Treviso Bay
A south Naples gated golf community built around a TPC-branded Arthur Hills course, developed through a complicated multi-builder history after original developer VK Development halted construction during the housing downturn.
Located in Naples, part of the Southwest Florida region.
- General Population
- Golf
- Gated
Treviso Bay is a gated golf community in south Naples with a genuinely complicated development history: original developer VK Development Corp began the project in the mid-2000s, built the TPC-branded golf course (which opened in 2008, designed by Arthur Hills in consultation with PGA Tour player Hal Sutton) and only about 50 homes, then halted construction during the housing downturn. Lennar Homes acquired the community in 2012 and reinvigorated development, and additional builders including Taylor Morrison, Stock Construction, Imperial Homes, and Toll Brothers have since built specific neighborhoods within the community’s roughly 18 sub-neighborhoods; total planned homes are reported inconsistently across sources as 1,300, 1,400, or 1,500, reflecting this multi-phase, multi-developer build-out rather than a single clean figure. The course itself underwent a $3 million renovation announced in March 2020 and completed later that year, with greens fully rebuilt by architect Steve Forrest of Hills, Forrest and Smith (the same design lineage as original architect Arthur Hills) and converted to TifEagle Bermudagrass. Club membership at Treviso Bay follows a bundled rather than freely optional model: most properties carry at least a Social membership deeded to the home, while roughly 700 homes are capped at Social-only status with no path to add golf access even if a later owner wanted it — a genuine structural limitation on flexibility and resale positioning worth disclosing to prospective buyers. Reported annual costs (from a 2024-2025 fee-sheet reference, not independently confirmed against the primary document) run roughly $5,226 for golf dues plus $3,594 for social dues plus a $500 food and beverage minimum, on top of a one-time $7,500 capital contribution fee at closing and a separate master HOA/sub-association fee structure that itself varies considerably, reported anywhere from roughly $500 to $2,000-plus per month depending on which of the community’s many sub-associations a given property sits within. This research found no source documenting Hurricane Ian’s specific impact on Treviso Bay in September 2022, despite well-documented catastrophic Naples-area storm-surge flooding generally (up to roughly 6 feet of surge citywide); Treviso Bay sits several miles inland of the immediate coastal storm-surge zone, which may have moderated direct impact, but this is inference rather than a sourced finding, and no community-specific damage report should be assumed either way. Similarly, no documented resident complaints, HOA litigation, or 2023-2026 ownership changes specific to Treviso Bay were found in this research, which should be read as a research gap rather than confirmation that none exist.
Age Restriction
Treviso Bay is a general-population, all-ages community with no legal age restriction. Multiple sources confirm this explicitly (one resident review notes it is "not just a 55-plus community, it is great for all ages," and general real-estate descriptions state "Treviso Bay has no age restrictions"), even though third-party retirement-marketing sites such as 55places.com, Seniorly, and RetireNet categorize it as an "active adult" community because of its demographics and amenity mix. This is a marketing categorization rather than a legal deed restriction and should not be conflated with the two.
Housing Types
- Single-family homes
- Villas
- Coach homes
- Condominiums (including "Terrace" and "Veranda" branded buildings)
- Townhomes
Pricing
Treviso Bay has a genuinely complicated development history: original developer VK Development Corp built the TPC-branded golf course (which opened in 2008) and only about 50 homes before halting the project during the housing downturn; Lennar Homes acquired the community in 2012 and reinvigorated development, with Taylor Morrison, Stock Construction, Imperial Homes, and Toll Brothers also building specific neighborhoods since. Total planned homes are reported inconsistently across sources as 1,300, 1,400, or 1,500, and total acreage is reported at roughly 1,050 acres from a single, unverified source. Current pricing (as of a mid-2026 snapshot) spans roughly $379,000 to $2,899,900 across all product types, with condos specifically running $369,000 to $599,000 and single-family homes $1,450,000 to $2,865,000; a market snapshot around the same period showed 75 homes changing hands at an average selling price near $796,445 and roughly 153 days on market. These figures come from real-estate aggregator synthesis rather than a single dated MLS pull.
