South Florida Home Technology and AV Integration Report: September 2026

This report covers home technology and AV integration in South Florida and the Keys: the four counties of Miami-Dade, Broward, Palm Beach and Monroe. It looks at new-home construction, the high end of the housing market, renovation and low-voltage permit activity, national industry and supplier signals, and the online presence of the integrators who sell into this market. Figures come from public data (building permits, home value indexes, industry surveys and company filings) plus Pixedi's own measurement of integrator websites where the text says so.

Key findings

• South Florida permitted 4,718 new single-family homes in January-August 2026, a rise of 22.3% year over year, while Florida as a whole changed -1.3% and the US changed -2.5%.
• Palm Beach County went from 1,655 permits last year to 2,483 this year, which is a 50.0% jump and accounts for 828 of the 859 additional permits across the region.
• The average permitted construction value for a new single-family home in South Florida was $496,712 in January-August 2026, which is 44.8% above the Florida average.
• Miami-Dade recorded 194 home sales of $10 million or more through August 2026, already 14.1% above the full-year 2025 total of 170.
• Miami-Dade County issued 703 permits covering low-voltage work in January-August 2026, which is up 12.5% year over year, though these figures are still preliminary.
• Roughly 1 in 6 Florida AV integrators (17.8%) has no working website, against 15.2% nationally.
• We ran the numbers on 267 Florida integrator sites and found that 51.7% load neither Google Analytics/Tag Manager nor a Meta pixel on the homepage, so about half the market cannot measure where its web visitors come from.
• Florida accounts for 16.9% of the 2,163 US AV integrators in the Control4 dealer locator, more than any other state.

New construction: the growth is in Palm Beach

The four South Florida counties permitted 4,718 new single-family homes in January-August 2026, up from 3,859 in the same months of 2025. That is a rise of 22.3%, and it runs against the wider trend: statewide, Florida single-family permits changed -1.3%, and US permits changed -2.5%. For an integrator whose work starts at the pre-wire stage, the local supply of new homes is growing while the state and national supply is shrinking.

• Palm Beach50%
• Broward14.3%
• Miami-Dade-1.2%
• Monroe-11.3%

Source: US Census Bureau Building Permits Survey

The growth sits almost entirely in one county. Palm Beach County permitted 2,483 new single-family homes, up from 1,655 a year earlier, a rise of 50.0%, and it accounts for 828 of the 859 additional permits across the region. Broward County also grew, from 484 to 553 permits, a rise of 14.3%. Miami-Dade was roughly flat, with 1,533 permits against 1,552, a change of -1.2%, and Monroe County (the Keys) fell from 168 to 149, a change of -11.3%. An integrator based in Miami-Dade who waits for new-home work to come to them is waiting in a market that did not grow this year, while the extra volume is an hour or more north.

The money involved is substantial, with the average permitted construction value for a new single-family home in South Florida hitting $496,712 in January-August 2026, which puts it well above the $342,944 Florida average and the $325,586 US average. You see the biggest numbers in the Keys, where Monroe County averaged $785,629 per new home, followed by Broward at $571,532, Miami-Dade at $492,138 and Palm Beach at $465,534. The Florida baseline has been climbing too, up 28.9% between 2019 and 2025 and another 4.9% year over year in the first eight months of 2026. Since Palm Beach is adding the most homes but the Keys and Broward have the higher per-home budgets, those bigger builds typically leave more space in the contract for structured wiring, networking and audio.

The top of the housing market keeps pulling ahead

Miami metro values are pulling apart between the top and middle tiers, with the typical top-third home hitting $913,903 in August 2026 per Zillow ZHVI, a 2.1% jump year over year while middle-tier values slipped 0.5% in the same period. That top tier is up 66.1% since August 2019, well ahead of the 44.9% gain for US top-tier homes, and FHFA data shows the West Palm Beach-Boca Raton division rose 3.7% year over year in the second quarter of 2026 compared to just 1.3% for Miami-Miami Beach-Kendall, though the Miami division itself has climbed 98.8% since the second quarter of 2019.

The high end is moving fast. MIAMI REALTORS counts 194 Miami-Dade home sales of $10 million or more through August 2026, which is already 14.1% above the full-year 2025 total of 170. The previous record was 230 such sales in 2021, but MIAMI REALTORS projects about 291 for 2026 (preliminary). In 2025, 82% of Miami $1M-and-up condo sales were all-cash, which means these buyers tend to be less exposed to mortgage rates and are likely among the most ready to commission whole-home systems.

