Ocean House is a boutique oceanfront building at 9317 Collins Avenue — northern Surfside, close to the 96th Street boundary with Bal Harbour. Its position makes it one of the closest Surfside residential addresses to Bal Harbour Shops, which matters for buyers evaluating the neighborhood comparison. Delivering 2027.
Building Overview
Twenty-five residences, 2 to 4 bedrooms plus penthouse configurations, ranging from approximately 2,093 to 6,279 square feet of interior space. Every unit has private elevator access — a standard in boutique oceanfront buildings at this price level that removes the shared-corridor dynamic of larger developments. The architecture is designed to capture east, south, and west views from different positions within the building, which is a specific site consideration rather than a marketing formula.
The amenity program is well-proportioned for 25 owners: rooftop pool and event lounge, spa and wellness center with vitality pool, fitness studio with private training room, landscaped terraces, reflecting ponds with floating cabanas, club room, and summer kitchen. The reflecting ponds with floating cabanas is an unusual landscaping detail — the kind of specific investment that signals design seriousness rather than checkbox amenity delivery. Carla Guilhem Design handled the interiors with a natural materials approach — stone, wood, and organic textures — calibrated for a building where indoor-outdoor living is the spatial premise.
Architecture & Developer
Bernardo Fort-Brescia is the co-founder of Arquitectonica, the Miami firm whose work has shaped more of South Florida's architectural identity than any other practice over the past four decades. Fort-Brescia's personal involvement in a 25-unit boutique building is notable — the firm typically operates at much larger scale. The building reflects a more restrained register than Arquitectonica's signature commercial work: floor-to-ceiling glass, large private terraces, and a facade design that prioritizes ocean view capture over street-facing presence.
Multiplan Real Estate Asset Management is the developer. Brazilian-based, with a portfolio that includes luxury residential and hospitality projects in South America and now expanding in Miami. The developer's international orientation is relevant because it shapes the buyer network — Multiplan's connections in Brazil bring Latin American buyers who track their projects.
Buyer Profile
The northern Surfside position — one block from the Bal Harbour boundary — attracts buyers who want the Surfside address (and its town character, its public beach access, its price point relative to Bal Harbour) with the added benefit of being walking distance from Bal Harbour Shops. This is a specific geographic sweet spot that only northern Surfside buildings occupy.
The buyer profile for Ocean House skews toward buyers who want boutique oceanfront new construction at a scale that larger buildings in the market don't offer. Latin American buyers familiar with Multiplan, and buyers who specifically value Arquitectonica's involvement, are represented in the inquiry pool.
How It Fits the Market
Ocean House occupies a specific position in the Surfside building spectrum: oceanfront, boutique, Arquitectonica-designed, upper-mid-luxury tier. It sits above Arte in unit count (25 vs 16) but below the Surf Club in both scale and service model. The building doesn't attempt to be a branded residence — it is a residential building designed with care, which is a different proposition than the hotel-services model of the Surf Club.
For buyers comparing Ocean House against Arte Surfside at similar budgets, the evaluation is partly architectural (Citterio vs Fort-Brescia, European classicism vs contemporary Miami) and partly practical (Arte's larger minimum unit size vs Ocean House's 2-bedroom entry point). For buyers comparing Ocean House against Bal Harbour resale at equivalent prices, the question is whether the Surfside address with Arquitectonica design justifies the cross-street comparison. That answer depends on lifestyle priorities more than building metrics. See the Surfside vs Bal Harbour comparison and the Surfside real estate overview for broader context.