Perico Bay Club is a gated, owner-occupied waterfront community on Perico Island at the western end of Manatee Avenue in Bradenton, Manatee County, set on Palma Sola Bay and the Intracoastal Waterway a few miles from the Anna Maria Island beaches. It was built between roughly 1985 and 1992 as plantation-style condos and attached villas evoking old Florida, spread across a cluster of neighborhood associations with lakes, water views, and preserve frontage (Michael Saunders and Company community guide; 55places, 2026).
The community is organized as a set of neighborhood homeowner and condominium associations under one master association that manages the common property, gate, and shared amenities. Reporting on the community describes on the order of several hundred residences grouped into more than a dozen associations, so the dues, reserves, and rules differ by neighborhood and building, and each owner carries both a neighborhood assessment and a master-association assessment (Michael Saunders and Company; pericobclub.com, 2026).
The Perico Bay Club name covers different buildings and associations, so the money is made or lost on the specific association's reserve and insurance posture, the building's condition, and an honest read of flood exposure on the Intracoastal, not on the headline water view.
The pitch is gated waterfront living near the beaches: a guarded gate, an Olympic-style pool, tennis, a clubhouse, a fishing pier, and boardwalk trails by the preserves, with Robinson Preserve and the Anna Maria Island beaches close by. The work is verifying the association's milestone and reserve status, dues, special-assessment history, and the flood zone and insurance for the exact unit before you commit (Michael Saunders and Company; Manatee County milestone-inspection program, 2026).
