Palm Beach Gardens — photography to follow
Palm Beach Gardens by the county roll. Read off the public roll, not the listing feed.
Key Takeaways
- ⭐⭐ Three-quarters of the houses here are somebody’s actual home — 76.5% of Palm Beach Gardens’ 21,198 single-family homes carry a homestead exemption, and 60.5% of all parcels in the city do. Twenty miles down the coast at Highland Beach, 58% are NOT homesteaded. These are opposite markets on the same county roll.
- The city is 38,734 parcels and $38.3 billion — 33,884 of them are homes — 21,198 single-family, 8,083 townhouses and 4,603 condominiums. Total market value across every parcel: $38,271,211,885, median $546,348.
- A house costs about three times a condo here — County market values: $791,694 median for a single-family home, $353,884 for a townhouse, $265,000 for a condominium. On actual recent deeds the gap is wider still.
- ⭐ Recent sales: $1,140,961 for a house, $452,500 for a townhouse, $337,250 for a condo — Warranty deeds recorded in 2025 and 2026 above $100,000 — 2,172 houses, 669 townhouses and 388 condominiums. A house trades at 2.5× the townhouse and 3.4× the condominium.
- It is fundamentally a 1980s city — 15,476 of the 33,884 homes — 45.7% — were added to the roll in the 1980s, another 8,281 in the 2000s. Only 1,647 since 2020, and those are almost all in Avenir and Alton.
- Two communities clear a million dollars, and they are both new — Artistry (387 homes, county median $1,460,066) and Alton Neighborhood 1 (360 homes, $1,080,272). The largest community in the city, San Matera the Gardens, has a median of $248,000.
- 🔴 No price per square foot appears on this page, and that is deliberate — The Palm Beach County roll publishes no living-area field. Any per-square-foot figure you are quoted for this city was computed from something else, and you should ask what.
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Palm Beach Gardens is a city of about 38,700 parcels in northern Palm Beach County, inland of the barrier island, built largely in the 1980s around the PGA National and Ballenisles golf communities and expanding westward today into Avenir and Alton. This page is a full census: every parcel the Palm Beach County Property Appraiser records inside the municipal boundary, pulled and reconciled against the county’s own count.
Palm Beach Gardens by the county roll
| What the county records | Parcels | Median market value |
|---|---|---|
| Single-family homes | 21,198 | $791,694 |
| Townhouses | 8,083 | $353,884 |
| Condominiums | 4,603 | $265,000 |
| Vacant residential land | 2,170 | |
| Vacant townhouse lots | 361 | |
| Residential common area | 523 | |
| Multifamily under 5 units | 286 | |
| Golf course parcels | 47 | |
| Airport and marina parcels | 145 (+70 marina condominium) | |
| Agriculturally classified — equestrian | 58 | |
| All parcels | 38,734 | $546,348 |
33,884 of the 38,734 parcels are homes — 87.5%. Total market value across the whole city is $38,271,211,885. The single highest-valued parcel on the roll is assessed at $376,698,583; the most valuable single-family home at $23,581,692.
⭐ The townhouse share is the unusual number. 8,083 townhouses — 23.9% of all homes — is a far larger share than most South Florida municipalities carry, and it is a large part of why the city’s overall median sits below $550,000 while its single-family median is near $800,000. If you are comparing Palm Beach Gardens to somewhere else on a single median figure, you are mostly comparing housing mix.
The thing that makes it different: people actually live here
Florida’s homestead exemption applies only to a permanent primary residence. It is therefore the cleanest proxy the public record offers for whether a place is lived in or invested in.
| Type | Homes | Homesteaded |
|---|---|---|
| Single-family | 21,198 | 76.5% |
| Townhouse | 8,083 | 62.8% |
| Condominium | 4,603 | 43.3% |
| Every parcel in the city | 38,734 | 60.5% |
Three-quarters of the single-family houses in Palm Beach Gardens are somebody’s permanent home.
