Boca Grande Real Estate
Welcome to Boca Grande Real Estate! Located on Gasparilla Island, off Florida’s Gulf Coast just northwest of Fort Myers, midway between Ft. Myers and Sarasota on the Southwest coast of Florida.
Boca Grande is an affluent residential, single family homes community recognized for excellent fishing. A second-home haven for some of America’s wealthiest families, a beach lover’s dream and a mecca for sport fishermen from all over the world! Here at Boca Grande there are no high-rise condominium developments to spoil its Old Florida charm. Boca Grande home for sale are pricey and worth every penny!
Located on Gasparilla Island Boca Grande retains its small-town charms while the rest of Southwest Florida has burgeoned around it. Here you can bike around seven-mile Gasparilla Island (a mere mile wide at its widest), spend an hour at the beach at sunset, poke in and out of delightful mom-and-pop-owned shops in the small, central shopping district and devour fresh-off-the-boat grouper sandwiches.
The World’s Richest Tarpon Tournament, sponsored by the Boca Grande Chamber of Commerce each May, hands out a five-figure prize to the team that reels in the biggest fish. The rest of the year, the 39 members of the Boca Grande Fishing Guides Association take out tourists from far-flung corners of the globe to catch saltwater species like redfish, trout, cobia, snapper and grouper.
The small town of Boca Grande’s year-round population now is only about 1,700. Back in the day, Boca Grande was homes to wealthy winter visitors such as the du Ponts, the Rockefellers and the Astors. Some of their descendants still have winter homes here, and their stately Gulf-front mansions still stand, thanks to strict historic preservation rules. In fact, the entire island is protected by the Gasparilla Island Conservation District Act which forbids structures over 38 feet high and mandates no more than five residential units per acre and the city maintains waterfront nature sanctuary at the southern entrance to the Boca Grande Causeway.
Boca Grande is a unique community. As much as things have changed, they are still the same. It’s still a community of fishermen and billionaires, although the billionaires have gotten younger. It’s still very close, and everyone looks out for everyone else. There’s an unspoken understanding among locals not to treat their famous and ultra-wealthy visitors differently than anyone else. When you see celebrities, like the Bushes, they’re just another one your neighbors. Call one of our Boca Grande Real Estate pros 813-253-0643 and make Boca Grande your next home!
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