Villas at Barefoot Beach is a 50-villa, fee-simple, party-wall community on Barefoot Cir in Barefoot Beach, Collier County. Built 1989 to 2002 per the county, not a condominium, four leases a year. Call McGreevy and Comisar, (239) 898-6072.
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By Jesse McGreevy and Marc Comisar, McGreevy and Comisar, Domain Realty Group. Updated October 2026.
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Villas at Barefoot Beach is a 50-villa, fee-simple, party-wall community on Barefoot Cir, inside the master-planned community of Barefoot Beach in unincorporated Collier County, Florida, with a Bonita Springs mailing address. Bonita Springs or Naples? The mailing address says Bonita Springs, ZIP 34134, but the villas sit in unincorporated Collier County, inside neither the City of Bonita Springs nor the City of Naples, so Collier County sets the zoning, permits and flood rules.
The signature fact about this community is a mismatch. The Collier County property roll codes all 50 villas as condominium use, and the Villas are not a condominium. Each owner holds a deed to a villa parcel in fee simple, the homes share party walls with their neighbors, and the owners are governed by a homeowners’ association under chapter 720 of the Florida Statutes, not by a condominium association under chapter 718. That difference changes which disclosure papers a buyer receives, which insurance the owner carries, and which inspection and reserve statutes apply. This page explains each of those consequences with the recorded document or statute behind it.
Two other names are easy to confuse with this one. The Barefoot Beach Club that appears in many web searches is a set of unrelated hotels in Pinellas County, Florida. Closer to home, Barefoot Beach Club is the 348-unit condominium community on the boulevard, and The Club at Barefoot Beach is a separate private beach and tennis club whose membership does not convey with any deed. Neither is the Villas.
We wrote this page the way we would brief a buyer or seller we were representing. Every fact carries a source, every conflict between sources is printed with both sides, and every figure that comes from the Southwest Florida MLS is from our pull of October 3, 2026 and is printed as a count or an actual sale, not an estimate.
The Villas occupy a small tract near the north county line, on Barefoot Cir, which joins Barefoot Beach Blvd about 70 meters north of Anguilla Ln by our reading of the Census road layer. The street numbers run from 101 to 179 Barefoot Cir. The county’s roll places all 50 parcels in Section 6, and the Villas’ zoning is a planned unit development of their own, not the main Barefoot Beach planned unit development that governs the single-family lanes and the condominiums.
The Villas association’s public site lists a guard house phone number and a gate access system, and the recorded Master Association bylaws list the Villas as one of eight member entities behind the 24-hour security on the boulevard. Whether the villa entrance sits before or after that guard gate is a question this page returns to, because the public record does not settle it.
Item | Record |
|---|---|
Addresses | 101 to 179 Barefoot Cir, Bonita Springs, FL 34134 (unincorporated Collier County) |
Homes | 50 party-wall villas, fee simple, one deed per villa |
Year built | 1989 to 2002 per the Collier County 2026 preliminary tax roll (32 villas 1989 to 1992, 18 villas 1997 to 2002) |
County base area | 1,723 to 3,352 sq ft, median 2,136 sq ft (county roll, not a measured heated area) |
Form of ownership | Fee-simple villa parcels, not a condominium; the county roll codes them as condominium use |
Association layers | Villas homeowners’ association (chapter 720) and the Barefoot Beach Master Association (50 of 716 doors, or 7.0 percent) |
Zoning | Lely Barefoot Beach Condominium PUD (Ordinances 85-22 and 87-52), a separate 50-unit planned unit development |
FEMA flood zone | AE, base flood elevation 10 to 11 ft NAVD88 at the five addresses we tested (see the flood section) |
Schools (2026-27 district locator) | Naples Park Elementary, North Naples Middle, Aubrey Rogers High; confirm by address |
County 2026 preliminary just value | $1,117,000 to $2,449,200, median $1,328,000 |
County recorded sales | 1 qualified sale in 12 months and 4 in 60 months (listed in the market snapshot) |
Assessments | Not published in any primary document we found; see the fee section |
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Recent Villas at Barefoot Beach track record (last 12 months): Domain Realty, our brokerage, closed 24 transaction sides in ZIP code 34134, the ZIP code Barefoot Beach shares, in the 12 months to October 5, 2026, for $24.0 million in volume counted by side, per the Southwest Florida MLS pulled that day. The Southwest Florida MLS, pulled October 3, 2026, shows 2 Villas closings in the 12 months to that date, at $5,500,000 on May 8, 2026 and $1,500,000 on February 25, 2026, and 9 in the 60 months. The highest-priced sale was the $5,500,000 closing, which sold against a final list price of $5,995,000, and the $1,500,000 closing sold against a final list price of $1,650,000. Two sales are too few for a median or a ratio, so we print each sale. What we can state from public records: Collier County’s file shows one qualified Villas sale in the last 12 months, $1,500,000 on February 24, 2026, and four in the last 60 months, a different count because the county and the MLS count sales differently. We tracked every one of those four qualified sales, and every one of the 110 recorded Villas sales in the county’s all-history file, for this page.
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A Villas at Barefoot Beach homebuyer gets a fee-simple, party-wall villa of roughly 1,700 to 3,350 square feet of county base area in Barefoot Beach, with the association painting the exterior and tending the landscaping. The trade is a Board approval step on every sale, a four-lease-a-year rental cap, and an owner-carried insurance policy. Our guide to buying a home in Villas at Barefoot Beach covers what a buyer should read first: the recorded sales, the documents and the costs.
Data updated: October 2026
The best evidence of what a homeowners’ association intends to provide is its recorded declaration, so we start there. The Amended and Restated Declaration of Covenants, Conditions and Restrictions was recorded on January 28, 2002 at Official Records Book 2970, Page 2281, and we read all 46 pages. It makes the association responsible for the common areas, the pools and the roadways, for landscaping on the villa parcels, and for painting, maintaining and repairing the exterior building surfaces, with the exterior work charged back to the owner whose villa receives it. The owner keeps the interior, the windows and shutters, and the insurance on the villa itself.
The Villas suit a buyer who wants a single-owner, deeded villa instead of a condominium unit, who values an association that handles exterior paint and landscape on a recurring schedule, and who is comfortable with a Board that reviews every purchaser. They suit a buyer who plans to live in the home most of the year or to rent it a few times a year, because the recorded leasing rules cap rentals at four a year with a 30-day minimum. They also suit a buyer who prefers to insure the structure directly, since the owner, not the association, carries the villa policy.
The Villas do not suit a buyer who needs unlimited rental flexibility, a buyer who plans to bring a tenant with a pet (the declaration says no lessee may keep a pet of any kind), or a buyer who needs a published fee schedule on day one, because no primary document we found states a dollar assessment. They also do not suit a buyer who assumes this is a condominium and expects the condominium statutes, with their milestone inspection and reserve study rules, to protect the purchase. Those statutes do not reach a chapter 720 community.
Florida gives buyers in a homeowners’ association community different protections than it gives condominium buyers. Under Florida Statute 720.401, a prospective parcel owner must be presented a disclosure summary before signing the contract, the contract must carry a conspicuous clause about it, and a buyer who did not receive the summary in time may cancel within 3 days after receiving it or before closing, whichever comes first. For the Villas, ask for these first:
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Villas at Barefoot Beach recorded 4 county-qualified sales in the 60 months since October 2021, between $1,500,000 and $3,500,000, all resales, and one of them, $1,500,000 on February 24, 2026, fell in the last 12 months. These are county records of qualified Department of Revenue sales, not Southwest Florida MLS closings.
Data updated: October 2026
Our method widens the window, 12, 24, 36 and then 60 months, until it holds at least 10 qualified sales, and it lists the sales instead of quoting a median whenever a window holds fewer than 10. The Villas never reach 10 inside five years, so the table shows the count and range for each window and the sales themselves follow. The county file was built from Collier County Property Appraiser files dated August 29 and August 31, 2026, and the newest recorded sale in it is dated August 24, 2026.
Window | Qualified sales | Lowest | Highest | Median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Last 12 months (since October 2025) | 1 | $1,500,000 | $1,500,000 | Not shown, fewer than 10 sales |
Last 24 months | 2 | $1,500,000 | $2,000,000 | Not shown, fewer than 10 sales |
Last 36 months | 3 | $1,500,000 | $3,500,000 | Not shown, fewer than 10 sales |
Last 60 months (since October 2021) | 4 | $1,500,000 | $3,500,000 | Not shown, fewer than 10 sales |
Qualified Department of Revenue sales are a county record, not MLS. They exclude transfers the state does not treat as arm’s length, and they can lag a closing by weeks.
We tracked every one of the 4 qualified Villas sales in the last 60 months. All four are resales, none is builder-direct, and each is listed here with the county’s base area and the recorded instrument. Price per square foot is the sale price divided by the county base area, which is the roll’s building area and not a measured heated area.
Date | Address | Villa no. | Year built | County base area | Price | Per sq ft | Official Records |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Oct 12, 2021 | 105 Barefoot Cir | 24 | 2002 | 3,352 sq ft | $1,500,000 | $447 | OR 6026 PG 3578 |
Dec 26, 2023 | 145 Barefoot Cir | 4 | 1990 | 2,136 sq ft | $3,500,000 | $1,639 | OR 6318 PG 2998 |
Mar 25, 2025 | 166 Barefoot Cir | 35 | 1998 | 2,460 sq ft | $2,000,000 | $813 | OR 6454 PG 2963 |
Feb 24, 2026 | 117 Barefoot Cir | 18 | 1997 | 2,528 sq ft | $1,500,000 | $593 | OR 6557 PG 1636 |
The four sales span a 3.7-to-1 range of price per square foot, $447 to $1,639, because they are four different villas: a 2002 villa of 3,352 square feet, a 1990 villa of 2,136 square feet, and two from the 1997 to 1998 campaign. Four sales cannot tell you what a villa is worth, only how wide the range is.
The county file also holds six recorded deeds over $100,000 in the same 60 months that carry no qualified flag. They are real recorded transfers, and we list them separately and never fold them into the qualified four, average them or treat them as a price guide. The county file explains that its qualified flag is thin in 2022 and 2024, and our reading is that the 2022 storm year may account for some of the gaps, which is our inference and not a county statement.
