Pull up three different sites and search "Tequesta home prices" this week and you will find a median list price near $809,000, a median sold price around $595,000, and an average sale price above $3.2 million, all supposedly describing the same town on the same summer. None of these numbers is wrong. They are measuring three different things and, in at least two cases, three different pieces of geography.
If you are comparing Tequesta to Jupiter, Hobe Sound, or Sewall's Point before you move, that gap matters more than the number itself. Here is what is actually happening underneath the headline figures, and what to check before you trust any single one of them.
Same Word, Four Different Boundaries
The incorporated Village of Tequesta is small. It covers roughly 2.2 square miles, bordered by the Loxahatchee River to the south, Jonathan Dickinson State Park to the north, and the Atlantic Ocean to the east. Village population sits somewhere in the range of 5,600 to 6,000 residents, depending on which recent estimate you use.
The 33469 zip code that most national portals use to price "Tequesta" listings is a different animal entirely. It holds roughly 15,429 residents across 6,801 households, and its address listings routinely carry a "Jupiter, FL 33469" city line rather than Tequesta, since the zip crosses into unincorporated Jupiter. A search that filters by zip code is folding in inventory the Village of Tequesta itself has no jurisdiction over, which means the "average" you are reading was never describing the town whose borders you can find on Tequesta's own village website.
A town of 6,000 people and a zip code of 15,000 people cannot produce the same median, and they don't.
A Tower Named for a Town It Isn't In
The confusion runs deeper than zip codes. Tequesta Towers, an 11-story oceanfront building with 44 units built in 1973, carries the village's name on its front door and its mailing address. The building itself sits on Jupiter Island, on South Beach Road, across the Intracoastal from the actual village, in the same stretch of oceanfront as neighbors like Ocean Towers South, built a year earlier in 1972.
That naming pattern is not unusual along this stretch of coast, but it means a search for "Tequesta condo prices" can pull in an oceanfront tower on a barrier island with a completely different tax base, insurance environment, and price ceiling than anything inside the village proper. If a listing agent or portal doesn't separate the two, you are comparing a Jupiter Island oceanfront unit against a Loxahatchee River canal home and calling it one market.
Four Numbers, Four Different Questions
Here is what four commonly cited "Tequesta" figures actually measured when checked this year, side by side.
| What you searched | What it actually measured | Figure | As of |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median list price | All active listings the portal maps to "Tequesta, FL" | $809,000 | May 2026 |
| Median sold price | A single month of closed sales, based on just seven transactions | $595,000 | September 2025 |
| Average sale price | Six active listings confirmed to sit within the 33469 zip code, topping out near $4,870,000 | $3,285,000 | August 2026 |
| Median days on market | Portal-tracked listings for the same broad "Tequesta, FL" area | 88 days | May 2026 |
The September 2025 figure is worth pausing on. A sample of seven sales is small enough that one or two waterfront closings, or their absence, can swing the reported median by six figures in either direction. That is not a flaw in the data source. It is what happens when a town this small gets treated like it has the transaction volume of a much bigger market.
Inside the Village: Four Clubs, Four Markets
Even once you narrow the search to homes genuinely inside village limits, Tequesta is not one market. It has four distinct private golf and country club communities, and they do not behave the same way.
Riverbend Country Club sits gated along the Loxahatchee River, built around a Tom Fazio-designed course, with equity ownership included in the purchase price. Quarterly dues run around $1,693, with unlimited golf available for roughly $550 more per quarter, and the HOA covers building insurance, water, sewer, and 24-hour manned security.
Tequesta Country Club is the outlier of the group. It is not gated, and membership in the club itself is not mandatory for residents, which is unusual among the four. The original course was designed by Dick Wilson and later restored by Tom Fazio II, and it has hosted rounds by Jack Nicklaus, Gary Player, and Arnold Palmer. Homes here were built between 1958 and 2011, and the club forms the village's own western boundary.
Turtle Creek Club sits directly across the street from Tequesta Country Club, sharing golf cart access with it, and offers its own mix of waterfront homes and river-view condos along the same stretch of the Loxahatchee.
Jupiter Hills Club rounds out the four as a private club community with far less public listing data than the other three, which makes it harder to price by simply searching around.
Four clubs, four different sets of rules on gating and membership. A single "Tequesta country club home" search is really four searches wearing one label.
The Birthday Every Condo Board Dreads
If you are looking at an older condo anywhere near Tequesta, there is a date that matters more than square footage: the building's certificate of occupancy.
Florida's milestone inspection law, created by Senate Bill 4-D after the 2021 Surfside collapse, requires condo and co-op buildings three stories or taller to complete a structural inspection once they reach 25 years of age if they sit within three miles of the coast, and every ten years after that. Buildings with a certificate of occupancy issued on or before July 1, 1992, were required to complete that initial inspection by December 31, 2024, and to finish a Structural Integrity Reserve Study identifying any funding shortfall by December 31, 2025.
Run that math against two Tequesta-area buildings named earlier. Sandpointe Bay, the Intracoastal condo community built between 1982 and 1985, is well past its first 25-year threshold and has been for years. Tequesta Towers, built in 1973, is even further along. Both should already have a completed milestone inspection report and a finished reserve study on file as of today. If an association can't produce either document on request, that is no longer a matter of "it's still in progress." The statutory deadline has passed.
Before writing an offer on any condo built before the early 1990s in this corridor, request:
- The most recent milestone inspection report, including Phase 2 findings if the building triggered a detailed investigation
- The current Structural Integrity Reserve Study and the percentage each reserve line item is actually funded
- Board meeting minutes from the past 12 months, checking for any assessment discussion
- The association's most recent insurance renewal notice, since carriers are now pricing policies directly off inspection outcomes
A building's age tells you when to ask these questions. Fifteen years spent reading construction and permitting timelines has taught me that the paperwork tells you the rest.
What This Means If You're Comparing Neighborhoods
If you are cross-shopping Tequesta against Jupiter, Hobe Sound, or Sewall's Point, treat any single headline price as a starting question, not an answer. Confirm three things before you trust a number: whether it describes the incorporated village or the wider zip code, which of the four club communities or which building the listing actually sits in, and, for anything built before the early 1990s, whether the milestone inspection and reserve study are current.
Get those three answers and you are comparing real properties instead of comparing labels.
Quick Questions
Is Tequesta Country Club actually inside the Village of Tequesta? Yes. It forms the village's own western boundary. It is also the only one of the four private clubs in the area that is not gated and does not require club membership to live there.
Does every older condo near Tequesta have a pending special assessment? Not necessarily. Some associations funded reserves properly for years and passed their inspections with minor findings. The point is not to assume the worst, it's to ask for the documentation rather than take the HOA dues at face value.
Why do median and average prices for the same town differ so much? Median resists outliers, average doesn't. In a market with only a handful of transactions in a given month, one high-end waterfront closing or one modest condo sale can pull an average far from what a typical buyer would actually pay.
If you're weighing Tequesta against a neighboring town and want someone to walk through the actual boundary lines, club-by-club pricing, and building-specific inspection history with you, Trisha Hutchinson has spent years reading Palm Beach County listings the way a permitting file gets read, line by line. Reach out for a home valuation built on the real numbers for your specific address, not the zip code average.
