Pinellas Point · The Southern Tip · Open Tampa Bay
Pinellas Point waterfront homes. The southern tip, on open Tampa Bay.
The bottom of the peninsula, where St. Pete runs out of land and the Skyway takes over the view. Mid-century homes, old estates that have been here longer than the bridge, streets famously paved pink in one section, and open-bay docks looking straight down Tampa Bay. The honest guide.
Pinellas Point
The southern tip sits at the mouth of Tampa Bay, with the Skyway on the horizon like it was staged. The waterfront is a mix of old estates and mid-century houses on big lots, a lot of it original, which is exactly why the opportunity exists: the land and the view have outrun some of the houses sitting on them.
The Pink Streets — literally paved pink, and famously so — sit a few blocks in, and Boyd Hill Nature Preserve and Maximo Park border the area. No canal grid to speak of on the bay side, so this is a dock-on-the-bay buy: exposure, and a seawall that works for a living.
What the water does for a specific boat here — depth, exposure, the route out — is a property-by-property answer, and I check it before anyone offers. I verify depth at the dock at mean low water for the boat you actually own, and on the open bay the seawall and the dock hardware get looked at like structure, because they are.
Buying in Pinellas Point
Open-bay honesty
Seawalls on the point work for a living, so their condition and age lead my checklist, and I bring a structural engineer with no stake in the repair work. The 2024 file gets pulled on every pre-2024 house — permits, substantial-damage status, elevation certificate — and the insurance quote lands in writing during inspection, because on the open bay the carrier's number is part of the price.
The quiet south end of the city: big lots, old trees, a nature preserve for a neighbor, and the Skyway lit up at night from the seawall. It's the part of St. Pete that still feels like land was cheap when these streets were laid out — because it was, and the lots prove it.
The top of the market
The old estates on the point are some of the most underrated luxury waterfront in the city — the kind of lots that don't exist anywhere else in St. Pete proper. When one trades, it's the land and the frontage doing the talking.
Selling in Pinellas Point
On the point the lot is doing more work than the finishes: open-bay frontage, seawall condition, the dock, the exposure and the 2024 file set the bracket, and an updated house on the same lot sets the ceiling. Send me the address and I'll tell you which bracket you're in.
From the water, mostly. Instead of a regular brokers' open I do a listing caravan by boat, and buyers see the Skyway view from the seawall instead of guessing at it from the street. The agents who sell the most high-end waterfront around here pull up to your dock, see the house the way a buyer would, and film it for their own people. I show it to buyers by boat too.
What's my Pinellas Point home worth?
A real number from someone who looks at the dock, not an algorithm. Usually same day.
Pinellas Point, demystified
One who looks at the seawall before the kitchen, because the southern tip is open-bay buying. I'm Carly Majorana, Carly on the Water, with NextHome Gulf Coast. I keep a 30-foot boat with a tower on a lift, I've lived in St. Pete over 20 years, and I bring a structural engineer with no stake in the repair work to open-bay seawalls.
A section of Pinellas Point where the streets really are paved pink, and have been for decades. It's the neighborhood's calling card and worth the drive on its own. For buyers, though, the waterfront story is the open bay a few blocks east — that's where the value decision lives.
The bay-front lots put open Tampa Bay at the seawall, and what that means for your boat — depth, exposure, the route — is a property-by-property answer. I check it at mean low water, with the boat you actually own in mind, before anyone offers.
Street by street and house by house, like the rest of the bay. On any pre-2024 home I pull the permits, the substantial-damage status and the elevation certificate before you offer, and the insurance quote comes in writing during inspection, not after closing.
A wide spread, because the stock runs from original mid-century on big lots to updated open-bay estates, so an average would mislead you. The land and the frontage drive the number. Send me the address and I'll tell you which bracket you're in.
The lot and the view are doing more work than the finishes, so we price the water first: frontage, seawall condition, dock, exposure, the 2024 file. Then I market it from the water — the listing caravan by boat, and buyers shown the Skyway view from the seawall, not the street.
Let's Talk
I'll check the seawall file, the 2024 record and the dock against your boat, and tell you whether the house has caught up to the lot. The view's been ready the whole time.