Insights & Intelligence

From 2016 through July 2026 the Town of Jupiter Island recorded 81 qualified sales, $589.1M in all, with no matching MLS closing, including the $58M record itself. The private market measured against the open one, and how the quiet deals actually happen.

Boca Raton set the five-year volume record: 113 closings for $691.3M, up 36 percent, with 9 sales above $10M and the county's biggest sale, $75M in Royal Palm, on top of a quarter that did not need it. Depth, rather than one trophy sale, carried the quarter.

The reported timeline says 2029, and the developer's own materials say nothing. What a buyer can fix at signing, what stays open, and the eight questions the sales gallery must answer.

Six closings for $195.2M, two of the county's three largest sales of the season at $70.9M and $62.5M, and a quarterly median of $24.5M that no other market approaches. By dollar volume it was the largest quarter in the town's five-year record.

Buying one of 28 homes mid construction is its own discipline. The developer's contract, the fifteen day window, the small association arithmetic, and the scarcity that makes second choices matter at Glass House.

The 2021 frenzy produced 276 luxury sales, the rate shock cut the count by a third, and sales volume in 2024 exceeded the frenzy year itself. Prices rose through every year of the cycle, and the county's largest sale in at least a year just closed in Royal Palm.

A West Palm Beach home bought in 2025 pays 20.45 mills, about 2.04 percent of the price in year one: $102,234 on a $5 million purchase, more downtown. Where each dollar goes, houses against condominiums, the downtown line, and the two caps.

Delray closed 47 luxury sales in the quarter, up 27 percent, at a 30-day median time to contract, the fastest in the county. Prices per square foot rose 29 percent, and a $15M Tropic Isle closing led. The town long known as the county's affordable beach market now sells at prices close to those of its neighbors.

Juno Beach gets its first new condominiums in years as Caretta begins deliveries. Four five story buildings, shops below 95 homes, the beach about 400 yards away. What the move from a $1.5M to $8M launch range to a reported $2.5M to $4.1M spread says about the corridor.

Homes at $3M to $4M sold within ninety days 62 percent of the time in the year through July 2026. At $20M+ the figure was 43 percent, and the slowest tenth of sales at $15M to $20M waited 457 days or more. Selling speed, measured from a year of closings at every price range.

The corridor's busiest quarter on record: 44 closings for $208.1M, up 76 percent from a year earlier, with the club communities supplying 19 of them and an $11M Frenchman's Creek sale on top. Palm Beach Gardens keeps growing by adding inventory, and this quarter was the strongest in the five-year record.

The owner of The Boca Raton is building 75 residences on 5.2 acres of the resort itself, reported from $5M. What changes when the developer and the destination share a balance sheet.