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Palm Beach County recorded 656 residential sales at $10 million and above from 2020 through 2025, totaling $12.1 billion in closed volume. The market doubled: 66 transactions in 2020 grew to 141 in 2025. Palm Beach Island accounts for 35% of all sales. Jupiter is the fastest-absorbing market (76-day DOM). 90% of transactions close in cash. This report uses the full six-year dataset to map pricing, deal structure, geography, and the sub-tier dynamics from $10M through $50M+.

How long should a luxury property take to sell in Palm Beach County, and what does time on market cost the seller? The median DOM of 46 days masks a bimodal distribution: 22% of properties sell within a week, while 11% take more than six months. Among sub-7-day sales, 46% close at full asking. The pricing gradient is front-loaded: the first 30 days cost 6 points of list price. This report maps DOM across price tiers, cities, and waterfront status using six years of closed data.

If you purchased a home in Palm Beach County five years ago, what would the same money buy today? At $1M-$2M, the buyer lost 22% of living area and ocean/ICW probability dropped from 51% to 29%. At $3M-$5M, 20% less house at 30% higher $/SF. At $10M-$20M, 20% less house at 30% higher $/SF. The compression is broad, consistent, and measurable at every tier. This report maps what each price band delivers in 2025 versus 2020.

In 2025, 178 single-family homes built since 2020 sold at $3 million and above in Palm Beach County, totaling $1.52 billion. At $10M+, these post-2020 homes are 17% larger than pre-2020 resale (8,110 vs. 6,924 SF) because the buyer is tearing down older structures on premium lots and building to current specifications. The luxury new construction market concentrates in Jupiter, Delray Beach, Boca Raton, and North Palm Beach, where waterfront and established-community land commands the price, and the structure on it is being replaced.

Wellington's equestrian zip codes recorded 145 closed sales above $5 million between 2020 and 2025. EOZD preserve-zoned parcels carried a $1.4 million median premium over non-preserve residential at the same tier. The six-year median closed price was $7.5 million; median days on market across the normalized 2022–2025 period was 87 days.

At $1,535/SF and a $6 million median in 2025, Admirals Cove has repriced itself more than three times over since 2015. Across 599 transactions and $2.66B in total volume, the community's decade of appreciation unfolded in four distinct phases, each with a different mechanism. This report maps all of them.

A 10-year analysis comparing 599 Admirals Cove and 27 Bears Club estate transactions in the $12-20M overlap zone across days on market, list-to-sale ratios, and the tier where buyers make a real choice between the two communities.

Admirals Cove's median price per square foot rose 208% from 2015 to 2025, outpacing The Bears Club's 151% gain by 57 percentage points. The gap is structural: lower starting price, higher transaction velocity, and waterfront concentration during a decade when water access re-rated globally. This analysis covers 599 Admirals Cove transactions and 40 Bears Club estate sales across a full decade of BeachesMLS data.

57 listing records. Zero closings. 12,465 cumulative days on market. The Bears Club's unsold history reveals something the sales record alone cannot: who was ahead of the market, who overreached, and what the difference between those two categories actually cost.

Forty closed sales. $345.9 million in volume. A price-per-square-foot that has risen 140% from pre-COVID levels to a 2025 market where the entry-level estate now trades above $12 million. The complete Bears Club transaction record, analyzed.

Before August 2018, 1100 South Flagler Drive had no residential sales record. Seven years and 49 transactions later, it has produced $520.3 million in volume and a price floor of $2,786 per square foot. This is how an address gets made — and what its market record reveals about West Palm Beach's emergence as a genuine ultra-luxury destination.

Early buyers at The Bristol paid $1,293–$1,923 per square foot. The resale market has cleared at $2,786–$3,788/SF ever since. Using seven years of documented transaction data, this report examines what actually drives appreciation in a new-construction luxury building — and what it means for buyers evaluating the market today.