Three luxury real estate listings currently live on Properstar: a canal town in the south of France, a mountaintop in the Canadian Rockies, and a stretch of Florida coastline. One of them completely changes what you picture when someone says "fisherman's cottage." All three are a reminder that a listing only tells you so much: what a property is actually worth, and why, comes down to the market underneath it.
Wood beams, brass fixtures, and a straight line of sight to the marina from the kitchen island. Courtesy of BARNES Saint-Tropez
When you imagine a fisherman's cottage, you probably picture something small, plain, and a little worn at the edges. This one, in Port Grimaud, proves it can be exactly the opposite.
Renovated top to bottom by a renowned architect. Three bedrooms, each with its own en-suite. A canal view on one side of the living room, a landscaped garden and outdoor kitchen on the other. The beach, a few steps from the door.
And right at the water's edge, a private mooring built for a 14-meter boat, in a canal town made to look like a miniature Venice, 20 minutes from Saint-Tropez. It's listed at $2.6 million through Barnes International.
At just under 1,000 square feet, that works out to roughly $2,600 per square foot, well above the national median of €219 per square foot for houses in France, according to Properstar's own listings data. That gap is the clearest sign of what you're actually paying for here: not the square footage, but the canal, the mooring, and the address, three things a listing description can undersell and a local agent has to explain. It's the kind of context that matters more the further you're buying from home.
Listing agent: Nelly Goyons, BARNES Saint-Tropez · Instagram
The primary suite: double vanity, and the bedroom and private mooring visible beyond, through the slatted partition. Courtesy of BARNES Saint-Tropez
Ski-in, ski-out at $26 million: the chalet lit up against Whistler's slopes at dusk. Courtesy of Engel & Völkers Whistler
Most ski chalets make you take a shuttle to the lift. This one skips the shuttle entirely.
Step outside and ski straight onto the mountain, then come home to an infinity pool, a private theater, and floor-to-ceiling glass framing the whole valley. Built in 2020, the estate is listed at $26 million through Engel & Völkers.
The median Canadian house, for comparison, sells for CAD 454 per square foot, per Properstar's own listings data. But square footage is the wrong number to compare here. In a ski resort market, direct mountain access is the premium that swallows every other line item on a listing, the kind of local dynamic a national median can't show and an unfamiliar buyer might miss.
Listing agency: Engel & Völkers Whistler · Instagram
A superyacht at rest in the estate's private dockage, the Intracoastal glowing at dusk. Courtesy of Compass
Most waterfront listings sell the view. This one sells the water itself.
Set in Harbor Beach, Fort Lauderdale's most tightly gated waterfront enclave, the estate was extensively rebuilt in 2025, main house and guest house both renovated down to the hurricane windows. Six bedrooms, thirteen bathrooms, a glass elevator, and a four-car garage engineered to convert into an eight-car one.
None of that is really the point. The point is 343 feet of waterfront and 170 feet of private, protected dockage, deep enough and close enough to open water to actually berth a serious boat. It's listed at $35.9 million through Sheryl Hodor at Compass.
At 14,000 square feet of living space, that works out to roughly $2,560 per square foot, nearly 11 times the $238 per square foot median for houses across the US, according to Properstar's own listings data. That premium is not really about the house. A private, protected deep-water dock built for real boats is infrastructure that doesn't get added later, it gets built in from the start, and it's priced on that scarcity, not square footage.
Tour the Fort Lauderdale estate
Listing agent: Sheryl Hodor, Compass
Three luxury real estate listings, three completely different reasons for their price tag, and all of it live on Properstar today. A canal, a mountainside, a private deep-water dock: none of that shows up in a square footage number, and all of it is exactly what a listing needs to explain before it makes sense from somewhere else. Consider this the first entry, not the last.
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