Lauderhill Joins Sunny Isles Beach, South Beach As Top 10 South Florida Condo Market

In this episode of Condo Capitalism™, Peter Zalewski discusses a new report that ranks nearly 200 condo market zip codes based on total existing units across South Florida's tricounty region.Condo Capitalism™ is a weekly podcast hosted by Peter Zalewski of the Miami Condo Investing Club™ that provides data-driven analysis on distressed real estate—foreclosures, shortsales and bank-owned REOs—in the tricounty South Florida region of Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach.The program tracks the Florida Condo Association Financial Cliff, where rising maintenance fees, special assessments and insurance costs are squeezing cash-strapped owners.On the show, experts analyze how the national “two-sided risk”—rising inflation and falling employment—magnifies these local pressures, potentially forcing a capitulation by owners who can no longer afford condo living.Join Peter Zalewski at MiamiCondo.Club for a livestream every weekday at 4 pm (Miami time). On-demand recordings of all shows are available here.Episode OverviewIn the May 28, 2026, episode of the Condo Capitalism™ podcast, host Peter Zalewski breaks down a new report ranking nearly 200 South Florida zip codes by total condo units across the tricounty region of Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach.The top of the list holds few surprises. Sunny Isles Beach's 33160 zip code ranks No. 1 with nearly 28,000 units. South Beach's 33139 zip code is No. 2 with nearly 23,000 units. The Brickell Avenue Area’s 33131 zip code in Greater Downtown Miami checks in at No. 3 with nearly 19,750 units.The No. 10 slot is another matter. Western Broward County's 33313 zip code—covering the Lauderhill-Lauderdale Lakes suburbs—lands in the Top 10 on the strength of nearly 12,000 units. The neighboring Lauderhill-Tamarac zip code of 33319 ranks 12th with more than 11,350 units.Lauderhill's Top 10 ranking is a direct byproduct of Broward County's decades-long condo construction boom in the second half of the 20th century, when developers built heavily into the western suburbs.The rankings are a result of the buildout of a Condo Ratings Agency™, which is a platform designed to grade the financial stability of individual condo associations using government data to provide buyers, sellers, lenders and regulators an objective measure that goes beyond sellside marketing campaigns.To build it, Zalewski started with the Florida Condo Law of 1963. From there, he reconstructed a county-by-county ledger of every active association and unit built since. State records show nearly 13,000 condo associations encompassing about 760,000 units have gone up across South Florida in the past six decades.Of that total, 67% of the units are now classified as Vintage condos based on being at least 30 years old. Vintage condos have been the subject of greater scrutiny in the five years since the Surfside condo collapse in June 2021 when nearly 100 people died and a $1 billion settlement paid out to the families of the victims.Broward County dominated the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. Miami-Dade took the regional lead in the 1990s and accelerated sharply in the 2000s, accounting for more than 113,000 of the roughly 195,000 units built that decade across the tricounty area.As part of the 2026 Summer Buying Season, the podcast summary has been eliminated. Click play above to watch Zalewski’s analysis, and use the timestamped timeline and the Top 10 Takeaways below to navigate the program on demand.