Date | Address | Villa no. | County base area | Recorded price | Per sq ft | Official Records |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Feb 24, 2022 | 162 Barefoot Cir | 37 | 2,136 sq ft | $1,850,000 | $866 | OR 6100 PG 2413 |
Apr 27, 2022 | 121 Barefoot Cir | 16 | 2,664 sq ft | $1,500,000 | $563 | OR 6130 PG 3567 |
May 13, 2022 | 164 Barefoot Cir | 36 | 1,959 sq ft | $3,000,000 | $1,531 | OR 6130 PG 1966 |
Dec 18, 2023 | 170 Barefoot Cir | 33 | 2,466 sq ft | $2,000,000 | $811 | OR 6315 PG 3955 |
Aug 28, 2025 | 123 Barefoot Cir | 15 | 2,330 sq ft | $1,750,000 | $751 | OR 6504 PG 3181 |
May 7, 2026 | 145 Barefoot Cir | 4 | 2,136 sq ft | $5,500,000 | $2,575 | OR 6586 PG 1811 |
One villa appears in both lists. The 2,136 square foot villa at 145 Barefoot Cir has a county-qualified sale of $3,500,000 on December 26, 2023 and a recorded deed of $5,500,000 on May 7, 2026 that carries no qualified flag. The two prices differ by $2,000,000, which is 57.1 percent of the earlier one ($2,000,000 divided by $3,500,000). The county file does not say why the second deed is unqualified, and we do not know whether the price reflects renovation, an unusual transfer or something else. A buyer or appraiser who sees $5,500,000 should ask for the deed’s context before using it as a comparable.
The county’s all-history file holds 110 recorded Villas sales, $77,379,800 in total volume, with prices from $255,000 to $3,500,000 and a median of $620,250. Of the 110, 32 are builder-direct sales and 78 are resales. That median is not a price guide. The file reaches back to the first villa sale recorded on August 4, 1989, so it mixes builder prices from the original sales campaigns with resales three decades later, and a villa sold new in 1990 for a few hundred thousand dollars says nothing about what a comparable villa costs today. Use the four listed qualified sales and the nearest like villa instead.
One qualified sale in 12 months on 50 villas is 1 divided by 50, or 2.0 percent a year. Four qualified sales in 60 months is 4 divided by 50 divided by 5 years, or 1.6 percent a year. Add the six unqualified deeds and the turnover is higher, but the county does not class those deeds, so we do not blend them. Either way, turnover is low for a community of 50, which means a villa that reaches the market is competing with very few comparables.
The Southwest Florida MLS, pulled October 3, 2026, shows 2 Villas closings in the 12 months to that date and 9 in the 60 months, at $1,500,000 to $5,500,000. Nine sales are too few for a median, so we print the sales: the two in the last 12 months closed at $5,500,000 on May 8, 2026, after 320 days on market against a final list price of $5,995,000, and $1,500,000 on February 25, 2026, after 108 days against a final list price of $1,650,000. Three villas were active on October 3, 2026, listed at $1,495,000, $2,699,900 and $2,995,000, and none was pending, an indicative 18.0 months of supply on 2 closings a year. The pull carries no floor plan names, and MLS living area on the 9 closings ran from 1,946 to 2,755 square feet. These are MLS counts, a different measure from the county record above, and we do not blend the two.
The yardsticks below come from each community’s own county file, built from the same Collier County Property Appraiser data. A median appears only where the community has 10 or more qualified sales in the 60-month window.
Community | Homes | Roll years built | Form of ownership | Lease minimum | 60-month qualified sales | 2026 preliminary median just value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Villas at Barefoot Beach | 50 | 1989 to 2002 | Fee-simple villas, chapter 720 HOA | 30 days, 4 leases a year | 4, listed above, range $1,500,000 to $3,500,000 | $1,328,000 |
15 | 1997 (1) and 2023 (14) | Condominium of detached homes | Not confirmed | 1, $5,500,000 on June 24, 2026 | $2,868,554 | |
348 | 1991 to 1995 | Condominium (four associations under a Club umbrella) | 30 days, 3 leases a year | 32, median $1,862,500 | $1,582,030 | |
112 parcels, 100 improved | 1990 to 2025 | Property owners’ association | 60 days, 3 leases a year | 29, median $3,850,000 | $2,603,340 | |
13 parcels, 9 improved | 2002 to 2017 | Homeowners’ association, outside the gate | 30 days, 3 per 12 months | 3, range $1,950,000 to $3,475,000 | $2,407,512 | |
All Barefoot Beach residential | 694 parcels, 635 improved | 1979 to 2025 | Mixed | Varies | 85, median $2,950,000 | $1,878,934 |
On the county’s own roll, the Villas carry the lowest median just value of the six rows, $1,328,000 against $1,582,030 at the Club, the next lowest. A villa is a deeded home with its own lot and party walls, and the Club is twelve mid-rise condominium buildings, so the two are different products at different county values. Just value is the assessor’s figure and not a sale price, which the homes section explains.
The county record gives you a range, but it cannot tell you which of the villa plans, which row, which campaign year and which condition your own villa belongs to. We can. Request a free home valuation or text or call Jesse direct at (239) 898-6072.
Villas at Barefoot Beach began as a 1981 zoning approval for a 220-unit, 180-foot condominium tower. Collier County cut it to 110 units and 100 feet in 1985 and to 50 units in 1987, and the tower was never built. Fifty villas followed, and the county roll dates them from 1989 to 2002.
Data updated: October 2026
Every ordinance below is a recorded Collier County instrument, and each row cites the document or filing we read.
Date | Instrument | What it did |
|---|---|---|
Sep 27, 1977 | Created the main Lely Barefoot Beach planned unit development | |
Dec 1, 1981 | Approved the condominium site: 220 units, up to 180 feet | |
Jun 4, 1985 | Cut the condominium site to 110 units and 100 feet | |
Dec 17, 1985 | Rewrote the main planned unit development | |
Jul 21, 1987 | Cut the condominium site to 50 units; no access from Anguilla Lane into the site | |
Apr 5, 1989 | Declaration, OR 1430 PG 367 | Original declaration of covenants, 74 pages, recorded reference only |
Apr 7, 1989 | Sunbiz filing N31594 | The Villas at Barefoot Beach Homeowners’ Association, Inc. incorporated |
Aug 4, 1989 | County sales file | First recorded villa sale |
Jan 28, 2002 | The governing declaration today, 46 pages |
We read the 2002 restatement in full. The 1989 declaration and the later amendments are listed by book and page from the Clerk’s index, and we did not open them.
Barefoot Beach is entitled under two separate planned unit developments, not one. The main Lely Barefoot Beach PUD covers the single-family lanes, the Club, Southport on the Bay, Bayfront Gardens and the Cottages. The Villas sit in the Lely Barefoot Beach Condominium PUD, Ordinances 85-22 and 87-52, a separate 50-unit district at the north county line between Bonita Beach Road and Anguilla Ln. The county’s own PUD layer lists it as built out.
The two numbers worth keeping apart are the unit caps. The 1985 text of the main PUD, Ordinance 85-83, reads a 690-unit maximum, and a tract-by-tract sum of later amendments reaches 750. We publish 690 as the 1985 ordinance text and 750 as that later-amendment tract sum, and neither includes the Villas’ 50.
The Villas’ zoning district is named the Lely Barefoot Beach Condominium PUD, because in 1981 and 1985 the site was planned as a condominium tower. The county property appraiser’s roll codes all 50 parcels as condominium use. Those two facts probably explain the label, which is our reading, but neither one makes the homes a condominium. Whether a community is a condominium depends on whether a declaration of condominium was recorded under chapter 718, and we found no Division of Florida Condominiums, Timeshares and Mobile Homes record for the Villas, the same agency that lists condominium projects statewide. What the Villas record is a declaration of covenants, conditions and restrictions, in which each owner holds a deed to a villa parcel, the structure and the lot.
The county’s PUD layer measures the Villas PUD at 8.7 acres. Our reading of the ordinances gives 9.15 acres. The parcel pieces on the county roll add to 6.86 acres: 50 villa footprints of 0.031 to 0.034 acre each plus a 5.23 acre common parcel at 116 Barefoot Cir. We publish all three because the sources differ in what they count, and the zoning atlas and a current survey are the route to settle it. A separate 180 by 600 foot county beach strip, described in the 1985 ordinance, 85-22, separates part of the site from the Gulf.
The original developer recorded the 1989 declaration, and a 1992 corrective amendment, OR 1683 PG 1211, names Barefoot Associates, Ltd. with a corporate partner. The developer of the main Lely Barefoot Beach community, Lely Development Corporation, is the same corporation as Lely Estates under another name. The Villas homeowners’ association has been a Florida not-for-profit since 1989, filed April 7, 1989, with amended and restated articles dated January 10, 2002 and a reinstatement on March 23, 2004, per the Florida Division of Corporations. The recorded amendments between the 1989 declaration and the 2002 restatement are dated July 25, 1996 (OR 2209 PG 2121 and PG 2178), August 1, 1997 (OR 2335 PG 1626) and October 30, 1998 (OR 2475 PG 2547), and a 2018 notice, OR 5511 PG 3933, runs 80 pages. We did not open that notice and we do not rely on it.
Article 12.1 of the 2002 declaration sets the term at 30 years from 1989, renewing automatically in 10-year terms, and Section 12.2 allows amendment by a two-thirds vote. Section 13.12 says the declaration prevails over the bylaws if they conflict. So a buyer reading the documents should read the 2002 declaration first, the bylaws second, and any later recorded amendment on top.
The 50 Villas at Barefoot Beach are party-wall homes of 1,723 to 3,352 square feet of county base area, built in two campaigns, 32 villas in 1989 to 1992 and 18 in 1997 to 2002. The median is 2,136 square feet, and the 2026 preliminary county just value ranges from $1,117,000 to $2,449,200.
Data updated: October 2026
Each villa is its own parcel with its own recorded description. The county’s short legal description for every parcel reads “Villa” and a number from 1 to 50 in The Villas at Barefoot Beach, and 20 of the 50 cite the 1989 declaration at OR 1430, 14 cite the 1997 recording at OR 2335 and the rest cite other recorded supplements or none. That is the fee-simple structure in the public record: the owner holds title to the lot and the building, not an undivided share of common elements the way a condominium unit owner does. The common land is a separate 5.23 acre parcel at 116 Barefoot Cir, which the county lists at a nominal $100 just value, and Section 3.8 of the declaration says the entryway and interior roadway system is common area property owned by the association.
Each parcel includes a garage. The declaration says no garage may be permanently enclosed or converted to another use, and residents must park overnight in the garage or on their own driveway.
