The Estate Homes at Worthington Country Club in Bonita Springs: 127 detached homes on 10,000 sq ft lots, 112 with private pools, $3,120 to $3,420 in 2026 neighborhood dues. Call McGreevy and Comisar at (239) 898-6072.
By Jesse McGreevy and Marc Comisar, McGreevy and Comisar, Domain Realty Group. Updated September 2026.
Jesse McGreevy and Marc Comisar wrote this guide for Estate Home owners first and buyers second. The Estate Homes at Worthington is a 127-home neighborhood of detached, one-story golf and lake homes inside the master-planned community of Worthington Country Club in Bonita Springs, Florida. It is the largest-home, largest-lot product behind Worthington’s gate: the only neighborhood with four-bedroom plans, 88% of homes with a private pool, and a 24-month median recorded sale of $787,500.
If you own on Bridgeford Avenue, Tonbridge Court or Rochester Court and want to know what your home would sell for this season, call Jesse direct at (239) 898-6072. If you are shopping the Estate Homes against the villas, the condos or another bundled club, call Marc at (239) 287-5873. Every figure below comes from the public record: the Lee County Property Appraiser’s September 2026 parcel roll and recorded qualified sales, the club’s 2026 fee schedules and recorded master declaration, and Florida Division of Corporations filings. Where a fact is not published, we say so and tell you who holds it.
McGreevy and Comisar are the best realtor choice for Worthington Estate Homes because we price these 127 homes against their own recorded sales, not against Worthington’s condo-heavy community median. An Estate Home on a 10,000 square foot golf lot with a pool trades in a different market from a Waterford condo, and the pricing has to say so.
If you’re searching for the best realtor for Worthington Estate Homes in Worthington Country Club, Bonita Springs, whether you’re ready to sell your Worthington Estate Home or buy your next one, McGreevy and Comisar is the team that delivers. We lead Domain Realty Group, the #1 real estate team in Southwest Florida since 2012, Top 1% Nationally since 2008, with over $2.5 billion sold as a team and $900 million in personal sales between Jesse and Marc.
Recent Worthington Estate Homes track record (last 12 months, September 2025 through August 2026): 7 Estate Homes recorded qualified sales with the Lee County Property Appraiser · $5.31 million in total recorded volume · highest-priced Estate Home sold: $945,000, a lake-frontage home on Rochester Court recorded in March 2026 · over the wider 24-month window, 18 qualified sales at a $787,500 median. In the last 12 months we tracked every recorded Estate Home sale parcel by parcel, and each one is listed in the market section below. Average days on market and the sale-to-list ratio come only from the Southwest Florida MLS; those two figures are being added from our MLS report for this neighborhood, and the county-recorded prices above do not depend on them.
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The Estate Homes at Worthington come down to eight facts every buyer and seller should hold before anything else: how many homes there are, what they are, what they sell for, what they cost to own, how they are governed, how they sit in storms, and how they compare with the villas next door.
Why McGreevy and Comisar Are the Best Realtor for Worthington Estate Homes
What Is It Like to Live in the Estate Homes at Worthington?
What Are Worthington Estate Homes Selling For?
How Did the Estate Homes at Worthington Come to Be?
What Are the Estate Homes Like Inside and Out?
Which Streets and Blocks Make Up the Estate Homes?
What Do Estate Home Owners Get From the Master Club?
What Does It Cost to Own a Worthington Estate Home? The 2026 Fee Stack
Who Governs the Estate Homes, and Which Documents Apply?
What Can Estate Home Owners Change Without Asking?
Can You Rent Out a Worthington Estate Home?
What Are the Pet Rules for Worthington Estate Homes?
How Do Worthington Estate Homes Handle Storms, Flood Zones and Insurance?
Do Florida’s Condo Safety Laws Apply to Worthington Estate Homes?
What Do Roof and Permit Records Show for the Estate Homes?
Which Schools Serve Worthington Estate Homes?
What Is Daily Life Like for Estate Home Owners: Gates, Carts, Internet and Services?
What Is Being Built Near the Estate Homes at Worthington?
How Do the Estate Homes Compare With the Other Worthington Neighborhoods?
Worthington Estate Homes vs Worthington Villas: Which Fits You?
Which Communities Outside Worthington Compare With the Estate Homes?
What Are the Honest Pros and Cons of a Worthington Estate Home?
Your Local Real Estate Experts
Frequently Asked Questions, Buyer Edition
Frequently Asked Questions, Seller Edition
Sources and Authoritative References
Living in the Estate Homes at Worthington means a detached, single-story pool home on a golf or lake lot, inside a gated, 799-residence bundled club where every owner is a golf member. Estate Home owners get the most private space in Worthington, with the clubhouse, course, tennis and fitness center a short cart ride away.
Worthington describes itself as a “member-owned bundled golf community, where every homeowner has golf privileges,” set in a gated community “designed around several scenic lakes” (Worthington Country Club, retrieved 26 Sep 2026). The club’s own real estate page names three housing types behind the gate: Estate Homes, Villas, and Condo/Carriage Homes (Worthington CC Real Estate, retrieved 26 Sep 2026). The Estate Homes are the top of that ladder on size, lot and pool rate.
Three things set daily life here apart from the rest of Worthington.
You live on the course or the water, on your own lot. All 127 lots front either golf (99) or a lake (28), per the county’s parcel-level frontage field, and the typical interior lot measures about 79 to 82 feet wide by 125 feet deep (Lee County Property Appraiser parcel roll, retrieved 26 Sep 2026). There are no shared walls and no stacked units.
The pool is at home, not at a cabana. Unlike the five condo associations, neither Single Family association runs a neighborhood pool; the club lists local pool cabanas only for Wedgewood-Fountain, Waterford-Cavendish, Waterford Amberley, Wedgewood-Sherburne and Waterford-Worthington Way (The Eagle, Spring 2026, retrieved 26 Sep 2026). That matters less than it sounds, because 112 of the 127 Estate Homes have their own pool.
The club is still the town square. Estate Home owners pay the same $13,058 master dues as every other Worthington owner and share the same Ron Garl-renovated 18-hole course, five Har-Tru tennis courts, bocce, fitness center, resort pool and dining rooms (Worthington CC Membership, retrieved 26 Sep 2026). Members logged 45,042 rounds through 2025 year to date (The Eagle, Winter 2026, retrieved 26 Sep 2026), so this is a golf community that plays.
The streets are quiet cul-de-sacs and loops. Single Family I wraps both sides of the Bridgeford Avenue loop around Lakes 1, 3, 5 and 6 in the northwest of the community. Single Family II is the Tonbridge Court and Rochester Court cul-de-sacs near the clubhouse and on the east side, where the association owns small cul-de-sac common areas with gazebos (ARC Criteria, rev. Dec. 2024, retrieved 26 Sep 2026).
For the master-community picture, including the course, the club finances and all nine associations, read our full Worthington Country Club guide. This page stays on the Estate Homes.
Worthington Estate Homes recorded 18 qualified sales in the 24 months from September 2024 through August 2026, at a median of $787,500, the mean of $775,000 and $800,000, and about $348 per heated square foot. The last 12 months brought only 7 sales, from $580,000 to $945,000, so each is listed individually below.
Data updated: September 2026 (Lee County Property Appraiser recorded qualified sales, retrieved 26 Sep 2026)
These are recorded deed prices from the Lee County Property Appraiser for the 127 parcels of Worthington Single Family Homes Associations I and II, counting only sales the appraiser classes as qualified, meaning arm’s-length (LeePA Last Qualified Sale layer, LeePA parcel roll, retrieved 26 Sep 2026). Price per square foot is each sale price divided by that home’s heated area on the county roll, then the median of those ratios. The county does not record list prices, days on market or seller concessions; those come only from the MLS, and we are adding them from our MLS report.
The first window with 10 or more sales is the 24-month window, so that is the headline. The 12-month window has 7 sales, which is too few for a meaningful median, so we list them instead.
