southflluxuryliving.com | S.G. Trust Team
Why This Isn't Just Another Listings Site
Most Real Estate Sites Show You Listings. We Show You the Market.
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ideas built into this site
Explore the tools together: search, boating, local context and your account.
- Market and search tools8
- Boat and dock tools6
- Family and lifestyle tools6
- Your account portal16
A closer look
How our search compares
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
“Not found in this review” is an open question, not a claim that a competitor cannot offer it. This compares public website tools, not brokerage service quality or results.
Saved homes & search updates
South FL Luxury Living
Saved homes, saved searches and alert preferences in your free account. Sign-in required.
Your accountBig search app A
Saved searches, saved homes and configurable email updates.
Big search app B
An account for saved homes and alerts.
A typical brokerage site
Saved search criteria and tailored listing updates.
Monthly payment & buying power
South FL Luxury Living
Search homes by estimated monthly carrying cost, including purchase-price-based Florida tax estimates, insurance and reported HOA fees.
Try Budget SearchBig search app A
Mortgage and affordability calculators. Payment tools are not unique to this site.
Big search app B
Mortgage and affordability calculators in its Mortgage Center.
A typical brokerage site
A corporate-site calculator was not confirmed in the pages reviewed. Individual agent sites were outside this comparison.
Waterfront context
South FL Luxury Living
Waterfront listings with available dock, depth, bridge and inlet-route context. Waterfront alone does not establish usable dockage.
Waterfront & boatingBig search app A
A dedicated waterfront-homes search category.
Big search app B
Natural-language home search is documented; a dedicated waterfront/dock filter was not confirmed in this sample.
A typical brokerage site
Waterfront lifestyle and neighborhood descriptions, including notes on private dockage.
Screen a home for your actual boat
South FL Luxury Living
Enter length, beam, draft and air draft for preliminary screening against available records. Missing data, tides and local rules still need verification.
Dock & Draft MatchBig search app A
Vessel-dimension matching was not found in the official pages reviewed.
Big search app B
Vessel-dimension matching was not found in the official pages reviewed.
A typical brokerage site
Vessel-dimension matching was not found in the corporate pages reviewed. Brokerage or agent advice was not audited.
Schools & neighborhood information
South FL Luxury Living
Nearby schools and places, local guides and optional family preferences. Confirm school assignment with the district.
Explore schoolsBig search app A
Nearby school information with GreatSchools ratings and attendance-boundary data.
Big search app B
School-boundary search is described in its official feature announcement.
A typical brokerage site
Local lifestyle and area guides. A dedicated school-data feature was not confirmed in this sample.
Magazines & property presentation
South FL Luxury Living
A property-specific, print-ready digital magazine assembled from listing photos, facts and local context—not just a monthly editorial issue.
Open a real sampleBig search app A
An on-demand, property-specific magazine was not found in the official feature pages reviewed.
Big search app B
An on-demand, property-specific magazine was not found in the official feature pages reviewed.
A typical brokerage site
A typical brokerage magazine and print/digital marketing. These confirm magazine marketing, not an automatic magazine for every listing.
Sources, scope & what still needs checking
Reviewed October 15, 2026 (Eastern US date). Official public feature pages and help articles. No signed-in competitor tools, agent-specific services, ad campaigns or performance were audited.
Competitors are described generically rather than named; observations reflect their public feature pages at the review date.
Unknowns include current advanced waterfront filters, some brokerage calculators and school tools, and whether any reviewed competitor supplies an on-demand property magazine or vessel-fit tool elsewhere.
Our payment figures are estimates, not lender or insurer quotes. Boat-fit screening is preliminary, not permission to berth. Available listing and public-record data may be incomplete; confirm measurements, navigation conditions, taxes, fees and school assignment before relying on them.
National portals and luxury brokerages offer useful listing searches, market information and tools for buyers and sellers. The question is which details help you make your particular South Florida decision: the boat behind the home, estimated costs after the sale, and the places around your front door.
This site was built differently — by a working South Florida Realtor with 30 years in this market, not around the questions buyers and sellers ask him every day.
