South Florida is not one uniform housing market. A detached house in Palm Beach County and a condominium in Broward County can follow different patterns, even in the same reporting month. This update uses published association reports rather than unsupported luxury price ranges or a prediction that every property will rise in value.
Evidence reviewed September 21, 2026: the regional comparisons below cover July 2026; the statewide context covers August 2026. Neither is a September completed-month result. September figures are not yet available in the cited schedule; missing data is not zero sales or zero price movement. The Florida Realtors publication schedule lists the September/third-quarter release for October 16, 2026. A current listing search can show today's asking prices, but it cannot substitute for a completed month's closed-sale statistics.
Published regional evidence: July 2026
In its August 18, 2026 regional release reporting July sales, MIAMI REALTORS + RWorld reported these year-over-year changes in closed-sale counts:
| County | Single-family homes | Condominiums/townhomes |
|---|---|---|
| Miami-Dade | +5.6% | +11.4% |
| Broward | +8.0% | −2.8% |
| Palm Beach | +12.7% | +18.5% |
These are changes in transactions, not changes in the value of an individual home. The same release reported year-over-year median single-family price increases in all three counties, while condominium/townhome median prices declined in Miami-Dade and Broward and rose in Palm Beach. That split is a reason to avoid a single “South Florida prices” conclusion.
The regional publisher also covers Martin and St. Lucie counties. The table intentionally isolates the three counties relevant to this article. It does not present the publisher's wider regional total as a three-county statistic, and the July observations are historical context rather than a claim about September conditions.
Newer statewide context: August 2026
Florida Realtors' August 2026 release, published September 16, 2026, reports a statewide median existing single-family sale price of $415,000, up 1.2% from August 2025, and a condo-townhouse median of $298,000, up 2.8%. Reported supply was 4.3 months for single-family homes and 7.7 months for condo-townhouse properties.
Those figures describe Florida as a whole. They are not Boca Raton price estimates, luxury-market averages or September mortgage quotes. A median is the midpoint of the homes that sold; a different mix of transactions can move it without showing what happened to the same home over time.
What a buyer should take from the split
Ask for comparable closed sales matching the property's location, type, size and condition. Then compare competing active listings separately. Asking prices show seller expectations; completed sales show what transactions actually closed. A property that has been available for longer may deserve questions about condition or pricing, but time on market alone does not establish the discount a seller will accept.
For a condominium, request the building's financial and inspection records and identify assessments before deciding that a lower purchase price means a lower ownership cost. Obtain a lender's written terms and property-specific insurance quotes. Do not assume a future refinancing opportunity will make an uncomfortable payment affordable.
What a seller should take from it
Build a pricing range from relevant recent transactions, then account for differences in condition, location and competing supply. Treat a county median as background rather than an appraisal. Ask how the comparison handles unusual waterfront access, renovations or association costs instead of assuming those features command a fixed premium.
The rest of 2026 is not a known result
This review does not forecast interest rates, promise appreciation or declare that the market cannot fall. Reporting periods, geography and property type must stay attached to every statistic. Request a property-specific market discussion with Kian using the published reports alongside current comparable listings and closed transactions. This article is market education, not a valuation or investment recommendation.