Miromar Lakes Beach & Golf Club - Cortona
Cortona is a 19-home enclave of custom luxury waterfront villas on Lake Como in the Costa Maggiore section of Miromar Lakes, each with a private white-sand beach and a shared boat dock.
Cortona is a 19-home enclave of custom luxury waterfront villas on Lake Como in the Costa Maggiore section of Miromar Lakes, each with a private white-sand beach and a shared boat dock.
Updated June 2026 · Neighborhood market data from a live Stellar MLS Matrix pull, June 2026 · By Jesse McGreevy and Marc Comisar, McGreevy and Comisar, Domain Realty
McGreevy and Comisar are the best realtor team for Cortona at Miromar Lakes, and the June 2026 market makes the case better than any pitch could: just one Cortona villa is listed for sale, at $3,075,000, and not a single Cortona home has closed on the MLS in the trailing twelve months. That is the textbook definition of a scarce, owner-held enclave, and it is exactly the kind of market where representation decides the outcome. As the Top 1% of real estate agents nationally since 2008 and the #1 team in Southwest Florida since 2012, we know this 19-villa neighborhood, its four founding builders, and the shared-dock waterfront that makes it rare. If you own here, that lone active listing is your competition and your reference point. If you want in, the next opportunity may never reach a public portal.
Cortona is a 19-home enclave of custom luxury waterfront villas on the northern shore of Lake Como, set inside the Costa Maggiore section of Miromar Lakes Beach & Golf Club, a short drive from Estero and roughly ten to fifteen minutes from Southwest Florida International Airport. Every villa sits on a private white-sand beach, every villa carries a shared boat dock with direct access to the 700-acre lake, and the whole neighborhood was hand-built by four of the community's most prestigious builders. Whether you are weighing a sale into a zero-competition market or trying to get ahead of the next quiet listing, this page covers the builders, the floor plans, the lots, the dock and lake access, the fees, and the live market numbers from start to finish.
McGreevy and Comisar are the best realtor team for Cortona at Miromar Lakes because we combine top-of-market credentials with neighborhood-level command of Costa Maggiore: the four founding builders, the custom villa floor plans, the shared-dock waterfront, and the seasonal-owner network where a sold-out enclave like Cortona quietly trades.
The Cortona market over the last 12 months: zero MLS resales closed, and as of June 2026 exactly one villa is actively listed, at $3,075,000 (roughly $952 per square foot for a 3-bedroom, 3,227-square-foot home). With only 19 villas in the entire neighborhood and no recent resale turnover, Cortona is one of the tightest single markets in the community. Community-wide, Miromar Lakes recorded 72 closed sales in the trailing 12 months at a median of $1,345,904, with 59 listings currently active and a top sale of $4.2M.
Selling your Cortona villa? One competing listing and no recent comps to anchor against you is a genuinely favorable setup. Get a confidential valuation at mcgreevyandcomisar.com/home-valuation or call Jesse direct at (239) 898-6072. Text or call.
Buying in Cortona? With a single villa on the open market and a neighborhood that is fully sold out of new-construction lots, the next opportunity will often surface off-market first. Call Marc at (239) 287-5873 to get ahead of it.
The eight facts that matter most about Cortona at Miromar Lakes:
The Team: Why McGreevy and Comisar · Key Takeaways
The Neighborhood: Overview of Cortona · Costa Maggiore Setting · The Villas & Floor Plans · Lot Sizes & Water Frontage · A Morning on Lake Como · Amenities & Lifestyle
Building & Buying: The Four Founding Builders · Build Quality & Villa Features · Resale Is the Only Way In Now · Shared Docks & Lake Access · Cost of Ownership & Fees · Insurance & Flood
The Market: Cortona Market Snapshot (June 2026) · Selling Your Cortona Villa
Questions & Resources: Buyer FAQs · Seller FAQs · Your Local Real Estate Experts · Explore More Neighborhoods · Sources & References
Cortona at Miromar Lakes is an intimate enclave of 19 custom luxury waterfront villas in the Costa Maggiore section, set on the northern shore of Lake Como between two winding inlets. Every villa has a private white-sand beach and a shared boat dock with direct lake access, and the neighborhood was hand-built by four of the community's most prestigious builders.
When Miromar Development announced Cortona in December 2017, the framing was deliberate: this was to be a small, design-forward villa neighborhood, not a sprawling estate section. Nineteen homes, each with its own custom floor plan, each set against a private slice of white-sand shoreline, each tied to the 700-acre lake by a shared dock. The neighborhood was positioned to expand Miromar Lakes north along Lake Como into Costa Maggiore, and the developer described the setting as lying "between two serene winding inlets," which is exactly the kind of protected, cove-like water frontage that villa buyers prize.
What makes Cortona distinct within Miromar Lakes is the blend of three things. First, scale and intimacy: at just 19 homes, Cortona is one of the smallest neighborhoods in the community, small enough that residents know one another and large enough to feel like a real street rather than a handful of outliers. Second, builder pedigree: four hand-picked builders, working from custom plans, produced a streetscape where no two villas are alike, yet all share the same high finish level. Third, the waterfront equation: a shared dock and a private beach deliver genuine lake access and water views without the price, upkeep, and permitting burden of a private estate dock.
