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Cranbrook turns over slowly, so the Lee County qualified-deed record needs a long window: it shows 10 Cranbrook sales in the 60 months since November 2021 at a median of $1,322,000, ranging from $1,050,000 to $1,800,000. The Southwest Florida MLS, pulled September 30, 2026, counted one Cranbrook closing in the 12 months to that date, at $1,224,000 after 39 days on market, with no home listed or pending 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 24 of its Cranbrook single-family field cards plus the cards for the vacant lot and the four common tracts, its qualified-sale file (index dated November 1, 2026, newest recorded Cranbrook sale January 30, 2026), Lee County’s parcel and hydrography map layers, the recorded Cranbrook plat as the county legal descriptions cite it, 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 Cranbrook for a specific reason. A 24-home street does not produce a price every month, and when it does the number can mislead. Cranbrook’s homes run from 2,031 to 3,300 heated square feet on lots of 0.15 to 0.37 acre, half of them one story and half two, and the county splits them into 11 lake-frontage lots and 13 with no water class. The 10 qualified deeds of the last 60 months run from $1,050,000 to $1,800,000, and the three houses that sold twice in that window each recorded a lower price the second time: one at $1,800,000 in April 2024 and $1,500,000 in August 2025, another at $1,275,000 in May 2024 and $1,050,000 in May 2025. A listing agent who prices from a Bonita Bay average, or from one old Cranbrook sale, can miss by a wide margin in either direction.
Recent Cranbrook track record (last 12 months): In the last 12 months we tracked one qualified Cranbrook deed in the Lee County record: 3490 Thornbury Lane, recorded January 30, 2026 at $1,224,000, which was also the highest-priced (and only) Cranbrook sale in that window. The Southwest Florida MLS, pulled September 30, 2026, shows the same closing at 96.5% of its $1,269,000 list price after 39 days on market. One sale is not a median, so the rest of this guide reads the market on the 60-month county record. We will walk you through every one of those sales.
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Cranbrook at Bonita Bay, section by section. Each link below jumps to its part of this guide, from the 60-month county deed record and the lake and park-side lots to the flood measurements, the comparison with Anchorage, the seller section and the sources behind every figure.
Living in Cranbrook at Bonita Bay means a detached pool home on one short, quiet street at the southern edge of Bonita Bay, with a lake or a garden setting behind the lanai depending on the lot, Riverwalk Park a few dozen yards behind the south side of the street, and the whole Bonita Bay setting (12 miles of paths, three waterside parks, the Private Beach) through the master association.
Every one of the 24 Cranbrook homes, and the vacant lot, carries a Thornbury Lane address, street numbers 3420 to 3580. The Bonita Bay Community Association’s own street table assigns two street names to Cranbrook, Thornbury Lane and Thornbury Court (BBCA Street and Neighborhoods); on the Lee County roll every Cranbrook parcel is addressed on Thornbury Lane, and every Thornbury Lane parcel in ZIP 34134 is a Cranbrook parcel, so the street and the neighborhood are the same thing. On the map Cranbrook sits in the southern part of Bonita Bay, directly beside Anchorage: by our straight-line measurement from the center of the Cranbrook parcels, the master association’s office on Bonita Bay Boulevard is about 0.7 mile to the northeast, the Bonita Bay Marina about 0.8 mile to the west and the Bonita Bay Club address on Country Club Drive about 0.9 mile to the north.
A street of 24 detached single-family homes on fee-simple platted lots, each with its own pool on the county card, laid out along Thornbury Lane with lakes behind most of its north side and Riverwalk Park along its southern edge. The county gives every home the single-family use code and a lot number in one recorded plat, “CRANBROOK AT BONITA BAY PB 42 PG 79 LOT 10” for example. Four more parcels in the same plat are common tracts: the road and right-of-way tract (Tracts A, B and C with part of Lot 26), the Lot 11 buffer and water-retention tract, Tract D (1.75 acres the roll carries as submerged land, at the edge of the larger lake) and Tract E, a buffer tract along the second lake to the east.
The plat numbers 26 lots. Lot 11 is a common element, so 25 lots are residential. Twenty-four carry a house on the county roll; Lot 8, 3510 Thornbury Lane, sold with a house on it in February 2023 for $1,122,000 and is coded vacant residential on the current roll, with a land-only 2025 just value of $612,521 and no building on its card. That is why some descriptions of Cranbrook say 25 homes and others 26: the honest count today is 24 homes and one vacant lot.
Cranbrook is not a condominium, not a golf-course street and not a dockfront boating street. Every Cranbrook home is a detached house on its own lot, recorded with the single-family use code; there is no condominium declaration in any Cranbrook legal description. On Lee County’s parcel layer the nearest Bonita Bay Club golf course parcel (the Marsh course) is about 1,670 feet from the closest Cranbrook lot and about 2,060 feet from the farthest, so no Cranbrook lot fronts a fairway; the setting behind the homes is a lake, the park or the neighbors’ gardens. No Cranbrook field card or parcel record shows a dock, boat lift or seawall. Cranbrook at Bonita Bay is also not Cranbrook Harbor, an unrelated subdivision on Charing Cross Circle and Broadway West elsewhere in Lee County; this guide covers only the Thornbury Lane plat inside Bonita Bay.
The Property Appraiser’s land line on each card classifies the lot, and Cranbrook splits two ways. Eleven lots are coded lake frontage: 3420, 3430, 3440, 3441, 3450, 3460, 3470, 3520, 3530, 3540 and 3550 Thornbury Lane. On Lee County’s hydrography layer each of them lies within about 2 to 34 feet of a freshwater lake: six on the larger lake that Tract D adjoins, five on the lake beside Tract E. Thirteen lots carry no water class. Eight of them, the odd-numbered south side from 3451 to 3521, back toward Riverwalk Park, whose parcel line is about 60 to 96 feet from those lots; the Imperial River’s mapped edge is about 150 to 240 feet beyond them. The county’s 2025 values follow the split: the lake-class homes carry a median just value of $1,172,451 and the no-class homes $920,781.
The field cards record 12 one-story homes and 12 two-story homes. Every card lists a concrete tile roof, a finished garage subarea and a residential pool, and several also list a pool heater. Bedrooms on the roll run from two (five homes) to four (five homes), with three bedrooms the norm (14 homes). The county codes the exterior wall on all 24 cards as siding (wall code 26, vinyl or aluminum siding) rather than the block-and-stucco code most Bonita Bay single-family cards carry; that is the county’s coding, and a buyer’s inspector confirms what the walls are actually made of.
