At Delano Residences & Hotel Miami the home comes the way the contract says, not the way the rendering looks. A new Miami tower is sold finished, with the floors, kitchen and bathrooms in; decorator ready, which means you finish the home after closing; or furnished. Before the cutoff date the developer’s option list lets you choose some of it, at the developer’s price, and after it the choice is gone. Here is what can be chosen, when, and what each choice costs later.
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Finished means the floors, kitchen, bathrooms, closets and lighting are in when you close, chosen by the developer’s designer. Decorator ready means the kitchen and bathrooms are in and the floors, closets, some lighting and the window treatments are not, so you spend months with a contractor before you sleep there. Furnished means a furniture package by the brand or its designer, sold under a separate bill of sale with an inventory. Each is a different amount of money and a different number of months at Delano Residences & Hotel Miami. What Delano Residences & Hotel Miami promises in writing: Studios through 3 bedrooms in the released collection · the Delano Collection on floors 20 to 47 carries studio, studio and den, 1 and 2 bedroom lines · larger residences expected in later releases · furnished suites in select lines. The homes it applies to: ~421 fully finished residences across a ~90 story tower, with hotel below.
The Delano Residences & Hotel Miami dossier holds the developer’s published record. Read it against the Kempinski Residences Miami Design District dossier for the nearest comparison.
The developer of Delano Residences & Hotel Miami opens a selection window tied to the construction schedule: floor colour, cabinet finish, stone, appliance package, sometimes a wine column or a closet system. The window closes floor by floor as the trades climb, and a buyer who contracts late finds half the list decided. Upgrades are priced by the developer and paid when chosen; the contract says whether that money sits in escrow with the deposits or goes to the developer, and whether it comes back if the contract ends. The rendering of Delano Residences & Hotel Miami is not a specification: Florida contracts let the developer substitute materials of equal or better quality, and the finish schedule exhibit is the only promise. Ask which finishes in the model residence are standard and which are upgrades, and where the model sits against the real address: Fourth and Biscayne, Downtown Miami · views of downtown, Biscayne Bay, Miami Beach and the Atlantic. The designers whose palette you are choosing from: Carlos Ott, conceptual artist · CUBE3, architecture. The brand standards, where a brand sets them: Delano, under licence, with Ennismore and Accor as project team · hotel and residences in one tower.
Two homes at Delano Residences & Hotel Miami can become one if the request comes before the slab is poured and the developer agrees, at a price for the design work and the lost sale. A wall can move inside a home where it is not structural and carries no riser; a kitchen or a bathroom rarely moves, because the drains run through the slab in fixed places. Anything that reaches the building’s systems, the facade, the glass or a shared wall is the association’s, not yours. The developer’s warranty on a new home covers the home as the developer built it; a change made by your own contractor after closing sits outside it and can narrow a claim on what it touched. The spaces outside your door, which no option list reaches: Two resort pools, one on the bay deck and one in the sky · The Source by Delano spa and fitness with steam, sauna and cold plunge · Delano Rose Bar · Café Delano · all day restaurant · sky restaurant · Members’ Club · meeting and event rooms. Who you are negotiating with: Property Markets Group · sales and marketing by PMG Residential.
A finished home at Delano Residences & Hotel Miami closes and is lived in the same month. A decorator ready home adds a contractor, a permit where the work needs one, the building’s alteration approval, and months before the first night. Upgrades rarely appraise at their price, so a buyer with a loan pays for them in cash at closing. At resale the next buyer at Delano Residences & Hotel Miami pays for your taste only if it is theirs. Ask for the finish schedule as an exhibit, the option list with prices and dates, the substitution clause, what is excluded, and whether upgrade money is refundable. The homes the schedule describes: ~421 fully finished residences across a ~90 story tower, with hotel below. The money that comes first: The deposit schedule is held by the desk and read with you before contract.
The trade-off is time against ownership. The developer’s finish is faster, warranted and anonymous; your own is slower, dearer and yours. The desk reads the finish schedule, the option list and the model residence at Delano Residences & Hotel Miami with you before the cutoff.
The rendering is a promise about taste. The finish schedule is a promise about the home.
Developer materials for Delano Residences & Hotel Miami as carried on the live dossier, verified 2026-09-19. Compiled by the desk at Miami Dossier; figures are approximate and the developer’s.
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