Highland Beach Real Estate

Highland Beach is a town of about 4,000 people on roughly three miles of barrier island between Boca Raton and Delray Beach, with the ocean on one side and the Intracoastal Waterway on the other. There is one road through it, State Road A1A, and there is no room to build anything new without replacing something old.

The town incorporated in 1949 and has kept a strict height and density code since.

The result is a market dominated by oceanfront and Intracoastal condominium buildings, with a small number of single-family houses, several of them on the Intracoastal with dockage. Our own office handles listings on this stretch regularly, and it behaves differently from the mainland a quarter mile west.

What is selling

In August 2026, 2 single-family homes closed in Highland Beach - too few to publish a median for the month on its own. Across the year so far, 12 closed at a median of $6,725,000. There are 7 on the market now at a median asking price of $4,950,000.

In August 2026, condominiums and townhouses in Highland Beach closed at a median of $1,130,000, at a median 161 days on market and 91% of the last asking price, across 7 closings. Across the year so far, 139 closed at a median of $975,000, against 96 at $957,500 in the same period last year. There are 104 on the market now at a median asking price of $899,000, and about 14.9 months of supply, which puts the leverage firmly with buyers.

Houses and condominiums are reported separately here on purpose. Averaging the two produces a number that describes neither, and in this market the two halves frequently move in different directions.

Based on information from BeachesMLS for August 2026 and for Jan 1 - Aug 31, 2026, retrieved September 11, 2026. Information deemed reliable but not guaranteed. Listings permitted for internet display.

Getting around

A1A runs the length of the town, with Linton Boulevard and Spanish River Boulevard the nearest crossings to Interstate 95. Boca Raton Regional Hospital and Delray Medical Center are both close, Boca Raton's Brightline station is about 15 minutes south, and Palm Beach International Airport is roughly 40 minutes north.

This is a condominium market with a handful of houses

Almost everything that trades in Highland Beach is a condominium, and the small single-family count above is not a market so much as a short list of individual properties. That matters for anyone reading a town-wide figure: with only a few houses closing in a year, a house median here describes those specific sales and nothing more, which is why we publish the condominium figures separately and treat the single-family line as a count rather than a trend.

For a condominium owner, the town is the wrong unit of analysis and the building is the right one. Two buildings a block apart can differ on reserves, assessment history, rental rules, milestone inspection status and pet policy, and each of those changes the buyer pool. Since Florida's structural integrity reserve study and milestone inspection requirements took effect, the reserve position of a building has become one of the first questions a serious buyer's lender and insurer ask, and it is now a routine part of how a unit is priced.

Selling a condominium in Highland Beach

We start by reading your building: what has closed inside it over the last twelve months, how long each of those took, and what the association's current assessment and reserve position looks like. That produces a written opinion of value tied to your building rather than to an oceanfront average that includes towers with different rules. Then we handle the documents a buyer's lender will require - the estoppel, the association's questionnaire, the milestone and reserve study status - before they can hold up a closing.

Working with us in Highland Beach

Pricing a unit here means reading the building, not the town: its reserve position, its assessment history, its rental rules and what has actually closed inside it in the last year. Two buildings a block apart can be months apart in time to sell.

Gia Freer, our Broker of Record, has been licensed in Florida since 2000, and our office is in Boca Raton, a few minutes south. PBP Real Estate is a transaction broker, and we handle probate and estate sales, short sales and relocation in house. Tell us your building and unit and we will give you a written opinion of value.

A recent example from our own book: 2917 S Ocean Blvd #405 in Trafalgar of Highland Beach, a furnished oceanfront three bedroom we represented, leased in September 2026 and is no longer offered for sale. If you want the next residence like it in Highland Beach before it reaches the MLS, tell us the building you are watching.

Did your listing come off the market without selling? Read what the data says about an expired listing in Highland Beach — how much of the local inventory is sitting past 90 days, and what waiting costs against the original asking price.

Compiled by Gia Freer, Broker of Record, PBP Real Estate, LLC · Florida broker license BK689801 · brokerage license CQ1064615. Figures drawn from PBP's own BeachesMLS data feed and last updated September 11, 2026. Market analysis only; PBP Real Estate is a Licensed Florida Real Estate Brokerage, not a licensed appraiser.