Fort Myers Beach
What homes here actually sell for, how long they take, and whether this is a market that favours you. Out of the MLS, and rebuilt whenever the data is.
from 396 sales in a year
homes for sale today
how long it would take to sell them all
for the typical home
Whose market is it?
At 14.0 months of supply this is firmly a buyers' market. There is nearly a year's worth of inventory, and anything overpriced will sit there all of it.
Half of everything sold here went under contract inside 98 days, and the typical sale closed at 93.6% of what it was asking.
The middle half of sales landed between $375,000 and $870,000. Below $215,000 and above $2,000,000 you are into the ends of the market, where the usual rules stop applying.
What sells here
Share of the last year's sales.
the typical home sold was built in 1982 and worked out at about $445 a square foot. 80% of sales were waterfront and 34% had a pool.
Before you buy here
A median price tells you very little about what a particular house will cost you to keep. Taxes reassess when you buy, insurance depends on the roof and the flood zone, and both are bigger levers than the price.
Inside Fort Myers Beach
The named communities.
Each one is its own market. A gated community with its own dues behaves nothing like the street next to it.
Named communities account for about 40% of sales in Fort Myers Beach. Most of the rest are ordinary platted lots on the city grid, which do not belong to a subdivision and are none the worse for it. Those show up in the search rather than here.
Bayside Estates
27 sold in a year · 24 for sale
85% on the water
Fairview Isles
18 sold in a year · 13 for sale
100% on the water
Boardwalk Caper
17 sold in a year · 4 for sale
100% on the water
Waterside At Bay Beach
17 sold in a year · 16 for sale
94% on the water
Estero Beach And Tennis Club
15 sold in a year · 16 for sale
100% on the water
Siesta Isles
11 sold in a year · 1 for sale
100% on the water
Estero Cove Condo
10 sold in a year · 7 for sale
20% on the water
Hibiscus Pointe
10 sold in a year · 5 for sale
100% on the water
The Palms Of Bay Beach
10 sold in a year · 3 for sale
100% on the water
Bay Village Condo
9 sold in a year · 2 for sale
89% on the water
El Sol
8 sold in a year · 11 for sale
75% on the water
Laguna Shores
8 sold in a year · 14 for sale
50% on the water
From the journal
What we have written about Fort Myers Beach.
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Fort Myers Beach is one of four beach markets
Sanibel, Captiva, Fort Myers Beach and Bonita Beach are worth looking at side by side, because they are not behaving the same way at all.
Compare the fourThinking about Fort Myers Beach?
We have sold houses here. Ring and ask what the numbers above do not tell you, which is usually the part that matters.
Every figure on this page is an aggregate from Florida Gulf Coast Multiple Listing Service data covering the last twelve months of closed sales, filtered to homes. Information is deemed reliable but is not guaranteed accurate by the MLS. None of it is an appraisal, and a median is not a valuation of any particular property. Rebuilt 2026-08-26.