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Would you like to know more about Naples, Florida?

As long-time residents of Naples, Andy and Andrea Deane have watched their small town grow. Their real estate expertise derives from their long-term involvement in the Naples Real Estate market. Andy and his family settled here in the mid 1960’s and Andrea opened her first real estate office in 1981. In the years since, they have witnessed many changes and watched real estate values move steadily higher.

In this “About Naples” area of our web site we’ve provided several web links we feel might be helpful to you and a brief introduction to our beautiful seaside lifestyle.

www.napleschamber.org Our Chamber of Commerce Site.
www.paradisecoast.com The official visitor site for Naples and Collier County.
maps.google.com The best mapping program I’ve ever seen. In the search criteria, just enter “Naples, FL” and you will get all the street level detail you’ll ever need.

Where is Naples?

To the surprise of many a visitor, Naples is actually a rather small town. The physical boundaries run approximately up the coast from Gordon Pass on the South to Clam pass on the North, a distance of about 9 miles. The eastern boundary takes some jogs but runs generally along Goodlette-Frank Road, about a mile and a half from the coast. There are about 21,000 permanent residents in the city of Naples so we can truly claim to be a “small town.”

What with these small city limit dimensions, it’s easy to see the huge growth has occurred out in the surrounding county. The Naples name, however, has been applied to nearly everything south of Bonita Springs. This makes it challenging for a new visitor to actually find Naples!

Old timers generally consider the main entrance to Naples as being the corner of 9 th Street and 5 th Avenue South. Sure, there are lots of other ways to get into Naples, but this is the historic crossroads. This is where Route 41, the famous Tamiami Trail, turns north to run up Florida’s West Coast. From this entrance, a visitor can walk or drive west along 5 th Avenue South and visit the shops and restaurants that are concentrated along the next nine blocks. At the end of 5 th Avenue lies the Gulf of Mexico and a beautiful white sand beach stretching several miles in both directions. Nearly every block along Gulf Shore Boulevard has beach access with limited metered parking available.

By turning left off of 5 th Avenue South onto 3 rd Street, a short six-block journey will take you to the 3 rd Street shopping area where again there are many fine shops and restaurants. Just 2 blocks west of the 3 rd Street shopping area is the Naples Pier.

Once south of 5 th Avenue South, you are on a narrow peninsula bordered by the Gulf on one side and Naples Bay on the other. It is this geographic setting that creates much of the beautiful scenery in Naples. This part of town is comprised primarily of single-family homes dotted with occasional low-rise condominiums. Banks, shops, cafes and restaurants make up the commercial properties along the previously mentioned 5 th Avenue and 3 rd Streets as well as on the bay side of Broad Avenue South adjacent to the City Docks, but there is a feeling of quiet, old residential living along most of the streets within the city.

To the north of 5 th Avenue South there are homes and small condominiums until you reach 7 th Avenue North. The Beach Club Hotel, a fine beach-side resort with a golf course that has been around since shortly after the last world war, is the demarcation point where mid and high rise condos begin. Along Gulf Shore Boulevard further north the beach is lined with high-rise condominiums. On the other side of Venetian Bay to the east are two lovely residential communities, The Moorings and Park Shore.

Just south of Naples, moving toward Marco Island, a marvelous chance of circumstances
has created an area of deserted islands and waterways that make up the Rookery Bay wildlife sanctuary. Along the coast, Keewaydin Island stretches for over eight miles buffering the creeks and waterways from the Gulf of Mexico. Since there is no access to these islands except by boat, most of them remain pristine and unspoiled looking much the same as they did a hundred years ago.

Perhaps you can see from this brief over-view of old Naples, there is a lot to know about our fair city and it’s surrounding communities. Beyond the modest borders of Naples, beautiful golf course communities and carefully planned residential developments have spread outward in a spectacular quilt of tropical lifestyles. I hope what we’ve shown you whets your curiosity about real estate in Naples. It will be a pleasure to talk with you.

The data relating to real estate for sale on this web site comes in part from the Broker Reciprocity Program (BR Program) of M.L.S. of Naples, Inc. Properties listed with brokerage firms other than ANDREA DEANE & ASSOCIATES, INC are marked with the BR Program Icon or the BR House Icon and detailed information about them includes the name of the listing brokers. The properties displayed may not be all the properties available through the BR Program.