How Many Pompano & Fort Lauderdale Condos Face Milestone Inspection Right Now

Since the Champlain Towers South collapse in Surfside in 2021, Florida condo buyers have learned to ask one question before anything else: is this building compliant? The state’s answer came in the form of Senate Bill 4-D, later amended by SB 154 and House Bill 913, creating mandatory Milestone Inspections and Structural Integrity Reserve Studies for condominium and cooperative buildings three stories or taller. As of January 1, 2026, a new transparency law, House Bill 1021, requires associations with 25 or more units to post their governing documents, budgets, and reserve studies online.

David Marder and the team at Marder Group track Broward’s building recertification pipeline corridor by corridor. Here is what our own data actually shows for the oceanfront market we work in every day.

The Oceanfront Corridor, By the Decade

Restricting the data to true oceanfront addresses, Ocean Boulevard, Galt Ocean Drive, A1A, and Birch Road across Fort Lauderdale, Pompano Beach, Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, and Lighthouse Point, the building stock breaks down like this:

• 1 building built in the 1940s
• 9 buildings built in the 1950s
• 46 buildings built in the 1960s, totaling 4,362 units
• 103 buildings built in the 1970s, totaling 7,988 units
• 23 buildings built in the 1980s
• 15 buildings built in the 1990s

Add it up and 149 oceanfront buildings, representing more than 12,300 units, went up before 1980. Every one of them is now 45 to 65 years old and sits inside the age range that triggers Milestone Inspection and Broward’s local recertification cycle.

Where Each City Stands Today

Broward’s Building Safety Inspection Program tracks buildings through a few clear stages: currently listed for active recertification, projected to require it based on age even if not yet formally listed, and a status best described as compliance unknown, meaning the county record does not yet show a confirmed outcome. That last category is a data gap, not evidence that a building is out of compliance.

• Pompano Beach: 84 buildings currently listed, 321 projected, 673 compliance unknown
• Fort Lauderdale: 48 buildings currently listed, 572 projected, 773 compliance unknown
• Lauderdale-by-the-Sea: 6 buildings currently listed, 45 projected, 36 compliance unknown
• Lighthouse Point: 4 buildings currently listed, 44 projected, 43 compliance unknown

Looking specifically at Pompano Beach’s near-term pipeline, roughly 88 buildings have a next inspection milestone due in 2026 alone, on top of the 296 that came due in 2023 when the first wave of statewide deadlines hit.

Why This Shows Up In The Market Data, Not Just The Building Department

This is not an abstract compliance issue. It is already priced into the market. Over the trailing 12 months, Pompano Beach condos closed at a median of 66 days on market, but active condo listings right now are sitting at an average of 199 days, nearly double the pace of single-family homes in the same city. More than a third of active Pompano Beach condo listings, 36 percent, have already taken at least one price reduction.

Buyers are not avoiding condos. They are avoiding uncertainty. A building with a completed Milestone Inspection, a funded reserve study, and no pending special assessment is a fundamentally different product to a lender and a buyer than one with an unresolved inspection status, even if the two units look identical on a floor plan.

What Buyers Should Actually Ask For

Before writing an offer on any condo in a building built before 1996, request:

• The completed Milestone Inspection report, and whether it triggered a Phase 2 structural review
• The current Structural Integrity Reserve Study and whether reserves are funded to the SIRS baseline
• The last 12 months of board meeting minutes, checked for any discussion of upcoming assessments
• Confirmation of any pending or recently passed special assessment, and who is contractually responsible for it at closing

Since January 2026, associations with 25 or more units are required to make these documents available online. If a building cannot produce them within 30 days of a request, treat that as a serious flag, not a formality.

What Sellers Should Do Before The Questions Start

If your building has already completed its Milestone Inspection and funded its reserves, that is a selling point, not a footnote. Buyers who have shopped two or three other buildings in the same price range will notice the difference immediately. Have the documents ready before the first showing.

If your building has not yet completed its inspection, or is facing a known assessment, the honest move is to get ahead of it in the listing conversation rather than let it surface during due diligence, when it reads as a surprise instead of a known and priced-in factor.

Partner With Marder Group

Roughly 150 oceanfront buildings across Fort Lauderdale, Pompano Beach, Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, and Lighthouse Point were built before 1980. Most of them are excellent buildings in excellent locations, but in 2026, a building’s paperwork matters as much as its view. David Marder and Marder Group track recertification status building by building across our market. Contact us for a straight answer on where a specific address stands.