Austin Zamecki

Austin Zamecki Keller Williams Realty. South FL waterfront & boater homes. Lighthouse Point · Pompano · Fort Lauderdale. Canal specialist. (352)-208-9684

08/12/2026

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Your boat fits the dock. It doesn't fit the canal.

Everybody measures the dock. Almost nobody measures the water in front of it — and that's what decides whether you can get in and out. A boat needs roughly its own length to turn, more with wind or current.

Fort Lauderdale also limits dock projection to roughly 30% of canal width with no variance, and Pompano protects a channel down the middle. So the canal width caps how much dock you can ever legally build. Narrow canal, ceiling already set.

Pull the aerial, measure the canal, find the turning basin, and look at what your neighbors actually run. If every boat out there is a 28 center console, there's a reason.

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08/12/2026

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➡️ Pompano Beach waterfront home with 70 feet of dock, and it is already gone

Backyard Like a Resort

From the street it looks like every other block home in Pompano Beach. Then you walk through it.

End of a cul de sac in Garden Isles. Three bedrooms, three full baths, 1,770 square feet, split layout so guests get their own side of the house. Impact windows, 2024 AC, two car garage.

The backyard is the whole story. Heated pool and spa combo. Covered lounge with a tiki roof. Full summer kitchen with a refrigerator. Travertine, green lawn, and 70 feet of canal frontage on a reinforced seawall with a private dock.

Listed at $1,525,000. Under contract in 52 days.

Here is the lesson in that. The waterfront homes that actually move in Pompano Beach are not the ones with the prettiest kitchens. They are the ones where the backyard does something a buyer cannot build for what it would cost them. Pool, summer kitchen, seawall, dock, already there and already permitted.

You do not renovate your way into that. You buy it, or you wait for the next one.


Garden Isles sits east of US-1, minutes from the Intracoastal, the beach and Atlantic Boulevard, with quick access to I-95. This is the pocket of Pompano Beach waterfront real estate that out of state buyers keep finding about six months too late.

This one is spoken for. There are others. Most never make it to your feed.

Listed by:Refik B Kalyoncu- Lara Real Estate Group

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08/11/2026

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You negotiate $80K off the price and feel great — then find out the seawall has six years left on it. You lost that negotiation.

The seawall is a structural asset holding your entire back yard out of the canal. When it fails, it takes the soil, the pool deck, and the dock tied into it.

Three questions during inspection: how old is it and is there a permit record, is the cap cracked or separated from the panels, and are there voids behind it. A wall can look perfect from the water and be hollow behind.

Watch for soft spots in the lawn near the wall and pavers settling unevenly — that's soil migrating out. Get a marine contractor out during inspection, not after.

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3:30am wake up, 10,023 feet, above the clouds at Haleakalā, Maui. The outdoors and unique viewpoints are what I chase when I'm not working real estate. More travel content on the way.

08/11/2026

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➡️ Fort Lauderdale no fixed bridge home with an 80 foot dock, sitting 322 days

Big Boat Water

Eighty feet of Intracoastal frontage. A newly built dock rated for a boat up to 80 feet. Overnight dockage allowed. And not one fixed bridge between that dock and the Atlantic Ocean.

That last sentence is the entire property.

The rest is good too. Four bedrooms, three baths, 2,707 square feet in Bermuda Riviera, just off Galt Ocean Mile. Open concept with double glass sliders straight out to the water. New floors, new kitchen appliances, big pool, pergola over new turf, travertine deck, outdoor shower. 2025 metal roof, impact doors and windows, and a whole house generator, which in Broward County is not a luxury item anymore.

Listed at $2,740,000.

And it has been on the market 322 days. In that entire time the price has moved once, by $55,000. A two percent cut in a full year.

So let me be honest about what I think is going on, because most people will not say it out loud.

The house is not the problem and the water is definitely not the problem. No fixed bridge, 80 feet of frontage, and a dock that takes a real sportfish is the most durable thing you can own on this coast. A fixed bridge permanently caps who can ever buy a property, and no price cut fixes that. This one has no cap at all.

A listing with that profile does not sit for 322 days because of the product. It sits because nobody has had an honest conversation about the number. Which means whoever walks in with a real offer is starting a conversation nobody else has bothered to start.