⭐⭐ Set that against the coast, using the same county roll. At Highland Beach, twenty miles south on the barrier island, 58% of parcels carry no homestead exemption at all — it is overwhelmingly a second-home and investment market. These two places are in the same county, on the same tax roll, and they are opposite kinds of market.
Why it matters to a buyer, concretely. A high homestead share means neighbours who are there year-round, schools that fill, and a resale pool of people buying somewhere to live rather than somewhere to hold. It also means Save Our Homes assessment caps are doing a lot of work here: long-tenured owners are assessed far below market, which suppresses the city’s assessed-value totals and means your tax bill as a new buyer will look nothing like your neighbour’s. Get an estimate based on your purchase price, not on the current bill.
What things cost, by type
The Palm Beach County roll carries the most recent recorded sale for each parcel. Filtering to warranty deeds recorded in 2025 and 2026 above $100,000 — the closest this source allows to an arm’s-length filter — gives the largest current sample available:
| Type | Deeds, 2025–26 | Median price |
|---|---|---|
| Single-family home | 2,172 | $1,140,961 |
| Townhouse | 669 | $452,500 |
| Condominium | 388 | $337,250 |
A single-family home in Palm Beach Gardens now changes hands at a median of about $1.14 million — two and a half times a townhouse and three and a half times a condominium. Those are more than three thousand recorded transactions, which is a substantial sample by any standard.
Where the money is, by community. The fifteen largest residential communities and their 2026 county medians are set out further down this page. Two of them clear a million dollars, and both are recent: Artistry at $1,460,066 across 387 homes and Alton Neighborhood 1 at $1,080,272 across 360. Avenir’s Site Plan 2 Pod 5 runs $827,866 across 370. At the other end, the single largest community in the city — San Matera the Gardens, 676 condominium homes — has a median of $248,000.
That spread is the real story of Palm Beach Gardens: within one municipal boundary there is a $248,000 condominium market and a $1.46 million new-build market, three miles apart, and almost nothing about the city’s headline median tells you which one you are looking at.
When Palm Beach Gardens was built
| Decade added to the roll | Homes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 1,348 | 4.0% |
| 1980s | 15,476 | 45.7% |
| 1990s | 5,173 | 15.3% |
| 2000s | 8,281 | 24.4% |
| 2010s | 1,921 | 5.7% |
| 2020s to date | 1,647 | 4.9% |
⚠️ 38 of the 33,884 homes carry no usable year on the roll and are not in the table; shares are computed against all 33,884.
Nearly half the housing stock in Palm Beach Gardens dates from the 1980s. That is the single most useful fact for a buyer here and it barely appears in anything written about the city.
The practical consequences are all about age. A 1980s house in South Florida is at or past the end of life for its original roof, its windows, its plumbing and its air conditioning, and it very likely predates the impact-glass standards that followed Hurricane Andrew in 1992. For a condominium or townhouse association of that vintage, it also means Florida’s structural reserve requirements bite hard — and reserve shortfalls at 1980s associations are the single most common unpleasant surprise in the current Florida market.
Ask for the roof age, the window rating, the four-point inspection and — if there is an association — the reserve study and the last three years of assessments. In a city where 45.7% of the stock is forty years old, that is not diligence theatre, it is the main financial question.
The newest 1,647 homes, added since 2020, are concentrated in Avenir and Alton on the western side of the city, and they are the two places where the county’s medians run above a million dollars.
What this data cannot tell you
Every figure on this page comes from the Palm Beach County Property Appraiser. That source has three limits that we are going to state rather than paper over, because they change how you should read everything above.
One: there is no living-area field, so no price per square foot appears anywhere on this page. The county publishes lot acreage but not building area. If someone quotes you a per-square-foot figure for Palm Beach Gardens, it did not come from the county roll, and it is worth asking where it did come from and what it covers.
