Lake Worth Beach New Construction Homes (2026)
Updated November 11, 2026
About 16 new construction single-family homes were listed in the MLS under a Lake Worth or Lake Worth Beach address on November 11, 2026, starting from about $525,000. That small number badly understates the market: 45 new construction homes closed here in the last twelve months, at an average of about $852,000 and roughly $357 per square foot. The reason for the gap is that the biggest producers of new houses in this market are builder communities west of State Road 7 that sell most of their inventory off their own lists and never enter it in the MLS. This is the least expensive per-foot new construction of any market I cover, and almost nobody shopping public portals ever sees the real supply.
First, the thing that confuses every search: there are two Lake Worths
You have to get this straight before any search result here means anything.
The City of Lake Worth Beach is a small incorporated city on the Intracoastal. Voters approved changing its name from Lake Worth to Lake Worth Beach in March 2019. It has its own municipal electric utility, its own downtown, and housing stock that is largely pre-1960, which means new construction inside the city limits is infill on an existing lot, one house at a time.
Then there is everything mailed as "Lake Worth" that is not in the city at all: a large area running west, including the 33467 ZIP code out toward State Road 7 and beyond. That area is where the builder communities are, where the acreage parcels are, and where essentially all of the volume comes from.
The MLS still carries both "Lake Worth" and "Lake Worth Beach" as separate city values, and listings land under either one depending on who typed them in. On November 11, 2026, fourteen active new-construction listings were filed under Lake Worth and two under Lake Worth Beach. A search on just one of those values misses part of the market, which is why the search on this page runs both.
What this means for you practically. A new house with a "Lake Worth, FL 33467" address may be eight or nine miles from the Lake Worth Beach downtown, in a different taxing jurisdiction, with different utility providers and a different commute. Before you compare two listings on price, confirm which of the two Lake Worths each one is actually in. I will tell you straight out when you send me an address.
The builder communities west of State Road 7
These are the four that matter, and they are the reason this market exists at the volume it does. All four are current builder programs with model centers, published plans and quick move-in lists.
Forest is the largest and the least expensive, and it is the only one of the four that includes townhomes alongside the single-family plans. Amenities are a clubhouse, pool, playground and lake.
Hendrix Reserve is the smallest, at under 110 homes, and DiVosta currently flags it as almost sold out, with quick move-in deliveries dated from December 2026 into February 2027. Amenities are a resort-style pool, cabana, tot lot and grills, with a pickleball court listed as coming.
Greyhawk Landing is 131 homes and carries the wider plan range of the three, up to about 3,575 square feet, with a clubhouse, fitness center, resort pool, pickleball courts and a playground.
If you are deciding between Hendrix Reserve and Greyhawk Landing, note that they share several floor plans. The Mystique, Prestige and Whitestone appear in both. The difference you are paying for is the lot, the phase and the amenity set, not the house.
Amara and the shift to acre-plus lots
Amara is the most significant change to this market in years, because it breaks the pattern. DiVosta announced it as a 145-homesite estate community on the west side of State Road 7 south of Hypoluxo Road, on former agricultural and polo-farm land, with sales beginning in mid-2025.
What makes it different: the lot sizes. Quarter-acre, half-acre, one-acre and three-acre homesites, some able to accommodate a casita, and none of them zero-lot-line. In a market where the builder standard is a 50 or 60 foot lot, a three-acre homesite with a builder warranty behind the house is a product that did not previously exist here. Pricing starts over $1 million, the designs are one and two story and customized by the builder, and the amenity package is a clubhouse with fitness center, a resort-style pool with cabanas and pickleball courts.
Two active MLS listings in Amara right now are around 2,770 and 3,890 square feet. The community is early in its run, which means the lots still being released are the ones you want to be asking about.
Infill inside the city of Lake Worth Beach
Inside the actual city limits, new construction is a completely different exercise. There is no builder program. Somebody buys a lot or a tear-down, builds one house, and lists it. The MLS subdivision names you see are old plats, not communities.
