Oak Knoll is 33 homesites on one street, Oak Knoll Drive, in Bonita Bay, Bonita Springs, each backing onto the Imperial River or a lake, with 3 recorded home sales in 60 months from $2,150,000 to $5,050,000. Sell or buy with McGreevy and Comisar.
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The Lee County qualified-deed record shows 3 Oak Knoll home sales in the 60 months since November 2021: $2,515,000, $5,050,000 and $2,150,000, the newest recorded on January 16, 2026. Three sales is far too few for a median to describe the street, so this guide lists every one of them with the age and size of the house that sold, and the land transfers around them. The Southwest Florida MLS, pulled September 30, 2026, counted one Oak Knoll closing in the 12 months to that date and no Oak Knoll home listed for sale on the pull date. If you are choosing an agent to sell or buy here, our comparison of the best real estate agents in Bonita Springs shows how local agents stack up on the public record.
This guide is built from the Lee County Property Appraiser parcel roll, the 33 Oak Knoll field cards and the cards for the plat’s two common tracts (all generated November 3, 2026), its qualified-sale file, Lee County’s parcel and hydrography map layers, the Bonita Bay Community Association’s public pages, FEMA’s National Flood Hazard Layer at every lot, 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 Oak Knoll for a specific reason. Thirty-three lots on one street do not price themselves, and they rarely trade as finished homes: three qualified home deeds in five years, at $2,150,000, $2,515,000 and $5,050,000, or $548 to $1,067 per heated square foot. The spread follows the house and the water: the top deed is a 2017 house on a lake lot, the lowest is a 1993 river house of 3,129 heated square feet, and the county now carries that river lot as vacant land. Around those three deeds sit land trades that matter as much as the house sales: lots that recorded improved deeds before the county dated a new house on them in 2017, 2023 and 2025. A listing agent who prices an Oak Knoll home from a Bonita Bay average, or from a median of three, can miss by a million dollars in either direction.
Recent Oak Knoll track record (last 12 months): In the 12 months to September 30, 2026 the Lee County record holds one qualified Oak Knoll deed: 27351 Oak Knoll Drive at $2,150,000 on January 16, 2026. The Southwest Florida MLS, pulled September 30, 2026, shows the same closing at $2,150,000 against a $2,400,000 asking price (89.6% of list) after 47 days on market, and no Oak Knoll home listed for sale on the pull date. We will walk you through that sale, the two before it and every land transfer of the last five years.
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Oak Knoll at Bonita Bay, section by section. Each link below jumps to its part of this guide, from all three county home deeds of the last 60 months and the land transfers around them to the 33 lots of Bonita Bay Unit 15, the river and lake behind every lot, the docks and lifts, the flood zone at every lot, the comparison with Deerwood, the seller section and the sources behind every figure.
Living in Oak Knoll at Bonita Bay means a detached pool home of about 3,200 to 5,700 heated square feet, with one much larger, on a lot of about half an acre to an acre and a quarter, on one street of 33 homesites in the southwestern part of Bonita Bay, with the Imperial River or a lake behind every lot and the whole Bonita Bay setting of paths, parks and the Private Beach through the master association.
Every Oak Knoll home carries an Oak Knoll Drive address, and every Oak Knoll Drive address on the Lee County roll is an Oak Knoll homesite: the 33 parcels addressed on the street are the 33 lots of Bonita Bay Unit 15, and Unit 15 holds no other street. The plat’s common land sits in two master association parcels the roll lists as buffer acreage: Tracts A, B and E (about 19.1 acres) and Tracts C and D (about 6.3 acres), and the second of them meets the Bonita Bay Boulevard right of way on the county map. By our straight-line measurement from the center of the neighborhood, the Bonita Bay Club address on Country Club Drive is about 1.1 miles to the northeast, the master association’s office at 3451 Bonita Bay Boulevard about 1.1 miles to the east-northeast and the shops and restaurants of the Promenade at Bonita Bay about 1.15 miles to the northeast.
One street, one plat, 33 lots. Bonita Bay Unit 15 was recorded at Plat Book 49, Pages 25 to 30 (the lots on Pages 27 to 30), and every one of its 33 lots is addressed on Oak Knoll Drive. The odd-numbered side holds Lots 1 to 17, from 27201 (Lot 1) to 27391 (Lot 17), with Lots 7 to 17 on the river; the even-numbered side and the west end hold Lots 18 to 33, from 27390 (Lot 18) back to 27150 (Lot 33). One lot line has moved since the plat: a 1998 instrument (Official Records Book 3043, Page 1272) added a sliver of the master association’s tract to Lot 18, so the legal for 27390 reads “Lot 18 + OR 3043 PG 1272” and the tract parcel reads “less” the same instrument. The county legal names the plat only as “Bonita Bay Unit 15”, never Oak Knoll, so a county search by the name alone finds nothing; the street does.
The Property Appraiser codes every built Oak Knoll lot with the single-family use code, records one living unit per building on every house card, and places the homes in two sub-areas of the appraisal neighborhood it names “Bonita Bay single-family sub + vacant land”: the 11 river parcels in one and the 22 lake parcels in the other. The parcel layer carries the lots inside the City of Bonita Springs, in a planned development.
Oak Knoll is not a 33-house street, whatever older descriptions say: the certified roll counts 32 houses and 1 vacant lot, and the current working cards count 31 houses and 2 vacant lots. It is not a golf course neighborhood: on the county map no Oak Knoll lot touches a golf course, and the nearest Bonita Bay Club golf parcel lies about 1,610 feet from the nearest lot, even though the county’s land class for one lot (27221) reads “golf”. It is not a condominium or villa street, and not every lot is a boating lot: the 22 lake lots have no dock or pier on their cards, and the river cards carry what each owner built, lot by lot. Finally, Oak Knoll at Bonita Bay has no tie to the other places in Florida and beyond named Oak Knoll; search by the street address to stay on the right one.
The lots sold vacant first. On the county sale file the Unit 15 lots carry qualified vacant-land deeds from March 1992 to June 1999, at $185,000 to $480,000, and the houses went up one at a time: one in 1992, seven in 1993, six in 1994, four in 1995, one in 1996, four in 1997, two in 1998, two in 2000 and one in 2002 on the roll. The later years tell two different stories. 27281 carries only vacant-land deeds on file, in 2001, 2005 and 2007, before the house the roll dates to 2013. The other three late houses replaced earlier ones: 27221 recorded an improved deed in 1998 before the house of 2017, 27310 recorded improved deeds in 2008 and 2020 before the house of 2023, and 27350 recorded improved deeds in 2015 and 2017 and then vacant-land deeds in 2020 and 2021 before the house of 2025. Two lots stand vacant on the current cards: 27311, which recorded an improved deed in 1997, and 27351, which the roll still dated to 1993 before its 2026 sale. That makes Oak Knoll a street of mostly 1990s houses, most of them now 28 to 34 years old, with a new generation going up beside them.
Measured edge to edge on Lee County’s parcel and hydrography layers, every Oak Knoll lot backs onto water. Ten lots on the south and east side of the street, 27281 to 27381, sit within about 9 feet of the water body the county names the Imperial River, and 27391 at the end sits on a small tidal inlet beside it. Six lots on the north side, 27201 to 27261, face a lake of about 14.7 acres across a strip of master association land, the mapped water 2 to 24 feet from their lot lines, and the 16 lots of the even side and the west end ring a lake of about 4.6 acres, its mapped edge within about 14 feet of each lot. The county’s land classes agree closely: 9 houses classed “single family, river”, 21 “single family, lake”, 1 “single family, golf” (27221, which we measured on the lake) and the 2 vacant lots on the river. Bonita Bay itself 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).
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Data updated: November 2026. Oak Knoll at Bonita Bay recorded 3 qualified home sales in the 60 months since November 2021, at $2,150,000, $2,515,000 and $5,050,000, in the Lee County Property Appraiser recorded sales, through September 2026. The newest Oak Knoll sale in that index is January 16, 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 pending sales, 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. Three sales in five years on a 33-lot street is a very small sample, far fewer than ten, so we list every sale rather than lean on a median, and we say so wherever a figure leans on it.
A 12-month window, since November 2025, holds one qualified Oak Knoll home sale; the 24 and 36-month windows hold two each, and the 48 and 60-month windows, since November 2022 and November 2021, three. We use the 60-month window and list every sale in it. The county’s summary for all recorded history, 86 qualified deeds back to the first lot sales of 1992, mixes vacant lots with houses and nominal transfers, is not a current price and we do not present it as one.
| Recorded | Address | Lot (plat) | Water (county class) | Built | Heated sq ft | Deed price | Per heated sq ft |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 30, 2023 | 27190 Oak Knoll Dr | Lot 29 | Lake | 1995 | 4,585 | $2,515,000 | $549 |
| March 3, 2025 | 27221 Oak Knoll Dr | Lot 3 | Lake (county class “golf”) | 2017 | 4,731 | $5,050,000 | $1,067 |
| January 16, 2026 | 27351 Oak Knoll Dr | Lot 13 | River | 1993 | 3,129 | $2,150,000 | $687 |
The three deeds total $9,715,000. Sorted, the prices run $2,150,000, $2,515,000 and $5,050,000, so the middle value, $2,515,000, is the median, and the per-square-foot values sort to $548.5, $687.1 and $1,067.4, a middle value of $687 per county heated square foot. With three deeds those middle values are simply the second of three sales; they are not a price level for the street, and the next deed can move either one by hundreds of thousands of dollars. The three deeds cover three different homes, about one lot in eleven. The heated area for 27351 is the figure the 2025 certified roll carried for the 1993 house that sold; the county’s current working card for that lot shows no building.
One qualified Oak Knoll home deed was recorded in the 12 months to September 30, 2026. 27351 Oak Knoll Drive recorded $2,150,000 on January 16, 2026 (Lee County Instrument 2026000015087): on the 2025 roll a house built in 1993 of 3,129 county heated square feet, three bedrooms and four baths, on a 0.531-acre river lot whose card records a wooden boat dock, a residential pier and a riprap seawall, all dated 1992. Six months later the county’s current working card, generated November 3, 2026, codes the lot “vacant residential” and lists no building, only the dock, the pier and the seawall. The deed and the card do not say what the buyer planned for the lot, and we do not guess.
The Southwest Florida MLS, pulled September 30, 2026, counted one Oak Knoll closing in the 12 months to that date: 27351 Oak Knoll Drive, listed at $2,400,000 and sold for $2,150,000 on January 16, 2026 after 47 days on market, 89.6% of the asking price, with 3,129 MLS living square feet, three bedrooms plus a den and four full baths and one half bath, $687 per MLS living square foot. On the pull date no Oak Knoll home was listed for sale and none was pending. The same pull’s 12-month rental search returned no leased Oak Knoll record. One closing is a count, not a trend, and the listing picture may have changed since the pull date.
On the one recent sale both records hold, they agree: the MLS reports $2,150,000 on January 16, 2026 for 3,129 living square feet, and the deed and the roll carry the same price, date and heated area. This page uses the deed price and date and the county heated area for every figure in the county tables, and names the MLS figure, Southwest Florida MLS, pulled September 30, 2026, once, here. The county records the deed consideration and its own measured heated area; the MLS records the reported closing price and the listing’s living area. Neither is averaged with the other.
Three more Oak Knoll lots changed hands as land, or as houses about to be replaced, in the years around the window, and the deed record describes each one plainly:
| Lot | What the deed record shows | What the county shows now |
|---|---|---|
| 27311 Oak Knoll Dr (Lot 10, river) | Vacant-land deed of $345,000 in March 1992; qualified improved deed of $1,725,000 on July 30, 1997; improved deed of $2,500,000 on May 17, 2024 (Instrument 2024000142837), which the Property Appraiser did not qualify as a market sale | Vacant residential on the certified roll and the current card; the card lists a riprap seawall (1994), a residential pier and a boat lift (1995) and no building |
| 27350 Oak Knoll Dr (Lot 21, lake) | Qualified improved deed of $1,350,000 in May 2015; improved deed of $1,410,000 in November 2017, not qualified; qualified vacant-land deeds of $1,300,000 on October 14, 2020 and $1,575,000 on October 20, 2021 | A two-story house the roll dates to 2025, with an elevator, a pool and a spa on its card; no heated area on the roll yet |
| 27310 Oak Knoll Dr (Lot 24, lake) | Qualified improved deeds of $820,000 in April 2008 and $1,150,000 on December 3, 2020 | A one-story house the roll dates to 2023, with a pool and spa on its card, 4,665 heated square feet |
None of these is in the 60-month home-sale table. The 2024 deed at 27311 is unqualified, and the two vacant-land deeds at 27350 and the 2020 deed at 27310 fall before November 3, 2021 or are land sales. They matter to a seller for a different reason: they show buyers paying $1,150,000 to $2,500,000 for an Oak Knoll lot with an older house on it or no house at all, and then building. We report what the deeds record and do not call any of them a teardown price; the deed does not say what stood on the lot on the day of sale beyond the county’s improved or vacant code.
