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West Palm Beach
The city from the Intracoastal west: 1920s bungalows in its historic districts, postwar block homes, newer subdivisions out by the Turnpike.
City of West Palm Beach, in ZIPs 33401, 33405, 33407, 33409, 33411, 33412 and 33417
The Short List
The first Short List lands Tuesday, October 27.
Tuesdays at 7am, to no more than three seats.
The flip market here
27 flips resold since January 2025.
Homes bought, renovated and resold within 24 months. Resold Jan 2025 to Oct 2026. Across West Palm Beach: 27 flips, a median $300k purchase and $465k resale, 7.2 months apart.
- Median purchase
- $300k
- Median resale
- $465k
- Median hold
- 7.2 mo
- Median spreadThe gross spread: resale price less purchase price, before rehab, holding and selling costs. The median of the flips here, not the gap between the two medians.
- +$170k
Resold lately in West Palm Beach.
- 201 Murray Rd, West Palm Beach$2M → $4.96M15.6 months, resold Aug 4, 2026
- 717 Selkirk St, West Palm Beach$270k → $450k4.7 months, resold Jul 7, 2026
- 1326 8th St, West Palm Beach$190k → $310k3.7 months, resold Jul 7, 2026
- 5000 Lake Ave, West Palm Beach$293k → $360k14.5 months, resold Jun 30, 2026
- 719 Briggs St, West Palm Beach$334k → $478k14.4 months, resold May 28, 2026
- 841 Highland Dr, West Palm Beach$300k → $479k8.7 months, resold May 6, 2026
What we watch here.
Ownership
Long holds, estates, absentee and out-of-state owners, homestead changes.
Condition
Original-condition homes against the renovated sales around them, and what the aerials show.
Cases on record
Code and unsafe-structure cases, vacancy, open and expired permits.
Flood
Zone, base flood elevation and the flood 50% rule on every rehab.
West Palm Beach, by the numbers.
How many houses are flipped in West Palm Beach?
27 single-family houses here were bought, renovated and resold within 24 months, with the resales from Jan 2025 to Oct 2026. That’s 27 of the 27 flips in West Palm Beach in that time.
What do flips in West Palm Beach buy and sell for?
A median $300k purchase and a median $465k resale, with a median spread of +$170k before rehab, holding and selling costs. Across West Palm Beach: a median $300k purchase and $465k resale.
How long does a flip take in West Palm Beach?
A median 7.2 months from purchase to resale, against 7.2 months across West Palm Beach.
How does Terrazzo find flip targets in West Palm Beach?
We score the 14,090 homes we track here on how likely each is to sell and how likely it is to pencil as a flip. The ones most likely to do both make the area’s Short List every Tuesday, which goes to no more than three investors.