Surfside Condos

Surfside is the beach at neighborhood scale — a half-square-mile town between Bal Harbour and North Beach where the streets are named, the buildings stop at twelve stories, and Harding Avenue's bakeries and markets serve people who live here all year. The town's mile of sand carries no velvet ropes and no towers; it carries a community center, a beach walk, and the most improbable collection of world-class architecture on any small-town beach in America.

That collection defines the market's top end: the Four Seasons Surf Club, Richard Meier's restoration of the 1930 club; Fendi Château, the fashion house's only building anywhere; Arte's sixteen residences; and Eighty Seven Park, Renzo Piano's pavilion over its own private park at the town line. Around them, the classic row keeps Surfside attainable: Four Winds, SoliMar, Azure, Spiaggia, The Waves, Surfside Towers, Carlisle, Marbella, Manatee, Mirage, Ocean 88 and The Waverly.

Surfside buyers are buying the rarest thing on this coast: a real town on real sand. Families come for the schools-and-sidewalks life with Bal Harbour's shops a walk away; collectors come because the height cap made this the only place the great architects built small. Both are betting on the same scarcity. Live inventory, pricing and a twelve-month market report for every building are linked from the directory above.