South Florida Overall Condo Cliff Index™ Grinds Higher As Palm Beach County Steals Spotlight

In this Miami Condo Exchange™ episode, Peter Zalewski breaks down a week of modest but meaningful gains as the clock ticks down on the ever-important Winter Buying Season that ends in five weeks.The Miami Condo Exchange™ is a live podcast at 4 pm (Miami time) on Tuesdays covering the latest South Florida condo stats, metrics and trends hosted by expert Peter Zalewski of the Miami Condo Investing Club™.Recorded weekly in Greater Downtown Miami, the program’s core premise is to analyze condos as commodities, no different than salty snacks, oil or pork bellies.The weekly show intends to cut through the marketing hype to focus strictly on the numbers for investors and real estate professionals.A regular feature of the Tuesday show is the Miami Condo Cliff Index™, which tracks active listings and pending sales in realtime to forecast official closed sales data that lags by 30 to 120 days.Tune in every Tuesday at 4 pm at MiamiCondo.Club or on the social media account of Peter Zalewski to watch the livestreams free.Episode OverviewIn the March 24, 2026, episode of the Miami Condo Exchange™ podcast, host Peter Zalewski examines a tricounty South Florida region of Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach that is still moving—just not sprinting.The South Florida Overall Condo Cliff Index™ posted a modest but meaningful gain of 1.62% in the week ending March 24, 2026, as sellers and investors approach the final five weeks of the Winter Buying Season with intensity before Summer’s heat, humidity and hurricane warnings thin the buyer pool.This week’s 9.42 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 South Florida Vintage Condo Cliff Index™—which tracks units at least 30 years old—more than kept pace, climbing 2.24% to a record 8.91 points on March 24, 2026, from 8.71 points the prior week, marking back-to-back-to-back all-time highs for both indices.In nine of the first 12 weeks of 2026, the Overall Index has trended upward while the Vintage Index has done so in 10 of 12 weeks, suggesting the South Florida condo market has found direction.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.Sellers who can not afford to stay appear to be finally pricing their units to sell, prompting buyers—who have not yet been willing to chase—to step forward.The current number of active listings confirmed the tight balance with Overall and Vintage inventories both edging up about 0.07%, respectively.South Florida’s Overall listings stand at nearly 26,100 units with Vintage listings accounting for nearly 69% of the total as of March 24, 2026.Overall pending sales—a gauge of buyer confidence—rose 1.70% to nearly 2,460 contracts, of which pending sales of Vintage units climbed 2.31% to nearly 1,600.Increasing pending sales set against flat active listings is how both indices went up for the week ending March 24, 2026.The county-by-county breakdowns are where the trends are emerging in South Florida.Palm Beach County’s Overall Index surged 3.66% to a record 11.98 points, marking the highest reading in the tricounty region.