The things we built because we needed them.
A canal map that answers one address at a time, monthly market reports, and guides to the questions that come up every week. All free, all ours.
Most of what a brokerage publishes online is written to get your phone number before it gives you anything back. This page runs the other way. The canal map exists because “is this specific address actually Gulf access” turned out to be a question worth answering properly, one parcel at a time, instead of in general terms that sound right on every street but hold up on none of them. The market reports exist because “the market is hot” or “the market is soft” is an opinion standing in for a fact, and we would rather hand you the actual number, dated, with the source named. The guides exist because we found ourselves explaining the same handful of things on calls every week, and writing each one down properly once serves everybody better than repeating it from memory on a Tuesday.
Is any of it really free? Yes. The map does not ask for an email address, the reports are not paywalled, and the guides are not gated behind a form. We built this material for our own clients first, mostly because a satellite photo cannot tell you a canal is freshwater and a listing description cannot tell you a bridge’s clearance. Once it existed for us, there was no reason to keep it to ourselves.
We do not publish a number we have not checked ourselves against the primary source, whether that is the city’s own bridge clearance records, the county’s canal data or the MLS. If something here is ever wrong, that is a mistake worth hearing about, and we would rather fix it than leave it standing because nobody asked.
Canal Map
Check whether an address is Gulf-access, freshwater or landlocked, and see every bridge on the way out.
Open the map →Market Reports
What the Cape Coral market actually did each month of 2026, with the figures shown rather than summarised.
Read the reports →
Guides
Flood zones, seawalls and docks, freshwater versus Gulf-access, moving here, and buying to rent.
Browse guides →Blog and News
What is happening in Cape Coral, plus events worth putting in the calendar.
Read the blog →Two references worth bookmarking
The canal map answers one address at a time. These two go the other direction and cover everything at once: every named canal in the city in one list, and the published clearance for every bridge that could stand between a boat and open water. Both are the raw data the map itself is built from, if you would rather check our answer than take it.
Where to start
If you already have an address in mind, start with the canal map. If you are earlier than that and still working out what freshwater versus Gulf access even means for resale value, start with the guides. If you just want to know what the market actually did last month before forming an opinion about it, the reports are dated and name where every figure came from. All of it gets updated on our own schedule, not a marketing calendar, so a stale page here would be a mistake rather than a habit.
