Building facts
- Address
- 18401 Collins Avenue
- Neighborhood
- Sunny Isles Beach
- Year built
- 2026
- Floors
- 60
- Residences
- 200
- Status
- Pre-Construction
- Developer
- Dezer Development
- Architect
- Sieger Suarez Architects
- Pricing
- Starting at $4.55 Million
Bentley Residences is the tower where your car rides the elevator to your apartment. Sixty-two storeys on the sand at 18401 Collins Avenue in Sunny Isles Beach, 216 residences, and four patented “Dezervator” car lifts that carry vehicles — with the driver still inside — straight to an in-unit garage.
It is genuinely under construction and genuinely financed, which separates it from a lot of what is marketed in this market. It has also slipped two years, and its published height and floor count still do not agree across sources. Everything below is dated and sourced.
Bentley Residences — Building Facts
- Address
- 18401 Collins Avenue, Sunny Isles Beach, FL 33160
- Site
- 3.6 acres, oceanfront
- Developer
- Dezer Development · Gil Dezer
- Architect
- Sieger Suarez Architects
- Brand
- Bentley Motors — its design department collaborated on interior and exterior
- General Contractor
- Coastal Construction
- Storeys / Height
- 62 (Bentley’s own site says 61) · 716 ft and 749 ft both published November 2025
- Residences
- 216, from 5,256 to 6,333 sq ft, three to five bedrooms
- Signature Feature
- Private pool on every balcony and an in-unit garage
- Penthouse
- Changed from one 24,000 sq ft unit at $70M to two at $37.5M each — unexplained
- Sales
- Douglas Elliman Development Marketing
- Construction Loan
- $630M · Madison Realty Capital, November 2025 — the largest South Florida financing of 2025
- Status
- Under construction — past Level 7 as of 11 June 2026
- Est. Completion
- 2028 (guidance moved 2026 to 2027 to 2028)
Verified 4 August 2026 against primary sources only. Where sources disagree, both figures are shown. Pre-construction figures change — confirm against the current price sheet and the recorded condominium documents before you sign.
Key Takeaways
- Vertical and moving. Past Level 7 as of 11 June 2026, advancing about one floor every five to six working days.
- Financed. A $630 million construction loan from Madison Realty Capital closed November 2025 — the largest South Florida financing deal of 2025 — underwritten at just over 50% presold.
- Delivery has slipped roughly two years: 2026 → 2027 → 2028. Groundbreaking itself moved from early 2023 to February 2024.
- The mat foundation pour was the largest residential pour in Florida history — 36 continuous hours, 20,000 cubic yards, 2,100 truckloads, 2,400 tons of steel.
- The penthouse offering changed and nobody has explained it. March 2024: one penthouse, 24,000 sq ft, $70M. From June 2025: two penthouses at $37.5M each.
- Height and storeys are unresolved. 749 ft and 716 ft both published within two weeks in November 2025. Storeys published as 60, 61, 62 and 63 — Bentley’s own site says 61.
- A University of Miami study found Sunny Isles towers settling 2–8cm, naming Dezer’s own Porsche Design Tower. Bentley is not named as sinking — but nobody monitors settlement after completion.
What Is Being Built
A 62-storey oceanfront tower on a 3.6-acre site at 18401 Collins Avenue, Sunny Isles Beach — formerly a five-storey Wyndham hotel that a Dezer affiliate bought for $6.8 million back in 1996. 216 residences from 5,256 to 6,333 square feet, three to five bedrooms. Every one has a private pool on the balcony and an in-unit garage.
Dezer Development (Gil Dezer) is the developer, Sieger Suarez Architects the architect, and Coastal Construction the general contractor. Douglas Elliman Development Marketing took over sales in August 2023 — the first outside sales team on a Dezer project in years.
Bentley Motors is more than a logo here. Bentley’s own design department collaborated on the project and the brand identity runs through both interior and exterior. The most visible expression is the facade: diamond-quilt-patterned glass panels drawn from Bentley’s seat stitching, covering roughly half the exterior.
“The modern and progressive brand identity of Bentley Residences is at work in both the tower’s interior and exterior spaces, rooted in authenticity, sustainability and innovation.”