The three deeds span $2,900,000, and in Oak Knoll the record points to three causes. The age of the house: the top deed, $5,050,000 at 27221, is a house the roll dates to 2017, the second-newest on the street when it sold, while the two lower deeds are original houses of 1993 and 1995. The water: 27351 sits on the Imperial River with a dock and pier on its card, and 27190 and 27221 back onto the lakes; on the county’s land values a river lot carries about 1.8 times the land value of a lake lot (medians of $760,665 and $419,754 in 2025). Size: 27351 is the smallest house on the roll, 3,129 square feet, and the two larger deeds are houses of 4,585 and 4,731. The deed record does not say what was inside any house; renovation, finishes and condition are the likely remaining variables, and only the listing, the disclosures and a showing establish them. The county’s 2025 just values, which cover all 33 parcels rather than the three that sold, run from $627,421 (27311, the vacant lot) to $4,433,842 (27281), a median of $2,324,685 and a total of $79,402,567.
No Oak Knoll house recorded two qualified deeds inside the window. Longer pairs show the direction of three decades. 27190 Oak Knoll Drive went from a $225,000 vacant lot in August 1992 to $1,000,000 in January 1998, $1,412,500 in May 2015 and $2,515,000 in October 2023. 27351 went from a $365,000 vacant lot in March 1992 to $2,150,000 in January 2026. 27221 recorded $1,000,000 as an improved lot in March 1998, and after the house the roll dates to 2017, $5,050,000 in March 2025. The deeds do not say whether any house was improved between sales, so we read them as data points, not as a rate for the neighborhood.
The county record shows how far Oak Knoll prices moved before this window. The qualified vacant-lot deeds of 1992 to 1999 ran from $185,000 to $480,000. The qualified house deeds of the 1990s ran from $1,000,000 (27190 and 27221, both in early 1998) to $1,725,000 (27311, July 1997), the first of them $1,015,000 at 27340 in December 1994. From 2000 to 2005 the qualified house deeds ran from $890,000 (27150, December 2000) to $2,350,000 (27220, June 2005); from 2006 to 2009 from $820,000 (27310, April 2008) to $1,950,000 (27390, July 2006); from 2010 to 2016 from $950,000 (27160, March 2011) to $2,180,000 (27371, February 2013); and from 2017 to October 2021 from $1,150,000 (27170 in May 2019 and 27310 in December 2020) to $3,815,000 (27281, the 2013 house, March 2018). Then came the window’s three deeds, from $2,150,000 to $5,050,000, with no qualified Oak Knoll home deed from October 30, 2023 to March 3, 2025. Single handfuls of sales show a level, not a precise rate, and the deed record does not say why a price moved.
The table below runs the same county measure for Bonita Bay single-family neighborhoods nearby and of a similar scale: qualified improved deeds recorded in the 60 months since November 3, 2021, from the same Lee County index (built November 3, 2026), with each neighborhood matched by its streets. Each neighborhood’s own guide may quote a different window; this table keeps one window for all of them. Where a neighborhood has fewer than ten deeds, its median is a midpoint of a few sales, not a price level.
| Neighborhood | Homes | Built | Heated sq ft | Deeds (60 months) | Median | Range | Median per heated sq ft |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spring Ridge (Fawnwood Court, Mandevilla Drive) | 59 | 1996 to 2003 | 3,443 to 11,347 | 12 | $3,800,000 | $2,875,000 to $4,500,000 | $707 |
| Deerwood (Deerwood Court) | 15 | 1995 to 2005 | 3,493 to 7,640 | 6 | $2,839,000 | $1,600,000 to $5,400,000 | $604 |
| Oak Knoll (Oak Knoll Drive) | 32 | 1992 to 2025 | 3,129 to 9,010 | 3 | $2,515,000 | $2,150,000 to $5,050,000 | $687 |
| Coconut Isle (Brick Lane) | 16 | 1998 to 2002 | 2,610 to 4,812 | 8 | $2,100,000 | $1,100,000 to $2,481,250 | $520 |
| The Sanctuary (Sanctuary Way) | 62 | 1990 to 2000 | 2,391 to 5,251 | 10 | $1,940,000 | $1,350,000 to $3,200,000 | $630 |
| Anchorage (Riverbank Drive) | 37 | 1991 to 1999 | 2,268 to 4,644 | 13 | $1,350,000 | $885,000 to $2,250,000 | $551 |
Oak Knoll’s 32 homes in this table are the 32 single-family parcels of the certified roll, and its heated range includes the 1993 house at 27351. Oak Knoll sits below Spring Ridge and Deerwood on the median deed and above Coconut Isle, The Sanctuary and Anchorage, with the second-highest median per square foot of the six. Its nearest neighbors on the map are The Sanctuary, about 0.37 mile to the north, and Deerwood, about 0.44 mile to the north-northwest, and Anchorage, about 0.48 mile to the east on Riverbank Drive. With three deeds, every Oak Knoll figure in this table can move with the next sale.
For a buyer, the record says an Oak Knoll house trades as a finished home less than once a year on average (three qualified home deeds in five years, none from October 2023 to March 2025), that no Oak Knoll home was listed for sale on September 30, 2026, and that several recent buyers bought a lot to build on rather than a finished house. The choice at any moment may be one house or none, and a buyer should be ready when the right one comes up. For a seller, the same record says the street supports prices from about $2,150,000 for an original 1990s house to more than $5,000,000 for a recent house, with the water behind the lot, the dock and lift, the age and size of the house and its floor elevation doing most of the work. With so few sales, the closest matching deeds on nearby streets, the county’s land values for all 33 lots and the condition and updating of the house carry more weight than any Oak Knoll median.
Oak Knoll grew out of the early 1990s phase of the Bonita Bay master plan, as the plat Bonita Bay Unit 15, a 33-lot street on the north bank of the Imperial River in the southwestern part of the community. The lots sold vacant from March 1992, mostly one buyer at a time, and most of the houses were built from 1992 to 1998, with a few later houses and rebuilds since.
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 developer’s successor describes Bonita Bay as opened in 1985, with 2,400 acres, 3,300 permitted units, more than 1,400 acres of open space including 230 acres of lakes, and more than 12 miles of paths; it records that the Club was sold to its members in 2010 and the master association turned over to the residents in 2011 (Phoenix Bay Ventures, Bonita Bay). 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), and Oak Knoll is one of the streets on that southern river edge. The City of Bonita Springs, which incorporated in 1999, now governs the land (City of Bonita Springs, history).
Bonita Bay Unit 15 is recorded at Plat Book 49, Pages 25 to 30, with its 33 lots on Pages 27 to 30. The plat’s common land is two master association parcels on the county roll: Tracts A, B and E, about 19.1 acres, and Tracts C and D, about 6.3 acres, both carried on their cards as buffer acreage at a nominal value and both in the appraisal neighborhood the county uses for master association common land. On the county map the first touches the six north-side lake lots and 27281, the road and common land of Bonita Bay Unit 10 and the common land of Sandpiper next door; the second touches the 16 lots of the even side and the west end and 27391, the Bonita Bay Boulevard right of way of Unit 14 and the road parcel of Unit 18. The first qualified Oak Knoll lot deeds on the county file date from March 1992, so the plat and the street were in place by then.
The county sale file shows the Unit 15 lots selling vacant, mostly one buyer at a time. Seventeen lots recorded qualified vacant-land deeds in 1992 alone, at $185,000 to $370,000: 27150 for $250,000 in March, 27331, 27351 and 27301 for $365,000 each, 27371 for $370,000 in April, and 27160 and 27180 for $185,000. A few lots took longer. 27331 sold vacant again in 1994 for $480,000, the highest qualified lot deed of the period; 27360 sold vacant in 1995 and 1996, 27260 in 1996 and 1997, 27261 in 1998 for $465,000 and 27280 in 1996 and 1999. 27281, the largest lot at 1.279 acres, recorded vacant-land deeds of $1,150,000 in October 2001, $1,250,000 in August 2005 and $1,350,000 in December 2007 before the house the roll dates to 2013. The plat’s common tracts belong to the master association today.
The roll dates the houses one in 1992, seven in 1993, six in 1994, four in 1995, one in 1996, four in 1997, two in 1998, two in 2000 and one in 2002, then one each in 2013, 2017, 2023 and 2025. The cards differ from house to house in size (3,194 to 9,010 heated square feet among the houses standing on the current cards), stories (one, one and a half or two), foundation, walls, roof, ceiling height and the county’s quality grade, which is what a street of individually built houses looks like on the county record. The county assigns the improvement type “S Ranch” to 27 cards, “S Colonial” to 2, “Mediterranean” to the 2025 house and “Ranch” to 1; those are appraisal classes, not architectural descriptions. We do not name builders or architects, because no primary record we read identifies them, and we describe the houses as individually built on lots sold one at a time rather than as custom-designed, which only a permit file would show.
Oak Knoll 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. On the Lee County roll, both Unit 15 tract parcels are owned by the master association, and no Oak Knoll parcel is owned by any other association. A search of the state’s corporate records in June 2026 found no corporation registered under an Oak Knoll at Bonita Bay name, and no record we read on November 3, 2026, county or association, names one. The state’s corporate search refused our automated check on November 3, 2026, so we cite the master association by document number; confirm the current record with the Division of Corporations, and confirm in the estoppel certificate and disclosure documents of a sale whether any neighborhood association or neighborhood assessment applies to a specific Oak Knoll home.
Oak Knoll homes are 31 detached single-family houses on the county’s current working cards, 22 of them one story, almost all of concrete block and stucco under concrete tile roofs, with a residential pool on every house card and a spa on 28, built from 1992 to 2025 on Bonita Bay Unit 15, with 3,129 to 9,010 heated square feet on the roll, a median of 4,585, and three or four bedrooms on 27 of them; 2 lots stand vacant.
The Lee County roll, the parcel layer and the 33 field cards the Property Appraiser published for the street on November 3, 2026 record the following, lot by lot. The built year, heated area and bedroom count come from the 2025 certified roll; the stories come from the current working card. The lake sizes are the county hydrography layer’s areas, about 4.6 and 14.7 acres.
