Bay Harbor Club is the rare Bonita Beach address that answers both callings — boat slips on the Hogue Channel and Estero Bay behind the buildings, deeded beach access directly across Hickory Blvd. The two mid-80s towers sit on five-plus lushly landscaped acres with a bayside pool and spa, tennis and pickleball, a well-funded reserve, and the glassed wrap-around lanais the building is known for — some of the largest on Bonita Beach, adding real square footage of daily living space.

The pricing tells the interior story. Bay Harbor Club’s nearly identical 1,345-square-foot two-bedrooms currently list from $649,000 in original condition to $849,950–$975,000 fully renovated — the floor plan is constant, so the spread is almost purely finish level. One recent listing was renovated from the studs and marketed as “a truly new home.” On a ~$740K median with a 12-lease, 30-day rental structure, the renovation gap here is one of the cleanest comparisons on the beach.

Kitchen Investment,
Priced to Bay Harbor Comps.

The best recent Bay Harbor renovations all make the same move: the mid-80s kitchen wall comes down and the kitchen turns toward the glassed lanai and the bay. In a 1,345-square-foot split plan that single change puts water views behind the sink and makes the main living area read a size larger. One current listing’s kitchen was rebuilt exactly this way — quartz counters, full-height backsplash, built-ins and pull-outs — and it is asking top-of-building money.

We spec for the setting: marine-tolerant hardware and fingerprint-resistant appliances for salt air off the bay, quartz at Good and Better, and natural quartzite at Best where owners are chasing the $975K comp ceiling. Projects are staged around the association’s elevator schedule and work hours, with materials sequenced so the unit never sits idle.

Bathroom Investment,
Same Math, Wet-Room Ready.

Bay Harbor’s split two-bath plans share plumbing stacks, so we open the wet walls once, replace forty-year-old supply lines and valves once, and bring membrane waterproofing and moisture-rated backer to current code in a single pass — the hidden layer that matters most a hundred feet from Estero Bay. Recent renovations here have gone as far as studs-out rebuilds; ours are engineered to that standard without requiring it.

Scope follows the building’s dual life: large-format porcelain and frameless-glass walk-ins where the 12-lease rental calendar rotates guests, dual-sink custom vanities and walk-in showers in the primary where the building’s $849K–$975K renovated comps set the bar. Every fixture package is chosen for coastal tolerance first.