The result is a neighborhood that sits in a specific and desirable place on the Miromar Lakes ladder. Cortona is more architecturally individual and more waterfront-oriented than the production villa neighborhoods, but more attainable and more lock-and-leave friendly than the trophy estate streets like San Lorenzo or Avellino. It is the villa buyer's answer to "I want the lake, I want a custom home, and I do not want estate-scale maintenance." And because the neighborhood sold out of buildable home sites years ago, every Cortona purchase today is a resale, which is precisely why a single active listing in a 19-home neighborhood is such a notable market signal.
Cortona sits within Costa Maggiore, the newest residential section of Miromar Lakes, which extends the community north along Lake Como. Costa Maggiore is the part of the community built out most recently, and Cortona is one of its signature waterfront villa addresses, sharing the sector with the Capri condominium buildings and the Sardinia beach-house enclave.
Understanding Costa Maggiore helps explain why Cortona feels newer and more architecturally current than much of Miromar Lakes. While the community's earliest neighborhoods date to the early 2000s, Costa Maggiore is the late-2010s expansion, and the homes here reflect that vintage: more contemporary lines, more glass, more open great-room living, and the energy-efficiency and construction standards of homes built within the last several years rather than two decades ago. For a buyer who wants the Miromar Lakes lifestyle but does not want a home that needs a gut renovation to feel current, Costa Maggiore, and Cortona specifically, is one of the strongest answers in the community.
The sector is organized around the same Lake Como waterfront that defines the rest of the community, but the northern reach gives Costa Maggiore a slightly quieter, more tucked-away feel, set a little apart from the highest-traffic amenity core while still being a short golf-cart ride from the Beach Club and marina. Cortona's position between two winding inlets adds to that sense of seclusion: the villas look out over protected, cove-like water rather than a single broad expanse, which softens wind and chop and creates more intimate sightlines from the lanai.
Within Costa Maggiore, Cortona's immediate neighbors illustrate the sector's range. Capri is a collection of waterfront luxury condominiums in mid-rise buildings, offering a lock-and-leave alternative for buyers who do not want a freestanding home. Sardinia is the Beach House Collection, a small enclave of three-story residences on the peninsula. Cortona threads between them as the detached-villa option: more privacy and individual architecture than a condo, more manageable scale than a beach-house estate. For buyers comparing the three, the choice usually comes down to how much home and maintenance they want and how important a private, freestanding villa with its own dock and beach frontage is to them.
The villas in Cortona at Miromar Lakes were built from custom floor plans by four builders, with the original models ranging from 2,742 to 3,026 square feet under air and 4,077 to 4,412 total square feet, in three- and four-bedroom configurations. Because each home was custom, no two Cortona villas are identical, though all share a similar luxury finish level and waterfront orientation.
The developer's original program for Cortona is well documented: four builders, each constructing three- and four-bedroom model homes, with the model square footage running from roughly 2,742 to 3,026 square feet of air-conditioned living space, and 4,077 to 4,412 total square feet once you count garages, lanais, and covered outdoor space. That spread tells you a lot about the product. These are substantial single-family-scale villas, larger than a typical coach home or condominium, sized for full-time living or a serious seasonal residence, but engineered as villas rather than estate homes, which keeps the footprint and the upkeep manageable.
Because Cortona was sold as a custom-villa neighborhood, the models were starting points rather than fixed products. Buyers worked with their chosen builder to adjust the plan: shifting a fourth bedroom or den, expanding the primary suite, reworking the kitchen, enlarging the lanai, or changing the way the home opens to the water. The practical consequence for today's resale buyer is that each of the 19 villas is genuinely a one-of-one. Two homes that look similar from the street can have meaningfully different interior layouts, ceiling treatments, and outdoor-living configurations. This is why a walk-through and a careful read of the floor plan matter so much in Cortona, and why we measure and compare homes feature by feature rather than relying on square footage alone.
While each villa is custom, the Cortona homes share a recognizable design logic that suits the lakefront setting:
The current active listing illustrates the product well: a 3-bedroom villa at 3,227 square feet, priced at $3,075,000, which works out to roughly $952 per square foot. That price per square foot reflects both the custom-villa finish level and the waterfront premium, and it is consistent with the upper tier of villa pricing in Miromar Lakes.
Cortona at Miromar Lakes was built by four of the community's hand-picked preferred builders: Arthur Rutenberg (AR Homes, through Lyons Housing), Divco Custom Homes, Fox Custom Builders, and Harbourside Custom Homes. Each constructed three- and four-bedroom model homes from custom plans, and Arthur Rutenberg, Divco, and Harbourside each also built an inventory home in the neighborhood.
One of the most reassuring things about buying a Cortona resale is the builder roster behind it. Miromar Development described the Cortona builders as "some of the region's most prestigious," and the four firms selected are all established, architecturally-review-approved builders with deep Southwest Florida track records. For a resale buyer, that pedigree matters: it means the homes were built to a high standard, by builders who understood the community's roofline, color, and landscape requirements, and whose work has held up.
