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Buyer’s guide
What to weigh between residences, how a Florida condo resale works from offer to closing, and the costs to plan for, in one place.
The building in brief
Sabbia Beach is a nineteen-story tower of sixty-eight residences at 730 North Ocean Boulevard, Pompano Beach, FL 33062, on roughly 200 feet of private beach between the Hillsboro Lighthouse and the Pompano Beach Pier. Arquitectonica designed it, and it was delivered in 2019.
You will see it under more than one name. In MLS listing data and on most real estate portals it appears as Sabbia Beach or Sabbia Beach Condo, usually alongside the street address. They are the same building.
Recent confirmed resales have ranged from $1.84 million to $5.15 million, roughly $1,045 to $1,373 per interior square foot. The Listings page shows each one.
Choosing a residence
Within one building, the differences between residences matter more than the differences between buildings.
The four Terrace Residences on the fourth floor have private terraces of 2,200 to 3,900 square feet and have led the building on price per square foot. The Residences fill floors 5 to 17 in five lines, the Sky Residences on floors 16 and 17 combine two lines into one larger home, the Lower Penthouses occupy floor 18, and the two Penthouses on floor 19 are two-story homes. The Collections page compares them.
Layouts run from two to six bedrooms. Two homes on the same plan can still differ in value with their floor and whether they face the ocean, the city or the Intracoastal. Every plan, with interior and outdoor areas, is on the Floor Plans page.
Porcelain and hardwood floors, European-style kitchen cabinetry with waterfall-edge islands and floor-to-ceiling impact glass are common throughout the building, but many owners have customized since. Ask what was changed, by whom, and whether the furnishings and art are part of the sale.
Residence #1701-1703 joins three residences into one, and some homes have features no published plan shows, such as a private pool on a fourth-floor terrace. See both in the video tours, and ask for the recorded square footage of any combined home you consider.
Two assigned garage spaces with valet service is the allocation most often listed with a residence, and some spaces have EV charging. Confirm the exact spaces, and any storage, in writing for the residence you want.
Pets are allowed with restrictions, and leasing is subject to the association’s rules, including rules on leasing during an owner’s first year. If either matters to you, read the current rules in the condominium documents before your review period ends.
How a purchase works
A typical resale here, in six steps. Your attorney or title company will confirm the details for your contract.
Size, floor, collection, outlook, timing and budget. With sixty-eight homes, a clear brief lets us tell you quickly what fits and what might come up.
Listed residences and, when owners are open to it, residences that are not on the market. We arrange private showings and send plans and recent resale prices for anything you like.
We price the offer against the building’s recorded resales and the plan’s square footage. A Florida contract sets the price, the escrow deposit, the inspection period and the closing date.
The seller provides the declaration, bylaws and rules, the budget and financial statement, the reserve study, the association’s FAQ document and a governance form. Under Florida law you have seven days, excluding weekends and legal holidays, after receiving them to cancel.
Inspect the residence, get insurance quotes, confirm parking and storage, and check whether the association must approve the sale. If you are financing, your lender’s appraisal and approval run alongside.
A title company or attorney confirms clear title and the association’s estoppel certificate (what the seller owes the association), and you walk through before signing. Then the keys, the fobs and the garage are yours.
Costs to plan for
In Broward County the buyer customarily pays for the owner’s title insurance policy, and the seller pays the documentary stamp tax on the deed. A buyer who finances also customarily pays the lender’s title policy, documentary stamp tax on the note ($0.35 per $100 borrowed) and the intangible tax on the mortgage (0.2% of the loan). All of it is negotiable in the contract.
Set by the association’s annual budget and different for each residence, by size. Fees across Florida have risen as associations fund the reserves the state now requires, so older published figures may be out of date. We send the current figure, and what it covers, for any residence you are considering.
Based on the county’s assessed value. If the residence will be your permanent home, Florida’s homestead exemption currently reduces its taxable value by up to $50,000, and the Save Our Homes cap then limits yearly growth in assessed value to 3% or inflation, whichever is lower. You must own and live there on January 1 and apply to the Broward County Property Appraiser, generally by March 1. Amendment 3 on the November 3, 2026 ballot proposes a larger homestead exemption for non-school taxes from 2027, so confirm the current figures with the Property Appraiser. Florida has no state income tax.
The association’s master policy covers the building itself. You insure what is inside your residence, including finishes, cabinetry, appliances and contents, with your own condominium unit-owner (HO-6) policy, which a lender or the condominium documents may require. Get quotes during your inspection period.
Florida requires condominium buildings of three or more habitable stories to have a structural integrity reserve study, repeated at least every ten years, and owners generally cannot vote to waive the reserves it calls for. Milestone structural inspections begin when a building turns 30 (or 25 where the local building official requires it), well over a decade away for a building delivered in 2019. The reserve study is part of the documents you review.
This guide is general information, not legal, tax, insurance or lending advice, and Florida law and county practice change. Confirm anything that affects your decision with your attorney, accountant, title company or lender, and with the association for the specific residence.
Next step
Tell us what you are looking for and we will send what is available now, current pricing and floor plans, usually the same or the next day. Already own here? Read the seller’s guide.
