Why Pro Athletes Keep Buying Luxury Real Estate in South Florida

From Miami Beach trophy condos to Fort Lauderdale waterfront compounds, elite athletes are making South Florida a long-term base. The pattern is not just celebrity optics. It reflects tax structure, international mobility, and a market that has recently shown strength at the ultra-luxury tier. Here is how the athlete-buyer playbook is reshaping negotiations, inventory, and what “move-in ready” means at the top.

Historic Preservation in Miami Beach: The Quiet Tax, Design, and Value Play Behind South Florida’s Most Coveted Addresses

In Miami Beach and greater South Florida, preservation is no longer only a cultural obligation. For luxury buyers and developers, it has become a disciplined strategy that can unlock tax advantages, streamline a property’s narrative value, and protect scarcity in neighborhoods where new waterfront land is effectively finite. This MILLION Luxury editorial explains how federal and local preservation frameworks intersect with design oversight, and why the region’s best “historic-meets-new” projects are increasingly defined by what they choose not to erase.