WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (CBS12) — The West Palm Beach area remains the nation’s leading market for vacation-home mortgages as second-home purchases begin to rebound from their post-pandemic slump, according to a new Redfin report.
Lenders originated 836 mortgages for second homes in the West Palm Beach metropolitan area in 2025, a 1.2% increase from the previous year.
Those loans represented 5.5% of all mortgage originations in the metro area, the highest share among the nation’s 50 most populous metropolitan areas. The median value of a West Palm Beach-area second home financed in 2025 was $695,000…