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Barefoot Beach
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One gate, 615 residences: Barefoot Beach Club, Southport on the Bay, Bayfront Gardens, Lely Barefoot Beach, and the Cottages at Barefoot. Bonita Springs address, Collier County record. Built from four decades of county deeds, the county tax roll, and MLS living areas; updated 2026-08-28.

Residences behind the gate
615
348 condos, 267 single-family and cottages
Qualified sales since 1984
1,345
The full deed record, not a sample
Single-family $/sqft, 2022 top
$1,110
$882 so far in 2026, on true living area
Condo owners absentee
76%
Mailing address elsewhere
Condos held in trust
48%
Advised, estate-planned ownership
Lots sitting vacant today
31
Torn down after Ian, held not sold

Data powered by Modern Signal Advisory

1. Four decades of cycles

Median sold price per square foot by year closed: recorded deed prices over MLS living area, all floors, for qualified, arm’s-length sales of improved homes. This is what Barefoot Beach actually traded for, not what it asked.

Single-family, 1986 to 2026

Beach and bay sides combined, n=327 improved sales with a matched MLS living area
What this means. The community cycles hard: $92 a foot in 1989, $669 at the 2007 top, $382 at the 2013 bottom, $1,110 at the 2022 top, and $882 so far in 2026. Today’s number is a 20 percent give-back from the peak, and still about 16 percent above 2020.
For sellers: your purchase year sits somewhere on this line; pricing starts from where the line is now, not where it was in 2022. For buyers: the reset is real and recorded, and every prior bottom on this line eventually repriced higher.

Barefoot Beach Club, 1991 to 2026

348 gulf-front condos, the community’s cleanest read, n=432 qualified sales with a matched MLS living area
What this means. $151 a foot at the 1991 developer sellout, $1,205 at the 2023 top, $898 in 2026. A sellout-era buyer is up roughly six-fold on the deed record; a 2023 buyer has given back about a quarter. The 2022 and 2024 gaps are real: the appraiser disqualified those years’ storm-era trades, which recorded at $2.0M to $4.25M.
For sellers: the Club’s uniform stock makes this the honest yardstick for any unit. For buyers: the post-Ian reprice is visible here first, in a building record with no mix noise.

2. The Ian ledger

Hurricane Ian crossed this beach in September 2022. The county record keeps score of what happened next: what sold, what was torn down, and what got rebuilt.

Qualified sales per year

Full community, by segment, 1984 to 2026
What this means. Velocity halved after the 2021 surge: 56 sales in 2021, then 12, 11, and 8 through 2024, with 26 in 2025 as condos re-entered the record at reset prices. Against 615 doors, that is about 2.4 percent annual turnover, roughly half the community’s long-run norm.
For sellers: thin volume cuts both ways; there is little competition, and little forgiveness for a wrong price. For buyers: a market this thin is won by being ready before the listing exists.

The rebuild scoreboard

What the tax roll shows today, four years after landfall
Lots vacant today
31
14 beachside, 17 bayside
Vacant-lot sales since Ian
3
Owners held the dirt instead
Homes rebuilt since 2023
21
Incl. 14 of the 15 Cottages
Land share of beachside value
68%
61% bayside. The dirt is the asset
What this means. Owners tore down and held rather than sold: 31 vacant lots and only 3 vacant-lot deeds since the storm. The rebuild wave is real and private, funded by owners, not by a builder pipeline. And the appraiser attributes roughly two dollars in three of single-family value to the land itself, which is why the storm reset prices without resetting worth.
For sellers: a damaged or dated home here still carries most of its value in the lot; the record proves it. For buyers: the future inventory is standing in plain sight as vacant dirt and fresh construction, and almost none of it is listed.

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3. Who owns Barefoot Beach

Every one of the 615 residences, classified from the certified tax roll by owner structure, residence, and tenure. Two different communities live behind the same gate.

Ownership structure

Individual vs trust vs entity share, by segment
What this means. Nearly half the Club condos sit in trusts, and a fifth of beachside homes sit in LLCs. This is advised, estate-planned, structured ownership; on the beach it is the trophy-asset pattern, not an investor pattern.
For sellers: expect the other side of your closing table to be a trust or LLC; it is normal here. For buyers: structured owners negotiate professionally and unemotionally, and they are rarely in a hurry.

Who actually lives here

Homestead, absentee, and out-of-state share, by segment
What this means. The single-family streets are half-homesteaded and 70 percent Florida-mailed: households and winter homes. The towers are the second-home product: 76 percent absentee, 57 percent out of state. The condo tax bills go to Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Indiana, and Ohio, plus a dozen Canadian owners.
For sellers: the buyer pool is national, so the marketing has to be. For buyers: absentee owners respond to timing and convenience, not just price.
IL 30 condo owners
MI 27
MN 23
IN 22
OH 21
WI 13
Canada 12

Tenure curve

Years since last arm’s-length purchase, dated residences by segment
What this means. The biggest condo cohort has held for more than thirty years; the median condo owner bought 18 years ago at a median $575K against a $1.58M value today. Tomorrow’s supply comes from these legacy holds, through estates and life changes, not from a builder. The pipeline is demographic, not economic.
For sellers: long tenure means a low basis and room to be flexible on terms. For buyers: the best future inventory is not listed yet; relationships reach it first.

4. Season and the buyer

When Barefoot Beach actually closes, and who has been on the buying side of the deed, era by era.

When the community closes

Closings by month of recorded deed, all qualified sales 1984 to 2026
What this means. 42 percent of the record closes February through May, with May the single biggest month. Closings back-date to contracts written in the December-to-March season; the fall is when serious sellers get ready and serious buyers get positioned.
For sellers: the launch window that meets the most buyers opens around the holidays, not in spring. For buyers: summer and fall are when the thin market is thinnest, and when patience buys best.

Who has been buying

Buyer profile on qualified deeds, by era
What this means. The buyer is getting more structured and more distant: trust-vehicle purchases rose from 14 percent of deeds in the 2000s to 27 percent since 2023, and out-of-state buyers rose from 46 percent to 60 percent. LLC buying collapsed after Ian, from 17.5 percent in 2020-2022 to 8 percent. The post-storm bid is end-user wealth, not speculation.
For sellers: your likely buyer is an out-of-state household or trust buying a generational beach position. For buyers: you are competing with advised wealth that moves deliberately; preparation beats speed.

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Sources: Collier County public records, 1984 to present, independently compiled and verified, with price-per-square-foot figures computed on MLS living areas. Figures current as of August 2026; the most recent months are still recording and will read low until final. The appraiser’s qualification coding is disclosed where it shapes a chart. Informational only, not an appraisal.

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Email

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Address

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