Campaign | Villas | Villa numbers | Years built on the roll | Plans (county base area) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
First | 32 | 1 to 14, 27 to 29, 36 to 50 | 1989 (1), 1990 (23), 1991 (5), 1992 (3) | 1,723 (1), 1,959 (6), 2,136 (25) |
Second | 18 | 15 to 26, 30 to 35 | 1997 (4), 1998 (3), 1999 (3), 2002 (8) | 2,271 to 2,664 (10), 3,244 to 3,352 (8) |
The counts add: 1 + 23 + 5 + 3 = 32 and 4 + 3 + 3 + 8 = 18, which makes 50. The first campaign is the workhorse plan: 25 of its 32 villas are the same 2,136 square foot design. The second campaign added larger homes, ten villas of 2,271 to 2,664 square feet in 1997 to 1999, and eight of 3,244 to 3,352 square feet in 2002. The county base area is the roll’s building area, which counts garage and enclosed space differently from a marketing floor plan, so treat the figures as a comparison tool and not a listing measurement.
Just value is the Collier County Property Appraiser’s 2026 preliminary valuation for tax purposes, not a sale price. Sorting the 50 villas by it produces three groups, and the middle one is the biggest.
Group | Villas | 2026 preliminary just value | Median | Homestead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Villa numbers 1 to 10, addresses 133 to 151 (odd), built 1989 to 1990 | 10 | $2,259,925 to $2,449,200 | $2,352,200 | 2 of 10 |
The eight 2002 villas, addresses 101 to 115 (odd), 3,244 to 3,352 sq ft | 8 | $1,640,072 to $1,705,776 | $1,648,856 | 3 of 8 |
All other villas | 32 | $1,117,000 to $1,376,000 | $1,253,660 | 13 of 32 |
The groups add to 10 + 8 + 32 = 50 villas and 2 + 3 + 13 = 18 homesteads. The unusual one is the first. Nine of those ten villas are the same 2,136 square foot plan as sixteen villas in the third group, yet the county values the nine at a median of $2,354,200 and the sixteen at $1,117,000 to $1,337,008. Across all 25 villas of the 2,136 plan the high is $2,449,200 and the low is $1,117,000, a ratio of 2.19 to 1 ($2,449,200 divided by $1,117,000). On value per square foot of base area the first group’s median is $1,102, the third group’s is $583 and the 2002 group’s is $506.
Why would the assessor value an identical plan at twice the price? The research we ran points to location, but only by inference: it reads the 133 to 151 row as the Gulf-side row from the value step itself, with no map check, so that reading is not confirmed. A buyer should not assume it. Ask for the survey and look at where a specific villa sits.
One more reason to treat just value carefully: it is not a market price. The villa at 145 Barefoot Cir, in the 133 to 151 row, has a 2026 just value of $2,342,200, which is 66.9 percent of its $3,500,000 qualified sale in December 2023 ($2,342,200 divided by $3,500,000) and 42.6 percent of its $5,500,000 recorded deed in May 2026 ($2,342,200 divided by $5,500,000).
On the county’s 2026 preliminary roll, 18 of the 50 villas carry the Florida homestead exemption, which is 36 percent. Homestead is a proxy for full-time residency by the owner and not a count of residents: an owner who lives in the villa most of the year files for it, an owner who lives elsewhere does not, and some full-time owners do not file. The other 32 villas are second homes, rentals, trust or entity holdings, or primary residences without the exemption, and the roll does not say which.
The villas share party walls with their neighbors, and Section 7.1 of the declaration governs how owners share the cost and care of those walls, with liens available to enforce the shares. Section 3.3 gives each villa parcel an 8-foot easement for air conditioning equipment around the building, and Section 3.7 validates minor encroachments of a structure across a lot line or into common area. Section 1.14 bars subdividing or joining parcels without the association’s consent, so a buyer cannot assume two adjacent villas can be combined.
A villa buyer’s amenities come in three tiers: what the Villas association holds, what the Barefoot Beach Master Association provides across the community, and what requires a separate membership or a public permit. The Villas’ own recorded amenities are pools, roads and landscaping; the guard-gated boulevard is the Master’s; the beach club is separate.
The 2002 declaration lists “pools, spas, roadways, retention ponds, driveways and sidewalks” among the common areas the association maintains at common expense. The Villas association’s public site lists committees for architectural review, hurricane preparedness, landscape restoration, landscape maintenance, pools and security. We do not have the number of pools, their hours or their rules, and the association’s document pages are behind a login we did not enter, so the pool rules, any spa and any gate or guest-pass procedure are routed to the association and the seller’s document package.
Section 11.7 of the declaration is a rule worth knowing: a villa owner whose villa is leased may not use the recreation facilities or common areas during the lease term. An owner who rents the villa gives up the pools for the lease period.
The Barefoot Beach Master Association, Inc. owns, maintains and controls the roughly 1.8-mile Barefoot Beach Boulevard and provides the security, according to its recorded 2011 bylaws and a 2009 turnover agreement from the single-family owners’ association that requires the guardhouse to be staffed around the clock. The Master has eight member entities and 716 doors, and the Villas’ 50 doors are 7.0 percent of that count (50 divided by 716). The Villas association’s public site refers to “our Entrance Guardhouse”, lists a guard house phone and carries an announcement that the Master Board approved a change of security contractor in November 2024 and that a new online owner registration system would be used. We do not name the contractor.
The Club at Barefoot Beach, Inc. at 105 Shell Dr is a separate private member-owned beach and tennis club. Its own site says capacity is 425 and that waitlist applications have been paused since June 1, 2026, and its membership does not convey with a Villas deed, so a buyer who wants the club should treat it as a separate application and not as a feature of the home. The Barefoot Beach Preserve to the south is a 342-acre preserve on state land that Collier County leases and operates as a park. Collier County’s beach parking page lists pay-to-park at $10 a day without a permit and a free permit for part-time owners with a tax bill or deed, and a buyer should confirm the current terms on that page. We could not confirm tennis, fitness or clubhouse facilities inside the Villas themselves, and we do not assert any.
No dollar assessment figure for the Villas appears in any primary document we found, and we did not import one from a listing or directory. What the recorded documents do say is what the assessments are for and how they are billed, and that is the part a buyer can check against the budget.
Data updated: October 2026
Under Section 8.2 of the declaration, assessments fund security, health, safety and the general welfare of the owners, and the operation, maintenance, repair, improvement and reconstruction of the common areas. Section 4.3 makes the common areas, the pools, the roadways and the landscaping on the villa parcels a common expense. If the Board contracts for bulk cable television for all villas, Section 8.2 makes that cost a common expense too, and we could not confirm whether the association has such a contract. Common expenses also include reserve accounts for renovation of the common areas and for emergency repairs after a storm, fire or other casualty.
The association paints, maintains and repairs the exterior building surfaces of every villa, including walls, doors, steps, gutters and roofs, under Section 4.3(C), and the cost is a particular expense billed to the owner of that villa and secured by a lien, not spread across the common expense. The same section lets the association supply pest control for the inside of each villa at the owner’s cost, with a right for the owner to decline unless the Board finds the service necessary to protect the other villas. So a villa owner’s yearly cost is the regular assessment plus any exterior and pest-control charges billed to that villa.
Each owner pays a one-fiftieth share of the annual and special assessments for common expenses (Section 8.3). The bylaws, recorded as Exhibit E to the declaration, bill regular assessments quarterly in advance on January 1, April 1, July 1 and October 1 (Bylaws 6.5), and require a financial report within 60 days after each fiscal year ends (Bylaws 6.8). Reserves are discretionary: the Board “may” establish restricted reserve accounts (Bylaws 6.4). The Villas are a homeowners’ association, so the condominium reserve statutes do not apply to them, a point the milestone section covers.
The bylaws cap the total of special assessments coming due in a fiscal year at 15 percent of the total annual budget, including reserves, unless a majority of the voting interests first consent (Bylaws 6.6). A separate declaration provision, Section 6.12(B), says that when common areas are damaged and insurance and reserves fall short, the association must levy a special assessment for the deficiency and that special assessments for that purpose need not be approved by the owners. Section 13.12 says the declaration prevails over the bylaws if they conflict. How those provisions interact after a storm is a question for the association’s attorney, and it is the reason a buyer should ask for every special assessment notice and its stated purpose.
Assessments paid within 10 days of the due date bear no interest. After that they bear interest at the highest rate the law allows and may carry a late fee (Section 8.7), and the association holds a lien that mirrors the condominium lien-foreclosure procedure the declaration borrows from Florida Statute 718.116 (Section 8.5). The lien is subordinate to a recorded institutional first mortgage unless the lien was recorded first (Section 8.6). Section 8.1 makes a new owner jointly and severally liable with the seller for unpaid assessments, which is why the estoppel certificate, and not the seller’s word, is the number to close on.
The Villas association is a member of the Barefoot Beach Master Association, and the Master’s charges fund the boulevard and security. The Master bylaws count the Villas as 50 of 716 doors, and how that share reaches a villa owner, through the Villas budget or in some other way, is not stated in any document we read. Ask for the Villas budget and the estoppel certificate, and ask the manager to show the Master line.
Owning a Villas at Barefoot Beach home costs the county tax bill, the owner’s own property and flood insurance, the regular assessment and any exterior or pest-control charges, plus one-time approval, estoppel and recording costs at a sale. On the county roll the median 2026 preliminary tax bill is $11,846 across the 50 villas.
Data updated: October 2026
The county’s 2026 preliminary millage on every Villas parcel is 9.4020 mills, made of the county at 3.9293, the school board at 4.1470 and other taxing units at 1.3257, with no municipal levy because the villas are in unincorporated Collier County. Check: 3.9293 + 4.1470 + 1.3257 = 9.4020.
Take the median just value of $1,328,000. As an illustration for a non-homestead purchase at that value, before exemptions and non-ad valorem charges: $1,328,000 divided by 1,000 is 1,328, and 1,328 times 9.4020 is $12,485.86, about $12,486. The county’s actual median 2026 preliminary tax bill across the 50 villas is $11,846. The actual bills run lower because 18 of the 50 parcels carry the homestead exemption and its assessment cap: the homestead median is $7,233, and the 32 non-homestead parcels have a median of $12,206. Source: Collier County Property Appraiser, 2026 preliminary tax roll. A new buyer should budget the non-homestead figure, since a Florida purchase resets the assessment, and the tax bill will not be final until the roll is certified.
Section 6.2 of the declaration says each owner insures his own parcel, villa and contents and bears the financial responsibility for damage that insurance would cover. The owner must deliver a copy of the policy to the association when taking title and evidence of renewal each year, and if an owner does not carry the insurance the association may buy it and charge the owner as a special assessment with interest. The association carries property insurance on the common areas, general liability, and flood insurance for its property “as and if available” through the National Flood Insurance Program (Section 6.1). Premiums are not published for any home, and we do not estimate them. Wind, flood and liability are separate decisions for a villa owner and should be quoted by address before a contract is signed, using the flood section below.
