Palm Beach County, FL: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties
Palm Beach County, FL, Florida: 53 ZIP codes scored, Palm Beach County, FL averaging 32/100 (moderate, Palm Beach, FL), from 29 to 32. Palm Beach County, FL is in its peak phase (Palm Beach, FL confidence 6/100): Palm Beach, FL home prices up 0.6% (Palm Beach, FL) over twelve months. Palm Beach County, FL lender headwind: 53/100.
Highest-scoring Palm Beach County, FL ZIPs: 33401 (32/100), 33403 (32/100), 33404 (32/100), 33405 (32/100), 33406 (32/100), 33407 (32/100). Also scored in Palm Beach County, FL: 33408, 33409, 33410, 33411, 33412, 33413, 33414, 33415, 33417, 33418.
Across Palm Beach County, FL's scored ZIPs: median home value $494,642, household income $84,347, 16.1% vacancy, 11.9% poverty, 70% owner-occupied, median age 46.7.
Palm Beach County, FL insurance distress 92/100 (#82 in the US); FEMA hazard 90/100 for Palm Beach, FL; 4 federal disaster declarations in Palm Beach County, FL since 2023 (4 hurricane); 160 Palm Beach, FL NFIP flood claims, $7.5M paid; Palm Beach, FL construction distress 4/100.
56 banks with 387 branches lend in Palm Beach County, FL; Palm Beach, FL weighted bank stress 64/100, highest 90/100 in Palm Beach, FL.
Palm Beach County, FL unemployment 4.6% (Palm Beach, FL -0.2 pts, six months); 5,771 new housing units permitted in Palm Beach County, FL over twelve months, Palm Beach, FL up 46% from 3,957; Palm Beach, FL home prices +13.8% a year (Palm Beach, FL) over three years.
719,463 housing units in Palm Beach County, FL; 179,932 Palm Beach, FL renter households; 57% of Palm Beach, FL renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 31% (Palm Beach, FL) half or more.
Palm Beach County, FL ranks #784 nationally on the opportunity index (Palm Beach, FL, among all ranked counties); Palm Beach, FL scores 32.0/100 and Palm Beach, FL sits #58 inside Florida. Palm Beach, FL is in the watchlist opportunity phase; Palm Beach, FL's primary driver is vacancy, Palm Beach, FL second driver bank institutional; Palm Beach, FL moved up 415 places. 192 short-sale listings across Palm Beach, FL; 70 days on market observed in Palm Beach, FL; 14.8% vacancy over 53 Palm Beach, FL ZIPs.
1.2% of Palm Beach County, FL mortgages were ninety-plus days late in December 2025; Palm Beach, FL's thirty-to-eighty-nine-day share was 1.8% (CFPB county sample). Palm Beach, FL's ninety-day rate is up 0.7 points on twelve months earlier; the Palm Beach, FL peak since 2008 was 9.0% in January 2010; Florida overall reads 1.2%.
Palm Beach County, FL has 18 watched banks; 18 Palm Beach, FL banks sit in an elevated band. Palm Beach, FL footprints: Seacoast National Bank (11 branches, stress 58) in Palm Beach, FL; Bankunited National Assn (8 branches, stress 76) in Palm Beach, FL; Southstate Bank Na (4 branches, stress 48) in Palm Beach, FL.
HUD lists 23 assisted multifamily properties in Palm Beach County, FL with 3,413 units; 583 Palm Beach, FL units are assisted, 5 Palm Beach, FL properties under project-based Section 8.
114,033 of the 719,463 housing units in Palm Beach, FL sit vacant. Palm Beach County, FL permitted 2,607 multifamily units in twelve months; Palm Beach, FL's one-to-four unit structures added 3,164 units in Palm Beach County, FL.