Adrian Hallmark, Chairman and CEO, Bentley Motors — April 2021
Amenities run past 20,000 square feet — spa, cinema, whiskey bar, cigar lounge, beach club — and in February 2026 the building added “Proper English by Todd English,” a residents-only restaurant and the chef’s first private residential dining venture.
The Dezervator, Explained Properly
This is the reason the building exists, so it is worth getting right rather than repeating the brochure line.
Four Dezervators serve the tower, travelling at 800 feet per minute. Per Bentley’s own technical description, the system uses a hydraulic mechanism that “pinches a car by its tyres to pull it on top of a robotic shuttle system, which in turn transports a car up or down to the correct storey.” Vehicles carry RFID stickers; the system recognises the car and routes it to the right residence without the driver stepping out or pressing anything. An LED system guides you to the correct lift on arrival. The lower shaft is glass-enclosed, so the ride is a view rather than a box.
“Every unit features the patented Dezervator system which takes you and your car up to your apartment where your car sits right in your garage a few steps from your front door. No other building in the world offers that amenity.”
Gil Dezer, President, Dezer Development — January 2024
Garage capacity depends on exposure. Ocean-facing units get four cars; Intracoastal-facing units get three. The penthouse has a glass-enclosed in-unit garage with EV charging for up to seven. Every garage has in-unit EV charging. This was a direct response to Porsche Design Tower, where units had two spaces and buyers said they wanted more.
Two honest caveats. The system is described as “patented” in every source, but no patent number, filing date or assignee has ever been published — treat it as developer-asserted. And nothing has been published about load capacity, redundancy and failover, fire-code treatment, or how the shaft is protected in a hurricane. Those are reasonable questions for a system your car and your access depend on. Ask them.
Where Construction Actually Stands
Ground broke 26 February 2024. The mat foundation pour completed in November 2025 and was a genuine record: 36 continuous hours, 20,000 cubic yards of concrete, 2,100 truckloads, 2,400 tons of reinforcing steel, 10 concrete pumps — the largest residential mat pour in Florida history and the second-largest in the United States.
The superstructure passed Level 7 as of 11 June 2026, moving at roughly one floor every five to six working days.
“Going vertical is a meaningful milestone for Bentley Residences Miami and a testament to the strength of our vision and execution.”
Gil Dezer, President, Dezer Development — June 2026
Do the arithmetic on the delivery date, because it matters. At Level 7 of roughly 62 in June 2026, about 55 floors of structure remain. At the stated pace that is roughly 275 to 330 working days of structure alone — before facade, mechanical, electrical, plumbing and fit-out. A 2028 delivery is achievable, but only at the optimistic end. That is my arithmetic on the published pace, not a forecast anyone has issued.
⚠️ No source has published anything about this project since 11 June 2026. The floor count today is unknown; Level 7 is the last confirmed figure.
Pricing and How Much Has Sold
Remaining inventory from $5.8 million, unchanged since November 2025. The trajectory is worth seeing in full:
| Date | Entry pricing |
|---|---|
| January 2022 — launch | $3.9M (Intracoastal) / $5.5M (ocean) |
| August 2023 | from $5.3M–$5.6M |
| March 2024 — groundbreaking | $5.6M west / $8.3M east |
| November 2025 – June 2026 | from $5.8M |
The penthouse changed, and this is the one to ask about. In March 2024 the building was marketed with one penthouse of 24,000 square feet at $70 million. From June 2025 onward it has been two penthouses at $37.5 million each — the described one a two-storey, four-bedroom, seven-bath residence on the 61st floor with 22-foot ceilings and indoor and outdoor pools. Whether that is a redesign, a split or a repricing has never been explained. Ask directly.
No source has ever published a price per square foot for this building. Working from the entry price and the smallest unit gives roughly $1,100 per foot — but that is my calculation, not a published figure.
On absorption: total sellout was reported at $1.2 billion. The building was over 40% sold in March 2024 and more than 50% presold by November 2025 — the figure Madison Realty Capital underwrote to. That is roughly ten percentage points over twenty months. No sales figure has been published since November 2025; the June 2026 construction updates gave none.
The Numbers That Do Not Agree
Three specifications on this building are genuinely unresolved across credible sources.
Height. 749 feet was used consistently from 2021. Then in November 2025 one outlet switched to 716 feet and has used it since — while another published 749 feet in the same fortnight. Nobody has explained the 33-foot difference.