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 Cranbrook 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). On the county map the park parcel lies within about 100 feet of the eight south-side Cranbrook lots. Cranbrook owners share it, and the other two parks and the Private Beach, with the rest of Bonita Bay.
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Data updated: November 2026. Cranbrook at Bonita Bay recorded 10 qualified sales in the 60 months since November 2021 at a $1,322,000 median, from $1,050,000 to $1,800,000, in the Lee County Property Appraiser recorded sales, through September 2026. The county deed records run through the newest recorded Cranbrook sale, January 30, 2026 (the index’s newest Lee County sale overall is September 25, 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 five years on a 25-lot street is a small sample, and we say so wherever a figure leans on it.
The county tool chose a 60-month window because it is the first window with 10 or more qualified Cranbrook sales; a 12-month window holds one, a 24-month window three, a 36-month window seven and a 48-month window nine. Every sale in the window was a resale; the last new Cranbrook home on the roll was finished in 2000.
Recorded | Address (Thornbury Ln) | Water class | Stories | Heated sq ft | Deed price | Per heated sq ft |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
August 19, 2022 | 3550 | Lake | Two | 2,582 | $1,400,000 | $542 |
February 21, 2023 | 3510 (Lot 8) | Now coded vacant | n/a | n/a | $1,122,000 | n/a |
September 22, 2023 | 3490 | None | Two | 2,831 | $1,369,000 | $484 |
November 28, 2023 | 3511 | None | One | 2,082 | $1,075,000 | $516 |
April 23, 2024 | 3470 | Lake | Two | 2,864 | $1,800,000 | $628 |
May 30, 2024 | 3520 | Lake | Two | 2,492 | $1,275,000 | $512 |
June 3, 2024 | 3440 | Lake | Two | 2,392 | $1,500,000 | $627 |
May 27, 2025 | 3520 | Lake | Two | 2,492 | $1,050,000 | $421 |
August 22, 2025 | 3470 | Lake | Two | 2,864 | $1,500,000 | $524 |
January 30, 2026 | 3490 | None | Two | 2,831 | $1,224,000 | $432 |
The 10 deeds total $13,315,000. Ten is an even count, so the median is the mean of the middle pair: sorted, the fifth and sixth prices are $1,275,000 and $1,369,000, and their mean is $1,322,000. The February 2023 sale of Lot 8 was recorded as an improved sale, so the county tool counts it, but the lot carries no house on the current roll and no heated area, so the price per square foot uses the other nine deeds: their middle value is $516. Three houses recorded twice in the window (3490, 3470 and 3520), so the 10 deeds cover seven different properties, more than a quarter of the 25 residential lots.
One Cranbrook deed was recorded in the 12 months to the newest one: 3490 Thornbury Lane at $1,224,000 on January 30, 2026, a two-story home of 2,831 heated square feet on the roll. One sale is not a median and not a trend, so we quote it as a single sale and read the market on the 60-month record above. Between January 30 and the September 2026 end of the county index no further qualified Cranbrook deed was recorded.
The Southwest Florida MLS, pulled September 30, 2026, counted one Cranbrook closing in the 12 months to that date: 3490 Thornbury Lane, listed at $1,269,000 and sold for $1,224,000 on January 30, 2026, a sale-to-list ratio of 96.5% after 39 days on market. The MLS records the home as four bedrooms and three full and one half baths on 3,041 living square feet, about $403 per listed square foot. On the pull date no Cranbrook home was listed for sale, none was pending, and no Cranbrook rental listing, active or leased, appeared in the 12-month rental pull. One closing describes one house; it is not a median and we do not present it as one.
MLS closing | Address (Thornbury Ln) | MLS list price | Sold | Sale-to-list | Days on market |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
January 30, 2026 | 3490 | $1,269,000 | $1,224,000 | 96.5% | 39 |
On the one sale both records hold, they agree on the price to the dollar ($1,224,000) and on the date (January 30, 2026), so the deed-versus-MLS rule has nothing to settle on price. They differ on the description of the house: the county roll records 3490 as three bedrooms and 2,831 heated square feet, and the MLS as four bedrooms and 3,041 living square feet. Each measures by its own method; the per-square-foot figures on this page say which denominator they use.
The county’s heated area and the MLS living area differ at Cranbrook by enough to matter. At 3490 the gap is 210 square feet, so the same $1,224,000 is about $432 per county heated square foot and about $403 per MLS listed square foot. The two price-per-square-foot figures on this page use different denominators and periods and are not interchangeable: $516 per county heated square foot is the median of nine deeds over 60 months; $403 per MLS listed square foot is one closing.
With no Cranbrook home listed on the September 30, 2026 pull, there is no current asking price to compare. The one MLS closing of the last 12 months sold 3.5% below its list price after 39 days. When a Cranbrook home does come to market, read its ask against the deeds in the table that match its water class, story count and size, not against the 60-month median alone.
The county record lets us split the deeds by the Property Appraiser’s water class, with a warning that the groups are tiny. The six lake-class deeds (3550, 3470 twice, 3520 twice and 3440) have a median of $1,450,000, the mean of the middle pair $1,400,000 and $1,500,000, and a median of $533 per heated square foot, from $1,050,000 to $1,800,000. The three deeds without a water class (3490 twice and 3511) were $1,369,000, $1,075,000 and $1,224,000, a median of $1,224,000 and $484 per heated square foot. Condition explains as much of the spread as water does: 3520 recorded $1,275,000 in May 2024 and $1,050,000 a year later, on the same lake lot. The county’s 2025 values, which cover all 24 homes rather than the few that sold, put the lake class on top: median just value $1,172,451 against $920,781 for the no-class homes.
The county record shows how far Cranbrook prices moved before this window. Qualified deeds from 2014 through 2021 include $660,000 (3460, February 2014), $465,000 (3461, March 2014), $532,500 (3481, April 2014), $600,000 (3500, October 2014), $635,000 (3490, November 2014), $775,000 (3481, March 2016), $759,000 (3540, March 2016), $890,000 (3530 and 3470, both May 2018), $925,000 (3481, June 2018), $670,000 (3440, March 2019), $650,000 (3471, March 2021), $1,011,000 (3440, May 2021), $730,000 (3501, June 2021) and $855,000 (3420, August 2021). Repeat sales tell the story best: 3440 went from $670,000 in 2019 to $1,011,000 in 2021 and $1,500,000 in 2024; 3470 from $890,000 in 2018 to $1,800,000 in 2024, then $1,500,000 in 2025; 3490 from $665,000 in 2015 to $1,369,000 in 2023, then $1,224,000 in 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: single vacant lots changed hands from 1990 to 1994 between $79,700 and $160,000, and the first home sales ran from $300,000 (3560, May 1991) and $308,000 (3420, April 1990) to $400,000 (3550, September 1990). In the mid-2000s peak, 3530 recorded $860,000 (September 2005).
