Where Does Larry Bird Live in Florida? Inside His Naples Waterfront Home

Where does Larry Bird live? The Boston Celtics legend splits his time between Indiana, where he spent most of his executive career with the Pacers, and Naples, Florida. In Naples he owns a custom waterfront home in the Park Shore neighborhood. He and his wife Dinah built it after buying the lot in 1998. He listed it in 2013, cut the price in 2016, and then took it off the market. Here is what public reporting says about the house, the sale that never happened, and where he spends the rest of the year.

Key takeaways

• Park Shore in Naples is Bird's Florida home, a canal-front neighborhood with boat access to the Gulf through Doctors Pass.
• He paid $925,000 for the lot in 1998, tore down the old house and finished a new one in 2001, per Forbes and Trulia.
• The home has about 6,000 square feet, four bedrooms, six bathrooms, a home theater, an infinity pool and a boat dock.
• It listed at $4.8 million in 2013, dropped to $4.6 million, and never sold; Indiana remains his main base.

Where does Larry Bird live in Florida?

Larry Bird's Florida home is in Naples, the Gulf Coast city in Collier County. Naples sits on the opposite side of the state from the counties Pure Equity serves, so we do not sell there. We cover it because the search interest is real. The story of his house is also a useful lesson in how celebrity homes get priced.

His neighborhood is Park Shore, a mid-century waterfront section between the Gulf beaches and U.S. 41. The homes there sit on finger canals that lead to Venetian Bay and out to the Gulf through Doctors Pass. Park Shore is not gated, and it is not a golf community. Its appeal is water access a few minutes from the beach and from downtown Naples.

Bird and Dinah bought their lot in 1998 and built a new house on it. That is why the home is often described as custom. Pure Equity does not publish private addresses. Park Shore is as specific as we get.

Inside the reported Park Shore home

Forbes, working from Zillow listing data in 2013, described a four-bedroom home of about 6,000 square feet finished in 2001. Trulia's report put the count at four bedrooms and six bathrooms. Inside were a home theater, a marble-topped full bar with a saltwater aquarium behind it, and a four-car garage.

The back of the house is the reason for the price. Listing coverage described an infinity-edge pool looking out over the boat dock, a tiki hut and a summer kitchen. A boat at that dock can reach the Gulf and the beaches through Doctors Pass without a bridge in the way. That is the feature Park Shore buyers pay for.

The purchase price of the land is on the record. Bird paid $925,000 in 1998, according to Trulia, and then demolished the existing home. The cost of the house he built was never reported, so the total investment is unknown. What is known is that he asked $4.8 million when he listed it 15 years later.

The long attempt to sell it

Bird put the home up for sale in September 2013. His agent told reporters he no longer had time for Naples because he had returned as president of basketball operations for the Indiana Pacers. Forbes ran the listing under the headline that an NBA legend was selling in Naples, and the story spread.

The house did not move. In 2016, after roughly three years on the market, Fox News and Realtor.com reported a $200,000 price cut to $4.6 million. Even then it sat. Local real estate blogs later noted that the listing came down without a sale. One Naples brokerage even wrote a post saying, in effect, that Bird really did not want to sell.

No sale has been reported since. That points to Bird still owning the house, though we could not confirm it from a news outlet. For a seller, the lesson is plain. A famous name draws attention to a listing. It does not change what buyers will pay for a 2001 house on a Park Shore canal.

Why Larry Bird chose Naples

Bird has said little in public about the choice, so the reasons come from the timeline. He bought the lot in 1998, a year after he took the Pacers head coaching job. His playing career had ended about six years earlier with a bad back. Naples offered warm winters, boating and a quiet town where a 6-foot-9 Hall of Famer could go mostly unnoticed. The city has long drawn Midwestern retirees, and Bird is from southern Indiana.

