Uptown Marina Lofts

Two Hundred Sixteen Homes on Aventura’s Marina

I pulled all 218 folios the Miami-Dade County Property Appraiser has on file for Uptown Marina Lofts at 3029 NE 188th Street, Aventura, FL 33180. The declaration closes at 100.0016% on the county’s common-element share test, effectively complete. All 216 residential folios are homes; there are no commercial, parking or storage folios to exclude.

The bed mix runs close to even between two types: 107 homes (49.5%) carry 1 bedroom and 106 (49.1%) carry 2, with 3 (1.4%) recorded with none. Heated area runs from 816 to 1,378 square feet, median 980. Four floorplates account for nearly the entire building: 816 sq ft (107 homes, 49.5%, the building’s single most common size), 1,362 sq ft (52, 24.1%), 1,204 sq ft (36, 16.7%) and 1,378 sq ft (18, 8.3%) — together 213 of 216 homes, 98.6%.

On the 2026 tax roll, assessed values run from $155,258 to $468,454 across the 216 homes, with a median of $316,764.

I don’t have a confirmed year built, story count, architect or amenity list for this building beyond what the county record carries. The county record gives a 2006 year built for all 216 homes; the story count, developer and architect in the facts box come from the building record on this site, not from the property record, and I’d rather say so than fill in an amenity list from a listing site.

Price Down 13.3%, $/Sq Ft Down 10.3%, on Real Volume

34 qualified sales closed across the four years, real volume for a building this size — 8 to 12 sales in every year but 2026 to date. Median price fell 13.3%, $577,000 to $500,000; median $/sq ft fell a smaller 10.3%, $476 to $427. I’d trust the $/sq ft line as the more accurate read of value, since it’s less exposed to which specific floorplate happened to sell in a given year, but with the price line falling further, both point the same direction: softer. Against 216 homes, that’s a turnover of one home in 25 each year. 2026 is an incomplete year.

The building’s current record inside this window is $720,000, closed 8/4/2023, for a 1,362 sq ft home at unit 1121 — $529 per square foot. The four-year $/sq ft band runs $367 to $760, median $469.

Why More Than Two-Thirds of This Building’s Round Trips Lost Money

Looking at homes bought and later resold, both legs a qualified transaction: 169 of the building’s 216 homes (78.2%) have one. A clear majority did not gain: 114 (67.5%) sold for less than the previous owner paid, against 53 (31.4%) that sold for more, and 2 identical. The median change across all 169 is -13.8%, over a median 13.0-year hold; among the 53 gainers alone the median gain is 16.4%. The range runs from -65.7% to +72.5%.

The record explains why. Uptown Marina Lofts closed 230 of its 506 all-time qualified sales in 2006-2007 alone — the vast majority of its early activity concentrated in the same short pre-crash window, with prices spread across a wide range depending on floorplate. The building’s highest-priced sales from that stretch, 20 of them, ran $725,000 to $950,000 — a level the current four-year record, $720,000, still sits just under, sixteen-plus years later. Five qualified sales here, dated 2009-2011, closed at $125 to $169 a square foot, roughly a third of today’s rate per foot, and they mark where a large share of this building’s buyers sold at a steep loss: a 1,362 sq ft home bought for $495,000 in 2006 sold for $170,000 in 2011, -65.7%; a 1,362 sq ft home bought for $740,000 in 2007 sold for $265,000 in 2012, -64.2%. This building sold heavily at a single pre-crash peak, and most of the sellers who came after paid the price for it.

Who Uptown Marina Lofts Suits, and Who It Doesn’t

Uptown Marina Lofts suits a value-focused buyer in Aventura — the current $367-$760 four-year $/sq ft band and $155,258-$468,454 assessed range sit well below where this building traded at its 2006-2007 peak, and four dominant floorplates make comparables straightforward. It can also suit a patient long-hold buyer: the 53 owners who did gain came out ahead, with a median gain of 16.4%.

It suits buyers badly who assume a marina-adjacent building is a safe long-term hold without qualification — the record here is one-sided: more than two-thirds of completed round trips lost money, concentrated among owners who bought at the 2006-2007 peak. A buyer’s agent shopping this building against others in the area will likely raise that history.

If you are selling: price off the $367-$760 four-year $/sq ft band and your specific floorplate rather than the building’s 2006-2007 prices, which this building has not matched since. With volume real but moderate, expect informed buyers, and be ready to address the building’s crash-era record directly — it’s on the file.

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