Find the right Naples community
From beachfront Pelican Bay to value-driven Verona Walk, Naples is really dozens of distinct communities. Here’s how they compare — lifestyle, home types, fees, and who each one actually fits.
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Valencia Trails & Esplanade by the Islands
Two communities I know inside out — with the most thorough, data-backed guides you’ll find anywhere: real fees, floor plans, and market trends. If you’re buying or selling in either, that depth is your edge.
North Naples 360° tour inside 32 for sale Valencia Trails
Single-level, low-maintenance living with a full social calendar — one-story homes around a ~42,000 sq ft clubhouse, gated, with no CDD.
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East Naples 30 for sale Esplanade by the Islands
Resort-style days — pool, pickleball, lunch at the Bahama Bar — without paying for a golf course you’ll never use.
Explore Esplanade by the Islands →Naples
Naples 15 for sale Marbella Isles
All-ages resort living in the center of Naples — a resort pool with kids’ slides, a rare indoor sports court, one low-fee HOA with no CDD, and a private walking gate toward the school campus, across 466 homes and villas.
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Naples 148 for sale Old Naples
Walk to dinner, the beach, and the Saturday farmers market — the historic heart of Naples, restored cottages to $10M+ estates around 5th Avenue South and 3rd Street South, where most single-family homes carry no mandatory HOA.
Explore Old Naples →Port Royal
Deep-water estates with direct Gulf access — Naples' most exclusive waterfront enclave, with a private beach club and the county's record sales.
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Naples 30 for sale Aqualane Shores
Deep-water boating from your own dock — wide canals with quick, often no-bridge Gulf access and a walk to 3rd Street South, in a prestigious enclave just south of Old Naples at some of Naples’ highest price points.
Explore Aqualane Shores →Park Shore
The whole coastal day inside one neighborhood — a private resident beach park on the Gulf, Venetian Village waterfront dining, and Gulf-access boating through Doctors Pass, across ~760 acres of beachfront towers and single-family streets.
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Naples 155 for sale The Moorings
Water on both sides of the day — an established coastal neighborhood between the Gulf and Moorings Bay, with a private resident beach park owners can join and Gulf-access canal homes (via Doctors Pass, some bridge-free) minutes from downtown.
Explore The Moorings →Coquina Sands
A beach walk instead of a gatehouse — an established, non-gated beachside neighborhood of curving, tree-lined boulevards wrapped around the new Four Seasons resort, steps from Lowdermilk Park and minutes north of 5th Avenue South.
Explore Coquina Sands →Seagate
Location over rules — about 90 established canal homes with no gate and no mandatory HOA, between Pelican Bay and Park Shore, walkable to the Gulf at Clam Pass and across the street from Waterside Shops.
Explore Seagate →Grey Oaks
Membership is part of the purchase here — every Grey Oaks buyer joins the member-owned club (Equity Sports at minimum; Equity Golf unlocks 54 holes) on a gated, ~1,600-acre central-Naples address of custom estates, villas and coach homes minutes from downtown and the Gulf.
Explore Grey Oaks →North Naples
Pelican Marsh
Golf here is optional — the private Pelican Marsh Golf Club is a separate membership and a separate decision, in an established, gated 1,000-plus-acre community off Vanderbilt Beach Road with a tennis center, nature preserve, and the ultra-luxury Bay Colony enclave.
Explore Pelican Marsh →Pine Ridge Estates
Acreage, privacy, and no HOA in the center of Naples — 1-to-7-acre estate lots with an equestrian heritage and some of the city’s largest new custom homes, minutes from the beaches and downtown.
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North Naples 5 for sale The Quarry
Golf here is optional — the lakeside Beach Club is included with every home, and the Quarry Golf Club is a separate club with a separate decision.
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North Naples 16 for sale Greyhawk at Golf Club of the Everglades
Golf is optional here — buy the home, then decide on the Rees Jones course; the resort amenities come with the HOA either way.
Explore Greyhawk at Golf Club of the Everglades → North Naples 360° tour inside 32 for sale Valencia Trails
Single-level, low-maintenance living with a full social calendar — one-story homes around a ~42,000 sq ft clubhouse, gated, with no CDD.
Explore Valencia Trails →Esplanade Golf & Country Club
Golf membership deeded to the home — no initiation, no waitlist — at the only Esplanade in Naples with a course: Taylor Morrison’s built-out resort community on Immokalee Road, where 800 of the 1,184 homes carry the 18-hole membership.
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North Naples 8 for sale LaMorada
Lock-and-leave living at boutique scale — gated, no CDD, and a clubhouse with a private bistro and movie theater.
