Property management in Sunrise

A condo city that grew into a family suburb.

Short-term rentals are limited here. Annual leases are the plan we lead with, and your community usually has its own rules. The panel shows what the city allows.

Sunrise is a large city in west Broward that started as a planned community of condos and villas and kept growing west toward the Everglades. Today it has a wide range of housing: older condo and villa communities in the east, including large age-restricted ones, single-family neighborhoods like Welleby, Springtree and Nob Hill, and newer homes and apartments near the Sawgrass area, the outlet mall and the arena. Much of the east side was built decades ago, so many buildings and villas are now going through roof, plumbing and structural work.

That range means the rental strategy depends on where your unit sits. Many of the older condo communities have strict leasing rules: tenant approval, minimum lease terms and, in age-restricted communities, rules about who can live there. Single-family homes rent to families on annual leases. Near the Sawgrass corridor, tenants are often professionals working in the offices and businesses along the expressway. Older condos can be affordable to buy, but assessments for building repairs belong in the rent math from day one.

On short-term rentals, the Sunrise city code has no vacation rental ordinance that we could find, and the city does not publish a registration program. That does not mean anything goes: every short stay still needs a DBPR license and Florida and Broward tax accounts, and most condo associations here limit or ban short leases. Before anything is listed, we check with the city and go through your association documents. If the answer is no, we manage the unit on an annual or seasonal lease instead.

Investors looking to buy in Sunrise can work with Brandon, our licensed broker. Condo prices can look attractive here, but the association's lease rules, approval process and age restrictions decide whether a unit works as a rental, and we check those first. We also look at the association's finances and any planned assessments, since those affect your return as much as the rent does.