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The Swanson Team The Swanson Team is a community-trusted and full-service real estate business, specializing in reloc

The Swanson Team is a community-trusted and full-service real estate business, specializing in relocation as well as the Boca Raton, Delray Beach, Boynton Beach, and surrounding markets. As a husband-and-wife team, Matt and Tracie have a family-oriented, warm, service-minded, and transparent approach. With their extensive experience and knowledge of the industry and local markets, they take great

pride in helping their clients navigate the complex journey of buying and selling a home and helping them to save money along the way. Consistently in the top 5% in their office they have the knowledge and experience to help their clients “Remove Their Stress When They Change Their Address”. In their free time, Matt and Tracie are passionate about supporting the local community and spending time with their Golden Retriever Monty.

St. Andrews Country Club records a $15.75 million spec-home saleA newly built spec mansion in St. Andrews Country Club i...
08/28/2026

St. Andrews Country Club records a $15.75 million spec-home sale

A newly built spec mansion in St. Andrews Country Club in Boca Raton sold for $15.75 million, according to reporting published August 27. The property exceeds 10,000 square feet and was developed as a high-end contemporary residence inside one of Boca’s most prestigious mandatory-membership clubs.
This is particularly interesting coming immediately after the recent $16.85 million Royal Palm Yacht & Country Club transaction.
The two sales represent very different luxury products:
Royal Palm: waterfront, boating, non-equity club environment, East Boca.
St. Andrews: private golf, gated club lifestyle, central Boca, mandatory membership.
Yet buyers are paying close to the same eight-figure price for exceptional finished homes in both.
What that tells us
Boca luxury demand is not confined to waterfront.
There is a buyer willing to pay a substantial premium for:
new construction + excellent design + large scale + complete amenities + immediate occupancy, even when significant club costs accompany ownership.
That reinforces the trend we have seen repeatedly this month:
Turnkey condition is becoming a separate value category.

D-Wave: the Boca Raton story just got more interesting.The latest development is that D-Wave Quantum has expanded the sp...
08/26/2026

D-Wave: the Boca Raton story just got more interesting.
The latest development is that D-Wave Quantum has expanded the space it plans to occupy at the Boca Raton Innovation Campus before its headquarters relocation is even complete.

D-Wave now leases 34,522 square feet across two BRiC buildings, up from the approximately 26,000 square feet originally announced. The amended lease allocates about 28,804 square feet to one suite and 5,718 square feet to another.

That is significant because D-Wave still intends to move its corporate headquarters from Palo Alto to Boca Raton before the end of 2026, while establishing BRiC as a key U.S. research-and-development center supporting its quantum-computing systems.

This appears to be more than a corporate-address relocation

The Boca operation is expected to support core R&D, testing and technical-support functions for D-Wave’s annealing quantum-computing roadmap. D-Wave has described Boca as part of a broader North American R&D network that also includes Burnaby, British Columbia; New Haven, Connecticut; and quantum systems in California and Alabama.

At the same time, Florida Atlantic University has entered a $20 million agreement to purchase a D-Wave Advantage2 quantum computer, which is expected to be installed near the new headquarters.

That combination is much more interesting economically:

D-Wave headquarters + R&D + FAU quantum computer + university research + recruiting + vendor ecosystem.

That has the potential to form the beginning of an actual quantum-computing cluster rather than one company simply changing its mailing address.

D-Wave itself is gaining commercial momentum

Its latest reported results also look stronger than a year ago. For the first half of 2026, D-Wave reported $35.5 million in bookings, up more than 1,120% year over year, while remaining performance obligations reached $40.7 million, up 668%.

The company also recently announced peer-reviewed research demonstrating a two-qubit entangling gate with approximately 99.9% fidelity, an important milestone in its work toward fault-tolerant gate-model quantum computing.

So the Boca relocation is occurring while the company is expanding both commercially and technically.

What I'm seeing in Boca luxury right now...The upper end is showing genuine strengthThe clearest evidence comes from the...
08/17/2026

What I'm seeing in Boca luxury right now...
The upper end is showing genuine strength
The clearest evidence comes from the wider South Florida and Palm Beach County numbers.
In the first half of 2026, Palm Beach County's top 5% single-family luxury threshold reached $4.4 million, while the top 1% ultra-luxury threshold reached $14 million. Across South Florida, the luxury threshold increased from $2.7 million in 2025 to $3.3 million this year.
And this isn't just rising asking prices.
South Florida's $1M+ sales jumped 39.7% year-over-year in June, while $10M+ transactions reached a record 306 sales during the first six months of 2026. An extraordinary 88% of those $10M+ purchases were cash.
Palm Beach County is particularly important: 30% of its single-family transactions were $1M+ in June, the highest proportion among the five South Florida counties covered in the report.
That tells me the strength isn't confined to one or two headline-making billionaire transactions.

08/14/2026

Brightline now faces roughly $5 billion in debt, but South Florida has a great deal invested in its survival

South Florida Business Journal published a major examination Thursday of Brightline’s approximately $5 billion debt load and the challenges facing the private rail company. The article describes Brightline as having become an important transportation asset and development catalyst despite its financial stress.

