Lifestyle first
The club must work for the household, not merely impress on a tour.
Evidence with limits
A comparison you
can interrogate.
The goal is not to manufacture a winner. It is to make the evidence consistent, transparent and useful enough to support a better private-club decision.
The governing principles
Comparable denominators
Parcel-based context keeps active supply and turnover grounded.
No false precision
Thin samples and changing membership economics are handled honestly.
How the market analysis works
Residential scale
Community size uses separately verified residential tax parcels. It does not use club-member counts or MLS listing histories as a proxy for homes.
Current supply
Active-market share divides unique active residential parcels by the verified parcel denominator. Active price offerings use the low and high current asking prices in the mapped community.
Closed sales
Annual sales follow the closed-sale date. Listing histories are reduced to the latest valid record, and duplicate parcel/date/price transfers are removed.
Appreciation
Appreciation is the change in median closed-sale price divided by positive living square feet for January 1–August 7 of the comparison years. It is not an appraisal or repeat-sales index.
Sample protection
Median $/sf and appreciation comparisons require at least five valid observations. Thin samples are labeled ‘Withheld’ instead of presenting false precision.
Days on market
DOM uses the available contract date minus the original or listing-market date, bounded to valid nonnegative intervals. Annual averages and medians follow the sold-date year.
Coverage status
Every club can have a lifestyle profile, but market statistics appear only after residential boundaries, parcel counts and MLS cohort matching are validated. Pending clubs never inherit proxy figures.
Public-source evidence
Golf architecture, programming and heritage facts use public club, architect, municipal or golf-governing sources. Undated renovation claims and unlisted programs remain explicitly pending rather than inferred.
Sources and timing
What the current
version contains.
- Market source
- BeachesMLS active and closed residential listings through 2026-08-07
- Parcel denominator
- Separately verified Palm Beach County tax-roll residential parcels
- Amenities
- Official club websites and club materials reviewed August 2026
- Playability and heritage
- Official club and architect histories, municipal records and current USGA rating references; reviewed August 25, 2026
- Dated heritage coverage
- 28 launch-market profiles currently have source-linked timeline events; remaining profiles show design lineage with dates pending
- Detailed family-program coverage
- 15 profiles currently include specific, source-linked children’s, junior-sports, camp or family-calendar details
- Current coverage
- 75 private-club profiles, 16 verified residential cohorts and 104 golf destinations
- Exclusions
- Nominal transfers below $10,000, invalid prices or living area, duplicates and non-residential records
What stays private
Changing club economics
are not a public price list.
Initiation fees, dues, capital assessments, waitlists, transfer rules and refundability can change quickly. We respect clubs that do not publish them and recommend direct, advisor-led verification.