The 2013 listing tells the other half. When he went back to running the Pacers full time, the Naples house became a place he rarely used. He said as much through his agent. That is a common pattern with second homes in Florida. They get built for a life stage, and when the stage changes, they go on the market.

Where else does Larry Bird live?

Indiana is home. Bird was born in West Baden Springs and grew up in French Lick, and he spent his executive years with the Pacers in Indianapolis. Reporting over the decades has placed his main home in the Indianapolis area. He has kept ties to French Lick, where a resort and casino count him as a local legend. Details on those homes are thin, since Indiana property coverage does not follow him the way Florida coverage does.

He also spent 13 seasons in Boston, but he never made Massachusetts a permanent base after retiring in 1992. So the honest picture is Indiana first, Naples second, and no third home in the public record.

What a home like Larry Bird's costs in South Florida

Park Shore's draw is a canal-front lot with a dock and quick access to open water. On our coast the closest match is the Las Olas Isles in Fort Lauderdale. It is a grid of finger islands off Las Olas Boulevard where most homes have a dock and ocean access without fixed bridges. Farther north, Admirals Cove in Jupiter offers the same dock-behind-the-house layout inside a gated golf community.

Our MLS feed as of September 2026 shows about 3,400 active listings in Fort Lauderdale at a median asking price near $680,000. On the Isles themselves, waterfront homes of Bird's size usually list from about $5 million to $15 million. Jupiter carries about 730 listings at a median around $875,000, with Admirals Cove waterfront homes well above that. Our waterfront homes page pulls both together.

For the Gulf side, the Collier County page shows current Naples listings from the same feed. Park Shore canal homes today generally ask far more than Bird's 2013 price, since the whole Naples waterfront repriced between 2020 and 2022.

Frequently asked questions

Where does Larry Bird live now?

Bird's main home is in Indiana, in the Indianapolis area, with deep ties to French Lick. His Florida home is a waterfront house in Park Shore, Naples. He built it in 2001 and tried to sell it from 2013 to about 2016.

Where in Naples does Larry Bird live?

Park Shore, the canal-front neighborhood between the Gulf beaches and U.S. 41 in central Naples. The home sits on a canal with boat access to the Gulf through Doctors Pass. We do not publish street addresses.

Where does Larry Bird live full time?

Indiana. Bird told reporters through his agent in 2013 that Pacers duties left him little time for Naples, which is why he listed the Florida house. Anyone asking where does Larry Bird live most of the year should look to Indianapolis, with Naples as the winter and boating home.

How much did Larry Bird pay for the Naples home?

He paid $925,000 for the lot in 1998, per Trulia, then tore down the existing house and built a new one. The construction cost was not reported. He later asked $4.8 million for the finished home and cut that to $4.6 million in 2016.

Does Larry Bird still own the Naples home?

No sale has been reported by any news outlet, and Naples real estate blogs say the listing was withdrawn. That suggests he still owns it, but we could not verify current ownership from public reporting.

Is Naples part of South Florida?

Not as the term is usually used. Naples is in Collier County on the Gulf Coast. South Florida typically means the Atlantic side: Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties. Pure Equity serves that side and the Treasure Coast, not Naples.

If you own a waterfront home in Fort Lauderdale, Jupiter or anywhere in Broward or Palm Beach County, get a free home valuation from Pure Equity. Find out what a dock is worth today. Buyers can browse Fort Lauderdale listings or see luxury homes across South Florida. Two other Naples names are covered in where Judge Judy lived in Naples and where Tom Cruise lives in Clearwater on the same coast.

Sources

• Forbes, NBA legend Larry Bird lists Naples home
• Trulia, NBA legend Larry Bird lists waterfront Florida mansion for $4.8 million
• Fox News, Larry Bird's mansion in Naples gets a $200K price cut
• Naples Condo Boutique, Larry Bird really doesn't want to sell his home in Naples

Based on publicly reported information; details may change and are not independently verified by Pure Equity. We do not publish private addresses.