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South Florida real estate attorney Bill Sklar on a Florida task force examining condo laws after the Surfside collapse to determine if changes are needed.
Engineers say it can take just 30 years for condominium buildings to reach a point when owners can no longer delay making critical repairs.
In the Miami region, two out of every three condo buildings are more than 30 years old, according to data compiled by real-estate data firm Zillow for The Wall Street Journal. In at least seven other Florida cities, some three-quarters of condo buildings have hit that age.
Many of the aging towers line the beachfront, where salt corrosion and other forces are speeding their decline. That is leaving thousands of buildings saddled with multimillion-dollar repair costs and little notion of how to pay for them.
Fall of Surfside Condo Unleashes Frenzy of Enforcement Action by Building Departments
MIAMI The collapse of the Champlain Towers South building in Surfside introduced a new term to the non-condo dweller’s lexicon: 40-year recertification.
Now, after the disaster in Surfside, everyone’s heard of them. And cities throughout Miami-Dade are in a frenzied rush to see which condo buildings within their boundaries are in line for the critical 40-year structural checkup that Champlain Towers South was about to undergo when it shockingly without warning fell and which other Miami-area buildings are overdue.
The Champlain collapse has raised questions about whether municipal authorities have been doing their duty to ensure that structural recertifications are carried out. The early evidence suggests no.