| Address | Plat lot | Water behind the lot | Built (roll) | Stories (card) | Heated sq ft (roll) | Beds / baths (roll) | Lot acres | 2025 just value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27150 Oak Knoll Dr | 33 | 4.6-acre lake | 1992 | 1 | 3,357 | 3 / 3 | 0.582 | $1,773,042 |
| 27160 Oak Knoll Dr | 32 | 4.6-acre lake | 1993 | 1 | 4,918 | 4 / 4 | 0.473 | $2,840,924 |
| 27170 Oak Knoll Dr | 31 | 4.6-acre lake | 1993 | 1 | 3,491 | 4 / 3 | 0.466 | $1,819,448 |
| 27180 Oak Knoll Dr | 30 | 4.6-acre lake | 1998 | 1 | 3,810 | 4 / 5 | 0.441 | $2,170,998 |
| 27190 Oak Knoll Dr | 29 | 4.6-acre lake | 1995 | 1 | 4,585 | 4 / 5 | 0.581 | $2,338,876 |
| 27201 Oak Knoll Dr | 1 | 14.7-acre lake | 1996 | 1.5 | 4,094 | 4 / 4 | 0.607 | $2,384,620 |
| 27211 Oak Knoll Dr | 2 | 14.7-acre lake | 1994 | 2 | 4,909 | 3 / 4 | 0.457 | $2,321,049 |
| 27220 Oak Knoll Dr | 28 | 4.6-acre lake | 1997 | 1 | 4,377 | 4 / 4 | 0.678 | $2,279,466 |
| 27221 Oak Knoll Dr | 3 | 14.7-acre lake | 2017 | 1 | 4,731 | 4 / 4 | 0.483 | $2,778,862 |
| 27231 Oak Knoll Dr | 4 | 14.7-acre lake | 1997 | 1 | 3,764 | 3 / 4 | 0.733 | $2,098,488 |
| 27240 Oak Knoll Dr | 27 | 4.6-acre lake | 1994 | 1 | 4,615 | 3 / 3 | 0.539 | $2,131,591 |
| 27241 Oak Knoll Dr | 5 | 14.7-acre lake | 1997 | 1 | 3,562 | 3 / 3 | 0.551 | $2,108,758 |
| 27260 Oak Knoll Dr | 26 | 4.6-acre lake | 1998 | 1 | 3,728 | 4 / 3 | 0.534 | $2,019,764 |
| 27261 Oak Knoll Dr | 6 | 14.7-acre lake | 2000 | 2 | 4,784 | 4 / 4 | 0.884 | $2,441,600 |
| 27280 Oak Knoll Dr | 25 | 4.6-acre lake | 2000 | 1 | 3,194 | 3 / 3 | 0.672 | $1,535,319 |
| 27281 Oak Knoll Dr | 7 | River | 2013 | 1 | 9,010 | 6 / 7 | 1.279 | $4,433,842 |
| 27291 Oak Knoll Dr | 8 | River | 1993 | 1 | 4,468 | 3 / 3 | 0.657 | $2,504,476 |
| 27301 Oak Knoll Dr | 9 | River | 2002 | 1.5 | 3,702 | 4 / 4 | 0.634 | $2,541,735 |
| 27310 Oak Knoll Dr | 24 | 4.6-acre lake | 2023 | 1 | 4,665 | 5 / 4 | 0.532 | $2,860,826 |
| 27311 Oak Knoll Dr | 10 | River | Vacant lot | None | None | None | 0.633 | $627,421 |
| 27330 Oak Knoll Dr | 23 | 4.6-acre lake | 1995 | 1 | 3,346 | 4 / 3 | 0.472 | $1,883,192 |
| 27331 Oak Knoll Dr | 11 | River | 1995 | 1 | 4,460 | 4 / 3 | 0.542 | $2,689,542 |
| 27340 Oak Knoll Dr | 22 | 4.6-acre lake | 1993 | 1 | 4,802 | 3 / 3 | 0.468 | $2,283,204 |
| 27341 Oak Knoll Dr | 12 | River | 1994 | 2 | 5,096 | 4 / 3 | 0.523 | $2,324,685 |
| 27350 Oak Knoll Dr | 21 | 4.6-acre lake | 2025 | 2 | Not yet on roll | Not yet on roll | 0.486 | $4,056,813 |
| 27351 Oak Knoll Dr | 13 | River | 1993 (no building on current card) | None on current card | 3,129 | 3 / 4 | 0.531 | $1,874,211 |
| 27360 Oak Knoll Dr | 20 | 4.6-acre lake | 1997 | 1 | 5,122 | 4 / 3 | 0.469 | $2,447,720 |
| 27361 Oak Knoll Dr | 14 | River | 1993 | 2 | 5,549 | 6 / 6 | 0.447 | $2,878,699 |
| 27370 Oak Knoll Dr | 19 | 4.6-acre lake | 1994 | 1 | 4,766 | 3 / 3 | 0.598 | $2,295,399 |
| 27371 Oak Knoll Dr | 15 | River | 1994 | 1 | 4,631 | 3 / 3 | 0.555 | $2,535,198 |
| 27381 Oak Knoll Dr | 16 | River | 1993 | 2 | 5,709 | 5 / 6 | 0.636 | $3,555,545 |
| 27390 Oak Knoll Dr | 18 | 4.6-acre lake | 1994 | 2 | 4,715 | 4 / 3 | 0.531 | $2,216,923 |
| 27391 Oak Knoll Dr | 17 | River | 1995 | 1 | 3,948 | 3 / 3 | 0.475 | $2,350,331 |
Bedrooms on the roll: three on 12 homes, four on 15, five on 2 (27310 and 27381) and six on 2 (27281 and 27361). The largest house, 27281 Oak Knoll Drive, records 9,010 heated square feet, built in 2013 on the street’s largest lot, 1.279 acres on the river; the next largest are 27381 (5,709), 27361 (5,549), 27360 (5,122) and 27341 (5,096). Four houses record under 3,500 square feet among those standing on the current cards: 27280 (3,194), 27330 (3,346), 27150 (3,357) and 27170 (3,491); the 3,129-square-foot house the roll carried at 27351 no longer appears on its card. The 2025 house at 27350 has no heated area on the roll yet; its card records two stories, an elevator, a fireplace, a wine room, a pool and a spa.
Thirty of the 31 house cards record concrete block walls with a stucco finish, and one (27340) face brick. All 31 record a concrete tile roof over an irregular roof structure. Twenty-four record a stem-wall foundation and seven, all on the river, a “driven and framed” foundation, the appraiser’s class for a house on driven pilings: 27291, 27301, 27331, 27341, 27371, 27381 and 27391. Ceilings run 11 to 13 feet on 30 cards and 8 to 10 feet on 1 (27381). The floor plan is “split” on 25 cards and “traditional” on 6. Driveways are brick, tile or a similar paver on 30 cards and concrete on 1 (27310). The county grades the construction quality “above average” on 22 cards, “average” on 6 and “excellent” on 3 (27160, 27280 and 27381), and the condition “average” on 30 and “good” on 1 (27361). The improvement type is “S Ranch” on 27 cards, “S Colonial” on 2 (27341 and 27361), “Mediterranean” on 1 (27350) and “Ranch” on 1 (27280); those are county appraisal classes, and the houses themselves are best judged in person.
Twenty-two Oak Knoll houses record one living story on their cards, two record one and a half (27201 and 27301, each with a finished half story) and seven record two stories: 27211, 27261, 27341, 27350, 27361, 27381 and 27390. The upper floors run from 413 square feet (27301) to 1,698 (27281, which records two finished upper areas over a one-story base). Four houses record a finished lower garage under living space: 27261, 27281, 27341 and 27361. One card records an elevator, the 2025 house at 27350. A buyer who wants a house on one floor has most of the street to watch; a buyer who wants the main living level well above the ground should look first at the river cards.
The parcel layer flags a garage on 30 parcels, and every house card with a building sketch records one: finished garages of 638 square feet (27160) to 1,566 square feet (27310), counting lower garages. Every one of the 31 house cards records a residential pool, from 312 to 947 square feet of pool, and 28 a spa; the three without a spa are 27160, 27180 and 27201. The cards’ extra-feature lists record a pool heater or pool heat pump on 25 houses, a disappearing-edge pool on 6, a waterfall pool feature on 5, outdoor kitchens on 17, outdoor showers on 7, fireplaces on 19, generators on 5 (27180, 27201, 27211, 27281 and 27390), additional air-conditioning units on 23, lawn irrigation on 30, pest-control tubes in the walls on 9 and a wine room on 1. Covered outdoor rooms are large: the cards record finished open and screened porches of 422 square feet (27150) to 1,823 square feet (27220), and pool patios of up to about 1,970 square feet.
Twenty-five Oak Knoll houses on the roll were built from 1992 to 1998, three from 2000 to 2002 and four from 2013 to 2025, so most are now 28 to 34 years old. The 27 houses built from 1992 to 2000 predate the Florida Building Code, which took effect statewide in 2002 (Florida Building Commission), so the roof (an original tile roof on a 1990s house would now be about 30 years old, so the roof permit date is the first document to ask for), the pool shell and equipment, the air-conditioning systems, the windows and doors, the electrical panel and the plumbing are the first questions. On a river lot, add the seawall, the pier, the dock and the lift: their cards date most of that work to 1992 to 1999. On opening protection, 16 of the 31 house cards record something: panel or accordion shutters on 5, shutters on part of the house on 4, panel and electric shutters on 3, impact glass with shutters on 3 (27221, 27310 and 27350) and impact glass on 1 (27371); 15 cards record none. A card is a starting point, not an inspection: the wind mitigation report, the permit history and the inspector’s findings settle what a specific house has, including any renovation since it was built.
The Property Appraiser’s 2025 just values for the 33 parcels run from $627,421 (27311, the vacant lot) to $4,433,842 (27281), a median of $2,324,685 and a total of $79,402,567; among the 31 parcels the parcel layer codes single-family, they run from $1,535,319 (27280) to $4,433,842, a median of $2,338,876. Land is valued at $379,565 (27180) to $981,839 (27381) per lot, and the river matters most: the 11 river lots carry a median land value of $760,665 (from $605,787 to $981,839), the 16 lots on the 4.6-acre lake $419,754 and the 6 lots on the 14.7-acre lake $439,850. The five highest just values belong to 27281 (2013), 27350 (2025), 27381, 27361 and 27310 (2023). Just value is a mass-appraisal figure set as of January 1, and it can trail or lead the deed record: the 2025 deed at 27221 ($5,050,000) sits well above that house’s 2025 just value ($2,778,862), and the 2026 deed at 27351 ($2,150,000) above its $1,874,211. A buyer’s tax bill follows the new assessed value after the sale, not the seller’s.
Oak Knoll is 33 privately owned home lots of 0.441 to 1.279 acre, 19.15 acres in all, around one street; the Bonita Bay Community Association owns the plat’s two tract parcels, Tracts A, B and E (about 19.1 acres) and Tracts C and D (about 6.3 acres), on the Lee County parcel layer.
Measured on Lee County’s parcel layer, the Oak Knoll home lots run from 0.441 acre (27180 Oak Knoll Drive) to 1.279 acres (27281 Oak Knoll Drive), a median of 0.539 acre, about 23,500 square feet. Five lots measure 0.67 acre or more: 27281 (1.279), 27261 (0.884), 27231 (0.733), 27220 (0.678) and 27280 (0.672). By water, the 11 river lots run 0.447 to 1.279 acre (median 0.555), the 6 lots on the 14.7-acre lake 0.457 to 0.884 (median 0.579) and the 16 lots on the 4.6-acre lake 0.441 to 0.678 (median 0.532). For comparison, the median lot on Deerwood Court is 0.558 acre and on Fawnwood Court and Mandevilla Drive in Spring Ridge 0.654, while the median lot on Sanctuary Way is 0.256 and on Riverbank Drive in the Anchorage 0.243. “Oversized” is a fair word for Oak Knoll’s lots against Bonita Bay as a whole, and an ordinary one against its estate streets.
On the Lee County parcel layer, the master association owns two parcels for the Unit 15 plat’s common land:
| Parcel | Plat or legal | County land use | Acres (parcel layer) | Land line on the tract card |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tracts A, B and E | Bonita Bay Unit 15, Plat Book 49, Pages 25 to 30, Tracts A, B and E | Buffer, conservation, water retention | 19.15 | Buffer acreage, 18.71 acres |
| Tracts C and D | Bonita Bay Unit 15, Plat Book 49, Pages 25 to 30, Tracts C and D, less Official Records Book 3043, Page 1272 | Buffer, conservation, water retention | 6.30 | Buffer acreage, 6.30 acres |
The two tracts are master association land, and the county carries both at a nominal value with no building on either card. On the county map the first touches the six north-side lake lots, 27281, the road and common land of Bonita Bay Unit 10 and the common land of Sandpiper; the second touches the 16 lots of the even side and the west end, 27391, the Bonita Bay Boulevard right of way and a road parcel of Bonita Bay Unit 18. The county’s hydrography layer places the 14.7-acre lake beside the first and the 4.6-acre lake within the ring of lots on the second.
Oak Knoll Drive is one street of 33 lots. On the county map the odd-numbered lots, 27201 to 27391, run along its north and east side and then its south side, where Lots 7 to 17 back onto the Imperial River; the even-numbered lots, 27390 back to 27220, and the west-end lots, 27190 to 27150, ring the 4.6-acre lake on the inside. Everyone on Oak Knoll Drive is going to one of the 33 lots or the plat’s common land. The road sits within master association land, so it is a private street maintained through the master association, inside Bonita Bay’s gates. We found no record of a separate gate at the entrance to Oak Knoll Drive, and we did not measure the street’s turning geometry, so we do not describe it.
An Oak Knoll owner owns a house and a lot outright. Beyond the back lot line lies, on every lot, water: the river on 11, a lake on 22, often across a strip of master association buffer. The plat and the master Declaration set what an owner may do at the lot line: fences, landscaping, pool enclosures, anything that touches a lake bank and any exterior change go through master association Design Review under §9.2 of the master Declaration, and anything in or over the river also needs the state and federal permits for work in tidal water. On lots of about half an acre, the setbacks and the pool leave more room for additions than on Bonita Bay’s smaller lots, but a rebuild still has to meet today’s flood elevation, so read the recorded plat for the lot you are buying, and ask the title agent for a survey that shows the lot lines, the easements, the water and the mean high water line on a river lot.
On Lee County’s parcel and hydrography layers, 11 Oak Knoll lots back onto the Imperial River or a tidal inlet beside it and 22 onto two Bonita Bay lakes, and no Oak Knoll lot touches a golf course. Ten river parcels record a residential pier or dock on their cards and 8 a boat lift. The nearest Bonita Bay Club golf parcel lies about 1,610 feet from the nearest lot.
