Last updated: August 2026
You run a contracting, distribution, service or import business. You are paying rent on 3,000 square feet, your landlord just raised it again at renewal, and you have started to wonder whether you should be buying the space instead of renting it. In South Florida, the way a small business owner actually buys industrial space is an industrial condo — a warehouse unit inside a larger building, with its own deed.
An industrial condo is a warehouse unit inside a multi-tenant industrial building that you buy with its own deed and its own tax folio, typically 1,200 to 8,000 square feet, with a roll-up door, a small office up front, and a share of the parking and truck court held in common with the other owners. An industrial condo is not a residential condo. You are buying a warehouse bay with a roll-up door, not an apartment — different statute treatment, different insurance, different rules, and no homestead protection.
Here is the reason this matters right now. In Miami-Dade County, industrial buildings over 250,000 square feet are 13.2% vacant while buildings under 50,000 square feet sit at 4.2% (Ironmark Capital Advisory, Miami-Dade Q3 2026 brief). The vacancy you read about in the headlines is in the big boxes. The small space you actually want is the scarce thing — which is the single best argument for owning it instead of renewing a lease on it every three years.
What an industrial condo actually is
An industrial condo — also called a warehouse condo, or a flex condo when there is finished office up front — is a deeded unit inside a multi-unit industrial building. You take title to your unit the same way you would take title to a building, you get your own folio number and your own tax bill, and you finance it with a mortgage. What makes it a condominium is that the land, the roof, the parking lot, the truck court and the exterior walls are owned collectively through an association, and you pay a monthly assessment toward maintaining them.
Typical South Florida product runs 1,200 to 8,000 square feet per unit, 14 to 24 feet of clear height, one or two grade-level roll-up doors, a small air-conditioned office and restroom at the front, an open warehouse behind it, and shared surface parking. Dock-high loading is uncommon at this size; grade-level is the norm, which is exactly what a box truck, a sprinter van or a flatbed needs. Larger units and end caps sometimes carry three-phase power, a mezzanine, or a fenced rear area. Those are the features worth paying up for, and they are the ones that are hardest to add later.
What you own, and what the association owns
You own everything from the inside face of the demising wall inward: your slab finish, your interior build-out, your office, your electrical panel and sub-panel, your HVAC unit, your racking, your mezzanine and — in most South Florida declarations — your roll-up door and your storefront glass. The association owns the roof, the structure, the exterior walls, the parking lot, the landscaping, the gate and the site drainage.
That division is the whole ballgame on insurance. Most industrial condo master policies in Florida are shell-only: the association insures the building envelope and nothing inside your unit. Your build-out, your racking, your equipment, your inventory and your business-interruption exposure are yours to insure. Buyers who assume the master policy covers their improvements find out otherwise after a storm, and in Florida that is an expensive way to learn.
Why the small bay you want is the hardest space in South Florida to find
Vacancy in South Florida industrial is not one number, it is two — and the two are moving in opposite directions. Across all three counties, the slack is concentrated in newly delivered big-box distribution buildings, while the small-bay product a contractor or distributor can actually use is close to full.
| Market | Small-bay vacancy | Big-box vacancy | Blended asking rent, $/SF NNN | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Miami-Dade | 4.2% (under 50,000 SF) | 13.2% (over 250,000 SF) | $21.01 | Ironmark Miami-Dade Q3 2026 brief |
| Broward | 3.3% (pre-2000 product) | ~35% (delivered in past five years) | $20.69 | Ironmark Fort Lauderdale Q2 2026 brief |
| Palm Beach | ~4.1% (under 100,000 SF) | ~19% (~85 buildings at 100,000 SF+) | $18.37 | Ironmark Palm Beach Q3 2026 brief |
Source: Ironmark Capital Advisory’s own quarterly industrial briefs — Miami-Dade Q3 2026, Palm Beach Q3 2026, Fort Lauderdale Q2 2026.
Two consequences follow from that table, and both are why owner-users buy here.
Small space leases fast and re-prices hard. Small-bay space in Miami-Dade leases in under three months (Ironmark Miami-Dade Q3 2026 brief). In Broward, the average industrial lease signed over the trailing twelve months was roughly 5,300 square feet across about 1,230 deals (Ironmark Fort Lauderdale Q2 2026 brief) — the market is overwhelmingly made of small transactions, competing for the tightest slice of inventory. Tenants renewing off legacy leases are routinely seeing resets that double the prior rate.
