Palm Beach County, Florida · ZIP 33435 & 33436

Boynton Beach

One city, two economies. A working commercial marina and a redeveloping downtown on the Intracoastal, and a three-mile stretch of Lyons Road that has absorbed more than five thousand new homes. Between them sits the widest price spread of any market in this network, and the reason a citywide median is close to useless here. This is the working reference to all of it, written by an agent who has practiced in these markets since 2005.

Boynton Harbor Marina and the downtown Boynton Beach waterfront at dusk, seen from above the Intracoastal Waterway
Karen J. Anderson, P.A. · REALTOR® · Broker Associate Compass Florida, LLC · 101 N. Federal Highway, Floor 5, Boca Raton, FL 33432 Florida Real Estate Broker #3141013 · Licensed since 2005 · 26°30′N | 80°05′W
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The Agent

Since 2005, across seven South Florida market cycles.

Karen Anderson, REALTOR® and Broker Associate with Compass Florida, LLC
NameKaren J. Anderson, P.A.
TitleREALTOR® · Broker Associate
FirmCompass Florida, LLC
LicenseFlorida Broker #3141013
Since2005 · Broker since 2012
Design.CDPE · CIPS · ABR · PSA

Karen Anderson has practiced real estate in South Florida since 2005 and has held a Florida broker's license since 2012. Roughly 400 closed transactions sit behind that, spanning the 2008 to 2012 distressed period, the investor-driven recovery, the pandemic surge, and the rate and condominium-law reset that reshaped this market after 2022. She holds the CDPE, CIPS, ABR, and PSA designations and is a member of the National Association of REALTORS®, the Florida Association of REALTORS®, and the Broward, Palm Beaches & St. Lucie Realtors®.

Boynton Beach is one of the four core markets her practice was built around, alongside Boca Raton, Highland Beach, and Delray Beach. Her work here concentrates in the western residential communities: the country clubs, the gated and non-gated neighborhoods along Lyons Road and Hagen Ranch Road, and the active-adult communities that have made this the deepest 55-and-over market in Palm Beach County. It also extends east, to the condominium and single-family stock around the downtown district, the marina, and the Intracoastal.

That range matters in a city like this one. A villa in an age-restricted community off Jog Road, a 1970s condominium a few blocks from the Boynton Inlet, and a new single-family home priced above a million dollars on Lyons Road are three genuinely different transactions with different buyer pools, different due diligence, and different resale behavior. Pricing any of them off a citywide average produces a bad number.

She works in partnership with her husband, Barry Stoll, a licensed REALTOR® and licensed loan originator whose background is in mortgage lending. Approximately 95% of the practice comes from repeat clients and referrals.

The Area

A working waterfront on one end,
a builder's corridor on the other.

Boynton Beach was settled in 1895 and incorporated in 1920. It covers roughly 16.6 square miles between Lantana and Delray Beach, carries about 81,400 residents, and sits at an elevation of about ten feet. Almost none of that describes what it is actually like to buy here, because the city's identity is not one thing. It is two, and they are separated by Interstate 95 and about eight miles of road.

On the east side is the downtown district and the coast. Its anchor is Boynton Harbor Marina, a commercial fishing marina dating to the 1940s that the city's Community Redevelopment Agency bought in 2006 specifically to keep it from being converted into private pleasure dockage. It is now one of the few publicly owned commercial marinas left in Florida, home to roughly nineteen water-activity businesses and three waterfront restaurants, sitting a half mile south of the Boynton Inlet between Boynton Beach Boulevard and East Ocean Avenue. Around it, the CRA has spent two decades on Town Square, the East Ocean Avenue corridor, Sara Sims and Jaycee parks, and the Boynton Beach Boulevard streetscape. Housing on this side skews older and more attainable: mid-century condominiums, villas, and single-family homes, with the coastal premium concentrated in a narrow band near the Intracoastal.

