In Sunny Isles Beach there’s a tower where you drive into an elevator, ride up with your car, and park it inside your own apartment. Not in a garage downstairs. In the unit.
That building went vertical in June 2026. A decade ago the flex amenity was a rooftop pool and a doorman who knew your name. Today, Miami pre-construction condos compete on features that read like a screenwriter’s first draft, and buyers are signing years before anyone pours the top floor.
The one with the car elevator
Bentley Residences runs on a patented lift called the Dezervator. Your car’s RFID sticker gets recognized on arrival, an LED system guides you to one of four lifts, and a hydraulic mechanism loads the vehicle with you still inside it. The architect behind it expected a roller-coaster ride. He tried it and found it almost disappointingly smooth.
The tower is 62 stories and 216 residences, with a private restaurant from four-time James Beard winner Todd English. Every home gets a three- or four-car garage reached through the elevator system. Delivery is slated for 2028, prices start at $5.8 million.
Somewhere in Sunny Isles, a valet is quietly updating his résumé.
The penthouse with a supercar in the deal
Aston Martin Residences is 66 stories and 391 units at the mouth of the Miami River in Downtown Miami. Aston Martin says 99% of the building sold before completion, with residences going for $1.5 to $8.5 million. Buyers of the 47 Signature and Penthouse units chose between a DBX SUV and a DB11 as part of the purchase.
The triplex at the top is a different story. Nearly 20,000 square feet of interior space across three floors, seven bedrooms, eight bathrooms. It comes with the last remaining Aston Martin Vulcan, an 820-horsepower carbon-fiber track car, one of only 24 built. As of early 2026 it was still publicly listed at $59 million, which suggests the supercar-with-your-condo pitch has a ceiling somewhere.
Seventy apartments, every one a corner
Pagani went the other direction in North Bay Village. Thirty stories, 70 all-corner residences, four per floor, running 2,000 to just over 3,300 square feet. Interiors are by Pagani Arte, the design division founded by Horacio Pagani himself, with a concept built on Leonardo da Vinci’s principles of art and science, which is a sentence I did not expect to write about a condo building. The two duplex penthouses are priced at $30 million and $28.5 million, both records for the area.
An ice rink. In Florida.
The Estates at Acqualina is already open, and it set the bar the rest of this list is chasing. Two towers, more than 50,000 square feet of amenities, lobbies by Karl Lagerfeld in his first US residential interior project.
Inside: an ice skating rink, a Formula One simulator, bowling lanes, a two-story speakeasy, and a room called the Wall Street Trader’s Club. Six pools, a FlowRider wave simulator, a dog park. The house car is a red Rolls-Royce. Developer Jules Trump put the amenity build at roughly $100 million and predicted nobody would copy it, because it’s too expensive.
He was wrong about that part.
Buildings that operate like clinics
This is the fastest-growing category. THE WELL Coconut Grove puts a 13,000-square-foot wellness center at its core: a communal bathhouse, crystal cave lounges, a hyperbaric chamber, plus physical therapy and functional medicine practices. The 40,000-square-foot rooftop adds a pool, hot and cold plunges and a pickleball court. Units run 960 to 4,200 square feet, starting at $1.5 million.
Anantara is going bigger in Edgewater. Fifty stories above Biscayne Bay holding 100 private residences, 120 resort residences and 50 hotel suites, targeted for 2030, with a rooftop helipad and a longevity center built on Thai wellness traditions. Minor Hotels has openly credited its exposure on The White Lotus with driving the brand’s US push.
New York took the same idea further. One Manhattan Square offers IV drip therapy through registered nurses at $300 to $350 a session. At Central Park Tower, a wellness-concierge founder told the New York Post that medical services are what residents want most. Some throw IV parties, with nurses running four to six drips at once in the apartment.
The smaller stuff
In North Miami, Continuum Company is building around a claim nobody else on Biscayne Bay can make: it controls the submerged land next to the property, not just the view. That becomes The Mermaid Club, 150,000 square feet of floating pools, watersports access and overwater yoga decks.
Rosewood Residences Hillsboro Beach added a creamery, meaning the building makes its own ice cream. And in Boston, a PGA golf simulator became the cornerstone of one building’s sales pitch. It’s 99% sold out.
Why developers keep escalating
Miami is the densest branded-residence market in the Western Hemisphere and second in the world only to Dubai. Savills counted 48 completed projects here and 55 more in the pipeline, with branded units commanding roughly a 33% premium.
That premium is the problem. When 55 towers chase the same buyer, a beautiful lobby stops being an argument, because everyone has one. The Real Deal reported in June 2026 that the boom is showing cracks as oversaturation turns a premium strategy into the new normal. A car elevator is harder to copy than marble.
Pre-construction sharpens it. You’re buying from a rendering, and a strange feature gives the project a face you can remember and a story you can repeat at dinner. The weirdness isn’t decoration on the product. For a lot of these towers, the weirdness is the product.
The part that isn’t in the brochure
An ice rink needs maintenance forever. A hyperbaric chamber needs trained staff. A creamery needs somebody showing up at six in the morning to make the ice cream. All of it lands in your monthly fee, whether you skate or not.
Miami condo HOA fees are already the number that surprises out-of-state buyers most. Brokerage guidance puts new full-amenity luxury buildings at $2,000 a month or more before insurance, taxes or mortgage, and hotel-branded properties like the Surf Club Four Seasons Residences are quoted well above $3 per square foot per month.
Then there’s execution risk. Aston Martin Residences took roughly seven years to build and was originally expected in 2020. In early 2026 its condo association sued the developer, alleging self-dealing and broken promises and seeking more than $5 million; a separate suit weeks later alleged defective design and construction. The claims are allegations and remain unresolved. But the association president’s complaint is the one every pre-construction buyer should hold onto: he said he didn’t get the luxury experience he was promised.
Ask what a feature costs to operate, and who is contractually obligated to keep operating it. Ask before you fall for the rendering.
FAQ
Can you really drive your car up to your apartment in Miami?
Yes. Bentley Residences in Sunny Isles Beach uses a patented vehicle elevator that carries you and your car to your floor, where it parks in a private three- or four-car garage inside the unit. The same system first appeared at the nearby Porsche Design Tower.
Do branded residences in Miami hold their value better?
Savills puts the average branded premium around 33%, but that describes what buyers pay going in, not what they get back. Resale data is thin because most of these towers are only now delivering, and 2026 coverage has begun questioning whether the segment is oversaturated. Treat the badge as a marketing advantage first, then judge location, unit mix and carrying costs the way you would anything else.
Is buying a Miami pre-construction condo risky?
The main risks are time and delivery. Aston Martin Residences was expected in 2020 and finished in 2024 after roughly seven years of construction and pandemic delays. Deposits stay tied up while the market moves, and the finished building can differ from what was marketed. Pre-construction still works as a Miami investment property when the developer has a track record and the amenity program is realistically budgeted. The timeline in the brochure is a hope, not a contract.
Some of these projects make sense as an investment. Some make sense only as a story you tell at dinner. Irina Velychko works with buyers across Brickell, Downtown Miami, Edgewater and the Design District, and can help you tell the difference before you wire a deposit.
