One house, one crew, one permit set.

Fort Lauderdale's high-end housing stock arrived in three waves, and a whole-home remodel here depends on which one you own. The 1920s and 1930s cottages and Mediterranean houses of Victoria Park, Colee Hammock and Rio Vista were built before air conditioning and sized for smaller lives. The mid-century ranches that filled Coral Ridge, Poinsettia Heights and Lake Ridge came with carports and dark galley kitchens. Then there is the waterfront, from Las Olas Isles and Seven Isles to Sunrise Key and Harbor Beach, where the lot is usually worth more than the house standing on it.

Permits run through the City of Fort Lauderdale Development Services Department, with Building Services handling plan review and inspections and applications filed digitally through LauderBuild. Broward also runs its own code administration layer: the county's Board of Rules and Appeals administers the Florida Building Code across Broward, publishes the county amendments, certifies building officials and inspectors, and hears code appeals and formal interpretations. Broward sits inside the High-Velocity Hurricane Zone, so every impact window, door and roof assembly needs HVHZ product approval. Houses in the Sailboat Bend historic district need a Certificate of Appropriateness before exterior work.

PGX Builders Group has been building in South Florida for more than 20 years, with 150-plus remodels and additions delivered, every one permitted and inspected. On a Fort Lauderdale whole-home remodel that means a fixed written scope agreed before demolition, a supervisor on site daily, protected floors and stair treads, and crews who know how to work behind a Harbor Beach gate without making themselves memorable. One team owns the project from first estimate through final inspection and warranty. You call one number, and someone who has walked your house answers it.