For the owner whose parents will visit for weeks at a time and who would rather hand them a key down the hall than a sofa in the living room or a hotel across town.
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Three buildings on our file answer the visiting parents problem in three different ways. Kempinski Residences Miami sells the answer: 18 guest suites sold to residents only, with no hotel on the site, From $3,700,000, developer brochure. Olara West Palm Beach holds the answer inside the building: twelve guest suites in the building, with no published entry price. Anantara Residences Miami puts a hotel beside the answer: hotel suites and resort residences in the same tower as the condominium residences, From $1,800,000, developer published. Who owns the suite, who may book it at peak season, and what it costs to carry decide which model fits. The mechanics layer beneath all three is who owns the guest suites at a new Miami condo, and the earlier pairing is which Design District or West Palm Beach condo has guest suites.
The same five questions, from the developers' published material only, with the guest arrangement pulled out.
Kempinski Residences Miami Design District. Price point: From $3,700,000, developer brochure. Delivery: no date in the material on our file. Unit mix: about 132 residences across two towers, two to four bedrooms each with a den, plus six townhomes, and 18 guest suites sold to residents only. Position: 3801 and 3883 Biscayne Boulevard, at the gateway to the Design District; the site is not waterfront, with bay and skyline views to the east. Operator or brand: Kempinski under licence, with daily management by Kempinski Group, and no hotel on the site. The guest read: the suite is a unit an owner buys, so the parents' room is the owner's own, carried like any unit. The full record is in Kempinski Residences Miami Design District: what to know before you buy.
Olara West Palm Beach. Price point: no published entry price on the developer fact sheet; the page prints none. Delivery: phased delivery late 2026 through 2028, across 26 storeys. Unit mix: 275 residences of two to four bedrooms plus den, each with two assigned parking spaces, and twelve guest suites in the building. Position: 1919 N Flagler Drive, West Palm Beach, overlooking the Intracoastal Waterway. Operator or brand: Savanna develops, with Arquitectonica, interiors by Gabellini Sheppard, dining by Jose Andres Group and a private marina. The guest read: the suites sit inside the building's own program, so who may book them, and at peak season who goes first, is a declaration and rules question. The full read is Olara West Palm Beach: what to know before you buy.
Anantara Residences Miami. Price point: From $1,800,000, developer published. Delivery: no date in the material on our file. Unit mix: about 50 hotel suites, about 120 resort residences of one and two bedrooms, and about 100 condominium residences of three to six bedrooms in one 50 storey tower. Position: a two acre site in Edgewater, at the convergence of the Design District, Wynwood, Midtown and the causeway to the beach. Operator or brand: Anantara Hotels, Resorts and Spas, part of Minor Hotels, in the brand's first residences in the United States; 1000 Group develops, with Kohn Pedersen Fox and Studio Patricia Urquiola interiors. The guest read: the parents stay as hotel guests beside the home, with the hotel's own booking and rate logic. The full read is Anantara Residences Miami: what to know before you buy.
At Kempinski the owner owns it. A guest suite bought as a unit carries its own deed, its share of the association budget, its tax and its insurance, in season and out, whether the parents are in it or not. The return on that carry is certainty: the room is there at Christmas because it is yours, and no booking line forms ahead of you. At Olara the building holds the suites, so the carry sits inside the common budget every owner funds, and the owner's question is rationing: how a stay is booked, how long it may run, and whose parents go first when the season fills the building. At Anantara there is nothing to carry and nothing owned: the parents' stay is a hotel stay, priced by the night by the hotel, with the hotel's availability deciding at peak season. The three models are priced in three different currencies, a purchase, an assessment and a nightly rate, and the documents, not the brochure, say which one a building actually runs.
Kempinski suits the owner whose parents visit on a rhythm the family can set, who wants them in the building under the same roof and the same staff, and who accepts carrying a second small unit to have that certainty. What you give up is the hotel; there is none on the site, so every other visitor need is handled by the building itself. Olara suits the owner who wants the guest capacity without buying it, in a large waterfront building where twelve suites serve 275 homes, and who reads the booking rules before valuing the promise. What you give up is certainty at peak season. Anantara suits the owner who wants the parents looked after as guests, with a resort's staff and program beside the home, and no suite to own or book through an association. What you give up is control of price and availability, which sit with the hotel. The alternative every model is read against is a hotel room nearby, booked when needed and never carried; for a family whose visits are rare and short, that alternative still wins, and the desk says so when the file reads that way. Every other buyer question is collected in the questions buyers ask.
Developer materials for Kempinski Residences Miami Design District (DaGrosa Capital Development Partners; developer brochure), Olara (Savanna; developer fact sheet) and Anantara Residences Miami (1000 Group), as carried in build/dossiers/kempinski.py, olara.py and anantara.py, including each developer's published entry price where one exists. Compiled by the desk at Miami Dossier.
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