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Buildings, read properly

Miami luxury condominiums, market by market

Most of what decides whether a Miami condominium purchase goes well is settled before the offer, in the building rather than the unit. This section reads the buildings.

Miami from Biscayne Bay. Photograph: Adobe Stock.

Every tower has its own page and its own Luxury Living score out of ten — our rating of what the building is actually like to live in, built from five things: the amenities, the design, where it sits on the water, the service, and what surrounds it. Each part carries the reasoning beside it and says where the information came from.

The point is shortlisting. Every tower on this coast is luxurious; what is useful is knowing which one is strongest on the axis you care about. How we rate buildings.

Where the numbers come from. Year built, unit counts and folio data come from the Miami-Dade County Property Appraiser roll. Amenities and design attribution come from the developer’s own material and are labelled as such. Where the developer and the county disagree — and on unit counts they often do — both are shown.

5 markets, 46 towers

  • Sunny Isles Beach, tower by tower12 towers

    A 1.78 square mile barrier island with one road down the middle and one of the densest concentrations of branded residential towers anywhere in the United States. Which side of Collins Avenue a building sits on changes almost everything about it.

  • Bal Harbour and Surfside10 towers

    Two miles of Collins Avenue, three separate municipalities, and a height limit written into a town charter. Nowhere else in Miami-Dade do the rules change this fast over this little ground.

  • Brickell and Brickell Key10 towers

    One square mile of Miami between a working river, Biscayne Bay and I-95. It holds two very different neighborhoods that share a single avenue, and a 44-acre island that shares almost nothing with either.

  • Downtown Miami, Miami Worldcenter and the Biscayne Corridor10 towers

    Miami's oldest street grid now carries its newest skyline. Between the Miami River and the I-395 flyover, a century-old downtown has absorbed 27 acres of new city and a generation of towers built for short stays.

  • Edgewater4 towers

More markets are being researched and added — Bal Harbour and Surfside, Miami Beach, Brickell, Downtown and Worldcenter, Coconut Grove, Key Biscayne, Fisher Island, Aventura and Coral Gables. A market appears here when its buildings have been read against the record, not before.

Start with the arithmetic instead

If you would rather begin with what a unit costs than with which building it is in, thecalculators use the Florida rates that are fixed by statute — title insurance, documentary stamps, FIRPTA — and make every assumption editable.

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Deciding between two buildings?

That is the most useful question to bring. Send both and Stefania will come back with the fee, the reserve position and what has actually traded in each.