Palm Beach County, Florida · ZIP 33483 & 33444

Delray Beach

Two towns that merged in 1927 and never fully stopped being two. East of the Intracoastal is a barrier island where the median runs past a million. West of it is a downtown built on a pineapple-canning economy, then a working-class grid, then thirty-plus country club and active-adult communities running out toward the Everglades. Atlantic Avenue stitches all of it together across four miles. This is the working reference to the whole of it, written by an agent who has practiced these markets since 2005.

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1911 & 1923Two separate incorporations
66,846Residents, 2020 Census
~4 milesOf Atlantic coastline
$545,000Citywide median sale price
26°26′N | 80°06′WVillage by the Sea
The Agent

Since 2005, across seven South Florida market cycles.

Karen Anderson has practiced real estate in South Florida since 2005 and has held a Florida broker's license since 2012. Roughly 400 closed transactions sit behind that, spanning the 2008 to 2012 distressed period, the investor-driven recovery, the pandemic surge, and the rate and condominium-law reset that reshaped this market after 2022.

Delray Beach is one of the four core markets her practice was built around. Her work here concentrates in the ocean-adjacent neighborhoods east of A1A, the Intracoastal communities including Tropic Isle and Palm Trail, and the established country club communities to the west such as Addison Reserve, Delaire, Gleneagles, and Seagate Country Club at The Hamlet. It also runs through the gated and non-gated neighborhoods west of the Intracoastal, the 55-and-over communities, and single-family homes both waterfront and inland.

That range matters more in Delray than almost anywhere else in the network, because the city contains at least four distinct markets under one name. A condominium two blocks off Atlantic Avenue, a canal home with a private dock in Tropic Isle, a larger lot in Lake Ida, and a villa in a 55-and-over community west of Military Trail are four different transactions with four different buyer pools, four different due-diligence lists, and four different pricing models. A citywide median describes none of them.

She works in partnership with her husband, Barry Stoll, a licensed REALTOR® and licensed loan originator whose background is in mortgage lending. She is the author of The Florida Condo Playbook and served four years as a director and officer on her own condominium board. Approximately 95% of the practice comes from repeat clients and referrals.

Karen Anderson, REALTOR® and Broker Associate with Compass Florida, LLC
NameKaren J. Anderson, P.A.
FirmCompass Florida, LLC
LicenseFlorida Broker #3141013
DesignationsCDPE · CIPS · ABR · PSA
The City

Two towns that merged in 1927 and
never fully stopped being two.

Delray Beach was platted in 1895 as the Town of Linton, renamed around 1901, and grew on pineapples and tomatoes after the Florida East Coast Railway arrived in 1896. The mainland side, west of what is now the Intracoastal, incorporated as the Town of Delray on October 9, 1911. The barrier island side stayed unincorporated for another twelve years and incorporated separately as the Town of Delray Beach on October 9, 1923. The two did not merge until May 11, 1927.

That sixteen-year gap is not trivia. It is still visible in the market. The beach side developed as resort and second-home property and prices accordingly. The mainland side developed as a working town with a downtown, a school, a library, and a civic grid, and it carries an entirely different housing stock. Today ZIP 33483, covering the coastal corridor, reports medians running past a million dollars, while the citywide figure sits near $545,000. Same city, same search filter, two economies that were literally separate municipalities within living memory of the buildings still standing.

The culture on top of that is genuinely distinctive and it is not manufactured. Jo Sakai brought a group of Japanese settlers to the area in 1904 to found the Yamato Colony, growing pineapples and winter vegetables. George Sukeji Morikami came out of that colony, farmed here for decades, and donated roughly 200 acres that became the Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens. Pineapple Grove is named for the crop. Old School Square occupies the 1913 school building and the 1925 high school building, which the city bought in 1988 after the school board abandoned them and turned into a cultural center now on the National Register of Historic Places. The Spady Cultural Heritage Museum, restored in 2001, occupies the home of educator Solomon D. Spady.

What that produces is a downtown with an arts and dining identity that residents participate in rather than observe, and a pace that is social and casual where Boca Raton is polished and Highland Beach is silent. It is also the network's most pedestrian-friendly market by a wide margin. The trade is activity: Atlantic Avenue is busy, seasonal density is real, and a buyer who wants quiet needs to be honest about how many blocks off the Avenue that actually requires.

