A fixed island, re-rated.
The Town of Palm Beach recorded 87 qualified single-family sales in 2025 at a median of $13.95M, on a barrier island with a fixed land area. The median was $4.90M in 2019 and $2.54M in 2009. The Roebling Index covers the Town from recorded sales, with a wider directory of published reports across the mainland Palm Beaches.
- Median · full-year 2025
- $13.95M
- Since 2019
- +184.7%
- Sales · 2025
- 87
- On record
- 2009–25
The median moved up a level and held.
Full-year medians of the Town’s qualified single-family sales: $2.54M in 2009, $4.90M in 2019, $14.50M at the 2022 high and $13.95M in 2025. The market re-based in 2021 and 2022, and no year since has printed below $11.76M.
Volume moved first. Qualified sales went from 93 in 2019 to 218 in 2020 and 200 in 2021, then settled at 63–87 a year from 2023. The price did not follow volume back down.
Recorded sale prices, 2009–2025 and 2026 to date
The Town's recorded sales by property type, from the same Florida Department of Revenue files as the price record above. Medians of recorded sales, by property type. The full-year columns compare 2025 with 2024 and with 2019. The January–August columns compare the same months of 2025 and 2026; a partial year is never set against a full one. The small number beside a partial-year median is its sale count.
Town of Palm Beach
Inside town limits
| Full year 2025 | January–August only | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Property type | Median | Sales | Dollar volume | vs 2024 | vs 2019 | 2025 | 2026 | Change |
| Single-family houses | $13.95M | 87 | $1.45B | +18.7% | +184.7% | $13.13M58 | $13.40M99 | —1 |
| Townhouses2 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Condominiums | $1.50M | 175 | $417M | +7.4%4 | +131.3% | $1.67M125 | $1.60M198 | −4.2%3 |
- 1Single-family houses, Jan–Aug 2026 vs Jan–Aug 2025: change withheld, 58 sales at one end (60 required at both).
- 2Townhouses: fewer than 10 sales in 2025, too few for a median.
- 3Condominiums, Jan–Aug 2026 vs Jan–Aug 2025: sales at Palm Beach Towers weigh on this change. With them left out of both years, it is +0.9%.
- 4Condominiums, 2025 vs 2024: sales at Palm Beach Towers weigh on this change. With them left out of both years, it is +1.8%.
Boundary: Current official municipal code 50; current public-parcel cohort.
Qualified, single-parcel recorded sales from the Florida Department of Revenue's final sale data files (assessment rolls 2009 through 2026) on current public parcels, with houses, townhouses and county-classified condominium interests presented separately. Sources: Florida Department of Revenue sales records; Palm Beach County Property Appraiser. Analysis: The Roebling Team at Compass. These figures describe qualified recorded sales on current public parcels; they are not a census of every transfer. The median describes the properties sold in the period. A change in the mix of properties sold can move it without an equivalent change in any one property's value. Full calendar years run 2009 through 2025. January–August 2026 is year to date and is compared only with January–August 2025. Houses, townhouses and condominiums stay separate under current county classifications; the condominium classification can include accessory, hotel and combined interests. Co-op share transfers are not covered. A median requires 10 sales; a change requires 60 at each end. Held values are blank. All figures are nominal dollars. Verified living area at the time of sale is not available, so price per square foot is withheld.
A finished island, a moving industry.
A fixed island and a moving industry. The Town of Palm Beach has about 10,500 housing units, 39% of them held seasonally (Census estimates for 2020–2024), on a barrier island with a fixed land area, where added housing depends on redevelopment and town approvals. Against that, the county's business development board estimates roughly 120 firm relocations in recent years and counts more than 300 hedge fund, private-equity and financial-services firms in the county. Constrained supply meeting a tax-driven shift in demand is our reading of the re-rating; these county figures do not measure how much of the Town's price change they explain.
The Town's housing units (Census estimate, 2020–2024), on an island with a fixed land area; added supply depends on redevelopment and approvals.
4,093 of the Town's units are held seasonally, tightening what actually trades.
Hedge fund, private-equity and financial-services firms in the county, per its business development board, which estimates roughly 120 relocations in recent years.
Recorded value of the Town's 87 qualified single-family sales in 2025, Florida Department of Revenue records.
Three moments that shaped the record.
