Sell Your Home in Highland Beach
You built this home's value. Your Highland Beach selling strategy should reflect it.
What Highland Beach homes are selling for right now, how BreakThru Realty prices and markets yours, and a free strategy review built from recent Highland Beach sales.
Selling a home in Highland Beach starts with knowing what buyers are paying right now, not last year. This page shows live sold prices, days on market and months of inventory from BeachesMLS, how BreakThru Realty prices and markets a Highland Beach home, and a guaranteed cash offer for owners who need speed over price.
Highland Beach Market at a Glance
Updated October 20, 2026 from BeachesMLS.
- 126homes & condos for sale
- 8new listings this week
- 25under contract
- 111waterfront listings
- 41luxury listings ($1,500,000+)
- 11sold in the last 30 days
| Single-family homes | Condos & townhomes | |
|---|---|---|
| Active listings | 9 | 117 |
| Median list price | $7,999,000 | $995,000 |
| Median list price per sq ft | $1,229/sq ft | $680/sq ft |
| Average days on market | 91 days | 130 days |
| Sold in the last 90 days | 2 | 26 |
| Median sold price (90 days) | $11,150,000 | $1,008,750 |
| Sale price as % of list price | 89% | 91.6% |
| Months of inventory | 13.5 months | 13.5 months |
| Median sold price vs. a year ago | — | +4% |
Source: BeachesMLS. Active listings as of October 20, 2026; sold figures cover closings in the last 90 days, compared with the same 90 days one year earlier. Not an appraisal. How these figures are calculated.
What Highland Beach Homes Are Selling For
In the last 90 days the median single-family home in Highland Beach closed at $11,150,000, or $1,875 per square foot, and the median condo or townhome at $1,008,750 ($582 per square foot). Sellers achieved 89% of their asking price on the typical single-family sale and 91.6% on the typical condo sale, and 11 sales closed in the last 30 days. Your home is not the median: waterfront, a pool, a renovated kitchen or a top-floor view all move the number, which is what the valuation is for.
Is Now a Good Time to Sell in Highland Beach?
126 homes and condos are competing for buyers in Highland Beach today, 8 of them new this week, and 25 are already under contract. Single-family homes have 13.5 months of inventory and condos 13.5 months, which makes the single-family side a buyer's market. Homes that closed took 118 days on average to go under contract (condos 127 days). In a market with fewer than four months of supply, a correctly priced home draws multiple showings in its first two weeks; in a slower one, pricing and presentation decide whether it sells at all.
Selling a Home in Highland Beach
A Highland Beach condominium is priced by its building, its exposure and its floor before anything else: a direct-ocean corner in Toscana, an Intracoastal unit with a slip at Regency Highland Club and a one-bedroom in the Ambassadors are three different markets, and within one building the renovated units and the original ones trade far apart. Buyers now ask for the milestone inspection report, the reserve study and any assessment before they ask about the kitchen, so we assemble those documents with the listing. A house on Bel Lido or Grand Cay is priced on its frontage, its seawall and dock, its elevation and whether it will be kept or replaced, and an oceanfront estate is priced against the handful of sales on the sand from here to Gulf Stream and Manalapan rather than against the town. Start with a free valuation built on recent MLS sales in your building or on your street, ask for a full comparative market analysis, or request a cash offer if you need a fast, as-is sale.
How to Choose a Listing Agent in Highland Beach
Interview more than one, and ask each the same questions. Which recent Highland Beach sales support the price they suggest, and can you see them? How will they market your particular home, and to which buyers? Who handles showings, offers and negotiation day to day? What does the listing agreement say about term, fees and cancellation, and who reviews the contract? Then choose the agent whose pricing you can check against closed sales, not the one with the highest number or the lowest fee. Experience with your type of home matters: a waterfront estate, a condo in a building with an assessment and a starter home in a gated community are sold to different buyers in different ways.
Selling a Luxury Waterfront Home in Highland Beach
A waterfront sale in Highland Beach is priced on the water first: ocean access and fixed bridges, dock length and water depth, the age and condition of the seawall, frontage, exposure and the view, then the house. Comparable sales are fewer and further apart than on dry lots, so the valuation reads the closed waterfront sales across the city, not the street. Marketing reaches the boating and out-of-state buyers who pay for that water, with photography that shows the dock and the approach, and showings and buyer qualification are handled with the discretion a high-value home needs; a private, off-market listing is an option we explain before you choose. The guides on selling a waterfront home and selling a luxury home go into the detail.
How BreakThru Realty Sells Your Home
A written pricing analysis from the Highland Beach sales that match your home, not a citywide average. Professional photography, video and floor plans, staging guidance, and a listing syndicated to every major portal and every BeachesMLS agent. Showing coordination, offer review and broker-level negotiation through inspection, appraisal and closing. No upfront fees; the commission and the plan are agreed in writing before your home goes live.
