Bonita Springs
FEMA moved in 2024 to strip Bonita Springs of the 25 percent flood insurance discount its residents earn through the Community Rating System, citing Hurricane Ian rebuilding paperwork, but the city documented its work and kept the full discount that November.
Cape Coral's population reached an estimated 233,025 in 2024, up 20.1 percent since the 2020 Census and far above the national pace, while Redfin put the median sale price near $360,000 in the spring, down about 2 percent from a year earlier.
The Village of Estero is home to the global headquarters of Hertz, a Fortune 500-scale employer that anchors the local tax base, even as Redfin's recent housing readings show the village's median sale price down from a year earlier on light volume.
The median Fort Myers sale price slipped to about $348,000 in the spring, down 2.4 percent from a year earlier, even as Lee Health broke ground on an $824 million hospital campus that will be the biggest healthcare build in Southwest Florida history.
Marco Island's median sale price sat around $1 million in mid-2026 on thin volume, and Census figures put the island's median home value at $896,300, roughly 2.7 times the national figure and well above Collier County as a whole.
A veteran Lee County commercial broker told WGCU the restaurants, home improvement stores and shopping plazas going up across the region are projects filling gaps in retail coverage, while a South Fort Myers homeowner warned the pace could worsen local flooding.
Florida has no income tax. Leaving a high-tax state cleanly is harder than moving. The line is 184 days, any part of a day counts, and states like New York audit the wealthy who cross it.
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