The western 22-story tower of the Arlen House complex, built in 1969 at 500 Bayview Drive on Sunny Isles Beach's Intracoastal side, with 2-bed/2-bath layouts running roughly 590 to 1,350 square feet. Many units face the bay and marina channels, and the beach is a short walk across Collins Avenue. The complex shares a management office at this address and posts resident information through the Vertilinc portal. State registry still lists the city as North Miami Beach, predating Sunny Isles Beach's 1997 incorporation.
This building is in our statewide file. When you order, we run a fresh scan across 14 risk categories — inspections, assessments, structural condition, litigation, insurance and more. Your report shows what public records revealed, and just as important, what they couldn't — so you know exactly what to verify before you make an offer. Delivered within 24 hours.
Get the full Intelligence Report — $9.99Arlen House West (Arlen House 500) was built in approximately 1969 and rises 22 floors with 312 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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