Gulf Stream Real Estate

Gulf Stream is the smallest and, by most measures, the most prestigious town in this entire corridor -- well under a square mile, with a year-round population under a thousand people. It grew up in the 1920s around the Donald Ross-designed Gulf Stream Golf Club (with a clubhouse by the same Addison Mizner who shaped Boca Raton), was formally chartered by the Florida Legislature in 1925, and was known in that era as the "Winter Polo Capital of the World" -- the old polo fields were later converted to residential and recreational use.

The town sits directly between the Atlantic Ocean and the Intracoastal Waterway, and it has deliberately prohibited commercial and industrial development for a century -- there is no retail strip, and there isn't meant to be one. Every property here is estate-tier, but "estate-tier" covers a wider range than people assume.

The nuance worth knowing: Gulf Stream is not one uniform price band. The oceanfront and Intracoastal core -- named enclaves with private docks and large lots -- sits at the very top of the market, while a section called Place au Soleil (a smaller, older pocket of roughly 93 lots) runs meaningfully more attainable than the rest of the town. Treating "Gulf Stream" as a single price point, the way a templated page would, misses that distinction entirely.

Homes here typically start in the low millions in Place au Soleil and run well into the eight figures for oceanfront and Intracoastal estates in the core of town. Inventory is thin by nature -- this is a town of a few hundred homes, not a few thousand -- so a direct conversation with Damara about what's actually available (and what's about to be) tends to matter more here than almost anywhere else on this list.