Florida just handed a foreclosed-property owner a surplus win and sent a sharp timing warning to every lienholder chasing sale proceeds.
If you hold liens against real property and count on collecting from a foreclosure sale, a Florida appeals court ruling issued June 3, 2026, drew a line you can’t afford to miss.
Start with the numbers, because they tell the story. A five-unit apartment building in Hallandale Beach sold at a foreclosure public sale in August 2024 for $950,100. Once the mortgage was paid off, roughly $261,738 in surplus remained. The City of Hallandale Beach claimed every dollar of it, pointing to more than $1.7 million in code violation liens it had recorded against the building…