Fees & Assessments
HOA Dues: Treviso Bay has a master Property Owners Master Association plus separate sub-associations for specific product types (coach homes, Terrace condos, Veranda condos, and others), each potentially carrying its own management company and fee schedule; single-family homeowners reportedly pay only the master association’s annual assessment, while owners of coach homes and condos pay additional quarterly fees to their sub-association. Reported fee figures conflict substantially, from roughly $500-$750 per month in one estimate to $1,000-$2,000 per quarter in another, with a median master HOA fee cited elsewhere around $538 per month; one specific sub-association (a Terrace VIII condo building) reported $2,639.99 per year. The community sits within a Community Development District, though this research could not confirm the CDD’s exact name or obtain a current assessment dollar figure and recommends checking a specific property’s tax bill before publishing a number.
Club/Golf Fees: Golf is organized through TPC Treviso Bay, an 18-hole course designed by Arthur Hills in consultation with PGA Tour player Hal Sutton, which underwent a $3 million renovation announced in March 2020 and completed later that year (greens rebuilt and converted from Paspalum to TifEagle Bermudagrass, three greens repositioned, architect Steve Forrest of Hills, Forrest and Smith). Club membership is bundled rather than freely optional: at least a Social membership is effectively deeded to most properties, though roughly 700 homes hold Social-only memberships with no golf privileges and, per one source, cannot be upgraded to add golf access later, meaning golf availability is capped by neighborhood designation rather than purchasable community-wide. Reported costs (from a 2024-2025 fee-sheet snippet, not independently confirmed) include roughly $5,226 in annual golf dues, $3,594 in annual social dues, a $500 food and beverage minimum, and a one-time $7,500 master capital contribution fee at closing; a separate third-party aggregator cites much higher, less specific initiation-fee bands that likely reflect generic golf-community comparison data rather than figures specific to this club, and should not be used in place of the itemized figures above.
Amenities
- 18-hole TPC-branded golf course designed by Arthur Hills with Hal Sutton, renovated for $3 million in 2020
- Main clubhouse reported at roughly 64,000 square feet with formal and casual dining venues
- A secondary social clubhouse, "Club Rilassare," reported at roughly 15,000 square feet
- A resort-style lagoon pool with a waterfall, a separate lap pool, and an open-air cabana bar
- A full-service spa and state-of-the-art fitness center with an aerobics and Pilates studio
- 8 Har-Tru tennis courts with a pro shop, dedicated pickleball courts, and a bocce ball and tennis center
- Card and activity rooms, a library, and men’s and women’s lounges with showers and sauna
- 24-hour manned, gated entrance
Getting Around
Healthcare: Physicians Regional Healthcare System operates a Collier Boulevard campus in south Naples near Treviso Bay, making it geographically the closest major hospital based on address proximity, though this research could not confirm an exact mileage or drive time; NCH’s two main campuses (Baker Hospital downtown and North Naples Hospital) are both farther away.
Airport: Downtown Naples is reported at "less than 5 miles" away. Naples Municipal Airport, a small regional/general-aviation field, is reported inconsistently as either "5 minutes" or "approximately 7 miles" away, figures that are not fully consistent with each other and should be independently verified via a mapping tool before publishing a specific number.
Similar Communities to Consider
- Fiddler’s Creek
A large, still-actively-developing gated golf community between Naples and Marco Island, with a private Arthur Hills-designed golf course, a Marco Island beach/marina club, and a genuinely current (2024-2025) local controversy over a 750-unit apartment development approved on land many residents believed would remain permanent conservation land.
- Mediterra
Mediterra is a capped-at-950-home, gated, all-ages golf community straddling the Naples/Bonita Springs border, built around two Tom Fazio-designed courses and a private beach club on Bonita Beach.
- Talis Park
Talis Park is a roughly 500-home, guard-gated, all-ages golf community in North Naples built around a Greg Norman/Pete Dye-designed course ranked among Golf Digest’s top 20 in Florida, with beach access via a daily shuttle to Vanderbilt Beach.
- The Vineyards
A large, established 1988-era gated golf community spanning 1,375 acres and 38 neighborhoods in north-central Naples, with two recently renovated 18-hole courses and an optional, increasingly expensive private club.
