Data Analysis

Daytona's condo median rose 7.0% in July while Florida's sat flat

Statewide the condo median finished twelve months exactly where it started. In Volusia and Flagler it rose more than houses did.

Florida Realtors put the Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach condo and townhouse median at $286,250 in July, up 7.0% from a year earlier. The statewide condo median was $295,000, unchanged.

Single-family in the same two counties rose 2.9%, to $360,000. So condos outpaced houses there by four points, in a state where the condo segment has spent a year going nowhere.

That inverts the story the July release told at the state level, where condo prices sat flat while single-family rose 3.7%.

Volume tells a quieter story

Neither segment sold much more than last year. Single-family closings were 993, up 0.4%. Condo closings were 218, up 0.5%.

That matters for how the price move should be read. Sarasota's condo median rose 4.4% on 26.4% more sales, which reads as a market clearing. Volusia and Flagler produced a larger price gain on almost no change in volume, which is a thinner signal.

Year to date the two counties look different again. The condo median is $288,495, up 0.9%, on 0.8% more closings. Single-family is $360,000, up 1.4%, on 9.1% more. Across seven months, houses have carried the volume and both segments have been close to flat on price.

One month at 218 closings can move a good deal on mix alone.

What our own data adds

Our figures for Volusia and Flagler cover a stable but partial share of the two counties, so we publish rates of change from them and not levels.

Time to contract improved 11.2%, to a median of 87 days from 98. That remains one of the slower markets in Florida even after the improvement. Sellers received 94.4% of original list price, up from 93.2%, and price per square foot rose 3.3%.

Slow, improving, with sellers conceding about five and a half cents on the dollar.

What this does not mean

A 7.0% rise in the condo median does not mean condo values rose 7.0%. The median is the midpoint of 218 transactions. Shift which buildings traded and the midpoint moves without any owner's value changing. Florida Realtors makes this point in its own economists' note, and at this sample size it carries real weight.

It also does not mean the Volusia and Flagler condo market has decoupled from the state's. One month is one month, and the year-to-date figure is up 0.9%.

Nothing here forecasts August, and a metro median is not an appraisal.

If you are in this market

Buying a condo in Volusia or Flagler means shopping a segment whose midpoint moved up in July on volume that did not. Whether that holds is not something this data answers, and the year-to-date figure is close to flat.

Either segment there means patience. A median of 87 days to contract is roughly three months, among the longest in Florida, so the pace of the market is closer to Naples than to Tampa.

Selling in either county, the useful number is the 94.4%. Sellers are netting about 94 cents on their original asking price after nearly three months. Pricing nearer the outcome shortens that.

If you own and are not selling, a 7.0% metro figure does not describe your unit.

Limitations

Every price and volume figure in this article is published by Florida Realtors, not computed by us. Our own coverage of Volusia and Flagler runs at roughly 45% of the two counties' closings, and it has held near that share in both years, which makes our rates of change sound and our counts unusable as county totals. Nothing above is presented as a count from our data.

Daytona is also one of seven markets where our new-construction and resale counts do not reconcile to total closings, so no new-construction figure appears here.

Florida Realtors' figures are preliminary and subject to revision, and their condo series for this metro is compiled from MLS feeds on the 15th day of the following month while their single-family series uses the 10th.

Sources and links

• Florida Realtors, Statewide by Metropolitan Statistical Area, July 2026
• Data hub: /data/daytona/
• Tool: /tools/florida-rent-vs-buy-by-county.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.