About Moody River Estates
Moody River Estates is a gated community of 731 homes in North Fort Myers, built around a resort-style clubhouse with a pool and spa. Day to day, the nearest golf course, El Rio Golf Club, is about 0.5 miles straight-line from the community's center; the nearest library, Fort Myers Regional Library, is about 2.4 miles away; the nearest hospital, Lee County VA Clinic, about 2.4 miles.
Amenities — community amenities owned by The Moody River Estates Community Association (amenity list compiled from the community's materials and market descriptions, so confirm current amenities with the association) — include a resort-style clubhouse with a pool and spa, a fitness center, tennis and basketball courts, a children's play area, a community boat ramp with access toward the Caloosahatchee River, a gated entry.
On paper, the community sits in evacuation zone A. The average assessed just value across its 881 residential parcels was $323,901 in the county's 2026 roll.
Two things frame a purchase at Moody River Estates more than the amenity list. The first is cost structure: unlike the no-CDD communities elsewhere in the Fort Myers market, Moody River carries a community development district, so the recurring non-ad-valorem charges on a sampled 2025 tax bill include the Moody River Estates CDD at $1,341.96 alongside Lee County's $381.11 solid-waste assessment — roughly $1,723 in special assessments before ordinary property tax. The district's name matches the community, which makes it easy to spot on a bill but no less real as a yearly obligation a prospective buyer should price in from the start. The second is water access: this is a gated boating community, and the feature that most distinguishes it is a community boat ramp with access toward the Caloosahatchee River, backed by a resort-style clubhouse with pool and spa, a fitness center, and tennis and basketball courts.
It also helps to understand how Moody River is assembled, because the names multiply on a listing search. The community is an umbrella of three neighborhoods — Moody River Estates itself plus the Coach Homes and the Carriage Homes — mixing single-family houses with attached coach and carriage homes, about 731 residential units by the Lee County GIS boundary, most built from the mid-2000s onward. No single homebuilder is named in the records here, so treat any one-builder claim with caution.
A couple of practical notes for anyone getting serious: the community centroid sits in Evacuation Zone A with a mix of FIRM flood designations across the property, and fixed broadband at a sampled address runs up to 2-gigabit fiber from Xfinity, with slower CenturyLink and fixed-wireless options behind it. Confirm current dues, CDD terms, and community rules directly with The Moody River Estates Community Association, Inc. This page is an independent, records-based starting point — not affiliated with the HOA, developer, or any club.
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