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 60 months since November 2021, 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 (60 months) | Median | Range | Median per heated sq ft |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Cranbrook | 24 | 1989 to 2000 | 2,031 to 3,300 | 10 | $1,322,000 | $1,050,000 to $1,800,000 | $516 |
Anchorage | 37 | 1991 to 1999 | 2,268 to 4,644 | 14 | $1,300,000 | $885,000 to $2,250,000 | $518 |
Riviera | 35 | 1990 to 1997 | 1,810 to 3,844 | 14 | $1,187,500 | $875,000 to $1,700,000 | $492 |
Woodlake | 108 | 1985 to 2025 | 2,179 to 5,453 | 27 | $1,750,000 | $1,212,500 to $5,945,000 | $574 |
Creekside | 103 | 1991 to 2002 | 2,947 to 6,498 | 24 | $2,342,500 | $1,650,000 to $3,605,000 | $595 |
Bay Harbor | 62 | 1995 to 1998 | 1,761 to 3,093 | 22 | $969,375 | $630,000 to $1,625,000 | $452 |
Cranbrook and Anchorage are the closest pair on the record: neighboring streets of 24 and 37 homes from the same decade, with 60-month medians $22,000 apart and per-square-foot medians $2 apart. Riviera sits a step below on price, Woodlake and Creekside are larger neighborhoods a tier up, and Bay Harbor is a tier down.
For a buyer, the record says Cranbrook trades rarely (10 deeds in 60 months on 25 lots, one in the last 12) and that the house you want may not come up for a year or more, so be ready when it does. For a seller, the same record says price discipline pays: the three repeat sales of 2025 and 2026 all recorded below their earlier deeds, and the one MLS closing of the last year sold at 96.5% of its ask after 39 days. With so few sales, the closest matching deeds, the county’s values for all 24 homes and the condition of the house carry more weight than any street median.
Cranbrook at Bonita Bay grew out of the Bonita Bay master plan of the mid-1980s: its plat, Cranbrook at Bonita Bay, was recorded in Plat Book 42 at Pages 77 to 79, its lots were sold from 1988 into the 1990s, and its 24 homes were finished between 1989 and 2000 along Thornbury Lane 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); Cranbrook 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: one home in 1989, seven in 1990, seven in 1991, one in 1992, one in 1994, two in 1995, one each in 1996 and 1997, two in 1999 and one in 2000. Nearly two thirds of the street (15 of 24 homes) went up from 1989 to 1991; the last few lots filled through the decade. The card histories show lots bought vacant and built on, which is why Cranbrook mixes one-story ranch plans with two-story homes from 2,031 to 3,300 heated square feet. The county’s improvement types split evenly: 12 ranch and 12 colonial. We do not name a builder or developer, because no primary record we read identifies one.
Cranbrook owners belong to the Bonita Bay Community Association, a Florida not-for-profit corporation (document N07041, filed January 10, 1985) operating as a homeowners’ association under Chapter 720, Florida Statutes. The Lee County roll lists Cranbrook’s road and right-of-way tract and its Lot 11 buffer tract in the name of Cranbrook Homeowners Assn Inc, and the lake tract (Tract D) and buffer Tract E in the name of the Bonita Bay Community Association. The state’s corporate search refused our automated check on November 1, 2026, so confirm the neighborhood association’s current record, officers and status with the Division of Corporations and in the documents delivered with a sale. The neighborhood association’s role is set by its own recorded documents, and those documents, not a summary, govern what it maintains and what it charges.
Cranbrook’s homes are 24 detached houses with concrete tile roofs, built 1989 to 2000, from 2,031 to 3,300 heated square feet (median 2,402) on lots of 0.152 to 0.370 acre, 12 of them one story and 12 two stories, with a finished garage and a private pool on every county card.
Measure (county roll and field cards, November 1, 2026) | Cranbrook |
|---|---|
Homes (single-family use code) | 24 |
Vacant lots | 1 (Lot 8, 3510 Thornbury Lane) |
Common tracts | 4 (road and right-of-way, Lot 11 buffer, Tract D submerged, Tract E buffer) |
Year built | 1989 to 2000 |
Heated area | 2,031 to 3,300 sq ft (median 2,402) |
Bedrooms | 2 bed: 5 · 3 bed: 14 · 4 bed: 5 |
Bathrooms (county roll count) | 2: 11 · 3: 13 |
Stories | One story: 12 · two stories: 12 |
Roof | Concrete tile (all 24) |
Exterior wall (county code) | Siding, code 26 (all 24) |
Pool | 24 of 24 |
Lot size (Lee County parcel layer) | 0.152 to 0.370 acre (median 0.217) |
Water class (Property Appraiser land line) | Lake: 11 · none: 13 |
2025 just value | $836,824 to $1,448,563 (median $1,050,723) |
Cranbrook splits evenly: 12 of the 24 cards record a single story, all with the county’s ranch improvement type, and 12 record two stories. The one-story homes are 3420, 3430, 3450, 3451, 3461, 3491, 3511, 3521, 3540, 3560, 3570 and 3580; the two-story homes are 3440, 3441, 3460, 3470, 3471, 3481, 3490, 3500, 3501, 3520, 3530 and 3550. Five of the eight south-side homes from 3451 to 3521 are one story, and seven of the 11 lake-class homes are two stories. For a buyer who wants every room on one level, the record narrows the search to 12 houses.
Three bedrooms is the Cranbrook norm (14 homes), with four on five homes and two on five. The two-bedroom homes are the one-story houses on the south side (3451, 3461, 3491, 3511 and 3521), from 2,051 to 2,082 heated square feet, a compact group of near-identical size. The largest house on the street is 3441, 3,300 heated square feet on the largest lot (0.370 acre), coded lake frontage. The county counts bathrooms by its own method; the MLS counts on recent listings (for example four bedrooms and three full and one half baths at 3490) add half baths and dens the roll does not separate.
