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

Palm Beach — how the market actually moved.

Every number below is measured off the homes that actually closed in Palm 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

Palm Beach at a glance

Trailing twelve months against the twelve months before.

Homes sold

330

up ↑ 78.4% on the year

Dollar volume

$2.01B

up ↑ 81.0% on the year

Median price

$2,575,000

down ↓ 14.2% on the year

Median $/sq ft

$1,409

down ↓ 12.7% on the year

Days on market

down ↓ 0.6% on the year

Sale to list

92.4%

up ↑ 1.8 points on the year

For sale now

live listings today

Months of supply

1.0

how long to clear at this pace

Source: our own MLS closings (330 sales), measured August 19, 2026

The market was busier than a year ago: 330 homes closed, sales up 78.4%.
Half of everything that sold went for more than $2,575,000, the middle price down 14.2%.
A typical home took 88 days to go under contract, time on market down 0.6%.
Sellers took 7.6% below their asking price at the middle of the market — a home listed at $2,575,000 closed near $2,378,072.
At today's pace the 27 homes for sale would take 1.0 months to clear — sellers hold the cards.

Demand and pricing

Eight years, same measuring stick

Homes sold each year

2019148

2020527

2021681

2022383

2023240

2024219

2025198

2026273

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

Middle price each year

2019$703,658

2020$1,550,000

2021$1,285,000

2022$1,750,000

2023$1,875,000

2024$2,050,000

2025$2,829,600

2026$2,600,000

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 Palm Beach
33480	383	$1,950,000	$1,171	88	92.4%	84%

Each row is the whole ZIP, not this city’s slice of it, so the rows add up to more than the 330 sales in Palm Beach itself. Showing the 1 ZIPs where Palm Beach is the majority of sales and at least 25 homes changed hands. 5 more ZIPs carry a Palm Beach address but belong mostly to a neighbouring city — 33411 (0.2% Palm Beach), 33413 (1.4% Palm Beach), 33406 (0.5% Palm Beach), 33407 (0.4% Palm Beach). They are left out rather than printed as a Palm Beach number.

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
1 bedroom	51	$3,200
2 bedroom	114	$10,000
3 bedroom	36	$22,750
4 bedroom	16	$42,500

Across all sizes, 230 leases closed at a middle rent of $10,000 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	$972	$2,510	-61%	320 vs 189
Pool	$1,492	$1,542	-3%	412 vs 97

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
Commercial	4	$8M	$1,650,000

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 Palm Beach

Measure	Value
People	9,234
Median household income	$175,078
Median gross rent	$1,849
Median home value (self-reported)	$1,996,700
Homes owned rather than rented	82.7%

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.