Aerial view of the Intracoastal Waterway at Delray Beach, with the barrier island and Atlantic Ocean at left and the mainland and downtown at right
The Intracoastal Waterway · Delray Beach, Florida Barrier island and Atlantic at left · mainland and downtown at right The 1911 and 1923 town line runs down the middle of this channel
Buyers searching along A1A may compare condominium communities across Boca Raton, Highland Beach, and Delray Beach at the same time. Understanding how buyers actually search and compare is what positions a property correctly.

Karen Anderson, REALTOR® · Compass Florida, LLC

Market Snapshot

Slower, more selective, and more negotiable
than it was three years ago.

Delray has shifted toward a buyer-friendlier posture. Inventory expanded through early 2026 after a steep decline the year before, marketing periods lengthened, and discounts to original list price became common enough to plan around. Sale prices are still up year over year, which is the part that gets missed: this is a market normalizing, not a market falling.

The split by product type is sharper than the split by geography. Single-family homes are moving materially faster than attached product. Condominiums and townhomes have seen marketing times run past 170 days in some segments, driven by rising association fees and the structural reserve requirements that followed Florida's post-2022 legislation. In Palm Beach County generally, months of supply in early 2026 ran near 5.4 for single-family against roughly 8 to 9 for townhouses and condominiums. If you are selling attached product here, that supply gap is the single most important number on this page.

Citywide median sale price$545,000
Citywide year over yearUp 4.7%
Citywide days on market~90
ZIP 33444 median sale price$810,000
ZIP 33444 per square foot$472
ZIP 33483 average home value~$1,014,000
Downtown Delray, trailing year$920,000
County months of supply, attached8 – 9

Figures are drawn from MLS and public-records reporting across recent windows and vary meaningfully by source and time period, since city-level trailing figures, ZIP-level data, and neighborhood-level data are not measuring the same thing. They describe aggregates, not properties. A canal home with a dock in Tropic Isle, a condominium off Atlantic Avenue, and a villa in a 55-and-over community west of Military Trail sit in three different markets inside one city name. For a current, address-level read on a specific property, ask for one.

Local Authority Deep-Dive

100 things worth knowing about Delray Beach.

