City · Broward County
Fort Lauderdale
The Venice of America — a hundred and sixty-five miles of inland waterways, seven miles of beach, and the largest concentration of yachts anywhere in the world.
Photo Yanjipy, CC BY-SA 4.0
City · Broward County
The Venice of America — a hundred and sixty-five miles of inland waterways, seven miles of beach, and the largest concentration of yachts anywhere in the world.
Photo Yanjipy, CC BY-SA 4.0
Fort Lauderdale sits at the northern end of our market, twenty-five minutes up the coast from Miami Beach, and it is a genuinely different city to buy in. It was incorporated in 1911 and built outward along the water: one hundred and sixty-five miles of inland waterways run through it, which is where the name Venice of America comes from, and seven miles of Atlantic beachfront sit on the other side of A1A.
The water is not decoration here, it is the economy. More than fifty thousand yachts are registered in the city and roughly a hundred marinas serve them; Port Everglades below it is among the busiest cruise ports in the world. For a buyer that translates into something practical — a house on a canal with ocean access, no fixed bridges, and a dock you can actually use is a different asset from a house with a water view.
Inland, the neighborhoods are quieter and older than their Miami equivalents, with mature tree canopy and deep lots. Prices per square foot run below comparable Miami-Dade addresses, which is the reason a growing number of our clients end up looking here after starting further south.
Selected sale here
We sold 301 & 311 SW 14 Way at $1,850,000.
Two adjoining lots sold together — 15,721 square feet of land in total, with a two-bedroom, two-bath main house of 2,449 square feet plus a guest house. Assembling two parcels into one transaction is its own negotiation, and it is the kind of deal that does not appear on a portal.
Part of more than $90 million closed across Miami-Dade and Broward. Ask what else we have sold here.
Before anything else, establish what the water actually gives you: ocean access or not, fixed bridges between you and the inlet, the depth at your dock, and the state of the seawall. Those four answers set the value of a Fort Lauderdale waterfront house far more than the kitchen does.
Buyers arriving from Miami-Dade price Fort Lauderdale against what they just left, and they are usually wrong in both directions. We present your house against the right comparables — and where there is land to assemble or split, we say so, because that is often where the real number is.