About

I have been selling Cape Coral waterfront since 2003. For most of that time the honest answer to “how far is this house from the river?” was a shrug and a guess, including from me.

So I measured it. All of it.

What this is

A parcel-by-parcel survey of Cape Coral Units 1–6 — the Yacht Club — covering every no-bridge, sailboat-access waterfront property. Verified against master data on 10 August 2026:

Waterfront parcels surveyed	2,681
Carrying a lot type, canal name, rear exposure and water character	100%
With a measured or verified seawall figure	2,600
Distinct canals, every one named	98
Listing events analysed, 1999–2026	6,205

What I will not claim is that the measuring is finished. Two hundred and fifty-five parcels still have no width taken, and until they are done, the lookup tool stays shut. A tool that guesses at a quarter of its answers is the thing this exists to replace.

Waterfront Data Science

That is the name for the approach, and it is not a flourish. Waterfront value in Cape Coral is driven by a handful of physical facts — how wide your water is, how much of your seawall a boat can actually use, which way the back of the house faces, how far the run to open water is, and whether anything crosses over it. Four of those five are either absent from the MLS or recorded in a field that cannot express them.

So the work is: measure the physical facts, record where each measurement came from, and keep the ones that don’t hold up out of print.

The rules I hold myself to

Every chart carries its sample size, date range and geography, on the chart. If it isn’t there, don’t trust the chart — including mine.

“Measured” means measured. Where a figure is estimated, derived or inherited from someone else’s record, it says so. Where it hasn’t been measured yet, the page says “not measured” rather than filling the gap with something plausible.

Distances are measured along the water route — the actual path a boat travels, turn by turn — never straight-line. A canal route can be close to double the map distance.

Thin findings are labelled thin. Where something rests on a few dozen observations, that appears in the same sentence as the claim, not in a footnote.

Corrections get published. The article on minutes to the river is version 002 because version 001 was wrong in three ways and I pulled it. The retraction is at the bottom of the replacement. That is the deal: you get the correction with the same prominence as the mistake.

If a number here is wrong

Tell me. Some of these figures rest on aerial imagery and county records that disagree with each other, and the fastest way to find the disagreements is a homeowner who knows their own seawall. Corrections are recorded with their source and the old value is kept, not overwritten.