The Ritz-Carlton Residences, South Beach is a boutique oceanfront tower of roughly 30 residences at 1671 Collins Avenue, rising behind the restored Sagamore Hotel, designed by Kobi Karp with interiors by Studio Munge and landscape by Naturalficial, with the culinary programme led by José Andrés. Completion is guided for the end of 2027. Here is what the buyers who choose it are choosing.
Written by the desk at Miami Dossier from the developer's published material and the public construction record, cross-referenced across several sources, with anything unconfirmed flagged. The desk works in English, Spanish and Portuguese and does not represent the developer. All notes from the desk.
The desk at Miami Dossier covers a small number of Miami buildings closely rather than the whole market lightly. The Ritz-Carlton South Beach is one the desk is asked about every week, and this note is compiled from the developer's published material and the public record rather than from a brochure summary. It is the list of reasons buyers give when they choose this building, in the order we hear them, with the facts behind each one.
Thirty residences is a very small number for an oceanfront address on Collins Avenue. Most of what South Beach offers at this level is either a converted historic building or a large tower; a purpose-built collection of thirty is neither, and the desk at Miami Dossier reads the count as the first reason.
The historic Sagamore Hotel on the site is restored rather than replaced, keeping the Art Deco frontage on Collins, with the residential tower rising behind it. A buyer gets a modern home and a 1940s street.
Ritz-Carlton has residences in Bal Harbour, Miami Beach at Mid-Beach, Coconut Grove and, planned, North Bay Village. This is its South Beach address, in the walkable stretch of Collins between Lincoln Road and the Art Deco district, with the beach across the road.
Your situation is specific. Tell the desk in one message and we will say what applies to you, what does not, and who to speak with.
Kobi Karp Architecture, the practice behind the Surf Club restoration and 1 Hotel South Beach, is well suited to a project where a historic building and a new tower have to sit together, and is also the architect at Six Fisher Island.
Alessandro Munge's studio designed the residences, as it did at 619 Brickell by Nobu and at EDITION Edgewater: a calm palette and rooms drawn as a whole rather than decorated.
Published plans run from one to five bedrooms, with two duplex penthouses carrying private rooftop pools and terraces. Ceilings are published at roughly ten feet with floor-to-ceiling glass to the Atlantic.
The Michelin-starred chef leads the culinary and hospitality programme, with published material citing on-site catering across the event and meeting spaces as well as the residential dining. In a building of thirty homes, that is a kitchen the residents can actually reach.
A residents' beach club with dedicated cabana service, a private rooftop pool and terrace, a Technogym fitness centre with treatment and training rooms, semi-private cabanas and an entertainment lounge with a chef's kitchen, in the published programme.
Published material describes private elevator entry into most residences, which at this count is achievable in a way that it is not in a tower of three hundred.
Completion is guided for the end of 2027. The desk at Miami Dossier confirms the current construction status on the day of any conversation, because on a small infill site behind a historic building the schedule is the thing most likely to move.
The current construction status, the floor plans by line, the current release and the deposit schedule, obtained directly from the sales team on request, together with our own floor plan analysis and an honest comparison against the Shoreclub Private Collection a few blocks north and against Aman at Mid-Beach. None of it is published here because it changes. Ask for it and it arrives from the desk at Miami Dossier the same day, usually by WhatsApp, with our opinion attached, whether that opinion is the Ritz-Carlton or another building.
Your situation is specific. Tell the desk in one message and we will say what applies to you, what does not, and who to speak with.
Most of the people who ask the desk at Miami Dossier about The Ritz-Carlton Residences South Beach are not only choosing a building. They are moving to Miami from New York, California, London, Bogotá, Mexico City or São Paulo, or adding a Miami position to a portfolio held elsewhere, and the building question sits inside a larger one: how to buy new construction in Miami, how to hold it, and what changes when you do.
The desk keeps short notes on the parts that come up every week: how buying preconstruction in Miami actually works, what a normal deposit schedule looks like, whether you need to be in Miami to buy, whether a foreign buyer can get a mortgage, what taxes a foreign buyer pays on a Miami condo, and the Florida state income tax question for anyone relocating from a high-tax state. For buyers arriving from a specific market there are notes for Bogotá, Mexico City and London, and a broader one on why so many wealthy families are moving to Miami.
Read the ones that apply, then bring the rest to the desk at Miami Dossier. It usually takes one conversation to see how The Ritz-Carlton Residences South Beach fits the move, or whether another building fits it better.
This note is general information for people considering Miami, written by a real estate desk, not by a law or accounting firm. Nothing here is legal, tax, immigration or investment advice, and it is not a substitute for advice on your own circumstances. Rules change, treaties differ by country, and the right answer for one family is the wrong answer for another.
Speak with your own attorney and CPA before you commit to anything. If you do not have one who works with international buyers in Florida, the desk is glad to recommend an attorney, a CPA or an adviser suited to your situation, and to sit in the first conversation so that nothing is lost in translation.
Structure, financing, currency, timing, the right building and the right line: the desk works through these questions with international buyers every week, and the answer is nearly always that it can be done, in order, without surprises. If Miami is on your mind, as a home or as an allocation, we would be glad to share what we are seeing, privately, and to start with the question this note did not answer.
Nobody chooses The Ritz-Carlton Residences South Beach in isolation. The desk at Miami Dossier weighs it against The Shore Club Private Collection and against The Ritz-Carlton Residences North Bay Village, and sets it beside every other building in South Beach on the South Beach cluster. If the question underneath yours is really what a brand is obliged to do after closing, start there instead.