Ave Maria Homes for Sale

Ave Maria is a planned town in Collier County built largely around golf, with about half of the listings here sitting in golf communities. That shapes what you see as you scroll through the homes for sale: a lot of newer stock, a lot of association-governed streets, and a mix of attached and detached product within a short drive of each other. It is a compact market, which means the decisions are clearer than in a big coastal town, but they still need making one at a time. Fahey Team works this area closely and knows how its communities are put together, which matters when two listings a few streets apart come with very different terms of ownership.

Ave Maria at a Glance

County

Collier County

Typical asking price

$445,000, middle half $340,000-$598,750 (median of 214 active listings)

Typical sold price

$398,617, middle half $315,000-$508,000 (median of 305 sales, past 12 months)

Typical home

1,851 sq ft, middle half 1,558-2,388 (n=214) · 3 bed / 2 bath (medians, n=214)

Typical days to sell

96 days (median of 305 closed home sales, past 12 months)

Months of supply

8.4 (buyer's market)

Sold-to-list

96.3% of asking (median per home sale, n=305) · 4.3% sold above asking

Waterfront

Lake 61.2% · Fresh Water 3.3% · Canal Front 0.5% (more than half back onto a lake or pond)

Data current as of

August 2026, M.L.S. of Naples, Inc

Condo or single family home: where you start

The first fork here is between a condo and a single family home, and the two shop differently. Condo inventory tends to repeat itself: floor plans recur, so you are often comparing near-identical units and deciding on floor, position and view rather than on the house itself. Single family listings are the opposite. Each one is its own parcel, its own siting and its own set of association terms, so the comparison work is slower and you will tour more before the field narrows. Decide which kind of shopping you want to do before you start scheduling.

The attached side of Ave Maria

Buy attached here and nothing outside your own front door is yours to organize, which means you can travel for months and come back to a building that was looked after while you were gone. No roof to schedule, no exterior paint to price, no landscaping crew to hire. You hold the interior and share everything past it through a fee. Condo sales run to a median of $240,000, so if that number fits your budget, this is the part of Ave Maria to start touring. More than half of the attached stock is low rise, one to three stories, and most of it sits in golf course communities, so expect to be shopping inside that kind of setting rather than outside it. Typical construction year is 2023. Sales here have been taking about 94 days to close, useful if you are lining up a move date. Ask what the fee covers and how the association handles reserves before you write anything.

The detached side of Ave Maria

Own a house here and you own the ground as well as the building, so what happens to the yard and the driveway is between you and the county, with no association standing in the middle of it. Nearly all of this segment is true single family residences, with a small share of attached villas and townhouses mixed in. More than half of these homes sit in gated communities, roughly a third in non-gated ones, and roughly a third on a golf course, so the same price band can put you in quite different settings. The median sale is $445,000, which is the number to budget against if a detached house is what you want. Recurring fees run about $5,076 a year. Typical vintage is 2022, and homes take around 96 days to sell, which is worth knowing when you are lining up a closing. Ask what the builder's structural warranty covers and whether any of it transfers to a second owner.

Pool homes in Ave Maria

You swim when you feel like it, at six in the morning or after dark, without booking it, sharing it or walking anywhere to reach it. That is the whole argument for a pool of your own, and the trade is that the pump, the cage, the surface and the chemistry are on your schedule and your budget from the day you close. Homes with a pool sell at a median of $585,000, so use that as the figure to build your financing around if a private pool is on your must-have list rather than your wish list. Most of these are single family residences, and more than half sit in gated communities, which tells you where to point your search. Typical construction year is 2021. They have been taking around 71 days to close. Ask for the age of the pool equipment and whether the screen enclosure has been permitted and repaired since installation.

The newest end of Ave Maria

Everything is new, under warranty and built to current code, so the early years are yours to live in rather than to renovate through. No roof clock running, no water heater on borrowed time, no wondering what the previous owner did behind the drywall. New construction here carries a median sale of $359,308, so that is the number to take to a lender if you want a house nobody has lived in. This is a gated community, and most of what sells is unfurnished, so budget for furniture as a separate line rather than assuming it comes with the deal. Typical construction year is 2026. These have been taking about 73 days to close, which matters when you are coordinating a build timeline against a lease or a sale. Ask what the builder's warranty actually covers, how long each part of it runs, and whether it transfers if you sell early.

What owning here asks of you

The stock in Ave Maria is young, typically built around 2023 with the middle half of it between 2018 and 2025. Nothing major is due yet on a house like that, so spend your inspection on how well it was built rather than on how much life is left in the roof or the systems. Recurring fees across the area run to a median of about $5,864 a year, with the middle half between roughly $2,200 and $9,500. Read a fee as what it buys rather than as what a home costs: one near the top of that range is usually covering amenities, insurance and exterior maintenance that a lower fee leaves you to arrange and pay for yourself. Two-bedroom homes are the most common layout sold, at a median of $329,000, which is a useful place to put yourself on the map. Nearly everything here is governed by an association, sometimes with a golf component such as Panther Run Golf Club nearby, so establish for any listing you get serious about exactly which association governs it and get the documents.

What buyers filter for here

Views drive a lot of searching. More than half of homes look at a lake, roughly a third face a golf course, and smaller groups look at water, a pond or a canal, while about a quarter have no notable view at all. Looking at water and sitting on it are different filters, so check both: more than half of homes actually back onto a lake or pond, with small shares on fresh water or canal front. Roughly one in six homes has a pool, and that group sells at a median of $585,000, so decide early whether you are adding one later or buying one now. Most listings are resale, about one in ten are new construction, and new construction sells at a median of $359,308. About half the stock is one story or ranch and about a quarter is two story, and pets are most often allowed with association approval. Read the pet rules yourself before you assume your animal qualifies.

Which parts of Ave Maria the listings come from

Only one community here is large enough in the listing pool to be worth searching by name: The National Golf & Country Club At Ave Maria, at roughly one in six listings. Everything else is spread across smaller communities with no name a buyer would think to type into a search bar. That means a name-based search misses most of this market. The filters that actually work here are waterfront and frontage, property class, and price band, used together. Start with whether you want a condo or a house, add whether you need a lake behind you, set your ceiling, and let the community names emerge from the results rather than driving them. It is a different habit than shopping a market of well-known subdivisions, and it will show you listings a name search never would.

What to verify before you commit

• Irrigation and lake maintenance responsibilities.
• Lot proximity to preserve, farmland, or future development.
• Ask how the association's insurance is placed and whether its compliance status affects coverage or financing on the unit.
• Pull the property's flood zone and elevation certificate and get a flood insurance quote before your inspection period ends.
• Ask who maintains the lake bank behind the property and what an owner is permitted to plant, build or remove at the water line.

Working with Fahey Team here

Fahey Team works Ave Maria week in and week out, and the practical value of that is knowing how these communities are actually put together before you ever write an offer: which association governs a given street, what its documents say, and what a fee is really carrying. That is the sort of thing that takes a phone call from someone who has made it before. What is left is your decision. A condo or a single family home is the first one, and whether a pool of your own belongs in the purchase is the other. Get those two settled and the right listing tends to be obvious when it appears.