Window (ending August 2026) | Qualified sales | Median sale price | Median $/sq ft | Low | High | Total volume |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
12 months (Sep 2025 to Aug 2026) | 7 | Listed below (under 10 sales) | Not stated (under 10 sales) | $580,000 | $945,000 | $5,305,000 |
24 months (Sep 2024 to Aug 2026) | 18 | $787,500 (mean of $775,000 and $800,000) | $348 | $580,000 | $975,000 | $14,249,000 |
36 months (Sep 2023 to Aug 2026) | 27 | $800,000 | $360 | $580,000 | $1,100,000 | $22,143,900 |
60 months (Sep 2021 to Aug 2026) | 48 | $780,000 (mean of $775,000 and $785,000) | $353 | $565,000 | $1,100,000 | $38,212,795 |
120 months (Sep 2016 to Aug 2026) | 92 | $606,000 (mean of $605,000 and $607,000) | $263 | $265,000 | $1,100,000 | $58,231,795 |
Recorded | Sale price | Street | Association | Frontage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
September 2025 | $580,000 | Rochester Court | Single Family II | Lake |
October 2025 | $900,000 | Tonbridge Court | Single Family II | Golf |
December 2025 | $900,000 | Rochester Court | Single Family II | Golf |
March 2026 | $945,000 | Rochester Court | Single Family II | Lake |
April 2026 | $680,000 | Bridgeford Avenue | Single Family I | Golf |
July 2026 | $700,000 | Tonbridge Court | Single Family II | Golf |
August 2026 | $600,000 | Not yet on the county roll export | Not yet on the roll | Not yet on the roll |
The August 2026 sale is in the county’s qualified-sale data but was recorded after the 1 September roll export we matched addresses from, so its street and association are not shown yet. Five of the six sales we could match were in Single Family II.
Of the 17 sales in the 24-month window that we could match to a parcel, 7 were Single Family I homes on Bridgeford Avenue, at an $800,000 median, and 10 were Single Family II homes on Tonbridge and Rochester Courts, at a $787,500 median (the mean of $775,000 and $800,000). Twelve were golf-frontage homes, at a $775,000 median, and five were lake-frontage homes. With fewer than 10 lake sales we list them rather than quote a median: $580,000, $800,000, $800,000, $930,000 and $945,000.
Two cautions. First, these samples are small, and one renovated kitchen moves a median. Second, the county’s frontage field treats a Rochester Court lake lot and a Bridgeford Avenue lake lot the same, while the club map shows some lake lots looking across the water to a fairway (Purchaser’s Packet, p. 1, retrieved 26 Sep 2026). View is priced house by house.
Estate Home prices nearly doubled from 2020 to 2024 and have eased since. The 2020 median was $446,250 across 18 sales; 2025’s was $800,000 across 13 sales, up about 79%. The 2024 sales, too few for a median, included two at $1,100,000, the highest Estate Home prices on record in our 10-year window.
Calendar year | Qualified sales | Median, or the sales when under 10 | Range |
|---|---|---|---|
2020 | 18 | $446,250 (mean of $445,000 and $447,500) | $350,000 to $560,000 |
2021 | 10 | $565,000 (middle pair both $565,000) | $435,000 to $715,000 |
2022 | 10 | $737,000 (mean of $735,000 and $739,000) | $650,000 to $916,000 |
2023 | 9 | Under 10 sales, no median | $649,000 to $899,900 |
2024 | 8 | Under 10 sales, no median | $725,000 to $1,100,000 |
2025 | 13 | $800,000 | $580,000 to $975,000 |
2026, January to August | 4 | $945,000, $680,000, $700,000 and $600,000 | $600,000 to $945,000 |
Read plainly, 2026 is softer: three of the four sales this year closed at $700,000 or less, against a 2025 median of $800,000. On a per-square-foot basis the picture is steadier, at about $348 over 24 months against $353 over 60 months, which says the recent low prints were smaller or less updated homes as much as a falling market.
The Estate Homes have held up better than Worthington’s condos. Several condo associations are trading well below their levels of three to five years ago: Waterford Amberley Court’s 24-month median is $221,250 against $285,000 over 60 months, Waterford-Worthington Way’s is $247,500 against $285,000, and Waterford-Cavendish Court’s is $200,000 against $282,500 (same county data). The reasons usually given across Southwest Florida are higher insurance premiums, the post-Surfside condo reforms that raised reserve funding, and rising association dues. We offer those as context for the condo softness, not as a measured cause, and the Estate Homes, as single-family homes, sit outside the condo reforms entirely.
In the same 24 months, the whole of Worthington recorded 96 qualified sales at a $398,263 median, the mean of $395,525 and $401,000. The Estate Homes were 18 of those 96 sales and about a third of the dollar volume, $14.25 million of $42.36 million. They are the top of the Worthington price ladder by a wide margin: the next-highest product, the villas, recorded a $543,750 median, the mean of $537,500 and $550,000.
The Estate Homes at Worthington were built in two phases between 1990 and 1995. Single Family I came with Worthington’s original 1990 plat on Bridgeford Avenue, and Single Family II followed with the 1992 replats of Tonbridge and Rochester Courts. Each phase got its own homeowners association, and both are still active today.
The land and the plats. Worthington Master Association, Inc. was incorporated on 7 February 1990 (Florida Division of Corporations, N36503, retrieved 26 Sep 2026). The single-family and villa lots were platted as “Worthington Country Club” in Plat Book 45, and the county’s legal descriptions put Single Family I on Blocks 1 and 2 of that plat (PB 45 pages 62, 63, 66 and 67). Single Family II sits on Blocks 7 and 10, created by later replats recorded at PB 49 page 42, PB 50 pages 28 and 29, and PB 54 pages 29 and 30 (LeePA parcel roll, retrieved 26 Sep 2026).
The associations. Worthington Single Family Homes Association I, Inc. (N40684) was filed on 6 November 1990, the same day as Villas Association I, matching the original plat (Sunbiz, SF I, retrieved 26 Sep 2026). Worthington Single Family Homes Association II, Inc. (N50676) was filed on 2 September 1992, again the same day as Villas Association II and matching the replats (Sunbiz, SF II, retrieved 26 Sep 2026).
The build years. The county roll shows the Single Family I homes built mostly from 1991 to 1994 and the Single Family II homes from 1993 to 1995. Across all 127 homes the build years run 1990 (5 homes), 1991 (25), 1992 (17), 1993 (26), 1994 (39) and 1995 (14), plus one 2009 home. The club’s marketing says the homes “were all constructed between 1991 and 1994” (Worthington CC Real Estate, retrieved 26 Sep 2026); the property appraiser’s roll is the more precise record, so we use 1990 to 1995.
The one newer home. 13100 Bridgeford Avenue carries a 2009 build year on the roll, with 2,168 square feet, three bedrooms, two baths and a pool. The roll does not say why. A rebuild is the likely reading but we have not verified it, because the parcel’s permit history did not load from the county site; City of Bonita Springs permit records would settle it.
The builder. The club’s Rules and Regulations describe Worthington as a “328-acre bundled golf course community designed by Arthur Rutenberg” (Rules and Regulations, rev. 2025-0828, retrieved 26 Sep 2026). The club’s own community map is titled “300 Acres,” so the acreage is not settled, and no public source names the individual Estate Home floor plans.
The course they were built around. The 18-hole course opened in 1991 on a Gordon G. Lewis routing, with later work by Chip Powell in 2002 and Ron Garl in 2018 (GolfPass, retrieved 26 Sep 2026). The club’s business listing puts the Garl renovation at $5.5 million (SWFL Inc., retrieved 26 Sep 2026). Control of the club passed to the residents in 1994 (Bonita & Estero Magazine, 2017, retrieved 26 Sep 2026).
Worthington Estate Homes are one-story, detached concrete-tile-roof homes with attached garages and, in 88% of cases, a screened pool and lanai. Heated living area runs from 1,872 to 3,416 square feet, with a 2,225 square foot median, and most homes are three-bedroom, two-bath plans on lots of about a quarter acre.
Every figure in this section is our own count from the Lee County Property Appraiser’s parcel roll for the 127 Estate Home parcels (LeePA parcel roll, retrieved 26 Sep 2026). We mapped every parcel, not a sample.
Group | Homes | Smallest | 25th percentile | Median | 75th percentile | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
All Estate Homes | 127 | 1,872 sq ft | 2,105 sq ft | 2,225 sq ft | 2,478 sq ft | 3,416 sq ft |
Single Family I (Bridgeford) | 70 | 1,872 sq ft | 2,058 sq ft | 2,202 sq ft | 2,338 sq ft | 3,156 sq ft |
Single Family II (Rochester, Tonbridge) | 57 | 1,990 sq ft | 2,128 sq ft | 2,294 sq ft | 2,605 sq ft | 3,416 sq ft |
Most homes cluster between 2,000 and 2,249 square feet (61 homes). Thirteen are under 2,000, 22 fall between 2,250 and 2,499, 18 between 2,500 and 2,749, six between 2,750 and 2,999, and seven are 3,000 square feet or more: two on Bridgeford Avenue, three on Rochester Court and two on Tonbridge Court. Under-roof area, which adds the garage, lanai and covered areas, has a 4,313 square foot median.