Florida’s documentary stamp tax on a deed is 70 cents per $100 of consideration under Florida Statute 201.02. On the lowest qualified Villas sale, $1,500,000, that is 15,000 times $0.70, or $10,500, and on the highest, $3,500,000, it is 35,000 times $0.70, or $24,500. In Collier County the buyer customarily pays for the owner’s title policy and chooses the closing agent, and the contract controls both. We never list the owner’s title policy as a seller cost.
The Villas at Barefoot Beach Homeowners’ Association, Inc. is governed by the 2002 Amended and Restated Declaration, its bylaws and an Architectural Review Board. Exterior changes need written approval, every sale needs Board approval on 30 days’ notice, every lease needs approval, and fines are capped at $100 per violation after notice and a hearing.
Each row below comes from the 2002 Amended and Restated Declaration, recorded at OR 2970 PG 2281, which we read in full.
Topic | Section | What the declaration says |
|---|---|---|
Use | 9.1 | One family per villa; residential use only; no business conducted in or from a villa, though a home office for records and calls is allowed |
Pets | 9.3 | Owner may keep two dogs or cats; a guest one; lessees none |
Signs | 9.5 | No for-sale or for-rent signs, except two open-house signs at locations the Board approves |
Garages | 9.6 | Garages may not be permanently enclosed or converted; doors closed at night |
Vehicles | 9.8 | Residents park overnight in the garage or on their own driveway; trucks, motorcycles, recreational vehicles, boats, trailers and commercial vehicles are barred overnight |
Construction hours | 9.9 | Monday to Friday 7:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Saturday 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., except emergency repairs |
Trash | 9.11(D) | Containers kept in the garage; carts out after 6:00 p.m. the evening before collection and returned the same day |
Guests in the owner’s absence | 9.12 | Four guest occupancies a year, two weeks each, no more than six people |
Fines | 9.14 | Up to $100 per violation after 14 days’ notice and a hearing before a panel of three |
Section 4.1 bars any material alteration or substantial addition to the exterior of a villa or parcel without the association’s prior written approval, and Article V sets up the Architectural Review Board. Review reaches window and door coverings visible from outside, and an owner can appeal a Review Board decision to the Board of Directors within 30 days. The association’s public site lists what its Review Board looks at: stairs, windows, siding, doors, exterior lighting, garage doors and exterior paint. Section 4.2 makes an owner who modifies a villa financially responsible for insuring, maintaining and repairing the change and for any damage it causes to common elements or other villas. A buyer planning a renovation, a hurricane-shutter change or a new garage door should ask for the approval history for that villa before closing.
Every sale needs the Board’s approval. Section 10.2(A) says no owner may dispose of a villa by sale or gift, including an agreement for deed, without the Board’s prior written approval, and Section 10.3 sets the procedure:
For a buyer or seller, the practical effect is a calendar. We write a Villas contract with a Board-approval condition and a closing date that leaves at least 30 days after the notice goes in, and we send the notice the day the contract is signed. The statutory estoppel form asks whether the rules require Board approval for a transfer and whether the Board has approved this one, so the certificate will say where the approval stands.
The declaration caps a fine at $100 per violation and requires at least 14 days’ written notice and a hearing before a panel of at least three members who are not officers, directors or employees, who must approve the fine by majority vote (Section 9.14). That tracks Florida Statute 720.305, which also allows a daily fine for a continuing violation up to $1,000 in the aggregate unless the governing documents say otherwise, says a fine under $1,000 cannot become a lien, and lets the association suspend use of common areas for a reasonable period. Section 4.4 separately lets the association enter a parcel to fix a violation of the maintenance duties and bill the owner, with a lien.
An amendment needs a two-thirds vote under Section 12.2, and Section 13.12 says the declaration prevails over the bylaws. The declaration’s certificate on assessments is due within 15 days after a request (Section 8.9). The statute says 10 business days for the estoppel certificate, and we plan a closing calendar around the shorter statutory period. Under Florida Statute 720.303, an owner may inspect the association’s official records within 10 business days after a written request, and Section 6.7 of the declaration says a summary of the master insurance coverage and copies of the master policies are available for inspection by owners on request.
Yes, within limits. The recorded declaration allows no more than four leases of a villa in a calendar year, each at least 30 days and no more than one year, to a natural person, with Board approval on 10 days’ notice. A lessee may not keep a pet, and the owner may not use the pools or common areas during the lease.
Article XI states its purpose as fostering a stable residential community and preventing a “motel-like atmosphere”, and it sets these rules:
The owner gives the Board written notice at least 10 days before the first day of occupancy, with the lessee’s name and address, a fully executed copy of the lease and any information the Board reasonably requires. The Board has 10 days to approve or disapprove, and silence is treated as approval, with a written letter of approval on demand (Section 11.1). Disapproval takes a majority of the whole Board, on listed grounds that include a delinquent owner, a history of leasing without approval, an application that shows the lessee will not follow the covenants, a lessee with a listed felony or a history of disregarding the rights of others, financial irresponsibility, false information and an unpaid fee or deposit. A lease signed without approval may be treated as a nullity, and the Board may evict on five days’ notice.
The declaration’s 30-day minimum is stricter than a weekend or weekly vacation rental, so nightly and weekly rentals are not allowed by the recorded rules. Separately, Collier County Ordinance 2021-45, in force since January 3, 2022, requires registration of a short-term vacation rental, and the county’s own page applies it to a property rented in increments of less than 30 consecutive days or less than one full calendar month more than three times in a calendar year. Rentals of at least 30 consecutive days do not need that registration, and unregistered rentals that do need it face fines of up to $500 per violation per day, according to the Collier County short-term vacation rental page. Rentals of six months or less can also carry Florida sales tax and the Collier County tourist development tax, so an owner should confirm the current rules with the Collier County Tax Collector and the Florida Department of Revenue before advertising a villa.
The Villas allow four leases a year with a 30-day minimum. Barefoot Beach Club allows three leases a year with a 30-day minimum, and Southport on the Bay allows three with a 60-day minimum, according to recorded documents we read. The single-family lanes sit under a stricter 90-day minimum and one lease a year, Barefoot Estates carries that rule beside 1995 covenants that read a one-month minimum, and Barefoot Bay allows 30 days and three leases per 12 months. We could not confirm the Cottages’ lease term. For an investor, the Villas’ four-leases cap is the most permissive of the communities whose recorded terms we read, and the 30-day floor still rules out vacation-rental turnover.
Yes, with limits. Section 9.3 of the 2002 declaration lets a villa owner keep two dogs or cats, lets an owner’s guests keep one, and bars lessees from keeping pets of any kind. Pets must be leashed or carried outside the villa, and the Board can order removal of a pet that becomes an unreasonable annoyance.
The declaration describes the right to keep a pet as “a privilege, not a right”. It requires owners to clean up and dispose of waste and to repair any damage the pet causes, and it bars keeping or breeding pets for any commercial purpose. It bans reptiles, monkeys, rodents, amphibians, poultry and swine on any part of the properties. No weight limit and no breed restriction appear in the declaration, and we have not seen the association’s rules and regulations, which could add detail.
An owner’s guests and invitees may have one dog or cat each, and no lessee may have a pet of any kind while in any villa or on any part of the community (Section 9.3). That is a strict rule, and it matters to an investor who wants pet-owning tenants. Federal and Florida fair housing law treat a verified assistance animal differently from a pet, so the pet clause does not decide a request for a service or emotional support animal, and an owner or tenant should ask the association about its process.
Every Villas address we tested sits in FEMA Zone AE with a base flood elevation of 10 or 11 feet NAVD88 on panels 0178 and 0179, effective February 8, 2024, and the community is in Hurricane Evacuation Zone A. No Villas parcel touches a Coastal Barrier Resources System unit, so federal flood insurance is available.
Data updated: October 2026
We queried the FEMA National Flood Hazard Layer on October 1, 2026 at five Villas addresses spread across Barefoot Cir. The county address point at each falls in the zone shown, and the footprint shares in the last column are our reading of the public map layers, not a survey. The current maps took effect February 8, 2024.
Address | Flood zone | Base flood elevation (ft NAVD88) | FIRM panel | Share of building footprint in the zone |
|---|---|---|---|---|
101 Barefoot Cir | AE | 10 | 12021C0179J | 100 percent AE 10 |
121 Barefoot Cir | AE | 10 | 12021C0178J | 100 percent AE 10 |
140 Barefoot Cir | AE | 11 | 12021C0178J | 98 percent AE 11 and 2 percent AE 10 |
160 Barefoot Cir | AE | 10 | 12021C0178J | 100 percent AE 10 |
179 Barefoot Cir | AE | 10 | 12021C0179J | 100 percent AE 10 |
The five rows are a sample, not a community-wide zone. A screen of all 50 parcels found that 31 touch an AE 10 area, 21 touch AE 11 and 12 touch AE 12, with overlapping counts because some parcels span more than one band, and none touches a coastal high hazard (VE) area. The parcel at 140 Barefoot Cir is 77 percent AE 11 and 23 percent AE 10 across the whole lot, which is why the footprint share and the parcel share differ. Check the specific villa you are considering against the FEMA map and an elevation certificate. Collier County’s elevation-certificate index holds 16 records on Barefoot Cir, and that index is a public starting point, though a certificate on file for one address does not make a determination for another. One of those 16 records, filed under the address 169 Barefoot Cir, carries a V-zone label in the county’s index; we did not open it, our parcel screen of the current map found no villa parcel touching a VE area, and a buyer of that address should ask for its current elevation certificate.
By our reading of the public map layers, each of the five addresses sits landward of the Limit of Moderate Wave Action, by margins of 5 meters at 140 Barefoot Cir, 11 at 121, 14 at 101, 27 at 179 and 31 at 160. At margins that small, which side of the line a given building falls on is unresolved without the printed FIRM panel and an elevation certificate, and we do not assert it. The Limit of Moderate Wave Action is FEMA’s mapped inland limit of waves of 1.5 feet or more during the base flood, so a building near it faces more wave force than one far inside.
The villas are in Hurricane Evacuation Zone A, the lowest-lying and most surge-prone of Collier County’s evacuation zones, and a buyer can confirm the address through the state’s Know Your Zone tool. Unincorporated Collier County is a Community Rating System Class 5 community, which gives a 25 percent discount on National Flood Insurance Program premiums for properties in the special flood hazard area. FEMA’s preliminary pending flood layer, which we queried on October 1, 2026, shows the same zones and base flood elevations at 101 and 179 Barefoot Cir and does not revise panel 0178, which holds the other three addresses, so the effective zones stand at all five, and Collier County announced in August 2026 a proposed Flood Insurance Rate Map. Maps change, so confirm the current status before closing.
