and the sources behind every figure.
Living in Anchorage at Bonita Bay means a detached pool home on one quiet street at the southern edge of Bonita Bay, with tidal water, a lake or a garden setting behind the lanai depending on the lot, and the whole Bonita Bay setting (12 miles of paths, three waterside parks including Riverwalk Park on the Imperial River, the Private Beach) through the master association.
Every one of the 37 Anchorage homes is on Riverbank Drive, street numbers 27500 to 27603, and the Bonita Bay Community Association’s own street table assigns Riverbank Drive to Anchorage (BBCA Street and Neighborhoods). Every Riverbank Drive parcel in the Lee County roll is an Anchorage parcel, so the street and the neighborhood are the same thing. On the map Anchorage sits in the southern part of Bonita Bay: by our straight-line measurement from the center of the Anchorage parcels, the Bonita Bay Marina is about 0.6 mile to the west, the master association’s office on Bonita Bay Boulevard about 0.7 mile to the northeast and the Bonita Bay Club address on Country Club Drive about 0.9 mile to the north.
A street of 37 detached single-family homes on fee-simple platted lots, each with its own pool and lanai on nearly every county card, laid out along Riverbank Drive with two platted lakes inside the neighborhood and tidal water along its southern edge. The county gives every home the single-family use code and a lot and block in one of three recorded plats, “ANCHORAGE PT 1-A @ BONITA BAY BLK D PB 49 PG 19 LOT 3” for example. Four more parcels in the same plats are common tracts: two road and right-of-way tracts and two lake tracts.
The three plats show how the street filled in. Anchorage Part 1 (Plat Book 48, Pages 62 and 63) holds five homes, the oldest on the street, built 1991 to 1994. Part 1-A (Plat Book 49, Page 19) holds 13 homes in Blocks D and E, built 1992 to 1999. Part II (Plat Book 54, Pages 52 and 53) holds 19 homes in Blocks A, B and C, built 1994 to 1999, several of them on lots re-drawn by recorded lot-line adjustments, so a few addresses sit on a lot and part of the next. Five plus 13 plus 19 is the 37 homes the county roll reports, and none of the 37 lots is vacant.
Anchorage is not a condominium, not a mid-rise building and not a dockfront boating street. Every Anchorage home is a detached house on its own lot, recorded with the single-family use code; there is no condominium declaration in any Anchorage legal description. No county field card or parcel record shows a private dock, boat lift or seawall on any of the 37 lots, so the boating story here runs through the separately owned Bonita Bay Marina and the master association’s Riverwalk Park ramp, not a dock in the backyard. Anchorage is also not the same place as the unrelated “Anchorage” names elsewhere in Lee County: The Anchorage condominium in Cape Coral, Bimini Anchorage in St. James City and Ten Mile Anchorage in Fort Myers are other properties, and this guide covers only the 37 homes on Riverbank Drive inside Bonita Bay.
The Property Appraiser’s land line on each card classifies the lot, and Anchorage splits three ways. Nine lots are coded canal frontage: 27567, 27571, 27577, 27583, 27587, 27591, 27595, 27599 and 27603 Riverbank Drive, the odd-numbered south side of the street. Lee County’s hydrography layer shows an unnamed tidal water body roughly 26 to 44 feet behind those lots, and that tidal water adjoins the polygon the county names the Imperial River, whose mapped edge sits about 370 to 480 feet from them. Twenty-three lots are coded lake frontage, every even-numbered address on the street, and on the county map they touch the neighborhood’s freshwater lakes, the two lake tracts in the plats. Five lots carry no water class: 27541, 27543, 27547, 27549 and 27551. The county’s 2025 values follow the split: the canal-class homes carry a median just value of $1,519,378, the lake-class homes $1,044,069 and the five without a water class $1,011,908.
The field cards record 24 one-story homes and 13 two-story homes. Every card lists concrete block and stucco exterior walls and a concrete tile roof, and every card carries a finished garage subarea. A residential pool appears on 36 of the 37 cards, most with a pool heater and many with a spa; the one card without a pool is a two-story home on the canal side. Bedrooms on the roll run from two (two homes) to five (three homes), with three bedrooms the norm (24 homes) and four on eight.
Bonita Bay has 12 miles of walking and biking paths connecting its neighborhoods, parks and the Club campuses, inside a gated community of 3,346 residences on about 2,400 acres (BBCA Media Brochure, January 2026). For Anchorage the park that matters most is Riverwalk Park, which the master association places “along the Imperial River and edging the southern portion of Bonita Bay,” with a boat ramp, kayak storage and launch, bocce, pickleball and a fitness trail (BBCA, the parks of Bonita Bay). Anchorage owners share it, and the other two parks and the Private Beach, with the rest of Bonita Bay.
McGreevy and Comisar, Top 1% Real Estate Agents Nationally Since 2008, sell and buy in Anchorage, a 37-home single-family street inside Bonita Bay where the water class behind the lanai, one story or two and the renovation decide most of the price. Selling an Anchorage home? Start with a free Anchorage home valuation, or call Jesse direct at (239) 898-6072. Buying on Riverbank Drive? Call Marc at (239) 287-5873, or read how we represent buyers in Southwest Florida. If you want to see what is listed right now, our Domain Realty Group team keeps the current Anchorage at Bonita Bay homes for sale on its own site.
Data updated: November 2026. Anchorage at Bonita Bay recorded 10 qualified resales in the 36 months since November 2023 at a $1,300,000 median, from $885,000 to $2,250,000, in the Lee County Property Appraiser recorded sales, through September 2026. The county deed records run through the newest recorded Anchorage sale, August 20, 2026, and the MLS figures below are from the Southwest Florida MLS pull of September 30, 2026.
Two sources describe the same market from two angles. The Lee County Property Appraiser’s qualified-sale file records the deed consideration for every arm’s-length sale the Property Appraiser accepts as a market sale, and it is the primary recent-sales source on this page. The Southwest Florida MLS records the reported closing price of homes marketed through the MLS, plus asking prices, days on market and active listings, which the deed record cannot show. Where the two disagree on a sale, this page publishes the deed figure as the sale price and names the MLS figure once with its date; the county records the deed consideration, while the MLS records the reported closing price. They are never averaged. Ten sales in three years is a small sample, and we say so wherever a figure leans on it.
The county tool chose a 36-month window because it is the first window with 10 or more qualified Anchorage sales; a 12-month window holds five and a 24-month window seven. Every sale in the window was a resale; the last new Anchorage homes were finished in 1999.
Recorded | Address (Riverbank Dr) | Water class | Stories | Heated sq ft | Deed price | Per heated sq ft |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
April 12, 2024 | 27568 | Lake | One | 2,470 | $885,000 | $358 |
April 29, 2024 | 27583 | Canal (tidal) | Two | 2,867 | $1,745,000 | $609 |
June 13, 2024 | 27567 | Canal (tidal) | One | 2,268 | $1,350,000 | $595 |
January 15, 2025 | 27516 | Lake | One | 2,471 | $1,800,000 | $728 |
March 27, 2025 | 27568 | Lake | One | 2,470 | $899,000 | $364 |
October 17, 2025 | 27549 | None | One | 2,488 | $925,000 | $372 |
December 17, 2025 | 27508 | Lake | Two | 4,644 | $2,250,000 | $484 |
May 29, 2026 | 27567 | Canal (tidal) | One | 2,268 | $1,250,000 | $551 |
July 30, 2026 | 27536 | Lake | One | 2,824 | $1,600,000 | $567 |
August 20, 2026 | 27549 | None | One | 2,488 | $1,000,000 | $402 |
The 10 deeds total $13,704,000. Ten is an even count, so the median is the mean of the middle pair: sorted, the fifth and sixth prices are $1,250,000 and $1,350,000, and their mean is $1,300,000. The middle pair of the price per heated square foot is $484 and $551, for a median of $518. Three houses recorded twice in the window (27567, 27568 and 27549), so the 10 deeds cover seven different homes, about one in five of the 37.
Fewer than 10 Anchorage deeds were recorded in the 12 months to the newest one, so we list them rather than quote a median: $925,000 (October 17, 2025), $2,250,000 (December 17, 2025), $1,250,000 (May 29, 2026), $1,600,000 (July 30, 2026) and $1,000,000 (August 20, 2026), all recorded from October 2025 through August 20, 2026, for $7,025,000 in volume.
The Southwest Florida MLS, pulled September 30, 2026, counted 5 Anchorage closings in the 12 months to that date, at a median of $1,250,000 (the middle of five), from $925,000 to $2,250,000, $7,025,000 in volume, at a median of $480 per listed square foot. The five closings are four homes, because 27549 Riverbank Drive closed twice. None was entered after closing; all five were marketed through the MLS. The median sale-to-list ratio was 98.8% and the median time on market was 10 days, with a spread from 2 days to 152. On the pull date one Anchorage home was listed for sale, at $1,499,000, none was pending, and no Anchorage rental listing, active or leased, appeared in the 12-month rental pull. Five closings is a thin sample; read the medians as a description of five sales, not a forecast.
MLS closing | Address (Riverbank Dr) | MLS list price | Sold | Sale-to-list | Days on market |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
October 17, 2025 | 27549 | $999,000 | $925,000 | 92.6% | 152 |
December 17, 2025 | 27508 | $2,100,000 | $2,250,000 | 107.1% | 2 |
May 29, 2026 | 27567 | $1,299,000 | $1,250,000 | 96.2% | 49 |
July 30, 2026 | 27536 | $1,620,000 | $1,600,000 | 98.8% | 3 |
August 21, 2026 | 27549 | $999,995 | $1,000,000 | 100.0% | 10 |
On these five sales the two records agree on every price to the dollar. One date differs by a day: 27549 shows an August 20, 2026 deed and an August 21, 2026 MLS closing, because the county records the deed date and the MLS the reported closing. The December 2025 sale of 27508 closed above its asking price ($2,250,000 against a $2,100,000 list, after 2 days on market), the only above-list Anchorage closing in the pull. With no price disagreement, the deed-versus-MLS rule applies here to dates only.
The county roll’s heated area and the MLS living area are close at Anchorage but not identical. 27508 is 4,644 heated square feet on the roll and 4,692 in the MLS; the active listing at 27500 is 3,392 on the roll and 3,429 in the MLS; the other closings match. The two price-per-square-foot medians on this page still use different denominators and periods and are not interchangeable: $518 per county heated square foot on 36 months of deeds, $480 per MLS listed square foot on 12 months of MLS closings.
