A multi level residence is not simply a larger one. It behaves differently every day, and the difference suits some households and irritates others.
This page compares the arrangements. Which specific residence works for you is a question about your household, and the desk will go through it. Contact the desk at Miami Dossier for the current position on any building we cover.
Separation. Sleeping and living on different levels is the clearest way to separate a home, and it works better than any arrangement of rooms on one plate.
Volume. Multi level residences usually carry double height space somewhere, which is the single most dramatic thing a residence can have and cannot be replicated horizontally.
Outdoor space on more than one level. The Aston Martin triplex carries a wrap around terrace on each of its three floors, which is a materially different proposition from one large terrace.
Circulation. A stair and often a private lift consume area you have paid for and cannot furnish. In a residence of moderate size that loss is significant.
Daily movement. You will use the stair many times a day. Households think about this abstractly before buying and concretely afterward, particularly with young children or over a long ownership.
A narrower resale pool. Multi level residences suit a more specific buyer, which lengthens time on market at resale.
A full floor residence with a private lift lobby delivers exclusivity and privacy without circulation loss, and everything is on one level.
For a household that will occupy the residence for a long time, or that values step free living now or later, the single plate is often the better home even when the duplex is the more impressive one.
The most impressive residence in a building and the best home in a building are frequently not the same residence.
Walk the stair. If a model or a comparable residence exists, go up and down it several times. Your reaction is more informative than the drawing.
Count the furnishable area rather than the total. Ask for interior area excluding circulation and compare that between a duplex and a single floor residence of nominally similar size. The gap is often larger than expected.
Then ask which floor you would actually spend your evenings on, and whether the other levels earn their place.
A triplex photographs extraordinarily well and a full floor plate frequently lives better, and which matters depends on whether you are buying a home or a statement. Contact the desk at Miami Dossier and we will put the furnishable areas side by side for the residences you are weighing.
We hold no listings and we are not the developer. Contact the desk at Miami Dossier and we will go through the specific buildings you are weighing, including the parts a sales gallery would rather skip. Where a question is legal, tax or structuring, we introduce you to advisers who handle that properly rather than answering it ourselves.