For the buyer paying cash for a new Brickell home, often from abroad, who wants the whole path from the first signature to the recorded deed before sending a single wire.
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.
A cash purchase of a new Brickell condo runs in six steps: a reservation, a purchase agreement with a 15 day window to cancel, deposits paid into escrow on the developer's schedule, the wait while the tower is built, a closing where the balance is wired to the title agent, and the recording of your deed in the county's official records. Paying cash removes the lender, not the paperwork. Source of funds, the way you hold title and how you sign from abroad decide most of the timing.
Most Brickell developers begin with a reservation agreement and a reservation deposit. A reservation holds a line while you read the documents; read its terms on refund and on how long it holds.
The purchase agreement is the real commitment. When you buy from a developer, section 718.503 of the Florida Statutes gives you 15 days after signing and receiving the required condominium documents to cancel. Use those days to have counsel read the declaration, the budget and the deposit schedule, not to admire the renderings.
Each tower files its offering with the state. ORA by Casa Tua's fact sheet, for example, names its filing as file CP24-0079. Our page on what to ask a sales team lists what to request before signing, and how buying pre-construction in Miami works gives the general sequence.
A cash buyer pays the same deposit schedule as anyone else; the developer sets it, and it is stated in the purchase agreement. The money goes to an escrow agent named in the contract, not into the developer's operating account.
Florida law, in section 718.202, requires the developer to hold deposits up to 10 percent of the price in escrow. Amounts above 10 percent can be used for construction if the contract allows it. Read that clause, because it changes what is at risk if the project stalls. Our pages on where your deposit actually sits and what happens if a project is not built cover both cases.
For the three Brickell towers on our file, the schedules sit in the developer toolkits the desk holds: see the Cipriani deposit schedule and the ORA deposit schedule.
Every wire from abroad meets the bank's questions. The escrow agent and the receiving bank will ask where the money came from, and an unexplained transfer can be held for days. Prepare the paper trail before the first deposit: bank statements, the sale or income that produced the funds, and the account the wire leaves from. Our pages on source of funds documentation, moving funds to a Florida escrow account and why international wires get held list what each party asks for.
Decide how you will hold title before the first deposit, too. A personal name, an LLC or a trust changes who signs, what the title agent reports and what counsel drafts; see LLC, trust or personal name. Federal rules may require the closing agent to report the people behind an entity or trust that buys without a loan; which rule applies on your closing date is a question for counsel.
Construction is the long part. Cipriani Residences Miami topped off in July 2026 and gives summer 2027 for delivery, per the developer. 619 Brickell by Nobu and ORA have no delivery date in the material on our file. Read the outside completion date in the contract; our page on what happens if a developer delivers late explains it.
When the building can close, the developer sends a closing notice with a date. The title agent issues a title commitment, prepares the closing statement and tells you the balance to wire. You inspect the home before closing and list what must be finished.
You do not need to fly in to close. Florida permits remote online notarization, and a power of attorney is another route; your counsel chooses which fits your country and your title structure. Our note on whether you need to be in Miami to buy explains the options.
At closing, the balance is wired to the title agent, the developer signs the deed and the title agent records it in the official records of Miami-Dade County. The owner's title insurance policy follows. The recorded deed is the end of the purchase and the first page of your ownership file. Our page on what closing actually costs lists the costs that appear on the statement. A buyer who will borrow should read the financed version of this path.
The desk walks a cash buyer through this sequence for the tower they choose, with the developer's schedule, the escrow agent's details and the documents counsel will need, in that order. See the Nobu dossier and our Brickell zone page.
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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