Old Palm

Old Palm sits inside the City of Palm Beach Gardens, and this one is unusually clean to establish: all 470 Old Palm parcels fall inside the City in both the county’s municipal layer and the Census Bureau’s incorporated-places layer, with no exceptions at all, and the community’s own Community Development District states in its statutory disclosure that it lies within the municipal limits of the City of Palm Beach Gardens. The community is in ZIP code 33418, on every parcel.

The governing special district here is not the one that covers most of its neighbours. Old Palm has its own Community Development District — a Chapter 190 district under Florida law — established on 19 December 2002 by City of Palm Beach Gardens Ordinance No. 42-2002. It is not a unit of the Northern Palm Beach County Improvement District, whose roster carries no Old Palm entry. The district describes its purpose as planning, financing, constructing, operating and maintaining community-wide infrastructure, and its services as surface water management and control facilities, master road drainage, site-related roadway improvements, and perimeter wall and buffer improvements.

The property owners association is Old Palm Foundation, Inc., named both on the district’s own site and on the City of Palm Beach Gardens’ published list of homeowner and property owner associations. Its governing documents and assessments are not published anywhere we could reach — the association’s apparent web domain does not resolve — so nothing about its dues or rules appears on this page.

One thing this guide does not tell you, and the reason is worth stating plainly: **the club publishes nothing publicly**. Old Palm Golf Club’s website redirects entirely to a members-only login portal, and every content path tested resolves to a not-found page inside it. As a result we publish no course designer, no par or yardage, no clubhouse or amenity description, and no statement about whether club membership is required of homeowners — in either direction. Claims circulating elsewhere about any of those are unsourced, including the course architect attribution that appears widely in search results. Ask the club directly; that is the only reliable route.

The district states its own boundaries: bordered on the south by PGA Boulevard, on the east by Central Boulevard and portions of Interstate 95, and on the west by Florida’s Turnpike. That description is corroborated independently by Census road geometry measured against the community’s parcel envelope, and by county records showing Old Palm parcels with Central Boulevard addresses along the eastern edge.

A correction worth making: Military Trail is not a boundary of Old Palm. Its northern terminus sits at PGA Boulevard, south of the community’s southern edge, so descriptions placing Old Palm “between the Turnpike and Military Trail” are wrong.

The community is in ZIP code 33418 — all 470 parcels, with none in 33410 or any other ZIP code tabulation area. Every official address read, including the clubhouse, the association office and the management office, prints 33418.

We publish no distances or drive times. None was available from a dated authoritative source, and none may be estimated from mapping data.

A search caution for anyone working in county records: a plat named Old Palm Grove sits roughly 25 miles south of Palm Beach Gardens and has nothing to do with this community.

Old Palm is single-family throughout. The county property roll returns 314 single-family parcels across the community’s seven recorded plats and no condominium, townhouse or multi-family code at all — so unlike BallenIsles or PGA National, there is no attached-housing component here.

The best published description of the housing comes from an unexpected source: the Community Development District’s adopted budget. Because the district assesses property by category, its assessment schedule names them — Golf Cottages, Villa, Grand Estates, One Acre Estates with reuse water, One Acre Estates, and Sable Palms Parcel A — and gives a total of 316 residential units. Two points of discipline about that number: these are assessment categories rather than necessarily the community’s marketing names for its neighborhoods, and 316 is a count of assessment units rather than a count of completed houses.

Lot sizes vary substantially by plat, which the county roll shows directly: one plat runs a quarter-acre to about a third of an acre, another around half an acre, and another from roughly half an acre to over two acres with a median around an acre — consistent with the One Acre Estates category name. We do not publish a mapping of streets to categories, because no such mapping is published anywhere and inferring one across two datasets would be guesswork.

The district also publishes something no other community in this cluster does: official, dated per-unit assessments. For fiscal year 2027 its adopted budget levies, per unit, $3,742.87 on Golf Cottages, $3,894.08 on Villa, $3,913.36 on Sable Palms Parcel A, $5,102.34 on Grand Estates, $5,404.05 on One Acre Estates, and $7,976.51 on One Acre Estates with reuse — each combining a maintenance component with a debt component, and each up $289.10 on fiscal 2026.

Those figures need labelling carefully, and we do so on the page itself. They are non-ad valorem assessments levied by a unit of local government and collected on the county property tax bill. They are not HOA dues, not club dues and not an initiation fee, and they are in addition to whatever Old Palm Foundation, Inc. assesses and whatever the club charges — neither of which is published anywhere. The debt portion is finite: the district’s Series 2019 refunding bonds amortise to zero on 1 May 2035.

On price, no authoritative source publishes a median or average sale price, price per square foot, days on market or inventory figure for Old Palm or ZIP 33418, and the county tax roll carries no Old Palm line and no district line. The only dated figure available is city-wide — Palm Beach Gardens had a final 2025 taxable value of $21,746,938,681 on the roll dated 8 October 2025, and a 2026 estimate dated 1 June 2026 of $23,495,963,391 — which is a municipal tax base, not a price, and not Old Palm. Christian works from verifiable comparables for the specific plat and lot size.

Budget for at least three separate obligations: the Community Development District assessment, which arrives on the county property tax bill; the Old Palm Foundation assessment, which is not published; and whatever the club charges, which is also not published. Only the first is documented, and it is a government levy rather than an association fee.

The district assessment depends on which category a home falls in, and the spread is wide — from $3,742.87 to $7,976.51 per unit for fiscal 2027. Establish the category for the specific property rather than assuming a community-wide figure.

The debt component of that assessment is finite. The district’s Series 2019 refunding bonds amortise to zero on 1 May 2035, so the debt portion runs on a defined schedule — though we make no projection about what the maintenance portion does after that.

Ask the club directly about membership structure and cost. The club maintains no public website, so nothing about whether membership is required, what categories exist, or what any of it costs can be researched independently.

Request the Old Palm Foundation’s governing documents and current assessment in writing. The association’s web domain does not resolve, and no declaration, rule or fee schedule was obtainable during research.

The district noted in its FY2027 budget that median landscaping maintenance was in the process of transferring to the City of Palm Beach Gardens. That is time-sensitive — confirm the current position before relying on it.

This section is deliberately short, and the reason is the point. Old Palm Golf Club maintains no public website — its domain redirects to a members-only portal — so we can describe what the community’s public district documents record, but not the club’s facilities. Anything you read elsewhere about the course, the clubhouse or the amenities is not coming from the club.