How To Estimate Front Feet (water Frontage) If House Sits On It's Own Peninsula

[Mr Rex]

Waterfront feet is waterfront feet.

I don't adjustment based on linear footage for these types of assignments, because I haven't been able to establish a pattern based on this factor. Lot utility and setting seem to be more important.

Linear feet adjustments seem to work better with rectangular lots, as lot utility/linear feet are often proportional. With irregular lots with water on several sides, it is not unusual to have a lot with greater linear footage have less utility than a lot with significantly less linear footage along the water.

Yep. It tickles me when I see a RE agent fawn over X water frontage that is created because the shoreline is highly irregular ~~~~~~ creating "water frontage" but a linear measurement straight across the shore line reduces the "water frontage" by 50%...

 

[The Warrior Monk]

Yep. It tickles me when I see a RE agent fawn over X water frontage that is created because the shoreline is highly irregular ~~~~~~ creating "water frontage" but a linear measurement straight across the shore line reduces the "water frontage" by 50%...

Sometimes all that waterfrontage means reduced lot utility. For example, let's assume that the wetlands setbacks is 125', and the property is a rectangular peninsula that is 200' wide by a 1.0 mile long. That's a property that has just two miles of waterfront and no building envelope.