Acqualina Resort & Residences is a 51-story, 188-unit oceanfront tower at 17875 Collins Avenue in Sunny Isles Beach, completed in 2006 on 4.5 acres of Atlantic beachfront. Our directory lists residences from roughly $2 million to $22 million, averaging about $1,450 per square foot as of July 27, 2026.
A five-star resort that happens to have residences
Most oceanfront condominiums bolt an amenity deck onto a residential tower. Acqualina works the other way around: it is a working AAA Five-Diamond resort spread over 4.5 acres of beachfront, and the residences share its service infrastructure. Three oceanfront pools, a full spa and the staffing levels a five-star hotel has to sustain are not features an association switched on for owners — they are the operating business of the property, and residents buy into them. Service depth of that kind is hard for a purely residential building to match at any dues level, and it is also why the carrying cost further down this page reads the way it does.
Who built it, and who designed it
Our directory records the developer as The Trump Group, the architecture by Cohen, Freedman, Encinosa, and the interiors by Steven G. The same developer went on to build the Estates at Acqualina, the sister project immediately alongside, which is why the two are so often conflated in listings and search results. They are separate condominiums with separate associations, separate dues and materially different price points. If you are comparing quotes, confirm which of the two an address actually sits in before you compare anything else about them.
The residence mix
Our directory lists floor plans from two to five bedrooms across the building's 51 stories and 188 units. Divide those two numbers and the character of the place becomes clear: an average of roughly four residences per floor, which puts Acqualina firmly in the large-floor-plate, family-sized category rather than the studio-and-one-bedroom stacks common further south. That unit count matters for how the building runs, too. Comparatively few owners share the cost of a five-star operation, which concentrates both the service and the bill.
The carrying cost, per our directory research
Our directory's range for Acqualina runs from about $2 million to roughly $22 million, with an average around $1,450 per square foot. For context, our neighborhood research puts Sunny Isles Beach as a whole at a median condo price near $1,290,000 and about $1,150 per square foot, so Acqualina carries a clear premium over its own neighborhood — on the order of 26 percent on a per-square-foot basis. Dues are listed at $2.00 per square foot per month, which works out to about $4,000 a month on a 2,000-square-foot residence. Treat every one of these as our directory's estimate rather than a live quote. They are research figures, not an MLS snapshot, and the current market picture is at /market-stats. We do not carry a live Miami MLS feed, so the property listings on our Miami pages are clearly labeled samples.
Milestone inspection timing for a 2006 build
Florida's post-Surfside reforms require a milestone structural inspection at 25 years for buildings within three miles of the coast, and a Structural Integrity Reserve Study for buildings three stories and taller. A 2006 oceanfront delivery reaches that 25-year mark in 2031. The timing is worth knowing rather than worrying about: the building's first milestone sits ahead of it, not behind it, so the productive questions are about the SIRS, the reserve balances and the funding schedule, not a completed inspection report. Our fuller treatment of how those rules reach individual owners is at /blog/miami-condo-milestone-inspection-sirs.
Acqualina next to Porsche Design Tower and Jade Signature
Sunny Isles offers three genuinely different oceanfront propositions within a short stretch of Collins Avenue. /buildings/porsche-design-tower, delivered in 2017, is the car-elevator building, organized around the novelty of parking beside your living room. /buildings/jade-signature, from 2018, is the Herzog and de Meuron tower and the architectural pick of the three. Acqualina is the oldest of the three and the one organized around service — you are buying a resort operation rather than a design statement or a piece of engineering theater. The neighborhood overview sits at /neighborhoods/sunny-isles-beach, and the full directory is at /buildings.
Questions buyers ask about Acqualina Resort & Residences
How many units are in Acqualina Resort & Residences?
Our directory lists 188 residences across 51 stories at 17875 Collins Avenue in Sunny Isles Beach, an average of roughly four per floor. Floor plans run from two to five bedrooms, which places it among the larger-format oceanfront buildings in the area rather than the studio-heavy stacks found elsewhere in Miami-Dade.
When was Acqualina built, and who developed it?
It was completed in 2006. Our directory records The Trump Group as the developer, Cohen, Freedman, Encinosa as the architect and Steven G for the interiors. The same developer later built the neighboring Estates at Acqualina, a separate condominium with its own association and dues, which is a frequent point of confusion in listings.
What does it cost to own at Acqualina?
Our directory's research puts residences between roughly $2 million and $22 million, averaging about $1,450 per square foot, with dues listed at $2.00 per square foot per month — about $4,000 monthly on a 2,000-square-foot residence. These are our directory's estimates rather than live listing figures, and current market numbers are at /market-stats.
Does Acqualina need a milestone inspection yet?
Not yet. Florida requires the milestone structural inspection at 25 years for buildings within three miles of the coast, and a 2006 delivery reaches that in 2031. For a building of this age the more useful questions are the status of its Structural Integrity Reserve Study, its current reserve balances and its funding schedule.
Is Acqualina the same as the Estates at Acqualina?
No. They are neighboring properties from the same developer, but they are separate condominiums with separate associations, dues structures and price points. Confirm which one an address belongs to before comparing any figures between them.
Seeing it in person
We are not a brokerage and we do not list on the MLS. What we maintain is the directory research above and an introduction to a licensed partner agent who can pull current inventory for either and walk you through it. Tell us which one you want to see.
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