Storeys. Published as 60 (2021), 62 (site plan 2021), 63 (2023), 62 (2023–24), 61 (2024–25), and 62 again now. Bentley Motors’ own website says 61, and Bentley’s own newsroom places the penthouse on the 61st storey.
Interior designer. Michael Wolk Design was named at groundbreaking in March 2024. From June 2025 the credit is Bentley Home with Luxury Living Group. It is plausible Wolk did common areas and Bentley Home the residences — but no source says so, so treat it as contested.
None of these change whether the building gets built. They do tell you that project communications have not been internally consistent, which is worth knowing when you are relying on a spec sheet.
What to Watch Before You Sign
This is one of the better-positioned towers on the strip — real financing, real construction, a real record of delivery from this developer. These are still the questions I would ask.
1. Settlement, and this is the serious one. A University of Miami study published December 2025 found roughly three dozen South Florida high-rises settling 2 to 8 centimetres, with the most significant effects in Sunny Isles Beach. Buildings named include Dezer’s own Porsche Design Tower, the Estates at Acqualina and Four Seasons at the Surf Club. Bentley Residences is not identified as sinking — it is mentioned only as a newer tower under construction, and the study noted it is difficult to predict how newer towers will settle. The line that should stay with you is this one: “no one is monitoring how towers settle and shift after they are completed.” Ask what monitoring, if any, is committed here.
2. Neighbour construction. In February 2026 Sunny Isles approved another 62-storey tower at 19051 Collins Avenue — co-developed by Related Group, Dezer and BH Group — over vocal resident opposition citing structural integrity, emergency access and post-Surfside safety concerns. Those developers agreed to monitor vibration and subsidence during construction and for a year afterward. No comparable commitment has been reported for Bentley Residences. Expect adjacent construction across your delivery window.
3. There is precedent for neighbour damage claims involving this exact team. In 2016 the Millennium condominium association sued Dezer Development, Coastal Construction and Sieger Suarez Architects over Porsche Design Tower, alleging sheet-piling vibrations cracked its lobby, garage and pool deck, with roughly $4 million claimed. The outcome is not on the public record. Same developer, same contractor, same architect.
4. The loan is fund debt, not bank debt. $630 million from Madison Realty Capital, closed at just over 50% presold. Rate, term and extension options are not public. That is normal for this market — but understand that the sales pace and the debt are linked.
5. Deposit escrow. Florida Statute 718.202 governs it, and nothing has been published about the escrow arrangement here. Get the agreement.
6. Confirm the storey, the height and the penthouse configuration in your contract — not from marketing material, which has published four different floor counts.
Sunny Isles Around It
Sunny Isles Beach is roughly two miles of oceanfront carrying Miami’s densest concentration of branded towers — Porsche, St. Regis, Armani, Acqualina — and there is essentially no room to add more. That scarcity is the investment case, and the densification is the risk; both are real.
Comparable buildings on the strip: St. Regis Residences Sunny Isles and The Estates at Acqualina. The full pipeline is on the new construction page, with the wider market in Miami luxury condos.
If you want the current floor count, the sales position and the settlement question answered properly before you commit, start a conversation.
Verified 4 August 2026
- Address — 18401 Collins Avenue, Sunny Isles Beach, FL 33160. 3.6-acre oceanfront site.
- Storeys — 62 in current reporting. Also published as 60, 61 and 63. Bentley’s own site says 61.
- Height — 749 ft and 716 ft both published November 2025. Unresolved.
- Residences — 216, from 5,256 to 6,333 sq ft, three to five bedrooms
- Developer — Dezer Development (Gil Dezer) · Architect — Sieger Suarez · GC — Coastal Construction · Interiors — Bentley Home with Luxury Living Group (Michael Wolk Design also credited; contested)
- Status — past Level 7 as of 11 June 2026, ~1 floor per 5–6 working days. Not topped off.
- Delivery — 2028 (originally 2026, then 2027)
- Financing — $630M construction loan, Madison Realty Capital, November 2025
- Sales — over 50% presold as of November 2025; sellout reported at $1.2B. No figure published since.
- Pricing — from $5.8M; two penthouses at $37.5M each
Checked 4 August 2026. No source has published on this project since 11 June 2026 — ask me to re-verify the floor count before you rely on it.
Bentley Residences Miami: frequently asked questions
How does the car elevator at Bentley Residences work?
