Photo Tour: $34 Million Miami Beach Home With Rooftop Water Slide Finds A Buyer

It is fun for the whole family! Last week, we took a photo tour of one of my favorite old Miami Beach homes, and this week we get to go on a photo tour of one of my favorite new Miami Beach homes!

This newly built home at 4555 Pine Tree Drive has 16,000 square feet of living space and an additional 3,000 square feet of outdoor living space. Even indoors though, you are able to open the sliding glass walls to give an indoor/outdoor feel and maximize your enjoyment of Miami’s fabulous climate. In total, the home has 6 bedrooms and 7 bathrooms plus 2 powder rooms. Elements of the home include stunning views of the Atlantic Ocean from the master bedroom, a water slide concealed by an elegant glass staircase, a pool with open views and a boat dock that will be built to suit the buyers’ preferences.

We won’t have word until after the closing of who the buyer is or how much the property ultimately sells for, but you can rest assured we will be watching and waiting.

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Without further adieu, the photos:

Latin Singer-Songwriter Ricardo Montaner Lists Miami Beach Home For $11M

Ricardo Montaner, the South American singer-songwriter who is famous for singing love songs. Over the course of his 30+ year career, he has sold over 22 million albums and I want to sing 22 million love songs to his Miami Beach waterfront estate, which hit the market this week for $11 million.

I showed this Miami Beach luxury home several years back, when it was being quietly offered as an off-market deal and there is just something special about the place. The property is located at 4950 Pinetree Drive in Miami Beach. It is a corner lot on a secluded part of the street that is extremely quiet despite being in the middle of Miami Beach. Because the house osits on a 46,000 square foot corner lot, the estate boasts a whopping 400 linear feet of water frontage!! That’s more than most condo developments!

The house owned by Ricardo Montaner was constructed in 1939 and could use a bit of modernization but is absolutely stunning. There is a gorgeous atrium that I could imagine having fabulous dinner parties in, or a romantic dinner for 2 in a setting so disgustingly romantic, it would be fit for The Bachelor TV show. The poolside cabana is large enough to be a single family home of its own, with a rooftop observation deck.

Overall, the house has nearly 8,000 square feet of living space under a/c with 8 bedrooms, 7 bathrooms and 1 half bath. Sadly, I did not see the Ricardo Montaner home on the list at the Miami Beach Historic Preservation Board. I’ll be praying that whoever is the ultimate buyer of the property doesn’t destroy this gem to make way for a gauche McMansion with drop ceilings in the gameroom.

Bloomberg Calls Kobi Karp Miami’s Mega-Mansion Architect of Choice, Apparently

If you’re involved in the Miami architecture or real estate scene, then you probably have an opinion about one of its most prolific architects, Kobi Karp. Love him or hate him, his work is everywhere, including some of the most massive houses designed in Miami and Miami Beach in the last five years. Is he the the Stanford White of modern day Miami? Ha! No. But Bloomberg interviewed him, in an article published today, calling him Miami’s “mega mansion architect of choice.” The article is about all the over-the-top amenities that many of Miami’s richest homeowners want in a brand new stucco castle by the bay, and in that sense Kobi probably is the expert. Here are some of his most memorable quotes:

“What became apparent is that the individuals coming to Miami wanted a home that didn’t exist.”

Photos via Kobi Karp.

“Some people who have a lot of entertainment, a lot of parties, they want to break away [to the rooftop where] you’re the VIP, you’re up above the treetops…They might have a plunge pool or jacuzzi, but certainly a summer kitchen [and often seating elements called] waterproof poufs.”

“Nobody [in Miami] wants to see a light fixture, unless it’s decorative.”

“Ninety percent of my houses have elevators. When you’re a little bit old, or a little bit drunk, an elevator really helps.”

And not to mention that he always likes to include a poolside “cabana or casita.”