If You Have a Boat, I Have a Property for You

Every October, boat show week turns Fort Lauderdale into the center of the yachting world. Brokers walk the docks by day; owners quietly ask a different question by night: where would I keep her?

The answer, increasingly, is behind the house. Private dockage in South Florida is finite — new docks are restricted, marina slips carry waiting lists, and bridge clearance decides which boats can even reach a backyard. The three homes below were chosen for one reason: the water behind them works. Deep frontage, private docks, and in two cases no fixed bridges between the dock and the open Atlantic.

If you're in town for the show, these are worth an hour of your week.

A point lot is the rarest shape on the Intracoastal, and 1555 sits on one: 185 feet of water frontage wrapping a newly built estate in The Cove, Deerfield Beach's signature waterfront neighborhood. Six bedrooms, seven and a half baths, and 7,420 square feet built in 2024 — with no fixed bridges between the dock and the ocean. For a boat owner, the math is simple: the boat lives here, steps from the back door, on water wide enough to matter.

Private showings during boat show week — call Reed at (954) 242-0441.

Canal-front in Pompano Beach, minutes by water from the Hillsboro Inlet, with a private dock and pool behind a 4-bedroom, 3.5-bath home of 3,807 square feet. No fixed bridges stand between this dock and the Atlantic, which puts the boat show's worth of water — the inlet, the reefs, the run south to Fort Lauderdale — on your schedule, not a marina's. A turnkey waterfront position in one of the coast's most active boating cities (MLS F10555677).

See it between show days — call Reed at (954) 242-0441.

$3,650,000 · 4 bd · 3.5 ba · 3,200+ sq ft · 60 ft deep water · completion end of 2026

New waterfront construction in Pompano Beach, currently underway and scheduled for completion at the end of 2026. For the buyer who plans a season ahead, this is the rare chance to secure a waterfront position — lot, water, and a new home rising on it — in a canal city where finished new construction on the water is scarce and spoken for quickly. An opportunity to buy the dockage now and the home as it completes.

Ask Reed for the construction timeline and a site visit — (954) 242-0441.

A boat changes what a house is worth. A home with legal, usable dockage removes the two costs boat owners quietly carry: marina fees and lost spontaneity — the sunset run that doesn't happen because the boat is twenty minutes away. It also changes the buyer pool at resale: every boater who tours the home is touring the dock first.

Not all waterfront is equal. Frontage width, water depth, seawall condition, and fixed bridges all decide what can actually live behind a house. Those details rarely appear in a listing's headline — and they are exactly where an advisor who works the waterfront earns his keep.

In town for the show, or thinking about a move to the water? Reed Kellough of the Eklund|Gomes Team at Douglas Elliman works the waterfront from Boca Raton to Fort Lauderdale — and speaks fluent dockage.

Call or text (954) 242-0441 · reedkellough@gmail.com · @reedtherealtor