Every few years a Miami project comes along that makes people stop scrolling. Bentley Residences is one of them. The pitch sounds almost unreal: a 63-story oceanfront tower in Sunny Isles Beach where you drive your car into a glass elevator, ride up dozens of floors, and park inside your own condominium. As a Miami real estate agent, I have learned to be skeptical of gimmicks — but the more I look at Bentley Residences, the more I see a serious, scarce, collectible asset. Here is the honest breakdown.

The Concept: Your Car Lives With You

Let me start with the feature everyone asks about, because it is genuinely the heart of this building.

Bentley Residences uses a patented in-residence car elevator system — the Dezervator — that lifts your vehicle from the ground level directly up to your home. Each residence has its own private garage that holds multiple cars, up to four in the larger units. Your collection is not in a basement valet stack. It is with you, on your floor, visible from inside your home.

For most buyers, that is a novelty. For a certain buyer — the car collector, the enthusiast, the person whose garage is part of their identity — it is the entire reason the building exists. And that is exactly why this works as real estate: it is not built for everyone. It is built for a specific, wealthy, global audience, and there is nothing else like it on Earth.

The Building and the Developer

Bentley Residences rises roughly 749 feet across 63 stories, directly on the sand in Sunny Isles Beach — the stretch of oceanfront between Miami Beach and Aventura that has become South Florida's address of choice for international ultra-luxury buyers.

The developer is Dezer Development, the family behind much of Sunny Isles' modern skyline, including the Porsche Design Tower that pioneered the car-elevator concept. This matters. Dezer did not license a famous name and hope for the best — they invented this category and proved it can be built and delivered. The patented elevator technology is theirs. When you buy here, you are buying from the team with the only real track record in branded automotive towers.

The Residences

Bentley Residences holds 216 homes, and the design philosophy is exclusivity by layout. These are not interior units squeezed beside a hallway. Every residence is a full-floor or corner home, each with direct ocean views, a private balcony pool or plunge feature on many layouts, and that signature in-residence multi-car garage.

The interiors carry the Bentley design language — the same obsessive material quality, craftsmanship, and restrained British luxury that defines the cars. Diamond-quilted detailing, fine woods and metals, and a precision finish are the expectation, not the upgrade.

Pricing and the Market Position

Bentley Residences is firmly in the ultra-luxury tier. Pricing has generally run from roughly $5.5 million for the entry residences up into the tens of millions for the largest homes and penthouses.

That is a different conversation than the one I had in "Baccarat Residences Brickell: Is There Still Time to Get Into Miami's Most In-Demand Tower?" — Baccarat is an urban, broad-market branded tower, while Bentley Residences is a narrow, trophy-tier oceanfront product. They are not competitors. They serve different buyers entirely.

The right comparison for Bentley is scarcity itself. There is exactly one Bentley-branded residential building in the world, and this is it. When supply is fixed at 216 units globally and the brand behind it is one of the most recognized luxury names on the planet, the investment thesis is straightforward: rarity holds value.

The Investment Case

Here is how I frame Bentley Residences for a serious buyer or investor.

First, scarcity. I have said it twice because it is the whole argument. Branded residences as a category have grown roughly 180% over the past decade, but most of that growth is hotels and fashion houses entering the space. A first-and-only automotive flagship is a different level of rare. Scarce, branded, oceanfront assets in proven luxury corridors tend to defend their value through cycles.

Second, the buyer pool. The audience for this building is global and largely insulated from local market swings — collectors and ultra-high-net-worth families who buy on brand and uniqueness, not on price per square foot. That same audience drives Sunny Isles' international demand, which I touched on in "Living in Aventura 2026: The Miami Neighborhood Guide for Families, Investors, and International Buyers," since Aventura and Sunny Isles share that international, luxury-leaning buyer base.

Third, the location. Oceanfront land in Sunny Isles is finite and almost fully built out. Direct-sand towers of this caliber simply cannot be replicated — there is no more beach to put them on.

For a Miami business owner deploying significant capital, a pre-construction trophy asset like this also offers staged deposits over the build period rather than a single outlay, and the usual ownership-structure and tax planning should be done with your CPA and attorney before you commit.

What to Watch

I will not pretend this building is for everyone. The price of entry is high, and the carrying costs of an ultra-luxury branded oceanfront tower — association fees, insurance, brand-service fees — are substantial. The Dezervator is brilliant, but it is also specialized machinery; the building's reserves and maintenance program for that system are something I would review carefully with any client, the way I always advise in "How to Read a Miami Condo Building's Financials Before You Buy." And as with all pre-construction, completion timelines can shift.

For the right buyer, none of that changes the verdict. Bentley Residences is a once-only asset, and once-only assets are exactly what hold their place in a portfolio.

View the full Bentley Residences project page with current pricing, floor plans, and availability at carloscabalerealtor.com/new-development/bentley-residences.

Miami Market Snapshot — May 2026:

- The global branded residences sector has grown roughly 180% over the past decade, with Miami a leading market.

- Miami was ranked the world's #1 second-home destination in 2025, fueling oceanfront ultra-luxury demand.

- Miami's millionaire population has grown about 94% over the past decade.

- Sunny Isles Beach oceanfront land is nearly fully built out — direct-sand towers of this scale cannot be replicated.

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: How much do units at Bentley Residences Sunny Isles cost?

A: Pricing has generally started around $5.5 million for entry residences and rises into the tens of millions for the largest homes and penthouses. Bentley Residences is firmly an ultra-luxury, trophy-tier oceanfront product aimed at a global, high-net-worth audience.

Q: How does the car elevator at Bentley Residences work?

A: Bentley Residences uses the patented Dezervator system. You drive your car into a dedicated glass elevator at ground level, and it lifts the vehicle directly up to a private garage inside your own residence. Larger units accommodate up to four cars.

Q: Who is developing Bentley Residences and when is it completed?

A: The developer is Dezer Development, the family behind Sunny Isles' skyline and the original Porsche Design Tower car-elevator concept. The 63-story oceanfront tower is under development; confirm the current construction timeline, as pre-construction completion dates can shift.

Q: Is Bentley Residences a good investment?

A: Its case rests on scarcity — it is the world's first and only Bentley-branded residential building, with just 216 oceanfront full-floor and corner homes. Rare, branded, direct-sand assets in built-out luxury corridors tend to hold value well. Verify fees and timelines first.

Let's find your next address — whether it's a trophy or a starter, I've got you. Explore the full Bentley Residences project on my website: https://www.carloscabalerealtor.com/new-development/bentley-residences

Carlos Cabale/ Partnership Realty Inc/ +1 (561) 629-0358/ carloscabalerealtor.com