The one Anchorage listing on the September 30, 2026 pull was 27500 Riverbank Drive, asking $1,499,000 after 12 days on market: three bedrooms plus a den and four baths on 3,429 MLS square feet, about $437 per listed square foot. On the county roll it is a 1995 two-story home of 3,392 heated square feet on the largest Anchorage lot (0.545 acre), coded lake frontage. Its ask sits above the 36-month median and below the three deeds of $1,745,000 and up; a buyer should read it against the lake-lot deeds in the table, not against the neighborhood median alone.
The county record lets us split the 10 deeds by the Property Appraiser’s water class, with a warning that the groups are tiny. The three canal-class deeds (27583 and 27567 twice) have a median of $1,350,000 and $595 per heated square foot. The five lake-class deeds have a median of $1,600,000 and $484 per heated square foot, with the widest spread on the street, from $885,000 to $2,250,000. The two deeds without a water class, both 27549, were $925,000 and $1,000,000. Condition and size explain as much of that spread as water does: 27516, a 2,471-square-foot lake home, recorded $1,800,000, while 27568, a 2,470-square-foot lake home, recorded $885,000 and $899,000. The county’s 2025 values, which cover all 37 homes rather than the few that sold, put the canal class clearly on top: median just value $1,519,378, against $1,044,069 for the lake class.
The county record shows how far Anchorage prices moved before this window. Qualified deeds from 2019 through 2023 include $1,340,000 (27528, January 2019), $945,000 (27588, May 2019), $810,000 (27596, March 2020), $700,000 (27568, February 2021), $849,000 (27549, May 2021), $1,140,000 (27543, November 2021), $1,600,000 (27588, November 2022), $975,000 (27584, May 2023) and $1,550,000 (27549, May 2023). Repeat sales tell the story best: 27588 went from $945,000 in 2019 to $1,600,000 in 2022; 27549 went from $849,000 in 2021 to $1,550,000 in 2023, then recorded $925,000 in October 2025 and $1,000,000 in August 2026; 27567 recorded $1,350,000 in June 2024 and $1,250,000 in May 2026. The deed record does not say why a price moved, and we do not guess; the disclosures and the house itself explain a specific sale. Further back, the county cards record the street’s first prices: vacant lots changed hands in the 1990s generally between about $86,000 and $172,700, and early home sales ran from $387,000 (27568, August 1991) and $384,000 (27564, July 1993) to $770,000 (27595, November 1997).
The table below runs the same county measure for each single-family Bonita Bay neighborhood we publish a guide for: qualified improved deeds recorded in the 36 months since November 2023, from the same Lee County index (built November 1, 2026), with each neighborhood matched to its own plats.
Neighborhood | Homes | Built | Heated sq ft | Deeds (36 months) | Median | Range | Median per heated sq ft |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Anchorage | 37 | 1991 to 1999 | 2,268 to 4,644 | 10 | $1,300,000 | $885,000 to $2,250,000 | $518 |
Riviera | 35 | 1990 to 1997 | 1,810 to 3,844 | 12 | $1,237,500 | $910,000 to $1,700,000 | $523 |
Woodlake | 108 | 1985 to 2025 | 2,179 to 5,453 | 18 | $1,750,000 | $1,212,500 to $5,945,000 | $566 |
Creekside | 103 | 1991 to 2002 | 2,947 to 6,498 | 17 | $2,095,000 | $1,650,000 to $3,605,000 | $541 |
Bay Harbor | 62 | 1995 to 1998 | 1,761 to 3,093 | 17 | $950,000 | $630,000 to $1,625,000 | $424 |
Anchorage and Riviera are the closest pair on the record: two one-street neighborhoods of 35 and 37 homes from the same decade, with medians $62,500 apart and per-square-foot medians $5 apart. Woodlake and Creekside are larger neighborhoods a price tier up; Bay Harbor is a tier down.
For a buyer, the record says Anchorage trades rarely (10 deeds in 36 months on a 37-home street) and fast when it does (a 10-day MLS median and a 98.8% median sale-to-list on the last five), so the house you want may not come up twice in a season, and a well-priced one will not wait. For a seller, the same record says price discipline pays: the five MLS closings that sold quickly were priced against the matching deeds, and the one that sat 152 days sold at 92.6% of its ask. The widest gaps on the street come from condition, size and water class, so a price has to explain where a house sits on each of them.
Anchorage at Bonita Bay grew out of the Bonita Bay master plan of the mid-1980s: its three plats, Anchorage Part 1, Part 1-A and Part II, were recorded in Plat Books 48, 49 and 54, its lots were sold in the early and mid-1990s, and its 37 homes were finished between 1991 and 1999 along Riverbank Drive at the community’s southern edge.
The Bonita Bay Community Association was established in 1985, and the community now covers about 2,400 acres with 3,346 residences across condominiums, high-rises, coach homes and single-family neighborhoods (BBCA Media Brochure, January 2026). The original Declaration of General Protective Covenants and Restrictions for Bonita Bay was recorded on April 3, 1985 at Official Records Book 1778, Page 3516, and the current master Declaration was recorded on June 22, 2011 as Lee County Instrument 2011000142834. The master association frames the community between Spring Creek to the north, the Imperial River to the south and Estero Bay to the west (BBCA, vision); Anchorage occupies part of that southern edge. The City of Bonita Springs, which incorporated in 1999, now governs the land (City of Bonita Springs, history).
The county roll’s year-built column reads like a construction log: two homes in 1991, two in 1992, seven in 1993, four in 1994, three in 1995, four in 1996, five in 1997, five in 1998 and five in 1999. The Part 1 homes came first (1991 to 1994), Part 1-A filled through 1999, and Part II, the northern part of the street around the second lake, went up from 1994 to 1999. The card histories show lots bought vacant and built on over that decade, which is why Anchorage is a street of individually designed homes rather than one repeated model: one-story ranch plans beside two-story homes, from 2,268 to 4,644 heated square feet. We do not name a builder, because no primary record we read identifies one.
Anchorage owners belong to their own neighborhood association and to the Bonita Bay Community Association. Florida corporate search results read in June 2026 name the neighborhood association The Anchorage at Bonita Bay Property Owners’ Association, Inc.; the state’s corporate search refused our automated check on November 1, 2026, so confirm its current record with the Division of Corporations and in the documents delivered with a sale. The master association is a Florida not-for-profit corporation (document N07041, filed January 10, 1985) operating as a homeowners’ association under Chapter 720, Florida Statutes. The neighborhood association’s role, as at other single-family Bonita Bay neighborhoods, is set by its own recorded documents, and those documents, not a summary, govern what it maintains and what it charges.
Anchorage’s homes are 37 detached concrete block and stucco houses with concrete tile roofs, built 1991 to 1999, from 2,268 to 4,644 heated square feet (median 2,819) on lots of 0.166 to 0.545 acre, 24 of them one story and 13 two stories, with a finished garage on every county card and a private pool on 36.
Measure (county roll and field cards, November 1, 2026) | Anchorage |
|---|---|
Homes (single-family use code) | 37 |
Vacant lots | 0 |
Common tracts | 4 (two road and right-of-way tracts, two lake tracts) |
Year built | 1991 to 1999 |
Heated area | 2,268 to 4,644 sq ft (median 2,819) |
Bedrooms | 2 bed: 2 · 3 bed: 24 · 4 bed: 8 · 5 bed: 3 |
Bathrooms (county count) | 2: 6 · 3: 24 · 4: 6 · 5: 1 |
Stories | One story: 24 · two stories: 13 |
Walls and roof | Concrete block and stucco, concrete tile roof (all 37) |
Pool | 36 of 37 |
Lot size (Lee County parcel layer) | 0.166 to 0.545 acre (median 0.243) |
Water class (Property Appraiser land line) | Canal: 9 · lake: 23 · none: 5 |
2025 just value | $892,688 to $1,768,038 (median $1,081,568) |
Two thirds of Anchorage is one story: 24 of the 37 cards record a single story, most with the county’s ranch improvement type, and 13 record two stories. The two-story homes are spread through the street rather than grouped, six of them on the canal side, six on the lakes and one among the five homes without a water class. For a buyer who wants every room on one level, the record narrows the search to 24 houses; for a seller, the county card is the quickest way to show a buyer which kind of house this is.
Three bedrooms is the Anchorage norm (24 homes), with four on eight homes, five on three and two on two. Heated area tracks the plat: the five Part 1 homes run from 2,268 to 3,007 square feet, the 13 in Part 1-A from 2,449 to 3,922, and the 19 in Part II from 2,428 to 4,644, where the largest house on the street, 27508, sits. The county counts bathrooms by its own method; the MLS bath counts on recent listings (for example “3+Den/4” at 27500 and “4+Den/3(1)” at 27508) add half baths and dens the roll does not separate.
Lot sizes on Lee County’s parcel layer run from 0.166 acre to 0.545 acre, a median of 0.243 acre. The largest is 27500, at the end of the street on the lake; the canal-class lots are among the smaller ones (0.166 to 0.332 acre), because the water, not the yard, is the point. A residential pool appears on 36 of 37 cards, and most also list a pool heater, a spa or both; brick and tile pool decks are common in the extra-feature lines. Three cards record a whole-house generator.
Every Anchorage home predates 2000, so a buyer is inspecting a house built under the codes of its day and improved, or not, since. Ask for the roof age and permit, the wind mitigation report (roof-to-wall connection, roof deck attachment, opening protection), the four-point report an insurer will want on an older house, the air-conditioning age, the pool equipment and screen enclosure, and the elevation certificate. The City of Bonita Springs permit history by address shows which of those have been replaced and when (City of Bonita Springs, apply for a building permit). The Florida Building Code, 8th Edition (2023), governs any work done now (Florida Building Commission).
The Property Appraiser’s 2025 just values for the 37 homes run from $892,688 to $1,768,038, a median of $1,081,568, and total $43,122,638. Land is the larger share on many cards: land values run from about $518,000 to $835,000, highest on the canal-class lots. Just value is the county’s estimate as of January 1 for tax purposes, not a sale price; the 36-month deed median of $1,300,000 sits well above the median just value, and a buyer should expect the assessed value, and with it the tax bill, to reset the year after a purchase, because a seller’s homestead assessment cap does not transfer with the house. The Lee County Property Appraiser and the Lee County Tax Collector publish each parcel’s value and bill.
Anchorage at Bonita Bay is a water-edge neighborhood, not a dockfront one: nine of its 37 lots back onto tidal water that joins the Imperial River and 23 sit on its two lakes, but no Lee County record shows a private dock, boat lift or seawall on any Anchorage lot, so boating runs through the Bonita Bay Marina and the Riverwalk Park ramp.
