On Naples Bay, three neighborhoods of single-family homes share one thing: every dock reaches the Gulf without passing under a fixed bridge. Port Royal and Aqualane Shores sit on the west side of the bay, Royal Harbor on the east. A sailboat, a sportfisher with a tower or a motor yacht with a flybridge can live behind the house in any of them.

What separates them is price, and the gap is wide. Over the last twelve months the median home sold for about $17.7 million in Port Royal, $9.75 million in Aqualane Shores and $3.0 million in Royal Harbor. Here is what each of those numbers buys, using the closed sales from the Naples Area Board of REALTORS® MLS.

One Bay, One Pass, No Bridges

All three open onto Naples Bay, and the route to open water runs…

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Park Shore and Pelican Bay are neighbors on the Naples Gulf front, a few minutes apart, and between them they hold 44 high-rise towers with Gulf views. From a distance they look alike. Up close, they are built around a different idea of the beach, and that one difference shapes price, cost and daily life.

In Park Shore, 24 towers stand on the sand along Gulf Shore Boulevard North. In Pelican Bay, 20 towers along Pelican Bay Boulevard look across the Clam Bay mangrove preserve to the Gulf, and residents reach the beach by tram. Here is how the two compare, using the closed sales from October 2025 through September 2026.

The Two High-Rise Markets at a Glance

Community Sales Supply
Park Shore
24 beachfront towers, built 1972 to…

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For decades the Miracle Mile on Gulf Shore Boulevard North was a row of modest 1960s and 1970s condominiums with a world-class beach in front of them. In the four years since Hurricane Ian, it has become the most active stretch of luxury new construction in Naples. Six developments are now selling, building or already open along a single mile and a quarter of the boulevard, and together they are resetting what a Naples beach address costs and what it delivers.

Here is where each one sits, how they differ, and what the change means for buyers and owners in the older buildings around them.

What the Miracle Mile Is

The name covers about 1.3 miles of Gulf Shore Boulevard North, from The Moorings at Doctors Pass in the north to Naples Beach Club in…

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Sixty-four waterfront homes and condominiums closed in Naples in September for $311.5 million, twenty more than in September 2025 and the most in any month since June. Over the twelve months to September 30, 2026, 911 salt-water properties sold for $2.97 billion, 37% more sales than the year before, and more than four in five buyers paid cash.

On the first of every month we publish a full market report for each of the city’s principal waterfront neighborhoods, built from closed MLS sales rather than estimates. This is the one-page view of all of them, with a link to each.

The Naples Waterfront at a Glance

September closings 64 waterfront sales for $311.5 million, against 44 a year earlier
Twelve-month sales 911 salt-water…

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