Before You Buy at Glass House

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Before You Buy at Glass House

Nikko Karki
Nikko Karki July 21, 2026
Buying at Glass House means signing a preconstruction contract for one of 28 homes, and the small count changes the purchase as much as the construction timeline does. Layouts are close to unique, so a line passed over rarely comes around again. The paperwork is the developer's, deposits stage between contract and completion, and Florida law supplies one fifteen day chance to reconsider. The sequence below runs from the sales room to keys in late 2027.
Homes
28
One small book, selling while construction runs
Days to Rescind
Fifteen
Florida's statutory window on new condominium contracts
Parking Spaces
2
Included with every residence
Delivery
Late 2027
Construction began April 2025, the loan closed in 2026

What the Contract Buys

Glass House puts 28 homes into nine stories in downtown Boca Raton, with the amenity deck above. Residences hold two to four bedrooms, from roughly 2,504 square feet up to 3,865. A pair of parking spaces comes with each home. ASG Development started construction in April 2025, closed $70 million of financing in 2026, and targets a late 2027 finish. Our profile of the building's position covers what it is. This guide walks the purchase itself.

Glass House Boca Raton rendering
A rendering of the glass envelope from street level, the product the contract describes before it exists. Rendering: 280 E Palmetto Park Road LLC.

Twenty-Eight Lines

Scarcity in a small building is mechanical rather than promotional. With 28 homes across nine floors, few layouts repeat, and a given exposure on a given floor may exist once. A buyer who passes on a line is usually passing for good, because the next release cannot offer the same home again. Coverage already counts over a third of the book sold during construction, which narrows the remaining choice further. The practical move is to rank two or three acceptable lines before the first gallery conversation, so a miss on the first choice does not stall the purchase.

The Purchase Sequence

The purchase follows the developer's process rather than the resale market's. Douglas Elliman handles sales, and a conversation there establishes what remains open, since public marketing understates a small book. The contract is the developer's own agreement, with deposits staged from signing toward completion. Terms shift as the building sells, so the schedule quoted this month gets confirmed at contract rather than assumed from coverage.

Buying mid construction carries its own review list. The building broke ground in April 2025. It carries $70 million of construction financing from Maxim Capital, closed in 2026, and both facts are public record worth confirming in current form. Your attorney can also press on the schedule and on how the agreement defines completion, since the late 2027 target has already moved once from earlier mid 2027 reports.

The sequence, gallery to keys
The preconstruction path at a glance. The developer's contract governs every step
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StageWhat happens
The galleryDouglas Elliman confirms what remains open, since a book of this size shows little publicly
ContractThe developer's agreement replaces the state's resale forms, deposits stage from signing
The fifteen daysFlorida's rescission window opens once the condominium documents arrive, the real review happens here
ConstructionDeposits step on milestones while the building rises toward late 2027
ClosingThe developer's notice sets the date once the building is ready, keys follow

Source: Florida's condominium framework and standard preconstruction practice. Your contract controls

The Fifteen Days

Florida's condominium statute grants a buyer of a new unit fifteen days to cancel after signing and receiving the condominium documents. The window comes from general law rather than from the developer, and it is the one period when the contract can be cancelled on the statute's terms. Use it to read the declaration, the proposed budget and the rules with your attorney. Title deserves the same early attention, and our guide to deed and ownership structures in Florida lays out the choices while they are still cheap to make.

What 28 Owners Share

Ownership afterward means membership in a 28 unit association, and small associations have their own arithmetic. Operating costs divide among 28 owners instead of hundreds. Each line item lands harder on each home, and one major repair can move the whole year's budget. The same math runs the other way on control. Each owner holds a meaningful share of the vote, boards form from a short roster of neighbors, and decisions can move quickly. The association's actual budget arrives with the condominium documents, and the fifteen day window is where it gets read.

Twenty-Eight Owners or Hundreds
General characteristics of small and large condominium associations, framed without either building's private figures.
A 28 Home Association
A Large Tower Association
The line
Most layouts exist once or twice
Identical lines repeat up the stack
The budget
Costs divide 28 ways, one repair can move the year
Costs spread across a much larger roll
The vote
Every owner carries real weight
One voice among many
Resale reference
Few prior sales for reference
A deeper record of closings in the building

Source: general association structure. The building's own budget and rules arrive with the condominium documents.

The Membership and the Sales Room

Two named parties round out the purchase. First buyers receive a membership with Sollis Health, the concierge medical practice, a perk that signals the service level the developer intends. The worth of any membership is personal, so weigh it as a courtesy rather than as a reason to sign. Douglas Elliman runs sales for the developer. Buyer representation typically costs the buyer nothing here, since the developer compensates it. It also adds a reader of release history and contract terms on your side of the table.

The Rest of the Field

The decision benefits from the field around it. The Residences at The Boca Raton offers the opposite Boca structure, 75 homes on the resort's own grounds with reported pricing from $5M and the club attached. The new development pipeline page holds every project we track between Boca Raton and Jupiter. A buyer certain about downtown and certain about scale can move on Glass House quickly. Everyone else should read the field first.

Glass House Boca Raton rendering
Nine stories and 28 homes in downtown Boca Raton. Rendering: the developer.

Bottom Line

A Glass House purchase moves on the developer's paperwork, staged deposits and a late 2027 target, all standard preconstruction mechanics. The building's size is what changes behavior. Lines are near unique, over a third of the book was reported sold early, and the association behind the keys will be 28 owners sharing every decision and every cost. The fifteen day window remains the one clean exit, so the document review belongs inside it.

Before the first call to the sales gallery: Have us pull the release history, the reported pricing and the standing of the lines you want. A book this small rewards buyers who arrive already knowing their second choice.

Building facts follow press coverage and the developer's published materials as of July 2026 and are subject to change. Pricing and sales pace are reported figures, not recorded closings, and the building has no recorded closings. Florida's fifteen day cancellation period for new condominium purchases is described at a general level from the state's condominium framework. The developer's agreement controls each deal, and your attorney should verify every term, deposit and date before you rely on any of them. Association economics are framed generally, with no figures from any actual budget. No official project website had surfaced when this was written.

This is process guidance for buyers, not investment or legal advice.

Construction and financing reporting from Florida YIMBY, Connect CRE and Multi-Housing News, 2025 through 2026.

The State of Florida's condominium framework, as published.

Palm Beach Luxury, the building pages and the deed structures guide.

Nikko Karki
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Nikko Karki

Nikko Karki has worked in real estate for nearly two decades, beginning on the developer side at Related Group in West Palm Beach, then through private real estate investments and cross-border M&A across the U.S., Europe, and Southeast Asia. He holds an M.Sc. in economics from the Helsinki School of Economics. He built Palm Beach Luxury to make his analysis available to anyone in the market, for free.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Yes, for fifteen days. Florida's condominium statute lets a buyer of a new unit cancel within fifteen days of signing and receiving the condominium documents. After the window closes the developer's contract controls, so the serious document review belongs inside those fifteen days.
Costs and decisions divide among 28 owners. Budgets feel every line item more than a tower's would, one repair can move a year, and each owner holds real voting weight. The association's actual budget arrives with the condominium documents, and buyers should read it during the rescission window.
Press coverage reports a concierge medical membership with Sollis Health for the building's first buyers. Terms come from the developer and are confirmed at the sales gallery through Douglas Elliman. Treat it as a courtesy in the deal rather than a reason to buy.
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