01Market FundamentalsCitywide against ZIP against neighborhood, the single-family versus attached split, and why three sources will give you three different medians.
  1. Delray Beach posted a citywide median sale price near $545,000 over the three months ending May 2026, up roughly 4.7% against the same period a year earlier.
  2. Homes citywide sold in roughly 90 days on average, against about 87 days the prior year.
  3. Closing volume rose sharply: roughly 449 sales recorded in a single May month against 369 in the same month the prior year.
  4. ZIP 33444, covering downtown and the mainland core, posted a median sale price near $810,000 over the same window, up roughly 20.3% year over year.
  5. Median price per square foot in 33444 ran near $472, up about 5.9% year over year, and homes there sold in roughly 89 days against 96 the prior year.
  6. ZIP 33483, the coastal corridor, has carried an average home value near $1,014,000, with early-2026 reporting putting its median past $1.1 million at roughly $749 per square foot.
  7. The Downtown Delray Beach neighborhood specifically has reported a trailing-year median near $920,000, up about 18%, with roughly 78 days on market.
  8. Tropic Isle has reported a trailing-year median near $660,000, up about 30%, with roughly 98 days on market.
  9. Those figures do not reconcile with each other, and that is expected. City trailing figures, ZIP-level data, and neighborhood data measure different sets over different windows. Always confirm which geography and which window a quoted number describes.
  10. The sharper divide is by product type, not geography. Single-family homes are moving materially faster than attached product.
  11. Condominium and townhome marketing times have run past 170 days in some segments, driven by rising association fees and post-2022 structural reserve requirements.
  12. Palm Beach County months of supply in early 2026 ran near 5.4 for single-family against roughly 8 to 9 for townhouses and condominiums. That gap is the practical reason attached product sits longer.
  13. Inventory in the coastal 33483 corridor surged in early 2026 after a steep decline the prior year, shifting leverage toward buyers and making discounts to original list price common enough to plan around.
02History & How the City Was AssembledTwo separate incorporations twelve years apart, a farming economy, and the origins that still shape where value sits.
  1. The area was platted in 1895 as the Town of Linton, named for one of its founders, and took the name Delray around 1901, after Delray in Detroit.
  2. The Florida East Coast Railway reached the area in 1896 and is the reason settlement accelerated when it did.
  3. The mainland side, west of the waterway, incorporated as the Town of Delray on October 9, 1911. John Shaw Sundy, an FEC construction superintendent who arrived in 1898, became the first mayor and served seven terms.
  4. The barrier island side remained unincorporated for another twelve years and incorporated separately as the Town of Delray Beach on October 9, 1923.
  5. The two towns merged on May 11, 1927 to form the City of Delray Beach.
  6. That twelve-year gap still reads in the housing stock and the pricing. The beach side developed as resort and second-home property; the mainland developed as a working town with a civic grid.
  7. Pineapples and tomatoes drove the early economy. Canning plants were built in 1911, and pineapple became the primary crop, which is where the Pineapple Grove district gets its name.
  8. The 1910 census counted 904 residents listing 24 US states and nine other countries as birthplaces. The city was demographically mixed from the beginning.
  9. Jo Sakai led a group of Japanese settlers to the area in 1904, founding the Yamato Colony, which farmed pineapples and winter vegetables.
  10. George Sukeji Morikami came out of that colony, farmed here for roughly thirty years, and donated close to 200 acres that became Morikami Park and the Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens.
  11. The Ladies Improvement Association, formed in 1902, drove construction of the public library, the cemetery, Atlantic Avenue, and the town hall. The library was founded in 1913.
  12. The first bridge across the waterway was built in 1911, physically connecting the two future halves of the city.
  13. The Sundy House, built in 1902 by the first mayor, still stands and is among the oldest surviving structures in the city.
03Downtown, Atlantic Avenue & the Arts DistrictsThe Avenue, Pineapple Grove, Old School Square, and the mixed-use projects that reshaped the core.
  1. Atlantic Avenue is State Road 806 and functions as the city's main east-west spine and its downtown high street, running from the beach west across the Intracoastal.
  2. The Avenue carries the restaurants, galleries, boutiques, cafés, and live music that give the city its identity, and it is the most pedestrian-friendly commercial corridor in this network.
  3. Old School Square occupies two former school buildings: the 1913 elementary and high school building, now the Cornell Museum, and the 1925 high school building, now the Crest Theatre.
  4. The city acquired those buildings in 1988 after the Palm Beach County School Board abandoned them, and the complex is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
  5. Pineapple Grove sits just off Atlantic Avenue and operates as an arts-forward district of public murals, working galleries, locally owned restaurants, and boutique businesses.
  6. Pineapple Grove is where buyers who want neighborhood character rather than main-drag energy tend to end up, and it prices accordingly.
  7. Atlantic Crossing is a phased mixed-use development along East Atlantic Avenue incorporating office, restaurant, retail, residential, and structured parking, with portions already open and operating.
