For the family leaving Geneva for Miami Beach, with parents who will visit for weeks at a time, a Swiss bank that has never wired to a Florida escrow agent, and one winter to get the address right.
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Three Miami Beach buildings on our file fit three different Geneva families. The Shoreclub Private Collection is the collector's building: about 49 homes in three forms behind a landmarked facade at 1901 Collins Avenue, From $4,850,000, published by the developer. Ocean Terrace is the park end of the island: about 52 boutique residences and about 24 furnished resort residences at 7400 Ocean Terrace, From $3,250,000, published by the developer. The Ritz-Carlton Residences, South Beach is the smallest and the most hotel-like: 30 homes over 15 storeys at 1671 Collins Avenue, delivery planned 2027, and no published entry price. The Swiss questions, tax, estate exposure and the bank, are the same for all three and are below as mechanics for counsel. The sibling read, one canton over, is relocating from Zurich to Miami Beach, and the beach itself is mapped on the South Beach zone hub.
The same five questions, from the developers' published material only.
The Shoreclub Private Collection. Price point: From $4,850,000, the developer's published entry price. Delivery: no date in the material on our file. Unit mix: about 49 homes across three forms, The Tower, The House and The Beach House, in an 18 storey tower behind the preserved Cromwell House facade. Position: 1901 Collins Avenue, about three oceanfront acres in Miami Beach. Operator or brand: Auberge Resorts Collection as hospitality partner; developed by Witkoff, architecture by Robert A.M. Stern Architects, hotel interiors by Bryan O'Sullivan Studio; a residential pool in a botanical garden, an Auberge spa, a beach club with cabanas, a library lounge and a children's playroom.
Ocean Terrace. Price point: From $3,250,000, the developer's published entry price. Delivery: no date in the material on our file. Unit mix: about 52 boutique residences in a 20 storey tower and about 24 resort residences furnished by RAMSA, with two duplex penthouses in each tower carrying private rooftops and lap pools. Position: 7400 Ocean Terrace, North Beach, about 350 feet of ocean frontage across about five acres of parkland. Operator or brand: no hotel brand is named in the material; a 42 key boutique hotel in a restored Art Deco building and a private members' club sit on the site; developed by Witkoff and Ocean Terrace Holdings, towers by Revuelta Architecture International, interiors by RAMSA, gardens by Enzo Enea and a park by Raymond Jungles.
The Ritz-Carlton Residences, South Beach. Price point: no published entry price; pricing held and released on request. Delivery: planned 2027, with sales launched in February 2025. Unit mix: 30 residences over 15 storeys, one to five bedrooms, including two duplex penthouses with private rooftop terraces, pools and kitchens. Position: 1671 Collins Avenue, oceanfront in South Beach proper, adjacent to the Lincoln Road corridor. Operator or brand: the Ritz-Carlton name under licence to Sobe Sky Development LLC, with direct access to the Sagamore, the hotel's all suite addition; developed by Sobe Sky Development LLC with Flag Luxury Group, architecture by Kobi Karp, interiors by Studio Munge, and restaurant and beach club programming by Jose Andres.
The Shoreclub suits the family that collects buildings as it collects art: a landmarked facade, about 49 neighbours, three acres of oceanfront at 1901 Collins, and the Auberge service model behind it. What the family gives up is a published delivery date and the hotel depth of a larger operation. Ocean Terrace suits the family that wants the quiet end of the island: five acres of park, two residence forms including a furnished resort line, and North Beach's distance from the South Beach circuit. What the family gives up is the circuit itself, and a named hotel brand. The Ritz-Carlton suits the family that wants the smallest building with the biggest name: 30 homes, a beach club of its own, the Sagamore next door for visiting parents, and a 2027 delivery to plan the move around. What the family gives up is size, and any published entry price to plan against. The first call, before the buildings divide, is the one in who should I call about buying a new condo in South Beach.
Three questions, as mechanics. First, estate exposure: US real property is a US-situated asset, a non-resident not domiciled in the United States is subject to US estate tax on such assets held at death above an exemption far smaller than a citizen's, and whether a treaty changes that position, and what structure answers it, are questions counsel settles before the contract, because the purchase agreement names the buyer. The full framing is in estate tax exposure for non-resident owners and the naming question in LLC, trust or personal name. Second, residency: a family that moves its life to Miami Beach becomes a US tax resident by days present, not by the deed, and the Swiss side of that move is the family's Swiss adviser's. Third, the property tax, which resets on the sale and is not capped for a home that is not the homestead. None of this is advice; it is the list the family takes to counsel, on both sides of the Atlantic, before the reservation rather than after it.
The deposits go to the developer's escrow agent on the schedule the contract sets, and a Florida escrow agent receiving a wire from a Swiss bank asks who the sender is, where the money came from and why the names match or do not. A family that has the source of funds file ready, the account statements, the sale or the dividend that produced the money, the entity papers if a company buys, closes on the day; a family that has not spends the week before closing answering questions. The three buildings' own contract mechanics are read building by building: the Shoreclub Private Collection: what to know before you buy, Ocean Terrace: what to know before you buy and The Ritz-Carlton Residences, South Beach: what to know before you buy. The dossiers behind them are the Shoreclub dossier and the Ocean Terrace dossier.
With guests for weeks, the house rules matter more than the lobby. The Shoreclub publishes a children's playroom and a driver chauffeur room, a beach club with cabanas and a residential pool in a botanical garden. At the Ritz-Carlton, the a la carte list runs to in-residence dining, personal chef, trainer, spa, childcare and pet care, and the Sagamore beside it takes the visiting parents a hotel suite cannot be matched inside a 30 home building. At Ocean Terrace, the 42 key hotel on the site does the same work at the quiet end of the island, and the park does the rest. For each building the family reads the declaration's guest clause, the night limit on non-owners, and whether a caregiver staying for a season is a guest or an occupant under the rules. That read, done before contract, is the difference between a building that fits the family's actual life and one that fits its brochure. Every other buyer question is in the questions buyers ask.
Developer materials for The Shoreclub Private Collection (Witkoff), Ocean Terrace (Witkoff and Ocean Terrace Holdings) and The Ritz-Carlton Residences, South Beach (Sobe Sky Development LLC with Flag Luxury Group) as carried on the live dossiers, verified September 2026, including each developer's published entry price where one exists. Compiled by the desk at Miami Dossier.
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