Highland Beach Homes for Sale

About Highland Beach Real Estate

Browse Highland Beach homes for sale across every neighborhood and price point in Palm Beach. Available homes span single-family, townhome, and condo segments throughout the city. Highland Beach includes gated golf communities, 55+ active adult neighborhoods, waterfront estates, and newer master-planned subdivisions. HOA fees vary by community type, from modest maintenance fees in non-gated subdivisions to higher dues in full-amenity country clubs. The city sits within Palm Beach, offering access to South Florida beaches, major employment centers, and healthcare hubs. For current Palm Beach market data, see Florida Realtors' monthly statistics. Browse the latest Highland Beach listings below. Then connect with a Pure Equity Realty agent to schedule a private showing.

Highland Beach offers a range of housing options across Palm Beach County. Pure Equity Realty lists homes in Highland Beach for 1% commission and represents buyers at no cost.

There are 115 active listings for sale in Highland Beach right now. The median list price is $999,000, or about $696 per square foot. Listings span $315,000 to $43,850,000, so there is inventory across most budgets. Homes are averaging 117 days on market. These figures update from the MLS as the market moves.

Highland Beach is a quiet barrier-island town squeezed between Boca Raton and Delray Beach, and its narrow footprint between the ocean and the Intracoastal makes for an unusually concentrated market. The inventory divides between oceanfront and Intracoastal condos along A1A and a set of single-family homes, many of them on the Intracoastal side with private docks and direct boating access. The condo buildings range from older low-rise communities to larger oceanfront complexes, and the price spread tracks closely with whether a unit faces the ocean, the Intracoastal, or neither. The single-family side, particularly the deep-water lots, sits at the top of the market and appeals to boaters who want ocean access through the Boca or Boynton inlets. There is almost no developable land left, so single-family activity is mostly renovation and rebuild on existing waterfront lots.

The town has no real commercial core of its own; it is a residential strip, and residents rely on neighboring Delray Beach and Boca Raton for dining, shopping, and downtown life. That is part of the appeal for buyers who want a calm, low-traffic enclave within a few minutes of Atlantic Avenue's restaurants to the north and Boca's amenities to the south. Listings here orient around A1A and the named oceanfront and Intracoastal condo communities, along with the gated single-family pockets on the water. Because the town is so small and so quiet, it draws a buyer who values privacy and a short walk to a relatively uncrowded beach over walkable nightlife, and that distinguishes it from the busier downtowns on either side.

The Highland Beach buyer is frequently a second-home owner, a seasonal resident, or a downsizer who wants the water without the bustle, with boaters specifically targeting the Intracoastal homes for dockage. Practical due diligence is the coastal standard: flood zones cover essentially the whole town, windstorm insurance is a real line item, and aging oceanfront condo buildings carry the now-familiar Florida recertification and special-assessment risk, so reserves and assessment history should be examined before any condo purchase. For single-family buyers on the Intracoastal, the dock, the seawall condition, the lot's water frontage, and the fixed-bridge clearances on the way to the Boca or Boynton inlet matter as much as the house itself, since they determine what size boat the property can actually accommodate. The town's scarcity of inventory and its position between two of the most desirable downtowns in Palm Beach County support steady demand, but buyers should price in insurance and maintenance honestly when comparing it to inland alternatives.