AR Homes, the Fort Myers franchise of the Arthur Rutenberg legacy brand operated by Lyons Housing, is one of the most prolific luxury builders in Southwest Florida, with a long history inside Miromar Lakes, including work at Messina, Villa d'Este, and the estate streets. The brand is known for its signature indoor-outdoor "wall of glass" concept, which dissolves the line between the great room and the lanai, a natural fit for Cortona's lakefront orientation. Arthur Rutenberg built both a model and an inventory home in Cortona.
Divco Custom Homes has been building in and around Miromar Lakes for more than 35 years, and it is one of the community's most trusted custom builders, with a portfolio that ranges from the contemporary beachfront estates at Positano to bespoke work across the community's premier streets. Divco's reputation rests on transitional and contemporary design, deep wine rooms, and high-touch finish levels. Divco built both a model and an inventory home in Cortona.
Fox Custom Builders is a Southwest Florida luxury custom builder selected as one of Cortona's four founding builders, contributing a three- or four-bedroom model home to the neighborhood. As with the other Cortona builders, Fox's work was produced from custom plans, so its villas carry individual layouts and finish choices rather than a single repeated product.
Harbourside Custom Homes is a Naples-and-Fort-Myers-area luxury builder and one of Miromar Lakes' preferred firms, chosen as a Cortona founding builder. Harbourside built both a model home and an inventory home in Cortona, contributing to the neighborhood's mix of custom three- and four-bedroom villas.
The practical takeaway for buyers is that all four builders are known quantities with the relationships and the standards that the community demands. When we evaluate a specific Cortona resale, we identify which builder constructed it, because the builder is part of the home's story and part of its resale appeal, and because each firm's design tendencies tell you what to expect behind the front door.
Cortona villas at Miromar Lakes were built circa 2018 to 2021 to a luxury custom standard, which means newer construction, current energy and impact standards, and high-end interior and outdoor-living finishes relative to the community's older neighborhoods. The result is a home that typically needs little or no updating to live at a contemporary luxury level.
Vintage is one of Cortona's quiet advantages. Lee County records show villas on Via Torino Way completed in 2019 and 2020, consistent with the neighborhood's 2017 announcement, 2018 model openings, and deliveries running through roughly 2021. That late-2010s build window puts Cortona among the newer single-family product in Miromar Lakes, and it shows up in ways that matter to buyers and to long-term cost of ownership:
For a buyer, the value of this vintage is real: a Cortona villa is far more likely to be move-in ready at a contemporary luxury standard than a comparable home in one of the community's older sections, which often need kitchen, bath, and systems updates to reach the same level. For a seller, it is a genuine selling point that we lean on hard, because newer construction with current finishes commands a premium and shortens the buyer's mental renovation list to near zero.
Cortona villa lots at Miromar Lakes are villa-scale waterfront parcels set on the northern shore of Lake Como between two winding inlets, with each home positioned for water views, a private stretch of white-sand beach, and access to a shared boat dock. Lots are sized for substantial single-story villas rather than estate-scale footprints, which is what keeps the product manageable.
Cortona was designed as a villa neighborhood, so the lots are calibrated to the product: large enough to carry a 2,700-to-3,000-plus-square-foot home with a full lanai, pool, and spa, and oriented so that the rear of the home opens to the lake and the beach. Because the neighborhood sits between two winding inlets, the water frontage is protected and cove-like rather than exposed, which is part of why the setting reads as serene.
The defining feature of a Cortona lot is its relationship to the water. Each villa has a private white-sand beach, a rare amenity even within Miromar Lakes, and a shared boat dock that provides direct access to the 700-acre lake. The "shared dock" model is important to understand: rather than each villa carrying its own large private estate dock, Cortona villas are tied to shared dock infrastructure, which gives owners genuine lake access and boat storage without the cost, maintenance, and permitting complexity of a private slip. For most villa buyers, that is a feature, not a compromise: the lake is right there, the boat is right there, and the carrying cost is lower than an estate dock would be.
Because each villa is custom and each lot is individually positioned, we evaluate Cortona homes on their specific water orientation rather than on generic lot-size figures. The questions that move value here are concrete: How wide is the water view from the main living spaces? Does the lot sit on a protected inlet or face more open water? How private is the beach frontage? How convenient is the shared dock to the home? We pull the parcel record and the survey for any specific villa rather than rely on neighborhood averages, because in a 19-home enclave the differences between individual lots are exactly what determines the right price. Confirm current figures for any specific lot with us.
Every villa in Cortona at Miromar Lakes carries access to a shared boat dock with direct entry to the community's 700-acre freshwater lake, and the community's electric-only watercraft rules keep Lake Como quiet, clean, and well suited to skiing, cruising, and paddling. Shared-dock access delivers genuine lake living without the expense of a private estate slip.
Cortona's water access is one of its strongest selling points, and it works a little differently from the estate neighborhoods. Instead of a large private dock behind each home, Cortona villas are served by shared dock infrastructure, which is a common and well-regarded arrangement in luxury villa neighborhoods. The advantages are practical: lower individual cost, less maintenance, simpler permitting, and the same fundamental benefit, your boat on the lake, minutes from your back door.
