Palm Beach homes go for $305 - $646 per square foot

Palm Beach County has terrific transparency for home sales and assessed values from a great website:

http://www.pbcgov.com/papa/aspx/GeneralSearch/GeneralSearch.aspx



From the palm beach county tax records of transactions, it is clear that current price per square foot is NOT anywhere near the $1000 / sq ft that is quoted by real estate agents in palm beach:


$544 per sq. ft. 695 S County Road (Dec. 2008)

$438 per sq. Ft. 280 Orange Grove (Dec. 2008)

$357 per sq. ft. 402 Primavera (Jan. 2009)

$366 per sq. ft. 2267 E Ibis Isle (Dec. 2008)

$646 per sq. ft. 166 Everglades (Nov. 2008)

$561 per sq. ft. 4 Lagomar (Oct. 2008)

$305 per sq. ft. 222 Cherry Lane (Oct. 2008)