On November 3, 2026 we measured the shortest edge-to-edge distance from every Oak Knoll lot outline on Lee County’s parcel layer to the golf course parcels on the same layer, to the county’s mapped water bodies (HydroPoly) and to the master association’s tract parcels nearby. A lot “touches” when its outline meets or comes within 5 meters (about 16 feet) of the other parcel. These are measurements on county map layers, not surveys, and the plat and a survey control any boundary question.
Ten lots on the south and east side of the street, 27281, 27291, 27301, 27311, 27331, 27341, 27351, 27361, 27371 and 27381, lie within about 9 feet of the tidal water body the county’s hydrography layer names the Imperial River, every one of them touching it on our 5-meter test, and 27391, at the end of the street, touches a small tidal inlet of about 0.76 acre beside the river, about 100 feet from the named river polygon. The county classes 9 of the river houses “single family, river” and carries the 2 vacant river lots as vacant residential land. The Imperial River runs west past Bonita Bay to Estero Bay, and the master association frames the community with the river on its southern side (BBCA, vision). The tidal water behind these lots is not a stormwater lake: work at the water’s edge involves the state and federal agencies that permit docks and shoreline work, as well as the master association.
Twenty-two lots back onto lakes. On the north side, 27201, 27211, 27221, 27231, 27241 and 27261 face a lake of about 14.7 acres on the county’s hydrography layer across a strip of master association land, its mapped water edge 2 to 24 feet from each lot line. On the inside of the street, the 16 lots of the even side and the west end, 27150 to 27190 and 27220 to 27390, ring a lake of about 4.6 acres, its mapped edge within about 14 feet of each lot. The county classes 21 of these lots “single family, lake” and 27221 “single family, golf”, although we measured 27221 about 24 feet from the 14.7-acre lake and about 1,830 feet from the nearest golf parcel. The lakes are part of Bonita Bay’s stormwater system, not navigable water.
No Oak Knoll lot touches a golf course parcel. The nearest one on the county layer is the Bonita Bay Club parcel whose county legal description begins “Marsh Golf Course Area 1 + Area 2”, about 1,610 feet from 27201 at its closest and about 2,820 feet from 27381 at its farthest, with other neighborhoods and master association land between. The Club’s courses are a short drive or cart ride away, not a backyard view, so “golf course views” is not a description the county map supports for Oak Knoll. A buyer who wants a golf lot in this price range will find it on other Bonita Bay streets, Deerwood Court among them, and the Club itself is optional and separate.
The field cards record what each river owner built. A residential pier or dock appears on 10 parcels: 27281, 27291, 27301, 27311, 27341, 27351 (a wooden boat dock and a pier), 27361, 27371, 27381 and 27391; 27331 records a riprap seawall but no pier. A boat lift appears on 8: 27281, 27291, 27301, 27311, 27341 (two lifts), 27361, 27371 and 27391 (two lifts). A riprap seawall appears on 7: 27311, 27331, 27341, 27351, 27361, 27371 and 27391, which also records a section of concrete seawall. Most of this work carries card dates from 1992 to 1999, with lifts dated 2013 (27281) and 2019 (27361). A card records that a structure exists; it does not record its condition, its permit or the water depth beside it, so a river buyer should order a marine contractor’s inspection and ask for the permits, and should check the depth at the dock and along the route to Estero Bay against the boat before buying around it. The 22 lake lots record no dock, pier or lift.
Owners who keep a boat without a river lot, or a larger boat than a river dock suits, can use the Bonita Bay Marina, 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).
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). That figure is the marina’s, not a measurement of the river behind any Oak Knoll lot, but it is a fair warning that the river is shallow water. 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 the master association, and a marina slip or rack space is never part of an Oak Knoll home.
An Oak Knoll home comes with its own private pool on every house card, the water behind every lot, a pier or dock on 10 river parcels, and 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.
Oak Knoll has no neighborhood clubhouse or shared pool on the county record: both Unit 15 tract cards record no building, pool or other improvement, and the amenities of the street are the lots themselves, the river or lake behind each one and a street of 33 lots. The pools, spas, lanais, outdoor kitchens, piers, lifts and seawalls recorded on the cards are each owner’s to maintain and insure.
Every Oak Knoll 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). We found no record of a separate Oak Knoll gate. Visitor and vendor access runs through the master 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 at the southern edge, has a boat ramp, kayak launch, bocce and pickleball; on the county roll it is a 3.78-acre master association parcel at 27650 Riverwalk Way. Spring Creek Park, on the northern border, has a kayak and canoe launch dock, a playground, a gazebo and an observation deck. The master association’s maps show where each sits relative to Oak Knoll Drive (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 Oak Knoll owner through the master association, with a resident shuttle; the master association’s facilities map shows the shuttle stops.
The 12 miles of paths (trails map) connect the southwestern side of Bonita Bay, where Oak Knoll sits, to the parks and the Club campuses. By straight line from the center of the street, the Bonita Bay Club address on Country Club Drive is about 1.1 miles, the master association’s office about 1.1 miles and the Promenade at Bonita Bay about 1.15 miles away. The master association lists its grounds and environmental awards, including its Audubon certification, in its 2026 awards summary (BBCA Awards and Recognitions 2026), and its lifestyle page describes community programming (BBCA, style of living).
The Bonita Bay Club is an optional, separately owned, member-owned private club inside Bonita Bay, with five championship golf courses on two campuses, a sports center, a Lifestyle Center and dining. Buying an Oak Knoll home does not make you a Club member and does not require you to join; membership is a separate decision with its own fees, and no Oak Knoll lot touches a Club golf course.
“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 1.1 miles northeast of the center of Oak Knoll, and the nearest Club golf parcel, the Marsh course, lies about 1,610 feet from the nearest Oak Knoll 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).
Bonita Bay Club membership is optional and separate from home ownership. The Club does not publish initiation fees or dues on its public website; the Club’s membership office provides the current schedule. An Oak Knoll owner can skip the Club entirely and use the private pool at home, the water behind the lot and the master association’s paths, parks and Private Beach, or join for golf or racquet sports. Either way, the Club is a cost only if you choose it, and a membership does not transfer with an Oak Knoll deed unless the Club’s own rules say so.
Oak Knoll owners pay the Bonita Bay Community Association master assessment, plus any neighborhood assessment the estoppel certificate names, their own property taxes, insurance and the upkeep of a house, a pool, a lot of about half an acre and, on a river lot, a pier, lift and seawall. The master association does not publish its assessment on a public page, and Bonita Bay has no CDD, so the real numbers come from the estoppel certificate 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 that applies to the home. 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), and Florida law requires an association to issue an estoppel certificate on request within a set time and fee schedule (Section 720.30851, Florida Statutes).
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. In Oak Knoll that includes the plat’s common land: on the county parcel layer the master association owns Tracts A, B and E (about 19.1 acres) and Tracts C and D (about 6.3 acres) of Bonita Bay Unit 15, the buffer land beside the lakes. The dollar amount is not published.
No Oak Knoll parcel is owned by a neighborhood association on the Lee County parcel layer, both Unit 15 tracts belong to the master association, and no state registration under an Oak Knoll at Bonita Bay name turned up in the searches we know of. The public record therefore points to a street governed directly by the master association, but it cannot rule out a voluntary group or a neighborhood budget, and older descriptions that promise “one fee, not two” rest on no primary document we read. The estoppel certificate for the specific home, and the disclosure documents delivered with it, state every association that levies an assessment on that lot. Owners may inspect an association’s budget and official records under Section 720.303 (Section 720.303, Florida Statutes).
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: the 2025 just values of the 31 single-family parcels on the parcel layer run from $1,535,319 to $4,433,842, while the window’s deeds recorded $2,150,000 to $5,050,000, so a new owner’s assessed value can sit well above the seller’s, especially on a house the seller has owned for many years with a homestead cap. Insurance on an Oak Knoll house, its pool, its dock and its contents is the owner’s to carry, with flood a separate policy. Every owner pays electricity to Florida Power and Light and water and sewer to Bonita Springs Utilities (Bonita Springs Utilities).
The recorded 2011 master Declaration contains a buyer-paid resale reserve assessment, and a later master association written statement describes a different formula; no recorded amendment reconciling the two has been located. We therefore do not publish either figure as the current charge. The master association’s estoppel certificate states what is due at an Oak Knoll closing (Section 720.30851, Florida Statutes).
Budget the master assessment, and any neighborhood charge, from the estoppel certificate, a homeowner’s and windstorm quote and a flood quote for the specific address, the property tax on your new assessed value, utilities, and the upkeep of the house, the pool and the lot: lawn and landscape, irrigation, pool service, the screen enclosure and the roof, and on a river lot the seawall, the pier and the lift. On houses built mostly from 1992 to 1998, the roof, the openings, the air-conditioning and the pool shell and equipment drive the cost of ownership, and 15 of the 31 house cards record no opening protection at all. 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 Oak Knoll come from the Bonita Bay Community Association, whose board approved a $500 per unit beach-rebuild assessment on March 20, 2025, due June 30, 2025, and from any other association the estoppel certificate names for the home.
A recap of the master association’s March 20, 2025 special board meeting, posted on March 26, 2025 by the Wild Pines of Bonita Bay association, reports that the board approved a special assessment of $500 per unit for the rebuild of the Private Beach facility, with payment due by June 30, 2025 (Wild Pines of Bonita Bay, recap of the March 20, 2025 meetings). That assessment is past; an Oak Knoll buyer’s title agent confirms on the master estoppel that nothing remains owed on the home being purchased.
Because the master association owns the Unit 15 tracts and the buffer land beside the lakes, the cost of maintaining the lake banks, the buffers and the common land of Oak Knoll falls within the master association’s budget and reserves rather than a neighborhood fund, as far as the public record shows. The river shoreline behind a river lot, its seawall and its dock are the owner’s. Whether the master association, or any other association named in the estoppel certificate, has approved or is considering an assessment is a question for its estoppel certificate, its budget and its board 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.
Oak Knoll is governed by its recorded plat, Bonita Bay Unit 15 at Plat Book 49, Pages 25 to 30, and by the Bonita Bay master Declaration, recorded June 22, 2011 as Lee County Instrument 2011000142834, with the master association’s By-Laws, Rules and Regulations and Design Guidelines, plus any neighborhood restrictions recorded against the Unit 15 lots.
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. Any neighborhood declaration recorded against the Unit 15 plat would appear in the title commitment for the specific lot, and it would govern alongside the master Declaration.
Every Oak Knoll home is a single-family parcel inside the Bonita Bay master association, so the homeowners’ association statute applies. 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).
On a street where most houses are now 28 to 34 years old and four lots have taken new houses since 2013, the exterior changes owners make most often, a new roof, a pool or pool enclosure, impact windows and doors, a generator, a new driveway, landscaping toward a lake, a dock or lift on the river, or a whole new house on a lot of about half an acre, all go to master association Design Review under §9.2 before they go to the City for a permit. A complete teardown and rebuild goes through the same two stages, and the City’s floodplain rules apply to the new house (see the flood section); dock and shoreline work on the river also needs the state and federal permits for tidal water. Begin the approvals before you order materials; Design Review standards may be stricter than the building code.
Oak Knoll 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, the recorded Unit 15 plat and the master association’s public pages set no age restriction, so buyers of any age can purchase an Oak Knoll home.
If an age restriction ever mattered to a purchase or sale, it would have to appear in the recorded documents and meet the federal housing-for-older-persons rules, so confirm it in the documents delivered with the sale rather than relying on marketing. Federal fair housing law protects every buyer regardless of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, familial status or disability (HUD, fair housing).
An Oak Knoll owner can lease the home subject to the Bonita Bay master Declaration, which sets no minimum lease term but binds every tenant to the governing documents, and to any neighborhood restriction recorded against the lot. The Southwest Florida MLS pull of September 30, 2026 showed no leased Oak Knoll record in the prior 12 months.
Data updated: November 2026. The Southwest Florida MLS, pulled September 30, 2026, returned no Oak Knoll row in its 12-month rental pull: no lease closed through the MLS and no rental listing was active on the pull date. That is not proof that no Oak Knoll home is leased, because a lease arranged privately never reaches the MLS, but it does mean there is no recent MLS rent figure for the street. A buyer modeling rental income should test any assumption against comparable Bonita Bay single-family leases and the documents.
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. We found no primary document stating a lease limit for Oak Knoll Drive, so read the title commitment and the disclosure package for anything recorded against the specific lot before you plan a rental.
No public Bonita Bay document we reviewed authorizes nightly or weekly rentals, and the master association’s rules bind tenants like owners. At Oak Knoll prices, with no recent MLS lease on the street, 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 year-round yield.
Pet rules at Oak Knoll come from the master association’s Rules and Regulations and any neighborhood restriction recorded against the lot, not from the recorded Bonita Bay master Declaration, which contains no pet provision. We found no published Oak Knoll pet rule on a primary document, so the number, size and type of pets must be read in the documents before you buy.