Nobody is building more of it. The Miami-Dade construction pipeline is down to 1.6% of inventory and Palm Beach is at 1.2% (Ironmark Q3 2026 briefs) — and what is under construction is big-box, because small-bay condo product is hard to underwrite and slow to sell out. Land cost in South Florida makes new 3,000-square-foot bays economically difficult. The supply of the thing you want is effectively fixed.
What industrial condos cost in Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach
Three things drive the spread between the cheapest and the most expensive industrial condo units in South Florida, and none of them is which county the unit sits in:
- Size. Price per square foot goes up as unit size goes down. A 1,200-square-foot bay almost always trades above a 6,000-square-foot bay in the same park, because there are more buyers for the small one.
- Power, height and loading. Three-phase service, 22-foot clear, and a 12-foot roll-up door are what let a unit serve a fabricator or a distributor rather than just a storage user. That widens the buyer pool and it shows up in the price.
- The association. A park with funded reserves, a maintained roof, a working gate and no pending assessment is worth real money over an identical park that has deferred everything. Buyers price the association whether they realize it or not.
Do not price your unit off the countywide $/SF numbers in a market report. Those model whole buildings sold in bulk to investors. Condo units trade at a premium to bulk building values because you are buying one unit, not a hundred thousand square feet, and the buyer pool is entirely different.
Buy or keep renting? Run the actual numbers
The honest comparison is not “rent versus mortgage.” It is total monthly occupancy cost on both sides, plus what you hold at the end.
Take a 3,000-square-foot bay as the working example, because that is the most common requirement Ironmark sees from South Florida contractors and distributors.
| Keep renting | Buy the unit | |
|---|---|---|
| Plus | NNN — taxes, insurance, association CAM, passed through to you | Taxes, insurance, association assessment — paid directly by you |
| Cash to start | First month, last month, security deposit, often a personal guarantee | From about 10% of purchase price, plus closing costs |
| Cost in year 10 | Reset to market at each renewal | Fixed, if you took the 25-year fixed debenture |
| What you hold at the end | Nothing | The unit |
The three things renting never gives you are worth naming plainly. A fixed occupancy cost, which is the single largest uncontrolled line item in most small industrial businesses. Equity, which is the difference between paying down someone else’s note and paying down your own. And optionality — if your business outgrows the unit, or slows down, you can lease it out or sell it instead of negotiating your way out of a lease you have personally guaranteed.
The case against buying is equally real and any broker who does not say it out loud is selling you something. If you might need to double your space in three years, if your revenue is seasonal and thin, or if you would be spending your last liquidity on the down payment, renting is the right answer. Owning your building is a good outcome; owning it with no working capital is not.
The rent side of that math changed on October 1, 2025
Florida repealed its state sales tax on commercial rent effective October 1, 2025. House Bill 7031, signed June 30, 2025, repealed Section 212.031 of the Florida Statutes — the 2% state sales tax on commercial rent — and eliminated the county discretionary surtax that rode on top of it. Florida had imposed a tax on commercial rent since 1969 and was the only state in the country that did.
For a tenant, that is a real reduction in monthly occupancy cost, and it makes renting modestly cheaper than it was two years ago. It also means most published rent-versus-own comparisons on the internet are now stale, because they were built on a rent number that included a tax that no longer exists. Run the comparison on post-repeal rent. If someone shows you a buy-versus-lease analysis that includes Florida sales tax on the rent line, it was written before October 2025.
Sources: Holland & Knight, Bilzin Sumberg, Greenberg Traurig.
How small business owners finance a warehouse condo
Most owner-users buy an industrial condo with an SBA 504 loan, which is the program built specifically for a business buying the building it operates from. The structure is roughly 50% conventional first mortgage from a bank, 40% fixed-rate debenture through a Certified Development Company, and about 10% down from you — against the 20% to 30% a conventional commercial mortgage typically requires.
What is verifiable about the program, as of August 2026:
- Down payment is typically from about 10% of total project cost for an established business buying a general-purpose building. A warehouse is generally not a special-purpose property. Businesses operating two years or less are usually treated as start-ups and asked for about 15%.
- The SBA maximum is $5.5 million on the 504 portion (SBA.gov). With the bank’s first mortgage on top, total project size can be considerably larger.