City infill runs a much higher price per square foot than the builder communities out west, for a straightforward reason: the land is finite and the lots are already platted. You are not buying a cheaper house in Lake Worth Beach proper. You are buying a smaller one, closer to the water.
The acreage pockets
Between the city and the builder communities there is a third category that the MLS files under old agricultural plats. New houses go up here on large parcels, individually, with no community structure at all.
Active listings right now include builds in Homeland at about 7,270 square feet, Heritage Farms at about 3,900 square feet, Palm Beach Farms at about 2,520 square feet and Hypoluxo Village at about 2,210 square feet. Pricing in this group ranges from under $1 million to well above $6 million, because what you are really buying is the parcel.
If you want land with a new house on it rather than a plan in a phase, this is where to look, and it is worth having someone check the zoning, the well and septic situation and the utility availability before you get attached. Those answers vary lot by lot out here.
What actually closed in the last twelve months
Three times as many homes closed as are listed today. In Lake Worth Beach that is not a sign of a market drying up. It is the signature of a market where builders carry their own inventory.
A note on the active averages. I am not quoting you an average active list price or average active size for this market, and you should be skeptical of any page that does. One current listing in the Lynx Golf Estates area is entered with an aggregate bedroom count and square footage far outside the range of a single house, which pulls the citywide active average into the millions and makes it meaningless. The closed figures above are the honest gauge.
Price per square foot, and how Lake Worth Beach compares
Nothing else in the county I work gets a buyer into a brand-new, warrantied, current-code house at under $400 per square foot. That is the whole argument for this market, and it is a real one.
The trade is honest and it is geographic. The sub-$400 figure comes from the builder communities out west, which are inland, which means a longer drive to the ocean and to the coastal towns. If what you want is new construction walking distance to the Intracoastal, that exists here too, in city infill, and it costs several times as much per foot. Both of those are Lake Worth. Decide which one you are shopping before you compare prices.
What you get in each price band
From about $525,000 to about $700,000
Either a small city infill build of roughly 1,200 to 1,450 square feet, or an entry plan at Forest out west at roughly 2,100 to 2,200 square feet. Same money, very different houses. The infill house is closer in and smaller; the Forest house is bigger with a community amenity package and a longer commute.
From about $700,000 to about $1 million
The center of this market, and where most of the 45 closings happened. Three to five bedrooms, roughly 2,100 to 2,900 square feet, in Hendrix Reserve, Greyhawk Landing or Forest. Published plans, model homes to walk, and a real quick move-in list if your timing is tight.
From about $1 million to about $2.5 million
Amara on a quarter acre to an acre, or a city infill build in College Park or near the water, or a new house on an acreage parcel. Three distinct products at the same number. This is the band where having someone compare them side by side actually changes the outcome.
Above about $2.5 million
Thin and specialized. Amara's largest homesites, the Lynx Golf Estates builds, and the large acreage parcels in Homeland and Heritage Farms at 3,900 to 7,300 square feet. Few buyers, long market times, and the parcel is most of the value.
Most of the builder inventory here never reaches the MLS
Search the builder inventory directly
This is the market where the gap matters most. Sixteen MLS listings against forty-five closings in a year tells you plainly that the public portals are not where these houses are sold. Builders here hold quick move-ins back, release new plans without listing them, and sell homesites where nothing has broken ground at all. None of that reaches Zillow or Realtor.com, and much of it never reaches the MLS either.
I have a branded builder portal that reads from the builders' own inventory. It is my search, under my license, and it shows plans, quick move-ins and new releases the MLS does not carry.
There is a second reason to start here rather than at a model center. Registering through my search records me as your broker with the builder from your first contact. If you walk into a model unrepresented, the agent at that desk represents the builder. That is the person who will be across the table from you on the allowance schedule, the delivery date and the warranty terms, and in most communities it is very hard to undo later.
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New construction or a recent resale here
In this market the per-foot gap between new and recent resale is narrower than it is in Delray or Boca, because the housing stock out west is itself mostly post-2000. You are often choosing between a 2026 build in Forest and a 2015 build two neighborhoods over.
