Market report · August 19, 2025 – August 19, 2026

Delray Beach — how the market actually moved.

Every number below is measured off the homes that actually closed in Delray Beach over the last twelve months, compared with the twelve months before it. No estimates, no national averages.

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By the numbers

Delray Beach at a glance

Trailing twelve months against the twelve months before.

Homes sold

2,626

up ↑ 27.3% on the year

Dollar volume

$2.22B

up ↑ 60.8% on the year

Median price

$395,000

up ↑ 6.8% on the year

Median $/sq ft

$268

up ↑ 0.3% on the year

Days on market

down ↓ 5.7% on the year

Sale to list

95.5%

flat on the year

For sale now

323

live listings today

Months of supply

1.5

how long to clear at this pace

Source: our own MLS closings (2,626 sales), measured August 19, 2026

The market was busier than a year ago: 2,626 homes closed, sales up 27.3%.
Half of everything that sold went for more than $395,000, the middle price up 6.8%.
A typical home took 50 days to go under contract, time on market down 5.7%.
Sellers took 4.5% below their asking price at the middle of the market — a home listed at $400,000 closed near $381,818.
At today's pace the 323 homes for sale would take 1.5 months to clear — sellers hold the cards.

Demand and pricing

Eight years, same measuring stick

Homes sold each year

20191,822

20204,096

20215,034

20223,853

20233,414

20242,699

20252,077

20261,882

2026 is a part year — it only counts closings up to today.

Middle price each year

2019$215,000

2020$250,000

2021$265,000

2022$320,000

2023$340,000

2024$375,000

2025$385,000

2026$408,000

Source: Brainiac’s Corner city rollup (bc_city_year), built from our MLS closings

The focused cut

Same twelve months, ZIP by ZIP

A city median hides a lot. This is as fine as the data goes before a median stops meaning anything.

ZIP	Sold	Median price	$/sq ft	Days on market	Sale to list	Share that is Delray Beach
33446	818	$420,000	$260	53	95.4%	100%
33484	692	$224,000	$180	50	95.3%	100%
33445	521	$330,000	$245	43	95.9%	100%
33483	321	$1,165,000	$712	74	94.7%	94%
33444	294	$725,000	$487	39	96.1%	100%

Each row is the whole ZIP, not this city’s slice of it, so the rows add up to more than the 2,626 sales in Delray Beach itself. Showing the 5 ZIPs where Delray Beach is the majority of sales and at least 25 homes changed hands.

Source: our own MLS closings

Renting

What tenants actually signed for

Closed leases, never asking prices. Bedroom counts are never blended — a studio median and a 3-bedroom median are different markets.

Size	Leases signed	Median rent
Studio	11	$1,975
1 bedroom	354	$1,775
2 bedroom	1,013	$2,300
3 bedroom	350	$3,750
4 bedroom	94	$6,200
5 bedroom	32	$11,625

Across all sizes, 1,862 leases closed at a middle rent of $2,500 a month.

Source: our own MLS closed leases

What a feature is worth

The premium, in dollars per square foot

Feature	With it	Without it	Difference	Sales compared
Waterfront	$276	$260	+6%	1,654 vs 3,025
Pool	$268	$264	+1%	3,385 vs 1,294
Newly built (Single-family)	$702	$382	+84%	93 vs 1,639

A premium is a price difference, not proof the feature caused it — waterfront homes are often bigger and newer too.

Source: Brainiac’s Corner premium study (bc_premiums, bc_newbuild)

Investment sales

Income and commercial, same twelve months

Kind	Sold	Dollar volume	Median price
Small income property (2+ doors)	8	$7M	$833,250
Commercial	12	$19M	$1,173,750

Source: our own MLS closings, Residential Income and Commercial Sale

The ground underneath

Jobs, people and money

Housing follows the local economy. These are the free public numbers behind the market, not our data.

The county economy

Measure	Latest	Year on year	As of
Unemployment rate	4.6%	+0.7 points	June 1, 2026 (FLPALM2URN)
Population	1,575,726	+0.1%	January 1, 2025 (FLPALM2POP)
Income per person	$126,852	+3.8%	January 1, 2024 (PCPI12099)
New housing units permitted	4,228	+3.4%	January 1, 2025 (BPPRIV012099)

Source: Federal Reserve (FRED), Palm Beach County, FL

Who lives in Delray Beach

Measure	Value
People	66,940
Median household income	$79,393
Median gross rent	$1,914
Median home value (self-reported)	$386,700
Homes owned rather than rented	65.0%

Source: US Census, American Community Survey 2023 5-year

The economy figures are county-wide — that is as fine as the federal data goes. The Census figures are for the city itself, and lag by a year or two because that is when the survey lands.

Before you lean on a number

How this was measured

Sales are closed transactions from our own MLS feed — not asking prices, not estimates, not a national model.
The window is the twelve months to August 19, 2026, compared with the twelve months before it. Same window on both sides, always.
Every headline figure is a median — the middle sale. One mansion cannot drag it.
A ZIP needs at least 25 sales to get a row. Thinner ones are counted in the footnote instead of given a median.
Rents are closed leases, kept separate by bedroom count. We never blend a studio into a three-bedroom median.
Economy figures come from the Federal Reserve and the US Census, free and public, with the series name printed next to each one so you can check it.

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