- Fixed-rate terms up to 25 years on the debenture. Debenture rates reset every month — get the current number from a lender or a Certified Development Company before you rely on it.
- You must occupy at least 51% of an existing building, or 60% of a new-construction building.
- You cannot use a 504 loan for “speculation or investment in rental real estate” (SBA.gov). The program exists to help you buy your own operating space, not to build a rental portfolio.
Two things about a condo purchase specifically that a general SBA article will not tell you. First, the lender is going to underwrite the association, not just you and the unit — the budget, the reserves, the master insurance and any pending assessment all land in the loan file, and a park with a problem can slow or kill an approval that has nothing to do with your credit. Second, you will need an estoppel letter from the association, and how fast a management company produces one varies enormously. Order it the day you go under contract.
The 51% rule is an opportunity, not a hurdle
Most buyers hear “you have to occupy 51%” and read it as a restriction. Read it the other way. You can buy a two-bay unit, occupy one bay, and lease the other out — up to 49% — and still qualify. Your tenant helps carry your note.
That is often the difference between a unit that is affordable and a unit that is not. A contractor who needs 3,000 square feet today and is told the only unit in the park is 6,000 square feet usually walks away. Structured correctly, that 6,000-square-foot unit can cost less per month than the 3,000-square-foot lease he is trying to escape — provided he genuinely occupies more than half of it, the declaration permits leasing, and the lender signs off on the structure in advance. All three of those need to be confirmed before you write the offer, not after.
The condo association questions nobody asks until after closing
This is the part of an industrial condo purchase that goes wrong, and it goes wrong after you own it. The building inspection tells you about the roof. The declaration tells you what you are allowed to do for the next twenty years, and almost nobody reads it before the inspection period runs out.
The questions that actually bite, in the order they cause problems:
- Can you park trucks, trailers and equipment in the common lot overnight? Most industrial condo declarations say no, and most buyers assume yes. This is the single most common post-closing surprise.
- Does the declaration restrict your use? Auto repair, spray painting, welding, food preparation, and outside storage are the usual prohibited-use fights.
- Is the master policy shell-only? Who insures your build-out, your racking, your mezzanine, your inventory?
- Are reserves funded or waived — and is there a pending special assessment for roof, repaving or drainage?
- Are parking spaces assigned, limited common elements, or first-come? How many come with your unit?
- Can you lease the unit out if the business outgrows it, or if you need to? Board approval? Leasing caps?
- Can you cut a door through the demising wall and combine two units — and is that wall a common element?
- Signage rights — your own band sign over the door, and a panel on the monument.
- Does the board have approval rights or a right of first refusal over your buyer when you eventually sell?
- Is the association still developer-controlled, or has turnover happened?
- How are assessments allocated — by square footage or per unit — and what is your voting percentage?
- Does your unit have its own electric meter, and does it have three-phase power? Is water sub-metered?
Ironmark reads the declaration on every industrial condo purchase before the inspection period expires, and puts the answers in writing. It is not the glamorous part of the deal. It is the part that determines whether you can run your business out of the unit you just bought.
Do Florida’s milestone inspection and reserve-study laws apply to an industrial condo?
Almost certainly not — and for two independent reasons. Florida’s milestone inspection requirement and its structural integrity reserve study requirement are both obligations of residential condominiums with buildings of three or more habitable stories. A single-story, nonresidential industrial condominium park fails both tests, so neither regime reaches it.
The statutory basis, quoted directly:
- Milestone inspections — F.S. 553.899(3)(a) applies to the owner of a building “that is three habitable stories or more in height as determined by the Florida Building Code and that is subject, in whole or in part, to the condominium or cooperative form of ownership as a residential condominium under chapter 718 or a residential cooperative under chapter 719.”
- Structural integrity reserve studies — F.S. 718.112(2)(g)1 requires a SIRS of a residential condominium association, for each building on the condominium property that is three habitable stories or higher.
- What “residential” means here — F.S. 718.103(26): “If a condominium is a residential condominium but contains units intended to be used for commercial or industrial purposes, then, with respect to those units which are not intended for or used as private residences, the condominium is not a residential condominium.”
So the news you have been reading for the past four years about milestone inspections, structural reserve studies and unwaivable reserves is about residential condominiums on the beach. It is not about your warehouse park in Medley or Riviera Beach.
