… early estimates show property-value increases enjoyed by the
county’s cities ranged from 32.3 percent for Riviera Beach to 1.2 percent for
the tiny town of Glen Ridge. The average
growth for all cities is 9.4 percent, and most of the large cities are close to
that number: Jupiter, Boynton Beach and Wellington all above 9 percent; Palm
Beach Gardens at 7.3 percent; Royal Palm Beach at 10.7 percent and West Palm
Beach at 11.5 percent.
“The overwhelming majority
of the increase in Riviera Beach was from the power plant,” the Property
Appraiser said. “Factor out the power plant, and their increase is probably
around 9 to 10 percent.”
The county is poised, in the next year or two,
to regain all of the property value losses of the Great Recession. “If things continue as they have the past two
years, that would be true,” Nikolits (Property Appraiser) said, “and I’m not
seeing anything to indicate a substantial slowdown in the next year or so.”
