Baywood, Brick: Showing a Lagoon Home or an Inland Home on Zillow Showcase

On Zillow Showcase, a Baywood home can answer the first thing a buyer wants to know: is it a lagoon home with its own dock, or a home on the higher, inland side off Drum Point Road? I'm Dennis Mark Interdonato with The Dennis Mark Group at Keller Williams Realty Ocean Living. I'm a Zillow Premier Agent, and my listings can go on Zillow Showcase. Baywood is a bay neighborhood in Brick, and its homes come in two kinds. Here's how I'd match the Showcase features to each one.

Where is Baywood, and why does it have two sides?

Baywood is the largest of the five sub-neighborhoods in the township's Shore Acres planning area. It runs long and narrow, from Barnegat Bay in the east to the Joe Pal Airport tract off Drum Point Road in the west. You get in by Baywood Boulevard, Mandalay Road and St. Lawrence Boulevard.

The two ends sit on different ground. According to the township's Shore Acres Neighborhood Plan, Baywood's eastern lagoons were built over former wetlands, while its western, inland half is the highest ground in the planning area. So every Baywood listing I'd write starts with one question: which half is this house on?

The lagoons came later than the rest of the area. Local histories of Brick's lagoons say the lagoon homes in Baywood, developed by Howard Van Ness with Harris and Company, came about 20 years after Shore Acres began.

What are the homes in Baywood like?

The township puts Baywood's average year built at 1980. A local guide lists two-story colonials, Cape Cods and craftsman-style homes. That mix means a listing can't lean on one description for the whole neighborhood.

Recent closed sales in Baywood listed on neighborhoods.com range from $350,000 to $1,450,000, with a median of $642,500, as read in October 2026. Those are neighborhoods.com's MLS-based figures, not mine, and the site doesn't say what period they cover. A spread of more than $1 million inside one neighborhood tells you location on the water, the lot and the house itself all carry weight. The listing has to show which kind of Baywood home a buyer is looking at from the first photo.

How does a lagoon home with a dock show on Showcase?

For a lagoon home, the dock and the water are the headline, so the media has to start there. When I checked my Showcase listing at 647 Colts Neck Rd in Freehold Township on October 29, 2026, it opened with my 1:30 listing video at the top. On a Baywood lagoon home, that video is where I'd show the walk from the back door to the dock and the view down the canal.

Baywood has the largest network of lagoons in Shore Acres, plus a marina, a park and conservation lands, according to the township plan. Local guides describe islets and canals by Havens Cove, with many homes on private docks. A buyer looking at a lagoon home wants to see the dock itself, how it sits on the water and what it looks out on.

Zillow lists SkyTour aerial views as a Showcase feature where available, so I can't count on one for any single home. The listing's own photos still have to show where the house sits on the lagoon. Before a lagoon home goes live, I'd also have the flood zone from FEMA's Flood Map Service Center and any elevation certificate in hand, because those questions come right after the dock photos.

How does an inland Baywood home stand out?

On the western half, the house carries the listing. These homes sit on the highest ground in Shore Acres, closer to Drum Point Road. Most of Shore Acres' few commercial properties are along Drum Point Road in Baywood, according to the township plan. Angela Hibbard Park at 600 Drum Point Rd has playgrounds, pickleball, basketball, a walking trail and dog parks.

For an inland colonial or craftsman-style home, I'd lean on the floor plan and the room-by-room photos. Zillow's September 30, 2025 release lists room-by-room photo organization as a Showcase feature, and Zillow's agent page says Showcase listings include an interactive floor plan. A two-story colonial from around 1980 has a layout a buyer can read in seconds on a floor plan: where the living spaces sit and how many bedrooms are upstairs.

Virtual staging can help an inland home too. On 647 Colts Neck Rd, a buyer could tap "Stage this space" and pick a style such as Modern, Scandinavian or Industrial, a feature Zillow called recently launched in September 2025. A staged photo shows an idea for a room, so I make sure buyers know the furniture is virtual.

How do showings get set up from a Showcase listing?

Zillow's agent page says Showcase links with ShowingTime and dotloop, with one login. ShowingTime is the system I use to schedule showings on my listings. On my end, that means a Showcase listing and my showing schedule run under the same sign-in.

That matters in a neighborhood like Baywood. A showing on a lagoon home often includes a walk out to the dock, and the seller may want buyers to use a certain gate or path. Those instructions go into the same scheduling system I use for every other listing.

What should a Baywood seller line up first?

Start with the facts a buyer will ask for: which side of Baywood the house is on, the flood zone, any elevation certificate and anything on file for the dock. My article on the documents to gather before you list a waterfront home walks through that list.

Then keep the Showcase part in perspective. Zillow designs Showcase to not exceed 10% of a market's listings, so not every home gets it. On October 29, 2026, 647 Colts Neck Rd was the one listing on my Zillow profile with the Showcase tag. Showcase is a marketing tool, and it doesn't promise a price or a sale date for any home.

For a number on your own house, start with what your home is worth. My Baywood neighborhood page has the streets, the park and the sources behind the neighborhood facts here. To see a Showcase listing up close, my Zillow Showcase page shows 647 Colts Neck Rd on a laptop and a phone.