On November 1, 2026 we read the land line on all 37 Anchorage field cards at the Lee County Property Appraiser and overlaid the Anchorage parcels on Lee County’s parcel and hydrography map layers (Lee County parcel layer; Lee County hydrography layer). The results:
Water class (county card) | Lots | Addresses (Riverbank Dr) | What the county map shows behind the lot |
|---|---|---|---|
Canal | 9 | 27567, 27571, 27577, 27583, 27587, 27591, 27595, 27599, 27603 | An unnamed tidal water body about 26 to 44 feet from the lot line, adjoining the polygon the county names the Imperial River |
Lake | 23 | Every even-numbered address, 27500 to 27600 | The neighborhood’s freshwater lakes (the platted lake tracts) |
None | 5 | 27541, 27543, 27547, 27549, 27551 | No water body at the lot line |
The county’s named Imperial River polygon sits about 370 to 480 feet from the canal-class lots and about 370 to 1,060 feet from every Anchorage lot. Those distances are measured edge to edge on the county’s map layers, not surveyed; the recorded plat and a survey decide the true boundary of any lot.
No Anchorage field card lists a dock, boat lift, davit or seawall among its extra features, and the boat dock and seawall fields on Lee County’s parcel layer are empty for all 37 homes. That is the county’s record, not a survey of every backyard, and it does not tell you what the plat, the master Declaration or the state’s permitting rules would allow on a given lot. Building any structure on the water in Bonita Bay needs master association Design Review approval under §9.2 of the master Declaration and the state and local permits that apply to work in tidal water; the Florida Department of Environmental Protection and the South Florida Water Management District administer those permits (Florida DEP; South Florida Water Management District). If a dock matters to you, treat it as a question to answer with documents before the contract, not an assumption.
The Bonita Bay Marina is a semi-private, full-service marina on the Imperial River with direct access to Estero Bay and the Gulf, “created and owned by a group of resident investors” and operated separately from both the master association and the Club. The master association lists 326 dry storage spaces for boats up to 36 feet and 98 wet slips for vessels up to 16,000 pounds, with a ship’s store, boat launch, bait, fuel and on-site repair; additional fees apply (BBCA, marina and Backwater Jacks). The January 2026 brochure confirms that the Marina and the Club “operate as separately owned and managed member-exclusive entities.” Spotlight News reported that 39 resident investors bought the marina and restaurant in July 2013 (Spotlight News). By straight line the marina’s published GPS position is about 0.6 mile west of the center of Anchorage.
The specification that matters most is draft: the marina publishes a maximum draft of 36 inches, set by its permitting agreement (Bonita Bay Marina, about the marina). Check your boat’s draft and length against the marina’s rules before you buy around a boat. Backwater Jacks, the waterfront restaurant at the marina, is open for dining to all residents (Backwater Jacks; Bonita Bay Marina). Slip and storage availability and fees are set by the marina, not by either association.
The master association’s Riverwalk Park, “along the Imperial River and edging the southern portion of Bonita Bay,” offers “direct boating access to Estero Bay,” with a boat ramp, kayak storage and launch, a bocce facility, pickleball courts, a basketball court and a fitness trail (BBCA, the parks of Bonita Bay). For an Anchorage owner with a kayak, a paddleboard or a trailered boat, that park on the same southern edge of Bonita Bay is the everyday water access that comes with the master membership.
An Anchorage home comes with its own private pool and lanai on 36 of 37 county cards, plus Bonita Bay’s paths, three waterside parks, gated entry, Community Patrol and Private Beach through the master association; the Bonita Bay Club’s golf, racquet sports, fitness and dining come only if you join, and marina slips and storage only if you rent them.
Every Anchorage owner is automatically a member of the Bonita Bay Community Association, which maintains “grounds, roads, streetlights, lake and storm water management, plus all of our recreational parks including the Private Beach,” runs the Community Patrol and staffs the Design Review Department (BBCA, Community Association). Homeowners “gain membership and access to all Association amenities” (BBCA, realtor and buyer resources). None of this requires a Club membership.
Bonita Bay is gated, and the master association’s Community Patrol works inside the gates (BBCA, Community Association). Visitor and vendor access runs through the association’s procedures, delivered with the documents at purchase. Law enforcement is the Lee County Sheriff’s Office.
Bonita Bay has “three onsite parks and a Private Beach located only a short drive from the front gates” (BBCA, the parks of Bonita Bay). Estero Bay Park, in the northwestern corner, has an 800-foot boardwalk through coastal mangroves to a private pier on Estero Bay, a butterfly garden, nature trails and shell mounds the association dates to 5,000 years ago. Riverwalk Park, on the Imperial River along the southern edge nearest Anchorage, has the boat ramp, kayak launch, bocce and pickleball. Spring Creek Park, on the northern border, has a kayak and canoe launch dock, bocce and an observation deck. The master association’s maps show where they are (BBCA property maps; facilities and amenities map).
Bonita Bay’s Private Beach is a Gulf-front facility owned by the master association on Hickory Boulevard, outside the main gates. It “sustained total destruction during Hurricane Ian,” was rebuilt in concrete with breakaway walls and reopened on November 13 (BBCA, Private Beach). It is an amenity of every Anchorage owner through the master association, with a resident shuttle.
The 12 miles of paths (trails map) connect Riverbank Drive to the parks and the Club campuses. The master association lists its grounds and environmental awards, including its Audubon certification, in its 2026 awards summary (BBCA Awards and Recognitions 2026), and its lifestyle page describes community programming (BBCA, style of living).
The Bonita Bay Club is an optional, separately owned, member-owned private club inside Bonita Bay, with five championship golf courses on two campuses, a sports center, a Lifestyle Center and dining. Buying an Anchorage home does not make you a Club member and does not require you to join; membership is a separate decision with its own fees.
“Bonita Bay Club is a separate entity within the community of Bonita Bay,” the Club says (Bonita Bay Club, our community). The master association describes the Club as operating independently, with five courses (three designed by Arthur Hills and two by Tom Fazio), 16 Har-Tru tennis courts and 15 pickleball courts (BBCA, Bonita Bay Club). The two Fazio courses, Cypress and Sabal, are on the Club’s Naples campus (Bonita Bay Club, golf); the Sports Center, Lifestyle Center and dining pages describe the rest. By our straight-line measurement the Club address at 26660 Country Club Drive is about 0.9 mile from the center of Anchorage.
Members bought the Club from the developer in 2010 for $11.5 million, $7.5 million of it real estate, as the Business Observer reported (Business Observer, April 2, 2010). A Club release says members approved a $110 million clubhouse project in May 2026 and that about $250 million has been reinvested since members acquired the Club (Hunter PR release). A Club release dated November 8, 2019, before Hurricane Ian, announced the reopening of the renovated Bay Island course (PR Newswire, Bay Island reopening).
Bonita Bay Club membership is optional and separate from home ownership. The Club does not publish initiation fees or dues on its public website; the Club’s membership office provides the current schedule. An Anchorage owner can skip the Club entirely and use the master association’s paths, parks and Private Beach, or join for golf or racquet sports. Either way, the Club is a cost only if you choose it, and a membership does not transfer with an Anchorage deed unless the Club’s own rules say so.
Anchorage owners pay the Bonita Bay Community Association master assessment and the assessment of the Anchorage neighborhood association, plus their own property taxes and full homeowner’s and flood insurance, because a single-family owner insures the whole house. Neither association publishes its assessment on a public page, and Bonita Bay has no CDD, so the real numbers come from the estoppel certificates in the sale.
Bonita Bay Community Association does not publish its master assessment or resale charges on its public website. Every owner pays the master assessment plus any neighborhood or condominium association assessment. Current figures, including any charge due at closing, appear in the estoppel certificate and the §720.401 disclosure summary provided in the sale (Section 720.401, Florida Statutes). The Anchorage neighborhood association’s assessment appears in its own estoppel certificate, which Florida law requires an association to issue on request within a set time and fee schedule (Section 720.30851, Florida Statutes).
The Anchorage neighborhood association levies whatever its recorded documents authorize: typically the shared items of a single-family street, such as entry landscaping, common tracts and any neighborhood-level services its documents assign to it. We have not read the Anchorage neighborhood declaration, and the association publishes no budget on a public page, so we do not state what it maintains or what it charges. The estoppel certificate and the annual budget, which an owner may inspect under Section 720.303 (Section 720.303, Florida Statutes), answer both.
The Bonita Bay Community Association (Florida not-for-profit corporation, document N07041, active, filed January 10, 1985) operates as a homeowners’ association under Chapter 720, Florida Statutes. Its assessment funds the common areas and roads, streetlights, lake and stormwater management, the three parks, the Private Beach, the Community Patrol, the Design Review Department and community programming. The dollar amount is not published.
Club membership is optional and separate from home ownership, and the Club does not publish its initiation fees or dues. It is a cost only if you choose to join.
Bonita Bay has no Community Development District and no special taxing district. Lee County’s published list of special districts names nearby CDDs, including Bay Creek, Bayside Improvement, the two Brooks of Bonita Springs districts, Bonita Landing and Saltleaf, but no district for Bonita Bay. The Bonita Springs Fire Control and Rescue District on that list is an independent fire district covering the area, not a Bonita Bay district, and it appears on every Bonita Springs tax bill.
Property taxes are set by the City of Bonita Springs, Lee County, the School District and the other taxing authorities on the Lee County bill; the parcel’s TRIM notice and tax bill from the Lee County Tax Collector itemize every line for a specific home. A buyer’s bill depends on the buyer’s exemptions and the new assessed value after the sale, not the seller’s bill. Unlike a condominium owner, an Anchorage owner insures the entire house: a homeowner’s policy with windstorm coverage for the structure, roof, pool cage and contents, and a separate flood policy, plus electricity from Florida Power and Light, water and sewer from Bonita Springs Utilities, and pool and lawn care unless the neighborhood documents say otherwise.
The recorded 2011 master Declaration contains a buyer-paid resale reserve assessment, and a later master association written statement describes a different formula; no recorded amendment reconciling the two has been located. We therefore do not publish either figure as the current charge. The master association’s estoppel certificate states what is due at an Anchorage closing, and the neighborhood association’s estoppel states anything owed to it (Section 720.30851, Florida Statutes).
Budget the neighborhood and master assessments from their estoppel certificates, a homeowner’s and windstorm quote and a flood quote for the specific address, the property tax on the parcel’s tax bill, utilities, and pool, lawn and pest service. On a 1990s concrete block house, the wind mitigation report and the roof’s age drive the windstorm premium more than anything else you can control, so order the inspection early. The state’s insurance consumer offices explain the policy types (Florida Office of Insurance Regulation; Florida Department of Financial Services, consumer services).
