Hillsboro Shores

It's a good fit if you want a quiet, water-oriented neighborhood at the north end of Lighthouse Point with easy boating access to the Intracoastal and the ocean. With most homes on canals or with pools, the lifestyle is decidedly coastal and residential rather than busy or commercial. Families also value the Nova school assignments that come with the area.

Yes, it sits firmly in the luxury range — the median list price is $1,075,000 and 13 of 23 active homes are priced above $1 million. That said, the range starts at $250,000 for smaller interior properties and climbs to $5,995,000 for premium waterfront, so there's more spread than the median suggests.

Expect to pay around $721 per square foot on average, with a median home size near 1,312 square feet — a reflection of the older, water-close footprints here. Over the last 12 months, 13 homes sold at a median price of $1,500,000, which shows how much the waterfront tier drives actual closings above the list-price median.

It's a slower, negotiation-friendly market. Homes take a median of 89 days to sell and sellers are getting about 90% of their asking price, so buyers who do their homework have leverage. With just 23 active listings and 13 sales in the past year, this is a low-volume market where the right property doesn't come along often.

There's no meaningful HOA structure reported for the neighborhood, which is typical of these individually owned canal-front homes. Property taxes run a median of about $8,850 per year, and if you're weighing renting first, the median rent is roughly $4,995 per month.