Palm Beach County market reports

What the numbers mean, what they hide, and what is actually happening in the communities I work in.

Current market snapshot

This section is waiting on live data. It is built to hold the current month figures for Palm Beach County: median sale price, months of supply, average days on market and the sale to list price ratio, with the same four figures for the 55+ segment specifically.

I would rather leave it empty than publish a number I cannot source. Once we connect a monthly data feed or you send the figures, they drop straight in here and the page carries a dated, citable snapshot every month.

How to read a market report without fooling yourself

Almost every headline you will read about the Florida market is technically true and practically useless, because it describes an average across a county where a waterfront estate and a two bedroom villa are both one sale.

These are the four numbers worth your attention, and what each one actually tells you.

Metric	What it measures	What it tells a buyer	What it tells a seller
Months of supply	How long it would take to sell every active listing at the current pace of sales	Under about 4 months, expect competition and little room to negotiate. Over about 7, you have leverage	The single best predictor of whether your price will hold
Median sale price	The middle sale, so half sold for more and half for less	More honest than the average, which one estate sale can distort badly	Compare against the same month last year, never against last month
Days on market	How long the typical home takes to go under contract	Rising days on market means sellers are getting more realistic	Tells you how long your carrying costs run before a contract
Sale to list ratio	What homes actually close at, as a percentage of the asking price	Under 100 percent means offers below asking are landing	The most direct measure of whether asking prices are credible

Interpretation guidance, not current data. The thresholds given for months of supply are conventional rules of thumb, not guarantees.

Why the county number will not tell you what your home is worth

Palm Beach County is not one market. In the same month, an all ages luxury community in west Boca can be seeing multiple offers while a 55+ community six miles away has inventory sitting for ninety days, because the buyer pools are completely different and one of them is far more sensitive to interest rates and to the cost of insurance.

Within a single 55+ community the split can be just as wide. A renovated home with a newer roof and impact windows and a home that has not been touched since 2006 are, in practice, two different products at two different prices, and averaging them produces a number that describes neither.

So the useful report is never the county one. It is the last twelve months of closed sales inside your community, filtered to homes genuinely comparable to yours. That is a report I will run for you at no cost and with no obligation.