The St. Regis Residences, Bahia Mar

Bahia Mar occupies the narrow strip between the Intracoastal Waterway and Fort Lauderdale Beach, immediately south of the Las Olas beach crossing. It is one of the few sites in the city with deep-water marina frontage on one side and the Atlantic a short walk away on the other, which is why the parcel has been the subject of redevelopment attention for well over a decade.

The practical consequence for a resident is a location that behaves differently from both a downtown tower and a conventional beach condominium. The beach is walkable rather than across a highway, but the daily context is the marina and the A1A corridor rather than a residential street grid. Groceries, schools and the office core are a short drive west across the Las Olas bridge.

Related Group's own project page and contemporaneous trade reporting establish the site, the developer group, the branded-residence structure under St. Regis, the architect and the interior designer, along with a plan of two towers of 23 stories and 160 residences sized from roughly 2,600 to 3,550 square feet.

Everything downstream of that — final unit mix, association budget, assessment structure, marina slip arrangements and delivery date — is developer-stated or not yet published. Pre-construction timelines in South Florida commonly move, and a stated 2029 delivery should be treated as a target rather than a commitment.

A pre-construction purchase in Florida is a contract with a developer, not a purchase from an existing owner. Deposits are typically staged and substantial, held under the terms of the purchase agreement, and the buyer is relying on the developer's prospectus rather than on an operating association's financial history.

That changes the diligence. There is no reserve study to read and no assessment history to review, because neither exists yet. Instead the material documents are the prospectus and its budget projections, the developer's completion track record, the description of what is and is not included in the residence, and the developer's rights to modify the plan. Those provisions deserve counsel review before a deposit is placed.

Amenities below are drawn from the building’s own published material. Availability, hours and any usage fees are set by the association and should be confirmed for the current year.

• Private beach club
• Marina access at Bahia Mar
• Twenty-four-hour concierge
• Valet parking

• This is a pre-construction contract with a developer, not a resale purchase — the prospectus, deposit schedule and developer modification rights govern the transaction.
• The stated 2029 delivery is a target; South Florida delivery dates commonly move by a year or more.
• Marina slips at Bahia Mar are a separate arrangement from residence ownership; do not assume dockage is included.
• Projected association budgets in a prospectus are estimates, and first-year operating costs at branded buildings frequently exceed them.
• Branded-residence buildings carry a licensing or brand-services component in the operating budget that a conventional condominium does not.

The items below are the diligence steps that apply to this building because of its structure, location and stage of delivery. They are questions to ask, not statements of fact about the association: pet rules, leasing restrictions, reserves, assessments, insurance and any building-specific ownership requirements must be confirmed from the current recorded documents before contracting.

The St. Regis Residences, Bahia Mar sits in Harbor Beach, and the area shapes the daily experience of living there as much as the building does. Our Harbor Beach neighborhood guide covers character, water access, walkability and who the area suits.