What new gets you: current code and impact glass, a roof and systems with full life ahead of them, insurance pricing that reflects a new build, and no deferred maintenance. On a house in the $700,000s, a roof you do not have to think about for twenty years is a larger share of the total than it is on a $5 million estate.
What it costs you: in the city, almost nothing in time, because infill builds list when they are nearly done. Out west it costs you the construction window and the fact that your street will still be under construction when you move in.
I have written up the same trade-off on the condominium side in older resale or new build in South Florida.
What to check before you sign on a new build here
- Confirm which Lake Worth the house is in. City of Lake Worth Beach or unincorporated county. It changes your utility providers, your taxing authority and your permitting path.
- Inside the city, ask about the municipal electric utility. Lake Worth Beach runs its own electric utility rather than taking service from the regional provider. Get the account set-up requirements and the rate structure before closing, not after.
- Out west, confirm water, sewer, well and septic. This varies lot by lot on the acreage parcels and should never be assumed from the neighbor.
- Have your broker registered before your first visit. Most builders require it at first contact with the sales center. Going in alone can cost you the ability to be represented in that community permanently.
- Read the warranty, not the brochure. Structural, systems and workmanship run on three separate clocks.
- Get the allowance schedule in writing. The gap between the base price and the decorated model is where the surprises live.
- Ask what is left to build around you. Forest has more than 372 homesites. Ask for the phasing plan and look at what backs your lot in the approved site plan, not the rendering.
- Check whether a special district assessment applies. Ask for the dollar figure for your specific lot, on your tax bill, not a community average.
- Check the impact rating on every opening. "Impact windows" sometimes means most of them.
- Get the delivery date in writing with a remedy attached. A date with no consequence for missing it is a hope, not a term.
Three of the four builder communities out here are in their later phases. Which plans are still available, which lots are left and what is actually releasing next is information that lives with the builders, not on a portal. Tell me the size and the delivery window you need and I will tell you honestly whether it exists in this market right now or whether you should be looking one town over.
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Selling the house you are in now
Most buyers in this market already own something, and the two sides have to be sequenced. If you are taking a quick move-in at Hendrix Reserve with a December or January delivery, that is a short runway and your listing plan has to be built backward from the builder's date. If you are reserving a homesite at Amara, you may be eighteen months out, and listing now would be a year early.
I will walk your current house, tell you plainly what I think it brings today and what it brings with some work, and lay out the order the two transactions should run in so you are not carrying both at once or caught between them.
or see what your home is worth.
Frequently asked questions
How many new construction homes are for sale in Lake Worth Beach?
About 16 single-family homes flagged as new construction were active in the MLS under a Lake Worth or Lake Worth Beach address on November 11, 2026. The real number for sale is considerably higher, because the builder communities west of State Road 7 sell most of their inventory off their own lists without entering it in the MLS. For comparison, 45 new construction homes closed here in the last twelve months.
Is it Lake Worth or Lake Worth Beach?
Both, and that is the problem. Voters approved renaming the city Lake Worth Beach in March 2019, so the incorporated city is Lake Worth Beach. But a large unincorporated area west of the city still uses Lake Worth mailing addresses, and the MLS carries both values as separate cities. Listings land under either one depending on who entered them, so any serious search has to run both. The search on this page does.
How much does new construction cost in Lake Worth Beach?
Active listings start from about $525,000. Homes that actually closed in the last twelve months averaged about $852,000 at roughly $357 per square foot on about 2,425 square feet, with closings running from about $505,000 to about $1.7 million. The closed figures are the reliable ones here, because a single anomalous active listing distorts the active averages.
What new home communities are being built in Lake Worth?
Four current builder communities account for most of the volume, all west of State Road 7. Forest by Mattamy Homes has more than 372 homesites and includes townhomes, from about $630,000. Hendrix Reserve by DiVosta Homes is under 110 homes and nearing sell-out, from about $709,000. Greyhawk Landing by DiVosta Homes is 131 homes, from about $816,000. Amara by DiVosta Homes is 145 estate homesites on quarter-acre to three-acre lots, from over $1 million.
