Fairway Pool Home in Yacht & Country Club | Stuart, FL

The useful part

Martin County capped building heights a long time ago, and the result up and down this stretch of coast is low buildings, old trees, and golf neighborhoods that were platted when land was cheap and lots were drawn generously. Stuart is one of the older ones, and it still looks it in the way that matters: mature canopy, wide streets, fairways running between the blocks instead of behind a wall. 3333 SE Fairway E is a 1981 house on a quarter acre inside that gate, backing directly onto the course.

How it works

• That works out to $264 per square foot, which is the number worth sitting with before anything else on this page.
• The Patio, the Pool, and the Fairway The outdoor space is the reason the rest of it works.
• Four bedrooms, four baths, 2,836 square feet across two levels, an in-ground pool behind a fenced yard, and a metal roof over all of it.
• The covered patio opens onto the pool, with the fairway just past the fence line.
• A deep covered patio runs along the back of the house under the same roofline, wide enough for a seating group and a table, and it opens straight onto an in-ground pool with the fenced yard and the fairway...

What to take from it

The green behind this house is not going to be built on, which is the durable half of the value and the reason course-adjacent lots hold their premium in neighborhoods built this way. It also comes with the ordinary realities of the position: play moving behind the property on club days, and maintenance equipment running early.

Details worth keeping

Stuart is where South Florida stops behaving like South Florida. On a lot this size, in this climate, that is the room that gets used most.