For the buyer at the start of the search, before any building is chosen, typing the representation question whole: developer sales team vs buyer agent, and who in the room works for whom.
This page explains. Whether the building suits you is a separate conversation. Contact the desk at Miami Dossier for the current position on any building we cover.
The developer’s sales team works for the developer. It is staffed and paid to sell one building, and its answers, however good, are answers about that building’s release. Your own buyer agent works for you, across every building on the shelf, and project pricing already covers broker commission, so the representation does not add a line to the price the developer publishes. The desk at Miami Dossier represents buyers and never the projects; no project pays to appear on this site. Who to call first, building by building, is framed in who should I call about buying a new condo in Miami.
The teams are named in the dossiers themselves, and the names make the structure plain. Delano Residences Miami is sold by PMG Residential, the developer’s own sales and marketing arm. The Perigon is sold by Douglas Elliman Development Marketing. The Ritz-Carlton Residences, South Beach is sold and marketed by Douglas Elliman Development Marketing for its developer. Fouquet’s Hotel & Residences Miami is sold by Corcoran Sunshine Marketing Group. Four Seasons Private Residences Coconut Grove is sold by Fort Realty LLC and CMC Real Estate LLC, the developers’ own firms. Every one of those teams is excellent at its building and is retained by the seller of that building. None of them is retained by the buyer, and none of them will read a competing tower’s budget against their own release. The questions worth putting to any of them are collected in questions to ask a sales team.
A sales team can give you the current release, the lines that remain, the deposit schedule and the gallery’s read of its own building, and it should: that is the seller’s file, and a buyer reads it in full. A sales team cannot price its building against the shelf, tell you which floors trade first in a rival tower, or advise you to walk away from its own release toward a better fit. A buyer agent can do those things because the agent’s file is the whole shelf: the budgets, the outside dates, the view lines that close, read across buildings. The per building version of this page is kept in the library, for Delano, for Fouquet’s and for Four Seasons Coconut Grove.
Buyers ask whether bringing their own agent costs more. On the projects this desk covers, the pricing already covers broker commission; the desk’s own record states it, and it is why the representation question is about loyalty, not about price. What a buyer gives up by going direct is not money. It is the second read: nobody in the gallery is charged with reading the first association budget against the purchase, or with saying that a different building, or no building yet, is the right answer. Where a question is legal, tax or structuring, neither a sales team nor an agent answers it; counsel does, and a good representative says so early.
Three questions settle it in any room. Who retains you, and who pays you, on this purchase? Will you show me the competing building’s documents beside your own release? And will you tell me, in writing, where you would not proceed? A representative who answers all three plainly is working in the open. The desk’s version of the third answer is standing practice on this site: sometimes the answer is a different building, and sometimes it is not yet. Every other buyer question is collected in the questions buyers ask.
The dossiers on file: build/dossiers/delano.py (sales and marketing by PMG Residential), perigon.py (sales by Douglas Elliman Development Marketing), ritzcarlton-southbeach.py (sales and marketing by Douglas Elliman Development Marketing), fouquets.py (sales by Corcoran Sunshine Marketing Group) and fourseasons-grove.py (sales by Fort Realty LLC and CMC Real Estate LLC), each read in full on 2026-10-31; and the desk’s standing record that project pricing covers broker commission and that the desk represents buyers, never the projects. Compiled by the desk at Miami Dossier.
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