The single-family market is holding steady, though the supply is thinning out. In Miami-Dade, the single-family median sale price hit $680,000 in August 2026, but inventory dropped 19.23% year over year, which means there are fewer houses actually available for buyers to look at. We don't have newer numbers for the area further north, but the last Redfin data from May 2026 shows the West Palm Beach metro single-family median at $685,000 with single-family home sales up 11.5% year over year. Those sales figures are four months old, yet they still line up with what the permit data is telling us about activity in the region.

Renovation and low-voltage work in Miami-Dade

Miami-Dade is the one county where Pixedi could read individual permits. The county permit file downloaded for this report holds 139,133 permit records issued since September 2024, and all figures in this section drawn from it are preliminary. The first thing it shows is a shift toward the expensive end of new construction. The county issued 274 new-construction residential building permits valued at $1 million or more in January-August 2026, up from 249 a year earlier, a rise of 10.0%, while all new-construction residential permits changed -8.2%. So 11.6% of new residential permits in the period were valued at $1M or more, and the median declared value of a new residential permit rose 19.6% to $175,000.

• 2025625 permits
• 2026703 permits

Source: Miami-Dade County permit file

Big remodels are moving faster than new builds here. Permits for residential interior alterations and attached additions valued at $250,000 or more jump from 166 to 218, which is a 31.3% increase. In Miami-Dade, where new single-family construction stayed flat, large remodels look like the stronger source of new projects this year, and that's usually when a homeowner gets the chance to rewire everything for networking, audio, and lighting control.

Low-voltage permits (data cabling, TV antenna, sound and intercom, telephone) climbed from 625 to 703, up 12.5% year over year, but the numbers hide a quirk in how the work gets filed. Since September 2024, only 15.3% of Miami-Dade low-voltage permits were for apartment or multi-family buildings, and zero were filed as residential (R) permits, which means most home AV work likely doesn't show up in this category at all. So read the count as a direction for the trade rather than a measure of residential volume.

What the national industry and its suppliers report

CEDIA put the US professional residential technology market at $33.8 billion in their 2026 analysis (public summary, preliminary), with home networking taking up 15% of that and distributed audio and lighting/shading each at 11%. When they asked respondents about the year ahead, 17% pointed to lighting as their biggest business opportunity while 13% cited AI integration. On the operating side, 79% said they increased their use of AI in business operations over the past year, and 25% expect higher demand to drive revenue growth next year.

AVIXA says global pro AV revenue hit $332 billion in 2025, with a forecast of $402 billion by 2030, but they cut their five-year growth projection from 5.3% to 3.9% a year; both AVIXA figures are preliminary.

Resideo's ADI Global Distribution segment, the one that holds Snap One (Control4), reported $4,784 million in 2025, up 14.0%, though that jump partly comes from the mid-2024 Snap One acquisition since they did $3,570 million in 2023 before the deal, while their Products & Solutions segment brought in $2,688 million. Sonos is heading the other way, with $1,443.3 million in fiscal 2025, down 17.6% from the fiscal 2022 peak and their third straight drop, and their US revenue slipped 8.0% to $855.7 million. It looks like the national consumer audio business is soft right now, but South Florida construction and high-end sales are strong, which suggests local integrators are leaning more on the regional housing cycle than on national product demand.

Florida integrators online: who can be found at all

We checked the sites for the 365 Florida AV integrators listed in the Control4 dealer locator, which sits inside a national sample of 2,163. Florida makes up 16.9% of that total, putting it ahead of California, the second-largest state with 331 listed integrators. Most of the Florida firms in that locator, 68.1%, don't hold a published Control4 dealer tier.

• Florida17.8%
• United States15.2%

Source: Pixedi

A lot of these businesses are hard to find online. 11.0% of Florida integrators (40 firms) have no website we could find, even after checking the domain behind their business email. Another 6.8%, which is 25 firms, had a site that failed our tests in late September 2026, through a DNS failure, a dead host, a server error, a missing page, or a parked or password-protected site. That adds up to about 1 in 6 Florida integrators, or 17.8%, having no working website, compared to 15.2% nationally where 9.5% have no site and 5.6% have a broken one. We also hit 9.0% of Florida sites that we couldn't verify with plain HTTP because of bot protection or JavaScript-only pages, so we didn't count those as broken. In the end, 267 Florida sites, or 73.2%, actually loaded and we could measure them fully, against 78.7% nationally.

Tier status and email habits line up with this. Nationwide, 10.5% of integrators holding a Control4 tier like Pinnacle, Diamond, Platinum or Gold have no working website, compared to 16.9% of those with no tier (preliminary). In Florida, 18.1% of integrators use free consumer mailboxes like Gmail or Yahoo for their business email, a bit higher than the 16.8% national average. The median Florida integrator domain is 13 years old based on the first Wayback Machine capture (preliminary), which suggests many of these firms have been online for quite a while without updating their presence.

