Insights & Intelligence

Manalapan holds 28 confirmed dual-frontage parcels with $989M in combined market value on the 2025 tax roll. Every variable that sets pricing is physical. This playbook covers frontage, dockage, wind code and tax posture for buyers and sellers at $25M+.

An executive guide to buying or selling $5M+ homes in Palm Beach County: off-market access, insurance math, waterfront fit, and quiet execution. Written for principals, founders, and family offices who value time, privacy, and precision.

A West Palm Beach waterfront closed in 28 days against a competing bid priced higher. In the $5M+ tier, buyers with pre-underwritten financing and a scoped seven-day inspection window consistently outperform larger conditional offers. This playbook covers private inventory access, offer architecture, inspection as offense, and the PBC-versus-Miami framework distinction.

At $1,535/SF and a $6 million median in 2025, Admirals Cove repriced itself more than three times over from 2015 to 2025. Across 594 transactions and $2.64B 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 of 599 Admirals Cove and 27 Bears Club estate transactions. Days on market, list-to-sale ratios and the $12-20M overlap zone where buyers make a real choice.

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 MLS data.

Fifty-seven listing records, zero closings and 12,465 cumulative days on market through February 2026. The Bears Club's unsold history reveals what the sales record alone cannot: who was ahead of the market, who overreached and what the difference actually cost.

Bears Club Villas occupy one of Jupiter's most prestigious addresses. But the HOA structure, ranging from $2,691 to $7,097 per month as of February 2026, creates a carrying cost profile that most buyers don't model before going under contract. One property on Villa Drive lost $1.35 million in value between 2022 and 2025 while the surrounding market appreciated. The HOA record explains why.

Forty closed sales and $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 trades above $12 million. The complete Bears Club transaction record, analyzed.

On August 7, 2018, the first residential closing recorded at 1100 South Flagler Drive printed at $1,498 per square foot. By January 2023, the same address produced a closed sale at $3,788/SF. All 92 closings through February 2026 are documented here, restated from the full MLS feed.

Early buyers at The Bristol paid an average of $1,773 per square foot. The resale market has cleared at $2,786-$3,788/SF from then through February 2026. 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.

Twelve closed resales at The Bristol from 2022 through February 2026, ranging from $11.17 million to $27.99 million, every one at $2,786 per square foot or above. A tier-by-tier breakdown of what each price point has delivered, what the active listings reflect, and how to evaluate them against eight years of documented transaction data.