Bayport Beach and Tennis Club is a condominium community on roughly 27 bayfront acres at the south end of Longboat Key in Sarasota County. It was designed by Tim Seibert, one of the founders of the Sarasota School of Architecture, and was completed in the early 1980s with 136 units housed in 17 low-rise, townhouse-style buildings (Bayport community materials and Longboat Key brokerage guides, 2026).
The community runs beach to bay. Residents have a private deeded beach across Gulf of Mexico Drive with roughly 1,200 feet of Gulf frontage, while the buildings sit on the Sarasota Bay side with a heated pool, four Har-Tru tennis courts, a fitness center, a clubhouse, kayak storage, and a bayside fishing pier (Bayport community materials, 2026).
Because this is a condominium, the association is the asset. The master policy, the structural integrity reserve study, and the milestone inspection set the financial floor, and on a barrier island those carry real weight. Longboat Key sits entirely in FEMA high-hazard flood zones, so flood and wind coverage and post-Surfside reserve funding shape the monthly number more than any single unit.
The pitch is a walkable, amenity-rich beach-to-bay address at the quieter south end of the key, near New Pass and the St. Armands and Lido draw. The work is reading the building you are buying into: its budget, its reserves, its milestone status, and the master policy, before you price the view.
