I don’t usually begin a tour upstairs. On Tuesday I did, because at 2409 NE 27th Street the second floor is where the property tells you what it is.
The balcony runs along the back of the house and opens off two of the bedrooms, including the primary suite. Standing there, you look down at a pool with a waterfall, out across a wide canal, and beyond it to the Intracoastal. A yacht was tied up at the dock below. Somewhere under the balcony, at the broker’s open house, someone was popping champagne next to a sushi boat the size of a dining table. It was one of those bright, high-cloud August afternoons with thunder somewhere off to the west that never quite arrived.
I came down the stairs eventually. But I wanted to start where I started, because the view from that balcony is what this house is actually selling.
What the water gives you at this address
This is a canal-front lot with 100 feet of water frontage and a concrete dock running the length of it. The canal is wide enough that the homes across from you read as scenery rather than neighbors, and the dock is a deep-water dock with direct ocean access and no fixed bridges between it and the Intracoastal Waterway.
That last phrase is the most repeated sentence in Lighthouse Point real estate, and it matters here. But it means something more specific than most buyers assume, and I’ll come back to it below.
From the ground, walking the seawall, the scale of the dock is the thing. The yacht moored there when I filmed was substantial, and there was room. The house faces south, so the pool deck and the water hold light through the middle of the day rather than losing it by two in the afternoon.
Inside: five bedrooms, an elevator, and a kitchen worth the detour
The house was built in 2001 and runs 5,221 square feet of living area across two stories, with a European and Key West architectural vocabulary that reads more coastal than formal once you’re inside.
Five bedrooms, six full baths and a powder room. Two of the bedrooms are en suite on the main level, one of them opening directly to the pool. The three upstairs bedrooms all open onto that wrap-around balcony, and the primary suite has his-and-her baths, separate walk-in closets, and its own bar and sink.
The kitchen is where the renovation shows most. Beadboard cabinetry, gas cooktop and range, wine refrigerator, walk-in pantry, and ceilings tall enough that the room reads vertical rather than wide. Marble and wood floors throughout. Bay windows carrying light deep into the plan.
There is a private elevator. On a two-story waterfront house, that is not a novelty — it’s what makes the upstairs primary suite viable for a buyer thinking twenty years ahead rather than five. A three-car garage sits behind a mudroom and laundry, with epoxy floors, a workbench, and a hurricane-rated door.
The pool, the loggia, and a sign about limes
The back of the property is where I’d spend my time. An 18-by-30 pool with a waterfall, an in-ground spa, travertine decking, and a covered outdoor room with a full kitchen behind it.
The listing calls that outdoor kitchen a summer kitchen, which I’ve never fully understood in Florida — it is always summer here. And the covered space itself is grander than a lanai. I’d call it a loggia.
There’s a cabana bath and an outdoor shower, so nobody tracks the pool through the house. And hanging on the wall by the grill, there’s a sign that says when life gives you limes, make mojitos.
That sign told me more about how this house has been lived in than the spec sheet did. Between the greenery, the light off the water, and the mature tree canopy that this older section of Lighthouse Point still has, the feeling out there is uncomplicated happiness. Every buyer says they want that. Very few properties actually produce it.
Why this house feels the way it does
tanding by the pool, I said out loud that I just felt happy there. I didn’t explain why, so let me do that now, because the reasons are specific and they’re worth knowing when you’re evaluating any property.
Start with the water, and I don’t mean the canal. The pool has a waterfall. Moving water is one of the most reliably restorative things you can put in a residential setting — the sound masks traffic and mechanical noise, and the surface throws reflected light onto the underside of the loggia and the back wall of the house, which moves as the day moves. It’s the difference between a static room and one that changes on you.
Then the sightline. The reason I started upstairs is that the balcony gives you distance — down to the pool, across the canal, out to the Intracoastal. Long views over water, taken from a sheltered position, do measurable things to how safe a place feels. That combination has a name in the literature, and this house happens to deliver it from three bedrooms at once.
The house faces south, which is why the pool deck holds light through the afternoon instead of going flat by two o’clock. Bay windows carry that light deep into the interior rather than stopping it at the glass. Tall ceilings in the kitchen give the light somewhere to go once it’s inside.
The loggia is the piece I’d single out. I corrected myself on camera — I called it a lanai and then thought better of it — and the distinction matters more than it sounds. It’s a genuine transitional room: roofed, open, furnished, kitchen behind it, pool in front. You aren’t inside and you aren’t outside. Those in-between spaces are where people actually spend their time, and most Florida houses either don’t have one or build it too small to sit in.
And then the canopy. This is Lighthouse Point’s 3rd Section, one of the older neighborhoods, and the trees show it. Mature canopy over a waterfront street is rare in South Florida, where new construction tends to clear a lot flat. Enclosure overhead and openness ahead is the oldest comfortable arrangement there is.
None of this is decorating. It’s the difference between a house that photographs well and one you don’t want to leave. When I say, “Some homes just feel right,” this is what I mean — and it’s almost always the result of decisions somebody made, whether or not they knew the vocabulary for them.
Before you fall in love with the house, measure the dock
Here is the part I care most about, and it applies to every waterfront property in this city, not only this one.
Buyers fall in love with the house, then measure the dock. That order costs people money, and occasionally it costs them the boat they already own.
I wrote The Lighthouse Point Dockside Buyer’s Guide because “waterfront” and “ocean access” are not the same thing, and neither one tells you whether your particular vessel can leave the dock, reach the Atlantic, and come home at any tide. Four independent measurements decide that, and a listing sheet rarely gives you more than one.
Three of them are worth naming right here, using this property as the example.