Miromar Lakes is an electric-only watercraft community, with no internal combustion engines permitted on any of the community's lakes. That rule shapes the boating experience across the whole community, and it is part of why the water stays so clean and quiet:
Lake Como is the centerpiece of Miromar Lakes: a single contiguous 700-acre freshwater lake reaching depths of 26 to 40 feet, clean and sand-bottomed, with no public boat ramp and no outside traffic. It is large enough and deep enough for boating, water skiing, wakeboarding, sailing, kayaking, paddleboarding, and freshwater fishing, yet because it sits entirely within the gates and runs on electric power only, it never gets crowded or loud. One important note for buyers: Lake Como is an internal freshwater lake with no Gulf access. For most Cortona owners that is a feature, not a limitation: no salt, no red tide, no rip currents, and a clean, calm, swimmable lake right off the beach.
Beyond the shared neighborhood docks, Miromar Lakes operates a Marina on the Peninsula with gated boat storage, slip rentals, on-site and mobile fueling, boat-concierge services, powerboat and sailboat rentals, and guided fishing excursions. For a Cortona owner who wants both shared-dock convenience at home and additional services or storage, the marina rounds out the boating experience.
Mornings are the signature experience of Cortona at Miromar Lakes. The villas sit on protected, cove-like water between two inlets, so the lake at dawn lies glassy and still, and the electric-only community stays silent enough that the first sounds of the day are a heron lifting off the beach and a paddle dipping somewhere across the water.
The first thing you notice is the quiet. Because Miromar Lakes permits only electric watercraft, there is no engine noise, no early marina rumble, just the soft sounds of a lake waking up. From a Cortona lanai, the water between the two inlets is sheltered, which means it is often even calmer than the open lake: a sheet of pale gray-blue glass with a thin layer of mist hovering above the surface, the far shoreline barely separated from the sky.
The private beach is part of the ritual. A short walk from the lanai, the white sand meets the lake, and in the first hour of light the beach is yours alone. By the time the mist begins to burn off, the surface starts to ripple where a bass works the shallows, and the protected inlet water catches the early color and holds it. A single paddleboarder might round the bend, the only other person in sight.
The lanai is where this morning lives. The pool is still and dark from the overnight cool, the cage is dry, and the coffee is hot. You can sit at the outdoor table with the lake in front of you and the beach just beyond and not see another soul for an hour. By eight the lake is bright and the day takes shape; by mid-morning someone is on a paddleboard and an electric pontoon is easing out for a cruise. But the first ninety minutes belong to you, and in a 19-home neighborhood on a protected inlet, that solitude is real.
A Cortona at Miromar Lakes address includes the full Miromar Lakes Beach & Golf Club amenity package: roughly three miles of private white-sand beach, the Beach Club, two marinas, three restaurants, a European wellness spa, a 10,000-square-foot infinity pool, tennis, pickleball, bocce, and a fitness center, all a short golf-cart ride away, with golf available as a separate private membership.
One of the best things about buying a villa in Cortona is that the amenity experience is identical to the one enjoyed by owners of the community's most expensive estates. Miromar Lakes was engineered so that the five-star amenities are shared across every price point, which means a Cortona villa delivers the same lifestyle as a multimillion-dollar beachfront estate at a villa's scale and carrying cost.
Roughly three miles of private white-sand shoreline run along Lake Como inside the gates, anchored by the Beach Club and the beloved Blue Water Beach Grill, where residents arrive by boat, walk from the sand, or drive over. Private cabanas, beachfront pools, and full beach service make this one of the most distinctive amenities in the United States: a 700-acre freshwater lake paired with a private beach inside a single residential community.
The community's signature 10,000-square-foot zero-edge infinity pool overlooks Lake Como, among the largest residential community pools in Southwest Florida. A full European-style wellness spa offers massage, facials, and a complete salon, and a state-of-the-art fitness center runs daily with professional staff and scheduled classes.
Seven lighted Har-Tru clay tennis courts, a growing pickleball complex, and bocce courts host leagues, clinics, and round-robins year-round through the Racquet Club. For active residents, the racquet-sports program is one of the community's strongest social hubs.
Three on-site restaurants plus the Blue Water Beach Grill range from casual lakeside lunch to a formal evening room with a deep wine program. A professionally curated, year-round social calendar of galas, tournaments, wine dinners, and seasonal celebrations is where Cortona residents build genuine long-term friendships.
Miromar Lakes Golf Club features the only Arthur Hills Signature championship course in Southwest Florida, masterfully renovated by golf course architect Drew Rogers and recognized with Golfweek's Best Residential Course of Distinction award. Golf is a separate, optional private membership tier rather than part of base HOA dues, with a membership waitlist managed by the club. Buyers interested in golf should ask us about current initiation costs, dues, and waitlist status, all of which move year to year.
Miromar Lakes sits in Estero, in unincorporated Lee County, off I-75 at Corkscrew Road, immediately adjacent to Florida Gulf Coast University and the Miromar Outlets and positioned between Fort Myers and Naples. The headline number for travelers is proximity to Southwest Florida International Airport (RSW), roughly 10 to 15 minutes away, a convenience no Naples luxury community can match. Gulf beaches, Coconut Point shopping, and the Estero corridor's dining are all a short drive away.
New construction is no longer available in Cortona at Miromar Lakes: the neighborhood's 19 buildable home sites sold out years ago, so every purchase today is a resale of one of the existing custom villas. With just one villa actively listed as of June 2026 and no resales closed in the trailing 12 months, the resale market here is defined by genuine scarcity.
