For the buyer who has narrowed the search to the water and wants the cut made honestly: not which coast wins, but what living on each body of water actually involves, building by building.
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 water a home faces decides more of daily life than the tower's name does. The ocean gives the beach itself and the full weather that comes with it. The bay gives a working waterfront, calmer water and the skyline across it. The Intracoastal gives a boater's channel, a dock at the door and a bridge between the home and the open sea. On our file the three waters are carried four ways: Rivage Bal Harbour on the ocean; The Perigon between the Atlantic and Biscayne Bay at once; Anantara Residences Miami on the bay in Edgewater; and Alba Palm Beach on the Intracoastal in West Palm Beach. The standing side-of-the-bay read is Brickell or Edgewater.
Rivage Bal Harbour is the ocean form at full scale: about 56 homes of three to six bedrooms on about 2.7 oceanfront acres with about 200 linear feet of private shoreline, developed by Related Group and Two Roads Development with Skidmore, Owings and Merrill on architecture. Price point: From $14,100,000, developer published entry price as carried on the live dossier, verified 2026-09-19. What the ocean asks in return is exposure: the salt, the wind and the storm side of the file sit on this water first, which is why the flood and insurance diligence runs hardest on an oceanfront deed. The full record is on the Rivage dossier.
The Perigon holds the rarest position on the file: 5333 Collins Avenue, between the Atlantic and Biscayne Bay, with about 200 linear feet of shoreline on both sides of the property. About 73 homes of two to four bedrooms, each with private elevator entry, and a resident only oceanfront restaurant. Price point: From $12,500,000, developer published entry price as carried on the live dossier, verified 2026-09-19. Delivery: no date in the material on our file. The both-waters form buys the sunrise and the sunset in one deed. Rivage Bal Harbour carries the set's highest published entry price at From $14,100,000, and The Perigon is next at From $12,500,000. The full record is on the Perigon dossier.
Anantara Residences Miami is the bay form: an Edgewater tower of 50 stories on a two acre site, facing Biscayne Bay, with the bayfront pool terrace the live dossier carries. Its program mixes about 50 hotel suites, about 120 resort residences of one and two bedrooms, and about 100 condominium residences of three to six bedrooms, and the bay side of the building is the residents' daily view. Price point: From $1,800,000, developer published entry price as carried on the live dossier, verified 2026-09-19. What the bay asks is a different trade: no sand at the door, in exchange for calmer water and the city lit across it. The full record is on the Anantara dossier.
Alba Palm Beach is the Intracoastal form: 4714 North Flagler Drive, on the west bank of the Intracoastal Waterway in West Palm Beach, facing Palm Beach Island across the channel. The building is finished, completed June 2026 with immediate occupancy: 55 residences of two to four bedrooms plus townhomes, with a private dock and boat-slip access, and no fixed bridges between the dock and the Atlantic. Price point: the developer material publishes no entry price, and this page prints none. What the Intracoastal asks is the channel itself: the open sea is a run, not a step, and the water at the door is a working waterway. The full read is in Alba Palm Beach: the last developer residences.
Three questions sort the waters before a single viewing. Where does the household swim: in surf, in a bayfront pool above calm water, or off a dock into a channel? What does the boat need: a beach it never touches, a marina across the bay, or a slip at the door with no fixed bridge to the ocean? And which weather file is the household willing to hold: the oceanfront exposure, the bay's shelter, or the channel's middle position? The second-home version of the same choice is read in Miami vs Palm Beach for a second home and in buying a Miami condo as a second home. Every other buyer question is collected in the questions buyers ask.
Developer materials as carried in build/dossiers/rivage.py, perigon.py and anantara.py (each carrying its developer published entry price as carried on the live dossier, verified 2026-09-19) and alba.py (completed June 2026, immediate occupancy, no published entry price), each read in full on 2026-11-02, with the live dossiers. Compiled by the desk at Miami Dossier.
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