Condo Renovations in Miami, FL
The Building Is
Half the Job.
In a house, the job starts when demolition starts. In a condo it starts weeks earlier, in the management office. Before a cabinet comes out, the association wants drawings, a written scope, a schedule and paperwork from whoever is doing the work. The service elevator has to be reserved in blocks. Corridors, lobby floors and elevator cabs have to be protected. Debris leaves on one route, at one time of day, and no other. We run that half of the project so the unit owner is not the person negotiating elevator windows with a building manager.
Inside the unit it is the same craft we bring to a single-family remodel: kitchens, bathrooms, flooring, closets, doors, trim and interior painting, sequenced around the hours your building actually allows.
What's Included
- Association submittal package: drawings, scope, schedule, contractor paperwork
- Service elevator and loading dock scheduling
- Corridor, lobby and elevator protection for the duration
- Acoustic underlayment selected to meet your building's sound rating
- Kitchen renovation, cabinetry through counters and backsplash
- Bathroom renovation, waterproofing through glass and fixtures
- Porcelain, LVP and engineered flooring throughout the unit
- Closets, interior doors, baseboard and trim
- Interior painting and finish carpentry
- Daily debris removal on the building's approved route
The Straight Answer
How much does a condo renovation cost in Miami?
A Miami condo renovation is priced trade by trade, the same as a house: a kitchen from the mid-$20,000s to $75,000+, a guest bathroom $12,000 to $25,000, a primary bathroom $25,000 to $60,000+, and porcelain flooring at $8 to $16 per square foot installed. What a building adds is calendar, not a separate line item. Restricted work hours, booked elevator windows and the association review period all stretch the schedule, so the same kitchen that takes 5 to 8 weeks in a house should be planned longer in a tower. Every number is confirmed in a written estimate before anything starts.
- Condo kitchenmid-$20Ks–$75K+
- Guest bathroom$12K–$25K
- Primary bathroom$25K–$60K+
- Porcelain flooring, installed$8–$16/sq ft
Answer by Miami Pro Remodeling · General Contractor, Miami-Dade & Broward · Sunset / Glenvar Heights, Miami, FL · (209) 389-3114 · Updated August 2026
What the Building Controls, and What We Control
The board sets the envelope: which weekdays and hours crews may work, how long the elevator is yours each day, what deposit is held until closeout, and how quickly the unit has to be finished once approval is granted. None of that is negotiable, and pretending otherwise is how condo jobs stall. What we control is everything inside it. Loud trades go at the front of each window. Material arrives in elevator-sized loads instead of one truck nobody can unload. Protection goes down before the first delivery and stays until the last. Read our kitchen remodel timeline for how the same sequence runs when a building is not setting the clock.
Brickell, Aventura, Miami Beach and the Coast
Towers are where we do this work: Brickell and Downtown, Aventura, Miami Beach, Sunny Isles Beach, Key Biscayne, Bal Harbour and the low-rise buildings of Coconut Grove. The trades themselves are the ones you will find on our kitchen, bathroom and flooring pages; this page is about doing them 20 floors up.
Condo Renovation FAQs
Do you handle the association's approval package?
Yes. Buildings ask for drawings, a written scope, a schedule and documentation from the contractor before anything is approved. We assemble that package, submit it, and then build to whatever conditions the board attaches.
What hours can work happen in a Miami condo?
Most buildings allow weekdays only, commonly 8 or 9 in the morning until 4 or 5 in the afternoon, with no weekend or holiday work. Some beach buildings restrict work further in season. We plan the loud trades into the front of each window so the noisy hours land where the building allows them.
Will new flooring meet the building's sound requirement?
Condo documents almost always set a minimum impact sound rating for hard flooring. We select an underlayment that meets the number your building specifies and keep the product documentation for the approval file.
Can you run the job while I am out of the country?
Yes, and most of our high-rise owners are not in the unit while it is being built. You get a written estimate up front, a scheduled sequence, and photo updates at each milestone.
Renovating a Unit?
Start With the Building.
Send us your building's renovation rules with your floor plan. We will come back with a written estimate and a schedule that fits inside them.