Vintage Condo Listings Priced 65% Below Overall Average On Miami-Dade Barrier Island

In this episode of Miami Condo Mondays™, the hosts discuss why buyers are increasingly choosing older condos just five years after the Champlain Towers South collapsed in Surfside 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 22, 2026, co-hosts Jenny Huertas of CVR Realty and Peter Zalewski of the Miami Condo Investing Club™ mark the five-year anniversary of the Champlain Towers South collapse in Surfside.The hosts take stock of what has changed—and what has not—in the condo market along the Miami-Dade County barrier island.During the 70-minute episode, Huertas and Zalewski revisit the early morning hours of June 24, 2021, when a 12-story, 136-unit building fell, killing nearly 100 people and triggering the most sweeping overhaul of the Florida Condo Law in history.Five years later, the hosts assess the current state of the condo market where the tragedy occurred.The stakes are considerable for cash-strapped unit owners who are struggling to afford condo living in South Florida.An estimated 750,000 people—about 1.5 residents per unit—live in the more than 508,000 Vintage condos that are at least 30 years old in the tricounty South Florida region of Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach.Built in 1981, the Champlain Towers South was about 40 years old when it fell.As part of the build-out of the Condo Ratings Agency™, Zalewski presents a breakdown of the more than 1,150 condo associations and nearly 69,400 units across the Miami-Dade barrier island—from South Beach north to Sunny Isles Beach—tracking how many projects qualify as Vintage.The research shows Vintage condos currently have an average asking price of less than $639,000—or nearly 65% less than the $1.8 million Overall average asking price on the barrier island—as rising maintenance fees, hefty special assessments, and pricey insurance premiums squeeze owners on both sides of the age divide.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.