Three bedrooms and two baths is the typical plan, at 63 homes. There are 28 two-bedroom, two-bath homes, 13 three-bedroom, three-bath homes and 10 four-bedroom homes (seven of them four-bedroom, three-bath). In all, 36 Estate Homes have more than two baths. The county counts only rooms it classes as bedrooms, so a “two plus den” plan shows up as two bedrooms. Single Family II carries most of the larger plans: 8 of the 10 four-bedroom homes.
Feature | Single Family I | Single Family II | All Estate Homes |
|---|---|---|---|
Private pool on the certified roll | 57 of 70 (81%) | 55 of 57 (96%) | 112 of 127 (88%) |
Attached garage | 70 of 70 | 57 of 57 | 127 of 127 |
Carport only | 0 | 0 | 0 |
One story | 70 of 70 | 57 of 57 | 127 of 127 |
One more Single Family I home, 13220 Bridgeford Avenue, shows a new pool not yet on the certified roll, which would make 113. Pools sit under screened enclosures; the architectural criteria regulate lanai walls and allow cage frames in white or bronze (ARC Criteria, retrieved 26 Sep 2026). Golf-frontage homes are the likelier to have a pool: 91 of 99, against 21 of 28 lake-frontage homes.
The median Estate Home lot is 10,250 square feet, and lots run from 9,627 to 18,260 square feet (0.22 to 0.42 acres). The largest are pie-shaped cul-de-sac lots: 13781 Southampton Drive (0.42 acres), 13711 Tonbridge Court (0.34 acres) and 13301 Bridgeford Avenue (0.34 acres). By frontage, Single Family I has 51 golf lots and 19 lake lots, and Single Family II has 48 golf lots and 9 lake lots. Every Tonbridge Court lot on Block 10 is a golf lot; the lake lots cluster on the Bridgeford Avenue loop around Lakes 1, 3, 5 and 6 and on Rochester Court beside Lakes 12 and 13.
The homes are concrete block with concrete tile roofs, and the club’s criteria require a full roof replacement on a Single Family estate home to match “the identical shape, color and material as roof being replaced” unless the ARC approves a justified change, with a tile sample submitted first (ARC Criteria, Criterion 23, retrieved 26 Sep 2026). Exterior colors must be earth tones; reds, pinks, blues, aqua, purples and blacks are not acceptable as main colors. The homes sit in the 160 mph design-wind, wind-borne-debris region, and all but the 2009 home predate the statewide Florida Building Code, which took effect 1 March 2002 (Florida Building Commission, retrieved 26 Sep 2026).
With only 7 Estate Home sales in the last 12 months, and 127 homes, every listing sets the next comparable, which is why the first price matters. Selling on Bridgeford Avenue, Tonbridge Court or Rochester Court? Start with a free Worthington Estate Home valuation or call Jesse direct at (239) 898-6072 for a net sheet built on these recorded sales. Buying? Call Marc at (239) 287-5873 and see how we represent buyers in Bonita Springs before the next one comes to market. Top 1% Real Estate Agents Nationally Since 2008, and we price every Worthington neighborhood separately.
The Estate Homes at Worthington cover four addresses: Bridgeford Avenue numbers 13000 to 13390 (Single Family I, 70 homes), Tonbridge Court (36 homes), Rochester Court (19 homes) and two Southampton Drive lots, 13771 and 13781 (all Single Family II). Bridgeford Avenue numbers from 13400 up are villas, not Estate Homes.
We confirmed that split from four independent primary sources, because an earlier research pass had only inferred it.
Association | Plat blocks | Lots | Addresses |
|---|---|---|---|
Single Family I | Blocks 1 and 2 (PB 45) | 70 | Bridgeford Avenue 13000 to 13390 |
Single Family II | Block 7 (replats PB 49, PB 54) | 19 | Rochester Court 28410 to 28501 |
Single Family II | Block 10 (replats PB 50, PB 54) | 38 | Tonbridge Court 13710 to 13891, plus 13771 and 13781 Southampton Drive |
Total | 127 |
The architectural criteria confirm Single Family II’s streets in their own words: “Gazebos are only authorized in the Single Family II Association in the cul-de-sac common areas of Rochester and Tonbridge Courts” (ARC Criteria, Criterion 13, retrieved 26 Sep 2026).
Two address traps catch buyers and even some listing agents. Fourteen homes at Bridgeford Avenue 13400 to 13471, east of Worthington Way, belong to Villas I and are covered on our Worthington Villas guide. And most Southampton Drive addresses are villas or Wedgewood-Fountain carriage-home condos; only 13771 and 13781 Southampton Drive, the two lots at the mouth of Tonbridge Court, are Estate Homes.
Worthington Estate Home owners get full, bundled club membership with the home: the 18-hole course, five Har-Tru tennis courts, three bocce courts, the resort pool and cabana, the fitness center and the clubhouse dining rooms, with no equity fee. What the Estate Homes do not get is a neighborhood pool, cabana or pickleball court of their own.
The club calls itself a “member-owned bundled community” that “eliminates equity fees” (Worthington CC Membership, retrieved 26 Sep 2026), and the master association owns the golf course parcel outright (LeePA, golf course and common tract, retrieved 26 Sep 2026). The master dues pay for it all.
Golf carts are not covered. Club carts cost $25 per player per round, and owners who keep their own cart pay a $1,875 annual trail fee; the annual cart lease is $2,125, and private cart storage is $450 a year (2026 Fee Schedule, retrieved 26 Sep 2026). Every home also owes the $1,000 annual food and beverage minimum. Most Estate Home owners keep a cart in the garage, which is one quiet advantage of an attached two-car garage over a condo parking space.
The Single Family associations’ own dues cover routine landscape care. The architectural criteria say “the individual associations have responsibility for maintenance (mowing, mulching, edging, tree, and palm trimming and pesticide application),” while owners answer for the overall condition of their lawns and plantings (ARC Criteria, Criterion 18(a), retrieved 26 Sep 2026). Single Family II also maintains its cul-de-sac common areas and gazebos. Pest control is the owner’s cost: “All Single Family Homes & Villas are responsible for their own pest control expenses” (Purchaser’s Packet, p. 5, retrieved 26 Sep 2026).
A Worthington Estate Home costs $16,178 a year in 2026 master plus neighborhood dues in Single Family I and $16,478 in Single Family II, before the $1,000 food and beverage minimum. A buyer new to Worthington also pays a one-time $12,500 capital contribution at closing. Property taxes and insurance come on top.
Layer (2026) | Single Family I | Single Family II | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
Master association dues | $13,058 ($1,088 a month) | $13,058 ($1,088 a month) | |
Neighborhood association dues | $780 a quarter, $3,120 a year | $285 a month, $3,420 a year | |
Recurring dues, total | $16,178 | $16,478 | Our sum |
Food and beverage minimum | $1,000 | $1,000 | |
Recurring total with the minimum | $17,178 | $17,478 | Our sum |
Capital contribution at purchase (one time) | $12,500 new owner; $1,306 existing Worthington owner | Same |
Layer 1, master dues. The $13,058 breaks down as $8,957 operating, $501 business capital and $3,600 capital reserves, with nothing charged for golf-course renovation in 2026. The 2025 figure was $12,910, so master dues rose about 1.1% (2026 Fee Schedule and approved budget, retrieved 26 Sep 2026).
Layer 2, neighborhood dues. Single Family I went from $760 a quarter in 2025 to $780 in 2026, up 2.6%. Single Family II went from $271 a month to $285, up 5.2% (2025 Assessment Spreadsheet, 2026 HOA Fee Schedule, retrieved 26 Sep 2026). Those are modest moves next to Villas I’s 15.8% increase for 2026.
Layer 3, the one-time costs. The $12,500 capital contribution applies to a new owner; an owner already in Worthington who buys another home pays $1,306. Rental and cart fees apply only if you use them.