This is a key point for buyers to internalize. When Cortona launched in 2017 and 2018, you could buy a lot and build new with one of the four founding builders, or purchase a builder model or inventory home. That window has closed. The neighborhood is fully built out, all 19 villas are owned, and the only way in now is to buy from an existing owner when one decides to sell. In a neighborhood this small, that does not happen often.
The numbers tell the story. With 19 total villas, zero resales in the past year, and a single active listing, Cortona has one of the thinnest resale markets in Miromar Lakes. For buyers, that means patience and preparation: the right villa may not be listed at the moment you start looking, and when one does come available, it can attract serious interest quickly. For sellers, it means leverage: a well-prepared Cortona villa enters a market with little or no direct competition.
Because public inventory is so thin, the most valuable thing a buyer can have in Cortona is access to activity before it reaches the open market. A meaningful share of luxury activity at Miromar Lakes moves quietly through the seasonal-owner network, and we maintain relationships across the community that surface quiet and off-market opportunities. If you are serious about Cortona, the move is to get on our radar now, define exactly what you want in a villa (water orientation, builder, layout, beach frontage), and let us watch for it. Call Marc at (239) 287-5873.
Buying resale in Cortona also comes with real advantages over the original new-construction path. The villas are already built, already landscaped, and already tied into the shared dock and beach. Pools, summer kitchens, and outdoor living are in place. And because the homes are recent construction from custom builders, a Cortona resale is typically move-in ready at a contemporary luxury standard, without the 18-to-24-month timeline and selection risk of a ground-up build.
Owning a Cortona villa at Miromar Lakes involves several layers of cost beyond the purchase price: master-association HOA dues that fund the shared resort amenities, a Cortona sub-association fee covering villa-specific maintenance and the shared dock infrastructure, Community Development District (CDD) assessments on the tax bill, and optional club or golf membership. Total annual carrying costs typically run in the mid-five-figures.
It is worth understanding the fee structure conceptually before you buy, because total carrying cost is part of the real price of ownership. The cost stack at Miromar Lakes generally includes:
Specific dollar figures for HOA, sub-association, CDD, and club dues vary by neighborhood, home type, and the membership tier you select, and many figures circulating on third-party sites are out of date. Rather than publish numbers that may not reflect the current schedule, we confirm the exact, current dues for any specific Cortona villa directly with the association and obtain the estoppel documents before closing. McGreevy and Comisar will pull the parcel-specific fee picture, master dues, the Cortona sub-association line, the CDD assessment, and the current golf and club schedule, for any villa you are seriously considering, so there are no surprises after you own. Call Jesse at (239) 898-6072 or Marc at (239) 287-5873.
Insurance and flood considerations for a Cortona villa at Miromar Lakes depend on the specific lot's FEMA flood zone and the home's construction. Because Cortona villas are recent construction built to current Florida impact and elevation standards, and because they sit on lakefront lots, most buyers should plan to evaluate both flood and windstorm coverage as part of due diligence.
Two factors work in a Cortona owner's favor on insurance. First, vintage: villas built circa 2018 to 2021 were constructed to current Florida building codes, typically with impact-rated glass and modern roofing, which can favorably affect windstorm premiums compared with older homes. Second, the freshwater-lake setting is calmer than coastal Gulf-front exposure. That said, flood insurance requirements depend on the specific lot's FEMA flood-zone designation, and any buyer with a mortgage should expect to carry flood coverage given the lakefront location, regardless of strict requirement.
As part of any Cortona offer, we pull the elevation certificate and the FEMA flood-zone determination for the specific villa, and we help you get current insurance quotes early so the carrying cost is fully understood before you are committed. Insurance is one of the most important and most misunderstood line items in Southwest Florida luxury ownership, and we treat it as a core part of due diligence rather than an afterthought.
The Cortona at Miromar Lakes market is defined by scarcity. No MLS resale closed in the trailing 12 months, and as of June 2026 exactly one villa is actively listed, at $3,075,000 (a 3-bedroom, 3,227-square-foot home, roughly $952 per square foot). With only 19 villas in the entire neighborhood, turnover is genuinely rare, and a single listing represents the whole of the public market.
Cortona Metric (trailing 12 months) | Value |
|---|---|
Closed MLS sales | 0 |
Active listings (June 2026) | 1 |
Active list price | $3,075,000 |
Active villa profile | 3 bed, 3,227 sq ft (about $952 per sq ft) |
Total villas in neighborhood | 19 |
Median days on market (active) | about 76 |
Community context: across all of Miromar Lakes, 72 sales closed in the trailing 12 months at a median of $1,345,904, with a top sale of $4.2M. The lone Cortona active listing at $3,075,000 sits well above the community-wide median, consistent with its custom-villa finish level and waterfront position. There are 59 active listings community-wide (June 2026). On the rental side, Miromar Lakes leases at roughly 100% of asking price, with a median achieved rent of $7,500 per month community-wide. With zero Cortona resales in the past year, there is no recent in-neighborhood comp, which is exactly why pricing a Cortona villa is a specialist exercise built on the live active listing, the community-wide data, and the home's specific custom features rather than on a simple comparable sale.
