{"id":348507,"date":"2026-07-22T12:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T12:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/348507\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T12:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T12:40:09","slug":"south-florida-top-real-estate-deals-july-21-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/348507\/","title":{"rendered":"South Florida Top Real Estate Deals: July 21, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\ud83c\udfc6 Residential: The most expensive home sale to hit records was in Miami Beach, where a company tied to Dana M. Kilburn bought the waterfront property at 288 South Coconut Lane on Palm Island for $18.5 million. The seller, 288 SC LLC, purchased the 9,100-square-foot property in 2024 for $22 million. The latest transaction breaks down to about $2,000 per square foot. Oliver Lloyd with Douglas Elliman had the listing, and Dina Goldentayer, also with Douglas Elliman, brought the buyer.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfc6 Commercial: Miami logged the priciest home sale recorded in South Florida. Soldiers of the Cross of Christ Church offloaded the apartment building at 628 Northwest First Street for $12 million. The buyer was Bluevis LLC. The two-story complex dates to 1999 and has 11 apartments across about 17,200 square feet.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcca Residential: In West Palm Beach, the home at 122 Bloomfield Drive hit records for $15.6 million. An LLC attached to Mark Marcello was the seller. Francis X. J. Lynch, trustee of the 122 Bloomfield Trust, was the buyer. This new build includes five bedrooms and seven and a half baths, measuring about 8,500 square feet. Margit Brandt with Premier Estate Properties had the listing. Lucy Bauer with Brown Harris Stevens brought the buyer.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcca Residential: Arthur Krantz bought the home at 7350 North East 8th Drive in Boca Raton for $13.5 million. Daniel F. McNeil III and his wife, Danielle L. McNeil, were the sellers. Spanning 9,100 square feet, the home has six bedrooms and over seven and a half baths. The Matt and Nick Team with Serhant handled the listing, and Jacqueline Feldman with Sotheby\u2019s brought the buyer.<\/p>\n<p>By the Numbers: <a href=\"https:\/\/therealdeal.com\/data\/national\/2026\/southern-states-lead-in-yearly-average-mortgage-rate-drops\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">South posts greatest mortgage rate drop amid cooling housing market<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mortgage rates have climbed steadily for five months, but they\u2019re still below where they stood a year ago. Nowhere is that more apparent than in the South.<\/p>\n<p>On average, Southern states experienced a more than 2.2 percent decline in their average 30-year mortgage rate, according to a TRD Data analysis of 30-year mortgage rate data as of July 15, 2025 and July 16, 2026 from Investopedia. (Rates are for new purchase loans with a down payment of at least 20 percent and a credit score of 680-739.)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1240\" height=\"1208\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/pwfkF-southern-states-see-greatest-drops-in-typical-home-financing-costs-year-over-year-.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1042856\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>If you like this digest, you can get it even earlier \u2014 every evening \u2014 by subscribing to TRD Data, <a href=\"https:\/\/therealdeal.com\/data\/latest\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\ud83c\udfc6 Residential: The most expensive home sale to hit records was in Miami Beach, where a company tied&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":348508,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124,88660],"class_list":["post-348507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-south-florida-top-real-estate-deals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}