Data Analysis

Charlotte County condo sales are up 35.5% this year, the largest volume gain in Florida

Punta Gorda's single-family market rose 14.0% in July. Its condo segment is growing faster than any metro in the state, at a median that has barely moved.

Condo and townhouse closings in the Punta Gorda metro are up 35.5% for 2026 so far, according to Florida Realtors. No other Florida metro is close. The next largest is Sebastian-Vero Beach at 32.8%, and the statewide figure is 9.3%.

The median price attached to that volume has gone almost nowhere. Year to date it is $250,000, up 0.4%. In July alone the condo median was $219,000, down 5.6%, on 101 closings, up 20.2%.

More units are trading at prices that have not moved, which is what a market clearing inventory looks like.

The single-family side

Charlotte County's single-family market sold 528 homes in July, up 14.0% from a year earlier, at a median of $353,545, up 2.5%. Year to date it is 3,571 closings, up 11.4%, at $351,000, up 2.3%.

Both segments are selling more. Only one of them is getting more expensive, and only slightly.

Southwest Florida is doing this across the board. Cape Coral-Fort Myers condo closings rose 29.3% year to date, Naples-Immokalee-Marco Island 24.2%, North Port-Sarasota-Bradenton 15.9%. Punta Gorda is the extreme case of a regional pattern rather than an outlier.

Why this article uses Florida Realtors' numbers and not ours

Most of our market coverage leads with figures we compute ourselves from licensed MLS records. This one does not, and the reason is worth stating plainly.

Our Charlotte County coverage comes through the Florida Gulf Coast MLS feed, which lists Charlotte as an adjacent county rather than one it covers authoritatively. For July our feed holds 99 closings against Florida Realtors' 629 across both segments. That is about 16% of the county.

A number computed from an unknown sixth of a market is not a thin sample. It is a fraction with an unknown denominator, and no disclosure on the page fixes that. So we do not publish Charlotte County closing counts or year-over-year changes from our own data, and everything above comes from Florida Realtors instead.

We are working on licensing the board that covers the county properly. Until that lands, this is the honest version.

What this does not mean

A 35.5% year-to-date increase in condo closings does not mean demand rose 35%. Percentage changes measure distance from wherever the comparison period started, and southwest Florida condo volumes were depressed through 2024 and 2025.

A condo median down 5.6% for the month does not mean condo values fell 5.6%. At 101 closings the mix of which buildings traded moves the midpoint on its own.

A metro median is not an appraisal, and none of these figures values a specific property.

If you are in this market

Buying a condo in Charlotte County means shopping a segment with a lot more inventory changing hands than a year ago at a midpoint that has held. That is a buyer's market by volume rather than by price.

Buying a house there means a segment up 14% on volume with the median up 2.5%, which is closer to the statewide pattern.

Selling a condo, the comparable set has grown substantially in a year, and the prices those comparables cleared at have not moved much. Both facts should shape the asking price.

If you own in Charlotte County and are not selling, none of these figures describe your property.

Limitations

Every figure in this article is published by Florida Realtors rather than computed by us, for the coverage reason described above. We hold roughly 16% of Charlotte County's closings through an adjacent-county feed, which is not enough to publish a county figure of our own, and this article does not present one.

That also means the usual cross-check we run before publishing does not exist here. Florida Realtors' figures for this metro rest on their dataset alone as far as this article is concerned.

Their figures are preliminary and subject to revision. Their single-family series is compiled from MLS feeds on the 10th day of the following month and their condo series on the 15th, a difference they print in the same document.

Sources and links

• Florida Realtors, Statewide by Metropolitan Statistical Area, July 2026
• Data hub: /data/punta-gorda/
• Tool: /tools/florida-home-affordability.html

Disclosure: Jon Brooks is a co-founder of Momentum Realty, a Florida real estate brokerage that owns and funds Florida Housing Intelligence. Momentum has a financial interest in Florida real estate transactions, including in markets named here. See our editorial standards.