What is not settled, and where you should not take a broker’s word for it: the general reserve provisions in F.S. 718.112(2)(f) are not clearly limited to residential condominiums, and the resale disclosure regime in F.S. 718.503 opens without a residential modifier. Those are genuinely ambiguous as applied to a nonresidential condominium. Ask your attorney.
Statute text: F.S. 553.899 · F.S. 718.112 · F.S. 718.103
The documents to demand before your inspection period ends
Put all of these in the contract, and read them: the declaration of condominium and all amendments; the bylaws and articles; the current year’s budget; the last two years of financial statements; the last twelve months of board meeting minutes; the reserve schedule; the master insurance declarations page; the estoppel letter; any pending or contemplated special assessment; the rules and regulations; and the parking assignment for your specific unit.
Ironmark provides a free industrial condo due-diligence checklist covering every document above and what each one tells you. Ask for it before you write an offer.
Can you park trucks, run a repair shop, or store material there?
Two separate approvals govern what you can do in an industrial condo, and both have to say yes: the county or city zoning code, and the condominium declaration. Zoning can permit a use that your declaration prohibits, and buyers get caught by the second one far more often than the first — a declaration is a private contract among the owners, and it can be stricter than the code.
Miami-Dade’s IU-1 light industrial district permits light manufacturing, wholesale distribution, warehousing, storage facilities and offices. That covers the ordinary use of a warehouse bay. It does not automatically settle overnight commercial-vehicle parking, outdoor material storage, or vehicle repair, each of which is treated separately in the code — and the county’s own zoning summary directs specific-use questions to Regulatory and Economic Resources rather than answering them. On top of zoning, Miami-Dade requires an annually renewed Certificate of Use for the operating business, and if you occupy two bays in the same building under one certificate, the code requires the areas to be connected by communicating doors. That is a real design constraint on a two-bay purchase and it is worth knowing before you buy, not after.
What that means by trade:
| Your business | What actually stops the deal | Verify before your inspection period ends |
|---|---|---|
| Landscaping / lawn maintenance | Trailers, mowers, mulch and a dump truck live outside, not inside. Most condo declarations prohibit outdoor storage and overnight commercial-vehicle parking in the common lot. | The declaration’s outdoor-storage and parking clauses; whether any unit carries a fenced rear area as a limited common element; gate hours |
| Roofing | The same outdoor problem, plus material weight and access. Pallets of tile and shingle are heavy, and a boom truck needs turning room and overhead clearance at the door. | Slab load rating; truck-court depth and turning radius; overhead obstructions at the door; whether a boom or crane can legally set up in the common lot |
| Auto and truck repair | Repair is a separately regulated use, not a generic warehouse use. Zoning, the declaration and the Certificate of Use all have to permit it, and lifts, oil separators and spray work each trigger their own review. | Zoning district and whether repair is permitted or conditional at that address; the declaration’s prohibited-use list; oil/grease interceptor; ceiling height for a lift; fire code for any spray operation |
| Plumbing / HVAC / electrical | Usually the cleanest fit — a bay, a small office, racking, and a few vans. The constraint is parking count, not the building. | How many spaces come with the unit; assigned versus first-come; whether vans may stay overnight |
| Food distribution / import | Power and refrigeration. A walk-in cooler or freezer is an electrical question and a roof question, and the association owns the roof you want to penetrate for a condenser. | Three-phase availability and panel amperage; board approval for roof penetrations; floor drains; health-department requirements for your specific use |
| General contracting with a crew | The bay is only half the requirement. Most industrial condo parks cannot contractually or legally hold a yard. | Whether you actually need two properties — a condo bay for tools, parts and office, plus a separate fenced yard for trucks and material |
If your business puts equipment outside overnight, assume the answer at a condo park is no until the declaration says otherwise in writing. That is not a reason to give up on ownership. It is a reason to structure the search correctly from the beginning — which usually means a bay plus a yard, not a bay alone. Many of the buyers in those trades do business in Spanish, so the Palm Beach County side of this is covered at condominios industriales en Palm Beach, and calls, texts and the chat window are answered in Spanish too.
