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A Second Market on One Road
Every condominium on Jupiter Island stands on a single road. The buildings run from the inlet at the south end to the Martin County line at the north. Nearly all of them went up between the 1960s and the 1980s, before the town's side of the island closed the door on density. They amount to about 15 percent of the island corridor's MLS dollars, $425.6M across the decade, against $2,388.5M for the houses. The median closing is $1M, which makes this ladder the only affordable entrance the island has.
Source: BeachesMLS via Flexmls, 2016 through August 2026, buildings identified by address. The three Island House buildings are combined
The Ladder, Building by Building
The order is not random. SeaGlass sits alone at the top because it is the island's only new building, delivered in 2022 with full-floor residences. Its $2,457 per foot is roughly three times anything else on the road. Its record and its sellout have their own report. The established upper tier, The Claridge, Passages and Ocean Sound, pairs larger units with newer bones. The middle holds the workhorse towers of the seventies. And the entry tier near the inlet, JIB Club, Ocean Villas and Island House, still trades below the price of a parking spot in a Miami tower. Age, unit size and position set the order, and the whole ladder moved together after 2021.
Source: BeachesMLS via Flexmls, deduplicated, through August 2026
Source: BeachesMLS via Flexmls, through August 2026
What 2022 Did to the Ladder
For six years the condo market barely moved. The median ran $612,500 in 2016 and $817,500 in 2020, drifting with the coast. Then the same repricing that tripled the island's houses reached the ladder. The median hit $1M in 2021, $2.1M in 2022 and $2.5M in 2023, and it has held near $1.9M since. SeaGlass delivered into the middle of that move and reset the top of the market entirely, with resales to $12.5M. The buildings did not change. The buyers did, and the island's fixed supply did the rest, in the towers just as it did on the estates.
Condo or House
The condo ladder is how many owners actually arrive on Jupiter Island. The median house here since 2021 costs about $7.5M. The ladder offers the same beach, the same quiet and the same address for a tenth of that. Its entry tier remains the only way onto the island below a million dollars. Owners trade up along the road as their use of the island deepens. Our Jupiter Island page covers both markets, and the record book shows where the ladder tops out.
Bottom Line
Jupiter Island's nineteen condo buildings recorded 283 sales and $425.6M in a decade, about 15 percent of the corridor's dollars. The ladder runs from inlet buildings in the hundreds of thousands to SeaGlass at $12.5M, and the whole of it repriced upward after 2021.
For a buyer starting on the island: Pick the rung that matches how you will live here, then watch the building, not the market. Each tower trades on its own record, and the ladder rewards owners who move up early.
The record is a Flexmls export of the island corridor, 2016 through August 2026, deduplicated across boards, condominium and cooperative sales only. Buildings are identified by street address. The three Island House buildings are combined into one line. The Carlyle shows a single sale and is marked accordingly. Medians per square foot use the MLS living areas.
Developer closings that never reached the MLS, including most of SeaGlass's 2022 sellout, are not in these counts. That sellout is covered in our SeaGlass report. No owner is named.
BeachesMLS via Flexmls, the island corridor, 2016 through August 2026.
Palm Beach Luxury, SeaGlass: the building analysis, August 2026.
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