Boca Raton appreciation rates and housing market information

Boca Raton housing market information

With 75,594 people, 37,651 houses or apartments, and a median cost of homes of $458,300, Boca Raton house prices are not only among the most expensive in Florida, Boca Raton real estate also is some of the most expensive in all of America.

single-family detached homes are the single most common housing type in Boca Raton, accounting for 48.84% of the city's housing units. Other types of housing that are prevalent in Boca Raton include large apartment complexes or high rise apartments (42.89%), row houses and other attached homes (4.54%), and a few duplexes, homes converted to apartments, or other small apartment buildings (3.48%).

Dwellings in Boca Raton tend to be quite small (one, two, or no bedrooms) and owner-occupied. In fact, 50.41% of the homes in Boca Raton have two or fewer bedrooms.

There is a lot of housing in Boca Raton built from 1970-1994, so parts of town may have that "Brady Bunch" look of homes popular in the '70s and early '80s, although some of these houses were built up through the early '90s as well. There is also a lot of housing in Boca Raton built from 1940-1969 (28.23%). A lesser amount of the housing stock also hails from 1995 and later (6.61%), and some were built from 1939 and earlier (6.61%).

Vacant housing appears to be an issue in Boca Raton. Fully 15.03% of the housing stock is classified as vacant. Left unchecked, vacant Boca Raton homes and apartments can be a drag on the real estate market, holding Boca Raton real estate prices below levels they could achieve if vacant housing was absorbed into the market and became occupied. Housing vacancy rates are a useful measure to consider, along with other things, if you are a home buyer or a real estate investor.

Boca Raton home appreciation rates

In the last 10 years, Boca Raton has experienced some of the highest home appreciation rates of any community in the nation. Boca Raton real estate appreciated 139.62% over the last ten years, which is an average annual home appreciation rate of 13.96%, putting Boca Raton in the top 10% nationally for real estate appreciation. If you are a home buyer or real estate investor, Boca Raton definitely has a track record of being one of the best long term real estate investments in America through the last ten years.

Over the last year, Boca Raton appreciation rates have trailed the rest of the nation. In the last twelve months, Boca Raton's appreciation rate has been -12.71%, which is lower than appreciation rates in most communities in America. In the latest quarter, NeighborhoodScout's data show that house appreciation rates in Boca Raton were at -6.47%, which equates to an annual appreciation rate of -25.88%.

Notably, Boca Raton's appreciation rate in the latest quarter is one of the lowest in America.

Relative to Florida, our data show that Boca Raton's latest annual appreciation rate is higher than 37% of the other cities and towns in Florida.

One very important thing to keep in mind is that these are average appreciation rates for the city. Individual neighborhoods within Boca Raton differ in their investment potential, sometimes by a great deal. Fortunately, you can use NeighborhoodScout to pinpoint the exact neighborhoods in Boca Raton - or in any city or town - that have the best track record of real estate appreciation, by the latest quarter, the last year, 2 years, 5 years, 10 years, or even since 1990, to assist you in making the best Boca Raton real estate investment or home purchase decisions.