Forte on Flagler

Is Forté on Flagler built? Yes — and sold

So the grey panel at the top of this page, which says Pre-Construction and Est. 2024, is describing a building that has been standing since April 2024 and has taken in more than a quarter of a billion dollars of closings. We cannot edit that panel — it is generated by the site template — so it is corrected here instead.

What Forté on Flagler actually is

What the 36 closed residences actually sold for

This is the part no brochure carries, and it is the reason to read a page like this one.

⭐ Twenty-nine of the thirty-six closed above the county’s own market value for the same residence, at a median of 1.22 times it — running as high as 1.98× at residence 1702 and as low as 0.91× at 1001. That spread is normal in the first year of a new building: the assessor is working from a ladder, and the buyers were working from a price list and a view.

On residence 2401 and the $28,250,000, be careful what you are told. It is the second-highest single-residence condominium sale on West Palm Beach’s current roll, and the highest since 2019. It is not a city record: The Bristol’s residence 2401 sold for $42,559,273 on 21 March 2019. Two figures on the roll appear higher still — $33,000,000 and $24,750,000 — but both are bulk deeds, one price repeated across 11 and 129 parcels respectively, and neither is the sale of a single home.

⚠️ Two limits on everything above, and they are the county’s, not ours. Palm Beach County’s published roll carries only each parcel’s most recent sale, so there is no transaction history here and no way to see an earlier price. And it publishes no living area at all, which means a price per square foot cannot be calculated from this source and none appears anywhere on this page. Anyone quoting you a per-foot figure at Forté is quoting a listing service, not the county.

⭐ One thing that limit does let us say. Because the roll shows each parcel’s latest sale, and all 36 are dated between July and October 2025, no residence at Forté has resold since it closed. There is no resale evidence here yet — no gains, no losses, nothing. In a building this new that is unremarkable, but it does mean nobody can show you a resale comparable either.

The 01 line, the 02 line, and what buyers disagreed with

Forté is unusually legible as a data set: two homes per floor, the same stack repeated twenty times, one facing one way and one the other. That makes it possible to see something that is normally buried.

The Property Appraiser values the 01 line higher than the 02 line on every single one of the eighteen floors. Its ladder is smooth and mechanical — the 01 residence is carried between $350,000 and $650,000 above its 02 neighbour, floor after floor, all the way up.

⭐⭐ Buyers did the opposite. On thirteen of the sixteen floors where both homes closed, the 02 residence sold for more than the 01.

The median gap between two homes on the same floor of the same building is 13.6%, and the widest is 64.5%. On the fourth floor, one residence closed at $8,215,000 and the one across the lift lobby closed at $4,995,000.

⚠️ Do not over-read this, and here is exactly why. The two lines are not identical homes — they face differently and they are not necessarily the same size — and because Palm Beach County publishes no square footage, we cannot normalise these prices for size and we are not going to pretend otherwise. Part of that gap is simply that one home is bigger than the other.

But the direction is the interesting part, and it does not depend on size. The assessor thought the 01 line was the better half of every floor. The people who actually wrote the cheques thought the opposite, thirteen times out of sixteen. If you are buying here, that disagreement is worth understanding before you accept anyone’s view of which side of the building is the good side.

The four homes that have not sold

Four of the forty have no arm’s-length recorded sale on the county roll:

• Residence 2501 — the top-floor penthouse. The Real Deal reported it asking $47,500,000 in July 2025. It has not closed. The county carries it at $23,966,191.
• Residences 2202 and 2302, carried at $6,350,000 and $6,425,000 respectively.
• Residence 501, which did transfer — on a warranty deed recording $10. A nominal consideration like that is a transfer between related parties, not a sale, and it is excluded from every figure on this page.

⚠️ On the penthouse, resist the obvious arithmetic. An asking price of $47.5 million and a county valuation of $23,966,191 is not evidence that the home is worth half what is being asked. A first-year assessment on an unsold developer-held unit is a mass-appraisal figure, not a market test, and the assessor has no transaction to work from precisely because it has not sold. What is fair to say is that the building’s marquee residence was asking $47.5 million in July 2025 and had not closed by the current roll.

The address problem, and why it matters

Forté is marketed — by the developer, and by The Real Deal — at 1309 South Flagler Drive. There is no 1309 South Flagler Drive on the Palm Beach County roll. A search of the county’s address index for it returns nothing at all; the only “1309 Flagler” in the county is 1309 North Flagler Drive, a 12.9-acre private hospital site.

Every one of the 40 residences is recorded at 1333 South Flagler Drive.

This is not a trivia point. If you go to the Property Appraiser to check what your neighbour paid, or to a title search, or to a tax record, the marketed address will find you nothing and you will conclude the record does not exist. It does. It is under 1333.