Layer 4, taxes. The Estate Homes sit in Lee County tax district 017, City of Bonita Springs and Bonita Springs Fire, where the 2025 total was 12.7970 mills (2025 Taxing District Millage Book, retrieved 26 Sep 2026). The median Estate Home carries a $646,654 just value and a $557,366 taxable value on the September 2026 roll. As rough arithmetic, a buyer taxed on the full median just value at 12.7970 mills would owe about $8,275 in ad valorem tax before any homestead exemption. A new buyer’s assessment resets at purchase, so the seller’s tax bill is not your tax bill. On the roll, 67 of the 127 homes carry an assessed value at least 10% below just value, which is the pattern Florida’s annual assessment caps produce over years of ownership.
The Single Family I and Single Family II association budgets, reserve balances, insurance arrangements and any special assessments are not published on the club’s public site; they sit behind the owner portal. The neighborhood declarations and bylaws are not public either. A buyer gets them three ways: ask the seller for the association’s current budget, reserve schedule and last two years of minutes as a contract condition; request the estoppel certificate, which states dues owed and any assessments; and call the on-site HOA office at 13550 Worthington Way, (239) 495-2278, which serves all nine associations (Purchaser’s Packet, p. 3, retrieved 26 Sep 2026). We request these on every Estate Home we sell or buy.
Selling? A buyer who understands this fee stack pays more confidently, so we put it in the listing package. Get a free home valuation for your Estate Home or call Jesse direct at (239) 898-6072. Buying? Call Marc at (239) 287-5873 and read how we represent buyers in Bonita Springs.
Worthington Estate Homes are governed at two levels: Worthington Master Association, Inc., which owns the course, runs the club and enforces the master declaration and architectural criteria, and either Worthington Single Family Homes Association I or II, the neighborhood associations that handle landscaping and their own common areas. Both Single Family associations are active Florida not-for-profit corporations.
Single Family I | Single Family II | |
|---|---|---|
Sunbiz document number | N40684 | N50676 |
Filed | 6 November 1990 | 2 September 1992 |
Status | Active | Active |
Name changes or amended articles on file | None | None |
Annual reports | Every year 1995 to 2026; 2026 filed 13 March 2026 | Every year 1995 to 2026; 2026 filed 13 March 2026 |
Principal address | 13550 Worthington Way, HOA Office | Same |
Registered agent | The club’s HOA manager, a Community Association Manager | Same |
Officers listed | Five | Three |
Sources: Sunbiz, Single Family I and Sunbiz, Single Family II, retrieved 26 Sep 2026. Officer names are volunteer homeowners, so we do not publish them. Unlike the villa associations, which both restated their articles in 2011 and 2012, neither Single Family association has amended articles on file, and the original 1990 and 1992 articles were not viewable because the state’s document images were offline for maintenance when we checked.
Management is in-house rather than a third-party company. Seven of the nine neighborhood associations list the club’s HOA manager at 13550 Worthington Way as registered agent, and the club’s HOA office is open Monday to Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., with an after-hours emergency line at (239) 446-6427 (Purchaser’s Packet, retrieved 26 Sep 2026). There is no community development district: Lee County’s special-district list includes no Worthington district (Lee County Special Districts, retrieved 26 Sep 2026).
One wrinkle is worth knowing. Declaration Section 11.2 says an owner “shall maintain and replace the landscaping located on his or her Lot,” while the ARC criteria assign mowing, mulching, edging, trimming and pest treatment to the neighborhood association. Read together, the association does the routine work and the owner pays to replace dead plants and trees.
These homes are governed under Florida’s homeowners’ association law, Chapter 720 of the Florida Statutes, not the condominium law, Chapter 718, that governs Waterford and Wedgewood. That difference drives most of what follows on inspections and reserves.
Worthington Estate Home owners can change very little on the outside without written approval from the master association’s Architectural Review Committee. Paint, roof, windows, pools, landscaping, driveways, generators, solar panels and shutters all need a signed ARC approval first, and each approval expires after one year if the work is not done.
The criteria that matter most on an Estate Home (ARC Criteria, rev. Dec. 2024, retrieved 26 Sep 2026):
For a seller, unapproved past changes are the issue to clear before listing: a buyer’s attorney will ask, and the HOA’s approval process can surface them. For a buyer planning a pool, the 3-foot and 25-foot rules decide what fits on a lake lot.
Worthington Estate Homes can be rented, but only for 30 consecutive days or more, for no more than one year per lease and no more than four times a calendar year, furnished, and with master association approval. Short-term platforms such as Airbnb and VRBO are covered by the ban on shorter stays, and room rentals and subleasing are not allowed.
The rules come from three documents. The master declaration sets the 30-day minimum, the one-year maximum and the Board approval requirement, which the Board may delegate to the neighborhood association (Sections 8.1, 8.2 and 8.10 of the 2024 Master Declaration, retrieved 26 Sep 2026). The Rules and Regulations add that units must be furnished and may be rented at most four times per calendar year (Rules and Regulations, retrieved 26 Sep 2026). The Rental Forms state the minimum as 30 consecutive days “except in February” and set the fees (Rental Forms, rev. 6/15/25, retrieved 26 Sep 2026).
Rental fee (2026) | Amount |
|---|---|
Master association application | $100 |
Club Amenities Transfer Fee | $300 for one month; $400 for more than one and up to three months; $500 for more than three and up to twelve months |
Single Family I or II association fee | $150 |
Rental processing fee | $350 |
The packet is due at least 30 days before occupancy, 60 preferred. The neighborhood association has up to 20 days to review it and the General Manager then approves or disapproves within 7 days, and the owner must be in good standing with both associations. While a home is leased, the owner’s club privileges pass to the tenant for the lease term.
We found no first-year leasing ban in the master declaration. The Single Family I and II declarations are not online, so a neighborhood-level restriction cannot be ruled out; an investor buyer should read them before going firm.
Worthington Estate Home owners may keep household pets such as a dog or cat weighing no more than 25 pounds, leashed outdoors and never left alone on a lanai or in a garage. Tenants and renters may not have pets at all, which shapes both the rental market and the buyer pool for these homes.
The weight limit comes from Section 4.6 of the 2024 Master Declaration, which allows “a dog or cat (weighing no more than twenty-five (25) pounds),” and the club’s Rules and Regulations restate the leash, lanai and garage rules and the ban on renters’ pets (Rules and Regulations, retrieved 26 Sep 2026). The 25-pound cap is the rule most likely to surprise an out-of-state buyer with a Labrador; tell us about your pet at the first showing, not at the approval stage. Neighborhood-level pet rules in the Single Family declarations, if any, were not available to review.
Worthington Estate Homes sit in FEMA flood Zone X, outside any Special Flood Hazard Area, in Lee County evacuation Zone C, in a 160 mph design-wind region. None of Worthington’s roughly 800 residential parcels falls inside a FEMA high-risk flood zone, so a lender does not require flood insurance, though Citizens policyholders now must carry it.
Point checks against FEMA’s National Flood Hazard Layer returned Zone X, “area of minimal flood hazard,” at the central Worthington single-family point and at every other point sampled across the community, all on FIRM panel 12071C0678F, effective 28 August 2008 (FEMA NFHL Flood Hazard Zones, FEMA NFHL FIRM panels, retrieved 26 Sep 2026). A whole-community test found 0 of about 800 parcels inside a Special Flood Hazard Area. The nearest one is a Zone AE area toward the Imperial River, roughly 250 meters from the community’s northwest corner, which is the Bridgeford Avenue side where Single Family I sits. FEMA’s preliminary map service showed no new flood-zone polygons at any sampled point (FEMA Preliminary NFHL, retrieved 26 Sep 2026), and a revised preliminary Lee County Flood Insurance Study dated 4 December 2025 is in progress (Lee County FIS, retrieved 26 Sep 2026). The county parcel pages themselves say flood map data “is not available for parcels within a municipality,” so the City of Bonita Springs is the local authority (LeePA parcel page, retrieved 26 Sep 2026).
