Did you miss these real estate stories covered by the Palm Beach Post this season?

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What’s that sound you just didn’t hear? If you’ve been driving in Palm Beach County lately, it was a car horn — or, more accurately, it wasn’t.

Blame — or better yet, thank — the end of the latest tourist and snowbird season , which is finally in sight.

Year-rounders here have bid goodbye to thousands of visitors and seasonal residents headed back home over the past couple of weeks. The traffic is noticeably lighter, and that means the demolition derby that drivers endure from October to May is sputtering to a close.

No wonder those car horns aren’t blaring quite as much.

As we coast into summer, The Dirt thought it would be a great time to recap a few of our favorite real estate stories covered by the Palm Beach Post during the past season.

Did you miss any of these? Here’s your chance to pay a little catch up. You’re welcome.

First off, we’ll take a look the wealth of the residents who migrated to the county in during the first couple of years after the coronavirus pandemic first made national headlines.

The bad news? We’re betting that plenty of them brought their cars with them. Read the story:

The effects of the pandemic-fueled housing boom that accompanied the pandemic are still being felt, even if all those face masks, COVID-19 tests and bottles of hand sanitizer are gathering dust somewhere. Palm Beach Post real estate writer Kimberly Miller delved recently into the housing stats, which offered some surprises. Read her story:

OK, so it’s not a problem for most of us, but to one homeowner in the tiny Village of North Palm Beach, it was a big one: For several years, homeowner Michael Bozutto encountered rough water — figuratively, of course — in his quest to park his 164-foot yacht, Honey, in the water behind his one-story home on Shore Drive. Many of his neighbors have not been, um, on board with the idea, to put it mildly. Writer Alexandra Clough’s entered the choppy waters and covered the situation last month. Read her story:

Here’s more proof, if you need it, of the tensions that can arise when a small town’s lifestyle is threatened by big-city-style development. In December, Miller explored how Palm Beach Shores -- an 11-block town with about 1,500 full-time residents – is coping with the pressure from would-be powerful developers and real estate investors. Read the story here.

The massive redevelopment taking place in downtown West Palm Beach is no secret, thanks in part to the Palm Beach Post’s in-depth coverage of the residential and commercial projects that are rapidly transforming the city’s central core. But condo, hotel and office towers aren’t the only developments in the works. Here are two articles that show that higher education and health care are also gaining toeholds in the revitalization. Read the stories:

Vanderbilt University chancellor: Why we want to build a graduate campus in West Palm Beach

NYU Langone receives $75 million gift for new West Palm Beach medical tower

And for those of us still traveling Palm Beach County’s roads this summer, a word of advice: Travel lightly.

Palm Beach Post real estate writer Kimberly Miller , who regularly writes "The Dirt" newsletter, is away this week. Palm Beach Daily News real estate writer Darrell Hofheinz prepared this edition.

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