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Florida milestone inspections and SIRS: the 2026 numbers
Two official documents now say how Florida's post-Surfside building laws are working. The Legislature's research office counted the milestone inspections required and completed in 2024 and 2025, and found 54 buildings declared unsafe or uninhabitable, most of them not vacated. The Division of Condominiums counted the associations that had filed a structural integrity reserve study a month before the deadline: 7,836, against 16,104 that had opened the required online account.
Milestone inspections, as reported to DBPR
Local building officials report milestone inspection activity to DBPR each year. OPPAGA's figures are only as complete as that reporting, which is the second finding below.
| Measure | 2024 | 2025 | Both years |
|---|---|---|---|
| Phase one inspections required | 8,777 | 2,880 | |
| Phase two inspections required | 1,899 | 636 | |
| Phase one completed | 6,952 | 1,784 | 8,736 |
| Phase two completed | 1,301 | 274 | 1,575 |
| Extensions granted | 818 | 769 | 1,587 |
| Permit applications for phase two repairs | 671 | 232 | 903 |
| Buildings found unsafe or uninhabitable | 30 | 24 | 54, in eight counties |
| Jurisdictions that reported to DBPR | 71% (277 of 389) | 64% (250 of 389) |
OPPAGA's own sentences carry the findings: "Most required phase two milestone inspections were for buildings located in coastal counties and municipalities." "Milestone inspections identified 30 buildings in 2024 and 24 buildings in 2025 as unsafe or uninhabitable." "Building officials reported that most buildings determined unsafe or uninhabitable were not vacated." On reporting, Walton County's submission was not included as of March 2026 after repeated contact, and for 2025 seven of 31 municipal building officials in Broward, seven of 34 in Miami-Dade and 17 of 39 in Palm Beach did not report.
SIRS filings a month before the deadline
The 2025 law (HB 913) required every condominium association to open an online account with the Division by October 1, 2025 and to complete its structural integrity reserve study by December 31, 2025. As of November 30, 2025, the Division reported 16,104 associations with an account and 7,836 that had reported completing a SIRS. The Division wrote that it "has not received any formal notifications of noncompliance" and that it regularly receives inquiries from associations seeking clarification about SIRS reporting. The document does not state the total number of associations subject to the requirement.
Florida building recordSection 718.112 (Florida Senate)
What this means for a condominium board or manager
| If | Then |
|---|---|
| Your building is three stories or more and 30 years old (25 within three miles of the coast) | Phase one was due; if the report found substantial structural deterioration, phase two and the repair permit follow, and the permit application is itself a reported number |
| Your phase two report named repairs | Expect the building official to track the permit; 903 such applications were filed in two years |
| Your association opened the DBPR account but has not filed the SIRS | You are in the gap between 16,104 and 7,836; the Division had not sent noncompliance notices as of December 2025, which is not the same as the obligation lapsing |
| Your municipality is one that did not report | DBPR's record of your building may be blank; keep the inspector's report, the local acceptance letter and any extension in the association's own records |
Confirm every date and threshold with the local building official and the association's engineer; the statute's triggers and the local enforcement schedule control, not this summary.
What is not on this page, and why
OPPAGA's report does not name the 54 buildings or the eight counties in the text read for this page, and does not define "uninhabitable" (the statute does not either). The Division's December 2025 document is a progress count, not a compliance rate; the next DBPR annual report should give the denominator. Neither document reports the cost of phase two repairs.
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