Waterfront Mansions for Sale in Fort Lauderdale

Fort Lauderdale is the center of the South Florida yachting world — more than 165 miles of navigable canals, a downtown that has filled with new towers, and beach neighborhoods that still feel residential.

Ocean access is not one thing here. Homes east of the Intracoastal on Las Olas Isles, Seven Isles, Idlewyld and Harbor Beach reach Port Everglades with no fixed bridges, which is what a 70-foot-plus yacht requires. West of the Intracoastal and along the New River you trade bridge clearance for lot size and value, and the difference between the two can be several million dollars on otherwise similar houses.

A true waterfront mansion is rare even in Fort Lauderdale: an estate-scale single-family home — 5,000 square feet or more, or $5 million and up — sitting directly on the water. The most sought-after stand in Harbor Beach, Las Olas Isles, Seven Isles, Rio Vista and along the Intracoastal, where wide frontage, deep water and no fixed bridges to Port Everglades let the property serve a serious yacht as well as it serves its owners.

At this scale, the details decide the value: linear frontage at the seawall, usable dock length after side setbacks, depth at low tide along the full run to the inlet, canal width for turning, and the condition of the seawall itself. The Dock & Draft Match tool on this site checks each mansion against your yacht's length, draft and air draft — every estimate is preliminary until verified at the dock.

I am Simon Gedz, a Realtor working South Florida since 1995. The listings below are live MLS data — ask me directly about any of them.

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