Four “Dezervators” travel at 800 feet per minute. A hydraulic system pinches the car by its tyres and pulls it onto a robotic shuttle, which carries the vehicle to the resident’s floor. Cars carry RFID stickers so the system routes them automatically — the driver never gets out or presses a button. Ocean-facing units have four-car garages, Intracoastal-facing units three, all with EV charging.
Is Bentley Residences under construction?
Yes. Ground broke in February 2024, the record mat foundation pour completed in November 2025, and the superstructure passed Level 7 as of 11 June 2026, advancing about one floor every five to six working days. No source has published an update since then.
When will Bentley Residences be completed?
2028. The date has slipped roughly two years — it was 2026 from announcement through 2023, became 2027 at groundbreaking, and has been 2028 since mid-2025. At Level 7 of about 62 floors in June 2026, a 2028 delivery is achievable but requires the pace to hold.
How much does a residence at Bentley Residences cost?
Remaining inventory starts at $5.8 million as of November 2025, up from $3.9 million at the January 2022 launch. Two penthouses ask $37.5 million each. No price per square foot has ever been published by a credible source.
How many floors does Bentley Residences have?
The honest answer is that sources disagree. Current reporting says 62; the figure has also been published as 60, 61 and 63, and Bentley Motors’ own website says 61. Height is published as both 749 feet and 716 feet. Confirm the number in your contract rather than from marketing material.
How much of Bentley Residences has sold?
More than 50% presold as of November 2025 — the figure the $630 million construction loan was underwritten to. It was over 40% in March 2024, so roughly ten percentage points of absorption over twenty months. No sales figure has been published since.
Are Sunny Isles towers sinking, and does it affect Bentley Residences?
A University of Miami study published in December 2025 found roughly three dozen South Florida high-rises settling 2 to 8 centimetres, with the most significant effects in Sunny Isles Beach — including Dezer’s own Porsche Design Tower. Bentley Residences is not identified as sinking; it was mentioned only as a newer tower under construction. The study also noted that nobody monitors how towers settle after completion, which is a fair question to put to any developer on this strip.
Sources and further reading
- PROFILEmiami — Construction on Bentley Residences Miami Passes Level 7The most recent construction milestone, build pace, current pricing and Gil Dezer’s statement. Published 11 June 2026.
- Florida YIMBY — Construction Goes Vertical on 62-Story Bentley-Branded TowerVertical construction confirmation, 716-foot height figure and amenity programme. Published 4 June 2026.
- The Real Deal — Dezer Gets $630M Construction Loan for Bentley ResidencesThe Madison Realty Capital loan, the >50% presold figure, pricing from $5.8M and the two $37.5M penthouses. Published 5 November 2025.
- Florida YIMBY — Bentley Residences Completes Record-Breaking Mat Foundation PourThe 36-hour, 20,000-cubic-yard pour, unit sizes and contractor statements. Published 19 November 2025.
- PROFILEmiami — Inside Gil Dezer’s Patented DezervatorThe most detailed published account of how the car elevator works, and Dezer’s own explanation. Published 24 January 2024.
- Florida YIMBY — 62-Story Bentley Residences Breaks Ground at 18401 Collins AvenueGroundbreaking, the original single 24,000 sq ft $70M penthouse, 40%+ sold and the 2027 delivery target. Published 4 March 2024.
- Bentley Motors — Bentley Residences newsroom announcementBentley’s own technical description of the Dezervator mechanism and RFID system. Published 25 August 2022.
- The Real Deal — Sunny Isles Towers Sinking Faster Than ExpectedThe University of Miami settlement study, the buildings named, and the finding that post-completion settlement is not monitored. Published 5 December 2025.
- The Real Deal — Sunny Isles OKs Related, Dezer, BH Plans Amid OppositionThe neighbouring 62-storey approval, resident opposition and the vibration/subsidence monitoring commitment made there. Published 20 February 2026.
- The Real Deal — Dezer Slapped With Suit From Neighboring Sunny Isles CondoThe 2016 Millennium claim against Dezer, Coastal Construction and Sieger Suarez over Porsche Design Tower construction damage. Published 10 October 2016.
- Florida YIMBY — Todd English to Lead Private Residents-Only RestaurantThe Proper English restaurant addition and current delivery guidance. Published 4 February 2026.
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