For the collector buying on Miami Beach who will hang real work on the walls and wants to know, before the gallery visit, which building has the walls, the route and the rules for it.
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.
On our Miami Beach file, The Perigon is the collector's tower: ~73 homes with private elevator entry to each, 10 foot ceilings, a wine room and a screening room, From $12,500,000. The Shoreclub Private Collection is the collector's choice of form: ~49 homes across The Tower, The House and The Beach House, designed by Robert A.M. Stern Architects behind a landmarked facade, with a library lounge and a grand piano, From $4,850,000. The Ritz-Carlton Residences, South Beach is the smallest: 30 homes with private elevator direct entry in most, ten foot ceilings, delivery planned 2027, price on request. Ocean Terrace is the one with the floors: Parquet de Versailles, oak and white stone, private elevator landings, From $3,250,000. The collector's problem in every one of them is the same: floor to ceiling glass on the view side, so the wall for the work is on the plan, not in the brochure.
The same five questions, from the developers' published material only.
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, floor to ceiling glass, wraparound terraces. Position: 5333 Collins Avenue, Mid-Beach, ~200 linear feet of shoreline on both sides. Operator or brand: no hotel brand; Starwood Capital Group and Mast Capital; OMA, Tara Bernerd and Partners interiors, Gustafson Porter and Bowman landscape.
The Shoreclub Private Collection. Price point: From $4,850,000. Delivery: no date in the material on our file. Unit mix: ~49 homes in three forms, 18 stories, ~200 feet above the ocean line. Position: 1901 Collins Avenue, ~3 oceanfront acres, behind the preserved Cromwell House facade. Operator or brand: Auberge Resorts Collection as hospitality partner; Witkoff; Robert A.M. Stern Architects as design architect and residential interior architect, KKAID interior architecture.
The Ritz-Carlton Residences, South Beach. Price point: no published entry price; held by the desk. Delivery: planned 2027. Unit mix: 30 residences over 15 storeys, one to five bedrooms, two duplex penthouses with rooftop terraces and pools, private elevator with direct entry in most, ten foot ceilings, floor to ceiling windows. Position: 1671 Collins Avenue, South Beach, adjacent to the Lincoln Road corridor. Operator or brand: the Ritz-Carlton name under licence to Sobe Sky Development LLC; Kobi Karp, Studio Munge interiors; Bianco Rhino marble kitchens.
Ocean Terrace. Price point: From $3,250,000. Delivery: no date in the material on our file. Unit mix: ~52 boutique residences in a 20 story tower, ~24 resort residences furnished by RAMSA, two duplex penthouses per tower with private rooftops. Position: 7400 Ocean Terrace, North Beach, ~350 feet of ocean frontage, ~5 acres of parkland. Operator or brand: a 42 key hotel and a private members' club on the site; Witkoff and Ocean Terrace Holdings; Revuelta, RAMSA interiors, Parquet de Versailles floors, oak and white stone.
Every one of the four publishes floor to ceiling glass on the ocean side, which is the view the buyer pays for and the wall the collector cannot use. The question is the solid run: the corridor side of a Perigon wraparound plan, the inside walls of a Shoreclub House against the garden, the core walls of a Ritz-Carlton floor where the private elevator lands, the internal partitions of an Ocean Terrace boutique residence. A collector asks for the plan with dimensions and measures the longest unbroken wall, then asks what the ceiling carries: the Perigon and the Ritz-Carlton publish 10 foot ceilings; Ocean Terrace publishes its floors and finishes rather than a ceiling height in the material on our file; the Shoreclub publishes the architect. Read how to read a Miami floor plan, living with art at the Perigon and at the Shoreclub.
By the service route, which none of the four describes in its published material. A collector asks three things in writing: the service elevator's cab dimensions and door height, the loading position off Collins Avenue and the hours deliveries are allowed, and whether a crate can go up the residents' private elevator at all. The Perigon and the Ritz-Carlton publish private elevator entry to the home, Ocean Terrace private landings; a private cab that reaches the foyer is the collector's friend only if the crate fits in it. The Shoreclub's three forms matter here: ask whether a House or a Beach House home is reached through the tower core or by its own entry, because the answer changes the route entirely. Read deliveries and arrivals at the Perigon, at the Shoreclub and elevators and vertical logistics at Ocean Terrace.
The work. The association's policy covers the building; the owner's policy covers the home's contents, and a collection of any value sits on a separate fine art policy with its own valuation, its own storm and flood terms, and its own rules on where the work hangs and how it travels. South Beach and Mid-Beach are coastal addresses, so the collector's broker asks the same questions the home insurer asks: the flood zone, the floor, the glass specification, and what happens to a work on a terrace-side wall when a named storm closes the island. Read Miami Beach flood maps and insurance, Miami condo insurance and the flood insurance check at the Ritz-Carlton South Beach. The trade-off is the view: the best wall in a beachfront home faces away from the reason the buyer came.
The Perigon suits the collector who wants Mid-Beach's widest beach, a private elevator to a wraparound plan and a wine room downstairs. You pay the highest published entry here and buy without a date. Read the Perigon dossier.
The Shoreclub suits the collector who wants a House or a Beach House rather than a tower floor, and Stern's rooms behind a landmark. You buy without a published date and ask how a crate reaches a House before you choose one. Read the Shoreclub dossier.
The Ritz-Carlton South Beach suits the collector who wants 30 neighbours, a 2027 date and Lincoln Road at the door. You give up a published price. Read the family office diligence file at the Ritz-Carlton South Beach and the Shoreclub vs the Ritz-Carlton South Beach.
Ocean Terrace suits the collector who wants parquet floors, the park and the lowest published entry of the four. You give up South Beach. Read the Ocean Terrace dossier.
The Mid-Beach zone page and the South Beach zone page map the island; new Miami condos for an art collector runs the question on the mainland, and which Edgewater or Coconut Grove condo suits an art collector reads the bay side. The desk reads the plan's wall runs, the service route and the fine art questions with the collector before the gallery visit.
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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