The county’s hazard layers put the whole community in evacuation Zone C and storm-surge zone 3 (LeePA Evacuation Zones, retrieved 26 Sep 2026). Lee County describes Zone C as areas where “a large and/or powerful hurricane from the Gulf may require evacuations,” evacuated after Zones A and B (Lee County Zone C, retrieved 26 Sep 2026). In Hurricane Ian the Zone C expansion covered only parts of North Cape Coral and North Fort Myers, not Bonita Springs (City of Bonita Springs, 27 Sep 2022, retrieved 26 Sep 2026), and for Milton the county ordered Zones A and B only (Lee County, 7 Oct 2024, retrieved 26 Sep 2026). The wind layer returns a 160 mph design wind speed and a wind-borne-debris region (LeePA wind design layer, retrieved 26 Sep 2026), which is why opening protection and roof attachment matter so much on a 1990s home.
Bonita Springs has real flood history. The city says Hurricane Irma hit as a Category 3 in 2017 and that Bonita Springs was “the third hardest hit community in the state according to FEMA” (City of Bonita Springs, Stormwater, retrieved 26 Sep 2026). The Imperial River gauge crested at 15.32 feet on 12 September 2017 and 12.32 feet on 2 October 2022 after Ian (NOAA gauge BSIF1, retrieved 26 Sep 2026). The National Hurricane Center put Ian’s worst inundation of 8 to 12 feet in coastal Estero, Bonita Beach, Bonita Springs and North Naples (NHC Ian report, retrieved 26 Sep 2026). No primary source we found says Worthington’s homes or streets flooded in Irma or Ian; the gauge impact statements name neighborhoods north and west of the community. Ask any seller directly, and read the seller’s disclosure.
An Estate Home is insured on a homeowners (HO-3 style) policy, not the condo unit-owner (HO-6) policy used in Waterford and Wedgewood. Three rules shape the quote.
The biggest underwriting variables on a 1990 to 1995 Estate Home are roof age, roof-to-wall connections and opening protection. A current wind-mitigation inspection and a four-point inspection are the two documents a seller should have ready before listing.
Florida’s condominium milestone inspections and Structural Integrity Reserve Studies do not apply to Worthington Estate Homes. Those laws cover condominium and cooperative buildings of three or more habitable stories, and the Estate Homes are one-story, single-family homes in homeowners’ associations governed by Chapter 720, not Chapter 718.
The state’s condominium regulator, DBPR, describes milestone inspections as applying to residential condominiums “three or more habitable stories in height,” at 30 years and every 10 years after, and the Structural Integrity Reserve Study as required for associations with buildings of three or more habitable stories (DBPR Condominium Inspections, retrieved 26 Sep 2026). The 2022 reform barred reserve waivers for items the study covers (SB 4-D analysis, retrieved 26 Sep 2026), and HB 913 in 2025 applied the rules to “habitable” stories, extended the study deadline to 31 December 2025 and raised the reserve-item threshold to $25,000 (Florida Senate, HB 913 summary, retrieved 26 Sep 2026). None of that reaches a detached single-family home (DBPR reform timeline, DBPR FAQs, retrieved 26 Sep 2026).
What still applies to an Estate Home:
For the condo side of Worthington, where these laws do matter, see our pages on Waterford Amberley Court and Wedgewood-Sherburne.
Roof replacement years for Worthington Estate Homes are not in the Lee County Property Appraiser’s roll, and the county’s parcel-page permit tables did not load for our review, so we do not publish a roof-age count. City of Bonita Springs permit records, the seller and a roof certification are the three sources a buyer should use.
What we do know from the record:
For sellers, a roof permit copy plus a wind-mitigation report is the single best listing document on a 1990s Estate Home. For buyers, make the roof’s permit date and remaining life a named contingency.
Worthington Estate Homes are served by the School District of Lee County under its Proximity Plan, where families rank schools inside a zone rather than being assigned by a fixed boundary. The nearest public schools are Bonita Springs Elementary, about 3.3 miles away, Bonita Springs Middle, about 4.3 miles, and Bonita Springs High, about 5.8 miles.
The district’s 2026-2027 enrollment plan puts the Bonita Springs schools in Elementary Proximity Zone Q (Bonita Springs, Pinewoods, San Carlos Park, Spring Creek and Three Oaks elementaries), Middle Proximity Zone GG (Bonita Springs Middle and Three Oaks Middle) and the High School South Zone, Sub-zone 2 (Bonita Springs, Cypress Lake, Dunbar, Estero, Fort Myers and South Fort Myers highs) (Student Enrollment Plan 2026-2027, retrieved 26 Sep 2026). We found no public address lookup, so confirm the zone letters for your Estate Home address with the district’s Student Enrollment office (Lee Schools Student Enrollment, retrieved 26 Sep 2026).
School | Grades | Approximate drive from the Worthington entrance |
|---|---|---|
Bonita Springs Elementary | K to 5 | About 3.3 miles, 8 minutes |
Spring Creek Elementary | K to 5 | About 7.1 miles, 13 minutes |
Bonita Springs Middle Center for the Arts | 6 to 8 | About 4.3 miles, 10 minutes |
Bonita Springs High | 9 to 12 | About 5.8 miles, 11 minutes |
Estero High | 9 to 12 | About 10.5 miles, 17 minutes |
Drive times are free-flow estimates from the OpenStreetMap-based OSRM router, without traffic (OSRM, retrieved 26 Sep 2026); addresses are from the district’s directories (elementary, middle, high, retrieved 26 Sep 2026). Lee County’s district earned a “B” for 2025-26, with no school graded D or F (School District of Lee County, FLDOE, retrieved 26 Sep 2026). Bonita Springs High enrolled its first freshman class in August 2017 (Naples Daily News, retrieved 26 Sep 2026). Bonita Springs Charter School, a K-8 public charter at 25380 Bernwood Drive, is another option (NCES, retrieved 26 Sep 2026).
Bonita Springs skews older, with 44.2% of residents 65 and over (U.S. Census QuickFacts, retrieved 26 Sep 2026), but the Estate Homes’ three- and four-bedroom plans are the ones families buy here. Note the renters-no-pets rule and the licensed-driver cart rule below if you are moving with children.
Daily life for Worthington Estate Home owners runs through a staffed main gate on Bonita Grande Drive and a residents-only North Gate off Bonita Beach Road, golf carts for licensed drivers only, Quantum Fiber internet and DirecTV, and an on-site HOA office. I-75 Exit 116 is about 0.9 miles from the main entrance.
The community map shows an “Owners Entrance” on Bonita Beach Road and the “Main Entrance” on Bonita Grande Drive. The North Gate is for residents only; visitors and vendors use the main gate and are called in (Purchaser’s Packet, Quick List of Rules, retrieved 26 Sep 2026). The gatehouse is staffed at (239) 948-5344, attendants record each visitor’s name, ID and plate, and only owners and renters get vehicle barcodes (Open House Guidelines, retrieved 26 Sep 2026).
Only licensed drivers may drive golf carts, on the course or the community roads, and children under 16 without a license may not (The Eagle, Spring 2026, retrieved 26 Sep 2026). Every Estate Home has an attached garage, so cart storage and guest parking are simpler here than in the condo neighborhoods.
The club lists Quantum Fiber internet and DirecTV for its homes (Purchaser’s Packet, p. 2, retrieved 26 Sep 2026). Water and sewer in Bonita Springs are provided largely by Bonita Springs Utilities, a member-owned cooperative (Bonita Springs Utilities, retrieved 26 Sep 2026); we did not verify service at the parcel level, so confirm it on the seller’s bills. Trash collection and mail delivery arrangements are not spelled out in the public club documents we reviewed; the HOA office at (239) 495-2278 confirms them. Pest control is each owner’s own contract.
The Bonita Springs Fire Control and Rescue District’s main station at 27701 Bonita Grande Drive is about 0.6 miles, or 3 minutes, from the entrance, and the district holds an ISO rating of 2 (Bonita Fire, retrieved 26 Sep 2026). The nearest full hospital is NCH North Naples, a 311-bed hospital about 7.9 miles and 14 minutes away (AHCA FloridaHealthFinder, NCH, retrieved 26 Sep 2026). Lee Health’s Coconut Point emergency department is about 9.6 miles and 17 minutes (Lee Health, retrieved 26 Sep 2026), and NCH runs a freestanding emergency department at 24040 S Tamiami Trail in Bonita Springs, about 8.6 miles (NCH Bonita Springs, retrieved 26 Sep 2026).
