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Florida condo safety deadline approaches and owners must complete inspections now

Florida condo owners are waking up to a reality that no longer feels theoretical. For years, the post-Surfside safety laws sat quietly in the background as something boards would get to eventually. Now, in 2026, the grace period has officially expired. The state’s mandatory structural safety deadlines are closing in,…

Budget and the Bees

Tom Brady's Surfside apartment is a masterclass in Miami luxury – listed for $15.9 million

The condo in the Fendi Chateau Residences tower played host to the NFL personality after his divorce from Gisele Bündchen

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Extra $3 million from Surfside settlement belongs to victims' families, judge decides

MIAMI — A Miami-Dade County judge faced a Solomonic choice:

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First details revealed for world’s newest, largest cruise ship: Royal Caribbean Icon of the Seas

MIAMI — Royal Caribbean’s Icon of the Seas will get the title of world’s largest cruise ship when it debuts sailing out of Miami in 2024, but that’s beside the point.

Orlando Sentinel

How Texan YaYa Gosselin became one of the ‘Surfside Girls’ on Apple TV+

FORT WORTH, Texas — Four Texas natives are involved in Apple TV’s new series “Surfside Girls,” including the co-creator and three cast members.

Tribune News Service

Money from pool, alarm firms, condo association boosts Surfside wrongful death fund by $53M

MIAMI — A fire alarm company, a security alarm monitoring firm and a swimming pool contractor settled for about $1 million each in the Surfside condominium collapse class-action case, according to a Miami-Dade circuit court filing on Wednesday.

McClatchy Washington Bureau

Spared last year, Surfside condo owners hit with property tax bills totaling about $800,000

MIAMI — When a Surfside condominium tower collapsed last year killing 98 people, a wave of sympathy reached all the way to Tallahassee: Gov. Ron DeSantis and state legislators forgave the unit owners’ tax bills, totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars.

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Surfside land sale now official. What’s next for the oceanfront property where 98 died?

MIAMI — When a 12-story Surfside condominium tower tumbled down last year — killing 98 people in a calamity that made headlines worldwide — South Florida developers kept their distance, choosing not to make an offer for the tragically stained oceanfront property.

Miami Herald

After finding only death in Surfside, a rescuer fights to put her own life back together

It was the bang of roadside construction equipment along I-595 that did it. Suddenly, Nichole Notte wasn’t behind the wheel of her Jeep, she was back on the pile at Surfside with her search and rescue dog, Dig.

Miami Herald

A judge’s legacy from Surfside condo tragedy: Huge settlement but also hard feelings

MIAMI — The judge who has called all the shots in the sprawling legal battle over the collapse of a Surfside condo tower was once a successful Miami trial attorney specializing in similar cases before putting on a black robe a decade ago and taking on the biggest case of…

Miami Herald

Surfside victims to be honored at private vigil, public event on collapse anniversary

MIAMI — A year after 98 people died in the Surfside condo collapse, the families of the victims will return to the site of the tragedy Friday to mark the first anniversary of the Champlain Towers South collapse.

Miami Herald

‘We have ruled out nothing’: In Surfside condo collapse probe, findings still far away

MIAMI — A federal investigation into the Champlain Towers South building collapse likely won’t conclude until 2024, about three years after the Surfside disaster in which investigators say they have “ruled out nothing.”

Miami Herald

Judge gives preliminary approval to billion-dollar Surfside class-action settlement

MIAMI — Just hours after a Surfside condo building collapsed and buried 98 people last summer, the first of many lawsuits that would turn into one of the biggest class-action cases in Florida was filed.

Miami Herald

Defendants’ payments detailed as lawyers submit $1 billion Surfside settlement to judge

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The Independent UK

Florida passes condominium safety bill in wake of Surfside

A bill has been sent to Florida's governor that would require statewide recertification of condominiums over three stories tall, in response to the Surfside building collapse that killed 98 people

Miami Herald

Editorial: ‘Nobody delivered.’ Lawmakers shamelessly failed to help condo owners after Surfside

The announcement in the Surfside condo collapse litigation this month came as a surprise: Less than a year after the June 24 tragedy that killed 98 people and shook condo residents across Florida, relatives of the victims and survivors had reached a settlement that will pay them nearly $1 billion.

Miami Herald

Surfside condo collapse site to be sold for $120 million to Dubai developer, no other bids

MIAMI — The beachfront property where 98 people died in last year’s Surfside condo collapse will be sold to a billionaire developer from Dubai for $120 million after no other bids were submitted ahead of a Friday evening deadline.

Miami Herald

‘Left with nothing.’ Survivors of Surfside condo collapse seek more settlement money

MIAMI — After escaping the Champlain Towers South moments before it collapsed last summer, Ileana Monteagudo says she has been trying to rebuild her life at age 65 with no savings and lingering anxiety from the Surfside disaster.

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Miami Herald

Surfside commission votes to approve $2 million settlement in Champlain Towers collapse

MIAMI — Surfside commissioners voted Monday to approve a $2 million insurance settlement in the class-action lawsuit related to the Champlain Towers South condo collapse.

Miami Herald

Surfside families to meet at condo collapse site on anniversary of tragedy that killed 98

MIAMI — Families of the victims in the Surfside condo collapse will gather at the exact time and site of the tragedy on June 24 for a memorial event on the one-year anniversary of the Champlain Towers South disaster.

ABC News

Coastal erosion has south coast residents fearing they are one bad storm away from beaches disappearing

In the 42 years Rosemary Deadman has lived on the shore of Surfside Beach, she has watched the sea devour about 12 metres of beach, bringing the water ever closer to her back door.

Miami Herald

Judge hears passionate arguments from Surfside victims but OKs $83 million settlement

MIAMI — Victims of the Surfside condominium collapse made impassioned pleas about how money in a legal dispute should be divided, but at the end of a court hearing Wednesday the judge overseeing the case was not swayed and approved an $83 million settlement he had previously endorsed.

Tribune News Service

Editorial: Florida lawmakers were lost in the Twilight Zone and ignored our real-life challenges

In Florida, conversations about race and sexuality are more dangerous than aging buildings in the aftermath of the Surfside condo collapse. School books need more scrutiny than rising property insurance premiums. Lies about widespread election fraud are more urgently addressed than real sky-high housing and renting costs.

Miami Herald

Editorial: Florida’s shameful lack of condo-safety laws on the brink of change after Surfside

What if Champlain Towers South had been inspected 20 years before it collapsed and killed 98 people last year?

The Independent UK

Florida House OKs bill to prevent condominium collapses

The Florida House unanimously passed a bill that would require statewide recertification of any condo building above three stories high in response to the Surfside condominium collapse that killed 98 people

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