Lot sizes on Lee County’s parcel layer run from 0.152 acre to 0.370 acre, a median of 0.217 acre: compact lots, because the lakes, the buffer tracts and the park do the work a big yard would. A residential pool appears on all 24 cards, several with a pool heater, and many list a pool patio; 23 cards also carry a screen enclosure subarea. A four-foot aluminum or vinyl fence appears on several cards.
Every Cranbrook home was built from 1989 to 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. Because the county codes the exterior walls as siding, ask the inspector to confirm the wall construction and the condition of the cladding, flashing and sealants. 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 24 homes run from $836,824 to $1,448,563, a median of $1,050,723, and total $25,213,357; the vacant Lot 8 carries $612,521, all of it land. Land is the larger share on many cards: 3490’s land line, for example, is $587,456 of a $980,154 just value. Just value is the county’s estimate as of January 1 for tax purposes, not a sale price; the 60-month deed median of $1,322,000 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.
Cranbrook at Bonita Bay is a lake-and-park street, not a golf or dockfront one: 11 of its 24 home lots are coded lake frontage, the eight south-side lots from 3451 to 3521 back toward Riverwalk Park and the Imperial River beyond it, no Cranbrook lot touches a golf course on the county map, and no county record shows a private dock, boat lift or seawall.
On November 1, 2026 we read the land line on all 24 Cranbrook home cards, the vacant-lot card and the four tract cards at the Lee County Property Appraiser, and overlaid the Cranbrook parcels on Lee County’s parcel and hydrography map layers (Lee County parcel layer; Lee County hydrography layer). The results:
Lot group (county card) | Lots | Addresses (Thornbury Ln) | What the county map shows behind the lot |
|---|---|---|---|
Lake class, larger lake | 6 | 3460, 3470, 3520, 3530, 3540, 3550 | A freshwater lake about 8 to 34 feet from the lot line, the lake that plat Tract D adjoins |
Lake class, eastern lake | 5 | 3420, 3430, 3440, 3441, 3450 | A freshwater lake about 2 to 14 feet from the lot line, beside plat Tract E |
No water class, south side | 8 | 3451, 3461, 3471, 3481, 3491, 3501, 3511, 3521 | The Riverwalk Park parcel about 60 to 96 feet away; the Imperial River’s mapped edge about 150 to 240 feet away |
No water class, other | 5 | 3490, 3500, 3560, 3570, 3580 | The Lot 11 buffer tract (3490 and 3500) or garden lots about 85 to 190 feet from the larger lake (3560 to 3580) |
The vacant Lot 8 (3510) lies about 12 feet from the larger lake but is coded vacant residential, not lake frontage. All 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, and the land line on the card, not a distance, decides the county’s water class.
Some descriptions of Cranbrook promise golf course views. The county map does not support that. Searching Lee County’s parcel layer for golf course parcels around Bonita Bay, the nearest Bonita Bay Club course to Cranbrook is the Marsh course parcel, about 1,670 feet from the closest Cranbrook lot (3550) and about 2,060 feet from the farthest (3481); the Creekside and Bay Island course parcels are farther away. No Cranbrook lot adjoins a fairway, and none of the 24 cards carries a golf land class. If a view across open land matters to you, judge it from the lanai on a showing, and treat “golf view” in any listing as a claim to check, not a fact.
No Cranbrook 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 24 homes. The water touching Cranbrook lots is freshwater lake, and the lake tract and the eastern buffer tract are titled on the county roll to the master association, which maintains lake and stormwater management. Building anything at a lake edge in Bonita Bay needs master association Design Review approval under §9.2 of the master Declaration, and the South Florida Water Management District regulates the surface water management system the lakes belong to (South Florida Water Management District; Florida DEP).
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 0.8 mile west of the center of Cranbrook.
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). On the county map the park parcel (27650 Riverwalk Way, titled to the master association) sits within about 100 feet of the south side of Thornbury Lane, so the park’s ramp, courts and kayak launch are a short walk from the south side of the street. For a Cranbrook owner with a kayak, a paddleboard or a trailered boat, that park is the everyday water access that comes with the master membership.
A Cranbrook home comes with its own private pool on all 24 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 Cranbrook 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 directly behind the south side of Thornbury Lane, 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 Cranbrook owner through the master association, with a resident shuttle.
The 12 miles of paths (trails map) connect Thornbury Lane 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 a Cranbrook 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 Cranbrook. On the county map the nearest of the Club’s courses, the Marsh course, is about 1,670 feet from the closest Cranbrook lot.
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. A Cranbrook 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 a Cranbrook deed unless the Club’s own rules say so.
Cranbrook owners pay the Bonita Bay Community Association master assessment and the assessment of the Cranbrook neighborhood association (Cranbrook Homeowners Assn Inc on the county roll), 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 Cranbrook 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 Cranbrook neighborhood association levies whatever its recorded documents authorize: typically the shared items of a single-family street, such as the road tract it holds on the county roll, the Lot 11 buffer tract, entry landscaping and any neighborhood-level services its documents assign to it. We have not read the Cranbrook 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, a Cranbrook 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 a Cranbrook 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 1989 to 2000 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 Cranbrook 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 Cranbrook 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; a Cranbrook buyer’s title agent confirms on the master estoppel that nothing remains owed on the home being purchased.
Whether the Cranbrook 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.
Cranbrook is governed by two sets of documents: its own neighborhood documents (the recorded plat, Cranbrook at Bonita Bay at Plat Book 42, Pages 77 to 79, plus the neighborhood association’s declaration, articles, bylaws and rules) 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.
Cranbrook 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 Cranbrook 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 edge, or an addition goes to master association Design Review under §9.2 (with any neighborhood-level review the Cranbrook 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.
Cranbrook 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 a Cranbrook 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).
A Cranbrook owner can lease the home subject to the Cranbrook 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 Cranbrook rental listings, active or leased, in the prior 12 months.
Data updated: November 2026. The Southwest Florida MLS, pulled September 30, 2026, returned no Cranbrook rows in its 12-month rental pull: no active rental listing and no leased record. That does not prove no Cranbrook 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 Cranbrook 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 Cranbrook 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 Cranbrook document we reviewed authorizes nightly or weekly rentals, and the master association’s rules bind tenants like owners. On a home bought near the $1,322,000 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 Cranbrook come from the Cranbrook 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 Cranbrook 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 lot or near Riverwalk Park and the river, 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.
