A condo for a family is a different purchase from a condo for two, and Miami has only recently started building for it. The good news is that the newest buildings on the coast include residences that are, in every sense but the garden, houses.
This page sets out what changes when there are children: the plan, the zone, the building and the rules, and which of the new buildings the desk covers were built with families in mind. Contact the desk at Miami Dossier for the current position on any building we cover.
A three bedroom in a Miami tower can mean three real rooms with windows and doors, or two and a den, or a plan where the third is on the far side of the kitchen. Families read plans for where the children sleep relative to the parents, whether there is a room that closes for homework, and whether the kitchen is a room or a wall. The newest buildings have gone large, with residences from three to six bedrooms, private elevator landings and separate family and formal spaces, because that is who is buying them.
The desk reads plans line by line and says which residences in a building are family plans and which merely have the bedroom count.
Families in Miami live within twenty minutes of the school, and the school run is by car. The private schools cluster in Coral Gables, Coconut Grove, Pinecrest and the Beach, and each cluster has new buildings near it. Bal Harbour, Surfside and the mid Beach are where the oceanfront family towers are; Brickell and Edgewater are where the bay towers near the schools downtown are. The zone pages set out which is which, and the comparison page on which neighborhood suits a relocating family is the place to start.
Some buildings are built for families: children’s rooms, a pool that is not a scene, a lawn, a screening room, a building manager who knows the children’s names. Some are built for couples and tolerate children. The difference is in the amenity list, the plan mix and the rules, and it is visible before a contract is signed. The desk reads it and says which is which, building by building.
A family in a couples’ building is unhappy within a year. Ask the question before the view answers it for you.
Condominium documents set rules on pets, on renting, on renovations and on the use of common areas, and some set rules on noise and on children in certain amenities. They are read inside the cancellation window by an attorney, and the desk flags the clauses that matter to a family before the documents arrive. A building whose rules were written for a childless tower is not a home.
The desk at Miami Dossier covers the new buildings across the city and knows which were built with families in mind. Bring it the school, the number of children and the plan you actually need, and it comes back the same day with the buildings that fit, the family plans in each and the current position on them.
This is the desk at Miami Dossier, a real estate desk covering the Miami market. It reads the developer’s documents, keeps the current position on every new building it covers, and puts the buildings that fit a brief in front of you the same day.
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Nothing on this page is legal, tax or investment advice, and the patterns described are what the desk sees, not rules. Contact the desk at Miami Dossier and we will go through the buildings that fit, the current position on each and what the next step actually is. Where a question is legal, tax or immigration, we introduce you to advisers who handle that properly rather than answering it ourselves.
