Mark H. Bickel | Naples Daily News
A Naples home is No. 1 on the list of most expensive single-family property transfers in Collier County from Aug. 1-31.
The property, located at 3565 Fort Charles Drive in the Port Royal neighborhood, sold for $22 million. The list price was $29.5 million. It has six bedrooms and nine bathrooms.
Following are the Top 10 real estate sales in Collier County recorded for August 2025:
(Data provided by Royal Shell Real Estate)
1. 3565 Fort Charles Drive, Naples
- List price: $29,500,000
- Sold price: $22,000,000
- Neighborhood/Development: Port Royal
- Size: 8,960 square feet
- Year built: 2006
- Days on market: 136
- Amenities: Bayfront, Boat Dock, Private Pool/Spa, Built-In Grill, Deck, Outdoor Kitchen
- View: Bay
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Mark H. Bickel | Naples Daily News
New York. London. Chicago. Los Angeles.
When it comes to the ultra-wealthy and places they are purchasing a second home in 2025, these are some of the most popular locations, according to a story in Business Insider.
And right there with those places is in Southwest Florida. Naples made the Top-10 list in the U.S. for second homes in 2025.
According to the Business Insider story, the findings are based on Altrata’s proprietary Wealth-X and RelSci databases, which combine verified profiles, residential ownership records, and relationship mapping of the global wealthy.
Along with Naples, other emerging second-home destinations for the ultra-wealthy, according to the story, are Dubai and Lisbon.
Altrata, a wealth intelligence firm, ranked the top 20 cities where ultra-high-net-worth individuals − defined as those with a net worth of at least $30 million − are buying second homes in 2025.
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Laura Layden | Naples Daily News
Plans to expand a private automobile museum in Naples are revving up.
At a public hearing Aug. 27, the city’s Design Review Board got its first look at the architectural and landscape plans involving the expansion of the Revs Institute.
The nonprofit museum is seeking approval to expand and improve its campus to “elevate the quality, function, and experience.”
Thomas Long, a member of the museum’s advisory board, provided an overview of the project for a preliminary review by the design board.
The board liked what it saw, giving a thumbs up to the simplistic, L-shaped design, but with a few conditions – and requests for changes – before the project comes back for final approval.
The museum is located off Horseshoe Drive, near the Naples Airport.
It’s home to the Miles Collier Collections – consisting of more than 100 significant automobiles built between 1896 and 1995. Miles Collier is the grandson of Collier County’s founder.
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Kendall Little | Naples Daily News
In about five months, you can get a taste of Napa Valley without leaving the comfort of Naples. The Naples Winter Wine Festival is set for Jan. 30 through Feb. 1, 2026 and is stacked with celebrity chefs and innovative vintners.
This year’s roster is impressive, with James Beard winners, Michelin-starred chefs, and pioneering restaurateurs like Nancy Oakes, Joe Flamm, Karen Akunowicz, and Dean Fearing. Leading the team of exceptional chefs is “Chef de Cuisine” Dustin Valette, acclaimed chef-owner of Valette and The Matheson in Healdsburg California. Valette carries a family legacy dating back to the 1820s, continuing a long line of culinary excellence.
“The Naples Winter Wine Festival has earned a reputation for attracting many of the nation’s top award-winning chefs, and this year is no different,” Kelley Bailey, 2026 Chef Committee Chair said in a press release. “Our lineup includes a number of celebrity chefs who have consistently participated in the NWWF for several years along with a handful of fresh new faces who are making their debut.”
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Charles Runnells | Naples Daily News
When Ramón Tebar joined Opera Naples in 2013, the new artistic director had a major goal: To bring more international opera singers to Naples.
Not Naples, Italy, mind you.
Naples, Florida.
Most opera stars, though, had no idea there even WAS another Naples.
“I had to always explain — at least for the first two, three seasons: ‘Well, this is not Napoli,’” Tebar says. “This is not Naples, Italy. It’s Naples, Florida.”
That quickly changed, though, as major opera stars came to sing for Southwest Florida audiences. Then they’d go back to Europe and tell all their friends.
“The opera world is a very small world,” Tebar says. “They would talk to each other. They would say, ‘Look, you should go to Naples. It’s wonderful — a great city. … You’ll have a lot of fun.’
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Liz Freeman | Naples Daily News
Substantial gifts toward the $295-million heart center underway on the campus of the NCH Baker Hospital keep coming in.
Longtime supporters Pete and Dawn Irving have given $10 million which is earmarked for the cardiac imaging wing on the third floor. The gift will enhance patient access to cutting-edge diagnostic technology.
The future heart complex will be located south of the Baker hospital near downtown Naples at the site of the Telford Education Center which was demolished.
The future heart center is officially named the R.M. Schulze Family Heart and Stroke Critical Care Center. Groundbreaking was in June and completion is targeted for fall 2027.
“This is philanthropy at its best: community members stepping forward to create something extraordinary for the health of everyone who lives here,” Scott Lutgert, chairman of the NCH board of trustees, said of the $10 million donation.
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