Destination | Approximate drive |
|---|---|
I-75 Exit 116 at Bonita Beach Road | About 0.9 miles |
Bonita Beach Park | About 7.1 miles, 14 minutes |
Coconut Point | About 9.9 miles, 18 minutes |
Mercato, North Naples | About 10.4 miles, 19 minutes |
Southwest Florida International Airport | About 19.6 miles, 28 minutes |
Downtown Naples, Fifth Avenue South | About 17.9 miles, 28 minutes |
All drive times are OSRM free-flow estimates with no traffic (OSRM, retrieved 26 Sep 2026); peak-season drives run longer.
The biggest project near the Estate Homes at Worthington is Midtown at Bonita, a mixed-use development that broke ground in November 2025 directly across Bonita Beach Road from the Worthington entrance road. Add the I-75 express-lane project starting at Exit 116 this fall, a $17.8 million East Terry Street project and the approved Revana Lakes community about two miles east.
For an Estate Home owner the net is more shopping and dining within a mile, and a few years of construction traffic at the Bonita Beach Road interchange.
The Estate Homes are the most expensive, largest and only four-bedroom product among Worthington’s nine neighborhoods, at a $800,000 36-month median against $550,000 for the villas and $220,000 to $425,000 for the condos. They also carry the lowest neighborhood dues of any product except the villas, because the owner, not the association, carries the structure.
The yardstick below is the 36-month window (September 2023 to August 2026), the shortest window in which every association has at least 10 qualified sales, plus 2026 neighborhood dues from the club’s 2026 HOA Fee Schedule and home counts from the county roll (retrieved 26 Sep 2026).
Neighborhood | Homes | Product | 2026 neighborhood dues | 36-month qualified sales | 36-month median | Median $/sq ft |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Estate Homes (Single Family I and II) | 127 | Detached, one story, 1,872 to 3,416 sq ft | $3,120 to $3,420 | 27 | $800,000 | $360 |
Villas (Villas I and II) | 152 | Detached, one story, 1,543 to 1,998 sq ft | $2,612 to $2,988 | 29 | $550,000 | $315 |
120 | Condo carriage homes, about 1,446 to 1,576 sq ft | $5,080 | 20 | $425,000 (mean of $410,000 and $440,000) | $277 | |
116 | Condo carriage homes, about 1,446 to 1,576 sq ft | $5,700 | 17 | $414,000 | $267 | |
92 | Condo, about 1,075 to 1,311 sq ft | $6,188 | 18 | $283,750 (mean of $282,500 and $285,000) | $239 | |
120 | Condo, about 1,075 to 1,311 sq ft | $4,860 | 16 | $227,500 (mean of $225,000 and $230,000) | $186 | |
72 | Condo, about 1,075 to 1,222 sq ft | $7,712 | 14 | $220,000 (mean of $215,000 and $225,000) | $192 |
Three things stand out. First, the Estate Homes sell for about $45 more per square foot than the villas and about $83 to $174 more than the condos, the premium for land, a pool and no shared walls. Second, the Estate Homes’ neighborhood dues are lower than every condo association’s, because condo dues fund building insurance, roofs and reserves that an Estate Home owner pays directly. Third, every neighborhood pays the same $13,058 in master dues, so the club is not the difference; the house is.
The other eight Worthington neighborhoods each have their own page. The Worthington Villas are the closest match to the Estate Homes. The Wedgewood carriage homes, Wedgewood-Fountain and Wedgewood-Sherburne, are the larger condos, with their own pools and pickleball. The Waterford condos, Waterford Amberley Court, Waterford-Worthington Way and Waterford-Cavendish Court, are Worthington’s entry point to bundled golf. Many Estate Home buyers first rent or own a Waterford or Wedgewood condo, which is why the $1,306 existing-owner capital contribution matters when they move up.
Worthington Estate Homes and Worthington Villas are both detached, one-story homes behind the same gate, with the same club and the same $13,058 master dues. The Estate Homes give you about 470 more square feet, a lot about 2,800 square feet bigger and an 88% chance of a pool, for about $244,000 more at the 24-month median.
Decision factor | Worthington Estate Homes | Worthington Villas |
|---|---|---|
Homes | 127 (Single Family I 70, II 57) | 152 (Villas I 86, II 66) |
Median heated area | 2,225 sq ft (1,872 to 3,416) | 1,758 sq ft (1,543 to 1,998) |
Median lot | 10,250 sq ft | 7,466 sq ft |
Bedrooms | 2 to 4 (10 four-bedroom homes) | 2 or 3 only |
Homes with more than two baths | 36 | 1 |
Private pool | 112 of 127 (88%) | 67 of 152 (44%) |
Golf / lake frontage | 99 golf, 28 lake | 93 golf, 59 lake |
24-month qualified sales | 18 | 22 |
24-month median sale | $787,500 (mean of $775,000 and $800,000) | $543,750 (mean of $537,500 and $550,000) |
24-month median $/sq ft | $348 | $300 |
12-month qualified sales | 7 (listed above) | 13, median $537,500 |
2026 neighborhood dues | $3,120 (SF I) to $3,420 (SF II) | $2,612 (Villas II) to $2,988 (Villas I) |
All-in 2026 recurring dues | $16,178 to $16,478 | $15,670 to $16,046 |
Neighborhood rental fee | $150 | $0 (Villas I) or $150 (Villas II) |
Roof rule | Like-for-like concrete tile | Mediterranean theme, pre-approved tile list |
Median county just value | $646,654 | $450,704 |
Sources: our counts from the LeePA parcel roll and qualified-sale data, the 2026 HOA Fee Schedule, the Rental Forms and the ARC Criteria, retrieved 26 Sep 2026.
Choose an Estate Home if you want a pool at home, a third bedroom that is a real bedroom or a fourth for visiting family, a bigger yard and garage, or a golf view with more distance from the neighbors. It is also the better fit if you plan to own for years, because the Estate Homes have the scarcer product: only 127 of them, and only 10 with four bedrooms.
Choose a Villa if you want Worthington’s full club at about $244,000 less, you are happy in about 1,750 square feet, and a shared pool at the club cabana is enough. The villas also have more lake lots proportionally (59 of 152), and Villas I charges no neighborhood rental fee. Read our full Worthington Villas guide.
For sellers, the villas are your competition only at the bottom of the Estate Home range: a two-bedroom Estate Home around 1,900 square feet without a pool competes with the best villas, while a three-bedroom pool home on a golf lot competes with other Estate Homes and with single-family homes at other bundled clubs. We price accordingly.
Selling an Estate Home or a villa and moving within Worthington? Get a free valuation of your Worthington home or call Jesse direct at (239) 898-6072. Buying and torn between the two? Call Marc at (239) 287-5873, and see how we represent buyers in Bonita Springs.
The closest outside match to Worthington Estate Homes is Spanish Wells in Bonita Springs, whose single-family homes have nearly the same median size, pool rate and county value, but with optional rather than bundled golf. Pelican Sound in Estero is bundled like Worthington but newer and priced higher, and Highland Woods is Worthington’s closest bundled-club twin.
We compared single-family parcels on the same September 2026 county roll (LeePA parcel roll, retrieved 26 Sep 2026), with club terms from each club’s own documents.
Worthington Estate Homes | Spanish Wells single-family | Pelican Sound single-family | Highland Woods single-family | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Single-family parcels | 127 | 487 | 151 | 232 |
Years built | 1990 to 1995 (one 2009) | 1979 to 2022, median 1993 | 1998 to 2000 | 1996 to 2001 |
Median heated area | 2,225 sq ft | 2,345 sq ft | 2,128 sq ft | 1,746 sq ft |
Median lot | 10,250 sq ft | 11,935 sq ft | 10,803 sq ft | 5,793 sq ft |
Private pool | 88% | 89% | 88% | 60% |
Median county just value | $646,654 | $645,679 | $960,931 | $498,068 |
Club model | Bundled | Optional (golf, sports or social) | Bundled | Bundled |
2026 club dues or assessment | $13,058 master dues | Not published on the reachable club pages | $11,495 assessment | $13,812.79 plus $500 F&B |
Buyer entry fee | $12,500 capital contribution | $4,800 capital assessment | $20,300 initiation (first-time owners) | $10,000 capital contribution |
Club sources: Spanish Wells memberships, Spanish Wells Unit Two HOA real estate notes, Pelican Sound 2026 fact sheet and Highland Woods 2026 estoppel information, retrieved 26 Sep 2026.
