About Coral Lakes
Coral Lakes is a gated community of 427 single-family homes in Cape Coral, built around a clubhouse with a catering kitchen, exercise room, billiards and a business center. Day to day, the nearest golf course, Six Lakes Country Club, is about 2.6 miles straight-line from the community's center; the nearest library, North Fort Myers Public Library, is about 4.2 miles away; the nearest hospital, ShorePoint Health, about 0.8 miles.
Amenities — resort amenities owned by the Coral Lakes Community Association (amenity list from association and market materials; confirm current amenities with the association) — include a clubhouse with a catering kitchen, exercise room, billiards and a business center, a family pool and a separate adult/lap pool, plus a resort pool and spa and a kiddie pool, Har-Tru tennis courts, pickleball and basketball courts, a soccer and softball sports complex, a playground, a bike and jogging path, a gated entry.
On paper, the community sits in evacuation zone D. The average assessed just value across its 489 residential parcels was $315,983 in the county's 2026 roll.
The first thing to understand about Coral Lakes is its cost structure, because it has two layers most buyers only discover at closing. This is a Community Development District community: alongside the homeowners' dues and the City of Cape Coral millage, a Coral Lakes CDD assessment finances the community's roads, drainage and shared infrastructure and shows up as a recurring non-ad-valorem line on the annual tax bill. That district financing is a fixed yearly cost independent of the home's value, and it is the number worth confirming on a specific parcel first — the CDD maintains its own site at corallakescdd.com precisely because it is a separate governing layer from the Coral Lakes Community Association that runs the neighborhood day to day.
What that money buys is a genuinely family-scaled amenity set, all owned by the association: a clubhouse with a catering kitchen, exercise room, billiards and a business center; a family pool and a separate adult and lap pool, plus a resort pool with spa and a kiddie pool; Har-Tru tennis, pickleball and basketball; a soccer and softball complex; a playground; and a bike-and-jog path, all behind a gate. This is a Lennar-built, master-planned community in the northeast of Cape Coral, and it is deliberately all-ages — the kiddie pool and the sports fields are the tell — rather than an age-restricted or golf community.
On the practical side, county records place Coral Lakes in evacuation Zone D with a storm-surge Zone 4 designation — a lower-exposure band than the waterfront Cape communities — inside the City of Cape Coral for jurisdiction, millage and fire protection. The community's canonical sites are ourcorallakes.com for the association and corallakescdd.com for the district; a couple of older third-party pages float alternate names, so search on the association site. Confirm current HOA dues, the CDD assessment, amenity access and any rules directly with the association and the district — this page is an independent, records-based starting point and is not affiliated with the HOA, the CDD or the builder.
By the numbers, county and census records round it out: the homes were built largely between 2006 and 2015, the average just (market) value runs near $316,000, and the surrounding census tract reports a median household income of roughly $91,000. This is a northeast-Cape location — the nearest Gulf beach access is about 17 miles away and Southwest Florida International Airport roughly the same — so the appeal is the amenity value and the newer, family-scaled housing rather than boating or beach proximity.
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