How It Works
- 1Search with real numbers
- 2Match the home to your boat
- 3Match the home to your life
- 4Track it all in your portal
Market Context, Built Into Your Search
Market Heat Score
See a 0–100 market indicator built from available absorption, days-on-market, pending-to-active, inventory and price-reduction data. Use it as context alongside comparable homes—not as a valuation or a prediction of what will happen next.
Deal Alerts
Save homes and searches, then choose alert preferences to follow relevant price and status changes. Updates depend on available listing data and refresh timing; they are not a guarantee of immediate delivery.
True Hyperlocal Data
Every property page includes real market activity from within a 1-mile radius of that specific home — not a city-wide average that flattens huge differences between one block and the next. A citywide median tells you almost nothing about the street where you're looking to buy. Ours does.
Search by Monthly Budget
Most sites make you guess a price range. Here you type what you are comfortable paying each month — say $15,000 — and we work backwards to the homes that actually fit it. The math includes principal and interest at today’s live mortgage rate, your down payment, property taxes at the real millage rate for that ZIP, insurance and HOA or club dues. What you see is the all-in monthly cost, not a teaser payment.
Real Property Tax Math, ZIP by ZIP
The seller’s tax bill may not reflect your costs after purchase. Our estimate uses the purchase price and available ZIP-based millage rates, with fallback rates where needed, alongside the reported current bill. Exemptions and the assessor’s valuation affect the final tax; confirm it before buying.
Live Rates, Real Insurance, Your Down Payment
Every payment estimate uses this week’s published mortgage rate, a regional homeowners-insurance estimate tuned to coastal versus inland ZIPs, and your own down payment — as a percent of price or a fixed cash amount. Change one input and the buying power updates instantly.
Talk to the Concierge
On your phone, tap once and speak. Ask for homes near you, schools, restaurants or what a specific address is worth — it uses your location, reads results back naturally, and shows the matching homes on screen.
Public Records on Any Address
Ask about an address and get owner name, last sale, and whether the owner lives there or is an absentee owner — the kind of detail that tells you who you are really negotiating with.
A Dock Search That Actually Knows Boats
Most sites can tell you a home is “waterfront.” This tells you what actually decides the purchase: whether your boat fits the water behind it, which way out is safest, when the tide lets you leave, and how long the run to the ocean really takes — all on the listing, before you fall in love with it.
Dock & Draft Match™
Enter your boat’s length, draft, air draft and beam to screen waterfront listings against available dock, depth and bridge information. Read the source labels and verify missing measurements, tides and local rules before relying on a preliminary fit. A search result is not permission to moor.
Verified by Public Records, Not Agent Remarks
Dock, depth and bridge numbers are checked against county property appraiser records, the U.S. Coast Guard bridge list and NOAA charts — each one tagged Verified, Listing says, or Unconfirmed, with its source and date shown. A home is never disqualified just because a record is missing.
Real Boat Size, Not Wishful Math
Eighty feet of water frontage is not an 80-foot boat. Where we estimate a maximum boat length, we subtract the city’s side setbacks and label it a preliminary estimate — and when the numbers don’t support an answer, we say the boat size needs verification instead of inventing one.
We Don’t Just Trust "No Fixed Bridges"
Agent write-ups claim "no fixed bridges" all the time. Before a home can appear in a no-fixed-bridge search, we check the clearance ourselves against the Coast Guard bridge list — because the wrong bridge is a six-figure mistake.
Time to the Ocean on Every Waterfront Card
Every waterfront card shows the run to an ocean inlet in minutes and nautical miles — exact where we have charted the route, clearly marked with a tilde where it’s an estimate. No hovering, no digging.
It Speaks Your Boat’s Name
Signed in with a boat saved to your profile? The route pages greet you by name and read the run to the ocean for your vessel — your length, your draft, your clearance. Not a hypothetical boat. Yours.
A Home Search That Knows Who You Are
Your faith, your pets, your kids’ schools, your boat, your current sale — the things that actually decide where a family can live. Add them to your free profile and every search, map and property page adapts.
A Magazine for Every Home
Open any property page as a rich, print-ready magazine: the home’s photos and facts, the neighborhood and commute, schools, boating, houses of worship nearby and the true monthly cost of owning it. And it answers back — click any school, park or house of worship to open its official website and learn more, and highlight any text to copy it. Sellers get the same magazine inside their portal.