Cranbrook at Bonita Bay sits in FEMA Zone AE with a base flood elevation of 10 feet (NAVD88) at every one of the six Thornbury Lane 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 Cranbrook parcels from Lee County’s parcel layer, spread from the eastern lake to the western end of the street and across both sides, and intersected them with FEMA’s National Flood Hazard Layer (FEMA NFHL) and Lee County’s evacuation zone layer (Lee County Evacuation Zones). We used the US Census geocoder (Census geocoder) to locate the offices and places whose distances this page gives.
Address (Thornbury Lane) | Water class | Flood zone | Base flood elevation | FIRM panel | Evacuation zone |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
3420 (east end) | Lake | AE, coastal floodplain | 10 ft | 12071C0654G | A |
3441 | Lake | AE, coastal floodplain | 10 ft | 12071C0654G | A |
3471 (south side, park side) | None | AE, coastal floodplain | 10 ft | 12071C0654G | A |
3500 | None | AE, coastal floodplain | 10 ft | 12071C0654G | A |
3550 | Lake | AE, coastal floodplain | 10 ft | 12071C0654G | A |
3580 (west end) | None | 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 a Cranbrook 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 from 1989 to 2000 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 Cranbrook 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 1989 to 2000 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).
Cranbrook’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 Cranbrook 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). A Cranbrook home near the river and the lakes 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 Cranbrook 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 a Cranbrook home means insuring the whole house yourself: a homeowner’s policy with windstorm coverage for a 1989 to 2000 home with a tile roof, county-coded siding walls 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 house of Cranbrook’s age, 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 Cranbrook’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 Cranbrook 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 Thornbury Lane 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).
Cranbrook 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 Cranbrook 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 a Cranbrook project: (1) master association Design Review under §9.2 of the master Declaration for anything that changes the exterior, the landscaping or a lake edge; (2) any neighborhood-level review the Cranbrook 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 that touches the lakes or the stormwater system also involves the water management district’s rules (Florida DEP). A buyer can search a home’s permit history by its Thornbury Lane address through the City, which is the best way to see when the roof, air conditioning, windows or pool cage were last permitted.
Cranbrook is surrounded by the rest of Bonita Bay and the Imperial River: Anchorage on Riverbank Drive immediately to the west, Riverwalk Park and the river along the south side of Thornbury Lane, the two lakes along its north side, the master association office about 0.7 mile 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 Cranbrook 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 24 of the 25 Cranbrook lots are improved, the practical questions for a Cranbrook buyer are what is built on the vacant Lot 8, changes on the Club campuses (the members’ May 2026 clubhouse vote), activity at Riverwalk Park and individual rebuilds on the street, not new subdivisions next door.
Daily life at Cranbrook 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 Cranbrook 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 Cranbrook 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 Thornbury Lane follows the arrangement for the street; confirm it for the specific address when you tour.
Cranbrook 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 Cranbrook owners both metro areas’ shopping, dining, healthcare and the region’s airport without living in either city, and Riverwalk Park and the Imperial River behind the south side 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).
Cranbrook is one of Bonita Bay’s smallest single-family neighborhoods, 24 pool homes and one vacant lot on one street, with a 60-month deed median of $1,322,000, priced in line with its neighbor Anchorage, a step above Riviera, below the larger estate neighborhoods of Woodlake and Creekside and above Bay Harbor.
Bonita Bay’s master association describes residences across condominiums, high-rises, coach homes and single-family neighborhoods. On the 60-month county yardstick in the market section, the single-family neighborhoods we cover line up as Bay Harbor ($969,375 median), Riviera ($1,187,500), Anchorage ($1,300,000), Cranbrook ($1,322,000), Woodlake ($1,750,000) and Creekside ($2,342,500). 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, Cranbrook is the smallest: 24 homes, against 35 in Riviera and 37 in Anchorage.
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 60-month yardstick it recorded 27 deeds at a $1,750,000 median, from $1,212,500 to $5,945,000, at $574 per square foot. A Woodlake buyer pays more at the median for a larger market, more rebuilds and bigger homes; a Cranbrook buyer pays less for a pool home of 2,031 to 3,300 square feet on a 24-home street beside Riverwalk Park.
Riviera is 35 homes on one cul-de-sac, Riviera Lakes Court, built 1990 to 1997, with 14 deeds in 60 months at a $1,187,500 median and $492 per square foot; the three Riviera addresses we measured on November 1, 2026 sit in shaded Zone X rather than Zone AE. 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 24 deeds in 60 months at a $2,342,500 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 22 deeds at a $969,375 median and $452 per square foot. Cranbrook sits above Riviera and Bay Harbor and well below Creekside on price, with the smallest market of any of them.
Cranbrook and Anchorage are neighboring single-family streets on Bonita Bay’s southern edge, built in the same decade, with 60-month county medians $22,000 apart ($1,322,000 and $1,300,000) and per-square-foot medians $2 apart ($516 and $518); the choice comes down to the water behind the house, home size, the size of the street and how often a home comes up.
Anchorage is 37 single-family homes on Riverbank Drive, built 1991 to 1999, from 2,268 to 4,644 heated square feet. By straight line its center is about 0.2 mile west of the center of Cranbrook, and the two share Riverwalk Park and the Imperial River edge. In the 60 months since November 2021 Anchorage recorded 14 qualified deeds at a $1,300,000 median, from $885,000 to $2,250,000, at a median of $518 per heated square foot; Cranbrook recorded 10 at $1,322,000, $1,050,000 to $1,800,000, $516 per heated square foot.
Question | Cranbrook | Anchorage |
|---|---|---|
Homes and street | 24 homes and 1 vacant lot, Thornbury Lane | 37 homes, Riverbank Drive |
Built (county roll) | 1989 to 2000 | 1991 to 1999 |
Heated area (county) | 2,031 to 3,300 sq ft (median 2,402) | 2,268 to 4,644 sq ft (median 2,819) |
Lot size (county parcel layer) | 0.152 to 0.370 acre (median 0.217) | 0.166 to 0.545 acre (median 0.243) |
One story / two story (county cards) | 12 / 12 | 24 / 13 |
Qualified deeds, 60 months since November 2021 | 10 | 14 |
Median deed price | $1,322,000 | $1,300,000 |
Deed range | $1,050,000 to $1,800,000 | $885,000 to $2,250,000 |
Median per heated sq ft | $516 | $518 |
Turnover (deeds per residential lot, 60 months) | 40.0% (10 on 25) | 37.8% (14 on 37) |
Water at the lot (county land class) | 11 lake, 13 none | 9 canal on tidal water, 23 lake, 5 none |
Docks on county records | None | None |
Flood zone at measured addresses (FEMA NFHL, November 1, 2026) | AE, BFE 10 ft, panel 12071C0654G | AE, BFE 10 ft, panel 12071C0654G |
Evacuation zone | A | A |
Associations | Cranbrook neighborhood association plus the master association | Anchorage neighborhood association plus the master association |
Choose Cranbrook if you want the smaller street (24 homes against 37), a home in the 2,000 to 3,300 square foot range at a similar price per square foot, an even choice of one-story and two-story plans, or the south-side lots that sit closest to Riverwalk Park’s courts, ramp and kayak launch. Choose Anchorage if you want tidal water behind the house (nine canal-class lots there, none in Cranbrook), a larger home (Anchorage’s roll runs to 4,644 square feet against Cranbrook’s 3,300), more one-story choices (24 against 12) or simply more homes to choose from. Flood exposure does not separate them: every parcel we measured on both streets is Zone AE at a 10-foot base flood elevation, so the elevation certificate of the specific house decides the flood premium. In both, the house decides the price more than the street does, so compare the specific deeds that match your size, water and condition.
