PlantFiles: Christmas Palm, Manila Palm, Kerpis Palm
Veitchia merrillii

in response to graphifredusa comments, is very common in your area to do a "quick" "mature" planting/landscaping right before putting a house for sale hence short lived.
many mature palms die for that reason other than disease, start from seed or small plant n rate of success is very high

yes patience still pays

Fast growing palm. Easy from seed. Will not tolerate frost. Widely grown in southern Florida and other warm climates. Easy to grow and trouble free, very tolerant of neglect. Grows well in containers.

A very easy palm in Mauritius and quite common can even find it in nuseries and sadly grow faster than our endemics Hyophorbes . Have some ( 1 mature and many seedlings ) in my garden and at that time it is in bloom january . Here in Mauritius it flowers repeatedly. The seeds grow quite fast as i never noticed how fast as i throw the seeds in a corner of the garden and it just grows by itself probably less than a month to sprout. The red ripe fruits is very appreciated by some birds and are birds dispersal also . Ripe fruits pulps are very irritating if in contact with skin , so wear a pair of gloves when handling or cleaning the fruits for seeds.

One year ago we bought a house in Hollywood Florida; there was a beautiful wall of palm tree in front of the house. Because we were coming from the city, we didn't know what kind of tree was. With the time and especially after the summer, half of them died by losing first their leaves and after the trunk by breaking down in half the size of the tree. We discovered they were Christmas Palms and are susceptible of lethal yellowing leaf disease. On the other hand some of them are beautiful with a solid thick trunk and got tall already in a year with beautiful red fruits.

A nice, small palm, but extremely susceptible to lethal yellowing disease (aka "LY").

Used to be a Veitchia, this is a very commonly planted avenue and garden plant throughout the tropical world (very common in Miami along boulevards). It is also used as an indoor plant in less tropical areas (saw some in a mall in Seattle). It can be identified by its very strongly recurved, somewhat short leaves and lime green crownshaft.