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Rivage, Perigon, Shoreclub: three approaches to the same coastline

All three are small, oceanfront and expensive. They are answering three different questions, and the differences are more interesting than the similarities.

This page compares approach. Availability and pricing come from the desk. Contact the desk at Miami Dossier for the current position on any building we cover.

What Each One Is

In plain description.

Rivage Bal Harbour. Related Group and Two Roads, SOM architecture, Rottet Studio interiors, Enea landscape. ~56 homes over 25 storeys on ~2.67 acres with ~200 linear feet of private shoreline. A single tower on a large parcel, deliberately under-built.

The Perigon. OMA architecture with Tara Bernerd interiors, ~73 residences at 5333 Collins in mid-beach. A more sculptural building on a tighter site, with a stronger design signature.

The Shoreclub Private Collection. Robert A.M. Stern, ~49 homes on the historic Shoreclub site in South Beach, alongside the hotel restoration. The smallest of the three and the only one attached to a working hotel with real history.

Three Different Bets

This is the useful comparison.

Rivage bets on land. The proposition is acreage, shoreline frontage and low density in a municipality that cannot add much more of any of it. It is the most conservative of the three and the most about permanence.

The Perigon bets on architecture. OMA is a design position, not a finish level, and the building is meant to be recognisable. That is a real asset and also a narrower audience.

Shoreclub bets on place. A restored historic site in South Beach with an operating hotel, which is a completely different daily experience from a private tower in Bal Harbour.

What Actually Separates Them In Use

Beyond the renderings.

Municipality. Bal Harbour, mid-beach Miami Beach and South Beach are three different regulatory and social environments. That difference is larger than anything inside the buildings.

Hotel or no hotel. A residence beside an operating hotel gives you service and activity. It also gives you activity when you did not want it. Both are true and which one matters depends entirely on you.

Density economics. ~49, ~56 and ~73 homes are all small. Every major repair on any of them is divided across a few dozen households, which is the cost structure that comes with the scarcity.

Where The Answer Is Neither

Worth saying.

If you want a full-service building with deep amenity and many neighbours, none of these is it. Small buildings run differently and the governance is personal.

If you are here a few weeks a year, the hotel-attached option solves problems the others leave to you. If you are here all year, it may create them.

And if the entire case rests on which architect signed it, that is a preference rather than a position, and it should be priced as one.

The Shift

Three small oceanfront buildings, three different questions answered.

Land, architecture and place are not interchangeable and the right one depends on how you will use the home. Ask the desk at Miami Dossier for current availability and the documents on any of the three.

What is actually available. What is unsold, what is on reserve, and what never reached a public list.
The deposit schedule for the specific building. Proportions, trigger dates, and where the money sits.
The current association budget. Not a sales gallery estimate, the adopted budget.
Where we would not proceed. Sometimes the answer is a different building. Sometimes it is not yet.

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Common Questions

What buyers ask when comparing the three

How do these three differ most?
By what each is betting on. Rivage on land and low density, The Perigon on architecture, Shoreclub on a restored historic place with an operating hotel. They also sit in three different regulatory environments.
Are they all the same size?
All are small. Roughly 49, 56 and 73 homes respectively, which is unusual on this coastline and is most of what they have in common.
Does the hotel at Shoreclub matter?
A great deal, in both directions. It gives you service and activity, and it gives you activity when you did not want it. Which matters more depends on whether you are there a few weeks a year or all year.
What is the cost consequence of so few homes?
Every major repair is divided across a few dozen households, so the per-home share is materially higher than in a large tower. That is the cost structure that comes with the scarcity.
Which one should I look at?
That depends on the municipality you want to live under, whether a hotel beside you is an asset or an intrusion, and whether the architecture is a preference or the position. We will say where we would not proceed.
Before You Act On Any Of This

Before you act on any of this

We hold no inventory of our own and we are not the developer. Ask the desk at Miami Dossier and we will tell you what applies to your situation, what does not, and where we would not proceed. Here that starts with which of the three questions you are actually answering. Where the question is legal, tax or immigration, we will introduce you to advisers who handle that properly rather than answering it ourselves.

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