Palm Beach County is the largest county in Florida by land area, and it doesn’t behave like one market; it behaves like several. The coastal strip- Palm Beach, West Palm Beach, Boca Raton, Delray Beach, Boynton Beach- is dense, high-value real estate with plenty of gated communities and condo associations. Move about 15 miles inland, and you hit an entirely different county: Wellington, globally known as the winter home of competitive equestrian sport, where moving a household often means coordinating around barns, trailers, and horse property logistics that a standard residential move never touches. Keep going west, and the county turns agricultural, sugarcane country around Belle Glade and Pahokee, out toward Lake Okeechobee, a part of Palm Beach County most visitors never see.

The county has also become one of the country’s most active corporate relocation destinations in recent years, as financial firms and hedge funds have shifted operations from the Northeast into West Palm Beach and Palm Beach itself, a trend widely covered in business press as South Florida’s answer to Wall Street. That shift brings a steady stream of corporate relocations, executive household moves, and firms establishing new offices, on top of Palm Beach County’s long-standing role as one of the most seasonal markets in the state, with a large share of households splitting time between a Northeast primary residence and a Palm Beach winter home.