The U.S. Geological Survey recorded a Hurricane Ian high-water mark of 11.76 feet NAVD88 inside the gates at Barefoot Beach Blvd and Anguilla Ln, which is 4.5 feet above the ground there and about 1.8 feet above the base flood elevation of 10 feet (11.76 minus 10 is 1.76). For Hurricane Milton in 2024, the Survey’s mark near the community was 6.8 feet NAVD88. Those marks come from government measurements. We did not find any recorded or government document that reports storm damage to any individual Villas building, and we do not assert any. The association’s public site lists a Hurricane Preparedness committee and a Landscape Restoration committee with a post-Hurricane Milton plan for replacing community landscape, and the Barefoot Beach Preserve reopened on November 24, 2023 after Hurricane Ian.
Section 6.2 of the declaration puts the villa and its contents on the owner’s own policy, with proof of renewal each year, and Section 6.1 says the association carries property insurance on common areas and association property, general liability and flood insurance for its own property as and if available. A villa owner therefore needs a property policy for wind and other hazards, and, because the building sits in a special flood hazard area, a flood policy. National Flood Insurance Program coverage has dollar caps on a residential building and its contents, and a villa valued above the caps would need excess flood coverage, so ask the agent for current limits. We do not publish premium figures. Price the policy by address, with the villa’s roof age and window protection in hand, before the contract’s inspection period ends.
Our reading of the public map layers puts the Villas 20 to 158 meters seaward of the 1989 state Coastal Construction Control Line. Florida law, Florida Statute 627.351(6)(a)5.b, bars Citizens Property Insurance Corporation from covering a new or enlarged-by-more-than-25-percent major structure seaward of the line under a permit applied for after July 1, 2015. Because the Villas were built from 1989 to 2002, the rule matters if a villa is rebuilt or substantially enlarged, and a buyer planning either should ask the insurer and the county before relying on a Citizens policy. The line itself is the Florida Department of Environmental Protection’s, so confirm it there.
The ordinary-building design wind speed (Risk Category II) at the Barefoot Beach address points is 161 miles an hour on Collier County’s wind contour layer for the Florida Building Code, eighth edition. By our reading of the code’s definition, the community sits within the wind-borne debris region, where new windows, doors and replacement openings need impact-rated glazing or shutters. Section 4.1 of the declaration puts windows and storm or hurricane shutters on the owner, so the owner decides and pays, subject to Review Board approval of the exterior look.
No. Florida’s milestone inspection and structural integrity reserve study rules are in Florida Statutes 553.899 and 718.112, which govern condominium and cooperative buildings. Villas at Barefoot Beach is a chapter 720 homeowners’ association of fee-simple villas, so neither statute applies to it, and no inspection or reserve-study deadline attaches to the community.
Florida Statute 553.899 is titled “Mandatory structural inspections for condominium and cooperative buildings”, and the reserve-study duty sits in the condominium chapter at Florida Statute 718.112. The Villas are not a condominium: we found no condominium record for them, the county lists each villa as its own parcel, and the recorded instrument is a declaration of covenants, conditions and restrictions. The condominium’s purchaser package in Florida Statute 718.503 likewise does not apply. The chapter 720 protection is the disclosure summary in Florida Statute 720.401 and the estoppel and records rights described above.
A buyer protected by no inspection statute should ask for the same information on purpose:
Collier County Public Schools’ 2026-27 school zone locator assigns the Villas at Barefoot Beach to Naples Park Elementary, North Naples Middle and Aubrey Rogers High, and all three earned an A in the Florida Department of Education’s 2025-26 school grades. Zones can change, so confirm the assignment for your address in the district’s locator.
Data updated: October 2026
We queried the Collier County Public Schools zone data for 101 Barefoot Cir on October 1, 2026 and it returned the same three schools listed above. The community is in Collier County, not Lee County, so Lee County’s schools do not serve it, even though the mailing address says Bonita Springs. Naples Park Elementary is about 7.8 miles by road from 253 Barefoot Beach Blvd, a distance we measured with a public routing service and label as an estimate, and the Villas are at the north end of the community, so the figure is an upper estimate for them.
The Florida Department of Education school grades page is where the grades live, and the Collier County Public Schools transportation page states the district’s bus policies. Zones, choice programs and bus eligibility are address-specific and can change between school years, and a buyer with school-age children should verify all three in the district locator and with the district before making an offer, not from a real estate page. Charter and choice options are listed on the district’s charter schools page.
Collier County, not a city, issues the permits and sets the zoning for the Villas. The Villas are in their own Condominium PUD, the Florida Department of Environmental Protection controls the Coastal Construction Control Line, and Collier County enforces floodplain and sea turtle rules. Exterior work also needs Review Board approval from the association.
Because the villas are in unincorporated Collier County, building permits come from Collier County’s Growth Management Department, and a buyer can search a villa’s permit history on the county’s permit history search page before buying. Zoning is set by the planned unit development ordinances, 85-22 and 87-52, and not by a city. We did not retrieve the planned unit development document’s use and setback standards in full, and a buyer planning an addition should ask the county’s planning staff what the ordinance allows on a villa parcel. The association’s own approval sits on top of the county’s, and Section 1.14 prevents combining or dividing parcels without the association.
In a special flood hazard area, Collier County’s floodplain management rules apply a substantial-improvement test to additions and renovations, and the county publishes a substantial improvement and substantial damage worksheet for it. A major renovation or a rebuild after storm damage can trigger current flood standards, and the owner’s duty under Section 6.3 of the declaration to start repairs within 90 days and finish within nine months runs alongside that review. The county’s building within the floodplain page is the starting point.
Collier County’s sea turtle protection program governs nesting-season activity on county beaches, and Land Development Code section 3.04.02 regulates lighting for development within 300 feet of coastal mean high water. Construction seaward of the state Coastal Construction Control Line needs a state permit, as the Florida Department of Environmental Protection’s Coastal Construction Control Line page explains, and our reading of the public layers puts the Villas seaward of the 1989 line. A buyer who plans exterior work on the Gulf side should ask the state and the county before drawing plans.
Two recorded instruments connect the Villas to county projects, and we state only what the records show.
On February 4, 2019, the Villas association recorded a temporary construction easement to Collier County at OR 5595 PG 1933, for the county’s “Barefoot Beach Boardwalk” project. We read the instrument. It expires one year from completion of construction or the end of the contractor’s one-year warranty, whichever the instrument provides, and it is a temporary construction easement, not a dedication of land.
On May 17, 2023, a block of “Temporary Beach Restoration Easement” instruments to Collier County was recorded for the project the instruments call “Beach Restoration”, for construction of a berm seaward of the baseline. The Clerk’s index lists the Villas association’s instrument at OR 6248 PG 1303. We did not open that page. We opened a sibling instrument in the same recorded block, and the block’s instruments state that they are not a public dedication and that they terminate automatically on December 31, 2043. Collier County also announced in April 2026 that an upcoming beach renourishment project needs easements, in its news release. Ask the association for any easement it has signed or is asked to sign.
Daily life at the Villas runs through the Barefoot Beach gate and the 1.8-mile private boulevard. The beach is a public preserve at the boulevard’s end, the Villas’ own pools sit inside the community, trash and mail follow county and postal practice, and the nearest interstate access and airport are an estimated 6.7 and 22 miles from the Club at 260 Barefoot Beach Blvd.
Data updated: October 2026
The gate question has a documented part and an undocumented part, and we do not blur them. Documented: Section 3.8 of the declaration makes the entryway and interior roadway system common area owned by the Villas association and lets the association establish a security gate at the entryway and limit access to the interior roads. The Barefoot Beach Master Association’s bylaws, recorded at OR 4675 PG 2424, say the Master owns, maintains and controls “the entire north/south roadway” of about 1.8 miles plus security, and a 2009 recorded turnover agreement requires the Master to staff the guardhouse around the clock. The Villas association’s public site calls the guard house “our Entrance Guardhouse” and lists a guard house phone and a gate access system. Not documented: whether a visitor to a villa passes the Master’s guard gate before turning onto Barefoot Cir or turns in first, and whether the Villas have a second gate of their own. We did not confirm either, and we do not assert one. A buyer should drive in as a guest and ask the manager, and we will say what we learn when we do.
The guest and vendor procedure, the staffing hours and any resident decal or transponder rule are not confirmed in any source we could approve. They are set by the Master and the Villas association, and the manager can supply them.
The boulevard is privately owned by the Master Association, and the State of Florida holds a recorded permanent 60-foot ingress and egress easement over the boulevard corridor, recorded at OR 1376 PG 279 in 1988. Both facts are in the record, and we do not characterize any dispute. The boulevard ends at the Barefoot Beach Preserve, a 342-acre preserve on state land leased to Collier County for 50 years from 1990 that reopened on November 24, 2023 after Hurricane Ian. Collier County’s preserve page and beach parking page describe the park and its parking, and the Friends of Barefoot Beach describe the preserve. We did not confirm a private beach or a recorded beach-access easement for the Villas, and the 1985 ordinance, 85-22, describes a 180 by 600 foot county beach strip. A buyer for whom beach access matters should ask for the survey and the recorded deed.
Parking rules come from the declaration: residents park overnight in the garage or on their own driveway, no truck, boat, trailer, recreational vehicle or commercial vehicle may park overnight, and visitor vehicles may stay overnight only if they do not block anyone. On trash, Section 9.11(D) keeps containers in the garage and bars carts at the curb until after 6:00 p.m. the evening before collection. Collier County’s residential collection is twice-weekly household waste with weekly recycling and yard waste, with days by address in the county’s collection-day lookup, and we could not confirm that the Villas use county service and not a private hauler. The nearest U.S. Postal Service retail unit we found is on Bonita Beach Road, and we could not confirm the delivery arrangement for Barefoot Cir.
Water and sewer: not confirmed. The Villas are in Collier County, outside Bonita Springs Utilities’ franchise area, which the utility describes as the City of Bonita Springs, part of Estero and unincorporated south Lee County, and the provider is not confirmed. Electric: Florida Power and Light’s tariff lists unincorporated Collier among its service areas, so FPL is the likely provider, which a buyer should confirm with an account lookup. Natural gas, internet and cable providers by address: not confirmed. The declaration allows the Board to contract for bulk cable for all villas and treat it as a common expense, and we could not confirm that it has. Ask the manager what services the regular assessment includes.
