Top 8 Florida Legacy Estates That Still Define Luxury Value
From Vizcaya to Whitehall, Florida’s most storied estates reveal how architecture, provenance, and scarcity translate into modern luxury pricing power, especially in South Florida.
South Florida’s Nine-Figure Moment: What $100M-Plus Sales Signal for Luxury Buyers
A new class of residential transaction has become visible across South Florida: nine-figure closings, reported nine-figure contracts, and land-value deals that treat prime waterfront as a scarce asset rather than a finished home. For luxury buyers, the headline numbers matter less than what they reveal about where liquidity is deepest, which neighborhoods trade like blue-chip collections, and how to underwrite privacy, resilience, and long-term optionality.
South Florida’s Trophy Market in 2025: When Record Sales Become the Story
In South Florida, the top of the market is not merely resilient. It is narrative-driven. From a $120 million Star Island trade reported as a Miami-Dade single-family record to an $86 million condo penthouse widely covered as the county’s priciest condominium sale, 2025 reinforced a modern truth: in the trophy tier, price is only part of the product. The rest is provenance, privacy, design authorship, and the ability for a residence to function as cultural capital. This MILLION Luxury editorial unpacks what the year’s headline deals reveal about how ultra-luxury is marketed, negotiated, and valued across Miami-beach and Palm-beach, and what sophisticated buyers and sellers should watch next.
