Collier County Neighborhoods

Goodland

A rounded peninsula on southeastern Marco Island surrounded by Goodland Bay, Coon Key Pass and Gullivan Bay.

On the Market

Properties for sale, summer 2005

Two single-family homes, three condos.

Price range, single-family

$485,000 and $3,000,000.

What you get for $485,000 A 1,040-square-foot canal-front cottage with a bonus room and 1,040 square feet.

What you get for $3,000,000 A 1,450-square-foot two-bedroom, one-bath home on a .75-acre lot on Coon Key Pass, with panoramic views of protected mangrove islands and the Gulf.

Price range, condos $729,000-$870,000.

What you get for $729,000 A three-bedroom, two-bath unit in a low-rise building in the new Calusa Island Village, with bay and canal views and 1,710 square feet of living space.

What you get for $870,000 A Calusa Island Village condo with three bedrooms, three baths, 2,255 square feet and a boat dock.

Before the Jolly Bridge, a still-visible swing bridge near Goodland was the official entry onto Marco Island. Goodland, the story goes, was sparsely inhabited until 1949, when Barron Collier moved squatters and their homes from Marco proper to Goodland. The town retains an Old Florida commercial-fishing atmosphere-one that attracts weekend revelry at Stan's with its bayfront chickee, live music and cheap pitchers of beer. Nearby, there's an old store that's now a museum plastered with Calusa artifacts, mounted fish, old tools and fishing gear; T-shirts are stapled to the ceiling. The building's old movie screen and projector serve as a reminder of its storied past. A sign of the times in Goodland: The fishing hamlet's first planned community, Calusa Island Village, is now under construction.

NAPLES

Airport-Pulling Road Residential

From Immokalee Road to Tamiami Trail East.

On the Market

Properties for sale, summer 2005

More than 100 single-family estates and condos, mostly in gated communities.

Price range, single-family

$650,000-$7,295,000.

What you get for $650,000 A 2,365-square-foot three-bedroom, two-bath home with a sunken fireplace room and lake view, located in Naples' premier tennis community, Naples Bath and Tennis Club.

What you get for $7,295,000 An Aurora Award-winning estate in the Estuary, offering five bedrooms, eight baths and a 5,000-square-foot outdoor living area with summer kitchen, fireplace and fountain.

Price range, condos $365,000-$899,500.

What you get for $365,000 A two-bedroom, two-bath condo in the Carrington neighborhood at Stonebridge-golf included.

What you get for $899,500 A three-bedroom, two-bath low-rise in the Bolero building- Tiburón signature membership included.

Gated communities (Stonebridge, Pelican Marsh, Tiburón, Grey Oaks, Estuary, Bear's Paw Country Club) are sprinkled among shopping centers, restaurants and car dealerships as Airport-Pulling Road stretches south from Immokalee Road before assuming a more industrial and commercial personality south of Golden Gate Parkway. Nongated neighborhoods lie off side-roads such as Poinciana Drive, Radio Road and Estey Avenue. Tall Pines, a neighborhood of 120 single-family homes sans gates, is tucked behind Barron Collier High School just north of the Airport-Pulling-Pine Ridge intersection.

Aqualane Shores

Between Port Royal to the south, 14th Avenue South to the north, Gulf Shore Boulevard South to the west and Naples Bay to the east.

On the Market

Properties for sale, summer 2005

25 single-family homes.

Price range $2,200,000-$6,990,000.

What you get for $2,200,000 A 1954 bungalow on Gordon Drive just two blocks from the beach, with three bedrooms, two baths and 1,690 square feet.

What you get for $6,990,000 A new 6,000-square-foot two-story luxury home featuring five bedrooms, six baths, a pool and direct Gulf access with two docks.

Prized for its blocks-from-the-beach location and within walking distance of Naples' Fifth Avenue South and Third Street South, the 300-acre Aqualane Shores was divided into 350 home sites by Forest Walker & Sons in the late 1950s. Those first lots were priced around $2,500 at just $100 down and $50 a month. The neighborhood boasts deep-water access (320 homes are on water), mature landscaping and older homes that buyers often renovate or replace.