North Collier Fire Control and Rescue District Station 43 at 16325 Vanderbilt Dr, which the district says serves Barefoot Beach, is the nearest station; the Collier County Sheriff’s Office District 1 North Naples substation is at 776 Vanderbilt Beach Rd, and we infer the district from the location. The nearest emergency room we identified is NCH Emergency Department Bonita on S Tamiami Trail, about an estimated 7.6 miles by road from 260 Barefoot Beach Blvd. The distances below are road estimates from 260 Barefoot Beach Blvd without traffic from a public routing service, and the Villas are at the north end of the community, so we would expect them to be somewhat closer to the gate corner and Bonita Beach Road.
Destination | Road distance | Estimated drive |
|---|---|---|
Gate corner at Bonita Beach Rd | 0.9 mi | 3.4 min |
US 41 at Bonita Beach Rd | 3.2 mi | 7.6 min |
Publix on Bonita Beach Rd | 3.1 mi | 8 min |
I-75 Exit 116 northbound ramp | 6.7 mi | 13.3 min |
Downtown Bonita Springs | 5.6 mi | 12 min |
NCH Emergency Department Bonita | 7.6 mi | 15 min |
Delnor-Wiggins Pass State Park | 8.7 mi | 17 min |
Fifth Avenue South, Naples | 16.4 mi | 30 min |
Southwest Florida International Airport | 22.2 mi | 33 min |
Seasonal winter traffic on Bonita Beach Road and US 41 will add time. Bonita Beach Road is the only road to the gate.
The Villas at Barefoot Beach and The Cottages at Barefoot Beach are both small, gated enclaves of detached or party-wall homes in Barefoot Beach, but they are different legal products. The Villas are 50 fee-simple villas under a homeowners’ association with a county median just value of $1,328,000, and the Cottages are a 15-home condominium at $2,868,554.
Data updated: October 2026
Yardstick | Villas at Barefoot Beach | |
|---|---|---|
Homes | 50 party-wall villas | 15 detached homes on condominium building sites |
Form of ownership | Fee simple, chapter 720 homeowners’ association | Recorded condominium, chapter 718 |
Location in the community | North end, Barefoot Cir | South end, Shell Dr |
Roll years built | 1989 to 2002 (32 and 18) | 1997 (1) and 2023 (14), the roll re-dates 14 of 15 and we did not read permits |
County base area | 1,723 to 3,352 sq ft, median 2,136 | 2,573 to 3,253 sq ft, median 2,962 |
2026 preliminary median just value | $1,328,000 | $2,868,554 |
2026 preliminary median tax bill | $11,846 | $25,482 |
Homestead share | 18 of 50, 36 percent | 11 of 15, 73 percent |
County-qualified sales, last 60 months | 4 (listed above), $1,500,000 to $3,500,000 | 1, $5,500,000 on June 24, 2026 at 165 Shell Dr |
Turnover, qualified sales a year | 1.6 percent (4 divided by 50 divided by 5) | 1.3 percent (1 divided by 15 divided by 5) |
Disclosure on purchase | Disclosure summary under Florida Statute 720.401 | Condominium documents under Florida Statute 718.503 |
Milestone and SIRS | Do not apply | Condominium statutes are the starting point; confirm with the seller’s package |
Exterior and roof | Association paints and maintains, bills the owner | Set by the condominium declaration; not confirmed |
Leasing | 4 leases a year, 30-day minimum | Not confirmed |
Pets | Two for an owner, none for a lessee | Not confirmed |
Board approval of a sale | Yes, 30 days’ notice, closed list of grounds | Not confirmed |
The Cottages’ county sales file shows 20 qualified sales since 1994 with a median of $1,750,000, which the county file reports as all-history and which, like the Villas’ all-history file, is not a price guide because it reaches back to the original builder sales.
The Villas are the better fit for a buyer who wants fee-simple title to a lot and a home instead of a condominium interest, who wants an entry point into the gated community at a county median value of $1,328,000 against $2,868,554, and who values an association that paints the exterior and tends the landscaping. They also suit an owner who wants to rent a few times a year: four 30-day-or-longer leases a year are allowed, and the recorded rules are published in a declaration we read. A buyer who prefers a larger range of floor plans, from 1,723 to 3,352 square feet, will find it here.
The Cottages are the better fit for a buyer who wants a very small enclave of 15 detached homes, who prefers homes the county roll dates to 2023, and who is comfortable with the condominium form and its documents. The roll’s 2023 date for 14 of the 15 is consistent with a post-Hurricane Ian rebuild, which is our inference and not a permit finding, and a buyer should verify the age, the insurance and the reserve position of the specific home. They also suit a buyer whose budget starts near the county’s $2.87 million median and who wants detached walls.
Choose the Villas if title structure, a lower county value and the ability to rent up to four times a year matter most. Choose the Cottages if detached homes, a smaller community and condominium governance fit your plan. Both communities trade rarely: the Cottages had one county-qualified sale in 60 months and the Villas four, so whichever you pick, the nearest comparable may be months or years old. For the wider picture, compare Barefoot Beach Club, the 348-unit condominium community, and Southport on the Bay, the bay-side single-family community, before deciding.
The Villas’ main strengths are fee-simple title, exterior upkeep by the association and a gated Barefoot Beach address at a lower county value than the community’s other products. The main costs are Board approval of every sale, a four-lease cap, a no-pets rule for tenants and an owner-carried insurance policy in a flood zone.
We built this page from primary records, not a listing feed. We read the recorded 2002 declaration at OR 2970 PG 2281 page by page, and we tracked every one of the 50 Villas parcels in the Collier County Property Appraiser’s 2026 preliminary tax roll, every one of the 110 recorded Villas sales in the county’s all-history file and every one of the county’s qualified sales in the last 60 months. We also queried FEMA’s flood layer at five Villas addresses ourselves.
Data updated: October 2026
A team with the Top 1% Real Estate Agents Nationally Since 2008 recognition still has to show its work, so each step below is one a reader can repeat. We downloaded the recorded declaration from the Collier County Clerk’s public records viewer, converted its 46 scanned pages to text and read every section on maintenance, insurance, assessments, approvals, leasing and pets. We opened the 2019 temporary construction easement the same way. We pulled the county’s parcel roll for all 50 villas and counted plans, years built, just values and homesteads by hand from the file. We read the county’s recorded-sales file, built from files dated August 29 and August 31, 2026, and kept its window and its qualification rules intact. We read the Barefoot Beach Master Association’s recorded bylaws and the 2009 turnover agreement, and we reviewed the Villas association’s public site. We queried FEMA’s National Flood Hazard Layer, the county’s evacuation and coastal layers and the U.S. Geological Survey’s high-water-mark service on October 1, 2026.
Five things stood out. The county roll codes all 50 villas as condominium use, and the Villas are not a condominium. Identical 2,136 square foot plans carry county just values that differ by a factor of 2.19. One villa at 145 Barefoot Cir shows a county-qualified $3,500,000 sale in December 2023 and an unqualified $5,500,000 deed in May 2026. Every sale needs prior written Board approval, and the Board’s failure to act within the time limit is treated as approval. And a leased villa’s owner gives up the pools and common areas for the lease term while the lessee may not keep a pet. We print each of these with its source.
Southwest Florida MLS data for the Villas was pulled on October 3, 2026, and every MLS figure on this page comes from that pull. It records the final list price only, so price changes, views and condition are read listing by listing when we prepare a valuation or an offer. We could not read the association’s budget, current assessment, rules and regulations, minutes or insurance certificates, which are not posted publicly. We could not confirm where the Villas’ entrance sits relative to the Master’s guard gate. We did not open the 2018 notice at OR 5511 PG 3933 or the Villas association’s 2023 easement page. We list these gaps again, in one place, at the end of the page.
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The Southwest Florida MLS, pulled October 3, 2026, shows 2 Villas closings in the 12 months to that date, for $7,000,000 in dollar volume: $5,500,000 on May 8, 2026, after 320 days on market against a final list price of $5,995,000, and $1,500,000 on February 25, 2026, after 108 days against a final list price of $1,650,000. Two sales are too few for a median or an average, so we print each one. Collier County’s qualified record shows one Villas sale in the last 12 months, $1,500,000 on February 24, 2026, and four in the last 60 months between $1,500,000 and $3,500,000, a different count because the county and the MLS count sales differently. A sample that small is why each Villas comparable matters.
A Villas sale is an approvals sale. The Board must approve the buyer in writing, the owner must give 30 days’ notice before the intended closing with a copy of the contract, and the Board has 30 days after complete information, or 60 days after the notice, whichever is first, before silence counts as approval. We send the notice the day the contract is signed and write the closing date to leave room. We also prepare the disclosure summary that Florida Statute 720.401 requires a non-developer seller to deliver before the buyer signs, and we request the estoppel certificate early, because the statute gives the association 10 business days.
Price follows the row, the plan and the campaign. County just values for the same 2,136 square foot plan run from $1,117,000 to $2,449,200, the four qualified sales in five years range from $1,500,000 to $3,500,000, and one villa has two deeds $2,000,000 apart, so a blended average is useless to a seller. We price from the nearest like villa in the county record and adjust for condition, roof age and exterior paint status, which the association bills to the owner. Lenders and appraisers who read only the county’s condominium use code can misclassify a fee-simple villa, so we tell the lender and the appraiser early that the home is a chapter 720 community with a recorded declaration and its own deed. Appraisal and financing terms differ by lender, and we confirm early what a buyer’s lender will ask.
Request your free Villas at Barefoot Beach home valuation and we will come back with the nearest comparable recorded sales, the row and plan adjustments, and the document gaps that could affect your price.
Talk to Jesse direct at (239) 898-6072, text or call, with any question about selling at the Villas.
Six questions Villas owners ask us before they list.
It depends on the row, plan, campaign year and condition, and the county record shows a wide spread: four qualified sales since October 2021 from $1,500,000 to $3,500,000, and county just values from $1,117,000 to $2,449,200. We use the nearest like villa, not an average. A free valuation from our team gives you the comparables and the adjustments.
You owe unpaid assessments through closing, and the estoppel certificate states the amount. Under Florida Statute 720.30851 the association must issue it within 10 business days and may charge a capped fee. The certificate also shows any transfer fee, capital contribution and whether Board approval is required.
Yes. Section 10.2 of the declaration requires the Board’s prior written approval of any sale, with 30 days’ notice before closing and approval only withheld for good cause on a closed list of grounds. If the Board does not act within the time limit, its silence is treated as approval, and we plan the closing date around it.
The seller who is not the developer must present the disclosure summary before the buyer signs a contract, under Florida Statute 720.401, and the buyer will also want the declaration, bylaws, budget, rules and the estoppel certificate. The condominium purchaser package does not apply to a chapter 720 community.
