The Plantation single-family homes, villas and condos
Which community a home sits in tells you what you are buying. Somerset has single-family homes and low-rise condominiums. Bridgetown has single-family homes and two groups of attached villas. The two communities have different fees, different rules and different amenities.
Compare within a community before you compare across them. A Somerset condominium and a Bridgetown house are different products with different fee structures, and their sold prices are not each other’s comparables.
What Living in The Plantation Is Like
Each community runs its own amenity center and they keep different hours. Somerset Hall is open 6am to 9pm with the fitness center from 5am to 9pm and the pools dawn to dusk. Children under 16 need an adult at the amenity center, and the fitness center is closed to children under 12. A private event needs a $400 cleaning and damage deposit.
Bridgetown’s amenity center keeps longer hours. The fitness center and motion room run 4am to 11pm, social rooms 8:30am to 11pm, the tiki bar, fire pit and barbecue 8:30am to 10pm, tennis and pickleball 7am to 10pm, and bocce 8am to 8pm. Pools and the spa are open sunrise to sunset. The association lists a lap pool and a main pool, a spa, five tennis courts, four pickleball courts, three bocce courts, a tot lot, a fire pit and a tiki bar. Residents create guest passes in the MyQ Community app, and a visitor without one enters an access code at the gate kiosk.
What to Know Before You Buy
- The golf club: Somerset’s declaration is explicit that the club is not common property, is not controlled by the association, and that owning a home creates no right to use it. Bridgetown’s association does not include or control the club either. The initiation fee is non-refundable, so it is money spent rather than equity you later sell.
- Yearly costs: Somerset houses pay $6,492 to $6,852 a year in HOA fees, and its condominiums $11,820 to $14,044 including their condominium association. Bridgetown houses run $5,504 to $6,392 and its attached villas $5,456 to $7,752 in 2026. The Arborwood CDD charge is separate, on the tax bill, and golf membership is optional and bought from the club.
- Golf ball easements: Homes along the course may be subject to recorded golf ball easements, and they reach condominiums as well as houses. Somerset’s master declaration and Glastonbury’s condominium declaration both carry one. The easement lets golf balls come onto the property and lets golfers, at reasonable times and in a reasonable manner, come onto the exterior of the property to retrieve them. Review the declaration and survey for the specific home.
- Community development district: Both neighborhoods sit in the Arborwood Community Development District, established in 2004, which also covers communities beyond The Plantation. Its assessment has two parts, operations and maintenance plus bond debt service, and it is collected on the Lee County tax bill rather than by an association, so do not add it on top of a property’s tax figure. It is set per parcel and runs from about $583 to about $1,527 a year. The bonds are scheduled to mature in May 2036, and the operations and maintenance part continues after that. Check the current tax bill for the exact parcel.
- Somerset exterior rules: Exterior changes need approval. Pools need a $2,000 refundable owner deposit and a $10,000 refundable contractor deposit with the application. Fences are prohibited except an approved bronze pool safety fence, and exterior paint follows the approved palette. Glastonbury’s condominiums follow the Somerset guidelines too.
- Bridgetown exterior rules: Bridgetown runs its own architectural review, and Somerset’s rules do not apply there. Exterior changes need an application, and it publishes a Sherwin-Williams paint palette. It also sets which hurricane shutters are allowed.
- Bridgetown parking: No street parking at any time, enforced by the association between midnight and 6am.
- Schools: Served by Lee County Public Schools, which places students through School Choice rather than by address.