On the west side is the Lyons Road corridor, which is a different product entirely. GL Homes has built a nearly continuous run of communities along a three-mile stretch between Boynton Beach Boulevard and Atlantic Avenue: the Valencia series on the west side of the road, all age-restricted, and the Canyon communities on the east side, which are not. When Valencia Del Mar completes, more than five thousand homes will have been built along that corridor. Pricing there starts where east Boynton's ends. Add the established country clubs, Aberdeen, Hunters Run, Indian Spring, and Quail Ridge, and the western half of the city holds most of its amenity-heavy inventory.

The practical consequence is that "Boynton Beach" on a search filter returns two markets stacked on top of each other. A buyer looking at a $300,000 condominium near the marina and a buyer looking at a $1.3 million single-family home on Lyons Road are both shopping Boynton Beach, and neither one's experience tells you anything useful about the other's. The work here is figuring out which Boynton a buyer actually wants before the search starts, because the two sides reward completely different priorities.

East Boynton

ZIP 33435 · Downtown, marina, Intracoastal, coast

Older housing stock, a redeveloping downtown, and the only working commercial marina in the city. The most attainable entry point in the network, with the coastal premium concentrated close to the water.

  • Boynton Harbor Marina, Town Square, East Ocean Avenue
  • Oceanfront Park, the Boynton Inlet, Ocean Inlet Park
  • Leisureville, Sterling Village, Village Royale, Heart of Boynton
  • Mid-century condominiums and villas, plus coastal single-family
  • Longer average marketing times than the western ZIPs

West Boynton

ZIP 33436 and westward · Lyons Road, country clubs, active adult

Newer construction, resort-style amenity packages, and the deepest concentration of 55-and-over communities in Palm Beach County. Higher price points, faster absorption, and mandatory or optional club structures that change the carrying cost math.

  • The Valencia series along Lyons Road, all age-restricted
  • Canyon Isles, Canyon Springs, Canyon Lakes, Canyon Trails
  • Aberdeen, Hunters Run, Indian Spring, Quail Ridge, Pine Tree
  • Green Cay Nature Center, Canyon Town Center, Delray Marketplace
  • Shorter average marketing times, higher entry pricing
An updated oceanfront condominium and a villa in an active-adult community are not the same market. Treating them as interchangeable is how listings get mispriced and offers get miscalibrated.

Karen Anderson, REALTOR® · Compass Florida, LLC

Market Snapshot

The citywide median is the least
useful number in Boynton Beach.

Boynton Beach spans six ZIP codes and a price range that runs from roughly $280,000 to well past a million. A single median blends all of it into a figure that describes no actual property. The ledger below separates the pieces that matter.

Measure East · 33435 West · 33436 Citywide
Median sale price $412,000 $425,000 $334,000
Median days on market 87 68 ~80
Median price per square foot $244 $251 –
Year-over-year direction Mixed Up 1.1% Down 0.34%
Far-west Boynton, 33473, median list – – ~$1,150,000

Figures are drawn from MLS and public-records reporting across recent three-month windows and from a research report on ZIP-level marketing times. They shift month to month and they describe ZIP codes, not properties. The $1.15 million list median in far-west Boynton against a citywide list median near $360,000 is the clearest single illustration of the spread: same city name, same search filter, entirely different markets. Palm Beach County total sales rose for six consecutive months into early 2026, with dollar volume up more than 20% year over year, so the softness in the citywide median reflects mix as much as price. For a current, address-level read on a specific property, ask for one.

Local Authority Deep-Dive

100 things worth knowing about Boynton Beach.