Leash, waste and nuisance rules apply in Bonita Bay’s common areas, parks and paths. With every Oak Knoll lot backing onto a lake or the tidal 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.
Oak Knoll at Bonita Bay sits in FEMA Zone AE with a base flood elevation of 10 feet (NAVD88) at every lot: all 33 lot centers and all 33 lot outlines measure AE 10, with no lot reaching into Zone X, 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 3, 2026 we took the center point of every Oak Knoll lot, and the full outline of every lot, from Lee County’s parcel layer and intersected them with FEMA’s National Flood Hazard Layer (FEMA NFHL), and ran six of them, at both ends of the street, on the river and on both lakes, against FEMA’s panel index 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 | Position | Flood zone at the lot center | Base flood elevation | FIRM panel | Evacuation zone |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27150 Oak Knoll Dr | West end, 4.6-acre lake, Lot 33 | AE, coastal floodplain | 10 ft | 12071C0654G | A |
| 27221 Oak Knoll Dr | North side, 14.7-acre lake, Lot 3 | AE, coastal floodplain | 10 ft | 12071C0654G | A |
| 27281 Oak Knoll Dr | East end, river, Lot 7 | AE, coastal floodplain | 10 ft | 12071C0654G | A |
| 27341 Oak Knoll Dr | South side, river, Lot 12 | AE, coastal floodplain | 10 ft | 12071C0654G | A |
| 27360 Oak Knoll Dr | South side, 4.6-acre lake, Lot 20 | AE, coastal floodplain | 10 ft | 12071C0654G | A |
| 27391 Oak Knoll Dr | South-west end, tidal inlet, Lot 17 | AE, coastal floodplain | 10 ft | 12071C0654G | A |
Across all 33 lots the answer is the same: every lot center falls in Zone AE with a 10-foot base flood elevation, and every lot outline falls entirely in it, with no shaded or unshaded Zone X anywhere on the street. An adjoining Collier County panel, 12021C0179J, also touches these points on FEMA’s index; the Lee County panel governs a Lee parcel. Zone AE is a Special Flood Hazard Area, and flood insurance is federally required for a federally backed mortgage on a structure in it. FEMA rates a building by where the building sits and how high its lowest floor is, so the lender’s flood determination and the elevation certificate settle the premium, not the lot center. The City’s flood page explains the map colors and the November 17, 2022 effective date (City of Bonita Springs flood protection information), and the NFIP’s consumer site explains the policy itself (FloodSmart).
A base flood elevation is the height FEMA expects the 1% annual chance flood to reach, and what matters for an Oak Knoll home is how its lowest floor compares with 10 feet. The cards record stem-wall foundations on 24 houses and “driven and framed” foundations, the appraiser’s class for a house on driven pilings, on 7 river houses (27291, 27301, 27331, 27341, 27371, 27381 and 27391), and grade the site elevation of the improvements at “3 to 6 feet” on 17 cards, “1 to 2 feet” on 13 and “under 1 foot” on 1 (27280). Those are county appraisal classes, not surveyed elevations, and the number that counts is on the elevation certificate. 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). Twenty-five Oak Knoll houses were built from 1992 to 1998, to the flood maps of their day, and the 2022 maps were drawn later; ask for the elevation certificate before you rely on any quote.
For an Oak Knoll home 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 building must then meet current flood requirements. On a 1990s house of 4,000 to 5,000 square feet, a full kitchen, bath and systems remodel can reach that line sooner than a buyer expects, and it decides what a buyer planning a major renovation, or a teardown and rebuild like the four new houses of 2013 to 2025, can do. The City explains how it applies the rule in its toolkit (City substantial improvement toolkit) and its floodplain ordinance (Ordinance 22-05).
Oak Knoll’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 Oak Knoll points we ran fall in Lee County Evacuation Zone A (storm surge zone 1). Evacuation zones follow storm surge, not FEMA’s flood zones, and 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). The hurricane plan (shutters or impact glass, the pool and its furniture, the boat on its lift, a generator, and who checks the house after a storm) belongs in place before summer; five Oak Knoll cards record a generator (27180, 27201, 27211, 27281 and 27390).
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). Oak Knoll’s river lots sit on that same river. 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). We found no primary source documenting Ian damage to specific Oak Knoll homes; the seller’s disclosures, the City permit history by address and the insurance claim history are where a buyer confirms it. The county record shows no qualified Oak Knoll home deed between July 2021 and October 2023, so the window’s three deeds all came after the storm.
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. The City’s Ian pages and progress report describe the recovery program (City of Bonita Springs, Hurricane Ian; Hurricane Ian progress report; CDBG-DR grant management).
Insuring an Oak Knoll home means insuring a large 1990s or newer pool house with a tile roof on a half-acre lot in Zone AE 10: a homeowner’s policy with windstorm, priced from the wind mitigation report, the roof and the replacement cost of a house of about 3,200 to 9,000 heated square feet, plus a flood policy priced from the elevation certificate, which a federally backed lender will require on every Oak Knoll house, and on a river lot coverage questions for the dock, the lift and the seawall.
Each Oak Knoll home is a single-family house on its own lot, so the owner insures the structure, the pool and screen enclosure, the outdoor rooms, the contents and, on a river lot, whatever the policy will cover of the pier, dock, lift and seawall. Replacement cost is the number to get right: the county’s building values on the cards are mass-appraisal figures, not construction costs, and rebuilding a block and stucco house of this size to the current Florida Building Code and the City’s flood rules costs more than its 1990s construction did. An appraisal-based replacement estimate is worth ordering.
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. Sixteen of the 31 house cards record some opening protection, impact glass on 4 of them; 15 record none. On a house built in the 1990s, a documented roof permit and full opening protection are usually the difference between an ordinary and an expensive windstorm quote, and the report has to document each feature. 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. Every Oak Knoll lot center and outline measures Zone AE 10, so a federally backed lender will require flood insurance on any Oak Knoll house, and an owner inside Evacuation Zone A on a tidal river or a lake has every reason to carry it in any case. 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 the age of the Oak Knoll houses, and on a 1990s house they will want to know the age and type of the electrical panel and the water heater as well. Tile roofs need their underlayment and permit date documented, pool screen enclosures are often limited or excluded from windstorm coverage, a generator needs its permit, and docks, lifts and seawalls are often excluded from a homeowner’s policy or covered only by endorsement. Keep the permit for any roof, window, door, enclosure, dock or seawall replacement with the house documents.
Lee County public schools serve Oak Knoll 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 Oak Knoll Drive address. School sites: Bonita Springs High and Bonita Springs Middle, listed in the district’s middle school directory. WGCU reported the district’s 2024-25 school grades (WGCU, July 9, 2025).
Oak Knoll 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 Oak Knoll 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, and work at the river’s edge also needs the state and federal permits for tidal water.
Three approvals can apply to an Oak Knoll project: (1) master association Design Review under §9.2 of the master Declaration, for anything that changes the exterior, the pool, the enclosure, the driveway, the landscaping or the lot toward the water; (2) a City of Bonita Springs building permit for roofs, windows, doors, pools and enclosures, generators, electrical, plumbing, mechanical, new houses and similar work (City of Bonita Springs, apply for a building permit; City Community Development); and (3) for docks, lifts, piers and seawalls on the river, the state environmental and water management rules (Florida DEP; South Florida Water Management District). 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). A buyer can search a home’s permit history by its address through the City, which is the best way to see when the roof, air conditioning, windows, pool, dock or generator was last permitted. The City incorporated in 1999, so most Oak Knoll houses were first permitted before the City existed; ask the City how far back its permit records for the address run, and treat a gap before 1999 as a question rather than an answer.
Oak Knoll sits in the southwestern part of Bonita Bay, on the north bank of the Imperial River, with The Sanctuary’s single-family streets to the north, the Sandpiper condominiums and the common land of Bonita Bay Unit 10 beside its north side, the Bonita Bay Boulevard right of way at its west end and master association buffer land around its lakes. Across the river, the county map shows older residential streets outside Bonita Bay. Zoning and land use are set by the City of Bonita Springs.
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). On the far bank of the river, the parcel layer shows the lots of Big Bend Road, Tarpon Way and Bayshore Drive, outside the Bonita Bay gates. Because Bonita Bay is built out, the practical questions for an Oak Knoll buyer are rebuilds and remodels on the street itself, activity on the river and on the far bank, and changes on the Club’s campuses (the members’ May 2026 clubhouse vote), not new subdivisions next door.
Daily life at Oak Knoll 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 the gates, the patrol, the common land and the lakes, and each owner handling the house, the pool, the lot and any dock.
The parcel layer flags a garage on 30 Oak Knoll parcels, and every house card with a building sketch records one. A boat on a river lot lives on its lift; whether a boat, trailer or commercial vehicle may be kept outside the garage is a question for the master association’s rules on traffic, parking and vehicle types, so read them before you buy around a trailer. Golf carts on Bonita Bay’s roads and paths follow the master association’s rules. Vehicle registration, vessel 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 Oak Knoll Drive follows the arrangement for the street; confirm it for the specific address when you tour.
Oak Knoll sits in southwestern Bonita Bay on the Imperial River, in ZIP 34134 in the City of Bonita Springs, between Fort Myers to the north and Naples to the south, with US 41 to the east and I-75 farther east. That position gives Oak Knoll owners both metro areas’ shopping, dining, healthcare and the region’s airport without living in either city, with the Club address, the master association office and the Promenade each about 1.1 miles away inside the community and the river leading west to Estero Bay.
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).
Oak Knoll is one of Bonita Bay’s river and estate streets, 33 lots of about half an acre to an acre and a quarter with water behind every one, and on the 60-month county yardstick its three deeds put it among the community’s upper single-family neighborhoods: below Spring Ridge and Deerwood on the median deed, above Coconut Isle, The Sanctuary and Anchorage, and second of the six on price per square foot.
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 near Oak Knoll and of its scale line up from Anchorage ($1,350,000 median) and The Sanctuary ($1,940,000) through Coconut Isle ($2,100,000) and Oak Knoll ($2,515,000) to Deerwood ($2,839,000) and Spring Ridge ($3,800,000). Oak Knoll’s three deeds are so far apart, $2,150,000 to $5,050,000, that its place on that ladder is less certain than any other street’s in the table. What sets the product apart is the water and the lot: the Imperial River behind a third of its lots, with piers or docks on 10 of them, lots with a median of 0.539 acre, and a residential pool on every house card.
Deerwood, about 0.44 mile to the north-northwest on Deerwood Court, is the closest match in lot size and house size: 15 homes built from 1995 to 2005, with 6 deeds in 60 months at a $2,839,000 median and $604 per square foot, golf behind 7 lots and a lake behind 8. The Sanctuary, the nearest single-family neighborhood to the north on Sanctuary Way, has 62 homes built from 1990 to 2000 on lots with a median of about a quarter acre, and recorded 10 deeds at $1,940,000 and $630. Anchorage, about half a mile to the east on Riverbank Drive, has 37 homes built from 1991 to 1999, some on tidal water that joins the Imperial River, and recorded 13 deeds at $1,350,000 and $551. Spring Ridge, about 1.6 miles to the north, is the estate benchmark: 59 homes built from 1996 to 2003, 12 deeds at $3,800,000 and $707. What sets Oak Knoll apart on the county record is the combination: one street of 33 lots with the river behind 11 of them and a lake behind the other 22, houses mostly of 1992 to 1998 of about 3,200 to 5,700 square feet with four new ones since 2013, and a pool on every house card.
Oak Knoll and Deerwood are nearby Bonita Bay estate streets of large pool homes on lots of about half an acre or more, about 0.44 mile apart between centers, and on the same 60-month county yardstick Deerwood’s 6 deeds sit at a $2,839,000 median and $604 per heated square foot against Oak Knoll’s 3 deeds at $2,515,000 and $687; the choice comes down to river or golf, the age of the house and the size of the street.
