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The Palm Springs market right now (mid-2026)

The Village of Palm Springs is a small, dense, affordable pocket of Palm Beach County, and the reliable read on where prices are going comes from county single-family data. As of June 2026 the Palm Beach County single-family median was $700,000, up 11.8% year over year (from $626,000), with homes going to contract in a median 42 days and single-family supply down to 3.9 months — a 31.6% drop from a year earlier — squarely a seller's market (BeachesMLS via RWorld, June 2026). County single-family transactions rose about 25% year over year that month, and overall inventory fell 23.6% (RWorld, June 2026).

Palm Springs itself sits well under that county headline. Zillow pegged the village's typical home value near $277,000, up roughly 9.9% year over year (Zillow, 2026), and Redfin logged a city median in the mid-$260,000s in early 2026 on thin, volatile monthly volume (Redfin, 2026). That gap is the whole point of the village: it is one of the last genuinely attainable single-family and condo markets between I-95 and Florida's Turnpike. The condo and townhome side is looser countywide — the Palm Beach County condo median was $325,000, up about 3.2% year over year, on 7.2 months of supply and a median 68 days to contract, up from 61 (BeachesMLS via RWorld, June 2026) — a buyer's market that shapes a lot of Palm Springs inventory.

Affordability against West Palm and Lake Worth: the village's edge

Palm Springs works because it undercuts its neighbors. West Palm Beach to the north and the beachside stretches of Lake Worth Beach to the east carry the county's price premium, and the countywide single-family median near $700,000 (BeachesMLS via RWorld, June 2026) prices most first-time buyers out of the coast entirely. Inland, off Congress Avenue and Kirk Road, the village's 1960s and 1970s CBS ranch homes, villas, and garden-style condos let a workforce buyer actually close — Zillow's village typical value near $277,000 (Zillow, 2026) is a fraction of a comparable home east of I-95. That spread is the pitch every Palm Springs agent makes.

It also shapes who buys here. The village draws first-time and workforce buyers priced out of West Palm, retirees and snowbirds moving into its many 55-and-over condo and villa associations, and investors chasing rental yield on sub-$300,000 units. With condos at 7.2 months of supply countywide and about 49.5% of all Palm Beach County closings paid in cash — up from 47.3% a year earlier (BeachesMLS via RWorld, June 2026) — a large share of the village's condo and villa activity is cash retirees and investors, not financed primary buyers. Reading which of those buyers a given listing is really for is the core skill on this side of the market.

Insurance, condo reserves, and the commute that makes it viable

Two structural pressures define deals here. First, Florida's insurance and condo-reserve rules land hard on Palm Springs' older, affordable stock. Many of the village's associations are aging garden-style buildings, exactly the profile hit by the post-Surfside milestone-inspection and structural-integrity-reserve requirements that ended reserve-waiver practices at the close of 2024. On a sub-$300,000 condo (Palm Beach County condo median $325,000, BeachesMLS via RWorld, June 2026), a special assessment or a jump in the master insurance premium can rival the down payment — so knowing whether a building is reserved and insurable, or staring down an assessment, decides the deal.

Second, the commute is what makes the price gap livable. Palm Springs sits between Interstate 95 to the east and Florida's Turnpike to the west, with Congress Avenue, Military Trail, and Forest Hill Boulevard feeding both. A buyer can own an attainable home in the village and still reach downtown West Palm Beach, the medical corridor around Atlantis and JFK, or the office parks along Congress in a manageable drive. With single-family supply at just 3.9 months and a median 42 days to contract (BeachesMLS via RWorld, June 2026), well-priced village homes near those corridors move quickly, and first-time buyers who can act fast on a clean inspection win them.

What the $499 flat fee means for a Palm Springs agent

Palm Springs agents belong to Broward, Palm Beaches & St. Lucie REALTORS® (RWorld) and list through BeachesMLS, one of the largest MLSs in the country — coverage that lets a village agent work Lake Worth Beach, Greenacres, Wellington, West Palm Beach, and Boynton on one membership. Now the commission math, honestly, at both price points. On a village-typical $277,000 sale (Zillow, 2026), a 3% side grosses about $8,310; a 25% split brokerage keeps roughly $2,078 of that, and Gromadzki takes $499 — so about $1,580 more stays with you per closing.

The gap widens fast as price climbs, which is exactly why volume matters here. On a county-median $700,000 deal near West Palm or the coast (BeachesMLS via RWorld, June 2026), a 3% side is about $21,000; a 25% split hands the brokerage roughly $5,250, versus Gromadzki's flat $499 — more than $4,700 more in your pocket, every closing. A Palm Springs agent who does ten mixed sides a year — some sub-$300,000 village condos, some financed ranches, a couple of higher-priced deals up the road — leaves roughly $20,000–$35,000 a year on the table under a percentage split. In an affordable market where you earn your income on transaction count and hard-won insurance and condo-reserve expertise, a flat $499 is the difference between working hard and keeping it.