On May 14, 2026, financier John Daly and Norah Daly closed at $13 million on the 6,200-square-foot home at 11329 Turtle Beach Road in North Palm Beach, picking up the property from Robert and Robin Martin at a price-per-square-foot of more than $2,100 across five bedrooms and four-and-a-half baths. The sale was the day’s top single-family closing in Palm Beach County, per The Real Deal‘s May 14 South Florida deal sheet, which framed it inside a broader day that included the $29 million sale of a 1950s-vintage waterfront house at 216 Bal Bay Drive in Bal Harbour — the largest residential transaction recorded across South Florida that day.

The Bal Harbour closing is the more eye-catching number, but the Turtle Beach Road closing is the more informative one for Palm Beach. A 3,000-square-foot, three-bedroom Bal Harbour waterfront at $29 million, sold by a trust tied to Luis Arevalo to one managed by attorney Mark Meland, prints at roughly $9,667 per square foot — a Miami-Dade trophy-tier mark that depends on Indian Creek-class oceanfront scarcity. Coldwell Banker’s Jill Hertzberg (the Jills Zeder Group) held the listing; Douglas Elliman’s Dina Goldentayer brought the buyer. The seller had picked up the property in 2015 for $7.5 million, meaning the held basis cleared roughly 3.9x in eleven years.

The Turtle Beach Road print is a different signal. $13 million for 6,200 square feet on a five-bed, four-and-a-half-bath floor plan in North Palm Beach establishes the trophy mark for that submarket on a closing date that sits inside the post-season window — the four-week stretch after the Cavallino, Polo, and gala calendar closes when most of the island’s marquee inventory either trades or waits out the summer. That the Dalys closed at the post-season ask signals the upper-end Palm Beach County buyer pool is still active beyond the season’s traditional cutoff.

The May 14 South Florida deal sheet in context

One other Palm Beach-relevant residential transaction hit the same May 14 records run. A trust tied to attorney Harold L. Lewis sold the 4,900-square-foot home at 1276 Biscaya Drive in Surfside for $11.4 million to a trust linked to Brian Rebhun, a partner with PwC’s asset and wealth management tax practice; the price-per-square-foot cleared $2,300, and the property had last traded in 2020 for $5.5 million — roughly a 2x markup over five years.

For the Palm Beach trophy market specifically, the Turtle Beach Road and Biscaya Drive prints together establish that the $10 million-to-$15 million band — where Palm Beach Estate Section, North End, and North Palm Beach inventory most actively trades through the post-season summer window — is still clearing at or near ask, with sub-30-day market times where the listing presentation is correct.

How the post-season trophy tape reads

The May 14 closings landed inside the same broader Palm Beach trophy cycle that produced the season’s record prints. Margit Brandt’s Premier Estate Properties practice has cleared roughly $700 million in 2026 year-to-date, anchored on the May Manalapan double-close — $105 million for the 3.5-acre Eau Palm Beach ocean-to-Intracoastal vacant lot and $62.5 million for Randal Kirk’s 820 South Ocean estate — plus the $49.5 million Maurice Fatio contract at 115 Via La Selva from earlier in May.

That set establishes the season’s high-water marks at the top of the market. The May 14 Turtle Beach Road print establishes that the next band down — the $10–15 million single-family trophy at the North Palm Beach end — is still moving at ask into the post-season window.

What to watch over the next 30 days

The post-season window through mid-June is the cleanest read of the year on Palm Beach trophy-tier liquidity, because it strips out the season’s calendar-driven bid. If single-family closings in the $10–25 million band continue clearing at ask through the next four weeks, the 2026 trophy market enters July with the same constructive trajectory the spring posted. If they slow, Palm Beach lender desks tighten LTV on summer collateral. The Daly closing on Turtle Beach Road is one data point. The next four weeks decide whether it is a trend.

From the Borro desk: The cross-channel signal arriving from Sotheby’s $433.1 million spring opening is the strongest hard-asset confirmation in roughly 18 months.

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