Before You Buy at SeaGlass

What SeaGlass Is

SeaGlass is the newest condominium on Jupiter Island and the only one of its kind on the island's southern beachfront. Twenty-one residences sit in three lines on floors two to nine at 1500 South Beach Road, every one facing the ocean. The smallest plans run about 3,550 to 3,600 square feet and the largest about 5,210. A building this size has no crowd to disappear into. Your neighbors are twenty households, and the association that maintains the roof, the pool and the seawall is those same households voting.

The setting explains the appeal. Jupiter Island is best known for its estates, and every condominium on the island stands along one beachfront road. Our study of that road ranks the buildings by their records, and SeaGlass holds both the top recorded closing and the top price per foot. The ownership pattern fits the address. Eight of the 21 residences carry a homestead exemption, so most of the building is second homes or residences held through entities. The rest of the coast's buildings are on our luxury condominiums page for comparison shopping.

What the Building Trades At

The record here is short and unusually clean, and our complete study of the building holds every sale ever recorded. The developer closed all 21 residences within ten days of November 2022, $168.8M in total at a median of $7.2M. Those prices were set when buyers signed during construction, so treat them as history rather than comparables.

Five residences have resold since. Every one closed above its developer price, and every one closed in cash. The gains tell the real story, because they narrowed from 71 percent on the 2023 flips to 20 percent on the newest deed. Per square foot, the resales fell from $2,964 on the first 2023 flip to $2,094 in June 2026, with one small mid-course uptick. The one residence listed today asks $2,113 a foot, almost exactly where the newest deed closed. That agreement between the deed and the listing is what a settled price looks like.

The Asking Prices and the Recorded Prices

Here is the part a first-time reader of this building misses. Seven residences have been listed since it opened, across 18 separate campaigns, and the asking prices have run far above the closing prices for most of that history. Unit 403 first asked $19.8M in November 2022 and sold a year later at $12.5M, 63 percent of the original figure. Unit 203 first asked $12.9M and took until February 2025 to close. Unit 302 first asked $11.9M in October 2023 and closed in June 2026.

Two residences show what happens when the price never finds the record. Unit 303 has been listed three times since October 2023, from $14M down to $10.5M, for 743 days in all, and sits off the market unsold. Unit 301 has spent 1,041 days across three campaigns and is the one residence asking today.

None of this points to trouble in the building. The asking prices simply started far from where buyers were willing to close. The five sales that did close landed between 63 and 93 percent of their first asking prices. The chart below puts the two sets of numbers side by side, each labeled for what it is.

What It Costs to Carry

Owning here has a second set of numbers, and the listings quote them plainly. Association dues run from about $6,442 a month on the two smaller lines to about $9,233 on the largest. The rate per square foot is fairly consistent across the building. The table below holds the quotes line by line.

Property taxes need the same careful read. The bills quoted on the resold residences ran from $110,045 to $145,438 a year, and those bills belong to the previous owners' purchase prices. Florida resets assessed value after a sale, so a buyer at today's prices should budget from the purchase price rather than the listing's quoted bill. Our county property tax guide shows the arithmetic.

What the Documents Will Tell You

Every Florida condominium buyer now shops in the inspection era. Since the Surfside collapse, the state has required milestone inspections and structural reserve studies for older condominiums, and the assessments that follow have been repricing aging buildings across the coast. Our study of a 1986 tower in West Palm Beach measures what that pressure does to prices. On Palm Beach island, where the median listed building dates to 1972, our buying briefing treats the association's finances as diligence on par with the address.

A building finished in 2022 sits on the young side of that era, with new systems and current code behind it rather than decades of deferred work. A young building still has questions only its paperwork can answer. How the association funds its reserves, what it has planned and what it has levied are governance facts. So are the rental rules. They live in the association's own paper. Our records hold this building's every price and every listing. They do not hold its budget, and we will not guess at one. The document review is where the second half of the purchase decision actually happens.

How Buying at SeaGlass Runs

Start with the record, because it is free and it is public. Read the study, then the deeds behind it, before any gallery of photographs shapes your number. Price from what closed, not from what neighbors are asking. The building's own history shows sellers who priced near the record closing within months, while sellers who did not have waited years.

Come prepared for the way this building transacts. Every resale here closed in cash, so a seller weighing offers will expect cash or fully documented financing, with proof of funds ready. Patience is the other half of the leverage. With one residence asking today and campaigns that historically ran long, a buyer who can wait holds a strong position in any negotiation.

Then run the paper in order. Under contract, the condominium documents and the association's written answers come in, and your attorney reads them while we chase what is missing. Title questions, including whether to hold the residence personally or through an entity, are cheapest to settle before signing, and our guide to taking title in Florida covers the structures. The estoppel letter comes last, confirming the unit's dues are current and stating anything levied against it. This is the sequence our buyer work runs on every condominium purchase, and a building of this size deserves all of it.