Special assessments at Anchorage can come from two associations: the Bonita Bay Community Association, whose board approved a $500 per unit beach-rebuild assessment on March 20, 2025, due June 30, 2025, and the Anchorage neighborhood association, whose pending or approved assessments appear on its estoppel certificate.
A recap of the master association’s March 20, 2025 special board meeting, posted on March 26, 2025 by the Wild Pines of Bonita Bay association, reports that the board approved a special assessment of $500 per unit for the rebuild of the Private Beach facility, with payment due by June 30, 2025 (Wild Pines of Bonita Bay, recap of the March 20, 2025 meetings). That assessment is past; an Anchorage buyer’s title agent confirms on the master estoppel that nothing remains owed on the home being purchased.
Whether the Anchorage association has levied, approved or is considering a special assessment of its own is a question for its estoppel certificate, its budget and its board meeting records, which owners can inspect under Section 720.303. We do not state what those records contain. Florida law requires the estoppel certificate to list assessments due and any pending special assessment, and a buyer who asks for the budget and recent board minutes before the inspection period ends is in the best position to negotiate.
Anchorage is governed by two sets of documents: its own neighborhood documents (the three recorded plats, Anchorage Part 1 at Plat Book 48, Pages 62 and 63, Part 1-A at Plat Book 49, Page 19, and Part II at Plat Book 54, Pages 52 and 53, plus the neighborhood association’s declaration, articles and bylaws) and the Bonita Bay master Declaration, recorded June 22, 2011 as Lee County Instrument 2011000142834.
The Lee County Clerk’s search portals block automated access, so a buyer or title agent retrieves these by book and page or instrument number at the Clerk.
Anchorage is a single-family community, so the homeowners’ association statute applies rather than the condominium statute. Section 720.401 requires the seller to give a prospective buyer a disclosure summary before the contract is signed, stating that the buyer must join the association, that assessments are owed and may change, and that restrictive covenants govern the property; a contract signed without it is voidable by the buyer before closing (Section 720.401, Florida Statutes). The master Declaration (§12.13) repeats that duty for every Bonita Bay transfer. Section 720.303 governs an association’s official records and an owner’s right to inspect them (Section 720.303, Florida Statutes), and Section 720.3085 makes a buyer jointly liable with the seller for assessments unpaid at the transfer, which is why the estoppel certificate matters (Section 720.3085, Florida Statutes). Florida’s real estate contract forms also carry the state-required flood disclosure for residential sales (Section 689.302, Florida Statutes).
At Anchorage the owner owns the house and the lot, so exterior changes are the owner’s project, but nothing visible from outside is the owner’s alone to decide. A new roof color, impact windows, a pool cage, a generator pad, landscaping on the lake or water edge, or an addition goes to master association Design Review under §9.2 (with any neighborhood-level review the Anchorage documents add) before it goes to the City for a permit. Start the approvals before you order materials; Design Review standards may be stricter than the building code.
Anchorage at Bonita Bay is not described as a 55-and-over community in any source we reviewed: the master Declaration provisions summarized on this page, the Lee County roll and the master association’s public pages set no age restriction, so buyers of any age can purchase an Anchorage home.
If an age restriction ever mattered to a purchase or sale, it would have to appear in the recorded neighborhood documents and meet the federal housing-for-older-persons rules, so confirm it in the documents delivered with the sale rather than relying on marketing. Federal fair housing law protects every buyer regardless of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, familial status or disability (HUD, fair housing).
An Anchorage owner can lease the home subject to the Anchorage neighborhood documents, which set any neighborhood leasing terms, and the Bonita Bay master Declaration, which sets no minimum lease term but binds every tenant to the governing documents. The Southwest Florida MLS pull of September 30, 2026 showed no Anchorage rental listings, active or leased, in the prior 12 months.
Data updated: November 2026. The Southwest Florida MLS, pulled September 30, 2026, returned no Anchorage rows in its 12-month rental pull: no active rental listing and no leased record. That does not prove no Anchorage home is ever leased (a lease arranged privately never reaches the MLS), but it does mean there is no recent asking-rent data to quote for this street, and a buyer modeling rental income has to work from comparable single-family Bonita Bay leases, not Anchorage ones.
The master Declaration’s leasing language provides that any lease “shall provide or be deemed to provide that the tenant and all occupants of the leased Unit are bound by” the governing documents; it sets no minimum lease term, no cap on leases and no lease approval, and where a neighborhood’s documents are more restrictive, the more restrictive controls. The Anchorage neighborhood documents are where any minimum term, frequency limit or approval process would live. Read them in the disclosure package before you plan a rental.
No public Bonita Bay or Anchorage document we reviewed authorizes nightly or weekly rentals, and the master association’s rules bind tenants like owners. On a home bought near the $1,300,000 county median, the realistic case is an owner who uses the home part of the year and may lease it for a season, offsetting carrying costs rather than producing a high year-round yield.
Pet rules at Anchorage come from the Anchorage neighborhood documents and the master association’s Rules and Regulations, not from the recorded Bonita Bay master Declaration, which contains no pet provision. We found no published Anchorage pet rule, so the number, size and type of pets must be read in the neighborhood documents before you buy.
Leash, waste and nuisance rules apply in Bonita Bay’s common areas, parks and paths. On a lake or tidal lot, keep dogs away from the water’s edge, where alligators live. Under federal fair housing law, properly documented assistance animals are protected regardless of any pet rule (HUD, fair housing). Request the current rules early in your inspection period if you have a pet.
Anchorage at Bonita Bay sits in FEMA Zone AE with a base flood elevation of 10 feet (NAVD88) at every one of the six Riverbank Drive parcels we measured, on FIRM panel 12071C0654G, effective November 17, 2022, inside the City of Bonita Springs (NFIP community 120680) and Lee County Evacuation Zone A. The City’s CRS Class 5 rating gives NFIP policies a 25% discount.
On November 1, 2026 we took the center point of six Anchorage parcels from Lee County’s parcel layer, spread from the canal side to the north end of the street, and intersected them with FEMA’s National Flood Hazard Layer (FEMA NFHL) and Lee County’s evacuation zone layer (Lee County Evacuation Zones). We cross-checked the addresses with the US Census geocoder (Census geocoder), which returned the same zone.
Address (Riverbank Drive) | Water class | Flood zone | Base flood elevation | FIRM panel | Evacuation zone |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
27500 (north end, lake) | Lake | AE, coastal floodplain | 10 ft | 12071C0654G | A |
27536 | Lake | AE, coastal floodplain | 10 ft | 12071C0654G | A |
27549 | None | AE, coastal floodplain | 10 ft | 12071C0654G | A |
27571 | Canal (tidal) | AE, coastal floodplain | 10 ft | 12071C0654G | A |
27596 | Lake | AE, coastal floodplain | 10 ft | 12071C0654G | A |
27603 (south end, canal) | Canal (tidal) | AE, coastal floodplain | 10 ft | 12071C0654G | A |
The adjoining Collier County panel’s outline also touches these points; the Lee County panel governs a Lee parcel. Zones are set per structure, so confirm a specific home with its elevation certificate and the FEMA or City map for the address. Zone AE is a Special Flood Hazard Area, and flood insurance is federally required for a federally backed mortgage on a structure in it. The City’s flood page explains the map colors and the November 17, 2022 effective date (City of Bonita Springs flood protection information), and the NFIP’s consumer site explains the policy itself (FloodSmart).
A base flood elevation is the height FEMA expects the 1% annual chance flood to reach, and what matters for an Anchorage home is how its lowest floor compares with 10 feet. That number is on the elevation certificate, not on the county card. The City notes that “for each 1 foot above the required Base Flood Elevation your home or business is elevated, you will see a corresponding decrease of nearly 50% in your annual flood insurance premiums,” and that for each foot below, rates double (City flood protection information). Homes built in the 1990s were elevated to the maps of their day, and the maps have changed since, so ask the seller for the elevation certificate and give it to your insurance agent before you rely on a quote.
Because Anchorage homes sit in Zone AE, a renovation or repair whose cost reaches 50% of the structure’s market value counts as a substantial improvement under the City’s floodplain rules, and the whole house must then meet current flood elevation requirements. That rule shapes how far a buyer can take a remodel of a 1990s house without elevating it. The City explains how it applies the rule in its toolkit (City substantial improvement toolkit) and its floodplain ordinance (Ordinance 22-05).
Anchorage’s panel, 12071C0654G, is one of the November 17, 2022 G panels covering Bonita Bay. FEMA’s own flood layer is the live record; check the address again before closing and after any announced revision. WGCU’s January 2026 explainer describes how and why Lee County’s flood maps are revised (WGCU, January 27, 2026).
The City of Bonita Springs holds a Community Rating System Class 5 rating, a 25% discount on NFIP flood policies, and FEMA confirmed on November 21, 2024 that the City keeps it after the post-Ian review (City of Bonita Springs, FEMA CRS; City news release). WGCU covered the outcomes across Lee County in July and November 2024 (WGCU, July 19, 2024; WGCU, November 21, 2024), and WUSF reported the earlier April 2024 notice that put the discounts at risk (WUSF, April 1, 2024). The City’s floodplain management plan progress report describes the program behind the rating (CRS Floodplain Management Plan, FY 2025-26 progress report).
All six Anchorage points fall in Lee County Evacuation Zone A (storm surge zone 1). Zone A is the first area Lee County orders to evacuate, often for any named storm approaching from the Gulf; the state’s Know Your Zone lookup confirms an address (Florida Division of Emergency Management, Know Your Zone; Lee County evacuation zones dataset). An Anchorage home on tidal water or a lake can be closed up for months, so the hurricane plan (shutters or impact glass, the pool and patio furniture, who checks the house after a storm) belongs in place before summer.
Hurricane Ian made landfall on September 28, 2022 (NOAA National Hurricane Center, Hurricane Ian report). In the City, surge came up the Imperial River and flooded homes along the river and creeks (WUSF, October 1, 2022; NPR, October 1, 2022), and the Gulf beaches took the worst of it (Tampa Bay Times, September 29, 2022). Inside Bonita Bay, the documented damage includes the total destruction of the master association’s Private Beach facility, since rebuilt (BBCA, Private Beach), and, per the Club’s October 13, 2022 update, a flooded cart barn and golf course bridges left “structurally undrivable” on the Bay Island and Marsh courses (Bonita Bay Club, Hurricane Ian update). The City keeps its Ian recovery pages and grant program online (City of Bonita Springs, Hurricane Ian; Ian progress report; CDBG-DR grant management). We found no primary source documenting Ian damage to specific Anchorage homes; the seller’s disclosures, the City permit history by address and the insurance claim history are where a buyer confirms it.
