Selling waterfront · St. Petersburg & the Gulf beaches
Your home is worth more than its square footage.
I price the water, then the house, and I market it from the water.
Pricing
The online estimate can't tell a house with 90 feet of seawall and a 20,000-pound lift from one two streets over with a canal that goes dry at low tide. So I price the water first: frontage you can actually use, depth at the dock, the bridges on the way out, the seawall and the lift. Then the house. Then elevation and flood history, which set the floor.
Your number
Send me the address. I'll look at the frontage, the depth, the lift and the seawall before I look at the square footage, and I'll tell you what a buyer would pay for it right now.
What's my waterfront home worth?
A real number from someone who looks at the dock, not an algorithm. Usually same day.
Marketing
Instead of a regular brokers' open I do a listing caravan by boat. 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. If your water is the selling point, the depth, the lift and the route out go in the first paragraph, not the last.
Where
I sell waterfront across St. Petersburg, St. Pete Beach, Treasure Island and Tierra Verde, canal homes and Gulf-front both. Every client works with me directly, start to finish.
Selling, demystified
More than the square footage says, or sometimes less. View, orientation, dockage, seawall condition, depth, bridge restrictions and flood history all move the number, and automated estimates barely understand any of them. Send me the address and I'll give you a real number, usually same day.
They price the house and mostly ignore the water. In my own condo building, the units with the water view, the boat lift and the garage sell for about double the ones without. An algorithm sees the same square footage.
From the water, mostly. Instead of a regular brokers' open I do a listing caravan by boat: 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 audiences. I show it to buyers by boat too.
The elevation certificate, any seawall inspection or repair records, dock and lift permits, and the flood and insurance history. Buyers on the water ask for all of it, and having it up front keeps the deal together.
Yes. Gulf-front buyers are a different buyer, shopping the beach, the view and the construction, and the marketing is built for them.
Let's Talk
I'll pull the comps and the waterfront details and get you a real number, usually same day.