Insights & Intelligence

Condominiums accounted for 87 percent of Highland Beach sales from 2021 through June 2026, yet houses hold the town's five largest sales, topped at $40 million, all on one road. This report measures the county's most overlooked market across five years.

Sales above the asking price collapsed from 11 percent of the luxury market in 2022 to roughly one in thirty today, and the bidding wars that remain are settled in the first week at premiums of about 2.9 percent. This study explains how escalation clauses and appraisal-gap coverage work, and how buyers win a contested deal.

Seven oceanfront buildings on South Ocean Boulevard have real $3M+ sales records from 2021 through May 2026, led at $2,218 per square foot by the corridor's newest address. Here is the full ranking, the $13 million record, and the reason Alina is not on the list.

Luxury condos close at $781 per square foot on Singer Island and $753 in Juno Beach as of May 2026, and the resemblance ends there. Singer Island has three times as many sales, Juno Beach has half the market time, and the two products have almost nothing in common.

Luxury listings that go under contract in week one close at 97.3 percent of the original asking price. Past ninety days the figure is 85.3. The checklist that decides the difference covers pricing, preparation, photography, and timing.

Frenchman's Creek is 600 homes on 720 acres with two championship courses, a private beach club, and a new $90M clubhouse. This report covers the membership structure, the inventory dynamics, the pricing by tier, and the carrying costs that define what entry actually requires.

Frenchman's Creek (FC) re-rated 120% on a per-foot basis from 2020 through May 2026 and stabilized at $635 to $708/SF from 2022 forward. This report breaks down the trajectory, compares FC to Mirasol and Old Marsh, and evaluates whether the plateau holds or breaks.

Of 180 listings that expired on Palm Beach island in 2025-2026, 31 can be verified through unit-level matching as eventually sold. They closed at a median 21.7% discount from the original asking price after 310 total days on market. Forty-eight were back on the market as of May 2026. This report traces the full lifecycle and quantifies the cost of getting the price wrong.

In Admirals Cove, 78% of single-family sales from 2020 through May 2026 were waterfront. The $/SF premium over interior homes stood at +67% as of May 2026, up from +49% in 2020. Every $10M+ sale was waterfront, and 93% of all waterfront transactions were cash. This analysis segments 259 transactions into three tiers: Intracoastal Waterway (ICW) frontage, canal front, and interior golf course.

If you are weighing new construction against resale in Admirals Cove, 398 closed transactions from 2020 through early 2026 provide a clear answer on the premium and what it buys. The data covers single family homes and condos across every price tier.

The Loxahatchee Club operates on mandatory equity membership with roughly 11 homes trading per year from a 285-residence community. This report maps pricing by tier, build era, and negotiating dynamics using 64 closed sales from 2020 through early 2026.

Loxahatchee Club's median price per square foot moved from $305 in 2020 to $872 on 2024-2025 sales. This report breaks down the trajectory year by year, compares Loxahatchee to density peers in the corridor, and evaluates whether the re-rating has room to continue.