- Heritage Bay Golf & Country Club
A bundled-golf, gated community in North Naples with 27 holes across three nines and a resident population that skews dramatically older (median age 70.3 per the 2020 Census) despite carrying no legal age restriction, currently the site of an unrelated but documented elder-fraud case tied to post-Hurricane-Ian repair scams targeting several nearby communities.
- Pelican Bay
A large, established master-planned community on roughly 2,330 acres in north Naples, built around nearly 3 miles of private Gulf beach with tram access and two beachfront restaurants, currently at the center of a contested 2024-2026 dispute over a neighboring resort’s proposed water park.
How Naples Compares
- Sarasota vs Naples for Retirement: Costs, Housing & Lifestyle Compared
Sarasota and Naples are both established Gulf Coast retirement markets with nationally recognized beaches, strong arts scenes, and real hurricane exposure — but they differ sharply on cost, community structure, and daily lifestyle. Sarasota leans toward arts, culture, and a slightly more attainable price point, with a genuinely walkable downtown and beach-town core at Siesta Key Village. Naples leans toward golf-community density and some of the highest home prices in Florida, built around more than 150 gated communities and nearly 1,400 golf holes. Both cities carry a significant senior population and deep local healthcare systems, and both sit on Florida’s hurricane-exposed Gulf Coast, but the specifics of that exposure differ: Sarasota felt effects from 2024’s Hurricanes Helene and Milton, while Naples took a direct Category 4 hit from Hurricane Ian in 2022 with rebuilding still visible years later, including at the Naples Pier. Choosing between them typically comes down to budget, how central golf is to the retirement vision, and how much weight a buyer puts on arts and culture versus club-community life. Sarasota is also the larger of the two by a wide margin — its city population and metro area both dwarf Naples’ small incorporated core — which shows up in a broader range of housing stock, a bigger restaurant and retail base, and a healthcare system built to serve a substantially larger year-round population. Naples, by contrast, concentrates a huge share of its housing and lifestyle around private club membership, which is either exactly what a buyer wants or a real added cost and commitment they’d rather avoid.
- Naples vs Marco Island for Retirement: Golf Capital vs Boating Barrier Island Compared
Naples and Marco Island sit within about 18 miles of each other on Florida's Southwest Gulf Coast and are frequently marketed together as one luxury corridor, but they deliver that luxury through genuinely different physical layouts and lifestyles. Naples is a larger, more commercially developed small city branded the "Golf Capital of the World," with roughly 90-100 golf facilities spread across more than 150 gated communities, a walkable downtown along Fifth Avenue South, and a nationally ranked arts scene. Marco Island is smaller, almost entirely a planned 1960s Deltona Corporation development, engineered around roughly 90 miles of dredged canals that give about 80% of homes water access — a boating-first, quieter, more residential island rather than a commercial hub. Both carry real hurricane and flood exposure and rank among Florida's more expensive retirement markets, but Naples wins decisively on healthcare (two full hospital systems versus Marco Island's urgent-care-only presence), golf-community depth, and cultural programming, while Marco Island wins on private-dock boating access, a quieter beach, and a more compact, engineered small-city feel. The practical choice tends to come down to whether a buyer wants Naples' scale, golf density, and on-site hospital-level care, or Marco Island's canal-and-boating lifestyle and willingness to drive roughly 20-25 minutes for anything beyond urgent care.
Guides Worth Reading Before You Buy
- Golf and Golf Communities in Florida
Florida has more golf courses than any other U.S. state and a range of golf-oriented retirement community models — from mandatory-membership country clubs to sprawling age-restricted golf cities — each with sharply different cost structures, environmental obligations, and long-term risks.
- HOA Fees and Governance in Florida
A statewide explainer on how Florida homeowners associations and condominium associations are legally structured, funded, and regulated, and what buyers are entitled to review before closing.
Sources
- TPC Treviso Bay — TPC Treviso Bay / PGA Tour TPC Network
- Treviso Bay Reinvigorated by Lennar Homes — NaplesCondoBoutique.com
- TPC Treviso Bay Opening Bucks Trend — Golf Course Industry
- TPC Treviso Bay Completes $3M Course Renovation — Club + Resort Business
- Treviso Bay Property Owners Master Association — HOA Bulletin Board
Last reviewed 2026-09-26.