01 Market FundamentalsZIP-level medians, marketing times, price per square foot, and why the citywide figure blends markets that have nothing to do with each other.
  1. Boynton Beach posted a citywide median sale price near $334,000 over the three months ending May 2026, down about 0.34% against the same period a year earlier.
  2. Homes citywide sold in roughly 80 days on average, essentially flat against about 82 days the prior year.
  3. Closing volume rose: roughly 394 sales recorded in a single May month against 358 in the same month the prior year.
  4. ZIP 33436 posted a median sale price near $425,000 over a recent three-month window, up about 1.1% year over year, moving opposite the citywide direction.
  5. Median price per square foot in 33436 ran about $251, down roughly 5.6% year over year.
  6. ZIP 33435 has reported a median sale price in the low $400,000s in public-records reporting, at roughly $244 per square foot.
  7. Marketing times separate cleanly by geography: a research report put median days on market at roughly 87 in 33435, 68 in 33436, 54 in 33426, and 53 in 33473.
  8. That spread is the practical argument against a single Boynton Beach timeline. The east side takes materially longer to sell than the far west.
  9. Citywide active inventory has run above 2,000 listings with a median list price near $360,000, while far-west Boynton's 33473 has carried a median list price near $1,150,000.
  10. Palm Beach County total home sales rose for six consecutive months into early 2026, with total dollar volume up more than 20% year over year.
  11. A softening citywide median alongside rising county dollar volume is a mix effect, not a collapse. More attainable product closing shifts the median down even when values hold.
  12. Karen's overall working price range runs from roughly $500,000 to $7 million, with the largest concentration of her transactions between $1 million and $2 million.
  13. Roughly 400 closed transactions across seven distinct South Florida market cycles since 2005 is the experience base behind the pricing conversation here.
02 The City, Its Geography & Municipal StructureIncorporation, boundaries, the city-versus-county distinction west of the line, and the environmental factors that price differently here.
  1. Boynton Beach was settled in 1895 and incorporated in 1920. Its motto is "America's Gateway to the Gulfstream."
  2. The city covers about 16.6 square miles, of which roughly 16.2 is land, at an elevation of about ten feet.
  3. City coordinates sit near 26 degrees 30 minutes north, 80 degrees 05 minutes west, on the Palm Beach County coast between Lantana and Delray Beach.
  4. The city carries six ZIP codes. Much of what buyers call "Boynton Beach" west of Military Trail is unincorporated Palm Beach County, not the municipality.
  5. That distinction changes policing, fire service, permitting, and utility providers, and it should be confirmed for a specific address rather than assumed from the mailing city.
  6. The Intracoastal Waterway runs the length of the city's eastern edge, with the barrier island and Ocean Ridge sitting between it and the Atlantic.
  7. The Boynton Inlet connects the Intracoastal to the ocean at the city's northeast corner, which is why the marina developed where it did.
  8. Flood exposure varies sharply between the coastal band and the inland communities. FEMA zone designation and elevation need verification address by address rather than by neighborhood reputation.
  9. Inland Boynton runs warmer and more humid than the coastal strip, with afternoon thunderstorms forming to the west and tracking east, the same pattern that governs West Boca and western Delray Beach.
03 East Boynton: Downtown, Marina & the CoastThe working waterfront, two decades of CRA redevelopment, and what the eastern housing stock actually consists of.
  1. Boynton Harbor Marina traces back to a commercial fishing marina operating in the 1940s.
  2. The Boynton Beach Community Redevelopment Agency purchased the marina in 2006 specifically to preserve public access and keep the commercial marine businesses from being displaced by private pleasure dockage.
  3. It is one of the few remaining publicly owned commercial marinas in Florida.
  4. The marina houses roughly nineteen water-activity businesses, including fishing charters, dive charters, jet-ski rentals, and boat rentals, alongside three waterfront restaurants.
