Surf House at The Surf Club

8995 Collins Avenue, Surfside, FL

Surf House at The Surf Club stands at 8995 Collins Avenue in Surfside, an 11-story boutique oceanfront building developed by JMH Development and designed by Jerome Engelking, with architectural support by Kobi Karp. The numbers tell most of the story: seventeen to nineteen residences in a building of eleven stories, offered as full-size homes rather than apartments, in a market where oceanfront towers routinely carry two hundred. That arithmetic shapes everything about living here. With so few homes, the building operates less like a condominium and more like a private house with neighbors, and the shared spaces carry none of the crowding that comes with scale. Each residence features floor-to-ceiling glass, expansive terraces or balconies with direct Atlantic views, and large layouts averaging over 4,000 square feet across two- to five-bedroom floorplans, proportions that accommodate households with children, guests and staff without the compromises that smaller footprints impose. The project offers private beach access along a preserved stretch of coastline, and common-area design aims to blend contemporary sensibilities with the historic elegance of the original property heritage, a reference that gives the interiors a lineage most new buildings cannot claim and that shapes the materials and detailing throughout. Because there are so few owners, the building can be run at a level of attention that larger associations struggle to sustain, and the beachfront setting remains quiet in a way that density rarely allows. Surfside supplies the setting, a small oceanfront town on a barrier island north of Miami Beach, where the beach is the center of civic life, the streets remain low-rise and walkable, and the scale of the town matches the scale of the building. Delivery is anticipated for 2026, and residences are currently selling. At this scale the building functions less as a condominium than as a small collection of beach houses stacked above the sand, which is precisely what buyers at this level are looking for.