Search near the places that matter to you
Tell us the kind of place you want close by — a house of worship, a private school — and we’ll show homes near one, with walking distance from each home. You choose what to search near, and you can change it any time.
Pet-Friendly, Actually Checked
Search homes and buildings that take your pet. We read each listing’s pet rules — breeds, weight limits, how many — and leave out the buildings that say no. Dog parks show on every property map.
Schools Matched to Each Child
Explore nearby campuses and available school information, with optional preferences for your child’s age and public, private or faith-based schools. School-name matches and nearby results are guidance; confirm attendance boundaries and enrollment with the district or school.
Your Sale, Live in Your Portal
Sellers watch their deal move in real time — stage, milestone timeline, closing date and documents — synced straight from our transaction system, with fresh document links on every visit.
A Search That Learns You
Photos reorder themselves to your taste as you browse, the map previews a home when you hover, ZIP outlines show exactly what an area search covers — and Back returns you to the exact home you left, not the top of the list.
30 Years of South Florida Expertise, Built Into the Technology
This platform isn't guessing at what matters in this market — it's built around three decades of firsthand experience across Fort Lauderdale, Boca Raton, Hollywood, Lighthouse Point, Hillsboro Beach and Pompano Beach. The tools here reflect what actually moves deals in South Florida, not a generic template applied nationwide.
Every listing gets its own magazine
Flip through a real sample →The Bottom Line
Anyone can show you what's for sale. Understanding whether it's a good deal, how the market around it is actually behaving, and when to move — that takes real local intelligence layered on top of real data. That's what this site was built to give you.
What You Get When You Create an Account
Create a free profile to keep your saved homes, searches and personal preferences together. Personalized account tools require sign-in.
It learns how you search
Your views, saves, searches and map draws build a live buyer profile — price band, city, home type, size, features — and the site reorders itself around it. You can see what it learned, and reset it any time.
A deal score, with the reasons spelled out
Homes are scored 0–100 on price cuts, price per square foot against the area, days on market and luxury-tier leverage — then told to you in plain English, not hidden behind a rating.
Saved searches that restore your exact map
Not just filters. The area you drew on the map, your zoom and your view come back exactly as you left them — with email alerts the moment a new match hits the MLS.
Price drops, status changes, coming soon
Old price crossed out beside the new one, a red band the moment a saved home goes pending or sold, and coming-soon homes before they officially hit the market.
Market reports for the areas you're watching
Reports are picked automatically from the areas you browse, save and search — plus a live pulse on pricing, inventory and days on market for your ZIP footprint.
Your home's value becomes your buying power
Value your current home, subtract what you owe, and see the real number you have to work with — then browse live listings in that band instantly.
A direct line to Simon — through closing
Message from inside your portal, then track the deal: milestones, key dates, documents and reminders, all in the same place you searched.
Save every home you love
Heart any listing and build an unlimited shortlist. Your favorites sync straight to Simon, so the homes you care about are the ones you talk about.
Off-market and private inventory
Pocket listings, pre-market homes and quiet sellers that never make it to the public portals — visible only inside your portal.
Closing and deal room
Once you're under contract, track documents, key dates, inspection and financing deadlines — with automatic reminders before anything is due.
Recently viewed and full history
Pick up right where you left off, and see each home's real price and status timeline — list date, reductions, pending, and back-on-market.
Lifestyle matching
Tell us how you want to live — deep-water dockage, walk to the beach, golf, dining, quiet cul-de-sac — and we match neighborhoods to your life, not just your budget.
Great for boat lovers — docks sized to your boat
Save your boat's length, draft and make. Every waterfront home is checked against it — dock feet, depth, fixed bridges — with a mapped run from the dock to the ocean.
Next property and search memory
Step from one listing to the next straight through your results, and when you go back you land on the same page and the same spot you left — no re-scrolling, no re-filtering.
Know what your home is worth
Get an instant estimated value on any address, plus owner and last-sold public record detail, and request a full CMA when you want the real number.
Add a spouse, partner or assistant
Add extra email addresses to your profile and every alert, digest and message copy goes to them too — everyone stays in the loop.
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