Deerwood is 15 single-family homes on one court, Deerwood Court, on Bonita Bay Unit 24 (Plat Book 55, Pages 38 to 41), built 1995 to 2005, from 3,493 to 7,640 heated square feet (median 4,343). In the 60 months since November 2021 Deerwood recorded 6 qualified deeds at a $2,839,000 median, from $1,600,000 to $5,400,000, at a median of $604 per heated square foot; Oak Knoll recorded 3 at $2,515,000, $2,150,000 to $5,050,000, $687 per heated square foot. Both figures come from the same Lee County index, built November 3, 2026, with each neighborhood matched by its street (Oak Knoll Drive; Deerwood Court), the street match being the only reliable one because both are platted as numbered Bonita Bay units. Deerwood is the right yardstick for Oak Knoll because it is the closest street on the map with the same lot size (medians of 0.558 and 0.539 acre) and almost the same median house (4,343 and 4,585 square feet). Spring Ridge, the other estate candidate, has a median house of 4,928 square feet but sits $1,285,000 above Oak Knoll on the median deed and 1.6 miles away. The gap between Oak Knoll and Deerwood, $324,000 on the median in Deerwood’s favor and $83 per square foot in Oak Knoll’s, rests on three and six deeds, so the house in question, its water and its age decide more than the street does.
| Question | Oak Knoll | Deerwood |
|---|---|---|
| Homes and streets | 33 lots, one street (Oak Knoll Drive): 31 houses and 2 vacant lots on the current cards | 15 homes, one court (Deerwood Court) |
| Recorded as | Bonita Bay Unit 15 (Plat Book 49, Pages 25 to 30) | Bonita Bay Unit 24 (Plat Book 55, Pages 38 to 41) |
| Product | Detached houses, one unit per building, on their own lots | Detached houses, one unit per building, on their own lots |
| Construction (county cards) | Block and stucco on 30 of 31; concrete tile roof on 31; driven pilings on 7 river houses | Block and stucco and concrete tile roof on all 15 |
| Built (county roll) | 1992 to 2025 (25 of 32 by 1998; new houses in 2013, 2017, 2023, 2025) | 1995 to 2005 |
| Heated area (county roll) | 3,129 to 9,010 sq ft (median 4,585) | 3,493 to 7,640 sq ft (median 4,343) |
| Lot size (county parcel layer) | 0.441 to 1.279 acre (median 0.539) | 0.486 to 1.168 acre (median 0.558) |
| Living stories (cards) | 1 on 22, 1.5 on 2, 2 on 7 | 1 on 10, 1.8 on 5 |
| Private pool (county cards) | Every house card (31) | All 15 |
| Water behind the lot | Imperial River or a tidal inlet on 11; lakes on 22 | Lake on 8 |
| Golf alongside | None; the nearest Club golf parcel is about 1,610 feet away | 7 lots touch the Club’s Marsh course parcel |
| Docks and lifts (county cards) | Pier or dock on 10 parcels, boat lift on 8 | None |
| Qualified deeds, 60 months since November 2021 | 3 (3 homes) | 6 (5 homes) |
| Median deed price | $2,515,000 (middle of 3 deeds) | $2,839,000 (midpoint of 6 deeds) |
| Deed range | $2,150,000 to $5,050,000 | $1,600,000 to $5,400,000 |
| Median per heated sq ft | $687 | $604 |
| Turnover (deeds per home, 60 months) | 9.4% (3 on 32) | 40.0% (6 on 15) |
| MLS, pulled September 30, 2026 | 1 closing in 12 months, 0 active, 0 pending | 1 closing in 12 months, 0 active, 0 pending |
| Flood zone (FEMA NFHL, lot centers and outlines) | AE 10 ft on all 33; panel 12071C0654G | AE 10 ft on all 15; panel 12071C0652G |
| Evacuation zone | A | A |
| Associations | Bonita Bay Community Association; no neighborhood association established on the record | Bonita Bay Community Association; no neighborhood association established on the record |
| Straight-line distance between centers | about 0.44 mile | about 0.44 mile |
Choose Oak Knoll if you want the Imperial River behind the house, with a pier and lift on most river lots, or a lake on one of the other 22, a lot of about half an acre, a pool on every house, and a street of 33 lots where the original 1990s houses and the new ones of 2013 to 2025 sit side by side, at a median deed per square foot above Deerwood’s. Choose Deerwood if you want golf behind the house on one of the 7 Marsh course lots or a lake on the other 8, houses built a few years later on average (1995 to 2005), a short court of 15 homes, and a street that has traded more often in the last five years (6 deeds against 3). In both, the age, condition and updating of the specific house, and its elevation certificate, move the price more than the neighborhood median does.
Oak Knoll’s strengths are documented ones (water behind every lot, the Imperial River with piers and lifts on most river lots, lots of about half an acre or more, a pool on every house card, master association tracts, no CDD) and so are its limitations (every lot in Zone AE 10 and inside Evacuation Zone A, mostly 1990s houses that need updating or replacing, a very thin resale market, no golf frontage, shallow river water and unpublished fees).
If you’re searching for an Oak Knoll listing agent, or thinking, ‘I need someone to sell my Oak Knoll home…’, start with the record: 3 qualified Oak Knoll home deeds in 60 months, from $2,150,000 to $5,050,000, one of them in the 12 months to September 30, 2026 ($2,150,000), one MLS closing in that period at 89.6% of its asking price after 47 days, and no home listed for sale on that date. McGreevy and Comisar price, prepare and market Oak Knoll homes from that record, not from a Bonita Bay average.
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In the 12 months to September 30, 2026 we tracked one qualified Oak Knoll home deed in the Lee County record: 27351 Oak Knoll Drive at $2,150,000 (January 16, 2026). Before it, the window holds 27221 Oak Knoll Drive at $5,050,000 (March 3, 2025) and 27190 Oak Knoll Drive at $2,515,000 (October 30, 2023). Over 60 months the record shows 3 home sales and $9,715,000 in volume, plus an unqualified $2,500,000 improved deed at 27311 in May 2024. The Southwest Florida MLS, pulled September 30, 2026, shows the January 2026 closing at 27351 and no home listed for sale.
Four things. First, the buyer: an Oak Knoll buyer is choosing between an original 1990s house and a lot to rebuild on, often against Deerwood, Spring Ridge and The Sanctuary as well as the street, so the listing has to document what has been replaced (roof, pool, openings, air conditioning, electrical, plumbing, and on the river the seawall, the pier and the lift) and when, and say plainly whether the lot is a river lot or a lake lot and how high the floor sits. Second, the paperwork: Section 720.401 requires your disclosure summary before the contract is signed, Florida’s residential flood disclosure applies to every sale, most financed buyers will need flood insurance, and having the estoppel request, the elevation certificate, the wind mitigation report, the permit history, the dock permits and a survey 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, the price: the one recent MLS closing sold at 89.6% of its list price after 47 days, so a first price set from the deeds and the land values brings a buyer sooner than an optimistic ask.
Start with a free Oak Knoll home valuation, or use our Bonita Bay home valuation page. Or talk to Jesse direct: (239) 898-6072, text or call.
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Price an Oak Knoll home from the deeds and land values that match its water, size, age and condition, not from the street’s median. On the county record the three home deeds of the last 60 months run from $2,150,000 to $5,050,000 and from $549 to $1,067 per heated square foot. We adjust from the closest matches, weigh river against lake, check the county’s land values for all 33 lots, then test the price against Deerwood, Spring Ridge and Anchorage sales on the day you list.
The one Oak Knoll closing on the Southwest Florida MLS pull of September 30, 2026, 27351 Oak Knoll Drive, recorded 47 days on market and closed at 89.6% of its asking price. One closing is not a pattern; on a 33-lot street that trades rarely, time to sell depends mostly on the first price, the water behind the lot and the condition of the house.
An Oak Knoll buyer usually asks first for the master association estoppel certificate, the §720.401 disclosure summary, the elevation certificate, the wind mitigation and four-point reports, the roof, pool, window and air-conditioning permits, a survey, the flood and windstorm policy declarations, and on a river lot the dock, lift and seawall permits and their condition.
The master Declaration requires no sale approval that we found; it requires you to deliver the §720.401 disclosure summary, and the master association’s estoppel certificate is needed for closing. Whether anything recorded against your lot adds a notice or approval step is set in your title documents, which we read for every listing before your home goes on the market.
A Bonita Bay Club membership is separate from your Oak Knoll 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 Oak Knoll sale itself never requires a Club membership on either side.
Oak Knoll’s long-run value rests on Bonita Bay’s fixed supply, its master-association amenities and land, the size of its lots and its place on the Imperial River; the recorded deeds show that Oak Knoll prices rise and fall with the wider market, from vacant lots at $185,000 to $480,000 in 1992 to 1999 to home deeds of $2,150,000 to $5,050,000 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. In Oak Knoll it owns the plat’s two tracts outright, about 25 acres of buffer land beside the lakes. Bonita Bay’s recorded master Declaration and Design Review standards (§9.2) are what keep a street of individually built houses, and now of rebuilds, consistent, lot by lot.
Bonita Bay is built out, and Oak Knoll’s 33 lots have all been sold since the 1990s: two stand vacant on the current cards, and every other lot carries a house. That does not guarantee appreciation (the county record holds a $2,350,000 house deed on the street in June 2005 and house deeds of $820,000 to $950,000 in 2008 and 2011, after the market fell), but it means every buyer who wants a river or lake lot on Oak Knoll Drive competes for one of 33.
For a buyer who wants a large pool home on the Imperial River inside Bonita Bay’s gates, with a pier and lift behind the house, Oak Knoll offers it on its 11 river lots, and the lake lots on the same street offer the same lot size without the river. The trade is a flood zone on every lot, a very thin resale market, mostly 1990s houses that need updating or replacing, shallow water and no golf frontage.
Bonita Springs is the incorporated city that governs Oak Knoll’s permits, zoning, flood program and city taxes; its CRS Class 5 rating lowers NFIP premiums, and its location puts Oak Knoll Drive between Naples and Fort Myers with Gulf beaches, I-75 and US 41 close by.
Residents voted to incorporate the City in 1999, and the City marked its 25th anniversary in 2024 (City of Bonita Springs, history; 25th anniversary; City Charter). For the wider market, see our Bonita Springs guide and our Bonita Bay guide. Documentary stamp tax on Florida deeds is set by the state (Florida Department of Revenue, documentary stamp tax), and in Lee County the seller customarily pays the owner’s title policy, though the contract controls.
Oak Knoll owners and buyers work directly with Jesse McGreevy and Marc Comisar, the McGreevy and Comisar team at Domain Realty, whose office at 24031 S Tamiami Trl #101 in Bonita Springs is about 3.5 miles from Oak Knoll by straight line. For this Oak Knoll guide we read the county’s river, lake, golf and tract parcels, the master Declaration, the two Unit 15 tract cards, all 33 county lot cards the Property Appraiser publishes for the street and every qualified Oak Knoll 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 Oak Knoll 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 3 qualified Oak Knoll home deeds recorded since November 2021 for this update, and the land transfers around them, we read every Oak Knoll lot card to count the stories, walls, roofs, foundations, garages, pools, piers, lifts, seawalls and land classes, we searched for an Oak Knoll association beyond the master association, we measured each lot’s distance to the river, the lakes, the golf course and the tract parcels on the county map, and we measured the flood zone at all 33 Oak Knoll lots ourselves rather than repeating a map summary.
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Oak Knoll is a single street where specifics decide the price: whether the lot is one of the 11 river lots or one of the 22 lake lots, the pier, dock, lift and seawall on a river lot and their permits, the age of the house and whether a buyer would keep it or rebuild, the finished size, the floor elevation against the 10-foot base flood elevation, the age of the tile roof and the pool equipment, and the opening protection. With three qualified home deeds in five years, from $2,150,000 to $5,050,000, and lots trading with older houses on them before new houses go up, an Oak Knoll 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 lot, the water, the flood zone under the house and its elevation certificate, the wind mitigation report and the master association’s role in plain language. That is the work we do on every Bonita Bay listing.
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The best Oak Knoll buyers we work with ask the most questions before the offer and the fewest after closing. Order the estoppel certificate early, read the master association’s rules and the plat for your lot, have a marine contractor look at any dock, lift and seawall, get windstorm and flood quotes from the elevation certificate and wind mitigation report during your inspection period, and read the Design Review standards before you plan a remodel, a pool change or a rental. There is no obligation and no cost for an initial conversation.
The questions buyers ask us most about Oak Knoll at Bonita Bay, answered from the county record, the master association’s documents, FEMA’s flood layer and the Southwest Florida MLS pull of September 30, 2026.
Oak Knoll at Bonita Bay is a neighborhood of 33 homesites on one street, Oak Knoll Drive, inside the gated master-planned community of Bonita Bay in Bonita Springs, Florida. The lots stand on one recorded plat, Bonita Bay Unit 15, 11 of them on the Imperial River and 22 on two lakes, and the county’s current cards show 31 detached pool homes and 2 vacant lots.
Thirty-three lots, on Lots 1 to 33 of Bonita Bay Unit 15, every one addressed on Oak Knoll Drive. The 2025 certified roll counts 32 single-family homes and 1 vacant lot (27311); the current working cards, generated November 3, 2026, carry 27351 as vacant too, so 31 houses stand on that date.
