At Fouquet’s Hotel & Residences 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 Fouquet’s Hotel & Residences Miami. What Fouquet’s Hotel & Residences Miami promises in writing: Private terraces; hurricane rated floor to ceiling windows; below grade valet and self parking; a 28 foot lobby with lounge; 24 hour concierge. The homes it applies to: 143 residences of one to four bedrooms with private terraces, many with dens, in a 25 storey tower.
Read it against the Kempinski Residences Miami Design District dossier for the nearest comparison.
The developer of Fouquet’s Hotel & Residences 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 Fouquet’s Hotel & Residences 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: 39 NE 39th Street, Miami, in the Design District, on nearly two acres; the rooftop pool overlooks the Intracoastal and South Beach. The designers whose palette you are choosing from: David Chipperfield Architects, 2023 Pritzker Architecture Prize. The brand standards, where a brand sets them: Fouquet’s, the signature brand of the Barrière Group, Paris flagship on the Champs-Élysées since 1899, Miami after Fouquet’s New York (Tribeca, 2022); Fouquet’s operates the hotel with owner access to hotel services and amenities.
Two homes at Fouquet’s Hotel & Residences 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: More than 40,000 square feet indoor and outdoor; a 70 foot rooftop pool; about 15,300 square feet of resident only outdoor space plus a shared hotel terrace; men’s and women’s spas; two restaurants, a bar and a patisserie. Who you are negotiating with: Raycliff Capital, Fort Partners, Miami Design District Associates (Dacra, L Catterton Real Estate, Brookfield Properties) and Constellation Hotels Holding; developer entity RFD MDD Residences LLC; sales by Corcoran Sunshine Marketing Group; offering filed CPS-12, file CP26-0012.
A finished home at Fouquet’s Hotel & Residences 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 Fouquet’s Hotel & Residences 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: 143 residences of one to four bedrooms with private terraces, many with dens, in a 25 storey tower. The money that comes first: Staged across milestones (contract, groundbreaking, top off) with the majority at closing, per the offering materials; held in escrow under Florida condominium statute; the schedule itself is held by the desk.
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 Fouquet’s Hotel & Residences 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 Fouquet’s Hotel & Residences Miami as carried on the live dossier, verified September 2026. Compiled by the desk at Miami Dossier; figures are approximate and the developer’s.
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