January 2023 Boca Raton Area Luxury Market Report from Jean-Luc Andriot and The Institute for Luxury Home Marketing

Posted by Jean-Luc Andriot on Friday, January 20th, 2023 at 9:43am.

Jean-Luc Andriot Luxury market report Boca Raton January 2023 for Jean-Luc Andriot blog 012023

As I am a member of The Institute for Luxury Marketing, I thought I would share with you their January 2023 report for Boca Raton - Delray Beach.

It is your guide to a general analysis on the trends and comparative data on the top-residential markets in the Boca Raton - Delray Beach area.

Statistics are separated between single family homes and condominiums / townhomes in Boca Raton - Delray Beach.

At the national level:

A Year in Review - 2022

The best way to describe 2022 might be that it started with a ‘boom’ and ended with a ‘fizzle’ – certainly this is an apt description when looking at the declining sales each month over the last year. At the start of 2022, new inventory, especially for property types in high demand, flew off the shelf, but by the end of 2022, sales had all but stalled in comparison.

Predictions versus Reality

2022 had been predicted to be a calmer year, with trusted trends, such as the spring real estate market returning with increased inventory levels, that would help plateau price increases. Demand was still predicted to be strong for luxury properties, but with the frenzy of 2021 replaced with a more discerning consideration of the property’s value.
What had not been predicted was the influence of variables such as Ukraine, inflation, interest rates, and speculation about recession, which created a year of contradictions, uncertainty, and unexpected consequences.
However, despite all these mitigating factors, the overall luxury real estate market remained resistant to any dramatic or negative change and still retains its safe investment appeal to the affluent. Even though there has been a continued slowdown in sales activity in the last quarter, prices have not only remained stable in most luxury markets but at near-record levels.
Sales activity and price growth at the rate seen from March 2020 to March 2022 could not continue indefinitely, and although the slowdown may have felt dramatic compared to these last two years, the reality is that the market has returned to the more normalized pace of pre-pandemic days rather than there being a significant correction.

Inventory A Major Player in 2022

Inventory levels certainly controlled much of the buying narrative during 2022. The number of sales in the first quarter of 2022 was only limited by the lack of new inventory entering the market, as the number of homes for sale hit a 20-year low.

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