Highland Beach is a 3-mile barrier-island town of roughly 4,300 residents wedged between Delray Beach and Boca Raton — one of the few South Florida municipalities that has held the line against commercial sprawl. Outside a handful of retail fronts, the entire town is residential: oceanfront condominiums on A1A, and a discreet inventory of single-family estates fronting either the Atlantic or the Intracoastal Waterway. Town review enforces strict height limits and massing rules, and every oceanfront parcel is governed by Florida's Coastal Construction Control Line, which drives elevation, foundation, and wind-load design far beyond standard code. Transactions on direct oceanfront consistently clear $15M, with the top of the market well north of $40M.