  8. Sundy Village adds boutique office, dining, retail, and public gathering space near the intersection of Atlantic Avenue and Swinton Avenue.
  9. The Spady Cultural Heritage Museum, restored in 2001 in the home of educator Solomon D. Spady, documents the history of the city's African American community and has since added a children's clubhouse and an amphitheater.
  10. The Colony Hotel on Atlantic Avenue is among the restored historic properties that anchor the downtown's period character.
  11. The city established formal historic districts to protect that architecture, which affects what owners inside them can change and how renovation approvals work.
  12. The practical buyer question downtown is not whether you want to be near the Avenue. It is how many blocks off it you need to be, because seasonal density and evening activity fall off quickly with distance.
04Beachside & the IntracoastalThe barrier island corridor, dockage, the A1A condominium market, and what waterfront actually costs to own.
  1. ZIP 33483 covers the coastal corridor with the Intracoastal on one side and the Atlantic on the other, and it is the highest-value geography in the city by a wide margin.
  2. The city carries close to four miles of Atlantic coastline, and Delray Beach Municipal Beach has held Blue Flag environmental certification.
  3. Karen's work here concentrates in ocean-adjacent neighborhoods east of A1A and in Intracoastal communities including Tropic Isle and Palm Trail.
  4. Tropic Isle is a canal community where dockage is the product. Frontage width, dock size, seawall condition, water depth, and bridge clearance all move value independently of the house.
  5. Tropic Harbor within that area is a 55-and-over waterfront condominium community with Intracoastal-facing pools and boat dockage.
  6. The A1A condominium corridor runs continuously from Boca Raton through Highland Beach into Delray Beach, and buyers routinely shop all three municipalities at once.
  7. Because of that, building quality and association health outrank municipal boundary in this corridor. A well-run building in one city competes directly against a well-run building in the next.
  8. Salt-air exposure on the ocean side accelerates corrosion of metal, concrete, and mechanical systems, and it shows up in maintenance budgets rather than in listing photos.
  9. Properties a block west of the ocean experience reduced airflow, higher ambient heat, and more concentrated humidity, which is a different ten-year ownership cost profile at a similar price.
  10. Roughly 13% of properties in ZIP 33444 have been identified as facing severe flood risk over a thirty-year horizon in third-party modeling, and the coastal ZIP carries higher exposure still.
  11. FEMA flood zone designation, elevation certificates, and wind coverage need verifying address by address rather than by neighborhood reputation.
05Neighborhoods & CommunitiesLake Ida, Osceola Park, Seagate, and the rest, plus what separates them in price and in daily life.
  1. Lake Ida is the neighborhood buyers reach for when they want larger lots without giving up proximity to Atlantic Avenue.
  2. Lake Ida's median single-family price has reported near $673,000 with modest year-over-year appreciation, while waterfront homes with private dock access there have run roughly $1.5 million to $2.2 million.
  3. That spread inside a single neighborhood is a good illustration of why a neighborhood-level median is only a starting point in this city.
  4. Palm Trail is an Intracoastal-adjacent community north of Atlantic Avenue with a mix of single-family and attached product.
  5. Seagate is an established beachside-adjacent neighborhood with its own distinct character and price band.
  6. Tropic Palms and Hidden Valley sit inland from Tropic Isle and offer meaningfully different pricing within a short distance.
  7. Osceola Park and Del-Ida Park are historic-district neighborhoods near the downtown core where architectural guidelines affect renovation.
  8. The Marina District sits on the Intracoastal near the municipal marina and carries a boating-oriented buyer profile.
  9. Housing stock across the mainland ranges from 1920s cottage-style homes through mid-century construction to recent infill and new construction, and construction era predicts the roof, panel, and plumbing conversation more reliably than list price does.
  10. Recent new construction in the 33444 core has been trading with impact windows and doors already installed, which is a meaningful insurance and premium difference against unrenovated stock nearby.
  11. Short-term rental activity exists in parts of the mainland core, and licensing status, permitted use, and any HOA restriction need confirming before a buyer counts on that income.
  12. Some mainland neighborhoods carry no homeowners association at all, which buyers coming from gated communities frequently underweight as an advantage.
06West Delray: Country Clubs & 55-PlusThe clubs, the age-restricted communities, and the membership structures that decide real carrying cost.
  1. West of the Intracoastal, Delray runs inland toward the Everglades and carries the majority of the city's gated and club communities.
  2. Addison Reserve, Delaire Country Club, Gleneagles, and Seagate Country Club at The Hamlet are among the established country club communities Karen works in.
  3. Seven Bridges, The Bridges, and Stonecreek Ranch represent the newer gated inventory in and around western Delray.
  4. The city and its immediate surroundings hold more than thirty active-adult and 55-and-over communities, one of the deepest concentrations in Palm Beach County alongside Boynton Beach.
  5. Age restriction is a structural eligibility question, not a preference. The governing documents control, they are not uniform across communities, and they should be confirmed in writing before an offer.
