Stoneybrook

One key fob does most of the work at Stoneybrook. At three in the morning it lets you into the fitness center, and at sunrise through the pool gates. The main pool and spa beside the Community Center close at 10 p.m., when the timers switch off the court lights. Inside, the library keeps its doors open from 5 a.m. to midnight, with card tables. Pickleball and bocce groups play all year, and a pier reaches out over one of the lakes for catch-and-release fishing.

That is the community, and it's what this page describes. Stoneybrook is 1,119 houses, villas and condominiums behind gates off Corkscrew Road in Estero, in Lee County. The 18-hole course winding through its center, Stoneybrook Golf Club, is public and separately owned. Buying a home here brings no golf with it. Wanting a round means booking a public tee time, exactly as a visitor would.

What comes with a home in Stoneybrook?

The association's assessment covers the Community Center on Stoneybrook Golf Drive, the pools, courts and fields, the pier, the paths and the gate. The Community Center holds the association office, the library and an all-purpose room, rentable with the library for private parties. The association also organizes a community-wide garage sale.

Besides the main pool, two satellite pools at Portrush and Lancaster open at dawn and close at dusk. The main pool is set aside at times for water aerobics.

Tennis and pickleball sit with a basketball court, bocce and volleyball, next to ball fields and a turf community field. Lights on the ball fields can be booked a day ahead through the Community Center. The rules put it in one line: "Use of the recreational facilities is reserved for residents only."

Lakes and preserve run between the streets and the fairways, with paths along the banks. Nobody builds a dock, nobody launches a boat, and every fish goes back, whether it came off the pier or one of the marked spots on shore. The preserve is kept for wildlife and views rather than walked.

Can you play the golf course if you live here?

Yes, as a member of the public. Under the community's restated declaration, recorded in December 2021, the course is separately owned and operated for public play, and the association's rulebook leaves it and its cart paths out of the common areas. Nothing published gives owners a rate, priority or membership of their own.

It's a par-72 layout by Jed Azinger and Gordy Lewis, with seven sets of tees and 7,353 yards from the back. Its greens date from a 2010 rebuild. Public tee times can be booked seven days out. The pro shop opens at 7 a.m. daily, though from May through September it shuts on Mondays.

The range is lit every night of the year until 9 p.m., beside a 17,000-square-foot practice green, bunkers and short-game areas. A golf school gives private and small-group lessons and runs camps, and from November to April a Wednesday-morning league plays a different game each week. The snack bar does sandwiches and hot dogs.

A regular player can buy the course's annual pass, covering carts, the range, tee times up to 60 days out and three free guest rounds a month. In October 2026 the course's own website listed it at about $12,000 a year plus tax for one person, and about $20,000 for a couple. That's the price anyone pays, so it belongs in your budget as its own line.

How far is Stoneybrook from shopping, the airport and the beach?

Miromar Outlets is just across Corkscrew Road, about 0.6 miles away, a three-minute drive. Coconut Point is 5.2 miles, roughly 11 minutes on a quiet day. The terminal at Southwest Florida International Airport is 9.4 miles, about a quarter of an hour.

For the Gulf, Bonita Beach Park on Hickory Boulevard is 14 road miles, roughly 21 minutes on clear roads. Going south into Naples, Mercato is 17.2 miles and about 25 minutes, and Fifth Avenue South is 25.3 miles, nearer 35. In winter, traffic on Corkscrew Road and the bridges adds to all of them.

Within the gates, a registered golf cart may use the roads and parking lots but not the sidewalks, the walking paths or the course. One path is the exception, linking Braxfield Loop to the pickleball parking lot. By the tennis-court parking lot, a pedestrian gate for those who live here leads to Pinewoods Elementary School, on Stoneybrook Golf Drive at the community's edge.

What kinds of homes are there, and what do they cost?

Three kinds, and they trade in separate bands, so price them one at a time. Recorded sales put them at:

• Single-family houses from the $410,000s to around $950,000, about 1,500 to about 3,900 square feet
• Villas, which are attached, from the $290,000s to around $450,000, about 1,300 to about 1,400 square feet
• Condominiums in low-rise buildings from the $220,000s to around $350,000, about 1,050 to about 1,300 square feet

Homes have 2 to 5 bedrooms. The covenants were first filed in January 1999, and the homes on record were built from 1999 to 2004. Those figures cover homes that have sold, not every one inside the gates.

A house answers to the master association alone. A villa or condominium adds a second layer: the Pinecrest associations for the condominiums, two villa associations for the villas. Each runs its own application on a sale or a lease and may set its own rules.

What is due at closing, and how do the gates work?

Buyers pay a capital resale fee when they close, and the association's January 2022 summary put it at about $2,000. It's waived only for an owner trading one Stoneybrook home for another, under set conditions.

Two gates control entry. The front gate on Stoneybrook Golf Boulevard is staffed, with a separate lane for residents' barcode decals. The back gate opens to a resident decal only. Guests are registered with the association before they arrive.

Can you rent out a home in Stoneybrook?

Yes, within the master association's terms. Each lease is written and approved in advance, lasts 30 days or longer, covers the whole home rather than a room, and goes to an individual, not a company or a trust. While a lease is in force, the owner gives up the use of the pools, courts and Community Center.

Villa and condominium associations can set stricter terms and run their own lease application, so 30 days is a floor for the community, not a rule for every address.