The Sunny Isles Beach Condo Guide: Two Miles of Collins Avenue

Sunny Isles Beach in one paragraph

Sunny Isles Beach is a two-mile strip of oceanfront Collins Avenue between Haulover Park and Golden Beach, built largely as branded high-rise condominiums. Our directory tracks 36 buildings there, at an estimated median condo price of $1.29 million and about $1,150 per square foot. Those are our directory's research estimates, not live MLS figures; current research sits at /market-stats.

The geography, and why it produces towers

The city is barely a few blocks wide in most places. The Atlantic is on one side, the Intracoastal on the other, and Collins Avenue runs the length between them. That geometry is why nearly every residential building here is vertical: there is no room to spread out, and the parcels fronting the sand have been developed upward. It also makes oceanfront a meaningful distinction rather than a marketing word — a building either sits on the beach or across Collins from it, and the pricing gap between those two positions is real.

Haulover Park and its marina anchor the southern end; Golden Beach, a low-rise single-family enclave, caps the north. Bal Harbour is a few minutes south and Aventura sits across the Intracoastal to the west. Our neighborhood research for each is at /neighborhoods/sunny-isles-beach, /neighborhoods/bal-harbour and /neighborhoods/aventura.

Four towers that define the corridor

Porsche Design Tower, 18555 Collins Avenue, was completed in 2017: 60 stories, 132 residences, designed by Sieger Suarez for Dezer Development with interiors by Porsche Design Studio. Its patented Dezervator elevator carries residents and their cars to sky garages beside their living rooms. Our directory estimates roughly $1,650 per square foot, with residences of three to six bedrooms. Full profile at /buildings/porsche-design-tower.

Jade Signature, 16901 Collins Avenue, followed in 2018 — 57 stories and 192 residences by Pritzker laureates Herzog and de Meuron, interiors by Pierre-Yves Rochon, developed by Fortune International Group. Column-free floor plates and stacked terraces are the signature. Our directory estimate is about $1,500 per square foot. See /buildings/jade-signature.

Acqualina Resort and Residences, 17875 Collins Avenue, is the corridor's resort-model option: completed in 2006, 51 stories, 188 residences by Cohen, Freedman, Encinosa for The Trump Group, interiors by Steven G. It is the oldest of these four and the one where hotel-style service rather than engineering is the argument. Directory estimate: about $1,450 per square foot. See /buildings/acqualina-resort-residences.

Bentley Residences, 18401 Collins Avenue, is under construction with completion targeted for 2028 — 63 stories and 216 residences, again Sieger Suarez for Dezer, again with in-unit car elevators. Our directory records it at roughly 70 percent sold, on a deposit structure of 10 percent at contract, 10 percent at groundbreaking, 10 percent at structural completion and 70 percent at closing. See /buildings/bentley-residences-miami.

What ownership costs, per our directory

Directory price ranges for these four start near $2 million at Acqualina's entry and reach eight figures at the top of each tower, with per-square-foot estimates clustered between roughly $1,450 and $1,700. Treat those as research figures for comparison, not as a quote on any specific residence.

Monthly carrying cost is the number buyers here underestimate. Our directory records HOA dues of about $2.10 per square foot per month at Porsche Design Tower, $2.00 at Acqualina and $1.85 at Jade Signature. On a 3,000-square-foot residence, $2.00 per square foot is roughly $6,000 a month before property taxes and insurance. Beach service, multiple pools, restaurants and spas are the reason, and none of it is optional once you own.

Preconstruction changes the questions you ask

Three of these four are finished buildings with operating histories — budgets, reserve balances, and a record of how the association handles money. Bentley Residences is not. Buying preconstruction means underwriting a deposit schedule and a developer instead of an existing balance sheet, and Florida treats the first ten percent of a deposit differently from everything after it. Our walkthrough of that rule is at /blog/florida-preconstruction-condo-deposit-protection.

The diligence this corridor specifically deserves

Every Florida condominium buyer should read the declaration, the current budget, the reserve schedule and the estoppel letter. In Sunny Isles, add three corridor-specific items. Ask for the building's milestone inspection and structural integrity reserve study status, because the 2000s-vintage stock sits squarely in the age window where those matter. Ask what the association's insurance renewal did this year, since oceanfront wind exposure prices differently on the sand than a block inland. And ask what the amenity operating model costs to run, because resort-style service is a recurring line item rather than a one-time feature.

Questions buyers ask about Sunny Isles Beach condos

Where to go next

Start with the neighborhood page at /neighborhoods/sunny-isles-beach, then read the four building profiles and compare their dues per square foot rather than their asking prices alone. When you are ready to see inside a specific tower, tell us which one and we will introduce you to a licensed partner agent who works that corridor.