Helene and Milton in 2024 are documented at the City level (City of Bonita Springs, Milton; NHC Helene report; NHC Milton report); no Bonita Bay-specific damage from either was found in a primary source.
Insuring an Anchorage home means insuring the whole house yourself: a homeowner’s policy with windstorm coverage for a 1991 to 1999 concrete block home with a tile roof and a pool cage, plus a separate flood policy for a Zone AE address, priced largely from the wind mitigation report, the roof’s age and the elevation certificate.
Florida insurers must offer discounts for documented wind-resistant features, and the standard wind mitigation inspection records them: roof covering and its permit date, roof deck attachment, roof-to-wall connection, roof shape and opening protection. On a 1990s house, a newer permitted roof and impact glass or approved shutters on every opening are usually the difference between an ordinary and an expensive windstorm quote. Citizens Property Insurance is the state’s insurer of last resort if the private market will not write a policy, and the state’s My Safe Florida Home program offers inspections and, for eligible homesteaded homes, hardening grants.
Flood is a separate policy, through the NFIP or a private carrier, and in Zone AE a federally backed lender requires it. The premium follows the elevation certificate, the foundation and the replacement cost; the City’s CRS Class 5 discount applies to NFIP policies. Get the flood quote during the inspection period, from the elevation certificate rather than an estimate, and ask whether the current policy can be transferred to you.
Insurers commonly ask for a four-point inspection (roof, electrical, plumbing, air conditioning) on homes of Anchorage’s age. The pool, screen enclosure and pool equipment are part of the windstorm conversation too, and a pool cage replaced after a storm is worth documenting with its permit.
Lee County public schools serve Anchorage through proximity-based choice: a student ranks schools within the proximity zone for the address rather than being placed at one school by address. Under the district’s most recent published plan, nearby options include Spring Creek Elementary, Bonita Springs Middle and Bonita Springs High. Confirm an address’s zones with the School District of Lee County before relying on them.
Under the district’s most recent published plan (2025-2026), the elementary proximity zone that holds the Bonita Springs schools is Zone Q (Bonita Springs, Pinewoods, San Carlos, Spring Creek and Three Oaks elementary schools), the middle proximity zone is Zone GG (Bonita Springs Middle and Three Oaks Middle), and high school uses the South residential choice zone with sub-zones (2025-2026 Student Enrollment Plan). The School Board approved the 2026-2027 plan on December 1, 2025 (School District of Lee County, school zones); use the district’s school zone locator for a specific Riverbank Drive address. School sites: Bonita Springs High and Bonita Springs Middle, listed in the district’s middle school directory. WGCU reported the district’s 2024-25 school grades (WGCU, July 9, 2025).
Anchorage is not age-restricted, so school access works the same way here as at any Bonita Springs address: the proximity zones above are the starting point, and transportation follows the district’s zone rules.
Building permits for Anchorage homes are issued by the City of Bonita Springs Community Development Department, not by Lee County, because Bonita Bay lies inside the incorporated City of Bonita Springs (incorporated in 1999). Exterior work also needs master association Design Review approval under the master Declaration before the City permit is pulled.
Up to three approvals can apply to an Anchorage project: (1) master association Design Review under §9.2 of the master Declaration for anything that changes the exterior, the landscaping or the water’s edge; (2) any neighborhood-level review the Anchorage documents add; and (3) a City of Bonita Springs building permit for roofs, windows, doors, pool cages, generators, electrical, plumbing, mechanical and similar work (City of Bonita Springs, apply for a building permit; City Community Development). The City’s online services guide covers its Citizen Access permit portal (how to use online services). Fire-related plan review is part of City permitting (Fire Prevention plan review application). Work in or over tidal water also involves state permitting (Florida DEP). A buyer can search a home’s permit history by its Riverbank Drive address through the City, which is the best way to see when the roof, air conditioning, windows or pool cage were last permitted.
Anchorage is surrounded by the rest of Bonita Bay and the Imperial River: tidal water and the river along its southern edge, its own two lakes inside the street, the Bonita Bay Marina about 0.6 mile to the west, Bonita Bay Boulevard and the master association office to the northeast, and the US 41 corridor along the community’s eastern edge. Zoning and land use are set by the City of Bonita Springs, and the county roll carries every Anchorage lot as planned development (PUD).
The City’s Zoning District Map Book shows zoning districts by map sheet within city limits, and the City’s maps page links its current maps (City area maps). Zoning ordinances and resolutions are indexed on the City site (zoning ordinances; zoning resolutions), and the City’s stormwater program covers the drainage system Bonita Bay’s lakes feed (City stormwater and drainage). Because Bonita Bay is built out and every Anchorage lot is improved, the practical questions for an Anchorage buyer are changes on the Club campuses (the members’ May 2026 clubhouse vote), activity on the river, and individual rebuilds on the street, not new subdivisions next door.
Daily life at Anchorage runs on City of Bonita Springs services: Florida Power and Light for electricity, Bonita Springs Utilities for water and sewer, Waste Management curbside collection in Bonita Springs, and the Bonita Springs Fire Control and Rescue District for fire and emergency response, with the master association handling roads, gates and patrol and each owner handling the house, pool and lot.
Every Anchorage field card records a finished garage subarea. Whether a boat, trailer, kayak rack or golf cart may be kept outside the garage is a question for the master association’s rules on traffic, parking and vehicle types and the Anchorage neighborhood documents; read both before you buy around a boat or a trailer. Vehicle registration and driver licensing for a new Florida resident run through the state (Florida Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles).
Bonita Bay is a gated community. Guest and vendor access procedures, resident credentials and contractor rules are set by the master association and delivered with the association documents. Mail delivery on Riverbank Drive follows the arrangement for the street; confirm it for the specific address when you tour.
Anchorage sits on the southern edge of Bonita Bay, in ZIP 34134 in the City of Bonita Springs, between Fort Myers to the north and Naples to the south, with US 41 at the Bonita Bay gates and I-75 to the east. That position gives Anchorage owners both metro areas’ shopping, dining, healthcare and the region’s airport without living in either city, and the Imperial River at the end of the street.
Drive times depend heavily on season and time of day along US 41, so we do not publish minute figures; test the drives that matter to you during a winter visit. The National Weather Service office for the region posts storm and marine forecasts (NWS Miami; National Hurricane Center).
Anchorage is one of Bonita Bay’s smaller single-family neighborhoods, 37 pool homes on one street with a 36-month deed median of $1,300,000, priced in line with Riviera, below the larger estate neighborhoods of Woodlake and Creekside and above Bay Harbor, and it is the single-family street on Bonita Bay’s tidal southern edge.
Bonita Bay’s master association describes residences across condominiums, high-rises, coach homes and single-family neighborhoods. On the 36-month county yardstick in the market section, the single-family neighborhoods we cover line up as Bay Harbor ($950,000 median), Riviera ($1,237,500), Anchorage ($1,300,000), Woodlake ($1,750,000) and Creekside ($2,095,000). The two-story coach-home condominiums sit below that range, and the eight Bonita Bay Boulevard towers span it and run above it. Within the single-family group, Anchorage is one of two one-street neighborhoods of fewer than 40 homes, with Riviera.
Woodlake is Bonita Bay’s first single-family neighborhood, 108 homes on Woodlake Drive, Lakepointe Way and Royalfern Court, built from 1985 to as recently as 2025 as original homes are rebuilt, from 2,179 to 5,453 heated square feet. On the same 36-month yardstick it recorded 18 deeds at a $1,750,000 median, from $1,212,500 to $5,945,000, at $566 per square foot. A Woodlake buyer pays more at the median for a larger market, more rebuilds and bigger homes; an Anchorage buyer pays less for a 1990s pool home on a small street with tidal water along one side.
Creekside is Bonita Bay’s large-home single-family neighborhood: 103 homes of 2,947 to 6,498 heated square feet, built 1991 to 2002, with 17 deeds in 36 months at a $2,095,000 median. Bay Harbor is the entry point of the group: 62 homes of 1,761 to 3,093 square feet on Shell Ridge Circle and Shell Ridge Court, built 1995 to 1998, with 17 deeds at a $950,000 median and $424 per square foot. Anchorage sits between them on price and on size, with a smaller market than either.
Anchorage and Riviera are Bonita Bay’s two one-street single-family neighborhoods of fewer than 40 homes, built in the same decade, with 36-month county medians $62,500 apart ($1,300,000 and $1,237,500) and per-square-foot medians $5 apart; the choice comes down to water and flood exposure, home size, the top of the price range and the street itself.
Riviera is 35 single-family homes on one cul-de-sac, Riviera Lakes Court, built 1990 to 1997, from 1,810 to 3,844 heated square feet. By straight line it is about 1.4 miles north of the center of Anchorage. In the 36 months since November 2023 Riviera recorded 12 qualified deeds at a $1,237,500 median, from $910,000 to $1,700,000, at a median of $523 per heated square foot; Anchorage recorded 10 at $1,300,000, $885,000 to $2,250,000, $518 per heated square foot.
Question | Anchorage | Riviera |
|---|---|---|
Homes and street | 37 homes, Riverbank Drive | 35 homes, Riviera Lakes Court (cul-de-sac) |
Built (county roll) | 1991 to 1999 | 1990 to 1997 |
Heated area (county) | 2,268 to 4,644 sq ft | 1,810 to 3,844 sq ft |
Qualified deeds, 36 months since November 2023 | 10 | 12 |
Median deed price | $1,300,000 | $1,237,500 |
Deed range | $885,000 to $2,250,000 | $910,000 to $1,700,000 |
Median per heated sq ft | $518 | $523 |
Turnover (deeds per home, 36 months) | 27.0% | 34.3% |
Water at the lot (county land class) | 9 tidal canal, 23 lake, 5 none | Check the lot (see the Riviera guide) |
Flood zone at measured addresses (FEMA NFHL, November 1, 2026) | AE, BFE 10 ft, panel 12071C0654G, a Special Flood Hazard Area | Shaded X (0.2% annual chance, coastal) at 3300, 3400 and 3471 Riviera Lakes Ct, panel 12071C0656G, outside the Special Flood Hazard Area |
Evacuation zone | A | A |
Associations | Anchorage neighborhood association plus the master association | Riviera neighborhood association plus the master association |
Choose Anchorage if you want tidal water behind the house (nine canal-class lots) or a lake on an even-numbered lot, a larger home (the county roll runs to 4,644 square feet against Riviera’s 3,844), or the southern edge of Bonita Bay near Riverwalk Park and the marina. Choose Riviera if flood exposure is the deciding factor: the three Riviera addresses we measured sit in shaded Zone X, outside the Special Flood Hazard Area, while every Anchorage parcel we measured is Zone AE at a 10-foot base flood elevation, which changes what a lender requires and what flood insurance costs. Riviera also turned over a little more often (12 deeds on 35 homes against 10 on 37). In both, the house decides the price more than the street does, so compare the specific deeds that match your size, water and condition.
