Market snapshot
118
active homes analyzed
$2.95M
median asking price
2.41 NM
median route distance to open ocean
79.7%
within 5 NM of open ocean
Headline finding
Asking prices were strongly associated with distance to open ocean
Across the 118 analyzed listings, asking price had a Spearman rank correlation of −0.620 with computed route distance to open ocean.
The relationship was visible across the market. Homes within one nautical mile of open ocean had a median asking price of $8.45 million, while homes more than five nautical miles away had a median asking price of $995,000.
This is a descriptive relationship, not evidence that ocean proximity alone causes the price difference. Neighborhood, frontage, dockage, lot characteristics, property condition, home size, and other factors can also affect waterfront asking prices.
Distance and asking price
The price gradient across marine distance
Median asking prices declined as computed route distance to open ocean increased. The one-nautical-mile group is small, with six listings, so the broader pattern is more informative than any single bucket.
≤1 NM
Listings
6
Median price
$8.45M
Median size
8,190 sq ft
Median price per sq ft
$1,029
1–3 NM
Listings
67
Median price
$3.50M
Median size
3,985 sq ft
Median price per sq ft
$1,048
3–5 NM
Listings
21
Median price
$1.55M
Median size
1,927 sq ft
Median price per sq ft
$723
>5 NM
Listings
24
Median price
$995K
Median size
1,919 sq ft
Median price per sq ft
$598
Size-normalized analysis
The relationship persists on a price-per-square-foot basis
Reported living area was available for 116 of the 118 listings, providing 98.3% coverage. Price per square foot retained a strong negative association with ocean-route distance.
Asking price
−0.620
Higher asking prices were strongly associated with shorter computed route distance to open ocean.
Price per square foot
−0.588
The relationship remained strong after partially normalizing for home size.
Home size
−0.538
Larger homes were also concentrated closer to open ocean, explaining part — but not all — of the raw price relationship.
What this adds
Larger luxury homes are concentrated closer to open ocean, but home size does not fully explain the observed relationship. Price per square foot also declined with increasing marine-route distance, with a Spearman correlation of −0.588.
Ocean access
Most analyzed homes were within five nautical miles
Median computed route distance was 2.41 NM. The shortest analyzed route was 0.82 NM and the longest was 6.74 NM.
Route constraints
No fixed-bridge crossings were identified
Across the 118 public analysis records used in this report, Yacht.house route profiles identified no intersecting fixed bridges and no unknown bridge crossings on the computed routes to open ocean.
This describes the analyzed routes and available data. It should not be interpreted as a permanent navigation guarantee or a substitute for current charts, notices, bridge operating information, or vessel-specific verification.
Depth evidence
Depth coverage exists, but it is incomplete
All 118 properties in the report had at least some mapped depth evidence along their computed route. Median known-depth coverage was 52.7%, and 55.1% of analyzed routes had known-depth coverage of at least 50%.
For 109 of the 118 published records, the shallowest mapped depth band encountered within known portions of the route was at least 5 feet. That does not establish continuous minimum depth across the full route because portions of many routes remain outside known-depth coverage.
Methodology
How Yacht.house built this analysis
The report covers 118 active Fort Lauderdale single-family listings in the Yacht.house canonical property dataset as of September 12, 2026.
Included properties had valid bedroom and bathroom data, a public Yacht.house property slug, a computed marine route, and a Yacht.house navigation profile using analysis version 3.
Route distance represents Yacht.house's computed marine-route distance from the property's attached waterfront access point to the configured open-ocean destination. It is not straight-line geographic distance.
Asking-price statistics use current listing asking prices rather than closed-sale prices. Price-per-square-foot analysis was available for 116 properties with reported living area.
Spearman rank correlation was used to describe monotonic association between marine-route distance and property variables. Correlation does not establish causation.
The analysis does not attempt to control for every property characteristic. Neighborhood, lot size, waterfront frontage, dockage, home condition, age, architecture, renovation quality, waterway characteristics, and other variables may influence asking prices.
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Yacht.house publishes individual property marine-access reports for the analyzed Fort Lauderdale waterfront inventory.
Yacht.house marine-access information supports property discovery and due diligence. Marine conditions, water levels, bridge operations, charted depths, dredging, construction, and available data can change. Information in this report should not replace current charts, official notices, local knowledge, professional navigation judgment, surveys, or on-site verification.