  6. Age restriction also narrows the resale pool, because a future buyer has to qualify too.
  7. Mandatory versus optional club membership is the single largest carrying-cost variable in this segment. Two homes at the same list price can differ by five figures annually.
  8. Equity and non-equity membership structures carry different transfer or initiation obligations at closing, and those need confirming in writing rather than in conversation.
  9. Polo Trace and Villa Del Ray are among the additional golf communities serving the western corridor.
  10. Pricing in the far western communities can run dramatically higher or lower than the citywide median depending on community age and amenity package, which is another reason the citywide figure has limited use here.
07Parks, Culture & Daily LifeMorikami, the wetlands, the tennis center, and the institutions residents actually use.
  1. The Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens occupies roughly 200 acres donated by George Sukeji Morikami and remains the cultural institution most associated with the city nationally.
  2. Morikami's gardens, koi ponds, rotating exhibits, and seasonal festivals function as a genuine counterweight to the energy of Atlantic Avenue for residents.
  3. Wakodahatchee Wetlands at 13270 Jog Road opened in 1996 on 50 acres of former wastewater utility property and is free to the public.
  4. Wakodahatchee carries a three-quarter-mile boardwalk with gazebos and interpretive signage, and more than 178 bird species have been identified there.
  5. Wakodahatchee parking fills quickly from late winter through early spring and there is no overflow lot. Green Cay in Boynton Beach is a few minutes away with roughly triple the parking.
  6. The Delray Beach Tennis Center hosts significant professional tennis events and is a meaningful driver of seasonal visitor traffic downtown.
  7. The city operates a public marina where boats can dock, and yacht tours run daily from Veterans Park on the Intracoastal.
  8. Delray Beach Municipal Beach has been repeatedly recognized among Florida's best and holds Blue Flag certification for environmental standards.
  9. The Delray GreenMarket and a steady calendar of festivals and street events run through the season and are part of why residents describe the downtown as participatory rather than scenic.
  10. Seasonal activity is a real consideration. Traffic, restaurant demand, and parking pressure all rise materially from roughly November through April.
08Access, Roads & RailThe one city in this network with both commuter and intercity rail, plus the bridges that govern boating.
  1. Atlantic Avenue, State Road 806, is the primary east-west route and the downtown spine.
  2. Linton Boulevard and George Bush Boulevard are the other principal east-west connectors to State Road A1A, and both carry drawbridges over the Intracoastal.
  3. Those drawbridge schedules matter to boaters and to anyone commuting east and west across the waterway at peak times.
  4. Interstate 95 and Florida's Turnpike both serve the city, with Congress Avenue, Military Trail, and Jog Road running north to south inland.
  5. The Delray Beach Station carries both Tri-Rail commuter service and Amtrak. Delray is the only market in this network with intercity passenger rail inside the city.
  6. PalmTran provides local bus service throughout the area.
  7. Downtown is reachable by boat via the Intracoastal, and the municipal marina provides public dockage.
  8. Boca Raton is immediately south and Boynton Beach immediately north, which puts three of this network's six markets within roughly fifteen minutes of each other.
09DemographicsPopulation, scale, and the seasonal pattern that shapes both traffic and market timing.
  1. The 2020 Census counted 66,846 residents, with more recent estimates running near 68,000.
  2. Delray Beach is the fourth largest city in Palm Beach County.
  3. The city covers about 16.52 square miles, of which roughly 15.92 is land, at an elevation near 16 feet.
  4. City coordinates sit near 26 degrees 26 minutes north, 80 degrees 06 minutes west, with Boynton Beach to the north and Boca Raton to the south.
  5. The city carries a substantial retirement population alongside a working downtown economy built on tourism, dining, and retail.
  6. Peak season runs roughly November through April, when the buyer pool is largest and most financially qualified and inventory competition is most intense. The off-season creates negotiating room for buyers willing to look when others are not.
10Ownership Costs & AssociationsTaxes, homestead caps, reserves, and the fee structures behind the attached-product slowdown.
  1. Florida property taxes reset on the new purchase price. Never budget from the seller's current bill, which is the most common financial surprise for buyers arriving from out of state.
  2. Homesteaded Florida residents receive a 3% annual cap on assessed value increases while non-homesteaded owners are capped at 10%, which matters in a city with this many seasonal owners.
  3. Florida taxes are paid in arrears. At closing the seller credits the buyer for January 1 through the closing date.
  4. Rising association fees and the reserve funding required under Florida's post-2022 condominium legislation are the direct cause of the slowdown in attached product here, not a lack of buyer interest.
  5. Milestone inspection status, Structural Integrity Reserve Study results, reserve funding adequacy, and assessment history need to be read from the financials before an offer on any condominium. Karen served four years as a director and officer on her own condominium board and is the author of The Florida Condo Playbook.
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Why Karen Anderson for Delray Beach

