Guides · Surfside
A small oceanfront town between Bal Harbour and Miami Beach
Surfside is a compact oceanfront town squeezed between Bal Harbour and Miami Beach, with one main commercial strip, a family-scale beachfront, and a stock of older condos now joined by new boutique towers. It is the beach town that feels like a neighborhood: children walk to school, residents walk to the beach, and the dining strip on Harding Avenue anchors daily life. Buyers here get oceanfront value with small-town rules.
The question to ask
Do you want the smaller town's quiet, and are you prepared for the rebuilding wave's timeline and fees?
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Plan a visitThe lifestyle
What a typical week looks like here.
A walkable beach town with the ocean one block east
The Harding Avenue dining and shopping strip
Family-scale schools and a village government
New boutique towers replacing older stock
Bal Harbour's shops and Miami Beach's nightlife minutes away
Before you buy
What to know before you make an offer in Surfside.
Every town has its fine print, and the fine print is where real estate mistakes live. These are the things buyers in Surfside learn by their second transaction; Kelby covers them on the first.
The town is active with redevelopment; compare reserve studies and special assessments in older buildings
New construction carries deposit schedules that run years before delivery
Flood insurance applies to most of the town's oceanfront and canal-side addresses
Unit counts are small, so each building's rules drive the math
Verified · Surfside
Community facts, verified at the source.
The details below are drawn from public research, with clickable source links for every claim, verified October 2026. Where a number cannot be verified, it reads “Contact for current information” and the answer is one call away.
Surf Row, the current new tower
Surf Row Residences, LD&D's eight-story, 24-residence building at 8800 Collins Avenue, broke ground in late 2025 with starting prices of about $1.4 million and delivery reported for 2027, securing a $30.5 million construction loan in March 2026.
Sources · verified October 2026
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