Selling a home in Palm Beach Gardens? Randolph Scott Bell is a Florida REALTOR® with LoKation and a licensed general contractor, so the roof, any open permits, your architectural review board and the flood zone are read by a builder before you price the house.
Florida real estate sales associate SL3247858, brokered through LoKation · REALTOR® · Certified General Contractor CGC1528750 · Certified Roofing Contractor CCC1332751.
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A listing agent represents you, the seller: advising on condition and preparation, pricing, marketing, showings, offers and contract terms, and carrying the sale through inspection, appraisal and closing. This page is for sellers. If you are buying, see our Palm Beach Gardens buyer's agent guide.
It is general guidance, not a valuation, a listing of specific homes or a promise of a sale price or time on market.
Palm Beach Gardens grew in waves. The 1960s and 1970s neighbourhoods are single-story concrete block homes, modest and now well past their original roofs, windows and insulation. The golf and country-club build-out of the 1980s through the 2000s, in communities such as PGA National, BallenIsles, Frenchman's Creek, Mirasol and Evergrene, brought barrel tile roofs, large glass areas, pool decks and screen enclosures. Alton and Avenir are the newest communities, largely still warranty-age.
Each era draws different questions from a buyer's inspector and insurer, so each decides what a seller should know before the sign goes up.
HOA and architectural review. PGA National, BallenIsles, Frenchman's Creek, Mirasol, Evergrene, Alton and Avenir each run their own architectural review. Expect resale documents, an approval step for your buyer and board sign-off on anything visible before listing, such as roof tile profile and colour, window frame finish, a fence or a screen enclosure. Boards meet on their own calendar, so ask what is required and how long it takes before you set a timeline.
Permits. Inside the city limits, the City of Palm Beach Gardens Building Division at 10500 N Military Trail issues the permit. Mailing addresses here blur across the city, unincorporated Palm Beach County, North Palm Beach, Juno Beach and Jupiter, so confirm the jurisdiction from the parcel record. A licensed contractor must hold the permit for roof and window work.
The tree code. The city regulates removing trees and palms, and pruning as well. A roof tear-off or a screen enclosure repair can need limbs cleared, so plan the approval before the truck arrives.
Wind. The city sits inside the Wind-Borne Debris Region, so replacement openings must be impact-rated or protected by approved shutters. Design wind speed is assigned by address and rises toward the water, and salt air in the eastern part of the city wears roof fasteners, flashing and window hardware.
Flood zone. A buyer's lender and insurer will ask for it. Flood zones are parcel-specific and re-mapped from time to time, so confirm the FEMA zone for your address and keep any elevation certificate with your listing documents.
As a Certified General Contractor (CGC1528750) and Certified Roofing Contractor (CCC1332751), both state licences verifiable at myfloridalicense.com, Randolph can walk your house before it is listed. He tells you what a buyer's inspector is likely to raise and what the repair would involve, then you decide what to fix, what to disclose and what to leave for the buyer to price. That is capability, not a guarantee of any inspection result or sale price.
The order of the work is in our pre-listing guide: what to fix before you sell.
The owner is a Florida state-certified general contractor and roofing contractor, which means he may contract in any Florida county. The firm holds a Palm Beach County Business Tax Receipt, a local business tax registration, not a contractor licence. The firm behind the licences, Bell Engineering and Construction Corporation, has operated continuously since February 2009.
Also in Palm Beach Gardens: if the repair list is long, construction pulls the city permit and prepares the review-board submittal; if the roof is the problem, roofing covers the re-roof or tile repair; if you hold the home as a rental or sit on an HOA board, property management covers the association side; and if the lot needs clearing before photos, land services can prep it.
Randolph Scott Bell is a Florida real estate sales associate (SL3247858) brokered through LoKation, and a REALTOR®. He is not an independent brokerage and does not act as broker of record. He is also a Certified General Contractor (CGC1528750) and Certified Roofing Contractor (CCC1332751).
Ask what the agent will do before the house goes on the market, not only after. Check the licence at myfloridalicense.com, ask who the brokerage is, and ask how they handle roof age, open permits, your community's architectural review board and the flood zone. This page lists no homes or prices, and it makes no promise about a sale price or time on market.
The City of Palm Beach Gardens issues its own, through its Building Division at 10500 N Military Trail. North-county mailing addresses blur across the city, unincorporated Palm Beach County, North Palm Beach, Juno Beach and Jupiter, so confirm the jurisdiction from the parcel record before you pull a permit for a pre-listing repair.
Yes. An old permit for a water heater, a re-roof, a screen enclosure or a pool cage can sit open for years until a buyer's title search finds it. Checking your address for open permits before you list gives you time to close them out, instead of finding them in the last week before closing.
Communities such as PGA National, BallenIsles, Frenchman's Creek, Mirasol, Evergrene, Alton and Avenir run their own architectural review. Expect resale documents, an approval step for your buyer and board sign-off on visible repairs before you list, such as roof tile profile and colour, window frame finish or a fence. Ask your association what it requires and how long it takes, then set your listing timeline around the answer.
It can. Palm Beach Gardens regulates removing trees and palms and also regulates pruning, and a City Forester sits inside its Development Compliance and Zoning Division. A roof tear-off, a crane set or a screen enclosure repair can need limbs or a palm moved, so plan the clearance and the approval before the work, not after.
Often yes. The 1960s and 1970s single-story block homes are well past their original roofs, windows and insulation, and the golf-community homes of the 1980s through the 2000s are now cycling through second roofs and tile repairs. Roof age drives insurability and the buyer's insurance quote. As a Certified Roofing Contractor and general contractor, Randolph can read the visible condition and what a repair would involve before you list. That read is context for your decision, never a guarantee of an inspection result.
Yes. All of the city sits in the Wind-Borne Debris Region, so replacement openings must be impact-rated or protected by approved shutters. The design wind speed is assigned by address and rises toward the water, so the exact requirement is checked per address at permit time. Confirm it before you price a window or door repair.
Yes, a buyer's lender and insurer will ask. Flood zones are parcel-specific and are re-mapped from time to time, so confirm the FEMA zone for your address and keep any elevation certificate or past flood insurance paperwork with your listing documents.
This page lists no homes, prices or past sales, and no Palm Beach Gardens sale or client is claimed here. What Randolph brings is the licensed builder's read on the house before it is listed. Call (561) 779-3213 to talk through your address.