Aventura

Aventura is a planned city from the 1970s built around two things: the Turnberry Isle golf course, whose Country Club Drive loop is a three-mile walking and cycling path, and Aventura Mall, one of the largest shopping centers in the country. Between them and the Intracoastal Waterway stands one of South Florida's densest concentrations of condominium towers, almost all of them from 1985 onward.

The towers group by setting. Along the Intracoastal and Dumfoundling Bay — the Point complexes, Mystic Pointe, Porto Vita, Bellini and the Williams Island towers just south of the city — units face open water and the Sunny Isles skyline; along Country Club Drive, buildings such as Turnberry Towers, Hamptons and the Parc at Turnberry look over the golf course; along Biscayne Boulevard, newer projects like Prive, Echo and Marina Palms mix in with the older stock. The Aventura Brightline station now connects the city to downtown and Fort Lauderdale by rail.

It is a market of choice rather than scarcity: hundreds of units are for sale at any time, so the building pages here matter most for what separates one tower from the next — age, reserves, views, and the fees that a large amenity deck brings.