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Margate Real Estate Appraiser

Margate is one of Broward's older inland cities, built out mainly in the 1960s and 70s, and its defining feature for valuation is the Oriole developments — Oriole Gardens and Oriole Margate — large age-restricted villa and low-rise communities that account for a substantial share of the city's transactions. Age restriction narrows the buyer pool by law, and a comparable drawn from an unrestricted street nearby is the wrong evidence regardless of how similar the building looks.

Condominiums and attached product are 17% of our Margate work, concentrated in those communities and in Monte Carlo and Sunflower.

The single-family stock is straightforward but old enough that mechanical and roof condition carries most of the spread between sales. Coconut Key and Oakland Hills are the newer exceptions, and they trade at a clear premium to the surrounding grid — a premium that has to be measured rather than assumed, since the physical differences are modest and the buyer's perception of them is not.

Our record in Margate

101 appraisal assignments across 94 Margate properties, from 2001 through 2021 — 75% single-family homes, 17% condominiums, 2% appraisal updates and 2% field reviews.

Communities we have appraised in repeatedly include Coconut Key, Oakland Hills, Oriole Gardens, Oriole Margate, Monte Carlo and Sunflower.

What we appraise here

Single-family homes, condominiums and villas including age-restricted communities, townhomes, and two-to-four-unit income properties. Residential only.

Common reasons clients call us in Margate

Estate and date-of-death valuation, divorce, PMI removal, tax appeals, and pre-listing pricing.