Ranking Fort Lauderdale's Housing Market, Top to Bottom: The Price Gap Is Bigger Than You Think

Line up every Fort Lauderdale sale from this summer by ZIP code and rank them by median sold price, and you get a ladder with six rungs. The bottom rung and the top rung are not close. They are barely the same market.

Across the full Fort Lauderdale territory, the median sold price landed at $427,000 over the twelve weeks ending August 30, 2026, on 563 closed sales. The typical home took 71 days to sell, and sellers walked away with about 97.4% of their asking price. That's the middle of the ladder. What happens at the ends of it is the real story.

Start at the bottom. One Fort Lauderdale ZIP closed its median sale at about $179,500 this period, the least expensive pocket in the ranking by a wide margin. It's also where buyers took the longest to commit: the median time to pending there ran about 81 days, the slowest pace of any ZIP in the territory.

Climb the ladder in Fort Lauderdale and prices move fast. One ZIP closed near $276,500. Another, still short of the middle rung, settled around $391,450. A step above that, a third Fort Lauderdale ZIP posted a median sold price of about $565,000.

Then the ladder gets crowded at the top. Two Fort Lauderdale ZIPs sit within a few thousand dollars of each other: one closed at roughly $685,000, the other at about $692,250 — the highest median in the territory.

Here's the tension worth sitting with. In Fort Lauderdale, the $685,000 ZIP didn't get there by holding steady: its median sale price is up about 19% compared with a year earlier, the sharpest gain in the territory. At the same time, sellers there gave up more ground at the table. The average sale-to-list ratio in that ZIP slipped by about 0.7 percentage points over the same comparison. Homes are fetching more there, and the sellers who got there conceded more to close the deal.

Contrast that with the Fort Lauderdale ZIP at the very top of the ladder in raw price, the one that closed near $692,250. Its median sale price barely moved, up about 0.3% compared with a year earlier. Homes there also moved fastest of anywhere in the territory: the median time to pending in that ZIP ran about 37 days, less than half the wait in the cheapest Fort Lauderdale ZIP. Price and speed don't track together here; the most expensive market and the fastest-moving one are the same one, and the cheapest is also the slowest.

One Fort Lauderdale ZIP broke from the pack entirely. Five of the six ZIPs posted year-over-year gains in median sold price this period. The one that closed around $391,450 did not: its median sold price fell by about 7% compared with a year earlier, even as every other rung on the ladder climbed.

What does a ladder this uneven mean for someone actually buying or selling in Fort Lauderdale? If you're pricing a listing in the lower rungs, don't assume a longer wait is unusual — it's the pattern in that part of the territory right now, not a sign something's wrong with the house. If you're competing for a home in the top-tier ZIP, expect speed: a median 37-day path to pending doesn't leave much room to think it over. And if you're the one ZIP moving against the grain on price, the conversation with a buyer starts differently than it does everywhere else in Fort Lauderdale this period.

What's worth watching next period is whether that lone declining Fort Lauderdale ZIP keeps drifting on its own, or whether the rest of the territory's gains start to soften too. A ladder this spread out rarely holds its shape for long.

Figures are drawn from MLS sold data across the Fort Lauderdale ZIP codes for the twelve weeks ending August 30, 2026.