Neighborhood figures from Stellar MLS Matrix for the Miromar Lakes Beach & Golf Club development, trailing 12 months as of June 2026; grouped by MLS Sub/Condo name; updated periodically.
If you have been thinking "should I sell my Cortona home," the June 2026 setup is favorable: there is no recent Cortona resale comp working against you, and only one competing villa is on the market. As your Cortona listing agent, McGreevy and Comisar, the Top 1% of real estate agents nationally since 2008 and the #1 team in Southwest Florida since 2012, will position your villa on its own merits, its builder, its custom layout, its water orientation, and its beach and dock access, rather than letting it be anchored to a stale or irrelevant number.
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Pricing a Cortona villa is a specialist's job. With zero recent resales in the neighborhood, the number cannot come from a simple comp; it has to be built from the live active listing, the community-wide market, your villa's builder and custom features, its specific water orientation and beach frontage, and the off-market context that never reaches public data. We price from that full picture, market to the national and international buyer pool that shops Miromar Lakes waterfront, and run confidential or off-market processes when discretion matters more than maximum exposure. As the Domain Realty Group team that has sold over $2.5 billion in real estate, we have the reach to put your villa in front of the right buyer wherever they live.
Start with the number: get a confidential Cortona home valuation at mcgreevyandcomisar.com/home-valuation. Call Jesse direct at (239) 898-6072. Text or call. Confidential conversations welcome.
Buying in Cortona? Call Marc at (239) 287-5873.
These are the questions we field most often from serious Cortona at Miromar Lakes buyers: location, the villas, the builders, costs, docks, fees, and timing. If yours is not here, call us and we will answer it directly.
Cortona is a villa enclave in the Costa Maggiore section of Miromar Lakes Beach & Golf Club in Miromar Lakes, FL (zip 33913), set on the northern shore of Lake Como between two winding inlets. It is gated within the master gates of Miromar Lakes and is a short golf-cart ride from the Beach Club, marina, and clubhouse.
Cortona is a neighborhood of 19 custom luxury waterfront villas. The original models ranged from 2,742 to 3,026 square feet under air (4,077 to 4,412 total square feet), in three- and four-bedroom configurations, built by four preferred builders from custom floor plans. Because each home was custom, no two villas are identical.
Just 19 villas. Cortona is one of the smallest neighborhoods in Miromar Lakes, which is a major reason resale turnover is so scarce and a single active listing represents the entire public market.
Four of Miromar Lakes' hand-picked preferred builders built Cortona: Arthur Rutenberg (AR Homes, through Lyons Housing), Divco Custom Homes, Fox Custom Builders, and Harbourside Custom Homes. Each constructed three- and four-bedroom model homes, and Arthur Rutenberg, Divco, and Harbourside each also built an inventory home in the neighborhood.
Cortona was announced by Miromar Development in December 2017, with model homes opening in 2018 and villas delivered roughly 2019 through 2021. Lee County records show villas on Via Torino Way completed in 2019 and 2020. That makes Cortona among the newer single-family product in Miromar Lakes.
No. Cortona's 19 buildable home sites sold out years ago, and the neighborhood is fully built out. Every purchase today is a resale of one of the existing custom villas. With only one villa listed as of June 2026, inventory is genuinely scarce, which is why getting on our radar early matters.
As of June 2026 there is a single active Cortona villa on the market: a 3-bedroom home of 3,227 square feet listed at $3,075,000, which works out to roughly $952 per square foot. For current availability, including any off-market opportunities, call Marc at (239) 287-5873.
Yes, in the form of shared dock access. Each villa carries access to a shared boat dock with direct entry to the 700-acre lake. The shared-dock model gives owners genuine lake access and boat storage without the cost, maintenance, and permitting of a large private estate dock.
A private dock is owned and maintained by a single homeowner behind their own home, which is the norm in the estate neighborhoods. Cortona uses shared dock infrastructure serving the villas, which lowers individual cost and maintenance while still delivering direct lake access. For most villa buyers, the shared-dock arrangement is a practical advantage rather than a compromise.
Yes. Each villa in Cortona is set on a private white-sand beach, a rare amenity even within Miromar Lakes, in addition to the community's roughly three miles of private beach along Lake Como. The protected, inlet setting makes the Cortona beachfront especially calm.
Miromar Lakes is an electric-only watercraft community, so no internal combustion engines are permitted on the water. Residents typically keep electric ski and wake boats, electric pontoons, and paddle craft. The community also operates a Marina on the Peninsula with additional storage, slip rentals, fueling, and concierge services.
No. Lake Como is an internal 700-acre freshwater lake with no Gulf access, reaching depths of 26 to 40 feet. For most buyers the freshwater setting is a feature: clean, calm, swimmable water with no salt, no red tide, no rip currents, and no jellyfish, ideal for skiing, cruising, paddling, and fishing.
Costa Maggiore is the newest residential section of Miromar Lakes, extending the community north along Lake Como. Cortona is one of its signature waterfront villa addresses, sharing the sector with the Capri condominium buildings and the Sardinia beach-house enclave. Homes in Costa Maggiore are generally newer construction than the community's earliest neighborhoods.
The original models ran 2,742 to 3,026 square feet under air and 4,077 to 4,412 total square feet, in three- and four-bedroom plans. Individual resale villas vary because each was custom-built. The current active listing is a 3-bedroom home at 3,227 square feet, which illustrates the upper range of the product.
