LIVING ON SANIBEL AND CAPTIVA
Let the pros help you find your island home
South Seas Sanibel & Captiva Properties and Royal Shell Real Estate lead the pack in the business of buying and selling properties in paradise. The two agencies are equally delighted to share with prospective buyers the special beauties of island living. And both companies take full advantage of the new technological assist that digital marketing offers. It gives properties global coverage.
South Seas Sanibel & Captiva Properties
Sanibel and Captiva play host to a wide variety of real estate options: canal-front properties, Gulf- or bay-front estate homes, and family communities such as the Dunes, Gumbo Limbo, and Beachview. These interior neighborhoods are great for growing kids and grandkids, and homeowners can still access the water easily by bicycle or golf cart.
Differentiating between the Sanibel and Captiva sister islands and other coastal resort communities is easy. The seascape here is breathtaking, from the Gulf’s gentle waves to Pine Island Sound’s inky waters. And nature’s activity, from dolphins frolicking to pelicans and osprey diving, just can’t be matched.
Islanders get their pick of beautiful beaches. Causeway Park has luminous views of the bay and Gulf. Lighthouse Beach Park is the site of Sanibel’s historic Lighthouse Beacon, built in 1884. Turner Beach, where waves crash continuously into a breakwater, is just across
Blind Pass at Captiva’s front door. Gulfside City Park and Tarpon Bay Beach are great for picnicking, and Bowman’s Beach and Blind Pass are perfect spots for serious shellers. The Sanibel beaches can all be accessed by bicycle or foot along the 25-mile-long shared-use path. In fact, Sanibel is a cyclist’s paradise.
Royal Shell Real Estate
Customer service is Michael Polly’s calling card. “Royal Shell embraces a mission, to put our clients’ needs first,” Polly said. “We measure our success by the satisfaction of our clients.”
Under Polly’s leadership, the company has grown from four employees, when it opened in 1997, to a 160-member team today, because “our clients have put their trust in us—repeatedly, over time,” he said. “That is a super feeling.”
Polly takes pleasure in assisting people “who want to find their own place in our paradise. We’ve helped buyers purchase multimillion-dollar beachfront compounds,” he said, “and we have helped families who, after visiting our islands for years, want to make a permanent home for their children on Sanibel or Captiva. That’s the nature of my business, and it inspires me every day.”
Prospective buyers of Sanibel or Captiva properties can visit the real estate agents at South Seas Sanibel & Captiva Properties, south seasrealestate.com; and Michael Polly at Royal Shell Real Estate, royalshellrealestate.com.