Community guides

Popular communities on Fort Myers Beach

Every guide below covers one Fort Myers Beach community: what it actually is, what the water is (and is not), and the honest trade-off against its neighbours. For the market as a whole, see Fort Myers Beach real estate.

Caper Beach Club on Fort Myers Beach, Florida: its two residential buildings, one of eleven floors and one of twelve, set back behind lawn and palms with a pool between them and the beach in front.

Caper Beach Club

Gulf-front beach · No golf · Not gated

Caper Beach Club: two condominium buildings, eleven and twelve floors, on the Gulf side of Fort Myers Beach. What beach side means and what to ask the association.

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An aerial view of Flamingo Park on Fort Myers Beach, Florida: houses along canals on the bay side of Estero Island, many with private docks and boat lifts and some without, a boat under way in the canal, and the back bay with its mangrove islands beyond.

Flamingo Park

Gulf access · No golf · Not gated

Flamingo Park sits on the bay side of Fort Myers Beach, where a lot of the homes have a dock and Gulf access by canal, and the beach is a short walk away.

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An aerial view of Grande Ole Man on Fort Myers Beach, Florida: two houses on the Gulf side of Estero Island with living space raised above ground-level parking, white sand, low beach vegetation and a tidal pond between them and the Gulf, and no dock behind them.

Grande Ole Man

Gulf-front beach · No golf · Not gated

Grande Ole Man is an ungated subdivision on the Gulf side of Fort Myers Beach. What beach side means, what not gated does and does not change, and what to check.

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Gulfside 12 on Fort Myers Beach, Florida: a white five-story building with blue shutters and parking beneath, the Gulf and the beach directly behind it.

Gulfside 12

Gulf-front beach · No golf · Not gated

Gulfside 12 is a condominium building directly on the Gulf at Fort Myers Beach, newly built across 2025 and 2026. What that means on this island.

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The Laguna Shores entrance sign on Fort Myers Beach, Florida: deep red lettering on a low stucco wall between two capped pillars, with a clipped hedge in front, royal palms behind and a balconied building beyond on the right.

Laguna Shores

Gulf access · No golf · Not gated

Laguna Shores sits on the lagoon at the south end of Fort Myers Beach: homes with private docks, and Gulf access out through the canal and the back bay.

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Paired two-story homes at Ostego Bay Village on Fort Myers Beach, Florida: numbers 330 and 332, living space raised a full story above ground-level garages under a standing-seam metal roof, with palms and a paver driveway in front.

Ostego Bay Village

Canal · No golf · Not gated

Ostego Bay Village sits off Lenell Road at the south end of Fort Myers Beach, on the canal with boat dockage. What that gives you and what to confirm before you buy.

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The Palm Isles entrance sign on Fort Myers Beach, Florida: gold lettering on a black granite panel set into a stucco wall, with the community's fence behind it and flowering shrubs on white gravel in front.

Palm Isles

Gulf access · No golf · Gated

Palm Isles is a gated Gulf-access neighborhood on the canal side of Fort Myers Beach. What the gate and the canal frontage mean, and what to confirm first.

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The Siesta Isles entrance sign on Fort Myers Beach, Florida: an oval timber sign with a gold frame, the name in white on navy and the words A Private Community beneath it, set in a clipped hedge with red ixora in flower and palms behind.

Siesta Isles

Gulf access · No golf · Not gated

Siesta Isles on Fort Myers Beach: a deep passage canal with no fixed bridge between it and the San Carlos Channel, which is what lets it take a larger boat.

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An aerial view of Waterside at Bay Beach on Fort Myers Beach, Florida: mid-rise condominium towers with green roofs on the south peninsula of Estero Island, pools and walkways between them, and docks along the bay with a boat under way in the channel.

Waterside at Bay Beach

Bay · No golf · Gated

Waterside at Bay Beach: gated condominiums on the south peninsula of Fort Myers Beach, with tennis, a fishing pier, beach access and boat slips sold separately.

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