  5. It sits a half mile south of the Boynton Inlet, between Boynton Beach Boulevard and East Ocean Avenue, and functions as the eastern anchor of the downtown district.
  6. Phase II of the marina redevelopment, the Harbor Dock Master Building and Fuel Dock project, was completed in December 2014.
  7. The final phase, the Marina Open Space Project, was completed in January 2017.
  8. Town Square is the downtown's inland anchor, with East Ocean Avenue running between it and the marina.
  9. The CRA has also funded corridor improvements along Boynton Beach Boulevard and upgrades at Sara Sims Park and Jaycee Park.
  10. The City of Boynton Beach has held roughly 16.5 acres of redevelopment land inside the CRA district, which is the pipeline for what the downtown becomes next.
  11. Eastern housing stock skews older: mid-century condominiums, villas, and single-family homes, with communities such as Leisureville, Sterling Village, and Village Royale representing the attainable tier.
04 West Boynton: The Lyons Road CorridorGL Homes' Valencia and Canyon communities, the active-adult market that made Boynton a national destination for it, and what the newest phase costs.
  1. The Valencia series runs along Lyons Road between Boynton Beach Boulevard and West Atlantic Avenue, and includes Valencia Isles, Valencia Lakes, Valencia Pointe, Valencia Reserve, Valencia Cove, Valencia Bay, Valencia Sound, Valencia Grand, and Valencia Del Mar.
  2. Every Valencia community is age-restricted at 55 and over. That is a structural eligibility question, not a preference, and it needs confirming before an offer.
  3. On the east side of Lyons Road, GL Homes built the Canyon communities, Canyon Isles, Canyon Springs, Canyon Lakes, and Canyon Trails, which are not age-restricted.
  4. When Valencia Del Mar completes, more than 5,000 homes will have been built along a roughly three-mile stretch of Lyons Road.
  5. Valencia Del Mar occupies a 188-acre parcel on the west side of Lyons Road, about two miles south of the Boynton Beach Boulevard intersection.
  6. Valencia Del Mar is planned at 518 single-family homes, with pricing reported beginning around $1.1 million.
  7. Its floor plans run from about 2,200 to more than 3,800 square feet, and the community was laid out around eleven lakes.
  8. Valencia Del Mar is anchored by a 43,000-square-foot clubhouse with a fitness center including steam rooms and saunas, a full-service restaurant, and a resort-style pool complex with beach-entry, resistance-walking, lap, spa, and wading pools.
  9. The Valencia Del Mar entrance lines up directly with the Canyon Springs entrance across Lyons Road, which is a useful landmark when touring the corridor.
  10. Valencia Bay comprises 582 single-family homes built by GL Homes, anchored by a 33,000-square-foot clubhouse on an eight-acre waterfront recreation site.
  11. Valencia Sound was built beginning in 2019 and comprises 412 single-family homes across 18 distinct models.
  12. Valencia Reserve carries a 30,000-square-foot clubhouse and an 18-hole championship golf course.
  13. Amenity depth is the corridor's product. Across the Valencia communities, programming spans pickleball, tennis, bocce, a lifestyle director, clubs, classes, and a full social calendar.
05 Communities, Country Clubs & Housing StockAberdeen, Hunters Run, Indian Spring, and the rest, plus the attainable tier and what mandatory membership does to the math.
  1. Aberdeen is an 18-hole golf course community containing more than two dozen distinct subdivisions, with single-family homes, villas, and condominiums under one club umbrella.
  2. The subdivision matters more than the community name at Aberdeen. Product type, fee structure, and pricing vary substantially inside the gates.
  3. Hunters Run carries a championship golf course and mandatory country club membership, which is a material carrying-cost commitment separate from the purchase price.
  4. Indian Spring Country Club is another established golf community serving the corridor, frequently cited alongside Westchester Country Club and Villa Del Ray in the area's club landscape.
  5. Quail Ridge and Pine Tree Golf Club round out the established club inventory, with Pine Tree offering optional membership behind 24-hour gated security.
