Kings Creek South is a 600-unit garden-style condo community in the Dadeland area of Kendall, built in phases from roughly 1972 to 1976 and set among mature tropical landscaping along SW 86th Street. Residents are within walking distance of Dadeland Mall, Dadeland North Metrorail station, and the Datran office district, giving this 1970s community unusually strong transit and retail access for suburban Miami. The grounds include two pools, tennis courts, a fitness center, and an active clubhouse, and the association maintains its own web portal. Units run from about 700 to 1,528 sq ft across one- to three-bedroom floor plans.
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Get the full Intelligence Report — $9.99Recent listings at Kings Creek South range around 2BR units around $370K (publicly reported).
Kings Creek South was built in approximately 1972 with 600 units.
Florida condominiums of this age are subject to milestone inspection and structural reserve requirements. Our Intelligence Report covers what official city and county records show for this building, and what remains for a buyer to verify with the association.
When you buy into a condo building that's 15 or more years old — anywhere in the US — you should expect by default that an assessment, or several, is in effect or on the way: roof repairs, elevator replacement, repaving, facade work. Buildings age on a schedule, and the bill lands on the owners: often hundreds of dollars a month on top of your mortgage, HOA fee, taxes, and insurance. The unit listing rarely mentions any of it.
In Florida, the stakes for older buildings are higher still. Since the 2021 Surfside tragedy, state law requires milestone structural inspections at 30 years (25 in some coastal areas), Structural Integrity Reserve Studies, and — critically — bars associations from waiving reserve funding for structural components, ending decades of artificially low fees. Add the state's insurance surge, and many older buildings carry obligations that never appear in a listing. None of this makes an older building a bad purchase — but the difference between a well-run 1970s tower and a struggling one can be tens of thousands of dollars per unit. That's the question our building intelligence answers.
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