Alba Palm Beach: what to know before you buy

Alba Palm Beach is a completed 22 storey boutique tower at 4714 North Flagler Drive in West Palm Beach, directly on the west bank of the Intracoastal Waterway, completed in June 2026 by BGI Companies with Blue Road, and selling very limited final developer inventory with immediate occupancy. Fifty five residences: two, three and four bedroom condominiums plus two and three storey townhomes, 1,778 to more than 4,500 square feet, with private elevators and vestibules. The developer publishes no entry price; pricing is released on request. What to know before you buy is the final inventory problem (the plan you want may already be sold), the dock problem (what kind of right a boat slip is), and the finished building problem (the first budget is a fact, not a projection, and it can be read before the contract). The money mechanics are in the Alba buyer's guide.

Final developer inventory is the building's defining fact. A tower of 55 residences that completed in June 2026 has already sold most of itself, so the buyer's choice is the developer's remaining list, read line by line: which floors, which stacks, which of the townhomes. That is a narrower choice than a launch and a more honest one, because the building can be walked, the views are the views, and the neighbors are already moving in. The desk obtains the current availability on request rather than working from a published list that ages. Households relocating on a date feel this most; the Dubai household's version of the same shortlist is relocating from Dubai to West Palm Beach, where Alba is the only one of the four with keys now.

Alba publishes a private dock with boat slip access for owners, and states that there are no fixed bridges between the dock and the Atlantic, the sentence a boat owner learns to ask about first. What the brochure does not say is what kind of right the slip is: deeded with the home, a limited common element assigned to it, or a licence from the association that can be reallocated. The three read very differently at resale and in the monthly assessment, and the answer sits in the declaration, not the marketing. The desk reads the dock language with the buyer and counsel before the reservation. The full water picture is in boats, docks and marinas at Alba, and the position is checked in where Alba is, and whether it is on the water.

On a pre-construction purchase the buyer reads promises: a delivery clause, a projected budget, a specification. At Alba the reads are records. The association exists and carries a real budget across 55 owners for a sunrise pool over the Intracoastal, a sunset pool, a spa with sauna, steam and treatment room, a Technogym fitness centre with yoga and Pilates, a screening room, a private dining room with climate controlled wine storage, an owners' great room, a library, a bocce court and a pet spa. The master policy, the reserves position and the first assessments are documents of the building as it stands. The deposit read changes too: terms are not published in the filed materials, and in general terms run staged with the balance at closing, but on a completed home the interval between contract and keys is short, and the rescission and inspection questions are for the buyer's attorney on the actual documents. The desk reads them with the buyer before the deposit is committed. The head to head with the building phases behind it is Alba or Olara, and the relocation read for another origin is relocating from Denver to West Palm Beach.

Fifty five owners carry a full amenity floor plan on a boutique count, which is the building's appeal and its arithmetic. The assessments are set by the real budget rather than a developer projection, so the number the buyer reads is the number the building runs on today; what changes it over time is the reserves discipline the owners vote for, and that history is short because the building is new. The desk shares the current budget on request and reads it against the two Flagler Drive alternatives, Olara's 275 homes and South Flagler House's two towers, where scale spreads the same kind of program very differently. Every other buyer question is in the questions buyers ask.

Developer materials for Alba Palm Beach as carried on the live dossier, verified September and October 2026. Compiled by the desk at Miami Dossier.