We Buy Houses in Broward County

Broward County sits at a crossroads in 2026. The median home price has pulled back to $475,000, down from a peak of $510,000 in late 2023. Inventory has climbed to 7.2 months of supply, firmly in buyer's market territory for the first time since 2019. The condo market is particularly challenged: new SB 4-D structural reserve requirements have created a two-tier market where newer buildings (post-2000) still trade, while older buildings face a liquidity crisis. Single-family homes are faring better, but days on market have stretched to 65, meaning sellers wait over two months even in desirable areas like Coral Springs and Weston. For homeowners who need to sell quickly, the traditional path of listing, staging, and waiting has become increasingly painful.

Broward's construction costs are among the highest in Florida due to proximity to Miami's labor market. A roof replacement averages $14,000–$22,000. Full hurricane impact window installation runs $15,000–$25,000 for a typical 3-bedroom home. Permit processing in cities like Fort Lauderdale and Hollywood averages 6–10 weeks. The math gets worse when you consider that many Broward homes need multiple systems updated simultaneously, a $20K roof plus $15K windows plus $10K plumbing on a home worth $400K means spending $45K to maybe get $20K more at sale. We buy as-is and handle all renovations ourselves.

Fort Lauderdale's canal system is what makes the city beautiful and what makes it expensive to own property here. The Intracoastal Waterway, the New River, and over 165 miles of canals create waterfront exposure on thousands of lots, but seawalls don't last forever. Replacing a deteriorating seawall runs $500 to $1,000 per linear foot, and a typical single-family waterfront lot needs 80 to 120 feet of wall. That's $40,000 to $120,000 before you've touched the house itself. Sellers who list waterfront homes with failing seawalls sit on the market for months because buyers' lenders won't finance properties with active erosion. We buy these homes for cash, seawall damage and all, because we have the contracting crews to handle the work in-house.

The post-Surfside condo crisis hits Fort Lauderdale harder than almost anywhere else in Florida. The city's skyline along Galt Mile and the beachfront corridor is dominated by towers built in the 1970s and 1980s, and those buildings are now reaching their 40-year recertification deadlines. SB 4-D requires structural inspections and funded reserves, which means associations that deferred maintenance for decades are now passing special assessments of $30,000 to $100,000 per unit. Owners on fixed incomes can't absorb that. And because lenders won't write mortgages in buildings with unfunded reserves or pending structural reports, these units can't sell through traditional channels at all. We've bought condos in buildings where the owner simply couldn't wait another 18 months for the association to sort out its engineering studies.

Insurance compounds everything. Broward County homeowners pay $6,000 to $15,000 a year in premiums, and that's if they can get coverage. Multiple carriers have pulled out of the county entirely since 2023, leaving Citizens Property Insurance as the only option for many older homes. Properties with roofs over 15 years old are getting non-renewed at policy expiration, and a roof replacement in Fort Lauderdale runs $14,000 to $22,000 depending on whether impact-rated materials are required. For owners in neighborhoods like Victoria Park, with its mix of historic 1920s bungalows and mid-century homes, the cost of bringing a property up to insurable condition can exceed the equity they have in it. The same story plays out across Sailboat Bend, Wilton Manors, Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, Oakland Park, and Sunrise: older housing stock, rising insurance costs, and owners caught between a property they can't afford to fix and a market that won't buy it as-is.

We buy houses across Fort Lauderdale's ZIP codes. In 33301 (downtown and Las Olas), we see estate sales and older townhomes. In 33304 (Victoria Park), it's typically original-condition single-family homes that need full renovation. The 33305 area around Wilton Manors brings us smaller homes with deferred maintenance, while 33308 along the beach and Galt Mile corridor is almost entirely condos facing the recertification squeeze. Northwest Fort Lauderdale in 33311 and the southwest Davie border in 33312 are where we find the most distressed single-family properties, often with code violations, unpermitted additions, or tenant-related issues. Whatever the ZIP, we make the same offer process: walkthrough, written cash offer, close on your schedule.

Hollywood and Pembroke Pines

Hollywood sits at a split between two different housing markets packed into one city. East of US-1, the beachfront and Intracoastal condos face the same recertification and insurance pressures as Fort Lauderdale's towers. West of I-95, older single-family neighborhoods built in the 1950s through 1970s carry a different set of problems: original plumbing, aging electrical panels, and roofs past their useful life. The Hollywood Hills and Emerald Hills sections are full of homes where the land value exceeds what the structure is worth. Pembroke Pines is a different situation entirely. Built mostly in the 1980s and 1990s as planned communities, these homes are now 30 to 40 years old, and the systems are all aging at once. HVAC units, water heaters, original tile roofs, polybutylene plumbing in some developments. We buy in both cities, whether it's a Hollywood beachfront condo with a $75,000 special assessment or a Pembroke Pines home where every major system needs replacement in the next two years.