Anna Maria Island Neighborhoods Guide

Anna Maria (Town): Historic Green Village, Bimini Bay, Northshore, and Bean Point

The Town of Anna Maria occupies the island's north end and is its most expensive of the three, with a Zillow ZHVI around $1,895,816 as of mid-2026 (down year-over-year). Within it, Pine Avenue anchors what's commonly called the Historic Green Village - an eco-restored historic shopping and dining district built around preserved early-1900s cottages and storefronts, walkable and distinct in character from the rest of the island's more standard commercial strips. Nearby, Bimini Bay is a residential pocket with its own identity, and Northshore refers to the beachfront area near Pine Avenue, closer to the Gulf than the bay-side village core.

At the island's literal north tip sits Bean Point, both a neighborhood name and one of the island's named public-access beach spots - often cited among its most scenic, where Tampa Bay's mouth meets the open Gulf. These four names (Historic Green Village, Bimini Bay, Northshore, Bean Point) describe meaningfully different slices of one town, not interchangeable ways of saying 'Anna Maria.'

Ilexhurst: The Neighborhood That Isn't Where Its Name Suggests

The single most genuinely obscure and well-documented piece of Anna Maria Island neighborhood history is Ilexhurst, and it's a story almost no competitor site touches. Per Wikipedia, Ilexhurst was founded in 1910 by musician Ruric E. Cobb as a planned resort community - its own distinct development, not originally part of any of the island's three towns as they exist today.

What makes it a genuine trivia point: Ilexhurst didn't survive as a single place. In 1953-54, it was split and annexed piecemeal - its southern portion went to Bradenton Beach, its northern portion to Holmes Beach. So today, 'Ilexhurst' isn't a neighborhood inside Anna Maria at all, despite what its geography and history might suggest to a first-time reader; it's a name that straddles two different towns, a genuine artifact of how the island's incorporated boundaries were drawn well after the neighborhood itself existed. It's a small detail, but it's the kind of specific, sourced local history that a generic rental-company blog simply doesn't have.

Holmes Beach: Key Royale, the Gated Golf Enclave

Holmes Beach sits in the middle of the island and carries a Zillow ZHVI around $981,526 as of mid-2026 (also down year-over-year) - a meaningful step down from Anna Maria and a step up from Bradenton Beach, illustrating why treating the island as three flat price tiers, let alone one, misses real variation.

Within Holmes Beach, Key Royale stands out as a distinct enclave: a gated community reachable by a single bridge, built around canals with private boat access for many homes. It's anchored by the Key Royale Club, a private, members-only 9-hole golf course with tennis - a genuinely uncommon amenity combination for a barrier island this size. Listings here have run roughly $1.8 million to $7.5 million, though that's an illustrative, moving range rather than a fixed figure; treat any specific number as a snapshot, not a guarantee of what's currently on the market.

Bradenton Beach: Bridge Street and Coquina Beach

Bradenton Beach, at the island's south end near Longboat Pass, is the most affordable of the three towns on a Zillow ZHVI basis - around $635,867 as of mid-2026, also down year-over-year - and it's also the town that took the heaviest reported damage from the 2024 hurricanes, with city officials citing 90-95% of the city damaged or destroyed and 25 properties condemned.

Its Bridge Street district is the town's historic commercial and pier core: shops, restaurants, and piers built up around the old bridge crossing, functioning as the town's walkable center in a way that's distinct from its residential side streets. To the south, the Coquina Beach area anchors the town's beach and recreation side, home to Manatee County's Coquina Beach boat ramps (the north ramp renamed the Scott Moore Boat Ramp in May 2025) and a Sunday craft market - a different feel again from Bridge Street's commercial core just a short drive north.

The Three-Town Breakdown Undersells the Island

It's worth saying plainly: nearly every competitor guide to Anna Maria Island stops at 'Anna Maria, Holmes Beach, Bradenton Beach' and describes each as if it were one uniform place. In practice, each town contains sub-areas with real differences in character, access, and price - a gated golf community with private boat access reads nothing like a historic pedestrian shopping district, even when both sit inside the same city limits. Anyone shopping the island by price point or lifestyle fit is better served thinking in terms of these named sub-areas - Historic Green Village, Bimini Bay, Northshore, Bean Point, Key Royale, Bridge Street, Coquina Beach - than in terms of three flat town-level averages.

A Note on Boundaries, Rules, and Prices

Neighborhood boundaries on Anna Maria Island, as on most barrier islands, shift somewhat depending on the source and the specific block. Community rules that apply within a given enclave - Key Royale's gate access, golf club membership terms, or any other HOA-style requirement - are set and enforced by that community, not by the town at large, and can change. Listing price ranges cited here, including Key Royale's, are illustrative snapshots that will move over time, not fixed figures. Confirm current neighborhood boundaries, any applicable HOA or community rules, and up-to-date pricing with a local agent and the relevant town (Anna Maria, Holmes Beach, or Bradenton Beach) before making a decision.