Where to buy: submarkets by county
Miami-Dade
Small-bay and condo inventory concentrates in Hialeah, Medley, Doral, Miami Lakes, Airport West and Opa-locka, with additional product in Kendall and Homestead. Hialeah is the value play at $16.13/SF asking against a county blended rate of $21.01, with 5.8% vacancy; Medley is the deep warehouse belt at $19.47 and 9.7%; Airport West is the priciest at $23.50 (Ironmark Miami-Dade Q3 2026 brief). For contractors, Hialeah and Medley are where the money goes furthest. More detail on the Miami industrial market.
Broward
Pompano Beach, Fort Lauderdale, Oakland Park, Davie, Deerfield Beach and Sunrise carry the county’s small-bay stock. Broward’s split is by vintage rather than size: pre-2000 buildings — which is most of the condo product — sit at 3.3% vacancy while space delivered in the past five years runs near 35% (Ironmark Fort Lauderdale Q2 2026 brief). Older parks are the tight ones. Pompano Beach asks $19.40/SF against a metro blend of $20.69. More on the Fort Lauderdale industrial market.
Palm Beach County
Riviera Beach, West Palm Beach, Lake Worth, Boynton Beach, Delray Beach and Jupiter, with a distinct higher-priced pocket around Boca Raton and the Park at Broken Sound. This is the county with the sharpest small-bay squeeze: under 100,000 SF holds near 4.1% vacancy while the roughly 85 big-box buildings sit near 19%, and Lake Worth East, 45th Street and Boca Raton West are all under 3% (Ironmark Palm Beach Q3 2026 brief). Blended asking rent is $18.37/SF, the lowest of the three counties. More on the Palm Beach County industrial market.
If you need a fenced yard too
Many contractors need the bay and somewhere legal to keep trucks, trailers, equipment and material — and most industrial condo parks will not allow outdoor storage in the common lot. The solution is usually two properties: an industrial condo for tools, parts, office and inventory, and a separate industrial outdoor storage site for the fleet.
Industrial outdoor storage — IOS — is fenced, paved or stabilized yard on industrially zoned land, with little or no building. It is Ironmark’s other specialty. See industrial outdoor storage in South Florida, truck yards and trailer parking, or the plain-English explainer, what is industrial outdoor storage.
How Ironmark works with industrial condo buyers
Ironmark Capital Advisory is an SIOR-designated Florida industrial brokerage. SIOR — the Society of Industrial and Office Realtors — is the industrial specialty’s senior designation, and it is held by a small fraction of commercial brokers nationally.
What that looks like on an industrial condo purchase. Ironmark works the off-market side first, because the best small units in South Florida frequently never reach a listing site — Ironmark tracks 661 industrial condo owners in Palm Beach County alone, and a direct approach to an owner who was not planning to sell is often the only way to get a specific size in a specific park. Ironmark reads the declaration and the association financials before the inspection period expires, and delivers the answers in writing rather than a shrug. Ironmark underwrites what the unit is worth, using recorded condo sales rather than the asking price. And Ironmark stays in it through financing coordination, estoppel, inspection and close, then handles the 1031 exchange if you are rolling proceeds from another property.
See buyer representation for how the engagement works.
Already own an industrial condo?
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is an industrial condo?
An industrial condo is a warehouse unit inside a larger multi-tenant industrial building that you buy with its own deed and its own tax folio, typically 1,200 to 8,000 square feet, with a roll-up door, a small office, and a share of the parking and truck court owned in common through an association. An industrial condo is not a residential condo — you are buying a warehouse bay, not an apartment, and residential condominium protections and obligations generally do not apply. In South Florida, industrial condos are the primary way a small business owner buys industrial space rather than renting it.
Can I park my trucks and trailers at an industrial condo overnight?
Usually not, unless the declaration specifically allows it — and this is the most common surprise industrial condo buyers get after closing. Two separate rules control it: the zoning code for the property, and the condominium declaration, which is a private contract among the owners and is frequently stricter than the code. Most South Florida industrial condo declarations prohibit outdoor storage and overnight commercial-vehicle parking in the common lot. If your business keeps trucks, trailers or equipment outside, the workable structure is usually two properties — an industrial condo bay for tools, parts and office, plus a separate industrial outdoor storage yard for the fleet. Ironmark Capital Advisory reads the declaration’s parking and storage clauses before the inspection period expires on every industrial condo purchase in Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach.
How much do I need for a down payment on a warehouse condo?
