Inside Quail West’s Record Sale: How William Raveis Closed a Landmark Naples Deal
4300 Brynwood Drive, Naples, Florida  |  Listed by William Raveis Luxury Properties Division

William Raveis Real Estate, the firm ranked No.1 in 2024 U.S. home sales volume among the top 500 firms at $272 billion alongside Leading Real Estate Companies of the World, brought one of its most significant Florida listings to market in early 2026.

The property, 4300 Brynwood Drive, spans 11,160 square feet on a 2.2-acre lot within Quail West, one of Naples’ premier championship golf communities. Listed by Matt Brown, of William Raveis Real Estate, the estate entered the market with a clear positioning: a record-calibre property in a community where the previous high watermark had held for 31 months.

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Originally listed in April 2025, temporarily withdrawn in August, and relaunched in October 2025, the property went pending in March 2026 and ultimately closed after 299 total days on the market.

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Luxury Real Estate Advisor, William Raveis Real Estate
JamesEdition is one of the channels we rely on for top-tier Naples listings, particularly when we want to reach UHNW buyers researching luxury real estate from outside the U.S. The platform filters for that audience already, which means our listings show up where qualified buyers are actively looking, without the noise that comes with broader aggregators.

William Raveis x JamesEdition: A Multi-Channel Exposure Strategy

For estates at this price tier, Brown’s approach targets qualified buyers rather than the broadest possible audience.

The campaign was anchored by William Raveis’s Luxury Properties Division — named to Luxury Lifestyle Awards’ Top 100 Luxury Real Estate Brokers of the World every year since 2022 — and executed across four coordinated layers:
– International digital syndication across 15 luxury platforms including JamesEdition, Mansion Global, Barrons, and Country Life UK;
– High-net-worth print placements running from Wall Street Journal to Architectural Digest;

– Direct-to-buyer outreach including a dedicated Unique Homes eblast to 70,501 recipients;

– Broker-to-broker exposure across more than 140 Raveis office locations.

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JamesEdition served as the primary international digital channel — top-of-funnel reach into a curated global audience of UHNW buyers researching Naples from outside U.S. luxury aggregators.

Over the 69-day active listing period from 8 February to 17 April 2026, the listing generated more than 800 pageviews.

Critically, 51.68% of pageviews originated outside the United States, including the United Kingdom (7.17%), Germany (5.2%), France (3.82%), India (3.7%), South Africa (3.47%), Canada (2.66%), and Spain (2.43%) — classic UHNW feeder markets for Southwest Florida luxury real estate.

Matt Brown: You almost never see these three things together in current Quail West inventory: an 11,000-plus square foot home, a 2.2-acre lot inside a gated top-rated championship golf community, and a comprehensive interior renovation finished in a broadly appealing style with custom cabinetry and the finest materials throughout. When you find all three in one property, that’s what makes it exceptional.”

4300 Brynwood Drive: A Fully Renovated Quail West Estate with Rare Scale and Golf Frontage

Built in 1995 and comprehensively renovated over the 24 months preceding its listing, 4300 Brynwood Drive offered a combination Brown describes as non-replicable in current Quail West inventory.

The 2.2-acre lot is one of the larger contiguous homesites in Quail West, positioned on the 17th hole of the community’s Arthur Hills-designed championship golf course.

Ownership conveyed with immediate Quail West Golf & Country Club membership and no waitlist. Interiors were executed in a soft, neutral Florida coastal style with custom cabinetry throughout and the finest materials in every selection.

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The estate spans 11,160 square feet across six bedrooms, eight bathrooms, and a five-car garage, with a private elevator, steam room, resort-style pool, and outdoor kitchen. Architectural details include 24-foot ceilings and zero-corner glass sliders.

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The second floor is built of solid concrete — a storm-resilience feature rare in Southwest Florida estate construction, and increasingly recognised by sophisticated buyers in a market where insurance and hurricane exposure shape purchase decisions.

This renovation was originally designed for the seller’s family rather than for resale, but one whose aesthetic happened to align with what a wide range of luxury buyers want today.

Matt Brown: A record sale for the community and a strong outcome for the buyer can absolutely happen on the same closing. The record price gets the headline. The buyer’s economics tell the more interesting story.”

A Record Closing Centered on Lifestyle and Long-Term Value

The property closed on 8 April 2026 at $11,300,000 — $2,750,000, or 32.1%, above the prior Quail West record of $8,550,000 set in September 2023. It is the highest recorded transaction in Quail West MLS history.

The closing buyer was an Ohio-based couple, both active golfers, purchasing a second home in Naples. They had entered the market searching for new construction but pivoted after the wife, on multiple visits, fell in love with Quail West through a close friend living in the community.

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That same friend recognized 4300 Brynwood as a fit and walked the property alongside the buyers’ agent, Lynn Hurley of The Agency, before the buyers themselves had seen it.

The buyers’ first walkthrough was conducted via FaceTime on a Monday; they entered active buying mode shortly afterward and did not walk the property in person until approximately two weeks after closing. The home exceeded their expectations.

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The economics tell their own story. The buyers purchased a fully renovated estate at approximately $1,013 per square foot. Comparable new construction in Naples at this price point currently runs closer to $1,500 per square foot, before 18-to-36 months of build time.

The Market Context: Naples’ Championship Golf Communities as an Emerging Asset Class

The Brynwood Drive closing sits inside a broader divergence in the Naples luxury market. In the twelve months ending February 2026, Quail West led Naples’ three highest-volume championship golf communities with 40 closed single-family sales, up 18% year-over-year.

Matt Brown: In the 12 months ending February 2026, Quail West single-family closings were up 18% year-over-year. Naples luxury condo closings were down 18% over the same window. Championship golf community real estate has separated from the broader luxury market, and the pricing is beginning to reflect that separation.

Combined, Grey Oaks, Mediterra, and Quail West recorded 105 closings and $451.3M in total dollar volume over the same period. Quail West dollar volume reached $172.3M, up 10.4% year-over-year, while new listings dropped 11.6%.

Across the broader Naples luxury single-family segment ($1M+ west of US-41), 401 sales closed over the same window — up 25% year-over-year — with median price up 29% to $3,050,000.

Naples luxury condos moved in the opposite direction: closed sales down 18% year-over-year, median price down 13%.

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Quail West Country Club

Championship courses designed by architects like Arthur Hills, Tom Fazio, and Robert Cupp are functionally irreplaceable in coastal Southwest Florida, where land cost, water permitting, and environmental review standards no longer allow new championship-scale course development.

For these high-end communities, the choice of platform helps shape how an asset of this scale is positioned and perceived in the market.

Multi-channel exposure across curated international audiences is no longer optional: it is the structure that allows a defensible record price to find the buyer whose profile genuinely matches it.

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