  6. Polo Trace Golf Club sits just south of the corridor and is part of the same amenity picture buyers evaluate.
  7. Palm Chase Lakes offers semi-attached villas and condominiums within a short distance of the Jog Road retail corridor.
  8. Indian Wells represents the lower end of the market with historically low association fees, a useful comparison point against amenity-heavy communities.
  9. Leisureville, Sterling Village, and Village Royale are long-established eastern communities where entry pricing is the lowest in the city.
  10. Mandatory versus optional club membership is the single largest carrying-cost variable in this market. Two homes at the same list price can differ by five figures annually.
  11. Equity versus non-equity membership structures differ across these clubs, and the transfer or initiation obligation at closing needs confirming in writing.
  12. Karen's practice in Boynton Beach concentrates in the western residential communities, including the country clubs and the gated and non-gated neighborhoods, alongside active-adult communities and single-family homes both waterfront and inland.
06 Parks, Nature & Daily LifeGreen Cay, Wakodahatchee, the beaches and the inlet, and the everyday infrastructure that shapes how the city actually lives.
  1. Green Cay Nature Center and Wetlands at 12800 Hagen Ranch Road overlooks 100 acres of constructed wetland with a 1.5-mile elevated boardwalk.
  2. The Green Cay land was purchased in 1999 from Ted and Trudy Winsberg, who sold it at roughly one-third of appraised value on the condition that it be made into a wetland.
  3. Construction at Green Cay began in July 2003, and the site opened in 2004 as a joint project of the county's utilities and parks departments.
  4. Roughly 250 bird species have been recorded at Green Cay, which sits on the Great Florida Birding Trail. Admission and parking are free.
  5. Wakodahatchee Wetlands, a few minutes south at 13270 Jog Road, opened in 1996 on 50 acres of former wastewater utility property.
  6. Wakodahatchee carries a three-quarter-mile boardwalk with gazebos and interpretive signage, and more than 178 bird species have been identified there.
  7. Wakodahatchee parking fills quickly from late winter through early spring, and there is no overflow lot. Green Cay carries roughly triple the parking.
  8. Oceanfront Park Beach provides the city's principal public beach access on the barrier island.
  9. Ocean Inlet Park sits at the Boynton Inlet, where the Intracoastal meets the Atlantic, and is a fixture for fishing and boat watching.
  10. Seacrest Scrub Natural Area preserves a remnant of the coastal scrub habitat that once ran the length of the ridge.
  11. The Schoolhouse Children's Museum operates downtown in the city's restored 1913 school building, one of the few surviving early structures.
07 Roads, Access & CommutingThe north-south spines, the east-west arterials, rail access, and honest drive times across an eight-mile city.
  1. The north-south spines, east to west, are US 1 / Federal Highway, Interstate 95, Congress Avenue, Military Trail, Jog Road, Hagen Ranch Road, Lyons Road, and Florida's Turnpike.
  2. The east-west arterials, north to south, are Hypoluxo Road, Gateway Boulevard, Boynton Beach Boulevard, Woolbright Road, and Golf Road.
  3. Boynton Beach Boulevard is the primary connector between the two halves of the city and the route most western residents use to reach I-95 and the coast.
  4. Tri-Rail serves Boynton Beach directly, which is a genuine distinction: commuter rail access sits inside the city rather than requiring a drive to a neighboring one.
  5. Brightline does not stop in Boynton Beach. The nearest stations are in Boca Raton to the south and West Palm Beach to the north.
  6. The drive from the Lyons Road corridor to Oceanfront Park runs roughly eight miles east and takes materially longer between November and April.
  7. Palm Beach International Airport is roughly a 30-minute drive from the western communities under normal conditions.
  8. Seasonal congestion is real and predictable. Drive the actual commute at the actual departure time before committing to an address on either side of the city.
08 Schools & EducationHow attendance boundaries work across a city split between municipal and unincorporated territory, plus the post-secondary institutions here.