Need to Sell Fast? A Guaranteed Cash Offer
Some homes deserve the open market and some sellers need certainty. Through Neighborhood Cash Buyers, BreakThru can deliver a written cash offer on your Highland Beach home within 24 hours of a walkthrough, with no repairs, no showings and a closing date you choose. We show the listing estimate and the cash offer side by side so you can see the difference in net proceeds and decide.
What Highland Beach Homes Are Worth Right Now
The median single-family home in Highland Beach closed at $11,150,000 in the last 90 days, or $1,875 per square foot. The median condo or townhome closed at $1,008,750 ($582 per square foot). Single-family sellers achieved 89% of their asking price. Those are medians of everything that sold. They tell you where the market is, not what your home is worth: half of all sales closed above them and half below, for reasons a valuation has to account for one by one.
What Moves a Home's Value in Highland Beach
In Highland Beach the biggest differences come from the property's setting: on the water, the dock and lift, the depth at low tide, the width of the canal and whether a fixed bridge stands between the dock and the inlet, which can move two otherwise identical homes a long way apart; and in an oceanfront building, the floor, the line and the view, together with the association's reserves, its milestone inspection and any special assessment. Everywhere in South Florida, a buyer's insurer prices the roof's age, the windows and doors (impact-rated or not) and the wind mitigation report, and a buyer's lender looks at the flood zone and the elevation certificate, so two homes of the same size can carry very different monthly costs and sell for different prices. Open or expired permits, unpermitted additions and the condition of the kitchen, the baths and the air conditioning do the rest.
An Online Estimate Versus a Broker's Valuation
An automated estimate reads public records and recent sales by distance and size. It cannot see a renovation, a view, a seawall, a roof replaced last year or a special assessment about to be levied, and in a city where neighboring streets sell for very different prices it is often wrong by more than the cost of a mistake in pricing. A broker's valuation starts from the closed sales that truly match your home, adjusts each one for what is different, and checks the result against the homes you would compete with today.
How to Get Your Highland Beach Home Value
Enter your address on this page. A BreakThru Realty broker pulls the matching Highland Beach closings from BeachesMLS, adjusts them for your home, and calls you within one business day with a written value range and the sales behind it. It is free and carries no obligation. If you are thinking of listing, we extend it into a full comparative market analysis and an estimate of your net proceeds; if you need speed instead, we can put a guaranteed cash offer beside it so you can compare the two numbers.
What Highland Beach Buyers Pay Extra For
What a Highland Beach condominium is worth begins with the building and the exposure: a direct-ocean corner with both views outranks a side unit, an upper floor outranks a lower one, and a residence rebuilt to the studs with impact glass outranks an original. Then comes the building's position, the fee and what it buys, the reserve funding, the milestone inspection and any assessment already voted, and whether the unit may be leased. A house on Bel Lido or Grand Cay is valued on its frontage, seawall, dock and elevation and on whether a buyer will keep it or replace it, and an oceanfront estate on its beach width and its permits.
Which Parts of Highland Beach Are Moving
What moves in Highland Beach is the condition of the buildings. Florida's milestone inspection and reserve rules have reached nearly every tower on South Ocean Boulevard, and a building that has finished its concrete and waterproofing work and funded its reserves is now priced apart from one with the work ahead, so the same floor plan can be worth very different amounts in neighbouring buildings. On the Intracoastal side, mid-century houses on Bel Lido are being replaced by new homes, and each completion resets what the older houses beside it are measured against. A few oceanfront lots are being built on, and when they are gone there are no more in Highland Beach.
Before You Ask for a Highland Beach Valuation
Before asking what your Highland Beach home is worth, gather the documents that buyers will ask for first. For a condominium, that is the association budget, the reserve study, the milestone inspection report, any assessment notice, the leasing and pet rules, the parking and storage assignments and the permits for any renovation inside the unit. For a house, the survey showing the water frontage, the elevation certificate, the seawall and dock permits, the roof and wind mitigation reports and the permit history. For a marina slip, the assignment and transfer terms. With those in hand we can price a Highland Beach home from the sales that truly match it.
What a Listing Agent Does for a Highland Beach Seller
A listing agent sets the launch price from closed sales, prepares the home and the paperwork before it goes live, puts it in front of every buyer's agent through BeachesMLS and the portals, manages showings, and then negotiates: the offer, the inspection requests, an appraisal that comes in short, and the dates. Most of the money is made or lost in two places, the price the home is launched at and the negotiation after inspection, which is why both are worth asking about before you sign.
