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Fort Lauderdale Home Values: What Is My Home Worth?

What Fort Lauderdale homes are selling for right now, what moves one home's value above another's, and a free written valuation of your address.

Reviewed by Tyson E. Sam, Founder and Broker of Record, BreakThru Realty, Florida License 3565210

What a home in Fort Lauderdale is worth today comes from what buyers have just paid for homes like it, not from a list price or an automated guess. This page shows the live sold prices and price per square foot from BeachesMLS, what pushes a Fort Lauderdale home above or below them, and how to get a written value for your own address.

Fort Lauderdale Market at a Glance

Updated September 22, 2026 from BeachesMLS.

  • 2,277homes & condos for sale
  • 123new listings this week
  • 443under contract
  • 992waterfront listings
  • 817luxury listings ($1,000,000+)
  • 254sold in the last 30 days
Single-family homesCondos & townhomes
Active listings8111,332
Median list price$1,049,000$589,000
Median list price per sq ft$587/sq ft$455/sq ft
Average days on market121 days153 days
Sold in the last 90 days415348
Median sold price (90 days)$697,000$500,000
Sale price as % of list price96.5%94.8%
Months of inventory5.9 months11.5 months
Median sold price vs. a year ago+9.9%+17.6%

Source: BeachesMLS via the Spark API. Active listings as of September 22, 2026; sold figures cover closings in the last 90 days, compared with the same 90 days one year earlier. Not an appraisal. How these figures are calculated.

What Fort Lauderdale Homes Are Worth Right Now

The median single-family home in Fort Lauderdale closed at $697,000 in the last 90 days, or $435 per square foot. The median condo or townhome closed at $500,000 ($382 per square foot). Single-family sellers achieved 96.5% of their asking price. Those are medians of everything that sold. They tell you where the market is, not what your home is worth: half of all sales closed above them and half below, for reasons a valuation has to account for one by one.

What Moves a Home's Value in Fort Lauderdale

In Fort Lauderdale the biggest differences come from the property's setting: on the water, the dock and lift, the depth at low tide, the width of the canal and whether a fixed bridge stands between the dock and the inlet, which can move two otherwise identical homes a long way apart; in an oceanfront building, the floor, the line and the view, together with the association's reserves, its milestone inspection and any special assessment; in a club community, whether membership is mandatory, what it costs to join and what the dues are; and behind a gate, what the association fee covers and how well the association is funded. Everywhere in South Florida, a buyer's insurer prices the roof's age, the windows and doors (impact-rated or not) and the wind mitigation report, and a buyer's lender looks at the flood zone and the elevation certificate, so two homes of the same size can carry very different monthly costs and sell for different prices. Open or expired permits, unpermitted additions and the condition of the kitchen, the baths and the air conditioning do the rest.

An Online Estimate Versus a Broker's Valuation

An automated estimate reads public records and recent sales by distance and size. It cannot see a renovation, a view, a seawall, a roof replaced last year or a special assessment about to be levied, and in a city where neighboring streets sell for very different prices it is often wrong by more than the cost of a mistake in pricing. A broker's valuation starts from the closed sales that truly match your home, adjusts each one for what is different, and checks the result against the homes you would compete with today.

How to Get Your Fort Lauderdale Home Value

Enter your address on this page. A BreakThru Realty broker pulls the matching Fort Lauderdale closings from BeachesMLS, adjusts them for your home, and calls you within one business day with a written value range and the sales behind it. It is free and carries no obligation. If you are thinking of listing, we extend it into a full comparative market analysis and an estimate of your net proceeds; if you need speed instead, we can put a guaranteed cash offer beside it so you can compare the two numbers.

What Fort Lauderdale Buyers Pay Extra For

What moves value in Fort Lauderdale is the water and the paperwork behind it. On the isles and canals, a dock with no fixed bridge to Port Everglades, depth at low tide, canal width and a seawall that has been replaced separate homes that look identical from the street. In the towers on the Galt Ocean Mile and the beach, the floor, the line, the reserve funding and the milestone inspection decide the price per square foot. Elsewhere, the flood zone and elevation certificate set the insurance quote, and in Victoria Park, Rio Vista and Colee Hammock a restored historic house and a new build on the same block appeal to different buyers. Roof age and impact windows finish the calculation.

Which Parts of Fort Lauderdale Are Moving

The parts of Fort Lauderdale moving fastest are the ones being rebuilt. Flagler Village keeps adding towers around the arts district and Brightline, and the beachfront's newest buildings have reset the ceiling for oceanfront condos. On the isles, original single-story homes are giving way to new two-story houses, so land value on a deep-water lot now drives the price more than the house on it. Coral Ridge Country Club Estates and The Landings see the same rebuild pattern on larger lots. What is scarce is a deep-water lot with no fixed bridge close to Las Olas, and a dry-lot house in Victoria Park or Lake Ridge that has not yet been renovated.

Before You Ask for a Fort Lauderdale Valuation

Before asking for a Fort Lauderdale valuation, gather what a buyer's lender, insurer and inspector will ask for. On the water that means the survey with the seawall line, the dock and seawall permits, any recent seawall or dock inspection, and the boat sizes that have docked there, because your broker prices dockage from those facts. Everyone should have the roof age, the wind mitigation and four-point reports, the elevation certificate and a list of permitted work, since open permits in Fort Lauderdale surface in the lien search. Condo owners on the Galt or downtown should pull the budget, the reserve study, the milestone inspection report and the rental rules, and landlords should bring the current lease.

Recently Sold in Fort Lauderdale

The newest closings in Fort Lauderdale, with the sale price, closing date and days on market for each.

Recently sold homes in Fort Lauderdale

What Is Your Fort Lauderdale Home Worth?

Request a free valuation built on recent Fort Lauderdale sales, or a full comparative market analysis before you list. No fee, no obligation, and a licensed broker answers within one business day.

Home Values: Frequently Asked Questions

How much is my house worth in Fort Lauderdale?
The median Fort Lauderdale single-family home closed at $697,000 in the last 90 days and the median condo or townhome at $500,000, but your home is not the median. Its value comes from the closed sales that match its street, size, condition and features. Enter your address on this page and a broker sends you a written range with the sales behind it, free.
What is the average price per square foot in Fort Lauderdale?
The median sold price per square foot in Fort Lauderdale over the last 90 days is $435 for single-family homes and $382 for condos and townhomes. It falls as homes get larger and rises with water, view and renovation, so it is a way to compare similar homes rather than a way to price one.
How accurate are online home value estimates?
They are a starting point. An automated estimate cannot see a renovation, a view, a seawall, a new roof or a pending assessment, and in Fort Lauderdale those are most of the difference between two homes of the same size. A broker's valuation uses the same closed sales a buyer's appraiser will use and adjusts each for what is different.
Are Fort Lauderdale home values going up or down?
The median single-family sold price in Fort Lauderdale is up 9.9% on the same 90 days a year ago, and condos and townhomes are up 17.6%. The Fort Lauderdale housing market report linked on this page shows twelve months of closings month by month.
Does a home valuation cost anything?
No. The valuation is free and carries no obligation to list. It is a broker's opinion of value built from recent closed sales, not an appraisal; a lender will order its own appraisal when a buyer finances the purchase.

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