Anchorage’s strengths are documented ones (detached pool homes on fee-simple lots, tidal or lake frontage on 32 of 37 lots, one-story plans on 24 homes, a fast and near-list MLS record, the full Bonita Bay master amenities) and so are its limitations (Zone AE at 10 feet, Evacuation Zone A, no county-recorded docks, a thin resale market, unpublished fees and homes from the 1990s).
If you’re searching for an Anchorage listing agent, or thinking, ‘I need someone to sell my Anchorage home…’, start with the record: 10 qualified Anchorage deeds in 36 months at a $1,300,000 median, from $885,000 to $2,250,000, and a 10-day MLS median. McGreevy and Comisar price, prepare and market Anchorage homes from that record, not from a Bonita Bay average.
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In the last 12 months we tracked five qualified Anchorage deeds in the Lee County record, at $925,000, $2,250,000, $1,250,000, $1,600,000 and $1,000,000, for $7,025,000 in volume. Over 36 months the record shows 10 resales at a $1,300,000 median and $13,704,000 in volume. The Southwest Florida MLS, pulled September 30, 2026, shows a median of 10 days on market and a median sale-to-list ratio of 98.8% on all five of its closings in the 12 months to that date, every one of them marketed through the MLS.
Four things. First, the water class: a buyer will read the county card, so the listing has to show plainly whether the lot is on the tidal canal side, a lake or neither, and what that means for the view and the flood quote. Second, the paperwork: Section 720.401 requires your disclosure summary before the contract is signed, and Florida’s residential flood disclosure applies to every sale, so having the estoppel requests, the elevation certificate, the wind mitigation report and the permit history ready at listing protects your timeline. Third, Bonita Bay’s open house and sign rules: open houses need 72 hours’ notice to the master association with the listing agreement, run Monday to Saturday 9 to 5 and Sunday 1 to 4, use the master association’s sign standard, and allow no SOLD signs (BBCA Open House Guidelines). Fourth, buyers ask about docks, flood, insurance and fees on the first call, and we answer with documents.
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Price an Anchorage home from the deeds that match its water class, size, story count and condition, not from the street median. On the county record the 36-month median is $1,300,000, but two lake homes of about 2,470 heated square feet recorded $885,000 and $1,800,000. We adjust from the closest matches for water, lot, pool, roof age and renovation, then test the price against the active listings on the day you list.
Anchorage homes sold in a median of 10 days on market in the Southwest Florida MLS, pulled September 30, 2026, across five marketed closings in 12 months. The range is wide: 27508 sold in 2 days above its asking price in December 2025, and 27549 took 152 days and sold at 92.6% of its list price in October 2025. Price and condition explain most of that spread.
An Anchorage buyer usually asks first for the two estoppel certificates (neighborhood and master), the §720.401 disclosure summary, the elevation certificate, the wind mitigation and four-point reports, the roof and air-conditioning permits, the flood and windstorm policy declarations, and the neighborhood rules on leasing, pets and boats. Having them at listing shortens every negotiation.
The master Declaration requires no sale approval that we found; it requires you to deliver the §720.401 disclosure summary, and the estoppel certificates are needed for closing. Whether the Anchorage neighborhood documents add any approval or notice step is set in those documents, which we read for every listing before your home goes on the market.
A Bonita Bay Club membership is separate from your Anchorage deed. The Club does not publish its initiation fees, dues or transfer rules on its public website, and whether a membership can pass to a buyer is the Club’s decision under its own rules. Your Anchorage sale itself never requires a Club membership on either side.
Anchorage’s long-run value rests on Bonita Bay’s fixed supply, its master-association amenities, its water and its location between Naples and Fort Myers; the recorded deeds show that Anchorage prices rise and fall with the wider market, from early home sales near $387,000 in 1991 to $1,600,000 in 2022 and a $1,300,000 median over the last 36 months.
A master association that maintains roads, lakes, parks, the Private Beach and patrol, funded by every owner, protects the setting of every neighborhood inside the gates. Bonita Bay’s recorded master Declaration and Design Review standards (§9.2) are what keep a 1990s street looking cared for in 2026.
Bonita Bay is built out, and Anchorage has no vacant lot left: all 37 platted home sites are improved. New supply in the region comes from new communities outside the gates, not from more homes on Riverbank Drive. That does not guarantee appreciation (the county record shows individual Anchorage resales below their earlier deeds), but it means every Anchorage buyer competes for one of a fixed 37, and only nine of them on the tidal side.
For a buyer who wants a detached pool home with water behind it inside Bonita Bay’s gates, Anchorage is one of the most direct ways in at a 36-month median of $1,300,000. The trade is flood exposure, insuring the whole house, homes that are 27 to 35 years old and a resale market that moves rarely.
Bonita Springs is the incorporated city that governs Anchorage’s permits, zoning, flood program and city taxes; its CRS Class 5 rating lowers NFIP premiums, and its location puts Riverbank Drive between Naples and Fort Myers with Gulf beaches, I-75 and US 41 close by.
Residents voted to incorporate the City in 1999, and the City marked its 25th anniversary in 2024 (City of Bonita Springs, history; 25th anniversary; City Charter). For the wider market, see our Bonita Springs guide and our Bonita Bay guide. Documentary stamp tax on Florida deeds is set by the state (Florida Department of Revenue, documentary stamp tax), and in Lee County the seller customarily pays the owner’s title policy, though the contract controls.
Anchorage owners and buyers work directly with Jesse McGreevy and Marc Comisar, the McGreevy and Comisar team at Domain Realty, whose office at 24031 S Tamiami Trl #101 in Bonita Springs is about 3.5 miles from Riverbank Drive by straight line. For this Anchorage guide we read the county’s water coding, the master Declaration, all 37 county home cards and every qualified Anchorage deed in the Lee County record before writing a word.
McGreevy and Comisar are the Domain Realty team behind this Anchorage guide: Jesse McGreevy, Sales Associate, and Marc Comisar, Broker Associate, with over 45 years of combined direct real estate experience. You can read how the team was built on our about the McGreevy and Comisar team page. We tracked all 10 qualified Anchorage deeds recorded since November 2023 for this update, we read every one of the 37 Anchorage home cards to count the pools, stories and water classes, and we measured the flood zone at six Anchorage parcels ourselves rather than repeating a map summary.
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Anchorage is a street where specifics decide the price: tidal canal, lake or no water class, one story or two, lot size, the age of the roof and the windows, the pool and its cage, and whether the kitchen and baths have been redone since the 1990s. Buyers moving from out of state often decide from photos, video and documents before they visit, so the listing has to explain the water, the absence of docks on the county record, the flood zone and elevation certificate, the wind mitigation report and the two association layers in plain language. That is the work we do on every Bonita Bay listing.
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The best Anchorage buyers we work with ask the most questions before the offer and the fewest after closing. Order both estoppel certificates early, get windstorm and flood quotes from the elevation certificate and wind mitigation report during your inspection period, and read the neighborhood documents before you plan a dock, a boat or a rental. There is no obligation and no cost for an initial conversation.
The questions below are the ones Anchorage buyers ask us most, answered from the county roll, the recorded documents, FEMA’s flood layer and the Southwest Florida MLS figures pulled on September 30, 2026. Every answer names its source on this page, and where the public record stops we say which document a buyer should read.
Anchorage at Bonita Bay is a neighborhood of 37 detached single-family homes on Riverbank Drive, on the southern edge of the Bonita Bay master-planned community in Bonita Springs, Florida. The homes were built from 1991 to 1999 on lots in three recorded plats, and 36 of the 37 county cards record a private pool.
Anchorage homes are detached single-family homes on their own platted, fee-simple lots. Every one of the 37 carries the county’s single-family use code, and no condominium declaration appears in any Anchorage legal description, so an owner owns the house and the land under it.
Anchorage is on Bonita Bay’s southern edge, along Riverbank Drive near the Imperial River. By straight line from the center of the neighborhood, the Bonita Bay Marina is about 0.6 mile west, the master association office about 0.7 mile northeast and the Bonita Bay Club address about 0.9 mile north.
Anchorage has 37 homes and no vacant lots. The Lee County roll counts 41 parcels in the three Anchorage plats: 37 single-family homes, two road and right-of-way tracts and two lake tracts. Part 1 holds five homes, Part 1-A holds 13 and Part II holds 19.
The county roll dates Anchorage homes from 1991 to 1999: two in 1991, two in 1992, seven in 1993, four in 1994, three in 1995, four in 1996 and five in each of 1997, 1998 and 1999. Several homes have been renovated since; the City permit history by address shows what was replaced and when.
Anchorage homes run from 2,268 to 4,644 heated square feet on the county roll, with a median of 2,819. Lots run from 0.166 to 0.545 acre, a median of 0.243 acre, on Lee County’s parcel layer.
Most Anchorage homes have three bedrooms: the county roll records 24 three-bedroom homes, eight with four bedrooms, three with five and two with two. MLS listings often add a den the county does not count as a bedroom.
Both. The county field cards record 24 one-story homes and 13 two-story homes, spread along the street rather than grouped, so a buyer who wants single-level living has 24 of the 37 to choose from.
Yes, almost all of them. A residential pool appears on 36 of the 37 Anchorage field cards at the Lee County Property Appraiser, and most of those cards also list a pool heater, a spa or both.
Anchorage is beside the Imperial River system, and nine of its lots are on tidal water. The Property Appraiser codes nine south-side lots as canal frontage; Lee County’s hydrography layer shows an unnamed tidal water body behind them that adjoins the mapped Imperial River, about 370 to 480 feet from those lots. Twenty-three lots are on lakes and five have no water class.
No Lee County record we read shows one. None of the 37 Anchorage field cards lists a dock, boat lift or seawall, and the boat dock and seawall fields on the county parcel layer are empty. Boating runs through the Bonita Bay Marina and the master association’s Riverwalk Park ramp; any dock question should be answered with the plat, a survey and the permits.
At the Bonita Bay Marina, a separately owned marina on the Imperial River with 326 dry storage spaces for boats up to 36 feet and 98 wet slips, at its own fees and with a 36-inch maximum draft. Riverwalk Park offers a boat ramp and kayak storage. Whether a boat or trailer may stay at the house is set by the association rules.