The villas favor single-story or predominantly single-story living, which keeps the main living spaces on the lake level and the sightlines low and wide across the water. Because each home was custom, specific configurations vary, so we confirm the layout of any particular villa from its floor plan.
Ownership includes master-association HOA dues, a Cortona sub-association fee covering villa-specific maintenance and the shared dock and beach infrastructure, CDD assessments on the tax bill, and optional club or golf membership. Total annual carrying costs typically run in the mid-five-figures, but exact figures vary; we pull the parcel-specific fee picture and the estoppel for any villa you are considering.
No. Golf at Miromar Lakes is a separate, optional private membership tier and is not included in base HOA dues. The course is the only Arthur Hills Signature championship layout in Southwest Florida, renovated by Drew Rogers. There is a membership waitlist; ask us about current initiation fees, dues, transfer rules, and waitlist status, which change year to year.
Access to the 700-acre lake system, the white-sand Beach Club and three miles of private beach, three restaurants, two marinas, the European wellness spa, the 10,000-square-foot infinity pool, the fitness center, seven Har-Tru tennis courts, pickleball, bocce, a botanical park, a 50-seat theater, gated 24/7 security, and a full year-round social calendar. The amenity experience is identical across every price point in the community.
Roughly 10 to 15 minutes, one of the closest luxury communities to a major Florida airport. The proximity is a meaningful factor for buyers who fly in regularly, whether private or commercial.
Miromar Lakes is in the Lee County School District, which uses a proximity-based school-choice model rather than a single guaranteed assigned school. Families with school-age children should confirm current options and the application process directly with the Lee County School District for the specific address. Florida Gulf Coast University is immediately adjacent for higher education.
It depends on the specific lot's FEMA flood-zone designation, but most buyers with a mortgage will carry flood insurance given the lakefront location. Because Cortona villas are recent construction built to current Florida codes, windstorm coverage can be more favorable than for older homes. We pull the elevation certificate and flood-zone determination and help you get insurance quotes early as part of due diligence.
Miromar Lakes Beach & Golf Club is a single master-gated community with 24/7 manned security at the main gates. Cortona sits inside those master gates. There is no separate sub-gate within Cortona itself; the neighborhood is part of the larger gated footprint.
Miromar Lakes restricts short-term rentals, with minimum lease terms enforced at the master HOA level. Cortona is overwhelmingly owner-occupied or seasonally occupied. Buyers planning to use a villa as an investment rental should plan around the minimum-lease requirements. Community-wide, Miromar Lakes rentals lease at roughly 100% of asking price, with a median achieved rent of $7,500 per month.
Lee County property tax rates run in the 1.1% to 1.5% range of assessed value depending on millage and special assessments, so a roughly $3M villa typically generates an annual tax bill in the $33,000 to $45,000 range before exemptions. Homestead exemptions reduce this materially for primary residents, and the Save Our Homes assessment cap helps long-tenured owners. Confirm specific figures with us and the Lee County Property Appraiser.
Jesse McGreevy and Marc Comisar of McGreevy and Comisar (Domain Realty), the Top 1% of real estate agents nationally since 2008, cover Miromar Lakes and the Cortona villa enclave specifically. The team knows the four founding builders, the custom villa floor plans, the shared-dock waterfront, and the seasonal-owner network that drives most quiet activity in a sold-out neighborhood like this one.
January through April is peak season, with the most active buyers and the most competition for any listing. May through October is quieter, sometimes with more flexibility. November and December pick up as seasonal owners arrive. In a 19-home neighborhood with so little turnover, though, the right villa can surface in any month, which is why we watch the neighborhood year-round for clients who are serious.
Selling a Cortona at Miromar Lakes villa is a different exercise than selling almost anywhere else in Southwest Florida: there is no recent in-neighborhood comp, inventory is nearly nonexistent, and the villa's custom features and builder are central to its value. Here is what Cortona owners ask us most.
With zero Cortona resales in the trailing 12 months, your value cannot come from a simple comp. It is built from the live active listing (currently $3,075,000, roughly $952 per square foot), the community-wide market, your villa's builder and custom features, its water orientation and beach frontage, and the off-market context we track. Start with a confidential valuation at mcgreevyandcomisar.com/home-valuation or call Jesse direct at (239) 898-6072.
Carefully and from multiple inputs, because no single comparable exists. We anchor to the live active listing and the community-wide data, then adjust for the factors that actually move value in a 19-home custom-villa neighborhood: which of the four builders constructed the home, the specific floor plan and square footage, the water orientation and view, the beach frontage, the condition and finish level, and the shared-dock convenience. We also factor the off-market trades that never reach public data. The result is a defensible number rather than a guess.
It means leverage. With just one competing villa and no recent resale comp working against you, a well-prepared Cortona home enters the market with little direct competition. Scarcity is one of the strongest pricing positions a seller can hold, and if you would rather test demand quietly first, confidential and off-market representation is available.
It depends on pricing and presentation. The lone active listing has been on the market roughly 76 days, which is typical for luxury waterfront, where the buyer pool is national, seasonal, and deliberate. Pricing correctly from day one against the live market is what keeps a listing from sitting through a full season; the peak buyer window runs January through April.