⭐ Worth knowing for the block as well: 1355 South Flagler Drive — the South Flagler House site next door — is still carried by the county as vacant land, 3.09 acres at $37,060,925. The tax roll runs well behind the skyline in this part of West Palm Beach.

Who this building suits, and who it does not

It suits a buyer who wants a very large home, in the sky, on the water, with almost no neighbours. Forty residences over twenty-five storeys, two to a floor, 4,200 to 8,400 square feet with private elevator foyers and over a thousand square feet of terrace. That is a genuinely scarce product, and the closed record shows the market agreed: $281.7 million across 36 homes in four months.

It suits a buyer who wants evidence rather than a pitch. Unusually for a new building, there is now a real closed record here — 36 arm’s-length transactions, all public. You can check what the home next door to the one you are being shown actually sold for. That is not true at most of the buildings on this website.

It suits badly a buyer who was told this is a pre-construction opportunity. It is not, and has not been since July 2025. Anything available now is either a developer-held residence or a resale, and those are different negotiations with different leverage. Ask which one you are being offered.

It suits badly a buyer who needs a price-per-foot benchmark. Palm Beach County does not publish living area, so the per-foot figures circulating for this building are derived from listing data, not the public record. Ask whoever quotes you one where it came from.

Four things to establish before you commit:

• Whether you are buying from the developer or from a 2025 buyer — and if the latter, what they paid, which is now public under 1333 South Flagler Drive.
• Which line you are being shown, and what the same line closed at in 2025. The same-floor spread here reaches 64.5%.
• The association’s budget, reserves and the first full year of actual operating costs. Three floors of amenities and a concierge programme for forty homes is a small number of owners carrying a large building.
• The tax position. These parcels reached the roll for the first time in 2026, so the first assessment is not a guide to the second.

Interested in buying at Forté on Flagler?

Forté on Flagler is finished — it topped off in April 2024 and closings began on 14 July 2025. It is no longer a pre-construction purchase. Talk to Josh Stein about what is actually available, and about what the closed county record says a residence here is worth.

LET'S TALK ABOUT FORTÉ

Forté on Flagler Amenities

AMENITIES & SERVICES

Energized by designer Jean-Louis Deniot’s signature elements of opulence and originality, Forté’s social spaces provide superb settings for celebrating new occasions and honoring cherished traditions. Three full floors of amenities serve as an extension of the home, presenting a variety of opportunities to experience seamless indoor and outdoor living.

An elegant great room, private dining room, library, and evening lounge provide the ideal setting for spacious gatherings or a spontaneous movie night.

Soak in the sunshine and sea breezes on an impressive second-story pool deck overlooking Palm Beach, complete with a 75’ pool, heated spa, and outdoor dining and lounge area perfectly suited for hosting old friends and socializing with new neighbors.

GRAND LOBBY LEVEL

• Grand Lobby and Lounge
• Concierge Service
• Package Service and Mail Room
• Access to Sculpture Garden, Art Walk and Dog Park

SOCIAL & ENTERTAINMENT

• 75′ Lap Pool with Heated Spa Designed by EDSA
• Pool Deck with Outdoor Dining Area and Lounge Area
• Private Dining Room with Seating up to 24 Guests
• Great Room
• Library
• Evening Lounge

WELLNESS LEVEL

• His and Hers Spas Equipped with Steam Room, Sauna, Relaxation Area, Lockers, and Private Treatment Room
• State-of-the-Art Fitness Center and Yoga Studio
• Card Room
• Business Center
• Golf Simulator Room
• Two Furnished Guest Suites

RESIDENTS SERVICES

• 24-Hour Security and Surveillance
• 24-Hour Lobby Attendant and
• Valet Service
• Forté House Cars
• Charging Stations for Electric Cars

CONCIERGE SERVICES (additional fees may apply)
• Access to Premium Tickets and VIP Events, Restaurant Reservations
• Moving Coordination and Storage Solutions
• Interior Design Services
• Housekeeping Services
• Personal Shopper
• Travel Service Available
• Private and Commercial Air Bookings
• In-Residence Wellness and Fitness Coordination
• Spa and Salon Appointments

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Forté on Flagler prices — what actually closed

This section used to be empty. It now carries the recorded figures, from the Palm Beach County Property Appraiser’s roll, retrieved 26 August 2026.

36 residences closed, every one of them in 2025, for a combined $281,682,200. Median $6,940,000. Lowest $4,995,000, highest $28,250,000. The first closing was 14 July 2025 and the last on the roll is 22 October 2025.

⚠️ Palm Beach County publishes no living area, so a price per square foot cannot be computed from this record and none is published here.