VERO BEACH LUXURY MARKET REPORT  ·  2025

The Market Runs on Cash. Ben & Vance Run the Market.

35+ Years  ·  $1 Billion+ in Sales  ·  2,000+ Transactions  ·  App-Powered  ·  Top 10 Most Trusted in Florida

The national housing market is a story of debt, delay, and demographic compromise. Vero Beach — and the team that has dominated it for over three decades — is a different story entirely.

Since 2013, the National Association of Realtors® has published its annual Home Buyers and Sellers Generational Trends Report, mapping how differently Americans across generations purchase, finance, and sell homes. The 2025 edition reveals a nation divided between equity-rich older buyers and debt-burdened younger ones. Ben Bryk and Vance Brinkerhoff of Coldwell Banker Global Luxury Paradise have spent 35 years serving precisely the buyers who have already won the long game — and building the tools that make every transaction seamless, regardless of which side of that divide a client sits on.

America's strongest cash market. One team's home turf.

With 62.7% of all Vero Beach transactions closing in cash, this Treasure Coast enclave operates on fundamentally different terms than the national market. The U.S. average for cash purchases sits near 26%. Vero Beach's rate is more than twice that figure — a structural reality that eliminates financing contingencies, compresses timelines, and puts sellers in a position of extraordinary strength.

Ben Bryk and Vance Brinkerhoff have navigated this market through every cycle since 1990. Their $1 billion in closed sales volume is not a marketing claim — it is a ledger of over 2,000 individual transactions, each one representing a family, an estate, a life chapter completed on the Treasure Coast.

The only Vero Beach realtors with a dedicated app. Listings sell 40% faster.

In a market where speed and presentation command premium outcomes, Ben and Vance built something no other Vero Beach team has: a dedicated buyer-seller collaboration app under the Vero Premier Properties brand. The results are quantifiable.

Vero Premier Properties App  ·  4.9 Stars  ·  App Store Editors' Choice  ·  98k Ratings

The Vero Premier Properties app delivers instant property search, real-time listing alerts, and direct agent collaboration — putting Ben and Vance's entire portfolio directly into qualified buyers' hands the moment a property hits the market. The outcome? Listings represented through the app sell 40% faster than comparable non-app listings.

NAR's 2025 data. What it means for Vero Beach.

NAR's 2025 Generational Trends Report illuminates the five buyer cohorts shaping today's market — and confirms precisely why Vero Beach's buyer pool looks so different from the national average. The same generational forces that delay younger buyers nationally are the forces that concentrate equity-rich older buyers here.

Nationally, 74% of home buyers financed their purchase. Among Younger Millennials, 26% received down payment help from a family member — a gift or loan that bridged the gap between aspirational savings and actual purchasing power. For buyers in this cohort, the obstacles are structural: high rental costs that consume would-be down payment funds, credit card debt accumulated during the inflationary period, and student loans that in many cases exceed $30,000.

Only 7% of Older Boomers carry student loan debt — yet their median balance of $24,000 likely reflects not personal education costs, but co-signed obligations from their children's education. Wealth accumulation did not spare this generation entirely from generational obligation.

What buyers and sellers ask Ben and Vance

Source: NAR Home Buyers & Sellers Generational Trends Report, 2025  ·  Apple News Top 10 Most Trusted Agents Florida 2025  ·  Coldwell Banker Global Luxury Paradise  ·  Indian River County, FL 32963