Yes, meaningfully. Cortona was built by four respected firms, Arthur Rutenberg, Divco, Fox, and Harbourside, and the builder is part of the home's story and its resale appeal. We make sure the builder pedigree, the custom features, and the quality of the construction are front and center in how your villa is presented, because buyers at this level pay attention to who built the home.
It does. Direct lake access is a core part of what makes Cortona desirable, and the shared-dock arrangement delivers that access at a lower carrying cost than a private estate dock. We present the water access and the private beach the way luxury buyers actually evaluate them, because for a waterfront villa, the water is the headline.
Often, yes. Many Southwest Florida luxury and seasonal homes sell furnished, and a well-furnished Cortona villa can present beautifully and appeal to a turnkey buyer. Whether it makes sense depends on the quality of the furnishings and the target buyer. We walk through the home and advise you specifically rather than applying a blanket rule.
Yes. A meaningful share of luxury activity at Miromar Lakes moves quietly through the seasonal-owner network without ever hitting the MLS. We maintain relationships with qualified buyers who shop this product and price point, and we regularly run confidential processes for owners who want a result without a public listing. Call Jesse direct at (239) 898-6072. Confidential conversations welcome.
At this price band, marketing means reaching the national and international buyer pool that shops Miromar Lakes waterfront, not just local portal traffic. As the Domain Realty Group team that has sold over $2.5 billion in real estate, we present your villa's builder, custom layout, water orientation, beach, and dock the way luxury buyers and appraisers evaluate them, pair professional photography and video with broad digital and agent-network marketing, and add direct outreach to our qualified-buyer network.
Base HOA amenities, the Beach Club, marina, spa, fitness, tennis, run with the property. Golf is a separate, optional membership tier with its own transfer rules, initiation fees, and waitlist status that change year to year. We confirm the current transfer terms as part of preparing your listing so buyers have a clean answer up front.
An estoppel is the formal statement from the association confirming your account status, dues paid, assessments outstanding, transfer fees owed. Florida closings on HOA properties require one, and at Miromar Lakes there are master-association and Cortona sub-association layers to clear. We order and review the estoppels as a standard part of our closing management so nothing surfaces late.
Because Cortona villas are recent construction, most are already at a contemporary luxury standard, so wholesale renovation is rarely necessary. Selective preparation, addressing presentation, refreshing where it counts, and staging the water-facing living spaces, usually delivers more than a major project. We run the math on your specific villa before you spend anything.
Usually selectively rather than wholesale. Cortona buyers are buying the lake and the lifestyle first, so presentation centers on the view corridor: the sightline from the entry through the great room to the water, the lanai and pool, the private beach, and the dock. We walk every listing room by room before photography and tell you honestly what to touch and what to leave alone.
January through April is peak season, with the most active buyers and the most competition for their attention. November and December are increasingly strong as seasonal owners arrive ahead of the new year. With so little inventory, though, a serious Cortona listing commands attention in any month; the calendar matters less when you are one of only a couple of options in the whole neighborhood.
Miromar Lakes waterfront has appreciated meaningfully over the last decade, with the post-2020 cycle pushing well-located homes to record price-per-square-foot. Cortona's combination of recent construction, custom-builder quality, shared-dock water access, and private beach has kept it among the more sought-after villa products in the community. With the single active listing near $952 per square foot, the price-per-foot story remains strong. We are happy to share the current market picture on request.
Because the credentials and the street-level knowledge are both real: Top 1% of real estate agents nationally since 2008, the #1 team in Southwest Florida since 2012 (Domain Realty Group), over $2.5 billion sold as a team and over $900 million by McGreevy and Comisar alone, plus genuine command of Cortona's four founding builders, its custom villa floor plans, the shared-dock waterfront, and the seasonal-owner network where a sold-out neighborhood's quiet deals actually happen.
A confidential valuation conversation, no listing paperwork, no commitment. We will walk the villa, build a defensible price from the live market and your home's specific features, and lay out both paths: a full-exposure MLS launch or a quiet off-market process. Start at mcgreevyandcomisar.com/home-valuation or call Jesse direct at (239) 898-6072. Text or call.
McGreevy and Comisar are the best realtor team for Cortona at Miromar Lakes. Sellers and buyers alike work with the same credentials:
Jesse McGreevy: (239) 898-6072 · [email protected]
Marc Comisar: (239) 287-5873
Office: 24031 S. Tamiami Trail, Suite 101, Bonita Springs, FL 34135
Jesse McGreevy is a licensed Florida real estate agent (FREC SL3101296). Marc Comisar is a licensed Florida real estate broker associate (FREC BK3060671). Both with Domain Realty.
McGreevy and Comisar are part of Domain Realty, Southwest Florida's full-service brokerage. Learn more at DomainRealtyGroup.com.
Cortona is one enclave in a community of remarkable neighborhoods. Start with the full Miromar Lakes community guide, then explore the price-adjacent siblings below.
Dedicated pages for every Miromar Lakes neighborhood are rolling out; we'll link each as it goes live.
Market data: live Stellar MLS Matrix pull for the Miromar Lakes Beach & Golf Club development, trailing 12 months as of June 2026. Additional references, official, government, and builder-corporate sources only:
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