78% Of Middle Beach Condos In Miami Beach Qualify As Vintage Under Post-Surfside Criteria

In this episode of Miami Condo Mondays™, the hosts analyze how 9,200 of Middle Beach's nearly 11,750 units are at least 30 years old, five years after the Surfside condo collapse on June 24, 2021.Miami Condo Mondays™ features Peter Zalewski of the Miami Condo Investing Club™ and veteran broker Jenny Huertas of CVRRealty.com in a weekly deep dive into South Florida condo real estate.Recorded in Greater Downtown Miami, the podcast delivers an hour of high-level analysis on preconstruction condos, market trends and investment strategies for the tricounty South Florida region of Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach.The show leverages more than 60 years of combined institutional knowledge as Zalewski provides the macro perspective and Huertas offers on-the-ground micro insights from her daily experience in the trenches.The show streams live every Monday at 4 pm on the social media accounts of both hosts to provide an authoritative look at the latest shifts in the condo market.Episode OverviewIn this episode of the Miami Condo Mondays™ podcast on June 15, 2026, co-hosts Jenny Huertas of CVR Realty and Peter Zalewski of the Miami Condo Investing Club™ open Season Two's second episode on the night Miami hosts its first-ever FIFA World Cup match.During the 66-minute episode, Huertas and Zalewski size up what the World Cup is and is not delivering for South Florida’s hospitality sector.Hotel rates and ticket prices tell a story that hoteliers, short-term rental operators and fans may not have seen coming.The episode then pivots to the core data segment.As part of the build-out of the Condo Ratings Agency™, Zalewski presents a first-of-its-kind breakdown of Miami Beach’s condo stock across three zip codes—South Beach’s 33139, Middle Beach’s 33140 and North Beach’s 33141—covering 930 associations and more than 45,265 units.Middle Beach's Vintage concentration stands well above the other two Miami Beach submarkets, with consequences for owners and buyers that the hosts discuss in detail five years after the Champlain Towers South collapse on June 24, 2021.The finding from the Condo Ratings Agency™ emerges as rising maintenance fees, hefty special assessments and pricey insurance premiums push many Middle Beach owners toward the Florida Condo Association Financial Cliff, making condo living cost prohibitive for longtime owners and new buyers alike.As part of the 2026 Summer Buying Season initiative to publish episodes more quickly, the podcast summary has been eliminated, meaning viewers should use the timestamped timeline and the Top 10 Takeaways to navigate the show on demand.