Florida integrators online: what the working sites do

Of the 267 working Florida sites we checked, 51.7% load neither Google Analytics or Tag Manager nor a Meta pixel on the homepage, while 47.9% load Google Analytics or Tag Manager and only 9.0% load a Meta pixel. That means about half of these owners likely can't see which marketing actually brings in calls or run retargeting ads to people who visited their site.

• No LocalBusiness structured data73.8%
• No analytics tag or Meta pixel51.7%
• No form50.6%
• No tap-to-call link45.7%

Source: Pixedi

A lot of the working sites skip the basics that help search engines figure out what you do. 73.8% don't have LocalBusiness-type structured data on the homepage, 29.6% are missing a meta description, and 27.0% don't expose an XML sitemap at the standard paths (preliminary). Most of them, 71.9%, also lack a link to a blog, news, or articles section (preliminary), so there's not much content for a search engine to match against a homeowner's question. On the technical side, 9.4% don't redirect http:// visitors to https://, 13.5% took more than 3 seconds to return HTML to our crawler, and 18.1% of homepages that show a copyright year still list 2022 or earlier (the last two figures are preliminary).

Contact paths are thin as well. 45.7% of working homepages have no tap-to-call link and 50.6% have no form of any kind, so on a phone a visitor often has to copy a number by hand. 24.7% link to no social or review profile; 45.7% link to Instagram, and only 2.6% link to Houzz. Nationally, 47.4% of integrators have no social profile we could find linked from their website (preliminary). The sites themselves are split between platforms: WordPress runs 36.0% of working Florida sites and hosted builders (Wix, GoDaddy, Squarespace or Webflow) run 31.1% (both preliminary). Most of the gaps listed here, such as a tap-to-call link, a contact form or an analytics tag, can be fixed on either kind of platform without a rebuild.

What changed since the last edition

We're putting out the first version of this, so the numbers here are the baseline we'll check against later. We've used the freshest data we could get: Pixedi's website checks from late September 2026, building permits and Miami-Dade records through August 2026, Zillow and MIAMI REALTORS figures for August 2026, Redfin data from May 2026, FHFA info for the second quarter of 2026, CEDIA's 2026 analysis, AVIXA's 2025 numbers, and company results for fiscal 2025.

Methodology and sources

Integrator counts and website measurements are Pixedi's own. The sample is the Control4 dealer locator (2,163 US integrators, 365 in Florida), with tier status taken from the locator. Each listed website, or the domain behind a business email where no website was listed, was requested with plain HTTP in late September 2026 and classified as working, failed or unverifiable. Homepages that loaded were checked for analytics and pixel tags, structured data, meta description, tap-to-call links, forms, social and review links, blog links, https redirects, response time, copyright year, sitemap and site platform. Domain age comes from the first Wayback Machine capture.

The permit counts and construction values for the four counties, Florida, and the US come from the US Census Bureau Building Permits Survey, comparing January-August 2026 to January-August 2025, and we used the Florida baseline for 2019 to 2025. For the Miami-Dade permit-level figures, we pulled from the Miami-Dade County permit file, which holds 139,133 records issued since September 2024, and we excluded declared values of $50 million or more as entry errors. Home values came from Zillow (ZHVI, August 2026), FHFA (house price index, second quarter of 2026), Redfin (West Palm Beach metro, May 2026), and MIAMI REALTORS (August 2026 and full-year 2025). Industry figures come from CEDIA's 2026 analysis (public summary) and AVIXA, while company figures are from Resideo's and Sonos's reported results for fiscal 2025, with Resideo's 2023 figure as a pre-acquisition reference.

Here are the figures we're still treating as preliminary: the Miami-Dade permit details like the $1M+ new residential permits and median values, the $250,000+ renovation counts, and the low-voltage permits and their building-type split; in short, all Miami-Dade permit-file figures. That list also includes the MIAMI REALTORS 2026 projection, every number from CEDIA and AVIXA, and the national stats on social profiles and tiered website shares. For the Florida side, the domain ages, blog links, homepage response times, copyright years, sitemaps, and the breakdown of WordPress versus hosted builders are preliminary.

Sources

1. US Census Bureau Building Permits Survey
2. Zillow Home Value Index
3. FHFA House Price Index
4. Redfin
5. MIAMI REALTORS
6. CEDIA
7. AVIXA
8. Resideo
9. Sonos
10. Wayback Machine

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