Hallandale Beach homes, taken down to concrete.

Hallandale Beach runs two parallel housing markets. East of the Intracoastal, South Ocean Drive is a wall of towers, from the 1960s and 70s buildings around the Hemispheres and Parker Plaza to the newer generation at the Beach Club and 2000 Ocean. West of the bridge sit the low-rise neighborhoods: mid-century houses on the canals of Golden Isles, the condo and townhouse communities off Diana Drive in Three Islands, and the older streets near Atlantic Shores Boulevard. A whole-home remodel here means one of two very different jobs.

Both run through the City of Hallandale Beach Building Division, one of the divisions inside the Department of Sustainable Development, which enforces the Florida Building Code together with Broward's administrative amendments. That second layer is where Broward gets specific: the county Board of Rules and Appeals interprets the code, hears appeals of building official decisions, and reviews local amendments, so the answer here is not automatically the Miami-Dade answer. Broward sits inside the High-Velocity Hurricane Zone, so impact windows and doors still need HVHZ product approvals. In a tower, the association's approval comes before any of it.

More than twenty years of South Florida construction sit behind PGX Builders Group, along with 150-plus delivered remodels and additions, each one permitted and inspected. In Hallandale Beach that means a fixed written scope before the first wall comes down, a supervisor on site every day, and crews who book the service elevator instead of arguing with the front desk about it. Elevator pads, corridor protection and a clean hallway at five o'clock are part of the job, not a favor. One team carries it from estimate through warranty.