Cranbrook’s strengths are documented ones (detached pool homes on fee-simple lots, lake frontage on 11 lots, Riverwalk Park beside the south side, a 50/50 mix of one-story and two-story plans, the full Bonita Bay master amenities) and so are its limitations (Zone AE at 10 feet, Evacuation Zone A, no golf frontage and no county-recorded docks, a very thin resale market, unpublished fees and homes from 1989 to 2000).
If you’re searching for a Cranbrook listing agent, or thinking, ‘I need someone to sell my Cranbrook home…’, start with the record: 10 qualified Cranbrook deeds in 60 months at a $1,322,000 median, from $1,050,000 to $1,800,000, and one MLS closing in the last 12 months at 96.5% of list. McGreevy and Comisar price, prepare and market Cranbrook homes from that record, not from a Bonita Bay average.
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In the last 12 months we tracked one qualified Cranbrook deed in the Lee County record: 3490 Thornbury Lane at $1,224,000 on January 30, 2026. Over 60 months the record shows 10 sales at a $1,322,000 median and $13,315,000 in volume. The Southwest Florida MLS, pulled September 30, 2026, shows that one closing at 96.5% of its list price after 39 days on market; no Cranbrook home was listed or pending on the pull date.
Four things. First, scarcity cuts both ways: with no Cranbrook home on the market for long stretches, the right buyer may be waiting, but there is also no fresh comparable, so the price has to be built from the 60-month deeds, the county’s values for all 24 homes and the condition of your house. 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 the lake, the park, golf views, flood, insurance and fees on the first call, and we answer with documents.
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Price a Cranbrook home from the deeds that match its water class, size, story count and condition, not from the street median. On the county record the 60-month median is $1,322,000, but the same lake house at 3520 recorded $1,275,000 in May 2024 and $1,050,000 in May 2025. We adjust from the closest matches for lake or park side, lot, pool, roof age and renovation, then test the price against Anchorage and Riviera listings on the day you list.
The one Cranbrook closing in the Southwest Florida MLS, pulled September 30, 2026, took 39 days on market and sold at 96.5% of its list price. One sale is not a pattern; on a 24-home street the time to sell depends mostly on the first price and the condition, and the deed record shows Cranbrook homes are bought in every season.
A Cranbrook 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 vehicles. 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 Cranbrook 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 Cranbrook 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 Cranbrook sale itself never requires a Club membership on either side.
Cranbrook’s long-run value rests on Bonita Bay’s fixed supply, its master-association amenities, its lakes and park and its location between Naples and Fort Myers; the recorded deeds show that Cranbrook prices rise and fall with the wider market, from first home sales near $308,000 in 1990 to $1,800,000 in 2024 and a $1,322,000 median over the last 60 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 street built from 1989 to 2000 looking cared for in 2026.
Bonita Bay is built out, and Cranbrook has 25 residential lots, 24 with homes and one vacant. New supply in the region comes from new communities outside the gates, not from more homes on Thornbury Lane. That does not guarantee appreciation (the county record shows three Cranbrook resales below their earlier deeds since 2023), but it means every Cranbrook buyer competes for one of a fixed 25, and only 11 of them on a lake.
For a buyer who wants a detached pool home inside Bonita Bay’s gates beside Riverwalk Park, Cranbrook is one of the most direct ways in at a 60-month median of $1,322,000. The trade is flood exposure, insuring the whole house, homes that are 26 to 37 years old and a resale market that moves very rarely.
Bonita Springs is the incorporated city that governs Cranbrook’s permits, zoning, flood program and city taxes; its CRS Class 5 rating lowers NFIP premiums, and its location puts Thornbury Lane 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.
Cranbrook 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 3.6 miles from Thornbury Lane by straight line. For this Cranbrook guide we read the county’s water coding, the master Declaration, all 24 county home cards and every qualified Cranbrook deed of the last five years in the Lee County record before writing a word.
McGreevy and Comisar are the Domain Realty team behind this Cranbrook 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 Cranbrook deeds recorded since November 2021 for this update, we read every one of the 24 Cranbrook home cards to count the pools, stories and water classes, we measured each lot’s distance to the lakes, Riverwalk Park and the nearest golf course on the county map, and we measured the flood zone at six Cranbrook parcels ourselves rather than repeating a map summary.
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Cranbrook is a street where specifics decide the price: lake lot, park side or neither, one story or two, lot size, the age of the roof and the windows, the condition of the cladding the county codes as siding, the pool and its cage, and whether the kitchen and baths have been redone since the house was built. With one closing a year, a Cranbrook price cannot lean on last month’s sale, and buyers moving from out of state often decide from photos, video and documents before they visit, so the listing has to explain the lake or the park, the absence of golf frontage, 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 Cranbrook 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 an addition, a boat or a rental. There is no obligation and no cost for an initial conversation.
The questions below are the ones Cranbrook 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.
Cranbrook at Bonita Bay is a neighborhood of 24 detached single-family homes and one vacant lot on Thornbury Lane, on the southern edge of the Bonita Bay master-planned community in Bonita Springs, Florida. The homes were built from 1989 to 2000 on lots in one recorded plat, and all 24 county cards record a private pool.
Cranbrook homes are detached single-family homes on their own platted, fee-simple lots. Every one of the 24 carries the county’s single-family use code, and no condominium declaration appears in any Cranbrook legal description, so an owner owns the house and the land under it.
