Impact Window Prices in Miami: Verified Tables for Condos, Bungalows and Historic Homes

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Unit prices used for Miami

Why Miami prices start from a stricter rulebook

The City of Miami sits inside the High Velocity Hurricane Zone (HVHZ). The 2023 Florida Building Code defines the HVHZ as Broward and Miami-Dade counties only.

Inside the HVHZ, the code sets a design wind speed for Miami-Dade of 175 mph for homes (Risk Category II). That is higher than Broward's 170 mph. Every window and door you buy has to be tested for that.

So the price you pay in Miami is the price of a product that passed the HVHZ tests: a 9-pound 2x4 fired at the glass twice, then repeated cyclic pressure loading. The units in our tables are HVHZ-rated products. There is no lighter, cheaper code tier to drop down to inside city limits.

• Each product needs a current Miami-Dade Notice of Acceptance (NOA) or a Florida Building Commission product approval. Miami-Dade accepts either.
• Expired approvals, or approvals from an older code cycle, are not accepted at permit time.
• Many NOAs also require a permanent "Miami-Dade County Product Control Approved" label and approved anchors for concrete or CBS walls.

What the price tables below include

The tables come from our factory pricing engine, the same one behind the online configurator. Prices were checked on October 20, 2026. Every price is labeled Verified.

They are product-only visitor prices, before sales tax, installation, permit fees and delivery. A written quote confirms your final price. PGT is quoted separately on request.

All units are white frames with clear laminated glass. See the table below for the sizes we priced in each type.

Miami's housing stock decides what you are pricing

Miami is not a city of tract homes. Census data shows about 43% of its 229,852 housing units are in buildings with 50 or more units. Only about 21% are single-family detached houses, and about 9% are townhouse-style attached homes.

The homes are also older than the code. The median year built is 1984, and about 55% of units were built before 1990. That is before Hurricane Andrew hit south Dade in August 1992 and before the stricter 1994 South Florida Building Code. About 16% were built before 1950.

That is why the scenarios below look like Miami: a balcony-heavy condo unit, an older CBS house with small bedroom windows, a townhouse, and a 1920s-1950s house in a historic district.

Whole-home price scenarios for Miami

Each scenario below is priced line by line from the verified tables. Change the counts to match your home. Your real openings may need a size we have not listed, which is common in older Miami houses. That is priced in a written quote.

What moves the price up or down in Miami

• Height above grade. Units installed more than 30 feet up must also pass the small-missile tests (TAS 201 and TAS 203). In a Brickell or Edgewater tower, confirm the approval covers your floor.
• Building size. Windows in threshold buildings (over three stories or over 50 feet) need a threshold inspection by a state-certified Special Inspector and wind calculations for every opening. Those are added costs outside product price.
• Door count and width. Sliding doors are the largest line in most Miami condo quotes. A 120-inch door costs far more than a 72-inch one, as the table shows.
• Glass thickness. Fixed windows and sliding doors use heavier glass on one brand, so the brand gap flips by type. Compare both columns.
• Bedroom egress. Each sleeping room needs one openable window with enough clear opening. A fixed picture unit cannot be the only window in a bedroom.
• Association or historic spec. A condo board or the city's historic review may require a frame color, style or layout. That can rule out the lowest-priced option.

What the tables do not include

These costs are real in Miami but are not in any product price on this page:

• Installation, removal of old windows and stucco or interior patching.
• Florida sales tax and delivery.
• City of Miami permit fees, plus any engineering, wind calculations or wood buck calculations (required when the buck is 1-1/2 inches or thicker).
• Threshold Special Inspector fees for tall buildings.
• Recording a Notice of Commencement. Florida law requires one before work starts unless the contract is small enough to fall under the exemption in s. 713.02(5).
• A wind mitigation inspection (form OIR-B1-1802), which can document your opening protection for your insurer.

From quote to closed permit in the City of Miami

Price is step one. Here is the short path for an address inside City of Miami limits (other Miami-Dade cities use their own building departments).

1. Measure every opening. Record width, height and floor level, and mark bedrooms, which need an egress-size operable unit.
2. Pick products with current approvals. Keep the NOA or Florida approval for each product type and mullion, plus a wall elevation showing each window's size and approval number.
3. Get association or historic sign-off. Condo and HOA owners get written approval of the spec. Designated historic properties need a Certificate of Appropriateness.
4. Apply on iBuild. City of Miami permits are filed online through iBuild and reviewed in ProjectDox. Window replacement is not an Easy Permit.
5. Install, inspect, document. Record the Notice of Commencement if required, schedule inspections through iBuild to close the permit, then get a wind mitigation inspection (OIR-B1-1802) for your insurer.

Condos, towers and historic districts

Condo buildings three or more stories tall fall under Florida's milestone inspection law: an inspection by the end of the year the building turns 30, then every 10 years. Miami-Dade's own recertification program now runs on a 30-year cycle too. Window work often comes up around these inspections, so ask your board what spec it requires before you price anything.

The City of Miami lists nine historic districts, including Morningside, Palm Grove, Buena Vista, Bayside and the MiMo/Biscayne Boulevard district. Palm Grove is the largest, with a 1921-1959 period of significance. Minor window work gets a staff-reviewed Standard COA. Larger changes go to the Historic and Environmental Preservation Board. Past board agendas include Morningside window swaps to horizontal sliders, which is why our historic scenario uses rollers.

Bayfront exposure and flood zones

During Hurricane Irma in 2017, storm surge reached 3-5 feet along Biscayne Bay from Homestead to Brickell, and slightly above 6 feet in spots in Coconut Grove and Brickell. FEMA's 2024 preliminary maps for the city show Zone AE and coastal Zone VE along the bay.

Impact windows do not change your flood zone. If you are bayfront, check the effective FEMA map for your address before you plan door sizes.

Ordering for a Miami address

Factory orders typically take 4–8 weeks; in-stock units can be faster. Only about one in three Miami homes is owner-occupied, so landlords pricing several units are common. Owner-builder permits in the City of Miami cover only owner-occupied one- and two-family homes.

Send your opening list and photos, or call (754) 303-7130, and we will return a written quote with the approval documents for each product.

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