Gated Communities on Amelia Island & in Nassau County

Crane Island is the region's most deliberate luxury address: a private 185-acre island on the Intracoastal, reached by its own bridge, entitled for 169 homes but intentionally platted at just 113 — a Southern Living Inspired Community (it hosted the 2019 Idea House) of coastal-Lowcountry customs with over 3,500 feet of waterway frontage. The River House — infinity pool, fire pits, oyster station — serves as the island's living room.

Active

$4,900,000MLS# 2148134

Est. $26,080/mo

52 Wallan Court, Fernandina Beach, FL 32034

5 Beds

4 Baths

4,693 sqft

Residential

BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY HOME SERVICES HEYMANN WILLIAMS

Active

$2,965,000MLS# 2139054

Est. $15,781/mo

79 Old Well Road, Fernandina Beach, FL 32034

5 Beds

3 Baths

3,235 sqft

Residential

ONE SOTHEBY'S INTERNATIONAL REALTY

For boaters it's genuinely new inventory in a market that has almost none: 29 slips plus a day dock and private powered lifts on deep water. Developer homesites are down to a short list, so resale is fast becoming the only way in. Finished homes generally run $2M–$4M, with marquee riverfront properties well beyond.

Oyster Bay Harbour is the rare Nassau community where the yacht club, not a golf course, is the social center: a gated, 900-acre marsh-front community from 1995 whose private Oyster Bay Yacht Club (pool, fitness, bar and grill, weekly member events) anchors a 76-slip deep-water marina taking boats to 65 feet — with no bridges, locks, or jetties between your slip and the open Atlantic, about 15 minutes out.

Active

$965,000MLS# 2152652

Est. $5,136/mo

96248 Light Wind Drive, Fernandina Beach, FL 32034

4 Beds

2 Baths

2,600 sqft

Residential

WATSON REALTY CORP

Active

$250,000MLS# 2139461

Est. $1,331/mo

96582 Bay View Drive, Fernandina Beach, FL 32034

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FLORIDA HOMES REALTY & MTG LLC

The housing fabric splits two ways: roughly 94 large custom homesites (Watson, Haven, Arthur Rutenberg and others across three decades, with New Atlantic and Riverside building newer phases) and about 98 villas and condos with marsh and estuary views — which is why actives here range from the mid-$200s (villas) to nearly $1M.

Waterman's Bluff occupies ground with a story: the bluff over the Bells River where Eleazar Waterman's 19th-century plantation stood, and where American Patriot War forces camped in 1813 for the commanding river views — there's a historical marker to prove it. Today it's a slow-grown gated community of 142 homesites across 72 acres: Lowcountry homes with deep porches from multiple custom builders over two decades, John Merrill Homes building the newest.

Active

$157,000MLS# 2152516

Est. $836/mo

28759 Grandview Manor, Yulee, FL 32097

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DJ & LINDSEY REAL ESTATE

Active

$749,900MLS# 2148500

Est. $3,991/mo

29302 Grandview Manor, Yulee, FL 32097

4 Beds

3 Baths

2,630 sqft

Residential

CHRISTIE'S INTERNATIONAL REAL ESTATE FIRST COAST

The amenities are water-first — private beach and boat ramp, tidal community dock with kayak launch, a three-acre freshwater lake — and only a handful of homesites remain. It's timeless-Southern rather than production-tract: full-size lots, fishing light, and marsh views at prices that top out around the $800s.

Sandy Bluff is the newest gate in the county — SEDA New Homes' 100 estate-sized homesites on a 25-foot bluff above the Bells River marsh, newly selling with a combination that's genuinely rare: one builder, a gate, NO CDD fee, and six true riverfront lots with 200–300-foot depths. Every plan (roughly 2,100–3,500+ sq ft) comes with a third-car garage, on lots sized for pools under old oaks and palms.

Active

$603,900MLS# 2143058

Est. $3,214/mo

331 Sandy Bluff Drive 0078, Yulee, FL 32097

3 Beds

2 Baths

2,531 sqft

Residential

MONOGRAM REALTY INC

Active

$624,900MLS# 2143041

Est. $3,326/mo

352 Sandy Bluff Drive 0065, Yulee, FL 32097

4 Beds

3 Baths

2,455 sqft

Residential

MONOGRAM REALTY INC

The signature amenity is the marsh itself: a pathway from the bluff down to a 250-foot boardwalk ending in a 900 sq ft viewing vista at the river's edge, plus a five-acre park with pickleball, a pavilion, and a fenced dog park. New construction runs from the $500s to $1M+ — sub-$1M new homes with real water is a needle almost nothing else in the region threads.

The island's most attainable gated living is its villa fabric. Inside Amelia Island Plantation's 1,340 gated acres, Beachwood Villas offers elevator-building flats and townhouses with three private pools and a secluded beach cove — popular in the rental pool — while the Dunes Club Villas are the pinnacle: ~3,200 sq ft oceanfront villas with private-elevator-key access, and the last villas ever built inside the Plantation, so supply is permanently capped.

Active

$515,000MLS# 2149883

Est. $2,741/mo

2111 Beach Wood Road, Fernandina Beach, FL 32034

2 Beds

2 Baths

1,210 sqft

Residential

AMELIA ISLAND REAL ESTATE SERVICES

Active

$529,000MLS# 2141119

Est. $2,816/mo

2117 Beach Wood Road 2117, Fernandina Beach, FL 32034

2 Beds

2 Baths

1,210 sqft

Residential

CHRISTIE'S INTERNATIONAL REAL ESTATE FIRST COAST

Between the Ritz-Carlton and the Omni, the gated Amelia Surf & Racquet Club adds classic oceanfront condo living — two oceanfront pools, clay tennis, private walkover — with heavy vacation-rental use. Across all three, the buyer's homework is the same: rental rules, association reserves, and what "club access" does and doesn't come with the deed. Villas run from the $400s to nearly $3M at the Dunes Club.