Snowbird Season Is Miami's Best Sales Pitch
Every year, right around the first morning a New Yorker has to scrape frost off anything, Miami real estate gets its favorite phone calls. Snowbird season has officially arrived, and the city's pitch writes itself: swap the parka for a swimsuit and the gray skyline for Biscayne Bay. This fall's listings are leaning all the way in, and three of them, each hovering just under or at $10 million, show the range of what escaping winter buys you now.
The most snowbird-pure play is the Marea Collection in Belle Meade, a set of four standalone waterfront homes designed, developed, and brokered by Sunland Group. Two of them, Casa Coral and Casa Vista, are listed at $10 million apiece, and the formula is pointedly anti-condo: these are true single-family houses, which means no HOA and no board waiting to approve your existence. Each comes with 50 feet of private waterfront, a lap pool, a spa, a sun deck, and rooftop patios that keep pushing the living space further out into the sunshine. It is less a pied-a-terre than a private resort that happens to have your name on the deed.
Sunland's other entry, Casa Vanda in the Belmar neighborhood, is also asking $10 million, and it is the architecture nerd of the group. The brand-new Tropical Modernist house faces a teal canal that flows into Biscayne Bay, and its party trick is a ground floor that opens onto a covered outdoor living room, pool terrace, and rear garden, so the line between inside and outside mostly stops mattering. Upstairs there are five bedrooms, balconies and terraces threaded throughout, and a 360-degree rooftop terrace on top, because in Miami the roof is not an afterthought, it is another floor of living room.
And for the snowbird who wants altitude instead of acreage, there is UPH03 at Casa Bella Residences, 1400 Biscayne Boulevard in the Arts and Entertainment District, listed by Compass at $9.6 million. The two-story penthouse floats across the 54th and 55th floors, with Biscayne Bay at one end of the home and the Miami skyline at the other. Double-height ceilings, walls of glass, and a statement staircase do the drama, and a sprawling terrace does the sunbathing. Three homes, three theories of winter avoidance. The only wrong answer is staying for February.
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