Livingston Road Residential

Extending north from Immokalee Road to Bonita Beach Road.

On the Market

Properties for sale, summer 2005

42 single-family homes, 22 condos in the gated communities of Carlton Lakes, Delasol, Mediterra and Vasari; doesn't include build-your-home lots available in Mediterra and Tuscany Reserve.

Price range, single-family

$449,000-$6,595,000.

What you get for $449,000 A 1,775-square-foot three-bedroom, two-bath former model home in Carlton Lakes.

What you get for $6,595,000 A model in Mediterra with five bedrooms, seven baths, 7,940 square feet of living space, his-and-her master baths and extensive ceiling details.

Price range, condos $309,900-$979,900.

What you get for $309,900 A first-floor condo in Carlton Lakes with private courtyard entrance, two bedrooms, two baths and 1,200 square feet.

What you get for $979,900 A three-bedroom, three-bath carriage home in Mediterra's Porta Vecchio neighborhood, with den, 2,590 square feet and golf course and lake views.

Gated communities afford the only opportunity to live along the northern section of Livingston Road, an undeveloped area just five years ago. Livingston Road now links Naples and Bonita Springs; and thanks to a recently completed extension, it offers a six-lane, low-traffic corridor to areas south of Naples. Communities on the northern stretch are hot properties: Delasol sold out before construction and Vasari, a relative newcomer, has also sold out. Multimillion-dollar homes are found in Mediterra and Tuscany Reserve, the latter with rolling hills, orchards and its own island.

Livingston Woods

North and east of the intersection of Livingston and Pine Ridge roads.

On the Market

Properties for sale, summer 2005

Eight single-family homes.

Price range, single-family

$950,000-$5,800,000.

What you get for $950,000 A three-bedroom, three-bath newer home (built in 1995) on 2.27 acres, featuring a grand salon, Jacuzzi tubs, a sitting room with fireplace, and a guest suite with pool.

What you get for $5,800,000 A Palladio-inspired Venetian estate with six bedrooms, nine baths, more than 10,000 square feet, reflecting gardens and a guesthouse.

Close to the Community School, Barron Collier High School, shopping and restaurants, Livingston Woods is being discovered by families who like the extra-large home sites of an in-town location. A handful of narrow, two-lane streets stretches east from Livingston Road to the interstate, offering two-acre-plus-sized lots with Mediterranean and Old Florida homes, long driveways and large back yards.

Old Naples

Bounded by the Naples Beach Hotel & Golf Club's golf course to the north, Ninth Street South (a.k.a. U.S. 41 or Tamiami Trail North) to the east, the Gulf of Mexico to the west and 14th Avenue South to the south.

On the Market

Properties for sale, summer 2005

34 single-family homes, 45 condos.

Price range, single-family

$1,195,000-$14,900,000.

What you get for $1,195,000 A '60s-era ranch home with three bedrooms, two baths, 2,200 square feet and a two-car carport.

What you get for $14,900,000 A four-bedroom, six-bath, 6,790-square-foot Gulf-front home with tropics-inspired details-authentic thatch ceilings, hand-mudded moldings, Brazilian cherry wood floors, plus hand-carved wood and stone features.

Price range, condos $299,000-$929,000.

What you get for $299,000 A 930-square-foot two-bedroom, two-bath home on the third floor of a mid-rise building just blocks away from the beach, Fifth Avenue and restaurants.

What you get for $929,000 An end-unit condo with two bedrooms, two baths, 1,700 square feet and partial Naples Bay views.