Spanish Wells is the like-for-like house, with a bigger community and a 27-hole course where golf is optional; a non-golfer pays less there. Our Spanish Wells guide covers it. Pelican Sound is bundled and about 49% higher on county value for a similar home. Highland Woods matches Worthington’s 799 residences and bundled model, but its single-family homes are smaller, on much smaller lots; a Worthington Estate Home buyer gets more land for the club dollar. For the full list of clubs, see our Lee County golf communities guide.
A Worthington Estate Home’s pros are space, privacy, a pool and bundled club life at a price well below newer bundled clubs; its cons are 30-plus-year-old construction, a 25-pound pet limit, full club dues whether you golf or not, and a $12,500 entry cost. For most buyers the house itself, not the club, decides it.
If the pros win for you, we can show you what is available now and what is coming. Sellers: find out what your Estate Home is worth or call Jesse direct at (239) 898-6072. Buyers: call Marc at (239) 287-5873, and see how we represent buyers in Bonita Springs.
Selling a Worthington Estate Home well means pricing it against the 127-home Estate Home market, not Worthington’s condo-heavy median, then marketing the house, the lot and the club to buyers comparing bundled clubs across Bonita Springs and Estero. McGreevy and Comisar have over $900 million in personal sales and are Top 1% Real Estate Agents Nationally Since 2008.
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Worthington Estate Homes sold stats (Lee County Property Appraiser recorded qualified sales): in the last 12 months, September 2025 through August 2026, the Estate Homes at Worthington have seen 7 resales totaling $5.31 million, from $580,000 to $945,000. Over 24 months, September 2024 through August 2026, 18 sales totaled $14.25 million at a $787,500 median, the mean of $775,000 and $800,000. Average days on market and the sale-to-list ratio come only from the Southwest Florida MLS and are being added from our MLS report for this neighborhood.
Get a Worthington Estate Home valuation priced against Estate Home sales only, not the whole ZIP code: start at our free home valuation, or call Jesse direct at (239) 898-6072. If you are also buying, Marc will line up your next home at the same time; see how we represent buyers in Bonita Springs or call him at (239) 287-5873.
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A dedicated Worthington Estate Homes seller page is coming with full HOA fee schedules, recent sale comps, and street-by-street analysis. We’ll link it here when it goes live.
County records do not track days on market, so no honest figure comes from them; the MLS figure for the Estate Homes is being added from our MLS report. What the record shows is thin supply: 7 sales in 12 months across 127 homes.
The club’s 2026 fee schedule lists the $12,500 capital contribution as due from the new owner, or $1,306 if the buyer already owns in Worthington. Any different split is a negotiated contract term.
Yes. Every Worthington sale needs the HOA’s Certificate of Approval before closing, and the buyer takes the home subject to the master association’s rules, including the 25-pound pet limit.
No. Worthington does not allow for-sale or rent signs on lots; open-house signs are allowed only under the club’s guidelines, one sign per property, and never on the golf-course side.
Not necessarily. A roof permit date, a roof certification and a wind-mitigation report let the buyer’s insurer price the home; a replacement makes sense only when an insurer will not write the current roof.
Call Jesse at (239) 898-6072 for a net sheet built on recorded Estate Home sales, your association’s dues and estoppel, and Lee County closing costs.
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These are the questions buyers ask most about the Estate Homes at Worthington, drawn from search questions and from the gaps other guides leave open. Each answer is one paragraph, matches the sourced sections above, and is current to September 2026.
The Estate Homes are Worthington’s 127 detached, one-story single-family homes, split between Worthington Single Family Homes Association I (70 homes) and II (57 homes). They are the largest homes on the largest lots inside the gated, bundled Worthington Country Club in Bonita Springs.
There are 127 Estate Homes: 70 in Single Family I and 57 in Single Family II. The recorded master declaration, the club’s assessment sheet and the county plat blocks all agree on those counts.
Single Family I is Bridgeford Avenue, numbers 13000 to 13390. Single Family II is Tonbridge Court, Rochester Court and two lots at 13771 and 13781 Southampton Drive.
No. Bridgeford Avenue 13000 to 13390 is Single Family I, but the 14 homes at 13400 to 13471, east of Worthington Way, belong to Villas I and are villas, not Estate Homes.
Single Family I is the original 1990 phase on Bridgeford Avenue, with a 2,202 square foot median home and quarterly dues of $780. Single Family II is the 1992 replat phase on Tonbridge and Rochester Courts, with a 2,294 square foot median home, 96% pools and monthly dues of $285.
Heated living area runs from 1,872 to 3,416 square feet, with a median of 2,225 square feet. Seven Estate Homes are 3,000 square feet or more.
Yes. Ten Estate Homes have four bedrooms, eight of them in Single Family II, and they are the only four-bedroom homes in Worthington. The typical plan is three bedrooms and two baths.
112 of the 127 Estate Homes have a private pool on the county’s certified roll, 88%, and one more pool is under construction. Single Family II’s rate is 96%.
The median Estate Home lot is 10,250 square feet, and lots range from 9,627 to 18,260 square feet, or 0.22 to 0.42 acres. The largest are pie-shaped cul-de-sac lots.
Most are. The county’s frontage field shows 99 golf-frontage lots and 28 lake-frontage lots, and no Estate Home is coded as having neither.
The county roll shows the Estate Homes built between 1990 and 1995, plus one home with a 2009 build year. The club’s marketing says 1991 to 1994.
Over the 24 months from September 2024 to August 2026, 18 Estate Homes recorded qualified sales at a $787,500 median, the mean of $775,000 and $800,000. The last 12 months had 7 sales from $580,000 to $945,000.
The 24-month median is about $348 per heated square foot, and the 60-month median is about $353, based on each sale price divided by the home’s heated area on the county roll.
Seven Estate Homes recorded qualified sales from September 2025 through August 2026, totaling $5.31 million. Five of the six sales we could match to a parcel were in Single Family II.
Single Family I charges $780 a quarter, or $3,120 a year, and Single Family II charges $285 a month, or $3,420 a year, on top of the $13,058 master dues.
Recurring dues total $16,178 a year in Single Family I and $16,478 in Single Family II, or $17,178 and $17,478 with the $1,000 food and beverage minimum. Taxes, insurance, pest control and a golf cart are extra.
A new Worthington owner pays a one-time $12,500 capital contribution at closing. An owner who already owns in Worthington pays $1,306.
Yes. Worthington is a member-owned bundled community with no equity fee, so every Estate Home owner is a club member through the $13,058 master dues. Carts and the food and beverage minimum are separate charges.
No. Neither Single Family association runs a neighborhood pool or cabana; owners use the club’s resort pool, and 88% of Estate Homes have a private pool.
The neighborhood association handles routine mowing, mulching, edging, tree and palm trimming and pesticide application. The owner pays to replace dead plants and trees and pays for pest control.
The owner. The master declaration makes each owner responsible for maintaining, repairing, replacing and repainting the home and roof, and a replacement must match the existing tile unless the ARC approves a change.
Yes, for 30 consecutive days or more, up to one year per lease and at most four times a calendar year, furnished and with master association approval. Short-term platform rentals are not allowed.
Yes, if it weighs no more than 25 pounds. Dogs and cats must be leashed outdoors and not left on lanais or in garages, and renters may not have pets.
FEMA Zone X, an area of minimal flood hazard, on panel 12071C0678F. No Worthington parcel sits in a FEMA Special Flood Hazard Area, and the community is in evacuation Zone C.
A lender will not require it in Zone X, but Citizens requires flood coverage for homes with replacement cost of $400,000 or more from 2026 and for all its personal residential policies from 2027. Bonita Springs’ CRS Class 5 rating gives a 25% NFIP discount.
No. Those laws apply to condominium buildings of three or more habitable stories. The Estate Homes are one-story single-family homes in homeowners’ associations under Chapter 720.
The Estate Homes sit in Lee County tax district 017, with a 2025 total of 12.7970 mills. Taxed on the $646,654 median just value, that is about $8,275 before any homestead exemption.
Yes, with ARC approval. A pool may extend no more than 3 feet beyond the home’s width and must keep 10-foot side and rear setbacks and 25 feet from a lake; a permanent generator needs a buried tank, landscaping and a City permit.
Lee County assigns schools by proximity-zone choice. The nearest are Bonita Springs Elementary, about 3.3 miles away, Bonita Springs Middle, about 4.3 miles, and Bonita Springs High, about 5.8 miles; confirm your zone with the district.
