We Buy Houses in North Miami Beach, As They Sit

North Miami Beach began as Fulford-by-the-Sea, selling lots from 1922, incorporated as the City of Fulford in 1927 after the 1926 hurricane, and took its present name in 1931. The Ancient Spanish Monastery on West Dixie Highway is its one structure on the National Register, but the ordinary houses are nearly as much a period piece: the median home here dates from 1967 and 81% of the housing stock was built before 1980. The City's own map divides it into twelve neighborhoods, from Eastern Shores on the water east of the 163rd Street bridge to Uleta and Windward out by I-95.

Four of every ten owner households are headed by someone 65 or older, and the typical owner has been in the house since 2010, so the North Miami Beach house that reaches us has usually been one family's for a long time and needs the roof, the windows and the wiring a 1960s house needs. The first closed case we published is here: $575,000 in code violations, settled at $4,800, and the photo is on this page.

The City runs its own water utility, NMB Water, and that is what makes closing here particular: unpaid water balances and utility liens stay with the property and pass to the new owner, so the City's lien search, ordered through Customer Service at City Hall, is not optional. The City published the search at $50 per property with a ten-business-day turnaround in January 2023. Code cases, permits and inspections are searchable online, and the Code Compliance Division publishes a lien and fine mitigation application. We order the search and buy with whatever it finds attached; the balance shows as a line before you sign.