Florida Golf Journal

A Sense of Community
By Scott Kauffman

In late August, a time when most real estate agents are experiencing the dog days of summer/residential sales, Lynn Byrd is surprisingly busy at Frenchman's Creek, a 36-hole private club community in Palm Beach Gardens. She's especially busy considering Florida's real estate market is generally still sputtering along.

"The market is really, really good in Frenchman's," says Byrd, a longtime resident of Frenchman's Creek and broker associate with Illustrated Properties Real Estate, Inc. "I made quite a few deals just within the past couple of months, and that's unusual for the summer."

"I'm struggling with buyers sometimes because they think, 'This is a very slow market and I should be able to make a deal.' But it's not happening here. Prices are going up."

For anyone familiar with Frenchman's Creek, a luxurious low-density development in the heart of swanky Palm Beach County, that should come as a surprise. In real estate, in order for a property to truly stand out, it has to have a little romance. And Frenchman's Creek, with its name inspired by the enduring romance novel by English author Daphne du Maurier, has a lot of romance.
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