The record shows individually built houses: the lots sold vacant one buyer at a time from 1992 to 1999, and the houses went up one at a time from 1992 to 2002, with new houses since on four lots, in 2013, 2017, 2023 and 2025. No primary record we read names the builders or architects, so we describe the houses by what the county cards record.
By Bonita Bay standards, yes. On Lee County’s parcel layer the lots run from 0.441 to 1.279 acres, a median of 0.539 acre, about 23,500 square feet, roughly twice the median lot of The Sanctuary or Anchorage nearby. Against Bonita Bay’s estate streets they are typical: Deerwood’s median lot is 0.558 acre.
Oak Knoll sits in the southwestern part of Bonita Bay on the north bank of the Imperial River, south of The Sanctuary and beside the Sandpiper condominiums and the Bonita Bay Boulevard right of way. By straight line the Club address, the master association’s office and the Promenade are each about 1.1 miles away.
From 1992 to 2025 on the Lee County roll: one in 1992, seven in 1993, six in 1994, four in 1995, one in 1996, four in 1997, two in 1998, two in 2000, one in 2002, and one each in 2013, 2017, 2023 and 2025. The 2017, 2023 and 2025 houses stand on lots that recorded improved deeds before them, so they replaced earlier houses.
The 2025 roll records 3,129 to 9,010 heated square feet, a median of 4,585. Among the houses standing on the current cards the smallest is 27280 at 3,194 and the largest 27281 at 9,010; only five exceed 5,000. The 2025 house at 27350 has no heated area on the roll yet. A listing may report a different living area than the county.
On the Lee County roll, three bedrooms on 12 homes, four on 15, five on 2 (27310 and 27381) and six on 2 (27281 and 27361). Bathroom counts on the roll run from three to seven. Listings sometimes count a den or office differently; the 2026 MLS closing at 27351 reported three bedrooms plus a den.
Twenty-two of the 31 house cards record one living story, two record one and a half (27201 and 27301) and seven record two (27211, 27261, 27341, 27350, 27361, 27381 and 27390). One card, the 2025 house at 27350, records an elevator.
Every one of the 31 house cards records a residential pool, and 28 record a spa. The cards also record a pool heater or heat pump on 25 houses, a disappearing-edge pool on 6 and a waterfall feature on 5. There is no shared neighborhood pool or clubhouse on the county record.
Thirty of the 31 house cards record concrete block walls with a stucco finish and one face brick (27340). All 31 record a concrete tile roof. Twenty-four record a stem-wall foundation and seven, all river houses, a “driven and framed” foundation, the appraiser’s class for a house on driven pilings.
Eleven lots: 27281, 27291, 27301, 27311, 27331, 27341, 27351, 27361, 27371 and 27381 back onto the water the county names the Imperial River, and 27391 onto a small tidal inlet beside it. Two of the eleven, 27311 and 27351, are vacant on the current cards. The county classes the 9 river houses “single family, river”.
Ten river parcels record a residential pier or dock on their county cards, and 8 record a boat lift: piers or docks at 27281, 27291, 27301, 27311, 27341, 27351, 27361, 27371, 27381 and 27391. The cards do not record condition, permits or water depth, so a marine inspection and the permits settle what a specific dock offers. Lake lots record none.
Twenty-two lots back onto lakes on the county map: 27201, 27211, 27221, 27231, 27241 and 27261 on a lake of about 14.7 acres, and the 16 lots of the even side and the west end, 27150 to 27190 and 27220 to 27390, around a lake of about 4.6 acres. The lakes are stormwater lakes, not navigable water.
No. On the county map no Oak Knoll lot touches a golf course parcel; the nearest Bonita Bay Club golf parcel, the Marsh course, lies about 1,610 feet from the nearest lot. The county’s land class for 27221 reads “golf”, but we measured that lot on the 14.7-acre lake.
At the separately owned Bonita Bay Marina on the Imperial River, which lists 326 dry storage spaces and 98 wet slips and publishes a maximum draft of 36 inches, or at a slip elsewhere. Slips and storage carry their own fees and are never part of an Oak Knoll home.
Your own pool on every house, the river or a lake behind every lot, a pier or dock on most river lots, plus Bonita Bay’s 12 miles of paths, three waterside parks, the Private Beach with its shuttle, gated entry and the Community Patrol through the master association. The Bonita Bay Club comes only with a separate, optional membership.
Oak Knoll is inside gated Bonita Bay, whose master association runs the gates and a Community Patrol. We found no record of a separate gate at the entrance to Oak Knoll Drive; the street sits within master association land inside the gates.
The Bonita Bay Community Association master assessment applies to every Oak Knoll home, and the master association does not publish the amount. The estoppel certificate for the specific home states the current assessment, any neighborhood charge and anything due at closing. Bonita Bay has no CDD.
None appears on any record we read. Both Unit 15 tract parcels are owned by the Bonita Bay Community Association (document N07041), no Oak Knoll parcel is owned by a neighborhood association, and a June 2026 search of the state’s corporate records found no Oak Knoll at Bonita Bay registration. The estoppel certificate settles it for a specific home.
The Bonita Bay Community Association. On the county roll Tracts A, B and E of Bonita Bay Unit 15 (about 19.1 acres) and Tracts C and D (about 6.3 acres) are master association land, carried as buffer acreage, with the lakes beside them.
No. Bonita Bay has no Community Development District and no special taxing district. The Bonita Springs Fire Control and Rescue District on the tax bill is an independent district that covers the whole area.
No. No source we reviewed, including the master Declaration, the Lee County roll, the Unit 15 plat and the master association’s public pages, sets an age restriction, so buyers of any age can purchase an Oak Knoll home.
Yes, subject to the master Declaration, which sets no minimum lease term but binds tenants to the governing documents, and to anything recorded against the lot. The Southwest Florida MLS pull of September 30, 2026 showed no leased Oak Knoll record in the prior 12 months, so there is no recent MLS rent figure for the street.
Pets follow the master association’s Rules and Regulations and anything recorded against the lot; the master Declaration itself has no pet provision, and we found no published Oak Knoll pet rule on a primary document. Read the current rules during your inspection period, and keep dogs away from the river and lake edges.
Yes. Every lot center and every lot outline measures FEMA Zone AE with a base flood elevation of 10 feet, on panel 12071C0654G, effective November 17, 2022; no part of any lot measures Zone X. The elevation certificate and the lender’s determination for the house settle its premium.
With a federally backed mortgage, yes, on any Oak Knoll house, because every lot sits in Zone AE. All of Oak Knoll sits in Evacuation Zone A, on a tidal river or a lake, and the City’s CRS Class 5 rating gives NFIP policies a 25% discount.
Lee County Evacuation Zone A (storm surge zone 1), at all six Oak Knoll points we ran on November 3, 2026, on the river and on both lakes. Zone A is the first area Lee County orders to evacuate.
We found no primary source documenting Ian damage to specific Oak Knoll homes. Ian’s surge came up the Imperial River into Bonita Springs, the Club reported golf course bridges left structurally undrivable on the Bay Island and Marsh courses, and the Bonita Bay Private Beach facility was destroyed and rebuilt. Ask the seller’s disclosures, the City permit history and the insurance claim history for the house you are buying.
No. Bonita Bay Club membership is optional and separate from owning an Oak Knoll home, and the Club does not publish its fees on its public website.
Yes. The Private Beach on Hickory Boulevard is owned by the master association and is an amenity of every Oak Knoll owner, with a resident shuttle. It was rebuilt after Hurricane Ian and reopened on November 13.
The master association’s $500 per unit beach-rebuild assessment, approved March 20, 2025 and due June 30, 2025, is past. Whether any other assessment applies to a specific home is stated in its estoppel certificate, which Florida law requires to list assessments due and any pending special assessment.
Three qualified Oak Knoll home deeds were recorded in the 60 months since November 2021, at $2,515,000 (October 2023), $5,050,000 (March 2025) and $2,150,000 (January 2026), in the Lee County Property Appraiser recorded sales, through September 2026. With three sales, the house and the water behind it matter more than the median of $2,515,000.
Sometimes. Two lots stand vacant on the current cards, 27311 and 27351, both on the river, and several recent buyers bought lots with older houses on them before building: the county dates new houses to 2017, 2023 and 2025 on lots that recorded deeds of $1,000,000 to $1,575,000 before them, with older houses on them or none. Whether a lot is for sale at any moment is a listing question.
The one Oak Knoll closing on the Southwest Florida MLS pull of September 30, 2026, 27351 Oak Knoll Drive, took 47 days on market and closed at 89.6% of its asking price. One closing is a count, not a pattern.
On the Southwest Florida MLS pull of September 30, 2026, none, and none pending. The listing picture changes, and our Domain Realty Group team keeps the current list on its site.
The §720.401 disclosure summary before you sign, the master association’s estoppel certificate before closing, the governing documents and rules, and from the seller the property disclosures and Florida’s residential flood disclosure. Ask early for the elevation certificate, the wind mitigation report, the permit history, the dock permits on a river lot and a survey.
Lee County uses proximity-based choice. Under the district’s 2025-2026 plan, the elementary zone holding the Bonita Springs schools is Zone Q (including Spring Creek Elementary), the middle zone is Zone GG (Bonita Springs Middle and Three Oaks Middle), and high school uses the South choice zone, which includes Bonita Springs High. Confirm the address with the district.
Deerwood, about 0.44 mile to the north-northwest on Deerwood Court, is 15 homes built 1995 to 2005 of a similar median size (4,343 square feet) on similar lots (median 0.558 acre), with golf behind 7 lots, 6 deeds in 60 months at a $2,839,000 median and $604 per square foot. Oak Knoll is 33 lots with the river behind 11, 3 deeds at a $2,515,000 median and $687.
The questions Oak Knoll owners ask us before they list, answered from the Lee County deed record, the county lot cards, the master association’s documents, FEMA’s flood layer and the Southwest Florida MLS pull of September 30, 2026.
Your Oak Knoll home is worth what the closest matching deeds and land values support, adjusted for its water, its size, its age and its condition. The three qualified Oak Knoll home deeds of the last 60 months ran from $2,150,000 to $5,050,000 and from $549 to $1,067 per heated square foot, so a street median of $2,515,000 can miss by a wide margin. Start with a free valuation and we will price it from the sales that match your lot and your house.
The best listing agent for Oak Knoll knows every deed and every land transfer on Oak Knoll Drive and can explain the plat, the river and lake lots, the docks and the flood zone to a buyer. McGreevy and Comisar are the #1 team in Southwest Florida since 2012 and Top 1% nationally since 2008, and this guide was built from all 33 Oak Knoll county cards, every qualified Oak Knoll deed since November 2021 and our own flood measurement at every lot.
One, on the Lee County qualified-deed record for the 12 months to September 30, 2026: 27351 Oak Knoll Drive at $2,150,000 on January 16, 2026, a 1993 river house of 3,129 heated square feet on the 2025 roll. The Southwest Florida MLS pull of September 30, 2026 shows the same closing at 89.6% of a $2,400,000 asking price after 47 days, and no Oak Knoll home listed on the pull date.
There is no typical Oak Knoll price, because three home deeds in 60 months are far too few to set one. The three recorded $2,150,000, $2,515,000 and $5,050,000, and the middle one, $2,515,000, is a single sale, not a level. The price followed the house and the water: the top deed is a 2017 house, and the two lower deeds are original houses of 1993 and 1995 on the river and a lake.
On the county roll 27221 is a one-story house of 4,731 heated square feet built in 2017, with a pool and spa, on a 0.483-acre lot beside the 14.7-acre lake; it replaced a house on record since 1998. Its $5,050,000 deed of March 3, 2025 works out to $1,067 per square foot, about twice the 1995 house at 27190. The record points to the age of the house, not the lot, as the main difference.
On the 2025 roll 27351 was the smallest house on the street, 3,129 heated square feet, built in 1993, on a 0.531-acre river lot with a dock, pier and seawall on its card. Its $2,150,000 deed of January 16, 2026 is $687 per square foot. The county’s current card now carries the lot as vacant with no building, so the price reflects a river lot and an older house more than the house alone.
The one Oak Knoll closing on the Southwest Florida MLS pull of September 30, 2026, 27351 Oak Knoll Drive, recorded 47 days on market. On a 33-lot street with three home deeds in five years and no qualified home sale from October 2023 to March 2025, time to sell depends on the first price, the water, the condition and the competing estate listings nearby, not on an Oak Knoll average.
The one MLS closing on the September 30, 2026 pull sold at 89.6% of its $2,400,000 asking price, $2,150,000, after 47 days. One sale is not a pattern, and a ratio follows the list price as much as the market. Pricing an Oak Knoll home close to what the matching deeds and land values support usually narrows the gap between the asking price and the sale.