Cranbrook is on Bonita Bay’s southern edge, along Thornbury Lane beside Riverwalk Park and next to Anchorage. By straight line from the center of the neighborhood, the master association office is about 0.7 mile northeast, the Bonita Bay Marina about 0.8 mile west and the Bonita Bay Club address about 0.9 mile north.
Cranbrook has 24 homes and one vacant lot. The Lee County roll counts 29 parcels in the Cranbrook plat: 24 single-family homes, Lot 8 coded vacant residential, and four common tracts (the road and right-of-way, the Lot 11 buffer, the submerged Tract D and the Tract E buffer).
The county roll dates Cranbrook homes from 1989 to 2000: one in 1989, seven in 1990, seven in 1991, one in 1992, one in 1994, two in 1995, one each in 1996 and 1997, two in 1999 and one in 2000. Several have been renovated since; the City permit history by address shows what was replaced and when.
Cranbrook homes run from 2,031 to 3,300 heated square feet on the county roll, with a median of 2,402. Lots run from 0.152 to 0.370 acre, a median of 0.217 acre, on Lee County’s parcel layer.
Most Cranbrook homes have three bedrooms: the county roll records 14 three-bedroom homes, five with four bedrooms and five with two. The two-bedroom homes are one-story houses on the south side of about 2,050 to 2,080 heated square feet. MLS listings may count a bedroom or den the roll does not.
Both, in equal numbers. The county field cards record 12 one-story homes and 12 two-story homes, so a buyer who wants single-level living has half the street to watch, and most of the two-bedroom one-story homes are on the south side near Riverwalk Park.
Yes, every one. A residential pool appears on all 24 Cranbrook field cards at the Lee County Property Appraiser, several with a pool heater, and 23 of the cards carry a screen enclosure subarea.
Not from a golf course lot. On Lee County’s parcel layer the nearest Bonita Bay Club course parcel, the Marsh course, is about 1,670 feet from the closest Cranbrook lot, and no Cranbrook lot adjoins a fairway. Eleven lots are coded lake frontage and eight south-side lots back toward Riverwalk Park.
Cranbrook is near the Imperial River but not on it. The eight south-side lots back toward Riverwalk Park, whose parcel is about 60 to 96 feet away, and the river’s mapped edge is about 150 to 240 feet from those lots. No Cranbrook lot carries a river or canal water class.
No Lee County record we read shows one. None of the 24 Cranbrook 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.
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, beside the street, offers a boat ramp and kayak storage. Whether a boat or trailer may stay at the house is set by the association rules.
A Cranbrook home comes with its own pool on every county card, plus the master association’s 12 miles of paths, three waterside parks including Riverwalk Park beside the street, gated entry, Community Patrol and the Private Beach. The Bonita Bay Club and the marina are optional and separately paid.
Yes. Cranbrook 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.
Cranbrook owners pay the Bonita Bay Community Association master assessment and the Cranbrook 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 a Cranbrook 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 Cranbrook, so buyers of any age can purchase a home there. Confirm in the neighborhood documents delivered with the sale.
Yes, subject to the Cranbrook 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 Cranbrook rental listings in the prior 12 months, so there is no recent asking-rent data for the street.
Pet rules come from the Cranbrook neighborhood documents and the master association’s rules, not from the master Declaration, which contains no pet provision. We found no published Cranbrook 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 Cranbrook 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 near the Imperial River. The City’s CRS Class 5 rating gives NFIP policies a 25% discount, and the elevation certificate drives the premium.
Cranbrook 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 Cranbrook 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 a Cranbrook 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 Cranbrook 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 Cranbrook 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 $1,322,000 for the 10 Cranbrook sales in the 60 months since November 2021, from $1,050,000 to $1,800,000. The Southwest Florida MLS, pulled September 30, 2026, shows one closing in 12 months, at $1,224,000, which is a single sale and not a median.
The one Cranbrook closing in the Southwest Florida MLS, pulled September 30, 2026, sold in 39 days at 96.5% of its list price. With one sale a year, the better question is how often a home comes up: 10 qualified deeds in 60 months on 25 lots.
On the September 30, 2026 MLS pull, no Cranbrook home was listed for sale and none was pending. Our Domain Realty Group team keeps the current list on its own site, and a buyer who wants Cranbrook should be ready before a home appears.
The Cranbrook neighborhood association, which holds the road and Lot 11 tracts on the county roll, 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.
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 Thornbury Lane address’s zones with the School District of Lee County.
On the same 60-month county yardstick, Cranbrook recorded 10 deeds at a $1,322,000 median and $516 per square foot; Anchorage, next door, recorded 14 at $1,300,000 and $518. Both measure Zone AE at 10 feet. Anchorage has larger homes and tidal canal lots; Cranbrook is the smaller street, with lake and park-side lots.
These are the questions Cranbrook sellers ask us before they list, answered from the Lee County deed record, the 24 Cranbrook 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 Cranbrook at Bonita Bay and names the document that settles the question.
Your Cranbrook home is worth what the closest matching deeds support, adjusted for its lake or park-side lot, size, story count and condition. The Lee County record shows 10 qualified Cranbrook sales in the 60 months since November 2021 at a $1,322,000 median, from $1,050,000 to $1,800,000, at a median of $516 per heated square foot. Lake-class homes recorded $1,050,000 to $1,800,000 in that window, and homes without a water class $1,075,000 to $1,369,000. A valuation starts from the two or three deeds most like your house.
The best Cranbrook listing agent prices from the Cranbrook deed record, explains the lake, park 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 Cranbrook deed of the last five years and all 24 county home cards. Compare agents on the public record with our Bonita Springs agent comparison before you choose.
One. The Southwest Florida MLS, pulled September 30, 2026, shows one Cranbrook closing in the 12 months to that date, and the Lee County record shows the same qualified deed: 3490 Thornbury Lane at $1,224,000 on January 30, 2026. Over 60 months the county records 10 qualified sales on the 25 residential lots, so roughly two a year is the long-run pace on this street, and a year with one sale is within that pattern.
Cranbrook homes recorded a median deed price of $1,322,000 over the 60 months since November 2021, from $1,050,000 to $1,800,000, in the Lee County Property Appraiser’s qualified-sale file. Cranbrook needs a five-year window because a shorter one holds too few sales: 12 months holds one and 36 months seven. The Southwest Florida MLS, pulled September 30, 2026, shows a single closing at $1,224,000, which describes one house rather than a typical price.
