South of Fifth

Haute Living's South of Fifth selections

A curated selection of standout buildings personally chosen by Haute Living based on design, location, service, reputation, residence quality, and overall luxury positioning. This is editorial judgment, not an algorithm or a ranking.

All 21 South of Fifth buildings

The complete Haute Building Index™ for South of Fifth — from 1987's South Pointe Towers to 2021's Ocean Park South Beach, spanning both towers of the Continuum on South Beach.

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South of Fifth Market Intelligence

Miami Beach's most walkable trophy address

South of Fifth is bounded by the Atlantic Ocean to the east, Government Cut and the Port of Miami shipping channel to the south, and 5th Street to the north — a genuine walkable village within Miami Beach, anchored by South Pointe Park's 17 acres of waterfront green space. It has functioned as its own micro-market since the 1990s development wave that followed the neighborhood's mid-century decline and 1980s South Pointe redevelopment.

Three decades of South Pointe development

South of Fifth's 21 buildings span nearly 35 years of construction: South Pointe Towers (1987) and Portofino Tower (1996) anchor the neighborhood's earliest towers; Murano at Portofino, Murano Grande, Yacht Club at Portofino, Icon South Beach, Hilton Bentley, and Cosmopolitan Towers followed in the 2001-2005 wave; the two Continuum on South Beach towers (2002, 2008) and Apogee (2008) added the neighborhood's tallest trophy addresses; and 321 Ocean, Marea, One Ocean, Louver House, Three Hundred Collins, and Ocean Park South Beach (2021, the newest delivery) represent the boutique, lower-density builds of the 2010s onward. See every profiled building, live counts included, in All Buildings above ↑.

A walkable village vs. a 122-building barrier island

South of Fifth is a genuinely walkable micro-market — 21 buildings clustered within a peninsula small enough to cross on foot, anchored by South Pointe Park, with restaurants and the marina district all within blocks. The broader Miami Beach market spans 122 buildings across an entire barrier island, from Art Deco mid-rises to North Beach's postwar towers. The South of Fifth buyer is paying for that concentrated walkability and the trophy waterfront addresses it makes possible; the broader Miami Beach buyer has far more architectural and price-point variety to choose from.

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South of Fifth Advisors

HL Real Estate Group advisors work across South of Fifth's full building range, from the neighborhood's original 1980s-90s towers to its most recent deliveries.

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