  1. Boynton Beach is served by the School District of Palm Beach County. Assignment is by attendance boundary, not by city name or ZIP code.
  2. Because much of western Boynton is unincorporated county territory, the mailing city is an especially poor proxy for school assignment here.
  3. Attendance boundaries change over time, and a single community can be split between zones. Verify the assigned school for a specific address using the district's published boundary maps before writing an offer.
  4. Forest Park Elementary operates at 1201 SW 3rd Street in the 33435 ZIP code.
  5. Rolling Green Elementary operates at 550 Miner Road.
  6. Boynton Beach Community High is one of the district high schools serving the city, with parts of the surrounding area assigned to neighboring high school zones.
  7. The district also operates choice, magnet, and career-academy programs whose eligibility is separate from residential boundary assignment.
  8. Post-secondary institutions in the area include Saint Vincent de Paul Regional Seminary at 10701 South Military Trail and Florida Career College's Boynton Beach campus on North Congress Avenue. Karen does not characterize school quality. She points buyers to the district's boundary maps and to state-published school data so they can evaluate the objective record for themselves.
09 DemographicsPopulation, income, age, and origin across a city whose two halves report very different numbers.
  1. Boynton Beach counted roughly 81,400 residents in recent American Community Survey estimates, up from about 80,380 at the 2020 Census.
  2. Population density runs near 4,975 residents per square mile, which is dense for Palm Beach County and reflects the city's compact 16-square-mile footprint.
  3. Median age citywide is about 42.5 years, older than the national median and younger than Boca Raton's citywide figure near 46.
  4. Median household income citywide runs near $70,000 to $71,000 in recent estimates.
  5. ZIP 33435, the eastern and downtown side, reported a median household income near $67,979 in 2024 estimates, below the citywide figure.
  6. Nearly 30% of Boynton Beach residents were born outside the United States, one of the higher shares among the network's markets.
  7. The city's working population runs above 41,000, with roughly 10% self-employed and about 9% in public-sector roles.
10 Ownership Costs, Age Restrictions & Association StructureThe 55-and-over eligibility rules that gate this market, plus taxes, insurance, dues, and reserves.
  1. Florida property taxes reset on the new purchase price. Never budget from the seller's current bill, which is the most common financial surprise for buyers arriving from out of state.
  2. Homesteaded Florida residents receive a 3% annual cap on assessed value increases. Non-homesteaded owners are capped at 10%, which matters for seasonal buyers modeling a full holding period.
  3. Florida taxes are paid in arrears. At closing the seller credits the buyer for January 1 through the closing date, and the buyer carries the remainder of the year.
  4. Complete opening protection is priced differently from partial. Carriers reward impact-rated glass or full shutters on every opening, not on some of them.
  5. Roof age and air conditioning age drive both insurability and premium, and both are typically visible in the county property record before a showing is ever scheduled.
  6. Mandatory club membership at communities such as Hunters Run is a recurring obligation entirely separate from association dues, and equity versus non-equity structures carry different transfer or initiation obligations at closing.
  7. Association dues in the Valencia and Canyon communities typically fund clubhouse operations, guard gates, private roads, and common-area landscaping, and in some communities lawn service. Two dues figures are not comparable until you know what each includes.
  8. Condominium and villa product across the city carries milestone inspection and Structural Integrity Reserve Study obligations under Florida's post-2022 legislation, the same as coastal buildings. Reserve funding levels and any pending special assessment need to be read from the financials rather than inferred. Karen served four years as a director and officer on her own condominium board and is the author of The Florida Condo Playbook.
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Why Karen Anderson for Boynton Beach

