Bayway Isles · Guard-Gated · Boca Ciega Bay
Bayway Isles homes for sale. St. Pete's guard-gated big-boat address.
A guard-gated island community off the Pinellas Bayway, between the city and the beaches, where the lots are estate-sized and the water is the whole point. Open Boca Ciega Bay on one side, protected coves on the other, and the Gulf through Pass-a-Grille Channel. The honest guide.
Bayway Isles
Bayway Isles is a guard-gated island community off the Pinellas Bayway at the south end of St. Petersburg — estate lots, serious seawall footage, and water on nearly every side. It's the address boat-first buyers in the city keep circling back to, and the gate is the least interesting thing about it.
Bayway Isles has open-bay and more protected waterfront, but boat access still depends on the specific dock and route. I check the depth, the lift, and every bridge clearance before calling a boat a fit — on this water NOAA lists clearances as low as 20 feet at Bunces Pass, so the route matters as much as the dock. I've sold here — Bayway Isles, Isla del Sol, Bahia, up and down the Boca Ciega side — and the buyers ask about the water before the house.
By boat you're minutes from Tierra Verde, Fort De Soto and the Pass-a-Grille Channel; by car, the beaches one way and downtown St. Pete the other. Which routes work for which boats comes down to the clearances along the way and the depth at your specific dock at low tide — a per-property answer I give before anyone offers, not after.
Buying in Bayway Isles
The 2024 file, standard here like everywhere on the bay
Boca Ciega Bay took the 2024 storms street by street, not neighborhood by neighborhood, so nothing here gets assumed in either direction. On any pre-2024 home I pull the permit history, the substantial-damage determination and the remediation record, and I get the insurance quote in writing while the offer is still being written, because at this price point the carrier's number is part of the price.
Pricing here runs on seawall footage, dock infrastructure and exposure, not just square footage. Pie-shaped lots with 25 feet of real frontage priced like 50 are my pet peeve, and buyers at this level measure. When the water matters, I check the depth at the dock with a measuring stick and a tide chart, and the lift gets inspected like the roof.
The top of the market
This is one of the deepest luxury pockets in St. Pete proper — gated, open-bay, big-boat water. When a Bayway Isles home trades, it's the frontage, the dock and the exposure doing the talking, and the buyers usually arrive with the boat already picked out.
Selling in Bayway Isles
In Bayway Isles the number moves on what the online estimate can't see: seawall footage and condition, the dock and lift, depth at low tide, exposure, elevation and the 2024 file. An estate lot with real dock infrastructure trades in a different bracket than the same square footage without it. Send me the address and I'll tell you which bracket you're in.
From the water, mostly. Instead of a regular brokers' open I do a listing caravan by boat. The agents who sell the most high-end waterfront around here pull up to your dock, see the house the way a buyer would, and film it for their own people. I show it to buyers by boat too.
What's my Bayway Isles home worth?
A real number from someone who looks at the dock, not an algorithm. Usually same day.
Bayway Isles, demystified
One who treats the route as part of the house. I'm Carly Majorana, Carly on the Water, with NextHome Gulf Coast. I keep a 30-foot boat with a tower on a lift, I've sold here — Bayway Isles, Isla del Sol, Bahia, up and down the Boca Ciega side — and I check the depth, the lift and every bridge clearance before calling a boat a fit.
It depends on the dock and the route, not the zip code. Plenty of docks here handle serious boats, and NOAA lists clearances on this water as low as 20 feet at Bunces Pass, so I verify the route for your specific boat — length, beam, draft, height — before you offer.
Yes. The gate is staffed around the clock and run by the homeowners club. Fees and rules come from the association, and I pull the current schedule as part of due diligence instead of quoting last year's numbers.
It's a per-property question, like everywhere on Boca Ciega Bay. On any pre-2024 home here I pull the permits, the substantial-damage status and the quality of the remediation before you offer.
Estate-scale waterfront money, with a spread wide enough that an average would mislead you. The number moves on seawall footage, dock infrastructure, exposure and elevation. Send me the address, or tell me the boat and the budget, and I'll give you real comps instead of a range.
The water sets the price: frontage, dock, lift, depth and the 2024 file. I price the water first, then the house, and I market it from the water — the listing caravan by boat puts it in front of the agents who sell the top of this market.
Let's Talk
Tell me the boat first — length, beam, draft, height — and the house second. I'll check the dock, the route and the 2024 file, and tell you what the gate is actually buying you.