Questions to Ask Before You Sign a Listing Agreement
Which closed sales did you use for this price, and what did you adjust for? What will you do in the first fourteen days, and what happens if there is no offer by then? Who takes the photographs and video, and may I see a recent listing of yours? How do you handle showings, feedback and multiple offers? What is the commission, what does it include, how long is the agreement, and how can I end it? Have you sold in my building or community, and do you know its approval process and documents? An agent who prices from evidence answers all of them without hesitation.
How BreakThru Realty Markets a Highland Beach Home
Every listing gets a written pricing analysis from matching Highland Beach sales, professional photography, video and a floor plan, staging guidance, syndication to every major portal and every BeachesMLS agent, and its own page on this site. Beyond that the plan follows the property: for a waterfront home, aerial video of the route to the inlet and the dock specifications (length, lift capacity, depth, bridge clearance) written into the listing, because boaters search on them; and for an oceanfront condo, the association documents, reserve study and milestone inspection gathered before launch, because a buyer's lender and insurer ask for them in the first week. You hear the feedback from every showing, and a licensed broker negotiates the contract with you.
The Highland Beach Market Your Agent Has to Price Against
126 homes and condos are for sale in Highland Beach today, 8 of them new this week, and 25 are under contract. Single-family homes have 13.5 months of inventory and took 118 days on average to go under contract. A listing agent's price has to win against that competition in its first two weeks, when a new listing gets most of its attention; a price that needs a reduction later usually nets less than the right price would have on day one.
Commission, in Plain Terms
Commission is not set by law or by any board; it is negotiable and agreed in writing in the listing agreement before anything else happens. There are no upfront fees with BreakThru Realty: photography, video, marketing and showings are included, and the commission is paid from the proceeds at closing. Whether you offer anything toward a buyer's broker is your decision, made with your agent as part of the pricing strategy, and we show you the net proceeds under each choice before you decide.
Marketing a Home in Highland Beach Specifically
Marketing a Highland Beach condominium starts with the view and the building. Photography is shot at the hours when the ocean or the Intracoastal fills the windows, a corner unit is shown from both balconies, and the listing states the facts buyers in this town ask about first: the milestone inspection, the reserve position, the leasing rules and the parking. The campaign reaches winter residents in the Northeast and abroad before the season and the brokers who show the oceanfront from Boca Raton to Palm Beach. For a house on Bel Lido or Grand Cay or an oceanfront estate, drone footage shows the frontage and the dock, and showings are by appointment behind the gate.
Pricing a Listing Street by Street in Highland Beach
Pricing in Highland Beach is done building by building and street by street. A condominium is measured against the closed sales in its own building, adjusted for floor, exposure and renovation, and only then against the building next door, because a rebuilt corner in one tower and an original side unit in another are not the same market. A house on Bel Lido is priced from Bel Lido sales with the basin, the canal and the Intracoastal each treated as its own frontage, and a house that will be replaced is priced as a site. An oceanfront estate is priced from the handful of sales on the sand along this coast, examined one by one rather than averaged.
Who Is Buying in Highland Beach
Buyers in Highland Beach come from the Northeast and the Midwest, from Canada and from Europe, and most are buying a winter home or moving a primary residence to Florida. Many have rented in the oceanfront buildings for a season or two before buying, so they know the towers and ask about specific floor plans by name. Some come from the Boca Raton club communities looking for the beach without the golf, some from the island of Palm Beach looking for value on the sand, and boaters come for the slips at Regency Highland Club and Boca Highland and the docks on Bel Lido. Nearly all are represented by brokers, so a Highland Beach listing is sold through them as much as to the public.
Recently Sold in Highland Beach
The newest closings in Highland Beach, with the sale price, closing date and days on market for each.
Sold $1,200,000
Closed Oct 20, 2026 · 4740 S Ocean Boulevard 501, Highland Beach FL 33487
3 bd · 3 ba · 2,070 sq ft · $580/sq ft · 129 days on market · 100% of list price
Sold $2,950,000
Closed Oct 19, 2026 · 3505 S Ocean Boulevard 12n, Highland Beach FL 33487
2 bd · 3 ba · 2,659 sq ft · $1,109/sq ft · 95 days on market · 93.7% of list price
Sold $655,000
Closed Oct 15, 2026 · 2921 S Ocean Boulevard 204, Highland Beach FL 33487
2 bd · 2 ba · 1,330 sq ft · $492/sq ft · 139 days on market · 95.6% of list price
Sold $1,087,500
Closed Oct 13, 2026 · 3400 S Ocean Boulevard 10m, Highland Beach FL 33487
2 bd · 2 ba · 1,449 sq ft · $751/sq ft · 161 days on market · 90.7% of list price
Sold $425,000
Closed Oct 8, 2026 · 3221 S OCEAN Boulevard 302, Highland Beach FL 33487
2 bd · 2 ba · 1,050 sq ft · $405/sq ft · 17 days on market · 100% of list price
Sold $1,255,000
Closed Oct 2, 2026 · 3407 S Ocean Boulevard 7a, Highland Beach FL 33487
2 bd · 3 ba · 2,015 sq ft · $623/sq ft · 286 days on market · 89.9% of list price
What Is Your Highland Beach Home Worth?
