In the final Elliman Report for 2025, home sales in two South Florida coastal counties ticked up year over year, while Miami-Dade County’s housing market remained sluggish.
The Elliman Report’s monthly analysis showed Broward County saw a significant jump in houses sold in December compared to a year prior. There were 293 new signed contracts for home transactions in Broward in December. That’s up by 54.2% over the 190 homes sold in that county in the same month for 2024.
While the year-to-year growth was robust, the month-to-month comparison reflected the general and traditional slowdown in the housing market in the waning weeks of the year. December’s total was a 24% drop from the 387 single-family homes sold in Broward in November.
Broward had the most notable annual increase in housing sales in South Florida in December. Elliman analysts noted that Broward snapped out of a lagging market for much of the back half of 2025.
“New signed contracts surged annually over the past four months, finally outpacing the growth observed in Palm Beach County to the north. New listings have grown more slowly than new signed contracts since the early fall,” Elliman analysts concluded.
While Palm Beach County may not have met the pace of sales in Broward, the county still posted solid numbers in December. There were 288 single-family home sales last month for Palm Beach County, a 22% jump from December 2024’s figure of 236 homes sold. But the December figure also represented a month-to-month decline in Palm Beach. There were 321 signed closings on houses in November.
Miami-Dade County continues to lag in home sales in South Florida, as it had for much of 2025. There were 401 homes sold in Miami-Dade in December, down by 30.5% from the 577 single-family houses sold in that county in December 2024. Last month’s home sales were only slightly down in the monthly comparison, with 406 homes sold in November.
Condom sales in South Florida, which were sluggish for most of 2025, showed some signs of improvement. Broward County fared the best last month with 347 condos sold, up by 42.8% from December 2024’s figure of 243.
Palm Beach County showed a slight improvement with 256 closed sales last month, up by 3.2% from December 2024’s tally of 248.
And Miami-Dade, as with housing sales, continues to struggle with weak condo transactions. There were 385 condo closings in December, down by 35.3% from the 595 sold in December 2024.
