For the buyer who is not buying a season but a life, who will be here in August as well as February, and is choosing between an island with a club and a city with a waterfront.
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.
West Palm Beach supports a full-time life more easily, and Fisher Island supports a more private one. Six Fisher Island is about 50 homes of three to eight bedrooms on the last parcel of an island with no bridge, reached by ferry, private boat or the house car and tender, with Fisher Island Club membership on closing subject to Club approval, pricing released on request. South Flagler House, Olara and Alba Palm Beach sit on the Intracoastal in a city with a downtown, offices, schools and hospitals a car ride away, and none of the three publishes a price either. Which is nicer is not the question a full-time buyer answers. It is where the household goes on a Tuesday, and how.
The same five questions, from the developers' published material:
Six Fisher Island. Price point: released on request. Delivery: no date on file. Unit mix: about 50 waterfront homes, three to eight bedrooms, from about 3,900 to over 15,000 square feet, with private elevator entry to each and three lobbies with full-time concierges. Position: about 650 feet of shoreline in about 6.5 acres of gardens; no bridge to the island. Operator or brand: no brand; Related Group with BH Group and Globe Invest; a residential butler and an on-site general manager; lifetime Club membership on closing, subject to approval.
South Flagler House. Price point: released on request. Delivery: March 2027, topped out November 2025. Unit mix: two towers of 28 storeys on 3.4 acres; Park Residences of one and two bedrooms, about 1,800 to 3,000 square feet, about 80 percent sold. Position: 1355 South Flagler Drive, facing the Intracoastal and Palm Beach island. Operator or brand: none; Related Ross, Robert A.M. Stern Architects.
Olara. Price point: released on request. Delivery: phased, late 2026 through 2028. Unit mix: 275 residences of two to four bedrooms plus den across 26 storeys, two assigned parking spaces per home, twelve guest suites. Position: 1919 N Flagler Drive on the Intracoastal, Currie Park and the NORA District walkable. Operator or brand: none; Savanna; 24 hour doorman, valet and security, with a 24/7 medical concierge by Sollis Health.
Alba Palm Beach. Price point: released on request. Delivery: completed June 2026. Unit mix: 55 residences, two to four bedrooms plus townhomes, 1,778 to more than 4,500 square feet. Position: 4714 N. Flagler Drive, west bank of the Intracoastal, private dock, no fixed bridges to the Atlantic. Operator or brand: none; BGI Companies with Blue Road.
The island question in Miami is our read on the island against the city it faces; West Palm Beach or Palm Beach for new construction is the read on the two sides of the Intracoastal.
On Fisher Island the day starts with the ferry or the boat. The developer publishes no bridge and four ways across: ferry, private boat, house car and tender, or the private marina. A full-time household that works on the mainland, has children in school there or sees a doctor there crosses twice a day, and should ask for the ferry timetable at seven in the morning and at midnight, the rules for a guest pass and a contractor pass, and where the cars live on the mainland. Read where Six Fisher Island is and how you reach it.
In West Palm Beach the day starts with a car or a walk. Olara's developer describes Currie Park and the NORA District as walkable and Worth Avenue as minutes away; Banyan Tree's developer, for the downtown site, names CityPlace and Royal Poinciana Plaza as near. South Flagler House and Alba sit on Flagler Drive with the island across the water. The household drives to the office, the school and the hospital like any city household. Read who should I call, buying in West Palm Beach.
A full-time home is judged in August. Six Fisher Island publishes more than about 55,000 square feet of amenities private to residents: bayfront and sunset pools, a padel court and a children's playground, a residents-only oceanfront restaurant with a private dining room, a spa, a fitness centre and a café, run by a butler and a general manager. Olara publishes more than 80,000 square feet on a sixth floor deck with a restaurant by Jose Andres Group, a 13,000 square foot fitness centre, a recovery spa and the Sollis Health medical concierge. South Flagler House publishes a business centre with private offices, a children's playroom and a teen lounge beside the pools and the spa. Alba publishes a screening room, a private dining room with wine storage and a pet spa for its 55 homes. The question for a full-time household is which of those it will use on a weekday, and what the budget charges for the rest. Read what the amenities are at Six Fisher Island and at Olara.
On Fisher Island the Club is the island's social life, and membership is a condition of ownership: lifetime membership on closing, subject to Club approval, with the developer paying the initiation fee only and the owner carrying annual dues and charges. A full-time resident lives inside that membership every day. Ask what approval requires, what the dues are and what the Club's rules say about guests and children. Read club membership at Six Fisher Island. West Palm Beach has no club test at any of the three; the household joins the town by moving in, and chooses its own clubs, or none.
A primary home in Florida carries the homestead exemption and the Save Our Homes cap that follows it, and a full-time resident files a declaration of domicile and changes the licence and the voter roll. None of that depends on the island or the city. What differs is the building's rules on occupancy: whether an entity owner must name the resident, whether the Club at Fisher Island treats a resident's family as members, and what each association requires of a long-term resident's staff and vehicles. Read does buying a Miami condo make you a Florida resident and the homestead question at Six Fisher Island, and take the sequence to counsel.
Six Fisher Island suits the full-time household whose life is already on the island, or one that works from home and wants the garden, the marina and the Club. You give up the spontaneous errand and accept the ferry and the Club's approval. Read the Six Fisher Island dossier and is Six Fisher Island worth it.
South Flagler House suits the household that wants a city address with a date and Palm Beach across the water. You wait until March 2027. Read is South Flagler House worth it.
Olara suits the household that wants the biggest service list and a medical concierge in the building. You share it with 275 homes. Read is Olara worth it.
Alba suits the household that wants to be living on the Intracoastal this year with a boat at the dock. You choose from the final inventory. Read is Alba worth it.
For the part-time version of each, read living part-time on Fisher Island or in South Beach and living part-time in West Palm Beach or Juno Beach. The Fisher Island zone page maps the island. The desk walks a full-time household through the ferry timetable, the Club papers and the association's occupancy rules before it chooses a side.
Contact the desk at Miami Dossier for the current plans, pricing and availability as the developer releases them, discussed one to one.
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Samuel Strauch is the owner of Metrik Real Estate. His team of agents represents buyers in Miami pre-construction.
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