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The Bentley Residences Sunny Isles penthouses

The most mechanically ambitious residential building in Miami, and the one where the mechanism deserves the hardest questions.

This page describes the residence. Whether it is available, and on what terms, changes without notice. Contact the desk at Miami Dossier for the current position on any building we cover.

The Residence

What sits at the top of the building.

Every residence carries a private sky garage reached by a dedicated vehicle lift, marketed as the Dezervator. Your car travels up the building with you and parks inside your home.

The tower is a glass structure of roughly 749 feet by Sieger Suarez Architects, on the Sunny Isles oceanfront at 18401 Collins Avenue.

This is the single most distinctive residential feature in the market, and it is a machine you will part own.

What The Public Record Says

Figures, and what kind of figure each one is.

We publish no figure. No closed penthouse sale or reported contract here has appeared in the public record we have found.

Published specifications disagree substantially. Residence counts of 63, 200 and 216 all appear across sources published in the same period, and storey counts of 60 and 61. Completion has been given as both 2026 and later.

A range from 63 to 216 residences is not a rounding difference. It changes the density of the building, the cost base per household and the character of every shared space. Establish the real figure from the offering documents.

The Building Underneath

A penthouse is only as good as the building it crowns.

Developed by Dezer Development, the family behind several of the Sunny Isles oceanfront towers, with a long delivery record in this specific stretch of coast.

The car lift is the organising idea of the building rather than an added feature, which means the structure, the core and the circulation are all built around it.

Sieger Suarez has designed a large share of the towers along this coastline, so the architectural language is familiar here rather than novel.

What The Drawing Does Not Tell You

The part a sales gallery does not lead with.

Ask what happens when the lift is out of service. How do you reach your car, how long does a repair take, who holds the maintenance contract, what does it cost annually and what is the replacement cost of the system at end of life. These are ordinary questions about any building system and this one is unusually consequential.

A vehicle and its fluids inside a residential unit raises questions about insurance, about the declaration, and about what the association permits to be stored there. Confirm all three in writing.

A specialised mechanical system with a small installed base has a small pool of people qualified to service it. That is a long term cost and availability question worth asking now rather than in year twelve.

The Shift

The lift is the building. Diligence it like a building.

A feature this central deserves the same scrutiny as a roof or a chiller plant: service life, maintenance contract, annual cost, replacement reserve and what happens on the day it stops. Contact the desk at Miami Dossier and we will put those questions to the developer in writing.

Current availability at the top of the building. Whether the residence described here is spoken for, and what else sits on the upper floors.
The rooftop instrument. Whether private outdoor space is deeded, a limited common element, or licensed, which decides what you own and who repairs it.
Floor plan analysis. What the drawing gives you once column placement, ceiling drops and usable outdoor area are read properly.
Where we would not proceed. Sometimes the answer is another building. Sometimes it is not now.

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Common Questions

What buyers ask about this residence

What is the Dezervator?
A dedicated vehicle lift that carries your car up the building to a private sky garage inside your residence. It is the organising feature of the tower rather than an add on, and the structure is built around it.
How many residences does Bentley Residences have?
Published sources disagree, giving 63, 200 and 216 across the same period, at 60 or 61 storeys. That range changes the density and cost base of the building materially, so confirm from the offering documents.
What happens if the car lift breaks?
That is the question to put in writing before purchase. Ask about the maintenance contract, annual cost, expected repair time, who is qualified to service it, and the replacement cost at end of life.
Does storing a car in the residence affect insurance?
It can, and it also raises questions about what the declaration and the association permit. Confirm the insurance position and the governing document provisions in writing rather than assuming.
Who is the developer?
Dezer Development, which has a long delivery record along this specific stretch of Sunny Isles coastline, with architecture by Sieger Suarez.
Before You Act On Any Of This

Ask what happens the day the lift stops.

We hold no listings and we are not the developer. Contact the desk at Miami Dossier and we will tell you what is actually available at the top of this building, what the last comparable trade was, and where we would not proceed. Where a question is legal, tax or structuring, we introduce you to advisers who handle that properly rather than answering it ourselves.

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