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North Naples 176 for sale Pelican Bay
Roughly three miles of private Gulf beach, reached by tram — North Naples’ premier master-planned community, with two beachfront restaurants and Waterside Shops and Artis—Naples on the doorstep.
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North Naples 102 for sale Naples Park
A no-HOA grid of numbered streets minutes from Vanderbilt Beach and Mercato — one of North Naples’ few genuinely flexible, comparatively affordable ways to live near the sand.
Explore Naples Park →Mediterra
Room is the luxury here — fewer than 930 homes on ~1,700 acres (1,000+ preserved) at the Naples–Bonita line, with two Tom Fazio courses, an optional equity club, and a private Gulf beach club.
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North Naples 25 for sale TwinEagles
Tee times you can actually get — roughly 300 members per course on two championship layouts (the Talon by Nicklaus, the Eagle by Smyers) and a renovated clubhouse, gated on 1,000+ acres in northeast Naples, with golf deeded to some homes and optional (waitlisted) on the rest.
Explore TwinEagles →The Vineyards
Golf is optional here — own the home without ever joining the club; two 18-hole courses at the private, non-equity Vineyards Country Club, ~38 gated neighborhoods across 1,375 family-built acres, and homes from $300Ks condos to $2M+ estates.
Explore The Vineyards →East Naples
Isles of Collier Preserve
Built around nature, not a golf course — 8 miles of kayak-and-hike trails, the Cypress Waterway, and the Isles Club across Minto’s ~2,400-acre community minutes from downtown Naples, with more than half the land left as preserve.
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East Naples 26 for sale Verona Walk
Lock-and-leave value with its own walkable Town Center — gated, lawn care and irrigation handled by the HOA, and no bundled golf dues.
Explore Verona Walk → East Naples 30 for sale Esplanade by the Islands
Resort-style days — pool, pickleball, lunch at the Bahama Bar — without paying for a golf course you’ll never use.
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East Naples 24 for sale Azure at Hacienda Lakes
Built to be left: the association maintains lawns, building exteriors, and roofs behind a gated entry — with a resort clubhouse waiting when you’re back.
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East Naples 139 for sale Lely Resort
Golf on your terms — two public championship courses and a private equity option across a ~2,900-acre South Naples master plan, with the Players Club & Spa and 40+ neighborhoods from $250K condos to $3M+ estates.
Explore Lely Resort →Treviso Bay
TPC golf that conveys with the home in the bundled sections — the only TPC in Naples, with a resort-amenity campus, six pools, and a social-membership path on every other home.
Explore Treviso Bay →Fiddler's Creek
Golf is optional here — every home includes the 54,000 sq ft Club & Spa, with golf, beach club, and marina as separate add-ons, across a ~4,000-acre South Naples resort of condos to estates.
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East Naples 6 for sale Caymas
Naples’ rare chance to buy new on a large lakefront parcel — STOCK Development and Pulte actively selling on 780 gated acres off Collier Boulevard, with resort amenities, no bundled golf, and a ~30,000-sq-ft clubhouse coming online.
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East Naples 14 for sale Seven Shores
You can still buy new here — Toll Brothers single-family from roughly $600K base, in a gated, natural-gas community off Collier Boulevard between Davis Boulevard and Rattlesnake Hammock Road, around “The Meridian” amenity center.
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East Naples 37 for sale Naples Reserve
Built around water, not golf — a 125-acre boatable lake, a private beach island, and Island Club amenities on 688 gated acres, with homes from the $400Ks to estate-level.
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East Naples 11 for sale Reflection Lakes of Naples
The monthly math is the draw — no CDD and relatively low HOA fees in a built-out, all-ages gated community off U.S. 41 East, with condos, villas, and single-family homes behind one gate.
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East Naples 11 for sale Esplanade at Hacienda Lakes
Built to be left — lawn care and irrigation through the association behind a gated entry; Taylor Morrison’s “Designed by Esplanade” resort lifestyle at a 443-home scale, sold out and now resale-only.
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East Naples 10 for sale Valencia Sky
You can still buy new, 55+, minutes from downtown — GL Homes’ Valencia Sky Collection from the $700s, with no CDD and a 35,000-sq-ft clubhouse on the way.
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East Naples Manatee Cove
The all-in monthly is the headline — natural gas, no CDD, and low HOA dues in a small gated Pulte community off Manatee Road, with single-family homes from the $400Ks to around $800K.
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East Naples Winding Cypress
Nature instead of golf — a boardwalk, bird-watching overlooks, and 800+ acres of preserve wrap about 770 DiVosta homes and villas off U.S. 41 East in South Naples, with a resort pool, the Shady Palm Café, tennis, pickleball, and bocce.
Explore Winding Cypress →Looking just outside Naples?
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