We cannot promise either way, and we do not have MLS data to measure it. The recorded rules allow four leases a year at a 30-day minimum, and they bar tenants from keeping pets. An investor buyer will weigh both. A buyer who wants to live in the villa will care less, and we position each villa to the buyer pool it fits.
Text or call Jesse at (239) 898-6072, or use the free valuation link above. We will ask for your address, then pull the nearest comparables and request the document package from the association manager before you decide on price.
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These are the questions Villas at Barefoot Beach buyers and searchers ask most, rewritten as plain questions, with answers drawn from the records cited above. Where a fact is not published, we say so and name the document that settles it.
County-qualified Villas sales in the last 60 months ran from $1,500,000 to $3,500,000, and the county’s 2026 preliminary just values run from $1,117,000 to $2,449,200 with a median of $1,328,000. On top of price come the insurance policies, the Board approval fee of up to $100, the estoppel fee and your own closing costs. In the Southwest Florida MLS, pulled October 3, 2026, the 9 Villas closings in the last 60 months ran from $1,500,000 to $5,500,000 and the 3 active listings ask $1,495,000 to $2,995,000. The county and the MLS count sales differently.
No dollar assessment appears in any primary document we found. The recorded declaration says the regular assessment funds the common areas, pools, roads, security and landscaping, with a one-fiftieth share per villa, billed quarterly. Exterior painting, roofs and any pest control the association supplies are billed to the owner of the villa separately. The estoppel certificate gives the current number.
Yes. The declaration allows no more than four leases of a villa in a calendar year, each for at least 30 days and no more than one year, to a natural person, with Board approval on 10 days’ notice. Subleasing and renewal options are barred, and an owner whose villa is leased cannot use the pools or common areas during the lease.
An owner may keep two dogs or cats, and an owner’s guest may have one. No lessee may keep a pet of any kind. The declaration sets no weight limit and no breed list, and the Board can order removal of a pet that becomes an unreasonable annoyance. We have not seen the association’s separate rules and regulations, which could add detail.
Yes. The five Villas addresses we tested on October 1, 2026 are all in Zone AE, four at a base flood elevation of 10 feet NAVD88 and one, 140 Barefoot Cir, at 11 feet, on panels 12021C0178J and 12021C0179J effective February 8, 2024. Each villa is different, so check the one you are buying against the FEMA map and an elevation certificate.
Each owner insures the villa and its contents under Section 6.2 of the declaration, so a villa owner needs a property policy that covers wind and a separate flood policy, either federal or private. We do not publish premiums, because they depend on the building, roof age, window protection and elevation, and we would only be guessing. Get quotes by address before your inspection period ends.
We found no recorded or government document that reports damage to any individual Villas building, and we do not assert any. The U.S. Geological Survey recorded an Ian high-water mark of 11.76 feet NAVD88 inside the gates and a Milton mark of 6.8 feet just north of Bonita Beach Road, in Lee County. The association lists a Hurricane Preparedness committee and a post-Milton landscape restoration plan on its site. Ask the seller for repair and claim history.
We did not find a special assessment notice in any public source, and that is not proof that none exists. The bylaws cap special assessments at 15 percent of the annual budget unless a majority of voting interests consent, though the declaration lets the association levy a casualty deficiency assessment without an owner vote. The estoppel certificate lists any assessment due and scheduled.
Neither is required. The milestone inspection and structural integrity reserve study statutes cover condominium and cooperative buildings, and the Villas are a chapter 720 homeowners’ association of fee-simple villas, so no inspection or study deadline applies. We still recommend an independent inspection, a roof and exterior history and a review of the association’s budget before you buy.
We could not tell: we read no budget or reserve schedule, and we assert no reserve status. The bylaws say the Board “may” establish reserve accounts, and under Florida Statute 720.303 statutory reserves exist only if a majority of the voting interests approve them, otherwise the annual financial report must carry a conspicuous warning that reserves are not fully funded. Look for that warning in the last two reports.
The public record does not say. The research infers, from the county valuing nine of the ten villas at 133 to 151 Barefoot Cir at about twice the rate of the same plan elsewhere and with no map check, that this row is on the Gulf side, and we do not assert it. We have not stood in each villa. Check any villa’s orientation on the survey and in person.
A professional management company is listed in the association’s public records, and we do not name it here. We could not confirm office hours, an on-site manager or the manager’s duties. The Villas association’s public site lists an architectural review committee, a landscape committee and a security committee, and the manager’s contact details are on the estoppel certificate.
The community sits behind the Barefoot Beach Master Association’s security, which staffs a guard house around the clock, and the Villas declaration lets the association establish its own gate at the entryway. Whether a villa visitor passes the Master’s gate before reaching Barefoot Cir is not confirmed, and neither is the guest or vendor procedure. The manager can supply both.
Each villa has a garage, and residents must park overnight in the garage or on their own driveway. Trucks, motorcycles, recreational vehicles, boats, trailers and commercial vehicles are barred overnight, and a visitor’s vehicle may stay overnight only if it does not block a neighbor’s garage. Garage doors must stay closed at night, and garages cannot be converted to another use.
The beach at the end of the boulevard is the Barefoot Beach Preserve, a public county park where parking costs $10 a day without a permit, and part-time owners can get a free permit with a tax bill or deed, per the county’s page. We could not confirm a private beach or recorded beach-access easement for the Villas, so ask for the survey and the recorded deed.
We found no dock or slip provision in the Villas declaration. Barefoot Boat Club, a separate condominium at 5025 Bonita Beach Rd outside the Barefoot Beach gates, offers dry storage and wet slips. A buyer who needs boat access should treat it as a separate purchase from the villa.
Membership is a separate decision. The Club at Barefoot Beach, Inc. is a private member-owned beach and tennis club, whose membership does not convey with a deed, and its own site gives a capacity of 425 and says waitlist applications have been paused since June 1, 2026. We did not find a fee schedule, and nothing in the Villas declaration requires membership.
The county roll shows 15 base-area sizes, from 1,723 to 3,352 square feet. The most common is 2,136 square feet, with 25 villas, followed by 1,959 square feet with six, and then ten villas of 2,271 to 2,664 square feet and eight of 3,244 to 3,352 square feet. These are county base areas, not marketing floor plans, so verify any villa’s measurement.
The county roll dates 32 villas to 1989 through 1992 and 18 to 1997 through 2002, for 50 villas in all. The first villa sale was recorded on August 4, 1989. The roll does not state the number of stories, and we have not confirmed it, so check a specific plan with the seller or the association.
The mailing address is Bonita Springs, ZIP 34134, but the villas are in unincorporated Collier County, not in the City of Bonita Springs or the City of Naples, so Collier County taxes apply. The 2026 preliminary millage on every parcel is 9.4020 mills, with no municipal levy. Lee County’s rules do not apply here.
The county’s median 2026 preliminary tax bill across the 50 villas is $11,846. The non-homestead median is $12,206 across 32 parcels and the homestead median is $7,233 across 18. As an illustration, the median just value of $1,328,000 times 9.4020 mills is about $12,486 before exemptions. Source: Collier County Property Appraiser, 2026 preliminary tax roll.
In Collier County the buyer customarily pays for the owner’s title policy and chooses the closing agent, and the purchase contract controls. We never list the owner’s title policy as a seller cost. Florida’s documentary stamp tax on the deed, 70 cents per $100 of price, is a separate item that the contract also allocates.
Bonita Beach is in Lee County and mostly in the City of Bonita Springs, so its flood maps, permits, taxes and schools differ from the Villas, which are in unincorporated Collier County. Structurally, the Villas are fee-simple villas under a chapter 720 association, while most beachfront buildings on Bonita Beach are condominiums under chapter 718, with their own inspection and reserve rules.
We did not research those communities’ records for this page, so we do not compare prices or fees. The structural difference we can state is that the Villas are 50 fee-simple party-wall villas under a chapter 720 association, with a Board approval step on every sale. Ask us for a side-by-side with the specific community you are weighing.
On the county’s base area, the four qualified sales in 60 months ran from $447 to $1,639 per square foot, because they were four different villas, and the unqualified deeds ran from $563 to $2,575. Four sales over five years do not show a trend. The all-history median of $265 per square foot mixes 1989 builder prices with recent resales, so it is not a guide.
Section 4.1 bars any material exterior alteration without the association’s written approval, and the Architectural Review Board reviews windows, doors, siding, exterior lighting, garage doors, stairs and exterior paint. Owners maintain their own windows and storm shutters. We did not find a published flooring rule, and construction work is limited to set hours in Section 9.9.
The owner gives the Board notice at least 30 days before closing. The Board then has 30 days after it receives the notice and all requested information, or 60 days after the notice, whichever comes first, to approve or disapprove, and silence counts as approval. Section 10.3 lets the Board require a personal interview with the buyer.
Three villas were listed for sale in the Southwest Florida MLS on October 3, 2026, at $1,495,000, $2,699,900 and $2,995,000, after 8, 299 and 18 days on market, and none was under contract. The 2 closings in the 12 months to that date took 108 and 320 days on market, and the 9 closings in 60 months ranged from 1 day to 425 days, too few for a median. Supply is an indicative 18.0 months on 2 closings a year. What the county record shows is one qualified sale in the last 12 months and four in 60 months, a different count from the MLS, so inventory is usually very small. Call us for current listings.
McGreevy and Comisar read the recorded declaration page by page, tracked every county-recorded Villas sale and queried the flood layer by address for this page. We lead Domain Realty Group, the #1 team in Southwest Florida since 2012, and we write the Board approval into the contract before you make an offer. Call Marc at (239) 287-5873 or see our buyer page.
The Villas are attached: the recorded declaration governs party walls between neighboring villas, each with its own garage and parcel. The county roll does not state stories and we have not confirmed them. Villas range from 1,723 to 3,352 square feet of county base area, so the plans differ, and you should walk the specific plan and read its survey.
Owners own their land. Each villa is a separately deeded parcel held in fee simple, with its own recorded description, and the Villas are a homeowners’ association community under chapter 720, not a condominium under chapter 718. The county roll’s condominium use code is a classification and does not change that, and the owner holds title to both the lot and the building.
These are the questions Villas at Barefoot Beach owners ask before they list, answered from the recorded declaration, Florida statutes and the county record. Where a number comes from the Southwest Florida MLS, it is from our pull of October 3, 2026, and we print counts and actual sales, not estimates.
It depends on the row, plan, campaign year and condition. The county shows four qualified sales since October 2021 from $1,500,000 to $3,500,000, and 2026 just values from $1,117,000 to $2,449,200, but the closest like villa matters more than any average. Send us your address through our free valuation form and we will pull it.
