Every month I go through the Miami pre-construction news so you do not have to. October was a month of real progress on the ground, not just renderings. Here is what I noticed, what I think it means, and what I am watching in November. If you have not read last month's edition, it is here. What moved in October Mandarin Oriental Residences, Brickell Key. The tower broke ground on October 1. For...
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I'm Julien Drieu, a trilingual Coral Gables real estate agent for luxury condos, new construction and homes.
The First New Condo Here in Over a Decade North Bay Village sits on Biscayne Bay between Miami and Miami Beach, and it has not seen a new condo building delivered in a long time. Tula Residences is about to change that. The tower topped out at the start of October, and delivery is expected in the third quarter of 2027. I like this one for a simple reason. It is small. Instead of a few hundred units,...
I follow Miami pre-construction closely, and every month a few things happen that change how I talk to buyers. This is my October 2026 round-up. I kept it to news I could confirm in more than one place, and I left out anything that is still a single report. Mandarin Oriental Miami breaks ground The biggest story this month is The Residences at Mandarin Oriental, Miami on Brickell Key. Swire...
Anantara is coming to the United States for the first time, and it is starting in Miami. Anantara Miami Resort & Residences is a planned waterfront tower in Edgewater, on Biscayne Bay. If you want a branded, service-led home in one of the city's fastest-rising neighborhoods, this is a project worth watching early.I represent buyers in English, French, and Spanish. If Anantara Miami is on your list, I...
Coral Gables has a neighborhood guide on my site, but until now it had no building pages. Alhambra Parc is where I am starting, because it is a new downtown project that has just moved from announcement to construction financing. What Alhambra Parc is Alhambra Parc is a mixed-use project at 33 Alhambra Circle in downtown Coral Gables. The reported plan is eight stories on a site of about an acre,...
I'm Julien Drieu, and Coconut Grove is the fourth corridor I work closely, alongside Brickell, Downtown, and Edgewater. It is also the odd one out, in a good way. Nothing here is chasing supertall height or a thousand units. The buildings going up in the Grove right now are boutique on purpose, five to twenty stories, and built for a neighborhood that has always valued a slower pace over scale. If you...
A Finished Building in a Neighborhood Full of Cranes Most of what I write about in Coconut Grove right now is still on paper: groundbreakings, construction loans, delivery dates a couple of years out. Arbor is different. It has its certificate of occupancy, people are already living there, and only a handful of homes are left. If you want new construction in the Grove without a two or three year wait, this...
Wellness Built Into the Address, Not Bolted OnA lot of Miami buildings slap the word "wellness" on a gym and call it a day. The Well is trying something more ambitious: a 194-residence condominium in Coconut Grove built around an actual wellness program, with a dedicated club for it rather than a corner of the fitness center. It is the first project of this scale from Terra in the Grove, backed by the...
The Furnished, Rental-Ready Half of One Brickell Riverfront Right next to The Standard Residences Brickell, sharing the same podium and the same river frontage, sits a second tower built for a different kind of buyer. LOFTY Brickell is fully furnished, unit by unit, and licensed specifically for short-term rental. If you have been asking me about a Brickell condo you can actually put to work when you...