Two: the roll carries only each parcel’s most recent sale. There is no sale history, so no repeat-sale analysis is possible and no appreciation rate for this city has been computed here. The by-type figures above are “parcels whose last recorded sale fell in 2025 or 2026”, which for a two-year window is very close to all recent transactions — but it is not identical.
⚠️ And the longer series is genuinely mix-biased, which is why it is presented with this warning attached. Grouping every home by the year of its last recorded sale gives medians of $425,000 for 2020, $502,900 for 2021, $704,500 for 2022, $768,270 for 2023, $842,260 for 2024 and $915,000 for 2025. That looks like a clean upward series, and the market did rise. But a parcel only appears in the 2020 row because it has not sold since, so the earlier years are selected for homes that have sat — and the 2026 figure, $790,000 on 1,209 deeds, sits below 2025 almost certainly because the year is incomplete and its mix differs, not because prices fell. Do not read that series as an index.
Three: there is no qualified-sale flag. Unlike Miami-Dade and Broward, this roll does not mark which transfers were arm’s-length. Every sale figure on this page is filtered to warranty deeds above $100,000, which removes quitclaims and nominal transfers but cannot remove a below-market sale between related parties.
Who Palm Beach Gardens suits, and who it does not
It suits a buyer who wants to live in Palm Beach County rather than visit it. That is the whole argument and the roll supports it: 76.5% homesteaded single-family stock, 33,884 homes, schools, golf, a hospital, an airport, and an inland position that keeps it out of the most exposed coastal insurance bands. If you are choosing between here and the barrier island, you are choosing between a place where three-quarters of the houses are permanent homes and one where most are not.
It suits a buyer who wants scale and choice. Over three thousand recorded home sales in 2025 and 2026 alone. Compared with the enclaves this site more often covers — where a whole community produces one sale a year — this is a liquid market where you can be selective and where a valuation has real comparables behind it.
It suits badly a buyer who wants the ocean. Palm Beach Gardens is inland. Its waterfront is the Intracoastal and its marinas, not the Atlantic, and the beach is a drive.
And it suits badly anyone buying on a headline median. A city whose overall median is $546,348, whose single-family median is $791,694 and whose recent single-family deeds run at $1,140,961 is not one market. Establish which of Palm Beach Gardens you are actually buying into — the 1980s condominium and townhouse stock, the 1980s and 2000s golf communities, or the post-2020 western build-out — because the three have almost nothing in common except a municipal boundary.
Three things to establish before you commit:
- The age of the roof, windows, plumbing and air conditioning, and whether the windows are impact-rated. Nearly half this city was built in the 1980s.
- If there is an association: the reserve study, the funding position and the last three years of special assessments. This is where 1980s Florida stock hurts people.
- Your own projected tax bill, computed from your purchase price — not from the current owner’s, which in a 60.5%-homesteaded city is very likely capped far below market.
Verified 26 August 2026 against the Palm Beach County Property Appraiser’s PROPINFO record, published through the county’s open GIS service. All 38,734 parcels with a municipality of Palm Beach Gardens were retrieved and reconciled against the county’s own count of 38,734. 🔴 Three limits of this source govern everything above and are stated in the body as well as here. First, the roll publishes no building living-area field, so no price per square foot is computed or published anywhere on this page. Second, it carries only the most recent sale for each parcel — there is no sale history, no repeat-sale analysis is possible, and no appreciation rate for this city has been calculated; the year-grouped medians are explicitly flagged as mix-biased because a parcel appears in an earlier year only by virtue of not having sold since. Third, it carries no qualified-sale flag: arm’s-length transactions are approximated by filtering to warranty deeds above $100,000, which cannot exclude a below-market transfer between related parties. Homestead percentages are computed from the roll’s own exemption flag. Decade-of- construction figures use the roll’s YEAR_ADDED field, filtered in code rather than in the query because that field is a string containing dirty values. The comparison to Highland Beach comes from our own separately pulled record for that municipality. Re-check when the next tax roll publishes.