Typically about 10% of the total project cost if you finance with an SBA 504 loan and your business has been operating more than two years. The 504 structure is roughly a 50% conventional bank first mortgage, a 40% fixed-rate SBA debenture through a Certified Development Company, and a 10% injection from you. Businesses operating two years or less are generally treated as start-ups and asked for about 15%. A conventional commercial mortgage on the same unit would typically require 20% to 30% down. Budget for closing costs on top of the injection. Confirm current terms with a Certified Development Company or your bank — Ironmark Capital Advisory is a brokerage, not a lender.
What do industrial condo association fees cover, and how much are they?
Industrial condo association assessments typically cover the roof, exterior walls, parking lot and drainage, landscaping, the gate, exterior lighting, common-area water, management, and a shell-only master insurance policy on the building envelope. They usually do not cover anything inside your unit — your build-out, HVAC, roll-up door, racking, equipment and inventory are yours to maintain and insure. Two things matter more than the headline number: whether reserves are funded or have been waived, and whether a special assessment for roof or repaving is pending. Both belong in your contract as documents you must receive and approve.
Can I run an auto repair shop out of an industrial condo in Miami-Dade?
Only if three separate things permit it: the zoning district for that specific address, the condominium declaration, and the Certificate of Use for your business. Miami-Dade’s IU-1 light industrial district permits warehousing, wholesale distribution, storage and light manufacturing, but vehicle repair is treated as its own regulated use rather than a generic warehouse use, and the county directs use-specific questions to its Regulatory and Economic Resources department. Separately, many industrial condo declarations prohibit auto repair outright, regardless of zoning. Lifts, oil and grease interceptors, and any spray or paint work each add their own permitting and fire-code review. Verify all three before your inspection period ends, not after.
How much warehouse space does my business actually need?
Most South Florida trade contractors and small distributors land between 1,500 and 8,000 square feet, and the market bears that out — the average industrial lease signed in Broward County over the trailing twelve months was roughly 5,300 square feet across about 1,230 transactions (Ironmark Capital Advisory, Fort Lauderdale Q2 2026 brief). Size the space by what has to fit indoors: racking and inventory, a work area, parts, and a small office and restroom. Then size the site separately by what has to fit outdoors — trucks, trailers, equipment and material — because that is the requirement an industrial condo usually cannot satisfy. Buying slightly larger than you need is often the better call at a 25-year fixed rate, and under SBA 504 rules you may lease out up to 49% of the space while occupying the rest.
Do Florida’s milestone inspection and structural integrity reserve study laws apply to my industrial condo?
Almost certainly not, for two independent reasons. Florida’s milestone inspection requirement, at F.S. 553.899(3)(a), applies to a building that is three or more habitable stories in height and is subject to condominium or cooperative ownership as a residential condominium or cooperative. The structural integrity reserve study requirement, at F.S. 718.112(2)(g)1, applies to a residential condominium association for buildings three habitable stories or higher. F.S. 718.103(26) states that where a condominium contains units intended for commercial or industrial use, it is not a residential condominium with respect to those units. A single-story nonresidential industrial condominium park therefore falls outside both regimes on two separate grounds. Other provisions of Chapter 718 — including the general reserve rules and the resale disclosure requirements — are genuinely ambiguous as applied to nonresidential condominiums, so have a Florida real estate attorney review your specific documents. This is general information, not legal advice.
Can I lease my industrial condo out later if my business outgrows it?
Usually yes, but the declaration controls it and you should confirm before you buy, not when you need to. Some South Florida industrial condo declarations require board approval of a tenant, some impose a minimum lease term, and a small number cap the percentage of units that may be leased at one time. If you bought with an SBA 504 loan, the program’s owner-occupancy rule also applies — you must occupy at least 51% of an existing building, so you can lease out up to 49% but not the whole unit, and SBA 504 financing cannot be used for speculation or investment in rental real estate. Ironmark Capital Advisory checks the leasing provisions in the declaration on every industrial condo purchase in Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach.
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Market data on this page is from Ironmark Capital Advisory’s own quarterly industrial briefs: Miami-Dade Q3 2026, Palm Beach Q3 2026, Fort Lauderdale Q2 2026. Vacancy, rent and pricing figures move quarterly; this page is updated on the same cycle. Nothing on this page is legal, tax or lending advice. Ironmark Capital Advisory is a licensed Florida real estate brokerage and is not a lender, an attorney or a tax advisor. Last updated: August 2026 · Next review: October 2026 (Q4 brief cycle).