What is Amara in Lake Worth?
Amara is a DiVosta Homes estate community of 145 homesites on the west side of State Road 7 south of Hypoluxo Road, built on former agricultural and polo-farm land, with sales starting in mid-2025. Lots are quarter-acre, half-acre, one-acre and three-acre, some able to take a casita, with no zero-lot-line sites. Pricing starts over $1 million, and amenities include a clubhouse with fitness center, a resort-style pool with cabanas and pickleball courts.
Why is new construction in Lake Worth cheaper per square foot than the rest of Palm Beach County?
Because of where the land is. The volume comes from inland builder communities west of State Road 7, where parcels were large enough to plan hundreds of homes at once and the builder is delivering repeatable plans at scale. Closed new construction here averaged about $357 per square foot against roughly $838 in Delray Beach and roughly $1,510 in Boca Raton. The trade is distance from the ocean, not build quality. New construction inside the city of Lake Worth Beach, close to the water, runs far higher per foot.
Can you buy a new construction home on an acre in Lake Worth?
Yes, in two ways. Amara offers one-acre and three-acre builder homesites with a warranty behind the house. Separately, the acreage pockets filed under old agricultural plats, including Homeland, Heritage Farms, Palm Beach Farms and Hypoluxo Village, carry individually built new houses on large parcels with no community structure. On the acreage parcels, verify zoning, water, sewer, well and septic lot by lot.
Do I need my own agent to buy a new construction home in Lake Worth?
You do not need one, but the timing matters. Most builders require your broker to register with you at your first visit or first contact with the sales center, and going in alone can cost you the ability to be represented in that community permanently. What representation gets you is someone reading the builder contract, the warranty, the allowance schedule and the delivery language on your side of the table, and someone who can tell you which of the four communities actually has what you are asking for.
When will Lake Worth new construction homes be finished?
It depends on the community and the phase. DiVosta currently lists quick move-in deliveries at Hendrix Reserve from December 2026 into February 2027. Homesites reserved at Amara run considerably longer. City infill builds usually list when they are nearly complete. On any home not yet finished, get the completion date written into the contract with a remedy if it slips.
Damara Cohn
Broker and Founder, Mangrove Realty, Inc.
Florida broker license BK3015318
(561) 637-4559
Licensed Florida real estate broker since 2002, with 25+ years in the industry and over 35 years living in South Florida. Based in Delray Beach and working the Palm Beach County coastal corridor from Boca Raton through Palm Beach Gardens. , or see what your current home is worth.
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Inventory counts, price bands, averages and price-per-square-foot figures on this page are drawn from the Beaches MLS as of November 11, 2026, are rounded, and change continuously. They are provided for general orientation and are not an appraisal or a valuation of any particular property. Community sizes, homesite counts, lot sizes, floor plan ranges, amenity lists and entry pricing for Forest, Hendrix Reserve, Greyhawk Landing and Amara are taken from the builders' own published materials and announcements as of November 2026 and are subject to change without notice; verify all of them directly with the builder. Builder pricing, plan availability and delivery dates change frequently. Square footage and lot dimensions are approximate and may differ from as-built conditions and from county records. Jurisdiction, utility service, zoning, well and septic status, and special district assessments vary parcel by parcel and must be confirmed with the City of Lake Worth Beach or Palm Beach County as applicable. Builder warranties, allowance schedules, completion dates and impact-glass specifications vary by builder and by home and must be verified in the contract documents. Nothing on this page is legal, financial, tax or insurance advice. Mangrove Realty, Inc. is not the builder or developer of any home or community referenced here and is not affiliated with Mattamy Homes, DiVosta Homes, PulteGroup or their sales teams. All information is believed accurate but is not guaranteed and should be independently verified. Mangrove Realty, Inc. is a licensed Florida real estate brokerage and fully supports the principles of the Fair Housing Act and the Equal Opportunity Act.