- 2019-2021Wall Street South arrives
The county's business development board estimates roughly 120 firm relocations in recent years and counts more than 300 hedge fund, private-equity and financial-services firms in the county, alongside 68 billionaires and about 75,000 millionaires. Palm Beach County is the only one of the Index's six markets with a positive net income inflow in every year from 2012 through 2023, and that demand landed on an island with a fixed land area.
- 2022The median crosses into eight figures
In 2022 the Town's full-year single-family median reached $14.50M on 86 sales, the high of the record. 2023 printed $13.00M on 63, 2024 printed $11.76M on 69, 2025 printed $13.95M on 87.
- 2023-2026Volume normalized, price did not
Sales settled at 63–87 a year from 2023, well below the 218 of 2020, while the median held at $11.76M or more. January–August 2026: 99 sales at a median of $13.40M.
Where the Town’s sales concentrate.
The Town’s single-family sales (87 in 2025) fall across three island neighborhoods: the Estate Section, the North End and the South End. The neighborhood figures below are published report readings, labelled by quarter: a different source from the Town’s recorded-sale median above, and never compared with it.
Estate Section
Single Family · median price · 2018–2025 on record · The Roebling Research Desk
North End
All · median price · 2012–2025 on record · The Roebling Research Desk
South End
All · median price · 2012–2025 on record · The Roebling Research Desk
The island and the wider Palm Beaches.
On the island
| Place | Sale price | Change · base year | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Estate Section· single source Single-family houses · Q4 2025 | $17.7M’25 | — | 1 |
| North End All property types · Q4 2025 | $6.4M’25 | — | 44 |
| In Town· single source Condominiums · Q4 2025 | $2.8M’25 | — | 14 |
| South End All property types · Q4 2025 | $517K’25 | 1y −15.1%’22 −11.6%’16 −29.3% | 38 |
The wider Palm Beaches
| Place | Sale price | Change · base year | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Delray Beach· single source Single-family houses · Q3 2024 | $2.3Mavg’24 | — | 18 |
| West Palm Beach To Lake Worth Beach· single source Condominiums · Q4 2025 | $1.1Mavg’25 | — | — |
| Singer Island· single source Condominiums · Q1 2024 | $860K’24 | 1y −30.5%’22 −4.4%’16 +93.3% | 20 |
| West Palm Beach To Lake Worth· single source Single-family houses · Q1 2025 | $825K’25 | — | 177 |
| Jupiter· single source Condominiums · Q1 2024 | $570K’24 | 1y +10.9%’22 +8.4%’16 +103.6% | 163 |
Earlier readings, not the current market
These 6 places were last published in 2019–2022. They are kept as dated observations, not as today's market, and are not compared with the rows above.
| Place | Sale price | Change · base year | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hypoluxo Island To Highland Beach· single source Single-family houses · Q4 2022 | $5.3M’22 | — | — |
| Jupiter Island To Singer Island· single source Condominiums · Q1 2022 | $670K’22 | — | 110 |
| Palm Beach Gardens· single source All property types · Q4 2019 | $523K’19 | 1y +11.2%’16 +13.6% | 234 |
| Juno Beach· single source All property types · Q4 2019 | $438K’19 | 1y +4.2%’16 +23.2% | 28 |
| Tequesta· single source All property types · Q4 2019 | $363K’19 | 1y +6.6%’16 −5.6% | 70 |
| West Palm Beach· single source Condominiums · Q4 2019 | $129K’19 | — | 646 |
These rows are published place-level reports, not recorded sales; read the direction, not the decimal. Where a figure rests on a single reporting source it is marked as such and is never presented as corroborated. Each row names its property type and the report quarter it rests on. The wider-Palm-Beaches figures are published place-level reports, each with its own footprint and property mix; they are not the recorded-sale medians on the Boca Raton and Delray Beach Index pages, and the two are never compared.
Sources & method
The price record is the Town of Palm Beach’s recorded single-family sales: the Florida Department of Revenue’s final sale data files for every assessment roll from 2009 through 2026, qualified, single-parcel sales on current public parcels in the Town, with the Palm Beach County Property Appraiser’s classification. Each year is a full calendar year. A median needs 10 sales and a change 60 at both ends; January–August 2026 is compared only with the same months of 2025. Price per square foot is not published, because the sale files carry no living area. Co-op share transfers are not covered.
The Roebling Research Desk compiles the rest from published market reports and public data: the place-level reports for the island neighborhoods and the wider Palm Beaches (each labelled with its quarter), Census figures for the seasonal-housing data, and county economic-development and IRS figures for the relocation and wealth-inflow context. Report figures and recorded-sale figures are never compared.
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