Bentley Residences, Sunny Isles Beach

A fee simple condominium unit under the Florida Condominium Act, bought from the developer before completion. The deed carries the unit, its sky garage and an undivided share of the common elements. The developer of record is 18401 Developers LLC. Dezer Development and Bentley Motors are not the developer. The owners association uses the Bentley name under a licence from Bentley Motors, and if that licence ends the right to use the name ends with it. The offering is made only by the developer's prospectus.

Owner occupation from completion. There is no fraction, no membership and no published rental programme: the residence is yours to occupy or leave empty. The minimum lease term, any cap on letting and the house rules sit in the declaration of condominium, which the developer must hand you before you sign. Those terms are confirmed for the specific residence before you commit. Where Avory later arranges a stay in an owner's residence, it is subject to availability.

No service charge has been published, because the building is not finished. Florida requires the developer to give you an estimated operating budget with the contract, and the statute says in terms that those figures are estimates only and that actual costs may exceed them. Ask for the current budget and the reserve schedule. Some amenities sit outside common expenses and carry a separate fee, and concierge work billed a la carte is paid directly by residents. Miami-Dade County and the City of Sunny Isles Beach set ad valorem property tax rates each year.

More than 20,000 sq ft across 3 levels, designed by Bentley Motors and furnished from the Bentley Home collection. The list below is what the developer has published. Anything not on that list is not yet public, and we will not guess at it.

A 63-storey glass tower on a 2.4-acre oceanfront site with 200 feet of beach frontage, holding 216 residences. Sieger Suarez Architects is the architect and Bentley Motors did the interior and exterior design. Coastal Construction is building it. The facade is a diamond-shaped glass panel pattern taken from the quilting on Bentley door trim. Four patented Dezervator lifts carry residents and their cars to a glass sky garage inside each residence, sized for 3 or 4 cars. Ceilings run to 10 feet clear. Two two-storey penthouses crown the tower, with 22-foot ceilings and garage room for up to 7 cars.

The site is on the ocean side of Collins Avenue, between Turnberry Ocean Club Residences to the north and Sahara Beach Club Condo to the south, on the stretch of Sunny Isles Beach that runs from Haulover Beach to Golden Beach. Sunny Isles Beach is a barrier strip of about 1 square mile between the Atlantic and the Intracoastal Waterway. The developer places the tower between Aventura Mall and Bal Harbour Shops, with Miami International and Fort Lauderdale airports either side of it.

An overseas buyer faces no general bar on owning property in the United States, and buys a condominium unit on the same footing as a US buyer. Two points matter. Florida gives you 15 days to cancel after you sign and receive the developer's documents, and that right cannot be waived. On a later sale by a non-US person, FIRPTA obliges the buyer to withhold 15 per cent of the amount realised, so settle the exit route before you enter.

Avory deals with Dezer Platinum Realty, the developer's own sales and marketing arm, at the sales gallery on Collins Avenue. Enquire and we send you the current price list, the released floor plans and the prospectus, and arrange a viewing at the gallery with a site visit. We cannot hold a residence or move a developer price. No owner stays exist here before completion, and any later stay is subject to availability. Request access.