The Southwest Florida MLS, pulled October 3, 2026, shows 9 Villas closings in the 60 months to that date: 3 in May, 2 in March, 2 in December, 1 in February and 1 in August. Nine closings are too few to call a season, and we do not read one from them. Winter brings many part-time buyers to Southwest Florida, and the Board approval step adds weeks, so we usually list early enough that approval does not collide with a buyer’s season.
The Southwest Florida MLS, pulled October 3, 2026, shows 2 Villas closings in the 12 months to that date, after 108 and 320 days on market, and 9 in the 60 months, from 1 day to 425 days. Nine sales are too few for a median. The calendar we can state is the approval step: 30 days’ notice before closing, and the Board has 30 days after complete information, or 60 days after notice, to act. Plan a closing at least 30 days after the contract.
A seller who is not the developer must present the disclosure summary under Florida Statute 720.401 before the buyer signs. The buyer will also want the declaration and amendments, bylaws, budget, rules and the estoppel certificate, plus the Florida flood disclosure under Florida Statute 689.302 delivered at or before contract. Condominium purchaser documents under chapter 718 do not apply to the Villas.
Under Florida Statute 720.30851 the association must issue the estoppel certificate within 10 business days, and may charge a fee that is capped by statute. The statute adjusts the caps every five years, so confirm current amounts with the manager. The certificate is effective for 30 days if delivered by hand or e-mail.
Yes. Section 10.2 of the declaration requires prior written Board approval of any sale or gift, and a sale that skips it is void or voidable by the association. The Board can withhold approval only for good cause on a closed list, by majority of the whole Board after a written opinion of counsel, and silence after the time limit counts as approval.
We cannot promise either way, and we have no MLS data to measure it. What we know is that buyers will ask about every assessment, and a seller who has the notices, the stated purposes and the payment history ready removes uncertainty. We did not find a public Villas special assessment notice, and the estoppel certificate lists any assessment due or scheduled.
They do not, because the milestone inspection and structural integrity reserve study rules cover condominium and cooperative buildings, not a chapter 720 community. A buyer will instead read the association’s annual financial report for the statutory reserve warning, if there is one, and ask about the roof and exterior paint cycle, which the association performs and bills to owners.
Possibly, for investors. The recorded rules cap leases at four a year with a 30-day minimum, bar tenant pets, and bar the owner from the pools while a lease is in force, and the Board must approve each lease. Owner-occupant buyers are less affected. We do not have MLS data to measure the effect, so we position each villa to the pool it fits.
Owners may keep two dogs or cats, so most pet-owning buyers are within the rule, and an owner’s guest may bring one. The restriction bites on tenants, who may not keep any pet. A buyer who plans to lease to tenants with pets cannot do so under the recorded declaration, and a verified assistance animal is a separate legal question.
Typical seller items are Florida’s documentary stamp tax on the deed at 70 cents per $100, the estoppel certificate fee, any association approval fee, payoff of liens and prorated assessments and taxes, and whatever the contract assigns to the seller, including brokerage fees, which are negotiable. The owner’s title policy is not on that list in Collier County, where the buyer customarily pays for it.
In Collier County the buyer customarily pays for the owner’s title policy and chooses the closing agent, and the contract controls. We never present the owner’s title policy as a seller cost. A seller may still pay for a lien search or a payoff, and an unusual contract can shift the allocation, so read that clause before you sign.
Under Florida Statute 201.02 the tax on a deed is 70 cents per $100 of consideration. On $1,500,000 that is 15,000 times $0.70, or $10,500, on $2,000,000 it is $14,000, and on $3,500,000 it is $24,500. The contract usually assigns it to the seller, though the contract controls, and a mortgage adds its own taxes for the buyer.
A second home does not qualify for the federal primary-residence exclusion unless you owned it and used it as your main home for two of the five years before the sale, and a gain is taxed as a capital gain. Florida levies no state income tax on the gain. Tax outcomes depend on basis and improvements, so ask your CPA before listing.
We price from the nearest like villa in the county record and adjust for the row, the plan, the build campaign, the roof and exterior paint status and the renovation level. County just value for the same 2,136 square foot plan varies 2.19 to 1, and four qualified sales in five years are too few to average, so comparing like with like is the only reliable method.
The recorded sales cannot measure one. The county’s 2026 just values run about twice as high on the 133 to 151 Barefoot Cir row as on the same plan elsewhere, and the research infers from that value step, without a map check, that the row faces the Gulf. Just value is the assessor’s figure and not a sale price, and an unqualified $3,000,000 deed in 2022 was for 164 Barefoot Cir, outside that row, so the record does not isolate location.
Check approvals first. Exterior changes, including windows, doors, garage doors and paint, need prior written approval from the Architectural Review Board, and the association itself paints and repairs the exterior and bills the owner. Interior updates do not need that approval. Because we cannot measure return on renovation without MLS data, we compare the cost against what the nearest like villa sold for.
Stage the interior and show the garage and lanai, and follow the declaration while you do it: no towels or garments may hang from windows or railings, no laundry equipment or interior furniture may be kept on the lanai, and no refuse may sit outside. Photograph on a clear day, show the community’s gated entry and mention the exterior upkeep the association provides.
Yes, we list on the Southwest Florida MLS so buyers’ agents and the portals see the villa. A gated community changes access, not exposure, so we arrange gate and guest entry with the guard house and the manager for each showing. Section 9.5 of the declaration bars for-sale signs, allowing only two approved open-house signs, so the listing carries the marketing.
Yes. Nothing in the recorded Declaration at OR 2970 PG 2281 restricts a furnished sale, and the contract and a bill of sale list what conveys. Remember that Section 9.11 bars interior furniture on the lanai, so items staged there do not belong in the home. We describe furnished terms in the contract and keep them clear for the buyer’s lender.
No dock or slip appears in the Villas declaration, so a villa sale does not include one. The Club at Barefoot Beach, Inc. is a separate private club, and membership does not convey with a deed, so a buyer must apply to it. Do not advertise a club membership as part of the villa without the club’s written confirmation.
Buyers ask for the flood zone and base flood elevation, any elevation certificate, flood and wind claim history, roof age and replacement records, window and shutter protection and the current policy. Gather those before you list, because the villa is in a special flood hazard area and the owner, not the association, insures the structure.
Keep every repair invoice and permit, because Florida Statute 689.302 requires a flood disclosure at or before contract that asks about flood damage, flood claims and flood assistance, and Florida case law requires a seller to disclose known facts that materially affect value and are not readily observable. Unpermitted work is a disclosure and insurance problem, so resolve it before you list.
At minimum, the Florida Statute 720.401 disclosure summary, the Florida Statute 689.302 flood disclosure, and every known fact that materially affects the home’s value and is not readily observable, such as a roof leak, a party-wall problem or an open code violation. The estoppel certificate also reports open rule violations. Ask your attorney if a fact is uncertain.
McGreevy and Comisar lead Domain Realty Group, the #1 team in Southwest Florida since 2012, with the Top 1% Real Estate Agents Nationally Since 2008 recognition, and for this page we read the recorded declaration, tracked every county-recorded Villas sale and queried the flood layer by address. We plan the Board approval into the contract. Call Jesse at (239) 898-6072 or request a free valuation.
Florida law does not set brokerage fees, and they are negotiable and written in the listing agreement. We explain our fee, what it covers and what costs the seller pays separately at a listing consultation, before you sign anything. Call Jesse at (239) 898-6072 and we will walk through it for your villa.
The Southwest Florida MLS, pulled October 3, 2026, shows 2 Villas closings in the 12 months to that date: $5,500,000 on May 8, 2026 and $1,500,000 on February 25, 2026. Two sales are too few for a median. Collier County’s qualified record shows one Villas sale in the last 12 months, $1,500,000 on February 24, 2026, and the county’s file also lists a $5,500,000 recorded deed on May 7, 2026 that carries no qualified flag, which we do not blend with the qualified sale. The county and the MLS count sales differently.
We do not forecast prices. The facts to weigh are that sales are rare, four qualified sales in 60 months, so a well-presented villa faces little direct competition; that insurance, flood and assessment costs affect what buyers can pay; and that your own plans decide the rest. We can run both scenarios with your numbers, with no obligation.
We coordinate with the guard house and the manager to register each showing, because the guest and vendor procedure is not confirmed in any public source. Section 9.5 bars for-sale signs, so showings come through the MLS and our team. You can sign electronically, and the Board approval notice can be sent while you are away.
We tailor marketing to a gated community with no for-sale signs: professional photography, a floor plan, video where it adds value, and scheduled private showings coordinated with the gate. Drone footage is possible where law and the community allow, and we confirm that before we shoot. Marketing cannot show another villa’s interior or use a club membership as a feature.
Yes, but a cash buyer still needs Board approval, so the fastest realistic timeline is set by the approval notice and the statutory estoppel period, not by financing. The Board has up to 30 days after complete information to act, and the buyer’s file should go in on contract day. A prompt Board can approve sooner.
Regular assessments are billed quarterly in advance on January 1, April 1, July 1 and October 1, so the closing statement prorates the quarter in progress, and the estoppel certificate states the paid-through date and the next installment due. Property taxes prorate to the day of closing, and any unpaid assessment or exterior charge is paid from your proceeds.
Both, depending on the buyer. A Villas buyer wants a deeded home with its own garage and lot, and compares it with the 348-unit Barefoot Beach Club condominiums, whose county median just value is $1,582,030 against the Villas’ $1,328,000, and with all 635 dwellings in the Barefoot Beach county file, condominiums and houses together, at a county median of $1,878,934.
This list gathers every place where this page says a figure or fact is not available. Each item names the document or route that would settle it, so a buyer, a seller or our team can close the gap.
Every link below returned a working page when we checked on October 1, 2026, some of them only on a second route because the county and federal sites turn away automated first requests. One government data service, listed without a link, answers queries but refuses page requests. We list primary documents first.
These are the public recorded instruments behind the declaration, boulevard and easement sections of this page, hosted by the Collier County Clerk.
Document | Recorded | What it is |
|---|---|---|
January 28, 2002 | The Villas’ governing declaration, 46 pages, with the bylaws exhibit | |
April 27, 2011 | The boulevard, security and member entities | |
December 15, 2009 | Conveyance of the main roadway and the staffed guardhouse duty | |
February 4, 2019 | The Villas association’s easement to Collier County for the boardwalk project | |
August 26, 1988 | The State’s recorded 60-foot ingress and egress easement |
Southwest Florida MLS figures pulled October 3, 2026. County recorded sales checked October 1, 2026. McGreevy and Comisar, Best Realtor for Villas at Barefoot Beach. 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.