The county thinks so: the 11 river lots carry a median 2025 land value of $760,665 against $419,754 for the 16 lots on the 4.6-acre lake and $439,850 for the 6 on the 14.7-acre lake, about 1.8 times as much. The three recent deeds cannot isolate the premium, because they also differ in age and size, so we price the water from the land values and the longer deed record.
On a river lot, yes, and a buyer will ask about it first. Ten river parcels record a pier or dock on their cards and 8 a boat lift, most dated 1992 to 1999. Present the dock, the lift capacity, the seawall, their permits and their condition, and the water depth at the dock at low tide, because the Bonita Bay Marina on the same river publishes a 36-inch maximum draft.
On a street where every house card records a residential pool and 28 a spa, a buyer expects both, so the pool sets no premium by itself; its condition does. Present the pool’s age, its finish, its heater or heat pump, any disappearing edge or waterfall the card records, and the screen enclosure’s condition, because a buyer comparing Oak Knoll houses will compare those.
The record suggests both buyers exist. Lots on the street recorded deeds of $1,150,000 to $2,500,000 from 2015 to 2024 with older houses on them or none at all: 27310 and 27350 before their new houses of 2023 and 2025, and 27311, which still stands vacant. The 2026 river sale at 27351 now shows as a vacant lot on the county card. We price your property both ways, as a home to keep and as a site to rebuild on, and market it to the buyer who pays more.
Age, water and size. The three deeds ran from $2,150,000 to $5,050,000, and the houses that sold were built in 1993, 1995 and 2017, with 3,129 to 4,731 heated square feet. The newest house recorded the highest price per square foot, $1,067, and the river house the middle one, $687. Renovation and condition explain the rest, and only the listing and a showing establish those.
Describe what the record and the house support: a detached pool home on Oak Knoll Drive, its heated square footage and how it was measured, its stories, a river or lake lot, the lot size from the parcel layer, the dock and lift on a river lot, the roof and its permit date, the opening protection and every replacement with its permit. Avoid golf-view language the county map does not support for Oak Knoll.
No lot on Oak Knoll Drive touches a golf course on the county map; the nearest Bonita Bay Club golf parcel lies about 1,610 feet from the nearest lot, with other land between, even though the county’s land class for one lot reads “golf”. Describe what your lanai actually looks onto, the Imperial River or one of two lakes, and mention the Club as an optional membership a short drive away.
Only with the record to back it. The county shows Oak Knoll lots sold vacant to individual buyers from 1992 to 1999 and houses built one at a time, and the cards differ from house to house in size, stories, foundation and finish. If your permit file or original plans name the architect and builder, use them; otherwise describe the house by its features rather than by a label.
The §720.401 disclosure summary before the contract is signed, the property disclosures your contract form requires, Florida’s residential flood disclosure, and, for closing, the master association’s estoppel certificate. Buyers will also ask for the elevation certificate, the wind mitigation and four-point reports, the permit history including any dock and seawall permits, a survey and your insurance declarations, so gather them before you list.
A contract signed without the disclosure summary is voidable by the buyer before closing under Section 720.401, so a buyer could walk away. The master Declaration (§12.13) separately requires a Bonita Bay seller to obtain and deliver it. We include the summary with the listing documents so it is in the buyer’s hands before any offer is signed on your Oak Knoll home.
An estoppel certificate is an association’s statement of what is owed on your Oak Knoll home: the current assessment, any unpaid amounts, any special assessment and any charge due at closing. Florida law sets its timing and fee in Section 720.30851. The title agent usually requests it after the contract is signed, and a buyer is jointly liable for unpaid assessments under Section 720.3085.
The recorded 2011 master Declaration contains a buyer-paid resale reserve assessment, and a later master association written statement describes a different formula, with no recorded amendment located that reconciles the two. We do not publish either figure as current. The master association’s estoppel certificate states exactly what is due at your Oak Knoll closing and who pays it.
None appears on any record we read: both Unit 15 tracts belong to the master association, no Oak Knoll parcel is owned by a neighborhood association, and no state registration under an Oak Knoll at Bonita Bay name has turned up. If you pay a neighborhood assessment or belong to an Oak Knoll group, tell us at listing, because the title agent would need that association’s estoppel certificate as well.
Yes, Bonita Bay’s. The master association’s Open House Guidelines require 72 hours’ notice with the listing agreement, set hours of Monday to Saturday 9 to 5 and Sunday 1 to 4, require its sign standard and allow no SOLD signs. On a street of 33 lots with little passing traffic, a well-planned open house, photography from the water and strong online marketing matter more than signage.
The $500 per unit beach-rebuild assessment approved March 20, 2025 was due June 30, 2025, so it should be paid on your home. Disclose any assessment you know of, paid or pending; the estoppel certificate will confirm to the buyer that nothing remains owed. If anything new has been approved since, the estoppel certificate is required to list it for your Oak Knoll buyer.
Plainly and with the documents that matter. Every Oak Knoll lot center and outline measures FEMA Zone AE with a 10-foot base flood elevation on panel 12071C0654G, effective November 17, 2022, so every financed buyer will need flood insurance. Provide the elevation certificate, a current flood policy declaration and the City’s CRS Class 5 discount, so the buyer can price the policy during the inspection period.
Yes, more than almost any other document. Every Oak Knoll lot sits in Zone AE, and the flood premium a buyer pays follows how the lowest floor compares with the 10-foot base flood elevation. The county cards grade site elevation only in broad classes, 3 to 6 feet on 17 cards and 1 to 2 feet on 13. A current elevation certificate lets a buyer get a real quote fast and keeps the contract on schedule.
Seven Oak Knoll river houses record a “driven and framed” foundation on their cards, the appraiser’s class for a house on driven pilings: 27291, 27301, 27331, 27341, 27371, 27381 and 27391. Explain what sits under the main floor, garage, storage or open space, and back it with the elevation certificate, which shows the lowest floor against the 10-foot base flood elevation and drives the flood premium.
Fix what an inspector and an insurer will flag on a 1990s house: roof leaks and documentation, pool equipment, air-conditioning service records, the electrical panel, failed seals on windows and doors, any open permits, and on the river the seawall, the pier and the lift. Fifteen Oak Knoll house cards record no opening protection, so documented shutters or impact openings can help a windstorm quote. Larger renovations are a pricing decision we make together.
Under the City’s floodplain rules a renovation or repair costing 50% or more of the structure’s market value is a substantial improvement for a house in Zone AE, and the house must then meet current flood requirements. On a 1990s Oak Knoll house a full remodel can reach that line, which is one reason some buyers rebuild instead, so your elevation certificate and permit history help them plan before making an offer.
Most Oak Knoll buyers see the house first in photos and video, often from out of state, so staging and photography that show the pool, the lanai and the river or lake behind it earn their cost. On a river lot, photographs and video from the dock and from the water show what no floor plan can, and drone footage shows the lot size against the neighbors.
Southwest Florida’s buying season peaks in winter and early spring, when most out-of-state buyers visit Bonita Bay. On a street with three home deeds in five years the right time is also when your house is ready and no similar listing competes with it, so we watch the Deerwood, Spring Ridge and Anchorage listings and the river streets of Bonita Springs before we set the date.
In Lee County a seller customarily pays Florida’s documentary stamp tax on the deed, set by the state, and the owner’s title insurance policy, though the contract controls. Add the brokerage fee, any charge an association’s estoppel certificate assigns to the seller, the payoff of any mortgage and prorated property taxes and assessments. On an Oak Knoll price the stamp tax alone runs to five figures.
Yes, but the lease binds the sale. A buyer takes the house subject to the tenant’s rights under the lease, and the master Declaration binds the tenant to the governing documents. Showings need the access the lease allows. The Southwest Florida MLS pull of September 30, 2026 showed no leased Oak Knoll record in the prior 12 months, so most Oak Knoll sales are of owner-occupied homes.
Your Club membership is separate from your Oak Knoll deed. The Club does not publish its fees or transfer rules on its public website, and whether a membership can pass to your buyer is the Club’s decision under its own rules. Your Oak Knoll sale never requires a Club membership on either side, and your listing should say so plainly.
Not as a rule, but every financed buyer will need flood insurance, because every lot sits in Zone AE, and many lenders and insurers will ask for a four-point inspection and a wind mitigation report on a house of this age. Having those reports, the elevation certificate and the dock and seawall paperwork ready lets a financed buyer meet the lender’s timeline.
On September 30, 2026 the Southwest Florida MLS showed no Oak Knoll home listed, so an Oak Knoll listing competes with estate homes on nearby streets: Deerwood, where 6 deeds recorded a $2,839,000 median, Spring Ridge, with 12 deeds at $3,800,000, and Coconut Isle, with 8 deeds at $2,100,000, all on the same 60-month county yardstick, plus waterfront homes elsewhere in Bonita Springs for a river lot.
Compare house to house, not median to median. Deerwood’s houses are a similar size (median 4,343 square feet against Oak Knoll’s 4,585) on similar lots (median 0.558 acre against 0.539), with golf behind 7 of 15 lots and no docks. Its 60-month median per heated square foot is $604 against Oak Knoll’s $687. Lead with your water: the river and a dock, or the lake.
Yes. All 31 Oak Knoll house cards record a concrete tile roof, and on houses built from 1992 to 1998 an original roof would now be close to 30 years old. A documented, permitted replacement helps the wind mitigation report, the windstorm quote and the buyer’s inspection, and buyers ask for the roof permit date early in the inspection period.
Gather the elevation certificate, the wind mitigation and four-point reports, every permit for roof, windows, doors, pool, enclosure, air conditioning, dock, lift and seawall, the survey, the flood and homeowner’s policy declarations, the association documents you hold, and receipts for major work. On a street where few houses sell, a complete file sets your home apart.
The record shows a long rise with uneven steps. Qualified house deeds ran from $1,000,000 to $1,725,000 in the 1990s, $820,000 to $1,950,000 from 2006 to 2009, $1,150,000 to $3,815,000 from 2017 to October 2021, and $2,150,000 to $5,050,000 in the last 60 months. With three home deeds in five years we do not publish an Oak Knoll trend line; we price from the nearest matching deeds on the day you list.
The title agent prorates the property taxes for the year and the association assessments for the period, using the estoppel certificate for the assessment figures, and collects any unpaid amounts from the seller at closing. Under Section 720.3085 a buyer is jointly liable for assessments unpaid at the transfer, which is why the estoppel certificate is required for every Oak Knoll sale.
Every Oak Knoll fact on this page comes from a recorded instrument or state record, a county, city, state or federal record, the Bonita Bay Community Association’s, the developer’s successor’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 3, 2026; recorded 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 and NOAA. They are the documents we read for this page, and the ones a Oak Knoll 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 | The master association’s table of Bonita Bay streets and the neighborhoods they belong to | View the street table |
| 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 | View the brochure |
| Open House Guidelines | Bonita Bay Community Association | Current posting | Open house hours, 72-hour notice, sign standard, no SOLD signs | View the guidelines |
| Trails map | Bonita Bay Community Association | Current posting | The path network that connects the southwestern side of Bonita Bay, around Oak Knoll Drive, to the parks and the Club | View the trails map |
| Neighborhoods map | Bonita Bay Community Association | Current posting | Where Oak Knoll sits among Bonita Bay’s neighborhoods | View the neighborhoods map |
| Facilities and amenities map | Bonita Bay Community Association | Current posting | Parks, beach shuttle points and community facilities | View the amenities map |
| Ordinance No. 22-05, Flood Hazard Reduction | City of Bonita Springs | 2022 | City floodplain rules that apply to Oak Knoll permits and remodels in Zone AE | View Ordinance 22-05 |
| Substantial improvement and damage toolkit | City of Bonita Springs | Revised May 25, 2024 | How the City applies the 50% rule to flood-zone buildings | View the toolkit |
| 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 | View the report |
| Zoning District Map Book | City of Bonita Springs | July 6, 2011 | Zoning districts by map sheet within city limits | View the map book |
| 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 | View the guide |
| Student Enrollment Plan 2025-2026 | School District of Lee County | 2025 | Elementary Zone Q, middle Zone GG and the South high school choice zone | View the plan |
| Parks of Bonita Bay | Bonita Bay Community Association | Current posting | Estero Bay Park, Riverwalk Park and Spring Creek Park: boardwalk, boat ramp, kayak launch, bocce, observation deck | View the parks page |
| Tropical Cyclone Report: Hurricane Ian | NOAA National Hurricane Center | 2023 | The official record of Hurricane Ian | View the report |
The Bonita Bay Unit 15 plat (Plat Book 49, Pages 25 to 30), the 1998 Lot 18 instrument (Official Records Book 3043, Page 1272), 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.
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 Oak Knoll. 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.
