Condo prices in the Palm Beach area have been on a steady rise for some time now. The average sale price of a condo or townhome in Palm Beach County was up 54% year over year in December.  According to the same market study produced by the Florida Association of Realtors, nearly 80% of [...]

  It’s looking more and more likely that Downtown West Palm Beach will be the one and only stop in Palm Beach County for the privately funded high-speed commuter train scheduled to connect Orlando to Miami by 2015.  The Sewell Hardware warehouse located along the tracks at Quadrille and Evernia was purchased by Florida East [...]

  Lets keep our fingers crossed.  There are still hurdles to jump, but it seems as though two new projects are at least moving in a forward direction.  The proposed Convention Hotel will be built on the parcel of land just west of City Place South Tower, while the old City Hall site on Banyan [...]

According to Realtor.com search statistics, West Palm Beach comes in ahead of both Ft. Lauderdale and Miami as the most heavily searched metropolitan area in South Florida.  In fact, West Palm Beach was ranked 16th in the entire nation!  The Monthly Housing Summary posted on Realtor.com shows listing inventory decreasing more than 15% year over [...]

Today was a day that many of us who live in the Downtown West Palm Beach area have waited for since April – the West Palm Beach Green Market at the Waterfront opened its doors for the season.  Held right outside of the entrance to 101 Lofts and just footsteps away from the Esplanade Grande [...]

Finally, some great news to report on the local job front – The City of West Palm Beach unanimously approved the planning and zoning of the Palm Beach Outlet Mall! The Palm Beach Post is reporting that a new economic study is projecting the Outlet Mall will create up to $82 million in annual wages [...]

The small town of West Palm Beach is starting to gain recognition as a fast growing place to live and vacation.  Click here to take a look at this recent article from a Philadelphia website promoting the great lifestyle West Palm has to offer.  610 Clematis would be a perfect condo building to to buy [...]

It’s safe to say that the local market for condos and townhomes in Palm Beach County has shown clear signs of recovery.  The following statistics are from the April 2012 year-over-year analysis from the Market Overview provided by the Realtor’s Association of the Palm Beaches.   The number of listings coming on the market from [...]

  Times have changed.  The common thought among buyers over the past few years has been to make lowball offers on short sales, REO’s, foreclosures and even regular resales to see what kind of a “deal” they can get.  Today, that strategy doesn’t work.  Not only does the strategy no longer work, it can even [...]

  The 27th Annual Palm Beach International Boat Show kicks off today at the waterfront in downtown West Palm Beach.  Over the next four days visitors to the show will be browsing up and down the packed rows of yachts and power boats, gazing at an inventory estimated at over $350 million.  With this being [...]