856 residential parcels across the recorded Moorings plat, Units 1 through 7: 793 single-family homes, 54 vacant lots, and 9 mid-rebuild, worth $3.27 billion on the county’s TaxYear 2026 roll. Built from six decades of Collier County deeds, the county tax roll, and MLS living areas; data through August 2026. Covers the single-family plat; the Gulf Shore Boulevard condominiums record separately and are not included.
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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 the Moorings actually traded for, not what it asked.
The Moorings does not rebuild in waves; it rebuilds continuously, and it is the one coastal market whose sales volume is genuinely recovering. The county record keeps score of both.
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Book a private consultAll 856 parcels, classified from the certified tax roll by owner structure, residence, and tenure. The middle of the coastal spectrum, fed by the Midwest, and the market that actually trades.
When the Moorings actually closes, and who has been on the buying side of the deed, era by era.
The Moorings, on the record
What this study is, where the numbers come from, and how to read them against your own parcel.
A deed-record study of the recorded Moorings plat, Units 1 through 7: 856 residential parcels holding 793 single-family homes, 54 vacant lots and 9 mid-rebuild, worth $3.27 billion on the county’s TaxYear 2026 roll. It reads six decades of recorded deeds and the county tax roll in four parts: four decades of price cycles, the conversion at scale, who owns the Moorings, and season and the buyer. It is built from the deepest deed book on the coast, 2,363 qualified sales since 1974, not a sample, with data through August 2026.
Collier County public records, 1974 to present, independently compiled and verified, with price per square foot computed on MLS living areas rather than county square footage. It covers the recorded single-family plat of the Moorings. The Gulf Shore Boulevard condominiums record separately and are not included. Figures are current as of August 2026; the most recent months are still recording and read low until final. It is informational, not an appraisal.
On true living area, $42 a foot in 1985, $442 at the 2005 top, $306 at the 2010 bottom, then a steady climb to the 2023 top at $1,371. Since then: $1,235, $1,241 and $1,224 through August 2026, an 11 percent easing that has been flat for three years, the shallowest give-back on the coast, and the 2026 read carries 39 matched sales, the healthiest sample anywhere. The Moorings did not spike and give back; it stepped up and held. New builds cleared $1,500 to $1,700 a foot in 2024 and 2025 against resale at $1,100 to $1,200.
Because it is the one coastal neighborhood re-liquefying. The 1990s ran about 71 sales a year, the surge did 83 in both 2020 and 2021, the correction bottomed at 37 in 2024, and then the market turned: 43 in 2025 and already 43 through August 2026, pacing toward the 60s, while every other coastal neighborhood is still far below its surge-era volume. The median owner bought 9 years ago, the shortest tenure on the coast, so supply comes from ordinary turnover as much as from estates. The resale line here, at $3.2M to $4M, is the coast’s most liquid entry.
As a production line rather than a wave. 257 parcels already carry a home built in 2015 or later, 30 percent of the plat on the biggest base on the coast, and 54 lots sit vacant with dirt still trading steadily every year. New builds cleared a median $7.3M to $7.5M in 2024 and 2025 against resale at $3.2M to $4M: a wide gap, but gentler than the 34102 neighborhoods, which keeps both sides of the market liquid. The county attributes 64 cents of every value dollar to the land, with the median lot at $2.15M.
A third of the plat already sits in a trust, and the deed flow is structuring the way the whole coast is: trust purchases rose from 10 percent of 2000s deeds to 34 percent since 2023, while the individual buyer fell from three-quarters to 43 percent. The register sits between Coquina Sands’ locals and Olde Naples’ second homes: majority homesteaded, three-quarters Florida-mailed, and carrying the deepest Midwest feeder bench on the coast. Out-of-state buying is drifting up gently, from 23 to 30 percent of deeds, not jumping. The 485 owners who bought before 2020 paid a median $1.13M against a median $3.08M county value today.
38 percent of the record closes February through May, but June is the single biggest month, the late clock the Moorings shares with Port Royal: season contracts paper into early-summer closings. The launch window that meets the most buyers opens around the holidays, and September and October are the quietest months, where patience buys best. In the coast’s one recovering market, competition is real and active, so for buyers preparation beats patience.
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