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The Boca Raton market right now (mid-2026)

Boca Raton sits inside one of the strongest single-family counties in Florida. The Palm Beach County single-family median reached $700,000, up 11.8% year over year, with homes going to contract in a median 42 days and inventory still tight at 3.9 months of supply (Florida Realtors/SunStats via MIAMI REALTORS + RWorld, June 2026). Single-family active listings fell 23.6% year over year, sellers are getting 95% of original list, and total home sales rose for the tenth consecutive month — this is a seller-leaning single-family market, not a stalled one.

One honest data note agents should carry into listing appointments: city-level Boca medians diverge widely. Portals have shown roughly $600,000 (Movoto, July 2026) to $685,000 (Houzeo, June 2026) in recent windows, because Boca's property mix — downtown condos, gated country-club homes, and oceanfront estates — swings the citywide median month to month. The county single-family figure is the reliable anchor; the citywide print is not. Boca's own mix also skews rich: the affluent buyer base means a large share of closings clear the county median rather than sit under it.

Luxury, second homes, and the Northeast relocation engine

Boca Raton is a destination market, and its buyers reflect it: luxury and trophy buyers, second-home and snowbird purchasers, international money, and a steady Northeast relocation stream from New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Massachusetts chasing no state income tax and year-round weather. That demand pools in country-club and waterfront communities. Royal Palm Yacht & Country Club — deepwater, gated, ultra-prime — has run a trailing-12-month median sale price around $7.35 million with listing medians near $12.9M (Redfin, 2025-26). Boca West is a large gated golf community of condos and homes; Woodfield Country Club anchors the family country-club tier; East Boca / Southeast Boca Raton carries the coastal luxury inventory (Redfin has shown a ~$1.4M neighborhood median); and Mizner Park and downtown East Boca drive the walkable, cultural condo demand.

The through-line is cash. Nearly half of all Palm Beach County purchases close in cash — 49.5% in June 2026, up from 47.3% a year earlier (MIAMI REALTORS + RWorld, June 2026), and in the trophy tier cash is close to the norm. For agents that means less financing-contingency risk on the high end and a premium on presentation, off-market networks, and negotiation — the parts of the job a percentage split quietly taxes.

The condo squeeze: reserves, assessments, and insurance

Boca's condo segment is a separate market with its own headwinds. The county condo median was $325,000, up about 3.2% year over year, but condos took a median 68 days to contract (up from 61) and 107 days to sale — clearly buyer-leaning versus single-family (MIAMI REALTORS + RWorld, June 2026). The pressure is structural. Florida's SB 4-D now requires milestone inspections for buildings three stories and taller at 30+ years, and since January 1, 2025 associations must fully fund Structural Integrity Reserve Study (SIRS) reserves — owners can no longer vote to waive them. HB 913 (2025) gave associations some flexibility to meet the mandate through one-time assessments or loans rather than annual funding.

The bill lands on owners. Special assessments have run $50,000 to $200,000+ per unit in harder-hit buildings, and roughly 40% of Florida condo owners have faced an assessment in the last three years (Florida condo/HOA reporting, 2025-26). Insurance compounds it: Florida condo premiums have averaged around $7,136 for $300,000 of coverage versus a $2,543 national average (Florida insurance reporting, 2025-26). Agents who can read a SIRS, a reserve budget, and a pending-assessment disclosure are closing condos in Boca right now. Agents who can't are watching deals die in due diligence.

MLS, association, and the commission math

The association landscape here just changed. On May 11, 2026, MIAMI REALTORS® and RWorld (Broward, Palm Beaches & St. Lucie Realtors®) completed their merger, combining roughly 93,000 members into the largest local Realtor association in the world, with the unified group to be renamed Miami and South Florida REALTORS® pending NAR approval (MIAMI REALTORS + RWorld, May 2026). The two MLSs — MIAMI MLS and BeachesMLS — merged with it, so a Boca Raton agent now works one complete South Florida MLS dataset covering Palm Beach, Broward, and Miami-Dade on a single membership. For an agent who serves relocating buyers up and down the coast, that's one login from Boca to Fort Lauderdale to Miami.

Now the math. An agent closing 10 single-family sides a year at the $700,000 county median grosses about $210,000 at 3% per side. A 25% split brokerage keeps roughly $52,500 of that; a 20% split, $42,000 — before monthly fees. At Gromadzki, those ten closings cost $4,990 flat, and roughly $37,000–$47,500 more stays with the agent. On the trophy tier the gap explodes: a single $5,000,000 sale at 3% is $150,000 gross, where a 25% split alone would cost $37,500 — versus $499 flat at Gromadzki. In a market where the winning deals are earned by relationships and negotiation, keeping your full commission on the deals that close is the whole point.