An Anchorage home comes with its own pool on 36 of 37 cards, plus the master association’s 12 miles of paths, three waterside parks including Riverwalk Park, gated entry, Community Patrol and the Private Beach. The Bonita Bay Club and the marina are optional and separately paid.
Yes. Anchorage is inside Bonita Bay’s gates, and the master association runs the Community Patrol and the visitor and vendor access procedures. Law enforcement is the Lee County Sheriff’s Office.
Anchorage owners pay the Bonita Bay Community Association master assessment and the Anchorage neighborhood association assessment. Neither association publishes its assessment on a public page, so the current figures come from the estoppel certificates and the §720.401 disclosure summary in the sale.
No. Bonita Bay has no Community Development District and no special taxing district; Lee County’s list of special districts names none for Bonita Bay. The Bonita Springs fire district on an Anchorage tax bill is a citywide independent fire district, not a Bonita Bay district.
No. No source we reviewed, including the master Declaration provisions on this page, the county roll and the master association’s public pages, sets an age restriction for Anchorage, so buyers of any age can purchase a home there. Confirm in the neighborhood documents delivered with the sale.
Yes, subject to the Anchorage neighborhood documents and the master Declaration, which sets no minimum lease term but binds every tenant to the governing documents. The Southwest Florida MLS pull of September 30, 2026 showed no Anchorage rental listings in the prior 12 months, so there is no recent asking-rent data for the street.
Pet rules come from the Anchorage neighborhood documents and the master association’s rules, not from the master Declaration, which contains no pet provision. We found no published Anchorage pet rule, so read the neighborhood documents before you buy if you have a pet. Documented assistance animals are protected under federal law.
Yes. Six Anchorage parcels we measured on November 1, 2026 sit in FEMA Zone AE, coastal floodplain, with a base flood elevation of 10 feet on panel 12071C0654G, effective November 17, 2022. Zone AE is a Special Flood Hazard Area; confirm a specific home with its elevation certificate.
If you finance with a federally backed mortgage, yes: lenders require flood insurance on a structure in Zone AE. Without a loan it is optional but strongly advisable on a street beside tidal water. The City’s CRS Class 5 rating gives NFIP policies a 25% discount, and the elevation certificate drives the premium.
Anchorage is in Lee County Evacuation Zone A (storm surge zone 1) at every parcel we measured. Zone A is the first area Lee County orders to evacuate, often for any named storm approaching from the Gulf.
Hurricane Ian’s surge came up the Imperial River and flooded homes along the river and creeks in Bonita Springs, and inside Bonita Bay it destroyed the master association’s Private Beach facility, since rebuilt. We found no primary source documenting damage to specific Anchorage homes; the seller’s disclosures, permit history and claim history answer that for a given house.
No. Bonita Bay Club membership is optional and separate from home ownership. The Club does not publish its initiation fees or dues on its public website, and an Anchorage owner can use the master association’s paths, parks and Private Beach without joining.
Yes. The Private Beach on Hickory Boulevard is owned by the master association, not the Club, and it is an amenity of every Anchorage owner through the master membership, with a resident shuttle.
The master association’s $500 per unit beach-rebuild assessment, approved March 20, 2025 and due June 30, 2025, is past. Whether the Anchorage neighborhood association has a pending assessment is answered by its estoppel certificate, which Florida law requires to list assessments due and pending.
The Lee County qualified-deed record shows a median of $1,300,000 for the 10 Anchorage resales in the 36 months since November 2023, from $885,000 to $2,250,000. The Southwest Florida MLS, pulled September 30, 2026, shows a $1,250,000 median on five closings in 12 months.
Fast when priced right: the Southwest Florida MLS, pulled September 30, 2026, shows a median of 10 days on market and a median sale-to-list ratio of 98.8% on five Anchorage closings in 12 months, from 2 days to 152.
On the September 30, 2026 MLS pull, one Anchorage home was listed for sale: 27500 Riverbank Drive at $1,499,000, with none pending. Our Domain Realty Group team keeps the current list on its own site.
The Anchorage neighborhood association handles neighborhood-level matters under its own recorded documents. The Bonita Bay Community Association is the mandatory master association for all of Bonita Bay: roads, gates, patrol, lakes and stormwater, parks, the Private Beach and Design Review. Every Anchorage owner belongs to both.
Under Section 720.401 you receive the seller’s disclosure summary before you sign, and the estoppel certificates from both associations come before closing. Ask as well for the neighborhood declaration, bylaws and rules, the elevation certificate, the wind mitigation report and the survey.
Lee County uses proximity-based school choice. Under the district’s most recent published plan, nearby options include Spring Creek Elementary, Bonita Springs Middle and Bonita Springs High; confirm a Riverbank Drive address’s zones with the School District of Lee County.
On the same 36-month county yardstick, Anchorage recorded 10 deeds at a $1,300,000 median and $518 per square foot; Riviera recorded 12 at $1,237,500 and $523. Anchorage has larger homes and tidal or lake water on most lots but measures Zone AE; the Riviera addresses we measured are shaded Zone X.
These are the questions Anchorage sellers ask us before they list, answered from the Lee County deed record, the 37 Anchorage county cards, FEMA’s flood layer, Florida’s homeowners’ association statute and the Southwest Florida MLS figures pulled on September 30, 2026. Each answer is specific to Anchorage at Bonita Bay and names the document that settles the question.
Your Anchorage home is worth what the closest matching deeds support, adjusted for its water class, size, story count, lot and condition. The Lee County record shows 10 qualified Anchorage resales in the 36 months since November 2023 at a $1,300,000 median, from $885,000 to $2,250,000, at a median of $518 per heated square foot. Canal-class homes have recorded $1,250,000 to $1,745,000 in that window, and lake homes $885,000 to $2,250,000. A valuation starts from the two or three deeds that look most like your house, not the median.
The best Anchorage listing agent prices from the Anchorage deed record, explains the water class and flood facts with documents, and markets to buyers who already understand Bonita Bay. McGreevy and Comisar are the #1 team in Southwest Florida since 2012 and Top 1% of agents nationally since 2008, with over $900 million in personal sales, and we built this guide from every qualified Anchorage deed and all 37 county home cards. Compare agents on the public record with our Bonita Springs agent comparison before you choose.
Five Anchorage homes closed in the 12 months to September 30, 2026 in the Southwest Florida MLS, and the Lee County record shows the same five qualified deeds from October 2025 through August 20, 2026: $925,000, $2,250,000, $1,250,000, $1,600,000 and $1,000,000, for $7,025,000 in volume. Those five closings were four houses, because 27549 Riverbank Drive sold twice. On a 37-home street, that is a typical year’s turnover, not a slow one.
Anchorage homes recorded a median deed price of $1,300,000 over the 36 months since November 2023, from $885,000 to $2,250,000, in the Lee County Property Appraiser’s qualified-sale file. The Southwest Florida MLS, pulled September 30, 2026, shows a $1,250,000 median on five closings in 12 months and a median of $480 per listed square foot. Ten deeds is a small sample, so the range tells you more than the median: water, size and condition move a house across it.
The median Anchorage home sold in 10 days on market in the Southwest Florida MLS, pulled September 30, 2026, across five closings in 12 months. Two homes went under contract in 2 and 3 days, one took 10, one 49 and one 152. The 152-day sale closed at 92.6% of its asking price, while the fastest closed above its ask, which is the clearest lesson in the record: the first price sets the pace.
The median sale-to-list ratio on the five Anchorage closings in the Southwest Florida MLS pull of September 30, 2026 was 98.8%, ranging from 92.6% to 107.1%. The 107.1% sale, 27508 Riverbank Drive in December 2025, closed at $2,250,000 against a $2,100,000 list after 2 days. A seller who prices at the matching deeds should expect to negotiate within a few percent; one who prices well above them should expect the 152-day path.
On the county’s own valuation, yes: the nine canal-class Anchorage homes carry a 2025 median just value of $1,519,378, against $1,044,069 for the 23 lake-class homes. On deeds the picture is noisier, because only three canal-class sales recorded in 36 months ($1,745,000, $1,350,000 and $1,250,000) and the top lake sale was $2,250,000. Tidal water behind the lanai is a real premium, but size and condition can outweigh it, so we price the house, not the class alone.
Describe it the way the county records it. The Property Appraiser codes nine south-side Anchorage lots as canal frontage on tidal water that joins the Imperial River, 23 even-numbered lots as lake frontage and five lots with no water class, and no Anchorage card records a dock, lift or seawall. Calling a canal-class lot “on the river,” or a lake lot “waterfront with boating,” invites a buyer’s appraiser and attorney to correct you late in the deal. Accurate words sell faster.
Only if the dock exists, was permitted and is documented. No Anchorage field card or county parcel record shows a dock, boat lift or seawall, so a buyer’s agent who checks the county card will see none. If your lot has a structure on the water, gather its permits and Design Review approval before listing and describe exactly what it is; if it does not, market the water view and the nearby marina and Riverwalk Park ramp instead.
Under Section 720.401 you must give your buyer the homeowners’ association disclosure summary before the contract is signed, and the master Declaration (§12.13) repeats that duty. Florida’s residential flood disclosure also applies to the sale. Your buyer will also expect the estoppel certificates from the Anchorage neighborhood association and the master association, the neighborhood declaration, bylaws and rules, and in practice the elevation certificate, wind mitigation report and survey. Preparing them at listing keeps the contract on schedule.
A contract signed without the required disclosure summary is voidable by the buyer before closing under Section 720.401, which gives a buyer an exit you do not want them to have. The fix is simple: attach the summary to the listing paperwork so it is delivered before any offer is signed. Your listing agent and the closing agent should both confirm it is in the file before the contract is executed.
An estoppel certificate is the association’s signed statement of what is owed on your home: regular assessments, special assessments, fees and any pending charges. An Anchorage sale needs two, one from the neighborhood association and one from the Bonita Bay Community Association. The closing agent usually requests them; Section 720.30851 sets the delivery time, the contents and the fee caps. Ordering early avoids a closing delay.
The recorded 2011 master Declaration contains a buyer-paid resale reserve assessment, and a later master association statement describes a different formula; no recorded amendment reconciling the two has been located, so we do not publish either as the current charge. Whatever is due appears on the master association’s estoppel certificate, and by the Declaration it is a buyer charge. Your contract can confirm who pays it.
