Sarasota, FL
Golden Bay
Ten residences over seven floors at 166 Golden Gate Point, completed in 2002. A small early-2000s building on Golden Gate Point, the small peninsula between downtown and the Ringling Bridge causeway to the keys, from the first wave of redevelopment that began replacing the peninsula's mid-century low-rises.
Home Types
Bayfront condominium
HOA (Yearly) Est.
$20,000
CDD (Yearly) Est.
None
Flood Zone
AE
Fee estimates may vary by lot size and sub-association. View all community fees →
Community size
10
homes
community record
10
completed homes on the county roll
Sarasota County property appraiser roll, read October 2026
11
recorded residential lots
Sarasota County property appraiser roll, read October 2026
How Golden Bay compares
From the county records
$2,000,000
Median of 4 recorded sales since October 2023, the middle eighty percent between $1,850,000 and $2,750,000.
40%
Of the 10 matched residential units here claim a homestead exemption, which reads as a mix of homes claimed as a permanent residence and homes that are not.
Newest completion recorded 2002. The roll records no completions here in the last three years. Most of what trades is resale, though an absence of recent completions is not by itself proof a community is closed to new building.
Arm’s-length sales recorded with Sarasota County, read October 2026. Quitclaims, foreclosures, family transfers and pre-construction sales are excluded. Homestead requires the property to be a permanent residence, so the share carrying one is reported here as a share of matched residential units rather than as a count of who lives here. Homestead is a tax filing, not an occupancy count. A rented home can house full-time residents and will never carry the exemption, and an owner who lives here but never filed does not appear in it either. Read it as what share of matched residential units claim the exemption, not as who lives here.
At an estimated $20,000 a year in combined HOA and CDD, Golden Bay sits about 46% above the Sarasota median of $13,676, ranking 59 of the 90 Sarasota communities whose fees this site tracks. There is no CDD assessment here, which is what keeps that figure down.
Estimates from the same dataset behind the fee pages and the True Cost Index. Fees vary by lot size and sub-association, and change with each budget.
Governing Documents
HOA & community documents for Golden Bay
3 documents from the community development or stewardship district that covers Golden Bay and linked to the page each one lives on. Nothing is copied here, so you read whatever they publish today. No association documents have been located for Golden Bay yet, which is a gap in what has been found rather than evidence there are none.
District documents
A community development or stewardship district is a unit of local government, not an association. Its assessment is billed with your property taxes rather than by the association, and its rules are public records of a different kind. Shown separately for that reason.
Golden Gate Point Streetscape Special District
Why it applies to Golden Bay: This is not a CDD and not a non-ad-valorem assessment. It is an ad valorem millage the City of Sarasota certifies, so it scales with assessed value and appears in the millage section of the tax bill. The match to this community is by its Golden Gate Point street address, not by name.
- Rules & regulationsCurrent, per the source
City Ordinance 05-4624, creating the Golden Gate Point Streetscape Special District
Open document - Budget & assessmentsStatus unconfirmed
Resolution 17R-2662, certifying the rates of millage to be levied within the Golden Gate Point Streetscape Special District
Open document - Budget & assessmentsStatus unconfirmed
Resolution 17R-2663, adopting the Golden Gate Point Streetscape Special District budget
Open document
The governing body is known and nothing it publishes is public. That is a gap in what has been published, not evidence that the community has no restrictions. This list records what has been found in public, not everything that governs the property. Before an offer I pull the full document set for the specific address along with the association’s budget and financials.
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Golden Bay FAQ
What kind of homes are in Golden Bay?+
Golden Bay offers bayfront condominium. Attached homes carry an association that maintains the building itself, so the fee covers more than it would on a single-family home and the association's reserves matter to you directly. What a specific home includes, and what the association maintains, is set out in that community's documents and is worth reading before an offer rather than after.
What have homes in Golden Bay actually sold for?+
4 arm's-length sales have been recorded in Golden Bay since October 2023, at a median of $2,000,000. The middle eighty percent of those sales fell between $1,850,000 and $2,750,000, which is a better guide to the range than the extremes. These are prices recorded with Sarasota County, not asking prices, so they describe what buyers and sellers actually agreed. Figures read October 2026; quitclaims, foreclosures and family transfers are excluded.
Do people live in Golden Bay year round?+
40% of the 10 matched residential units in Golden Bay claim a homestead exemption, which Florida grants only on an owner's permanent residence, read from the Sarasota County roll in October 2026. That reads as a mix of homes claimed as a permanent residence and homes that are not. Homestead is a tax filing, not an occupancy count. A rented home can house full-time residents and will never carry the exemption, and an owner who lives here but never filed does not appear in it either. Read it as what share of matched residential units claim the exemption, not as who lives here.
Is Golden Bay still being built?+
The most recent home the county records in Golden Bay was completed in 2002, across 11 platted parcels of which 10 carry a finished home. The county records no completions in Golden Bay in the last three years, so what trades is resale. An absence of recent completions is not by itself proof that no further building is permitted. Build year matters more in Florida than buyers expect, because insurers weight roof age heavily and it drives what a property costs to carry rather than just what it costs to buy.
Does Golden Bay have an HOA or CDD fee?+
Golden Bay has an HOA fee estimated at $20,000 yearly, and the fee data for this community records no CDD assessment. A community development district bills through your property taxes rather than through the association, and its assessment can carry two separate components: debt service, which repays the bonds that funded roads, drainage and amenities, and an operations and maintenance charge, which does not end with the bonds. A community without a district avoids both as currently assessed. Figures are estimates, assessments are set annually, and both vary by home and phase, so confirm them for the specific address before relying on them.
What flood zone is Golden Bay in?+
The flood zone recorded for Golden Bay is AE. Zones beginning A or V are the higher-risk categories, where a federally backed mortgage generally requires flood insurance, while zone X is lower risk and coverage is usually optional. Flood zone is assigned per property rather than per community though, and elevation can change both the requirement and the premium substantially, so get the zone and the elevation certificate for the exact address rather than relying on a community-level figure.
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