River Oaks' fish canals and the Davie Boulevard draw
Seven short canals run east off the South Fork through River Oaks, and the city's water map names every one after a fish, from Kingfish in the north to Crevalle in the south. The Property Appraiser files the lots along them as South New River Isles.
They join the fork south of Davie Boulevard, so the first thing a boat leaving them meets is the Davie Boulevard bascule, 21 feet above mean high water when down. It opens when you signal, except in the weekday morning and evening rush, when the tender does not have to open it at all.
The fixed twin I-95 bridges, 55 feet, cross the fork 2.7 miles above its mouth. River Oaks lies east of them, downstream, so a lot on these canals has no fixed span between the dock and the sea.
From the fork to the port: counting the openings
Below the fork the New River runs east through downtown. In order, a boat passes the Marshall bridge at 7th Avenue (20 feet closed), the Florida East Coast railway bridge (4 feet, but kept open except for trains), Andrews Avenue (21 feet) and Southeast 3rd Avenue (16 feet), then slides under US 1 in the tunnel and out to the Intracoastal. From the river mouth, Port Everglades is about a mile south, through the 17th Street bascule.
For a boat that needs more than 21 feet, that means four openings before the Intracoastal, five if a train is due at the railway bridge. Four of the road bridges share the same weekday rush-hour exemption, 7:30 to 9 in the morning and 4:30 to 6 in the evening, so plan an early start either side of it. None of this is a height limit; it is time.
A 39% unincorporated ZIP with a city waterfront
On the Census Bureau's 2020 file, close to two-fifths of the land in 33315 is not in any city. None of the waterfront plats listed here is in that part: on the Property Appraiser's map they all carry Fort Lauderdale addresses.
So a South Fork lot answers to Fort Lauderdale's land development code. Section 47-19.13 sets the 5-foot NAVD88 wall height, with the 4-foot allowance until 2035, and Broward County's article XXV sets the same standard across the county.
Fewer sales, a higher median: 33315 in 2025
Miami Realtors recorded 131 single-family closings in 33315 in 2025, down 15.5% on the year before, while the median price rose 16.9% to $700,000. Only 31 buyers paid cash, a third fewer than in 2024.
Homes took a median of 84 days to go under contract and sold for 93.2% of their first asking price. These figures cover every house in the ZIP, most of them away from the water, so treat them as the floor of the conversation for a canal lot, not the ceiling.