The financial concern follows other warning signs, including a debt downgrade citing a very high probability of default. At the same time, Brightline reported an 18% increase in ridership and nearly 900,000 passengers during the second quarter, and it continues pursuing station expansion.

Why this matters to residential real estate

Brightline has changed the practical geography of South Florida.

A household can increasingly live in Boca or West Palm while maintaining professional relationships in Fort Lauderdale or Miami. That expands the number of residential markets an executive can reasonably consider.

A newly built Royal Palm estate closes for $21.5 millionA newly completed residence at 1642 Sabal Palm Drive in Royal Pa...
08/04/2026

A newly built Royal Palm estate closes for $21.5 million
A newly completed residence at 1642 Sabal Palm Drive in Royal Palm Yacht & Country Club sold for $21.5 million. The 2026 home contains approximately 9,370 square feet, seven bedrooms, more than eight bathrooms and a four-and-a-half-car garage. The reported price equates to roughly $2,295 per square foot.
The property had been offered for $22.95 million, placing the closing price about 6.3% below asking. The underlying property reportedly changed hands for $6 million in February 2025 before the prior residence was replaced with the new construction.
What this tells Boca luxury sellers
This transaction provides evidence for two simultaneous market conditions:
Buyers will still commit more than $20 million for current construction in a premier community.
Even an exceptional, newly built home can involve meaningful negotiation.
The sale also reinforces how heavily ultra-luxury buyers value completed construction. Building from scratch requires land acquisition, design, permitting, financing, construction oversight and substantial exposure to delay. A finished property can command a premium because it transfers those risks to the developer.

Ever taken a bite of a lemon and wished it tasted like sweet lemonade? 🍋➡️🥤 Enter the **Miracle Fruit**! # # # 🌿 What is...
08/04/2026

Ever taken a bite of a lemon and wished it tasted like sweet lemonade? 🍋➡️🥤 Enter the **Miracle Fruit**!
# # # 🌿 What is it?
Native to West Africa, the Miracle Fruit (*Synsepalum dulcificum*) is a small, bright red berry that looks a bit like a coffee bean. For centuries, it has been used to sweeten foods and drinks locally, but today it’s famous worldwide for a wild party trick: completely altering your sense of taste and turning sour foods sweet.
# # # 🧬 How does it work?
It all comes down to a fascinating little protein inside the fruit called **miraculin**.
When you chew the berry and let the pulp coat your tongue, the miraculin binds to your sweet taste receptors. Under normal, neutral pH conditions, it doesn't do much. However, the moment you eat something acidic (like a lemon, pickle, or grapefruit), the sudden drop in pH causes the miraculin to change shape.
This shape-shift "flips a switch" that hyper-activates your sweet receptors, completely masking the sourness.
Suddenly, hot sauce tastes like a sweet glaze, and raw lemons taste like they are coated in sugar—all without adding a single calorie of actual sugar to your food. The mind-bending effect naturally wears off after about 30 to 90 minutes as your saliva washes the protein away.
Have you ever been to a "flavor-tripping" party to try these? If you had one right now, what is the first sour food you would want to eat? Let me know below! 👇

New Florida condo research quantifies how structural risk and reserve rules affected valuesA newly published academic an...
07/28/2026

New Florida condo research quantifies how structural risk and reserve rules affected values

A newly published academic analysis examined more than one million Florida condominium transactions from 2020 through 2024. Researchers found that prices declined after the Surfside collapse changed buyers’ perception of structural risk, then experienced an additional statistically significant adjustment after Senate Bill 4-D introduced milestone inspections, structural reserve studies and stronger funding requirements.

The study’s important contribution is that it separates two different forms of buyer concern:

Physical risk: Could the building have serious structural problems?
Financial risk: What future assessments and reserve contributions may owners face?

The effects varied according to building age and condominium value, while coastal proximity appeared less consistently important than expected

Boca Raton continues to distinguish itself as one of Florida's premier luxury markets. The record $75 million sale in Ro...
07/22/2026

Boca Raton continues to distinguish itself as one of Florida's premier luxury markets. The record $75 million sale in Royal Palm Yacht & Country Club earlier this summer is still influencing buyer and seller sentiment, while additional $24 million and $16 million luxury transactions reinforce sustained demand for exceptional properties. Nationally, Florida dominated May's most expensive home sales, highlighting the region's continued appeal to affluent domestic buyers.

Palm Beach County commissioners voted to reject the proposed "Project Tango" AI data center in western Palm Beach County...
07/22/2026

Palm Beach County commissioners voted to reject the proposed "Project Tango" AI data center in western Palm Beach County after lengthy public hearings. Residents cited concerns about water usage, electrical demand, traffic, and noise. The decision highlights how AI infrastructure is becoming a significant land-use issue in South Florida, balancing economic development against community concerns.

Why it matters

AI infrastructure investment remains strong nationally, but local governments are becoming more selective about where these projects are located. This is a trend worth watching because technology investment can influence future employment growth and commercial real estate demand.

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07/17/2026

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