🚤 80 FT of Intracoastal frontage on a seawall
⚓ Newly built dock, rated up to an 80 ft boat, overnight dockage
🌊 NO FIXED BRIDGES to the ocean
🏊 In ground pool, pergola, new turf, travertine deck
🚿 Outdoor shower
🪟 Impact doors and windows, complete storm protection
⚡ Whole house generator
🏠 2025 metal roof, CBS construction
🍳 New kitchen appliances, new floors throughout
🚗 Two car attached garage
📐 2,707 sq ft living, 8,369 sq ft lot, built 1973

Bermuda Riviera sits in 33308, minutes from Fort Lauderdale beach, Lauderdale by the Sea and the Intracoastal. Bayview Elementary is right there. The HOA is $150 a year, and that is not a typo.

This is the exact profile I tell every relocating buyer to hold out for. No fixed bridge, real dock, real water. Everything else in a house you can renovate. That part you cannot.

Listed by: Gabriel Markovich
Bespoke Homes - Compass FL

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Three waterfront markets. Nine miles apart. Completely different math.The mid-year 2026 numbers came in for Northeast Br...
08/10/2026

Three waterfront markets. Nine miles apart. Completely different math.

The mid-year 2026 numbers came in for Northeast Broward single-family ocean access homes, and the spread between neighboring cities is wider than most buyers assume.

🌊 Fort Lauderdale — median $2,725,000, 7.6 months supply
🌊 Lighthouse Point — median $2,650,000, 5.5 months supply
🌊 Pompano Beach — median $1,437,500, 6.0 months supply

All three read as seller-advantage markets. All three sit on the same Intracoastal and feed the same inlets.

Here's what stands out. Pompano's median runs roughly 47% below Fort Lauderdale's — but its sales activity rose 15.9% year over year and its median price per square foot rose 15.7%. Fort Lauderdale's per-foot number actually dipped.

That's not a discount market. That's a repricing market.

The gap between these cities was never about water quality. Same canals, same access, different reputation lag. And reputation lags close — they just close slowly.

Source: By The Sea Realty Local Market Watch, mid-year 2026 (BeachesMLS, Jan–Jun).



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08/10/2026

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8 Harborage Isle Drive in Fort Lauderdale just closed at $13.7 million — 8,900 square feet, six bedrooms, eight and a half baths.

Context: 5 Harborage Isle is where Donald Sussman sold for $70 million, still the city record. Same private island, same deep water.

One street, a $70M print and a $13.7M print. That's a range, not a contradiction — and what sits between them is dockage, lot width, and how much boat fits behind the house.

The water gets priced. The house gets decorated. That's true at $13M and it's true at $1.5M.

Source: The Real Deal, July 17, 2026

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Four hours spearfishing on the Big island, zero fish, still one of the best dives of my life. The ocean is one of my biggest passions outside of real estate — more of this coming.

08/09/2026

↓ Moving from California to Fort Lauderdale 🌊

I get this version of the question from West Coast buyers too - and the answer looks different from the New York relocation conversation. California buyers tend to arrive with coastal instincts already sharpened, but they often apply Newport Beach or San Diego logic to a market that runs by completely different rules.

Here's how I'd translate Fort Lauderdale for a buyer relocating from California:

🌊 Lighthouse Point is closer to what you're imagining than anything else - Direct ocean access through Hillsboro Inlet, wide deep canals, private docks, and a quiet residential character. This is where California buyers with serious boats usually land. Homes typically $1.2M to $3M+.

🌴 Coral Ridge is the undervalued version of what you'd pay $3M for in Newport - Wide Intracoastal canals, strong boating access, Bayview Elementary for families, and redevelopment momentum that signals long-term appreciation. Homes typically $1.1M to $2.5M.

☀️ Las Olas Isles is the lifestyle address - Similar energy to Balboa Island without the Orange County pricing. Deep water, walkability to restaurants and shops, and the Fort Lauderdale address that carries weight. Homes typically $2M to $5M+.

🏡 Plantation or Cooper City if schools are the priority - A-rated districts, real yards, and 20 minutes to the coast. The suburban value that California simply doesn't offer at any comparable price point. Homes typically $650K to $1.3M.

The hard truth? Fort Lauderdale waterfront is its own ecosystem. Bridge clearance, canal width, and inlet access define micro-market value in ways that don't translate directly from California coastal logic. The buyers who learn this early make better decisions.

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08/08/2026

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Pompano Beach's City Commission deadlocked on a proposed 160,000 SF Costco at The Pomp — Powerline Road just south of Atlantic Blvd. 800 parking spaces, 16 gas pumps. Costco's attorney signaled they may go to court.

A tie vote isn't a decision, it's a pause. And pauses price into real estate.

Big-box anchors tend to help resale a few blocks out and hurt the units right on the property line. Same project, opposite outcomes depending on where you sit.

Source: CBS Miami, July 29, 2026

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