Harbor Beach is a guarded waterfront enclave set between the Intracoastal and the ocean, with deep-water dockage and a private residents’ beach club. Lots are generous, the streets are quiet, and the location puts owners minutes from downtown and the airport while feeling entirely removed from both.
Deep water means real boats, and that is the reason most buyers end up here rather than nearby.
Harbor Beach occupies the southeast corner of the city, bounded by Port Everglades to the south, the Atlantic to the east, the Intracoastal to the west and Fort Lauderdale Beach Park to the north. It is guard-gated, with 24-hour security patrols, and it is small. Roughly 422 residents.
Inside the gate are four main subdivisions: Laguna Isle, Lucille Isle, Del Lago Isle and Isla Bahia. Harborage Isle is smaller still, seventeen homes on New River Sound behind its own separate gate.
The core Harbor Beach isles have deep-water canals with no fixed bridges, and the Port Everglades inlet is a short run away. That combination, unobstructed air draft plus a five to ten minute run to open ocean, is why megayacht owners buy here rather than further up the Intracoastal. Dockage commonly runs from 80 feet well past 150.
Two qualifications that matter. Harbor Isles sits behind fixed bridges, and Harbor Inlet homes face Port Everglades directly. Both are different propositions from the core isles, so the subdivision matters as much as the address.
There is a private marina with slips available to residents. Availability changes, and we check it with the property owners association rather than quoting a number.
The Harbor Beach Surf Club is the private beach club, with roughly 300 feet of oceanfront reserved for Harbor Beach homeowners. Membership is by application.
Worth being precise about, because it confuses people: the Fort Lauderdale Marriott Harbor Beach Resort is a separate commercial hotel that shares the name and the stretch of sand. Its marina is not the residents’ marina.
Almost entirely custom-built single-family waterfront estates. Mediterranean, transitional and ultra-modern, on lots that were never small. Condominium product sits at the edges of the neighborhood rather than inside it, notably Pier Sixty-Six Residences and The Port.
The airport is unusually close, roughly ten minutes via the 17th Street Causeway, and the Port Everglades cruise terminals are directly south. The beach is walkable. Las Olas is minutes north. For an owner who travels by private aircraft or keeps a vessel in commission year-round, the logistics here are hard to beat anywhere in Broward County.
Harbordale Elementary serves the area. We confirm middle and high school assignments by address, since Broward adjusts boundaries periodically.
Pier Sixty-Six reopened in January 2025. In May 2026, Phase II was announced: four 23-story towers, 339 residences, an expanded marina with a new one-acre basin and a waterfront promenade, on eight acres east of the 17th Street Causeway. The Bahia Mar redevelopment just north was approved in 2023 and is projected to begin delivering as early as 2027.
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