We found no sale-approval requirement in the recorded Bonita Bay master Declaration; it requires the §720.401 disclosure summary, and the estoppel certificates are needed for closing. Whether the Anchorage neighborhood documents add a notice or approval step is set in those documents, which we read before listing. Either way, the buyer’s purchase of an Anchorage home never requires a Bonita Bay Club membership.
Yes. The master association’s Open House Guidelines require 72 hours’ notice with the listing agreement, limit open houses to Monday through Saturday 9 to 5 and Sunday 1 to 4, require the association’s sign standard and allow no SOLD signs. Signs are also barred on golf courses, bike paths and the main roads at the entrances. We schedule every Anchorage open house inside those rules.
The master association’s $500 per unit beach-rebuild assessment, approved March 20, 2025, was due June 30, 2025 and is past. If it was paid, the master estoppel certificate will show nothing owed for it; if anything remains, the estoppel will list it and the closing settles it. Disclosure in Florida covers known facts that materially affect value, and the estoppel puts every assessment on paper for the buyer anyway.
Present it with documents. Every Anchorage parcel we measured is FEMA Zone AE with a 10-foot base flood elevation on panel 12071C0654G, effective November 17, 2022, inside Evacuation Zone A. Give buyers your elevation certificate, your current flood policy declarations and any flood claim history at listing. A buyer who sees the lowest-floor elevation and a real premium early is far less likely to walk during the inspection period.
Yes, more than almost any other document on this street. Every Anchorage parcel we measured shares the same 10-foot base flood elevation, so the difference between two houses’ flood premiums is their lowest-floor elevation, which only the elevation certificate shows. A certificate showing the floor above 10 feet supports a lower premium; the City notes premiums fall by nearly half for each foot above the base flood elevation. If you do not have one, order it before listing.
The repairs that pay are the ones a buyer’s insurer and inspector will flag: an old roof, original windows without opening protection, an aging air-conditioning system, pool equipment and a tired pool cage. On 1991 to 1999 houses those items drive the windstorm quote and the inspection report. Cosmetic updates help photos, but a permitted roof and a clean wind mitigation report usually do more for an Anchorage price than new paint.
In Zone AE, the City of Bonita Springs treats work costing 50% or more of the structure’s market value as a substantial improvement, which requires bringing the house up to current flood elevation rules. Buyers planning a major remodel of an Anchorage home will price that limit into their offer. A seller who has the elevation certificate and recent permits ready lets the buyer see how much room the house has before the rule applies.
Stage the parts buyers pay for on Riverbank Drive: the lanai, the pool and the view to the water or lake. Clear the pool deck, trim the landscaping at the water’s edge, and photograph the view at the right time of day. Inside, the goal is to show the plan clearly, especially in one-story homes where buyers judge flow. Professional photography and video matter because many Anchorage buyers decide before they fly in.
The Anchorage record shows closings in October, December, May, July and August over the last 12 months, so buyers act in every season. Many Bonita Bay buyers tour in winter, which makes a listing ready by late fall well placed, but the 2-day and 3-day sales in December and July show that a well-priced Anchorage home sells whenever it appears. With 37 homes, the season matters less than being the right house on the market.
An Anchorage seller typically pays the listing commission, Florida documentary stamp tax on the deed, and in Lee County the owner’s title policy by custom, though the contract controls. Add any assessments owed on the estoppel certificates, prorated property taxes, the payoff of any mortgage, and any repairs or credits negotiated after inspection. We give you a line-by-line net sheet from the actual numbers before you sign a listing.
Yes, but the lease travels with the house unless it ends before closing. The master Declaration binds tenants to the governing documents, and any lease terms the Anchorage neighborhood documents set still apply. The Southwest Florida MLS pull of September 30, 2026 showed no Anchorage rental listings, so most buyers expect to occupy or use the home themselves; a vacant home or a lease that ends before closing usually widens the buyer pool.
Your Bonita Bay Club membership is separate from your Anchorage deed. The Club does not publish its initiation fees, dues or transfer rules on its public website, so whether a membership can pass to your buyer, be resold or be resigned is the Club’s decision under its own rules. Tell us your membership status at listing so we can describe it accurately to buyers who ask.
Financed buyers can buy in Anchorage, but they will need flood insurance because every parcel we measured is Zone AE, and a windstorm policy their lender accepts on a 1990s house. A current wind mitigation report, a four-point report, a permitted roof and an elevation certificate let a financed buyer’s insurance agent quote quickly, which keeps the financing contingency from stalling the deal.
With one Anchorage home listed on the September 30, 2026 pull, the competition is usually other Bonita Bay single-family homes, especially Riviera, whose 36-month median is $1,237,500 against Anchorage’s $1,300,000. An Anchorage listing stands out with its water class stated plainly, a one-story plan where it has one, a pool and cage in good order, a recent roof and the documents ready, priced against the matching Anchorage deeds rather than a Bonita Bay average.
Compare on the same yardstick. In the 36 months since November 2023, Anchorage recorded 10 deeds at a $1,300,000 median and $518 per heated square foot, Riviera 12 at $1,237,500 and $523, and Woodlake 18 at $1,750,000 and $566. Riviera’s measured addresses are shaded Zone X while Anchorage’s are Zone AE, and Anchorage offers tidal or lake water on 32 lots. Buyers weigh those differences, so your price should too.
The county cards record 24 one-story and 13 two-story Anchorage homes, so a one-story home competes with more of its own kind but appeals to the buyers who will not consider stairs. Two-story homes are often the larger ones on the street, such as 27508 at 4,644 heated square feet. We price each against deeds of its own type where the record allows and say so plainly when it does not.
Gather the survey, the elevation certificate, the wind mitigation and four-point reports, permits for the roof, windows, air conditioning and pool cage, the flood and windstorm policy declarations, any claim history, the neighborhood association’s contact for estoppel requests and your Club membership status. On a 37-home street where buyers compare county cards, a complete file at listing answers questions before they become negotiation points.
On a 1990s Anchorage home, inspections commonly flag roof age, original windows, air-conditioning age, pool equipment and moisture around doors and lanais. Under the standard Florida contracts your buyer may ask for repairs, a credit or a price change, or cancel within the inspection period. A pre-listing inspection lets you fix or price the issues on your terms instead of negotiating them under a deadline.
The Anchorage record is mixed and thin. Some repeat sales rose sharply, such as 27588 from $945,000 in 2019 to $1,600,000 in 2022, while others recorded lower prices on resale, such as 27549 at $1,550,000 in 2023 and $925,000 in 2025. With 10 deeds in 36 months, the honest answer is that condition and water now separate Anchorage prices more than any street-wide trend does.
Assessments are settled from the estoppel certificates: anything owed by the seller is paid from the seller’s proceeds, and any prepaid period is credited back by agreement. Lee County property taxes are paid in arrears and prorated to the closing date, so the seller credits the buyer for the days owned in the current year. The closing statement shows each line, and we review it with you before closing.
Yes. Furniture, the pool equipment, outdoor furniture and anything else that conveys should be listed in the contract, and personal property is usually given little or no value by a lender’s appraiser. In a street where buyers often purchase from out of state, a furnished sale can be attractive, but price the house on the matching deeds and treat the furnishings as a convenience, not as value.
Every Anchorage fact on this page comes from a recorded plat, instrument or state record, a county, city, state or federal record, the Bonita Bay Community Association’s or the Bonita Bay Club’s own published pages, a named news report, or the Southwest Florida MLS figures pulled on September 30, 2026. Every link below was checked and answered on November 1, 2026; recorded plats and instruments are cited by book and page or instrument number in the text.
The official documents below are published by the Bonita Bay Community Association, the City of Bonita Springs, the School District of Lee County, the State of Florida and NOAA. They are the documents we read for this page, and the ones an Anchorage buyer or seller should read before signing. Each link opens the issuing authority’s own copy.
Document | Issued by | Date | What it covers | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Street and Neighborhoods | Bonita Bay Community Association | Current posting | Assigns Riverbank Drive to Anchorage | |
Media Brochure, January 2026 | Bonita Bay Community Association | January 2026 | 2,400 acres, 3,346 residences, 12 miles of paths, separately owned Club and Marina | |
Open House Guidelines | Bonita Bay Community Association | Current posting | Open house hours, 72-hour notice, sign standard, no SOLD signs | |
Trails map | Bonita Bay Community Association | Current posting | The path network that connects Riverbank Drive to Riverwalk Park, the other parks and the Club | |
Neighborhoods map | Bonita Bay Community Association | Current posting | Where Anchorage sits among Bonita Bay’s neighborhoods | |
Facilities and amenities map | Bonita Bay Community Association | Current posting | Parks, beach shuttle points and community facilities | |
Ordinance No. 22-05, Flood Hazard Reduction | City of Bonita Springs | 2022 | City floodplain rules that apply to Anchorage permits | |
Substantial improvement and damage toolkit | City of Bonita Springs | Revised May 25, 2024 | How the City applies the 50% rule to flood-zone buildings | |
CRS Floodplain Management Plan, FY 2025-26 progress report | City of Bonita Springs | FY 2025-26 | The program behind the Class 5, 25% NFIP discount | |
Zoning District Map Book | City of Bonita Springs | July 6, 2011 | Zoning districts by map sheet within city limits | |
How to use online services | City of Bonita Springs Community Development | Current posting | The City’s online permit portal, for a home’s permit history | |
Student Enrollment Plan 2025-2026 | School District of Lee County | 2025 | Elementary Zone Q, middle Zone GG and the South high school choice zone | |
Parks of Bonita Bay | Bonita Bay Community Association | Current posting | Riverwalk Park on the Imperial River: boat ramp, kayak launch, bocce, pickleball | |
Tropical Cyclone Report: Hurricane Ian | NOAA National Hurricane Center | 2023 | The official record of Hurricane Ian |
The three Anchorage plats (Plat Book 48, Pages 62 and 63; Plat Book 49, Page 19; Plat Book 54, Pages 52 and 53), the recorded master Declaration (Lee County Instrument 2011000142834) and the master association’s By-Laws (Instrument 2020000126919) are public records at the Lee County Clerk, retrieved by book and page or instrument number; none is posted as a free copy online, and the Anchorage neighborhood documents come to a buyer with the disclosure package in a sale.
Market data from Southwest Florida MLS, pulled September 30, 2026. County sales and parcel records from the Lee County Property Appraiser, recorded sales through September 2026. McGreevy and Comisar, Best Realtor for Anchorage. Brokered by Domain Realty. Jesse McGreevy, FL Lic. SL3101296 · Marc Comisar, FL Lic. BK3060671.
Thinking about buying or selling in Southwest Florida? Tell us what you are trying to do and we will tell you honestly what it will take. McGreevy and Comisar, Domain Realty Group.
