East Boca Raton Waterfront Homes for Sale

Between Federal Highway and the Intracoastal, north of Palmetto Park Road, east Boca Raton has a set of canal neighborhoods that are not gated, not club communities, and in several cases a short walk or a very short drive from downtown. The main ones are Golden Harbour, Lake Rogers Isle, Blue Inlet, Boca Raton Riviera and Harbour East.

Streets here include Golden Harbour Drive, Phillips Drive, Silver Lane, Kay Terrace, NE Waterway Lane, NE Harbour Drive, NE Marine Drive, NE Spanish Trail, Lake Wyman Road, NE Wavecrest Court and the numbered streets from NE 29th Place up through NE 39th Street.

Watch: Where the best waterfront homes are in Boca Raton

Not all Boca Raton waterfront is the same water. In this short video, Damara Cohn of Mangrove Realty walks through where the genuinely good waterfront sits and what separates one canal street from another.

The market right now

A snapshot taken November 2, 2026, across the mainland waterfront subdivisions named above. Gated club communities on the same side of the water are covered on their own pages and are deliberately excluded here. Figures are rounded and move with the market.

What the numbers actually mean

Per-square-foot comparisons here are actively misleading

This is the most important thing to understand on these streets. A 1968 house on Phillips Drive of roughly 3,100 square feet is asking in the high $6 millions · around $2,200 per square foot. A brand-new house of about 8,300 square feet on Golden Harbour Drive is asking around $12 million · about $1,450 per square foot. The old, small, unrenovated house is asking substantially more per foot than the new, large one.

That is not an anomaly and it is not a mispricing. On a canal street with a dock, the price is the lot and the water. Square footage of an aging structure is close to irrelevant to it. If you are using price per square foot to judge value here, you will reach the wrong conclusion in both directions.

The builders are buying from the neighborhood

Golden Harbour's highest closings over the trailing twelve months were all recent new construction, while its entry-level trades are 1960s originals. One Silver Lane address appears to have both closed and returned to the market inside twelve months with no new structure, at asking prices around $4 million both times · though the two records report different square footage, so confirm the specifics before relying on it. The pattern across the neighborhood is consistent: older houses are being bought as sites.

The bottom of this market is where the surprises are

The lowest closings in the past year included a 1963 house of about 1,300 square feet at roughly $1,200 per square foot, and a 1952 house of about 3,200 square feet at roughly $590 per square foot. A spread that wide between two mid-century houses in the same corridor tells you how much the individual lot, frontage and dock situation drive price here.

Two eras, almost nothing between

Inventory runs from 1952 to completion dates in 2027, clustered into original stock from the 1950s through the 1990s and rebuilds from 2021 onward. Mid-2000s product is thin. In practice you are usually choosing between a site and a finished new house, not between degrees of renovation.

For scale

A separate east Boca Raton Intracoastal property on NE 5th Avenue is currently listed above $100 million, well beyond anything in the neighborhoods on this page. It is filed without a subdivision so it does not appear in the search below, and it should not be read as a benchmark for these streets.

Before you write an offer here

• Price the lot, not the house. Get a builder's view of what can be built and what it would cost before you decide what the land is worth to you.
• Confirm bridge clearance to the inlet for your boat. These are mainland canals and routes differ. Air draft, not just depth, decides what you can keep here.
• Inspect the seawall and the dock as separate items. Age, cap condition, permits and any required repairs should be priced before your contingency period ends.
• Check the subdivision section carefully. Golden Harbour is recorded under several different section names, inconsistently numbered · Sec 01, Sec 2, Sec 3 and Sec 4 In among them · and Lake Rogers appears under more than one spelling. Comparable sales pulled under a single name will be incomplete.
• Confirm what a teardown actually permits. Setbacks, lot coverage and height come from the City of Boca Raton and determine the real value of the site.
• Get flood and wind quotes early. On 1960s waterfront these vary enormously with elevation and construction type.

Frequently asked questions

Which east Boca Raton waterfront neighborhoods are not gated?

Golden Harbour, Lake Rogers Isle, Blue Inlet, Boca Raton Riviera and Harbour East are all non-gated canal neighborhoods on the mainland side, between Federal Highway and the Intracoastal.

Why does an old house here cost more per square foot than a new one?

Because buyers are pricing the lot, the frontage and the dock rather than the structure. An unrenovated 1960s house on a good canal lot can ask well over $2,000 per square foot while a large new build asks far less per foot. Per-square-foot comparison is the wrong tool on these streets.

What is the entry price for waterfront in east Boca Raton?

As of November 2, 2026 asking prices across these neighborhoods started at about $1.2 million, with closings in the past year starting around $1.6 million. Entry inventory is almost always original mid-century housing.

Is Golden Harbour recorded under more than one name in the MLS?

Yes. It is recorded under several section names, numbered inconsistently, including Sec 01, Sec 2, Sec 3 and Sec 4 In. A search using only one of them will return a fraction of the real inventory. The search on this page covers them together.

How far is Golden Harbour from downtown Boca Raton?

It sits just north and east of the downtown core, close enough that Mizner Park and Palmetto Park Road are a short drive, which is a large part of why the neighborhood prices the way it does.

Can you build a new house on these canal lots?

Many buyers do, and most of the recent top sales in Golden Harbour were new construction. What you can build is governed by City of Boca Raton zoning, setbacks and height limits, so confirm the build envelope before you value the lot.

Talk to a broker who prices the lot

Damara Cohn is the founder and broker of Mangrove Realty, a boutique luxury brokerage in Delray Beach, with 25+ years in the business and over 35 years in Florida. On these streets the question is almost never what the house is worth. She will tell you what the site is worth.

Email: brokerdelray@gmail.com · Office: (561) 637-4559

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