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524 Datura St

West Palm Beach, FL 33401  ·  Office Building, 1 story  ·  Folio 74434321010230032
Building
16,866
square feet
Lot
14,295
0.33 acres
Year built
1936
90 years old
Assessed value
$4,181,994
$248/SF assessed

Ownership and recorded sale history

Owner of record506 & 524 DATURA OWNER LLC
Entity statusActive — Florida Division of Corporations
Last recorded sale2022 — $4,875,000
At that sale$289/SF
Years since4 years
Palm Beach County Property Appraiser and Florida Division of Corporations. Public records; may lag actual events.

What has actually traded in Downtown / Palm Beach Lakes

Recorded transactions for office properties in the downtown core along Palm Beach Lakes Boulevard and the Dixie Highway pairs, narrowed to the buildings closest to this one in size and age.

Recorded sales
8
2021–2026
Median price/SF
$480
$153 – $1,001
Median size
10,040
square feet
Median vintage
1952
year built
Computed across the 8 sales listed below — the closest matches to this building by size and vintage. Transfers under $100,000, multi-parcel portfolio deals that cannot be allocated, and land-dominant parcels are excluded.

Reading this against the corridor

The county assesses this building at $248/SF. Recorded sales of office properties in Downtown / Palm Beach Lakes since 2021 have a median of $480/SF, across a range of $153/SF to $1,001/SF.

Across those 8 recorded sales, the median sale price came in at 1.67× the county assessed value. Assessed values are set for taxation and are reset on their own schedule, so they routinely sit apart from transaction prices — in either direction.

At 16,866 SF this building is materially larger than the 10,040 SF median for office properties trading in this corridor, which narrows the pool of directly comparable transactions.

Built in 1936, it is older than the 1952 median vintage of what has been trading nearby — typically a repositioning, capital-expenditure or redevelopment conversation rather than a straight comparison.

By footprint it sits in roughly the 72th percentile of office properties that have traded in this corridor — 9 of the 32 recorded sales were of larger buildings.

The assessment works out 48% below the median price per square foot of the comparable sales shown below. That is an arithmetic comparison of a tax figure against transaction prices, not a statement about what this building would sell for.

What this means for this building depends on what no public record contains — the leases, the condition, the rent roll.

Recorded sales of comparable size and vintage

PropertySizeBuiltSoldPricePer SF
321 L A Kirksey St
Professional Services
13,48819832026$7,800,000$578
2401 Mercer Ave
Office Building, 1 story
10,00019822025$2,940,000$294
501 Palm St
Office Building, 1 story
10,08019552025$1,540,000$153
370 Datura St
Office Building, multi-story
68,81119502024$33,000,000$480
303 Gardenia St + 1 more parcel
Office Building, 1 story · combined 11,671 SF portfolio sale
11,67119252024$5,600,000$480
601 N Dixie Hwy
Office Building, 1 story
4,85319402023$2,612,500$538
901 N Flagler Dr
Professional Services
7,49419632021$7,500,000$1,001
1105 N Dixie Hwy
Office Building, 1 story
4,00019302021$1,600,000$400
Recorded sale prices from Palm Beach County public records. Comparable transactions — not an appraisal, and not an opinion of value for this or any property.

Important Disclosures

Not a listing. The property described on this page is not listed for sale or lease by Justin Crow or Mattis Advisors. Justin Crow has no listing authority for this property and does not represent the owner unless explicitly engaged in a written agreement.

Not an appraisal. Nothing on this page constitutes an appraisal, a Broker's Opinion of Value, or a Broker Price Opinion under Florida Statute 475.612. The submarket benchmarks shown are general market observations and are not specific opinions of value for this property.

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