Renovated Prosperity Harbor Townhome | North Palm Beach, FL

The useful part

North Palm Beach has spent the last decade holding its shape while nearly everything north of it built up. The village is still low-rise, still shaded, still organized around the water rather than around a boulevard. Prosperity Harbor sits inside that — a gated pocket of townhomes tucked off Prosperity Farms Road, close enough to the Intracoastal that the community keeps a day dock of its own.

How it works

• 735 Cable Beach Lane is the unit in that community that has already been through its renovation.
• Three bedrooms, three baths, 2,200 square feet, built in 2000 and then taken apart and put back together on a level most townhome updates never reach.
• Between those two line items, the expensive part of ownership sits behind the next buyer rather than ahead of them.
• The front elevation at 735 Cable Beach Lane, with an attached two-car garage and paver drive.
• High ceilings help, and so do the engineered white oak floors, which carry a single tone across the whole level instead of chopping it into rooms.

Details worth keeping

It is listed at $799,900, or $364 per square foot. New paint, new baseboards, new toilets, two new vanities. The custom kitchen, with island seating for four and a range set under...