Bonita Beach Park is about 7.1 miles, about 14 minutes, and Southwest Florida International Airport is about 19.6 miles, about 28 minutes, in free-flow traffic.
No. Lee County’s special-district list includes no Worthington community development district, so Estate Home tax bills carry no CDD assessment.
Buy an Estate Home for a pool, a bigger lot, a third or fourth real bedroom and about 470 more square feet. Buy a Villa to get the same club for about $244,000 less at the 24-month median.
McGreevy and Comisar track every recorded Estate Home sale and price each Worthington neighborhood separately. Call Marc at (239) 287-5873 for a buyer consultation.
These are the questions Estate Home owners on Bridgeford Avenue, Tonbridge Court and Rochester Court ask us before they list. Each answer is one paragraph, matches the recorded sales, fees and rules in the sections above, and is current to September 2026.
McGreevy and Comisar are Top 1% Real Estate Agents Nationally Since 2008 with over $900 million in personal sales, and we price Estate Homes against Estate Home sales only. Call Jesse direct at (239) 898-6072.
Your home’s value depends on its association, frontage, pool, bedrooms, roof and updates, measured against 18 Estate Home sales in the last 24 months at a $787,500 median. Start with a free valuation or call Jesse for a written price opinion.
The last 12 months brought 7 recorded sales: $580,000, $900,000, $900,000, $945,000, $680,000, $700,000 and $600,000, from September 2025 through August 2026.
The highest in the last 12 months was $945,000, a lake-frontage home on Rochester Court recorded in March 2026. In the 10-year record, two Estate Homes sold for $1,100,000 in 2024.
Prices nearly doubled from a $446,250 median in 2020 to $800,000 in 2025, then softened in 2026, when three of four sales closed at $700,000 or less. Per square foot the 24-month and 60-month medians are close, at about $348 and $353.
County records do not track days on market, and the MLS figure for the Estate Homes is being added from our MLS report. Supply is thin, with 7 sales in 12 months.
Fall. 15 of the 18 Estate Home sales in the last 24 months were recorded between October and May, so listing by early November catches the first seasonal buyers.
Not reliably in the recent record. Twelve golf-frontage sales in 24 months had a $775,000 median, and the five lake sales ranged from $580,000 to $945,000; view, pool and condition move price more than the frontage label.
A pool is close to expected here, with 88% of Estate Homes having one, so a home without a pool competes more directly with the best villas than with other Estate Homes.
In the 24-month record, 7 Single Family I sales had an $800,000 median and 10 Single Family II sales a $787,500 median. The samples are small, and the individual house matters more than the association.
No, but roof age drives the buyer’s insurance quote on a 1990s home. A roof permit copy, a roof certification and a wind-mitigation report usually do more for the sale than a rushed replacement.
A wind-mitigation inspection and a four-point inspection are the two documents insurers ask for, and a pre-listing home inspection lets you fix or price small items before a buyer finds them.
Usually only the items that show in photos or block insurance: paint in approved earth tones, landscaping touch-ups, pool equipment and any roof or opening-protection issue. Larger remodels rarely return their cost before a sale.
The 2026 fee schedule lists the $12,500 capital contribution as due from the new owner, or $1,306 from a buyer who already owns in Worthington. A different split is a negotiated term.
Yes. Every Worthington sale needs an HOA Certificate of Approval, and the buyer takes the home subject to the master association’s rules, including the 25-pound pet limit.
Expect requests for the Single Family association’s budget, reserve schedule and minutes, the estoppel certificate, ARC approvals for past exterior work, roof and pool permits, and wind-mitigation and four-point reports.
No. For-sale and rent signs are not allowed on lots; one open-house sign no larger than 2 feet by 2 feet is allowed during registered open houses, never on the golf side.
Open houses run only Saturday and Sunday from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m., must be registered by the Thursday before at 3:30 p.m., and visitors get only the Open House List and a community map at the gate.
Yes, subject to the lease. The tenant holds the club privileges until the lease ends, and a buyer who wants to move in will need to know the end date.
Lead with what a villa cannot offer: the pool, the lot, the garage and the bedroom count. Estate Homes sold for about $348 a square foot over 24 months against about $300 for the villas.
Only modestly. Single Family I dues rose 2.6% for 2026 and Single Family II dues 5.2%, and master dues rose about 1.1%, all well below Villas I’s 15.8% increase.
They can. Every exterior change needs written ARC approval, and a buyer’s attorney or the approval process may surface unapproved work, so find and fix any gap before listing.
Tell them the facts: FEMA Zone X, no Worthington parcel in a Special Flood Hazard Area, evacuation Zone C and a 25% NFIP discount through the city’s CRS rating, plus your own storm history in your disclosure.
Give them the roof date, the wind-mitigation report and the four-point report up front. Citizens now requires flood coverage for homes with replacement cost of $400,000 or more, so a quote in hand helps.
Show the full stack: $13,058 master dues, $3,120 or $3,420 neighborhood dues, a $1,000 food and beverage minimum and a one-time $12,500 capital contribution, with golf, tennis and the club included and no equity fee.
The cart is personal property and does not transfer unless your contract says so. Many sellers include it or sell it separately, and the new owner then pays the club’s annual trail fee.
Yes, but you still need the HOA Certificate of Approval, and the club’s no-sign rule and gate controls make it harder to reach buyers without MLS exposure and registered open houses.
A Lee County seller customarily pays documentary stamp tax on the deed, the owner’s title policy in most transactions, estoppel fees and the brokerage commission. Our net sheet lists each line for your price.
Yes, where it serves you. We can market quietly to our buyer database first, though with only 7 Estate Home sales in 12 months, full exposure usually sets the stronger price.
We price from recorded Estate Home sales, shoot professional photography, cinematic video and drone footage of the golf or lake view, market to buyers inside and outside the gate, and run registered open houses.
Recheck the price against the 24-month Estate Home record, fix the insurance story with roof and wind-mitigation documents, and refresh the photography. We review stale listings at no cost.
Compare recorded results, not claims. Our comparison of the best real estate agents in Bonita Springs puts sales volume, years licensed and verified reviews side by side.
You pay only the $1,306 existing-owner capital contribution on the next Worthington home. Jesse can run the sale while Marc runs the purchase so the two closings line up.
Every source below is a primary record, a government agency, the club itself or a non-brokerage publication; no real estate brokerage or listing portal is cited. All were retrieved on 26 September 2026. Sale statistics, counts and medians on this page are our own analysis of Lee County Property Appraiser records.
These are the governing, financial and hazard documents an Estate Home buyer or seller should read, each linked to the official authority that publishes it. The Single Family I and II declarations, bylaws and budgets are not posted publicly; request them from the HOA office at (239) 495-2278 or from the seller.
Document | Publisher | Link |
|---|---|---|
2026 HOA Fee Schedule, all nine neighborhood associations | Worthington Country Club | |
2026 Fee Schedule and approved master budget | Worthington Master Association | |
Year 2024 Master Declaration of CC&Rs with Certificate of Amendment | Worthington Master Association | |
ARC Architectural and Aesthetic Criteria (rev. Dec. 2024) | Worthington Master Association | |
Rules and Regulations (rev. 2025-0828) | Worthington Master Association | |
2025 HOA Association Assessments spreadsheet | Worthington Country Club | |
Purchaser’s Packet (map, rules, fees, contacts) | Worthington Country Club | |
Rental Forms and leasing rules (rev. June 15, 2025) | Worthington Country Club | |
Open House Guidelines (rev. 2026) | Worthington Country Club | |
2025 Taxing District Millage Book (district 017) | Lee County Property Appraiser | |
Evacuation Zone C fact sheet | Lee County Emergency Management | |
Revised Preliminary Flood Insurance Study (Dec. 4, 2025) | Lee County and FEMA | |
CRS Eligible Communities (April 2025) | FEMA | |
Florida Building Code effective dates | Florida Building Commission | |
Student Enrollment Plan 2026-2027 | School District of Lee County |
Market data from Lee County Property Appraiser recorded sales, pulled September 2026; Southwest Florida MLS figures are being added.
McGreevy and Comisar, Best Realtor for Worthington Estate Homes. Brokered by Domain Realty. Jesse McGreevy, FL Lic. SL3101296 · Marc Comisar, FL Lic. BK3060671.
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