Naples' most historic neighborhood, Old Naples is a neighborly sort of place where drivers stop in the street to greet neighbors. Its close-to-everything location places beachcombing, parks, theaters, art galleries, shopping and gourmet dining within walking distance. A two-square-mile grid stretches 10 blocks to Naples Bay, the Gulf of Mexico and the scenic Naples Pier, built in 1889 and a popular spot for fishing and sunsets. Avenues run east and west, streets north and south and include the tony shopping centers of Third Street South and Fifth Avenue South. Nearby marinas and boat clubs provide landlocked homeowners the opportunity to become boat owners while enjoying the charm of a small-town setting. Homes include old beach cottages, 1950s ranch homes and new mansions.

Adjoining Gulf Shore Boulevard South, which runs north from Doctors Pass and south to Port Royal, is a tourist's paradise with beach accesses nestled among the old cottages and multimillion-dollar mansions, hidden behind majestic palm trees, towering hedges and tropical landscaping. Featured on HGTV's Dream Drives, Gulf Shore Boulevard is home to the 1895 Palm Cottage, the vacation home of Henry Watterson, one-time editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal. More recent residents include celebrities, entrepreneurs and others from the rich-and-famous set.

Port Royal

Bounded by Lantern Lane to the north, the Gulf of Mexico to the west, Gordon's Pass to the south and Naples Bay to the east.

On the Market

Properties for sale, summer 2005

29 single-family homes.

Price range $2,995,000-$16,900,000.

What you get for $2,995,000 A 1984 home on an interior lot, with four bedrooms, five baths, a resurfaced pool and a spa, and just under 3,800 square feet.

What you get for $16,900,000 A 9,700-square-foot Galleon Drive home on a one-acre landscaped lot on the bay, with four bedrooms, eight baths, and an enclosed garden with pool, spa, water fall, koi pond and outdoor kitchen.

Developer John Glen Sample's fascination with the 17th-century Jamaican city and its pirate inhabitants inspired the colorful names of many of Port Royal's 550 waterfront addresses-Rum Row, Spyglass Lane and Galleon Drive. Sample, who made his fortune with the advertising agency that developed the radio soap opera, financed and developed Port Royal, converting swamplands, hammocks and beachfront into one of the country's most coveted neighborhoods. You'll find manmade peninsulas, coves and bays, and homes for the rich (including many captains of industry) and occasionally the famous. Port Royal is revered for its deep-water yacht basin, bridgeless access to the Gulf and Ten Thousand Islands, and its eclectic mix of Mediterranean mansions and cottages tucked behind the tall hedges and landscaping of an old tropical neighborhood.

South Central Naples

South of Golden Gate Parkway, east of Airport-Pulling Road, north of Rattlesnake Hammock Road and west of Collier Boulevard.

On the Market

Properties for sale, summer 2005

More than 250 single-family homes and condos.

Price range, single-family

$299,000-$3,990,000.

What you get for $299,900 A new Key West-style, two-story home with verandahs on both floors, three bedrooms, three baths, a lake view and 1,440 square feet.

What you get for $3,990,000 A four-bedroom, five-bath home in the gated Islandia community that overlooks a lake and has its own pool-one of only a dozen single-family homes over $1 million in South Central Naples.

Price range, condo $209,250-$850,000.

What you get for $209,250 A 1,266-square-foot three-bedroom, two-bath attached villa in Vista Gardens, just off Rattlesnake Hammock Road.

What you get for $850,000 A furnished, 2,063-square-foot low-rise condo overlooking a lake and golf course in Naples Lakes Country Club, with two bedrooms and two baths.

Older gated communities and '60s-era golf courses have been joined by new development-lots of it. On Collier Boulevard, Super Wal-Mart and Home Depot are rising right alongside newer gated communities. Older communities such as Kings Gate, Berkshire Lakes and Queens Park are revered for their mature landscaping, streetlights, sidewalks and larger lots. You're likely to find more listings priced under $550,000 here than anywhere else with a Naples-area address.

South Naples

South of Rattlesnake Hammock Road, west of State Route 951, south to Everglades City and east of Royal Harbor, including neighborhoods on both sides of Isle of Capri Road (Collier Boulevard/951 south of U.S. 41).

On the Market

Properties for sale, summer 2005