Four things that change the outcome here.

01

Four markets, one city name

Beachside, downtown, the historic mainland neighborhoods, and the western club communities price independently and attract different buyers. Pricing any of them off a citywide median produces a bad number.

02

The attached-product problem

Condominiums and townhomes here are sitting past 170 days in some segments on rising fees and reserve requirements. If you are selling attached product, that is the constraint the strategy has to be built around from day one.

03

Corridor-wide comparison

Buyers along A1A shop Boca Raton, Highland Beach, and Delray Beach at the same time. Karen works all three, so positioning accounts for what a buyer is actually comparing rather than only what is on this side of the town line.

04

Club and association depth

Mandatory membership, equity versus non-equity transfer, milestone inspections, and reserve studies decide what a home costs to own. Four years as a condominium board director and officer, plus authorship of The Florida Condo Playbook, applied to the documents.

Questions

Delray Beach, answered directly.

Why do different sources give completely different Delray Beach median prices?

Because they are measuring different geographies over different windows. The citywide median has run near $545,000 over a recent three-month period. ZIP 33444, covering downtown and the mainland core, has run near $810,000 at roughly $472 per square foot. ZIP 33483, the coastal corridor, has carried an average home value near $1,014,000, with early-2026 reporting putting its median past $1.1 million. The Downtown Delray Beach neighborhood specifically has reported a trailing-year median near $920,000. None of those figures is wrong. They simply are not the same measurement. Before relying on any quoted median here, confirm the geography, the window, and whether it is a sale price or a list price.

Why are condominiums taking so much longer to sell than houses?

Supply and carrying cost. In Palm Beach County generally, months of supply in early 2026 ran near 5.4 for single-family homes against roughly 8 to 9 for townhouses and condominiums. On top of that inventory gap, association fees have risen and Florida's post-2022 legislation requires milestone inspections and structural reserve funding, which has pushed monthly costs up across many buildings. The combined effect has pushed marketing times for attached product past 170 days in some segments. It is not an absence of buyers. It is buyers pricing the full carrying cost rather than only the purchase price. For a seller, that means the reserve position and fee trajectory of the building need to be part of the marketing conversation from the start, not a disclosure that surfaces during due diligence.

What is the difference between east and west of the Intracoastal in Delray?

Historically they were separate municipalities, and the market still reflects it. The mainland incorporated as the Town of Delray in 1911 and developed as a working town with a downtown, a school, a library, and a civic grid. The barrier island stayed unincorporated until 1923 and developed as resort and second-home property. They did not merge until 1927. Today the coastal ZIP reports medians past a million dollars while the citywide figure sits near $545,000. East of the waterway you are buying proximity to the ocean, the A1A condominium corridor, and canal dockage in communities like Tropic Isle. West of it you are buying the downtown, the historic neighborhoods, larger lots in areas like Lake Ida, and eventually the country club and active-adult communities running inland.

How close to Atlantic Avenue should I actually be?

Closer than you think if you want the lifestyle, farther than you think if you want quiet. Atlantic Avenue is the most pedestrian-friendly commercial corridor in this network and the reason many buyers choose Delray over Boca Raton or Highland Beach. It is also genuinely busy, and seasonal density from roughly November through April is real: traffic, restaurant demand, and parking pressure all rise materially. Activity falls off quickly with distance, so the practical question is how many blocks off the Avenue you need to be. Pineapple Grove tends to suit buyers who want neighborhood character rather than main-drag energy. Lake Ida suits buyers who want larger lots while staying close. Visit an address on a weekend evening in season before committing to it.

What should I know about buying in a Delray country club or 55-and-over community?

Read the membership structure before the floor plan. Delray and its immediate surroundings hold more than thirty active-adult and 55-and-over communities plus established clubs including Addison Reserve, Delaire, Gleneagles, and Seagate Country Club at The Hamlet. Mandatory versus optional membership is the single largest carrying-cost variable, and two homes at the same list price can differ by five figures annually on that basis alone. Equity and non-equity structures carry different transfer or initiation obligations at closing. Where a community is age-restricted, that is a structural eligibility question rather than a preference, the governing documents control, they are not uniform, and they should be confirmed in writing before an offer. Age restriction also narrows the resale pool, since a future buyer must qualify as well.

How can I reach Karen Anderson?

Call or text 561.542.4240, or use the email address here: (click to copy). Karen Anderson is a REALTOR® and Broker Associate with Compass Florida, LLC, 101 N. Federal Highway, Floor 5, Boca Raton, FL 33432. General inquiries receive a response within one hour and urgent matters within thirty minutes during business hours, which run Monday through Friday from 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM and Saturday from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM, with Sunday by appointment. Text is the fastest channel.

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East Boca Raton

The coastal and downtown corridor, where pedestrian-friendly geography and beach proximity carry a sustained premium over square footage.

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Central Boca Raton

Established residential neighborhoods between I-95 and Florida's Turnpike, with mature landscaping and roughly fifteen minutes to the beach.

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West Boca Raton

Unincorporated county territory west of the Turnpike, built around larger lots, gated communities, and 872 acres of regional park.

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Highland Beach

A barrier-island town between the Atlantic and the Intracoastal with almost no commercial development by design, and a market driven building by building.

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Boynton Beach

Palm Beach County's deepest active-adult market, split between a redeveloping marina district and the Lyons Road corridor.

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Delray Beach

You are here. The Village by the Sea, from the barrier island and Atlantic Avenue west to the country club communities.

Palm Beach County · ZIP 33483, 33444 Known for: Atlantic Avenue, Pineapple Grove Arts District, the Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens

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