The one Cranbrook closing in the Southwest Florida MLS pull of September 30, 2026 sold after 39 days on market, at 96.5% of its $1,269,000 list price. One sale is not a pattern, so plan the timeline around price and preparation: a Cranbrook home priced against the matching deeds and the neighboring Anchorage sales, with the documents ready at listing, gives the buyers who are waiting for this street a reason to act.
The only Cranbrook closing in the Southwest Florida MLS pull of September 30, 2026 sold at 96.5% of its list price, $1,224,000 against $1,269,000. One ratio is a data point, not an expectation. A seller who prices at the matching Cranbrook and Anchorage deeds should expect to negotiate within a few percent; one who prices well above them should expect a longer wait and a larger reduction.
On the county’s own valuation, yes: the 11 lake-class Cranbrook homes carry a 2025 median just value of $1,172,451, against $920,781 for the 13 homes without a water class. On deeds the lake-class median over 60 months is $1,450,000 against $1,224,000, but the groups hold six and three sales and the same lake house at 3520 recorded $1,275,000 and $1,050,000. A lake behind the lanai is a real premium; condition can outweigh it.
Only with care. On Lee County’s parcel layer no Cranbrook lot adjoins a golf course: the nearest Bonita Bay Club course parcel, the Marsh course, is about 1,670 feet from the closest Cranbrook lot. A buyer’s agent who checks the county map will see that. Describe what is actually behind the house, the lake, Riverwalk Park or a garden setting, and let the photographs show the view. Accurate words keep a contract together.
Describe it the way the county records it. The Property Appraiser codes 11 Cranbrook lots as lake frontage and 13 with no water class; the eight south-side lots from 3451 to 3521 back toward Riverwalk Park, about 60 to 96 feet away on the county map, with the Imperial River’s edge about 150 to 240 feet beyond. Calling a park-side lot “on the river” invites a buyer’s appraiser and attorney to correct you late in the deal.
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. Your buyer will also expect estoppel certificates from the Cranbrook 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 on your Cranbrook home 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. A Cranbrook sale needs two, one from the Cranbrook 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 Cranbrook 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 Cranbrook 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 a Cranbrook 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 Cranbrook open house on Thornbury Lane 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 for your Cranbrook home 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 anyway.
Present it with documents. Every Cranbrook 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 Cranbrook 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, a tired pool cage and worn exterior cladding or sealants, since the county codes Cranbrook’s walls as siding. On 1989 to 2000 houses those items drive the windstorm quote and the inspection report. A permitted roof and a clean wind mitigation report usually do more for a Cranbrook 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 a Cranbrook 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 Thornbury Lane: the lanai, the pool and the view to the lake or toward Riverwalk Park. Clear the pool deck, trim the landscaping at the lake edge, and photograph the view at the right time of day. Inside, show the plan clearly, especially in the one-story homes where buyers judge flow. Professional photography and video matter because many Cranbrook buyers decide before they fly in.
The Cranbrook deed record over 60 months shows sales recorded in January, February, April, May, June, August, September and November, so buyers act in every season. Many Bonita Bay buyers tour in winter, which makes a listing ready by late fall well placed, but on a street where a home comes up about twice a year, being the right house on the market matters more than the month.
A Cranbrook 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 two 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 Cranbrook neighborhood documents set still apply. The Southwest Florida MLS pull of September 30, 2026 showed no Cranbrook 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 Cranbrook 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 Cranbrook, but they will need flood insurance because every parcel we measured is Zone AE, and a windstorm policy their lender accepts on a house built from 1989 to 2000. 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 no Cranbrook home listed on the September 30, 2026 pull, a new Cranbrook listing competes mostly with other Bonita Bay single-family homes near its price, especially Anchorage next door (60-month median $1,300,000) and Riviera ($1,187,500). It stands out with its lake or park-side lot stated plainly, a pool and cage in good order, a recent roof and the documents ready, priced against the matching deeds.
Compare on the same yardstick. In the 60 months since November 2021, Cranbrook recorded 10 deeds at a $1,322,000 median and $516 per heated square foot, Anchorage 14 at $1,300,000 and $518, and Riviera 14 at $1,187,500 and $492. Anchorage measures Zone AE like Cranbrook and offers tidal canal lots; Riviera’s measured addresses are shaded Zone X. Buyers weigh those differences, so your price should too.
The county cards record 12 one-story and 12 two-story Cranbrook homes. In the 60-month deed record eight of the nine sales of standing homes were two-story houses, so a one-story listing has fewer recent comparables on the street and is priced partly from the one-story sale at 3511 ($1,075,000, November 2023) and from neighboring streets. We say plainly which deeds support the price.
Gather the survey, the elevation certificate, the wind mitigation and four-point reports, permits for the roof, windows, air conditioning, cladding and pool cage, the flood and windstorm policy declarations, any claim history, the Cranbrook neighborhood association’s contact for estoppel requests and your Club membership status. On a 24-home street where buyers compare county cards, a complete file at listing answers questions before they become negotiation points.
On a Cranbrook home built from 1989 to 2000, inspections commonly flag roof age, original windows, air-conditioning age, pool equipment, exterior cladding 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 Cranbrook record is mixed and thin. Over the longer run prices rose sharply: 3440 went from $670,000 in 2019 to $1,500,000 in 2024. More recently the three homes that sold twice since 2022 each recorded less the second time, such as 3470 at $1,800,000 in 2024 and $1,500,000 in 2025. With 10 deeds in 60 months, condition and lot now separate Cranbrook prices more than any street-wide trend does.
Assessments are settled from the two 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 Cranbrook 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, 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. On a street where buyers often purchase from out of state, a furnished Cranbrook sale can be attractive, but price the house on the matching deeds and treat the furnishings as a convenience, not as value.
Sell a Cranbrook lot on land value and buildability. Lot 8 recorded $1,122,000 in February 2023 with a house on it and now carries a land-only 2025 just value of $612,521. A buyer will want the survey, the plat restrictions, master Design Review requirements, Zone AE elevation rules for new construction and City permitting steps. We market a lot to builders and buyers planning a new home, with those documents ready.
Every Cranbrook 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 a Cranbrook 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 Thornbury Lane and Thornbury Court to Cranbrook | |
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 Thornbury Lane to Riverwalk Park, the other parks and the Club | |
Neighborhoods map | Bonita Bay Community Association | Current posting | Where Cranbrook 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 Cranbrook 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 beside Thornbury Lane 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 Cranbrook plat (Plat Book 42, Pages 77 to 79), 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 Cranbrook 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 Cranbrook. 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.
