For the buyer leaving a house with a garage, a cellar and rooms they furnished themselves, who wants to know what an oceanfront building between Bal Harbour and Mid-Beach can hold before the first visit.
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.
Three oceanfront buildings on our file answer the collector differently. Ocean House Surfside is the only one that publishes a garage by count: a private garage for six cars with private storage, 24 hour valet and EV charging, in a building of 25 homes with Poliform, Gaggenau and Fantini already specified; its price is held by the desk. The Perigon publishes a wine room among its amenities and private elevator entry to each of ~73 homes, From $12,500,000. Rivage Bal Harbour publishes house cars and private marina services, homes of ~3,300 to ~12,600 square feet, and the one residence on this coast with two private elevators of its own, From $14,100,000. None of the three publishes a per home wine locker or who may change the finishes, so the cellar and the interior are questions for the file, and we set them out below.
The same five axes, from the developers' published material only.
Rivage Bal Harbour. Price point: From $14,100,000. Delivery: no date in the material on our file. Unit mix: ~56 homes across 25 stories, 3 to 6 bedrooms, ~3,300 to ~12,600 square feet. Position: ~2.7 oceanfront acres with ~200 linear feet of private shoreline, the last oceanfront parcel in Bal Harbour. Operator or brand: no hotel brand; Related Group and Two Roads Development; Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, Rottet Studio interiors, Enea gardens.
Ocean House Surfside. Price point: no published entry price; held by the desk. Delivery: no date in the material on our file. Unit mix: 25 residences of two to five bedrooms, balconies up to 12 feet deep, private elevators with dedicated lobbies, ceilings up to 12 feet in the penthouse. Position: 9309 to 9317 Collins Avenue, Surfside, on the ocean between Bal Harbour and Miami Beach, views east, south and west. Operator or brand: no brand; MTP Oceanside LLC, marketed with Multiplan; Arquitectonica, Bernardo Fort-Brescia.
The Perigon. Price point: From $12,500,000. Delivery: no date in the material on our file. Unit mix: ~73 homes, 2 to 4 bedrooms, private elevator entry to each residence, 10 foot ceilings, wraparound terraces. Position: 5333 Collins Avenue, between the Atlantic and Biscayne Bay, ~200 linear feet of shoreline on both sides. Operator or brand: no hotel brand; Starwood Capital Group and Mast Capital; OMA, Tara Bernerd interiors, Gustafson Porter and Bowman landscape.
Ocean House answers in numbers: a private garage for six cars, private storage, 24 hour valet and EV charging, in a building of 25 homes. Whether those six spaces belong to one penthouse, are shared by the building or are sold to the homes that want them is the question, and the published line does not settle it. Rivage publishes house cars and private marina services, and no garage count; Ocean House adds a covered porte-cochère and a double height lobby to its arrival. The Perigon publishes nothing about parking at all. A collector reads three things before reserving: how many spaces come with the home and in what form, deeded, assigned or licensed; whether a lift or a tandem bay can be added; and whether the valet rules allow the owner to reach a car at any hour, because a collection in a valet garage is a collection somebody else drives. Read parking, EV and storage at Ocean House, at Rivage and at The Perigon, and do you own your parking space in a new Miami condo for the four ways a space is held.
The Perigon publishes a wine room, alongside its resident only restaurant, speakeasy, breakfast room and screening room. Whether that room holds owners' bottles in lockers or serves the restaurant is the first question. Ocean House publishes private storage and a summer kitchen on the roof and no cellar. Rivage publishes a spa and hammam, a screening room and the pools, and no cellar. For a buyer with a serious collection the building's cellar is rarely the answer anyway; the answer is a wall in the home that can take a conditioned cabinet with its own power and a drain, which is a floor plan question, and then the owner's insurance schedule for the bottles. Read wine storage at The Perigon and at Ocean House, and how to read a Miami floor plan for finding that wall.
This is where the three divide. Ocean House is delivered finished, with Poliform cabinetry, Gaggenau appliances, Fantini fixtures, natural stone and curated flooring already chosen, in 25 homes drawn by Bernardo Fort-Brescia. Rivage publishes Rottet Studio interiors; The Perigon publishes Tara Bernerd. A design collector reads two documents before falling for a rendering: the alteration clause in the declaration, which governs floors, walls and plumbing inside the home, and the finish schedule in the purchase agreement, which says what is standard, what is an upgrade and when the choice closes. At the top of Rivage the developer has shown what a fully customised plan looks like: the Upper Penthouse spans levels 22 to 24 with ~10,264 square feet inside, two private elevators, two offices and a Longevity Suite drawn into the plan, From $75,000,000 as announced. Read finishes and customisation at Rivage, at Ocean House and at The Perigon, and the Wellness Penthouse at Rivage.
A boutique building moves crates differently from a tower. Ocean House has 25 homes, Rivage ~56, The Perigon ~73, so the service elevator is shared with fewer neighbours, but there is usually only one of it. None of the three publishes the cab dimensions, the loading dock or the delivery hours; those are in the rules and the plans. Ocean House publishes a mailroom with package receiving and staff quarters with a service kitchen, which is the building saying it expects a household to run from inside the home. A collector asks for the service elevator size, the delivery window, the certificate of insurance each mover must file and whether an art handler is treated as a contractor. Read deliveries and arrivals at Ocean House and elevators and vertical logistics at Rivage, and which Miami Beach condo suits an art collector for the wall, light and insurance questions that follow the crate.
Ocean House suits the collector who wants the garage counted, the finish already specified, staff quarters and 24 neighbours on the sand. You give up a published price, the amenity scale of a tower and the choice of finishes already made. Read is Ocean House worth it.
The Perigon suits the collector who wants a published wine room, a private elevator into the home and an OMA building on the widest beach on the island. You give up the garage facts until the schedule is in hand and pay From $12,500,000. Read the Perigon dossier.
Rivage suits the collector who wants the largest plans on this coast, house cars and marina services on a private shoreline, and the option of a residence drawn around the owner. You pay the highest published entry here and buy without a date. Read the Rivage dossier.
The Bal Harbour and Surfside zone page and the Mid-Beach zone page map the coast, and which Brickell condo suits a collector of cars, wine and design asks the same questions of the city towers. The desk reads the parking exhibit, the finish schedule and the alteration clause with the buyer before anything is reserved.
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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