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South Florida Overall Condo Cliff Index™ Climbs To Another High As Winter Season Winds Down

In this Miami Condo Exchange™ episode, Peter Zalewski discusses how Palm Beach County is reordering the local condo market's power structure as the Mar-a-Lago effect catapults the northern corridor.

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Episode Overview

In the March 31, 2026, episode of the Miami Condo Exchange™ podcast, host Peter Zalewski examines a tricounty South Florida region of Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach where the Mar-a-Lago effect has propelled the northern corridor to seven new record highs in the first 13 weeks of the year.

The corresponding charts and tables for this analysis are located below.

The South Florida Overall Condo Cliff Index™ inched up 0.31% in the week ending March 31, 2026, as sellers and investors push through the final weeks of the Winter Buying Season before Summer’s heat, humidity and hurricane warnings thin the buyer pool.

This week’s 9.45 reading is the highest ever recorded since the Overall Index launched on Jan. 1, 2025, to coincide with the Florida Condo Association Financial Cliff.

The Condo Cliff is defined as a moment where the cost of condo living becomes unwieldy for cash-strapped owners due to rising maintenance fees, hefty special assessments and pricey insurance premiums resulting from the post-Surfside legislation.

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The South Florida Vintage Condo Cliff Index™—which tracks units at least 30 years old—also climbed, rising 0.92% to a record 8.99 points on March 31, 2026, from 8.91 points the prior week, marking yet another all-time high for both indices.

In 10 of the first 13 weeks of 2026, the Overall Index has trended upward while the Vintage Index has done so in 11 of 13 weeks, suggesting the South Florida condo market has found its footing heading into the traditionally slower Summer Buying Season of May through October.

Sellers who cannot afford to stay appear to be finally pricing their units to sell, prompting buyers — who had not been willing to chase — to step forward.

The current number of active listings confirmed the dynamic with the South Florida Overall inventory dipping 0.27% to less than 26,020 units while Vintage listings edged down 0.35% to less than 17,865 units.

Vintage condo resale listings represent nearly 69% of the total as of March 31, 2026.

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South Florida’s Overall pending sales—a gauge of buyer confidence—were flat, inching up 0.04% to nearly 2,460 contracts with pending sales of Vintage units rising 0.56% to more than 1,605.

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