Community Details at a Glance
The Homes
Product
Roughly 90 one- and two-level townhome-style condos in two phases; Quail Pointe I is 49 units in 12 buildings and Quail Pointe II adds 33 more, per Frankel Realty Group
Plans
About 1,350 to 2,025 square feet, mostly 2 and 3 bedrooms, with no one living above you
Built
1978 to 1988, phase by phase; renovation depth varies widely unit to unit
Addresses
301 to 533 on Quail Pointe Drive and Quail Pointe Lane inside the gates
Costs & Fees
Fees
Quail Pointe condo assessment plus Sawgrass master association dues; a 2025 listing showed a Sawgrass master charge of roughly $1,150 semi-annually and third-party sources have shown condo fees in the $800s monthly; confirm both current amounts with the association
CDD
None anywhere in Sawgrass Country Club
Club
Sawgrass Country Club membership is optional and separate; initiation from $125,000 effective December 2025 per the club, with a waitlist; confirm current terms
Amenities
Views
Golf course and water views across both phases, per Frankel Realty Group
Beach
Among the closest condos in Sawgrass to the beach entrance, alongside Rough Creek
Format
One- and two-level units with nothing stacked above, a private townhome feel
Community
Staffed gates, roving patrols, and the three-mile Sawgrass loop path through the master HOA
Location
Setting
South-central inside Sawgrass Country Club, east of A1A in Ponte Vedra Beach
Beach
A short walk to the Atlantic through the gates; oceanfront Beach Club on club membership
Nearby
Sawgrass Village across A1A; Guana Preserve just south; Mayo Clinic about 15 minutes
What Living Here Is Actually Like
Quiet, green, and genuinely walkable to the water. The daily rhythm runs on foot: the beach in the morning, the loop path for the daily walk, the cart or the car only when you leave the gates. It lives like a small beach village inside a bigger gated one.
The ownership and rental profile
Quail Pointe mixes full-time residents, seasonal owners, and second homes, and some units operate as furnished seasonal rentals through local management companies. Third-party sources describe the community as workable for full-time living, investment, or vacation use, but the rules live in the association documents and can change. If income is part of your plan, get the current leasing rules, minimum terms, and approval process in writing.
The beach walk, daily
This is the regime where beach access means a walk, not a logistics plan. Chairs, a cooler, an evening walk after dinner; the geography is the amenity, and it is the one feature later renovations cannot add to other regimes.
1980s stewardship
Coastal buildings from 1978-1988 weather in salt air. Ask what the association completed recently, what is scheduled next, and how the reserves stand against it; the maintenance calendar is the building's real biography, phase by phase.
The weekly rhythm
Publix and Sawgrass Village errands just outside the front entrance, the beach on foot, the Guana trails minutes south, Mayo Clinic in about fifteen minutes, and golf-cart geography in between.
The Quail Pointe Buyer Checklist
- Pull the association financials: budget, reserve schedule, special-assessment history, and twelve months of minutes.
- Confirm both fee layers in writing: Quail Pointe condo assessment and Sawgrass master dues, with inclusions.
- Confirm the phase and association structure for the specific unit: Quail Pointe I versus II, and how the books are organized.
- Verify the current leasing rules against your actual plans, in the documents, not by hearsay.
- Read the master insurance policy line: what the association covers versus your HO-6, including the wind deductible.
- Inspect the 1978-1988 envelope: roof age, exteriors, decks, and any structural-inspection reports.
- Pull the FEMA flood designation and a real insurance quote for the exact unit, inside the window.
- Settle the club question separately: Sawgrass categories, initiation, dues, and the waitlist, confirmed current.
Quail Pointe is the regime we show when the buyer says the beach is the point. Inside Sawgrass, plenty of addresses have beach access on paper; this is one of the few where the walk is short enough that you actually use it daily. Townhome format, golf and water views, no CDD, and a club you can join on your own timeline.
What the listing photos do not show is 1978-1988 across two phases, and that is where the deal is won or lost: the reserve file, the renovation math, and the exposure comp. Our job is to verify everything the listing does not say and make sure the unit you fall for is also the contract you should sign.
Quail Pointe vs. the Inside-the-Gates Set
The realistic cross-shop for a Quail Pointe buyer, with the honest caveat that comps inside any single regime are thin:
| Community | Format | The honest one-liner |
|---|---|---|
| Rough Creek Villas | Villas, same gates | The other closest-to-the-beach regime; the head-to-head if the walk is the point. |
| Deer Run | 81 villa condos, same gates | The only attached two-car garages in Sawgrass and the biggest plans, deeper in the community. |
| Fisherman's Cove | 85 cottage condos, same gates | Similar floorplans per third-party sources, with lake docks and cedar-shake charm at the north end. |
| Tifton Cove | 96 stucco condos, same gates | Mediterranean stucco instead of 1980s coastal wood; a different regime with different books. |
| Sandpiper Cove | Condos, same gates | Another inside-the-gates condo option; compare fee stacks and walks side by side. |
| Sawgrass Country Club | The umbrella community | The full menu behind one gate, from condos to oceanfront estates. |
Quail Pointe's lane: the beach walk, the townhome format, and one of the larger unit counts inside the gates, so listings actually appear. If you need a garage or maximum square footage, Deer Run wins; if you want the shortest practical walk to the sand on a condo budget behind a real gate, Quail Pointe and Rough Creek are the conversation.
The Honest Pros and Cons
Pros
- One of the shortest beach walks of any condo regime in Sawgrass
- Townhome-style format with nothing stacked above you
- Golf and water views across two phases
- Roughly 90 units, so inventory appears more often than in tiny regimes
- No CDD; club membership optional and tiered
- Staffed gates, patrols, and the loop path through the master HOA
Cons
- Everything dates to 1978-1988: real maintenance and inspection diligence
- No attached garages (that is Deer Run, not here)
- Two phases of different ages complicate the regime file
- Two fee layers, and club costs stack on top if you join
- Club initiation from $125,000 and a waitlist, per club materials
- Thin comps make pricing genuinely hard
