Palm Beach
The island itself — the smallest condominium market in Palm Beach County and the one that sets its price ceiling.
Palm Beach is a 16-mile barrier island between the Atlantic and the Lake Worth Lagoon, and its condominium stock is deliberately small: roughly two dozen buildings, almost all of them low-rise, and it has grown by only a handful of buildings since the 1980s. They fall into two groups. In town, within walking distance of Worth Avenue, are the converted 1926 Palm Beach Biltmore, Winthrop House, Palm Beach Towers, One Royal Palm Way, L'Ermitage, 330 Cocoanut Row and Island House. South of Sloan's Curve, South Ocean Boulevard runs between the ocean and the Intracoastal past a row of direct-oceanfront buildings — The Reef, Carlyle House, Ambassador, La Palma, Bellaria, Palm Beach Hampton, Thirty Three Sixty, Emeraude, The Atriums, Halcyon, The Claridges — ending at 3550 South Ocean, marketed on completion in 2019 as the island's first new oceanfront condominium in a decade. Below: all 22 Palm Beach buildings profiled in the Haute Building Index™ with live MLS availability for every one.
