For families, executors and trustees settling a Pelican Bay home — a beachfront tower, a mid-rise, a villa or a single-family house — with a free walk-through, a written evaluation, and a plan that works around the building, the Foundation's rules and the season.
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Pelican Bay is our neighbor — ten minutes from Shirley Street, straight across Pine Ridge Road and up the Tamiami Trail — which means a walk-through can often happen the next day, and a piece can be back in the shop the same afternoon. Of all the places we go, this is the one where we can move fastest.
Pelican Bay was planned in the 1970s and '80s as a complete community, and its housing comes in every form: the Gulf-front high-rises along the beach, mid-rise condominiums and coach homes through the interior, villas, and single-family neighborhoods toward the east. The towers run on the rules we know from Marco Island and Park Shore — elevator reservations, service-elevator hours, weekday move windows, certificates of insurance, and a front desk that wants names in advance. The villa and single-family associations have their own vendor rules, and the Pelican Bay Foundation sits over all of it. We ask for the building's move policy and the association contact on the first call, do the paperwork, and schedule the pickup inside the allowed window. Public estate sales are prohibited in most of Pelican Bay, which is one reason our private route — walk-through, written evaluation, buyout, consignment or auction — suits it. The routes compared.
Pelican Bay's owners came largely from the Northeast and the upper Midwest, many of them from careers and houses that were furnished well. The estates tend to hold the good things from the earlier home: sterling services in patterns by the great American makers, Georgian and Continental silver, oil paintings and prints in period frames, English and French furniture of a scale that fit a condo, Chinese export and English porcelain, rugs, clocks, decorative objects, and — frequently — a collection assembled around a lifelong interest. The proximity of Artis—Naples and the Waterside shops isn't a coincidence; this is a neighborhood that collected.
Because so many owners were seasonal, the estate is often settled by children in Connecticut, New Jersey, Ohio or Michigan, between trips. We work from photographs, with a neighbor, realtor or the building's staff for access, and send a written evaluation you can act on from home.
Pelican Bay's calendar fills from January to April: buildings' move slots, movers, attorneys and appraisers are all booked. If the house is to be sold in season, start the contents in the fall. If the family only arrives in season, book the walk-through before you fly — we can usually see a Pelican Bay unit within a day or two.
A free walk-through; a written evaluation of every piece worth writing about; an honest word about which are ordinary; buyout, consignment or auction placement as each piece deserves; the building's paperwork handled; and receipts for the estate file. Jewelry, watches, gold and coins go to our sister shop, Naples Estate Jewelry, in the same visit.
Vanderbilt Beach, Pine Ridge and Park Shore are minutes away. See Park Shore or all the areas we cover.
The same four steps we use for every estate — with the drive, the gate and the building's rules already factored in.
Where the home is in Pelican Bay, roughly what's in it, and any dates that matter — a closing, a lease end, a flight home.
We come to the house, free of charge. Out of state? We can work from photographs, or with a neighbor, realtor or attorney who holds the keys.
What's there, what it's likely worth, and your options for each piece — buyout, consignment, auction, keep, or donate. The routes compared
Pickup, paperwork, gate and building coordination, auction submissions and payment — with a record for the estate file.
Often the next day. We're ten minutes away and there most weeks.
Yes — we ask for the building's move policy on the first call and take care of the insurance certificate, the elevator reservation and the front-desk list before the pickup.
Almost certainly not — most Pelican Bay buildings and associations prohibit them. Our way of working keeps everything private: walk-through, written evaluation, then buyout, consignment or auction, with no public in the unit.
Yes. Access through a neighbor, realtor or the building's staff; photographs and a written evaluation by email; your approval by phone; payment and receipts wherever the estate directs. A large share of Pelican Bay estates are settled this way.
We photograph it, research it, and tell you honestly whether it belongs on our floor or with a specialist auction department — and if the latter, we place it and manage the process. How auction placement works.
We buy single pieces and entire estates — antiques, silver, art, and furniture. Honest evaluations, free of charge and free of pressure.