Request a free valuation built on recent Highland Beach sales, or a full comparative market analysis before you list. No fee, no obligation, and a licensed broker answers within one business day.
Selling in Highland Beach: Frequently Asked Questions
- What is my Highland Beach home worth?
- It depends on what homes like yours have closed for. The median Highland Beach single-family sale in the last 90 days was $11,150,000 and the median condo or townhome $1,008,750, but your value comes from the closed sales that match your street, size, condition and features. Request the free valuation on this page and a broker builds it from those sales, with a full comparative market analysis if you are thinking of listing.
- How long does it take to sell a home in Highland Beach?
- Single-family homes that closed in Highland Beach in the last 90 days had been on the market 118 days on average, condos and townhomes 127 days. Well-priced homes go under contract in the first few weeks; from contract to closing, financed buyers usually need 30 to 45 days and cash buyers can close in two. Condos add association approval, which we start on day one.
- What does it cost to sell a home in Highland Beach?
- The commission is agreed in writing before the listing goes live and there are no upfront fees; photography, video, marketing and showings are included. At closing, Florida charges a documentary stamp tax on the deed, customarily paid by the seller, along with title and settlement fees and any association estoppel fee for a condo or HOA. We prepare a net proceeds estimate so you know what you will take home before you decide.
- Should I list my home or take a cash offer?
- List it if you can give the sale a few weeks and want full market value: Highland Beach sellers achieved 89% of asking on the typical single-family sale in the last 90 days. Take the cash offer if you need a certain closing date, cannot make repairs or do not want showings. We put both numbers side by side, and you can keep the cash offer as a backup while the home is listed.
- Do condos sell differently from houses in Highland Beach?
- Yes. The median condo or townhome in Highland Beach closed at $1,008,750 against $11,150,000 for a single-family home, with 13.5 months of condo inventory versus 13.5 for houses, and condo buyers weigh the association fee, the reserve study, the milestone inspection and the rental rules as much as the unit. We assemble those documents before the listing goes live so the buyer's questions are answered on day one.
- How much is my house worth in Highland Beach?
- The median Highland Beach single-family home closed at $11,150,000 in the last 90 days and the median condo or townhome at $1,008,750, but your home is not the median. Its value comes from the closed sales that match its street, size, condition and features. Enter your address on this page and a broker sends you a written range with the sales behind it, free.
- What is the average price per square foot in Highland Beach?
- The median sold price per square foot in Highland Beach over the last 90 days is $1,875 for single-family homes and $582 for condos and townhomes. It falls as homes get larger and rises with water, view and renovation, so it is a way to compare similar homes rather than a way to price one.
- How accurate are online home value estimates?
- They are a starting point. An automated estimate cannot see a renovation, a view, a seawall, a new roof or a pending assessment, and in Highland Beach those are most of the difference between two homes of the same size. A broker's valuation uses the same closed sales a buyer's appraiser will use and adjusts each for what is different.
- Are Highland Beach home values going up or down?
- The market table on this page compares the median sold price in Highland Beach with the same period a year ago, for single-family homes and for condos, and the Highland Beach housing market report shows twelve months of closings month by month.
- Does a home valuation cost anything?
- No. The valuation is free and carries no obligation to list. It is a broker's opinion of value built from recent closed sales, not an appraisal; a lender will order its own appraisal when a buyer finances the purchase.
- How do I choose a listing agent in Highland Beach?
- Ask each agent for the closed sales behind their suggested price and what they adjusted for, their plan for the first fourteen days, who produces the photography and video, how they handle multiple offers, and how you can end the agreement. Choose the one who prices from evidence rather than the one who names the highest number; an overpriced listing in Highland Beach sits, and a listing that sits sells for less.
- How much commission do realtors charge in Highland Beach?
- Commission is negotiable and is not set by law or by any board. It is agreed in writing in the listing agreement before the home goes live, and with BreakThru Realty there are no upfront fees: it is paid from the proceeds at closing. We show you an estimate of your net proceeds alongside it, so you are comparing what you keep, not just a rate.
- What should I do before I list?
- Find out the roof's age, close any open permits, gather the survey, the elevation certificate and the wind mitigation report if you have them, and for a condominium request the association's documents, budget and inspection reports. Those are what a South Florida buyer's insurer and lender ask for, and having them ready keeps a contract from falling apart in its first two weeks.
- Can I cancel a listing agreement?
- Ask before you sign. A listing agreement runs for a fixed period and sets out how it can be ended. We explain the term and the cancellation provision in plain words before you sign ours, and we would rather release a seller who is unhappy than hold them to a date.
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