South Beach
Art Deco, Ocean Drive, the original Miami.
The neighborhood that put Miami on the global map. Art Deco hotels, Lincoln Road, Ocean Drive, and a residential pocket west of Alton Road that locals quietly hold for decades.
Investment thesis
South Beach is the lifestyle premium. Long-term rentals run lower yield than Brickell, but pied-à-terre demand from the European/Latin American owner segment is essentially permanent.
Short-term rental restrictions are tight on the residential streets; in approved hotel-condo product (e.g., 1 Hotel, Ocean Drive lobby condos) the economics are different.
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Lifestyle
South Beach is two cities. East of Washington Avenue: tourists, nightlife, Ocean Drive's neon. West of Alton Road: residential streets, palm-shaded cottages, walk-to-beach single-family homes that rarely change hands.
Lincoln Road is the daytime spine. The Bass Museum, New World Symphony, Fillmore Theater anchor the cultural offering.
Who lives here
Two populations: hospitality and entertainment workers in the east, and longtime residents (mostly Cuban-American and Jewish-American families) west of Alton Road who hold homes across generations.
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