Palm Beach Gardens — Frequently Asked Questions
How many homes are there in Palm Beach Gardens?
33,884 — 21,198 single-family houses, 8,083 townhouses and 4,603 condominiums — out of 38,734 parcels in the municipality. Total market value across every parcel is $38,271,211,885, median $546,348.
What does a house cost in Palm Beach Gardens?
On 2,172 warranty deeds recorded in 2025 and 2026, the median single-family price was $1,140,961. Townhouses ran $452,500 on 669 deeds and condominiums $337,250 on 388. The county’s own 2026 market values are lower — $791,694, $353,884 and $265,000 respectively — because they cover every home, not just the ones that recently traded.
Is Palm Beach Gardens a second-home market?
⭐ No, and it is unusual in Palm Beach County for that reason. 76.5% of its single-family homes carry a homestead exemption, and 60.5% of all parcels in the city do — meaning they are permanent primary residences. For contrast, at Highland Beach on the barrier island 58% of parcels are NOT homesteaded.
How old is the housing stock in Palm Beach Gardens?
Mostly 1980s. 15,476 homes — 45.7% of the stock — were added to the roll in the 1980s, with 8,281 more in the 2000s and 5,173 in the 1990s. Only 1,647 since 2020. ⚠️ For a buyer that means roofs, windows, plumbing and air conditioning at or past end of life, pre-1992 hurricane standards, and association reserve positions that need checking.
Which are the most expensive communities in Palm Beach Gardens?
By the county’s 2026 median market value among the fifteen largest: Artistry ($1,460,066 across 387 homes) and Alton Neighborhood 1 ($1,080,272 across 360) are the only two above a million dollars, with Avenir Site Plan 2 Pod 5 at $827,866 and Isles at Palm Beach Gardens at $733,079. The largest community in the city, San Matera the Gardens, has a median of $248,000.
What is the price per square foot in Palm Beach Gardens?
🔴 We are not going to publish one, because the Palm Beach County roll does not carry a building living-area field. Lot acreage is published; floor area is not. Any per-square-foot figure quoted for this city comes from a listing service rather than the county record, and it is worth asking which properties it covers before relying on it.
Is Palm Beach Gardens on the ocean?
No. It is an inland municipality in northern Palm Beach County; its water frontage is the Intracoastal and its marinas — the roll records 145 airport and marina parcels plus 70 marina condominium units — and the Atlantic beaches are a drive away. It also carries 47 golf course parcels and 58 agriculturally classified equestrian parcels.
Sources and further reading
The largest residential communities in Palm Beach Gardens
By number of homes on the Palm Beach County roll, with the county’s 2026 median total market value for each. Retrieved 26 August 2026.
| Community | Homes | Median market value |
|---|---|---|
| San Matera the Gardens | 676 | $248,000 |
| Garden Lakes | 584 | $324,732 |
| Palm Beach Gardens Plat 6 | 400 | $481,539 |
| Paloma | 394 | $722,044 |
| Artistry | 387 | $1,460,066 |
| Palm Beach Gardens Plat 3 | 387 | $450,682 |
| Residences at Legacy Place | 384 | $298,500 |
| Isles at Palm Beach Gardens | 379 | $733,079 |
| Palm Beach Gardens Estates Plat 1 | 371 | $401,728 |
| Avenir, Site Plan 2 Pod 5 | 370 | $827,866 |
| Sandalwood Estates | 364 | $276,893 |
| Glenwood Townhomes | 363 | $303,438 |
| Alton, Neighborhood 1 | 360 | $1,080,272 |
| Palm Beach Cabana Colony Plat 1 | 352 | $311,403 |
| Golf Villas at PGA National | 340 | $312,200 |
⚠️ These are the fifteen largest by home count, not a ranking by desirability, and the “median market value” is the county appraiser’s figure for 2026, not an asking price. Artistry and Alton are the two communities where the county’s median passes a million dollars.
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