Two homes on Brandywine Lake Way, inside the guard gate at Canyon Isles in west Boynton Beach, closed within days of each other this spring. One sold on April 30, 2026 for $1,500,000. The other, a few doors down, closed the same day for $810,000. Same street. Same HOA. Same clubhouse, same tennis courts, same resort pool, same 24-hour gatehouse. A buyer comparing both listings on a portal could reasonably wonder what the extra $690,000 actually bought.
The answer matters beyond one street. GL Homes built four sister communities along this Lyons Road and Boynton Beach Boulevard corridor between roughly 2002 and 2014: Canyon Isles, Canyon Lakes, Canyon Springs, and Canyon Trails. All four run the same playbook, guard-gated entry, resort-style pool, tot lots, tennis, a clubhouse, and HOA dues that undercut a country club by a wide margin. If you're cross-shopping these four right now, the brand name and the amenity list are doing far less pricing work than the shared address suggests. What actually sets the number is the model, the construction cohort within the community, and what the previous owner did to the house.
Four Communities, One Blueprint
Canyon Lakes came first, built out between 2004 and 2009 with five home collections and twenty-six floor plans. Canyon Isles followed on a similar timeline with its own set of collections, model names like Amber, Ashton, Cascade, and Hilton among them. Canyon Springs filled in next, developed roughly between 2007 and 2012. Canyon Trails closed out the set between 2011 and 2014 with its own naming convention entirely, models called Acapulco, Antigua, and Savannah among others.
Every one of the four sits within a few minutes of Canyon Town Center, the shopping strip anchoring the corridor with a Publix, banks, and a run of restaurants. Every one draws from the same zoned public schools, with Sunset Palms Elementary sitting adjacent to the cluster. Every one advertises the same pitch: resort living without the golf membership. On paper, choosing between them looks like choosing a paint color. The 2026 sales data says otherwise.
The Pace Number Depends on the Window You Check
Here is where a buyer gets tripped up fast. A market ranking snapshot taken in mid-June 2026 put Canyon Isles at a median 7 days on market with a $968,000 median price, and Canyon Lakes at 14 days with a $1.02 million median. That reads as a clean story: Isles moves twice as fast, Lakes commands a bit more.
But pull Canyon Lakes' trailing twelve-month figure from a different aggregator and the picture shifts. Over the year ending mid-2026, Canyon Lakes homes averaged 62 days on market against a national average of 58, with a median sale price of $1,010,000, up roughly 1 percent from the prior twelve months. That is not the same number as the 14-day snapshot, and it is not supposed to be. One measures a single recent slice of closings. The other smooths an entire year, including the slow months.
Neither number is wrong. They are answering different questions. If your agent hands you a "days on market" figure for any of these four communities, ask what date range sits behind it. A 14-day stat pulled from a hot spring month and a 62-day trailing average from the same community can both be technically accurate and tell you very different things about how a specific listing will actually move.
What the Four Communities Actually Look Like Right Now
| Community | Built | Recent Resale Range | Pace Signal | Reported Monthly HOA |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canyon Isles | roughly 2002 to 2008 | $810,000 to $1,500,000 on closings from February through August 2026 | averaged 27 days to sell over the past year as of July 2026, with a 97 percent list-to-sell ratio | reported between $250 and $395, depending on the source |
| Canyon Lakes | 2004 to 2009 | trailing 12-month median of $1,010,000 | 14 days in a June 2026 snapshot versus 62 days on the trailing 12-month average | not consistently published, verify at contract |
| Canyon Springs | roughly 2007 to 2012 | $665,000 to $1,812,000 on closings from May through August 2026 | wide spread reflects size and upgrade level more than location | reported at $333 |
| Canyon Trails | 2011 to 2014 | average sale price of $845,753 on 40 closings for the year ending January 2026 | steady turnover, 40 sales in a single year | older reporting put dues near $241, confirm current figure |
Treat every HOA figure in that table as a starting point, not a contract term. The published number for Canyon Isles alone ranges from the low $250s to the high $390s depending on which site you check, and dues get adjusted at the board level without every aggregator catching up. Pull the actual estoppel letter before you write an offer. It is the only number that reflects what the association is charging today.
Why One Community Can Span a Two-to-One Price Gap
Canyon Springs makes the mechanism easiest to see because the spread inside one gated community is so wide. In August 2026, a six-bedroom, five-bath home on Daystar Ridge Point at 6,694 square feet closed at $1,812,000. That same summer, a three-bedroom, two-bath home on Rock Lake Terrace at 2,787 square feet closed at $670,000, and a nearly identical model on Ponywalk Trail closed at $665,000 two weeks later. Same guard gate. Same $333 HOA line item. Same clubhouse membership. A price difference of more than $1.1 million.
Square footage explains a real share of that gap on its own, the larger home is more than double the size. But it doesn't explain all of it. The rest comes down to which construction cohort within the community a given model belongs to, whether the lot backs to a lake or a berm, and what the seller put into the house before listing it, impact windows, a newer roof, an updated kitchen. Buyers comparing Canyon developments consistently run into this question, and the honest answer is that vintage, lot placement, and upgrade level do more pricing work inside these communities than the brand name on the entrance sign.
That same logic explains the Brandywine Lake Way gap that opened this piece. The home that closed at $1,500,000 carried six bedrooms and 5,919 square feet. The one that closed at $810,000 carried five bedrooms and 3,804 square feet, a more than 55 percent difference in size before you even factor in condition or upgrades. The Canyon Isles name told you almost nothing about that gap. The floor plan and the finish level told you almost everything.
What This Means If You're Comparing the Four Canyons
Skip the community name as your first filter and start with the model. Ask for the collection name and build year on any listing you're serious about, since a home from Canyon Lakes' earliest 2004 phase is a different asset than one from a later release in the same community. Ask what's actually been upgraded and when, since impact windows and a new roof move the number more than an extra tennis court view. And when someone quotes you a pace stat, whether it's 7 days or 62, ask for the date range behind it before you use it to set your offer strategy.
If you're weighing these four communities against each other, or against something outside the Canyon family entirely, that comparison is easier with someone who can pull the actual estoppel, the actual closed comps by model, and the actual current HOA financials rather than whatever an aggregator last scraped. The Creegan Team works Palm Beach County listings like this every week and can put together that side-by-side before you tour a single house. Reach out for a complimentary consultation and we'll build the comparison around the specific models and streets you're actually considering.
FAQ
Are Canyon Isles, Canyon Lakes, Canyon Springs, and Canyon Trails all managed by the same HOA? No. Each community carries its own homeowners association and board, even though GL Homes built all four along the same corridor with a similar amenity script.
Why do square footage numbers vary between listing sites for the same home? Some totals reflect living space under air only, while others fold in garage and lanai square footage, so two sites can disagree on the same house by several hundred square feet.
Which Canyon community is appreciating fastest right now? A mid-2026 snapshot found Canyon Isles selling in about a week versus roughly two weeks for Canyon Lakes, but that single-month read and a full trailing-year average won't always agree. Ask what window backs up any pace number before you rely on it.