Four things that change the outcome here.

01

Two markets, priced separately

East Boynton and the Lyons Road corridor carry different medians, different marketing times, and different buyer pools. Pricing either one off a citywide number produces a bad list price or a bad offer, and the gap here is wider than in any other market in this network.

02

Age-restricted fluency

The active-adult segment is the deepest part of this market and the easiest one to get wrong. Eligibility rules, occupancy limits, financing constraints tied to community ownership ratios, and resale pool depth all need to be understood before an offer, not after an inspection.

03

Club structure and carrying cost

Mandatory membership at communities like Hunters Run, optional structures elsewhere, and equity versus non-equity transfer obligations can separate two identically priced homes by five figures a year. That analysis happens before the offer, in writing.

04

Association and reserve depth

Four years as a condominium board director and officer, plus authorship of The Florida Condo Playbook, applied to the milestone inspections, reserve studies, private-road obligations, and dues structures that decide what a home actually costs to own.

Questions

Boynton Beach, answered directly.

Why is there such a big price gap within Boynton Beach?

Because the name covers two different markets. East Boynton, around the downtown district and the marina in ZIP 33435, holds older mid-century condominiums, villas, and single-family homes, and it is the most attainable entry point in this network. The Lyons Road corridor to the west holds newer construction with resort-style amenity packages, where the newest phase of the Valencia series has been priced from roughly $1.1 million. Citywide the median sale price has run near $334,000 while far-west Boynton's 33473 has carried a median list price near $1,150,000. Same city name, same search filter, entirely different markets. The first question in any Boynton search is which of the two you actually want.

What does 55-and-over actually mean when I buy in a Valencia community?

It means the community operates as housing for older persons under federal law, and eligibility is generally framed around at least one occupant aged 55 or over, with limits on how many younger occupants a household may include. The specific rule lives in that community's recorded documents and they are not uniform across communities, so it should be confirmed in writing before an offer rather than taken from a brochure. Age restriction also affects the resale pool, since a future buyer must qualify too, and it can affect financing in communities where lender review considers ownership ratios and community financial structure. None of that is a reason to avoid the segment. It is a reason to go in with the documents read.

What is the Lyons Road corridor and why does it matter?

It is a roughly three-mile stretch of Lyons Road between Boynton Beach Boulevard and West Atlantic Avenue where GL Homes has built a nearly continuous run of communities. The Valencia series sits on the west side, all age-restricted, and includes Valencia Isles, Lakes, Pointe, Reserve, Cove, Bay, Sound, Grand, and Del Mar. The Canyon communities sit on the east side and are not age-restricted. When Valencia Del Mar completes, more than 5,000 homes will have been built along that corridor. It matters to sellers because active builder releases set the price ceiling that nearby resale is measured against, and it matters to buyers because the choice between two Valencias a mile apart is a choice between different amenity packages, different build years, and different dues.

Is the downtown Boynton Beach redevelopment real, or is it still on paper?

Substantial parts are built. The Community Redevelopment Agency bought Boynton Harbor Marina in 2006 to preserve public access and the commercial marine businesses, and completed the Harbor Dock Master Building and Fuel Dock project in December 2014 and the Marina Open Space Project in January 2017. The marina now houses roughly nineteen water-activity businesses and three waterfront restaurants a half mile south of the Boynton Inlet. Town Square anchors the inland side of the downtown along East Ocean Avenue, and the CRA has funded corridor work on Boynton Beach Boulevard and improvements at Sara Sims and Jaycee parks. The city has also held roughly 16.5 acres of redevelopment land inside the CRA district, which is the pipeline for what comes next. For a buyer, the practical question is not whether redevelopment is happening but how close a specific address sits to the parts already delivered.

How do school boundaries work in Boynton Beach?

Boynton Beach is served by the School District of Palm Beach County, and assignment is by attendance boundary rather than by city name or ZIP code. That distinction is sharper here than in most of the network, because much of what buyers call Boynton Beach west of Military Trail is unincorporated Palm Beach County rather than the municipality, so the mailing city is a particularly poor proxy. Boundaries also change over time and a single community can be split between zones. Campuses in the city include Forest Park Elementary on SW 3rd Street, Rolling Green Elementary on Miner Road, and Boynton Beach Community High, with parts of the surrounding area assigned to neighboring high school zones. The district also runs choice, magnet, and career-academy programs whose eligibility is separate from boundary assignment. Karen does not characterize school quality. She points buyers to the district's published boundary maps and to state-published school data so they can evaluate the objective record for themselves.

How can I reach Karen Anderson?

Call or text 561.542.4240, or use the email address here: (click to copy). Karen Anderson is a REALTOR® and Broker Associate with Compass Florida, LLC, 101 N. Federal Highway, Floor 5, Boca Raton, FL 33432. General inquiries receive a response within one hour and urgent matters within thirty minutes during business hours, which run Monday through Friday from 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM and Saturday from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM, with Sunday by appointment. Text is the fastest channel.

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