09/29/2026
Fort Lauderdale Homes with Private Docks: What to Check Before Buying (2026)
Frontage isn’t berth size. Dock length after setbacks, low-tide depth, bridges, canal width, the new seawall height rules and permits — the buyer checklist.
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Three things the big brokerages don't give you
For boat owners
Dock & Draft match
Search with your boat’s dimensions. Screen stated dock length, available depth and bridge clearance, with missing information flagged for verification—not treated as permission to moor.
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Open a print-ready digital magazine from a property page: listing photos and facts, nearby places, schools and applicable boating guidance. A richer way to explore—and present—a home.
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Useful tools are not exclusive to one website. The difference here is how boat screening, estimated ownership costs and an individual home’s magazine come together for South Florida.
Public-page review · October 15, 2026
Payment tools are not new.
Zillow and Realtor.com have mortgage calculators. Here, Budget Search brings Florida after-sale tax estimates into the search for homes within a monthly budget.
Mortgage calculatorMagazine marketing exists elsewhere.
ONE Sotheby’s publishes RESIDE. Our property magazine is a different format: photos, facts and local context assembled for the individual listing.
RESIDE magazineWaterfront is the start, not the answer.
Zillow has waterfront search. Our Dock & Draft tools add preliminary screening for your boat’s dimensions, with unconfirmed details clearly left to verify.
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not just your budget.
Set your vessel profile. Our Dock & Draft engine checks private dockage, low-water depth and every fixed bridge to the Atlantic.
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Your route, checked before you tour.
Dock length & beamMatched to your LOA and slip width.
Depth at mean low waterYour draft plus a 1.5 ft safety buffer.
Every bridge to the inletAir draft, clearance and ocean run time.
65 ftICW clearance
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Fort Lauderdale luxury waterfront homes and Boca Raton luxury real estate sit on a narrow strip of coastline where price is driven less by square footage than by water. A no-fixed-bridge canal home in Fort Lauderdale, a direct-ocean condo on Galt Ocean Mile, and a golf-community estate in Boca Raton can carry the same list price and behave like three completely different assets. Simon Gedz has been working these micro-markets since 1995 — the goal here is to give you the same read on a property that an experienced local agent would give a friend.
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