About Cape Royal
Cape Royal is a gated community of 439 single-family homes in Cape Coral, built around a 27-hole, par-72 golf course — three nines called the King, the Queen and the Prince (semi-private; opened 1991, Gordon Lewis design, Troon-managed). Day to day, the nearest golf course, Cape Royal Golf Club, is about 0.2 miles straight-line from the community's center; the nearest library, Northwest Regional Library, is about 3.2 miles away; the nearest emergency room, HCA Cape Coral Emergency, about 3.7 miles.
Amenities — golf and club amenities belong to Cape Royal Golf Club (membership is optional and separate from the HOA); confirm current access and rates with the club — include a 27-hole, par-72 golf course — three nines called the King, the Queen and the Prince (semi-private; opened 1991, Gordon Lewis design, Troon-managed), a driving range and practice area, a pro shop, the on-site Caloosa Club restaurant, tennis, 20-plus lakes and wetland preserves across oversized homesites, a gated entry (open for daytime public golf, secured at night).
On paper, the community sits in evacuation zone A. The average assessed just value across its 526 residential parcels was $572,090 in the county's 2026 roll.
Cape Royal is Cape Coral's outlier: the area's only gated golf community, and it sits not inside the city grid but in unincorporated Lee County out toward the Matlacha–Pine Island corridor. That location shapes both the lifestyle and the fine print. The golf is the identity — Cape Royal Golf Club runs 27 holes across three nines named the King, the Queen and the Prince, a par-72 semi-private layout opened in 1991 to a Gordon Lewis design and today managed by Troon, with a driving range, a pro shop and the on-site Caloosa Club restaurant. The important thing for a buyer to understand is that golf membership is separate from the residential association: living behind the gate does not bundle a club membership, and the club sells annual passes and memberships independently of the Royal-Tee Homeowners Association that governs the roughly 439 homes. The gates themselves open to daytime public golf traffic and are secured at night rather than manned around the clock.
Governance here is refreshingly simple. The residential HOA — Royal-Tee Homeowners Association, Inc., a Florida non-profit filed in 1990 — is resident-run, with a law firm as its registered agent and no third-party management company evident; there is no community development district layering a separate bond assessment onto the tax bill the way several newer Cape communities carry. What a buyer should weigh instead is the setting. County records place Cape Royal in evacuation Zone A with a storm-surge Zone 1 designation, and its flood profile is mostly X (shaded) with small AE pockets — a reminder that the oversized lots and the twenty-plus lakes and wetlands that give the community its openness also sit in the higher-exposure band near the water. Fire protection runs through the Matlacha/Pine Island district.
The name rewards care in a listing search: the residential community is 'Cape Royal,' while the golf operation is 'Cape Royal Golf Club,' historically 'Royal Tee Country Club' — and the streets themselves (Royal Tee Circle, Prince Charles Court, Lady Anne Circle) echo the regal theme. Confirm current HOA dues, any golf-membership terms and the club's public-play policy directly with the association and the club; this page is an independent, records-based starting point and is not affiliated with the HOA, the club or any developer.
By the numbers, county and census records sketch the rest: the homes date from 1991 to about 2020, the average just (market) value across the community runs near $572,000, and the surrounding census tract reports a median household income of roughly $104,000. The setting is decidedly not beachfront-convenient — the nearest public beach access (Causeway Islands Park) is about 11 miles away and Southwest Florida International Airport roughly 18 — which is the trade for the space, the lakes and the golf that define the place.
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