Air draft. No fixed bridges describes the route between this dock and the Intracoastal. It does not mean there is no bridge between this dock and the ocean. Every vessel leaving a Lighthouse Point canal for the Atlantic by way of Hillsboro Inlet passes under the SR A1A bascule span, and its closed vertical clearance is 13 feet. Under 13 feet, you come and go as you please. Over it, from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m., you get four scheduled openings an hour and you hold station in a current that NOAA measures at up to 5 to 6 knots. No fixed bridges removes the hard ceiling. It does not remove the schedule.
Canal width. The MLS lists the canal here in the 81-to-120-foot bracket. That bracket straddles the single most consequential number in Lighthouse Point’s dock code. Section 42-380 draws a hard line at 100 feet: under it, a dock may extend 8 feet from the seawall and be 6 feet wide, with mooring pilings no closer than 20 feet to the canal centerline. At 100 feet or wider, those figures become 10 feet, 8 feet, and 25 feet. Same code, different rights, and a listing bracket cannot tell you which side you’re on. Measure it.
Depth. There is no single stable controlling depth for Hillsboro Inlet — it is an actively dredged, actively shoaling channel. And any sounding at a dock you’re buying has to be taken at, or referenced to, mean low water. A contractor who sounds your slip at high tide hands you a number roughly two and a half feet more generous than the one you’ll live with.
None of this is a reason to hesitate about Lighthouse Point. The city is genuinely purpose-built for boats: roughly 18 miles of waterways threaded through about two and a half square miles, with the Intracoastal running its entire eastern length and the inlet at its southeastern doorstep. It’s a reason to know your four numbers before you tour.
The full guide is free, every figure footnoted to NOAA, the Army Corps of Engineers, Broward County, the Hillsboro Inlet District, and the city’s own ordinances, and it ends with a two-page checklist you can take to a showing.
A note on the taxes, because the number on the listing isn’t your number
The 2025 tax bill on this property was $34,409.89, assessed at $1,800,440 against an assessor’s market value of $3,768,000. That gap exists because the current owners hold a homestead exemption with years of Save Our Homes accumulation behind it.
A buyer will not inherit that. Florida reassesses at the sale, and the exemption resets. Anyone underwriting this property should build a carrying-cost estimate from a post-sale assessment, not from the line on the MLS sheet. The Broward County Property Appraiser’s office will walk you through the math, and I’d want that done before you write, not after.
The neighborhood
This is Lighthouse Point’s 3rd Section — one of the city’s older neighborhoods, and you can read that in the trees. Mature canopy over the streets, which is not a given in South Florida and is very much not a given on the water. The zoning is RS-3, single-family, no HOA, no membership fee, no recurring assessment.
Schools are Norcrest Elementary, Deerfield Beach Middle, and Deerfield Beach High. The Hillsboro Inlet District — the independent taxing district that controls the depth of your channel — holds its monthly public meetings at Dixon Ahl Hall, a few minutes from this dock.
The details
Address: 2409 NE 27th Street, Lighthouse Point, FL 33064
Offered at: $5,899,000 by Kelsey Phinazee & Jorge Cepeda of EXP Realty
MLS #: B26056203
Bedrooms: 5 (two en suite on the main level)
Baths: 6 full, 1 half
Living area: 5,221 square feet
Price per square foot: $1,129.86
Year built: 2001
Lot: 100 x 110, approximately 11,064 square feet (0.25 acre)
Water frontage: 100 feet
Dock: private deeded concrete dock, deep water, ocean access, no fixed bridges
Canal width: listed at 81 to 120 feet
Pool: 18 x 30, in-ground with waterfall; in-ground spa
Garage: 3 bays, attached
Construction: CBS, flat and tile roof
Flood zone: AE
2025 taxes: $34,409.89
HOA: none
Notable: private elevator, outdoor kitchen, cabana bath, outdoor shower, travertine pool deck, wine refrigerator, water purifier and softener, hurricane-rated garage door
Frequently asked questions
Does 2409 NE 27th Street have ocean access?
Yes. The property has direct ocean access with no fixed bridges between the dock and the Intracoastal Waterway, reaching the Atlantic through Hillsboro Inlet.
What does “no fixed bridges” actually mean in Lighthouse Point?
It means no permanent, non-opening span of fixed height sits on the route between a specific dock and the Intracoastal. It does not mean unlimited air draft. Every vessel exiting through Hillsboro Inlet still passes the SR A1A bascule bridge and its 13-foot closed vertical clearance. The claim is also address-specific rather than citywide, so it should be verified for the individual dock.
How large is the dock?
The property has 100 feet of water frontage with a private deeded concrete dock. Maximum permitted dock extension and width are set by city ordinance and depend on whether the canal measures under or over 100 feet wide at that seawall.
Is Lighthouse Point good for keeping a large boat?
It is one of the more genuinely boat-friendly addresses in South Florida, with roughly 18 miles of canals in about two and a half square miles and the Intracoastal along its entire eastern edge. Whether a specific vessel works at a specific dock depends on four independent measurements: air draft, draft, dock geometry, and route.
If you’d like to see it
Maureen Harmonay
Luxury Waterfront Specialist, Coldwell Banker Realty
Cell: 561-288-0170
[email protected]
MaureenHarmonayHomes.com
2409 NE 27th Street is listed by Kelsey Phinazee, EXP Realty LLC. Property details drawn from Beaches MLS and are deemed reliable but not guaranteed. Price, availability, and terms subject to change. Not a solicitation of any property currently listed with another broker. All dock, seawall, code, and permitting figures should be independently verified with the City of Lighthouse Point and appropriate marine professionals before you rely on them.