La Maré Bay Harbor Islands: Waterfront Residences, Floor Plans and Bay-View Layouts

La Maré Bay Harbor Islands is not a single tower but a brand of boutique waterfront buildings from Chicago-based Regency Development Group, set along East Bay Harbor Drive in Bay Harbor Islands. Architecture is credited to Kobi Karp, and interiors to Debora Aguiar Arquitetos. The developer organizes the project into the Regency Collection, the Signature Collection and the Bay Collection, a structure MILLION described in its comparison of La Maré with another Bay Harbor Islands project. Each collection is its own building with its own scale and mix of homes.

That structure matters for anyone studying layouts, because the water is used differently from one collection to the next. A building with many homes tends to repeat a limited number of plan types across its floors. A building with only a handful of residences can give each floor a single, bespoke plan. Reading the collections side by side is the clearest way to understand what La Maré offers.

The setting itself is a small island community on Biscayne Bay, and the developer's marketing leans on the waterfront: a bayfront shoreline, private boat slips for residents and rooftop pool decks. The sections below follow each collection's residence mix, then look at how terraces, upper floors and penthouse plans frame the view.

The Regency Collection, at 9927 East Bay Harbor Drive, is the broadest offering. According to the developer's website, it is an 8-story boutique building with 33 residences, all two- to four-bedroom homes. The site describes wrap-around, floor-to-ceiling glass walls designed to show panoramic views of Biscayne Bay, along with access to a private marina and an elevated rooftop pool deck.

MILLION reported that the Regency Collection's advertised sizes run from roughly 1,567 to 4,200 square feet. That range is wide enough to cover quite different ways of living. At the smaller end, a two-bedroom home suits a pied-à-terre or a lock-and-leave base on the water. At the larger end, a four-bedroom plan is built for full-time residence. The developer's own brochure describes the project's homes as light-filled and many of them as featuring bay views, so it is worth asking, line by line, which side of the building a given plan faces.

Because a building of this size stacks repeating lines, the practical questions are about orientation. Ask which lines have the widest frontage on the bay, how much of the glass wall opens onto a terrace, and which lines see the marina or the shoreline rather than neighboring buildings. Floor-plan PDFs from the developer answer much of this, and a site visit once construction allows can answer the rest.

The Signature Collection, at 9781 East Bay Harbor Drive, is the most intimate of the three. The developer's website describes nine residences in an 8-story, glass-clad waterfront building, with two- to four-bedroom homes, panoramic bay views from every residence, spacious terraces and private plunge pools. Florida YIMBY reported in October 2024, when construction began, that the collection's nine residences were three- and four-bedroom units of roughly 2,200 to 4,300 square feet, and the developer's brochure gives a range of 2,100 to over 4,200 square feet.

With nine homes in eight stories, the building is closer to a vertical townhouse stack than a conventional tower. The published floor plans show a second-floor residence with three bedrooms plus a den and a notably large terrace, followed by pairs of three-bedroom lines on the third and fourth floors. From the fifth floor up, the plans become single four-bedroom residences, one per floor. Where a plan occupies a whole floor, the living spaces can open to the water on more than one side, which is the main reason full-floor plans feel different from a typical line.

The brochure also lists custom Poliform kitchens with Miele appliances, Antonio Lupi fixtures and primary bathrooms with a dual shower and deep soaking tub. Large glass-walled terraces are billed as suited to entertaining, and the building features a bayfront outdoor area with boat slips and a rooftop pool deck.

Across the project, the terrace is the device that turns a view into usable space. The developer's brochure highlights large glass-walled terraces, and the Signature Collection's marketing speaks of terraces that allow seamless indoor-outdoor living. The glass walls and terraces are meant to work together: the interior reads as a continuation of the outdoor space, with ceilings the Neo project listing describes as reaching up to ten feet or more in the Regency Collection.

The published Signature floor plans show how much terrace size varies by line. The lower residences carry smaller outdoor areas relative to their interiors, while the large second-floor plan has one of the most generous terraces in the building. On the upper floors, terraces grow again alongside the larger four-bedroom interiors. A buyer who plans to entertain outdoors or to use the terrace as a daily extension of the living room should compare terrace area against interior area, not just total square footage.

Total area in the published plans combines interior and terrace space, so it is worth separating the two when comparing homes. Two residences with similar totals can feel quite different if one has a larger terrace and the other more air-conditioned space. Ask for both figures, and ask which rooms open onto the terrace and which face a solid wall.

In the Signature Collection, the top of the building is where the plans differ most from the rest. The published floor plans place a four-bedroom residence on each of the fifth through eighth floors, and the upper floors carry larger terraces than the lower three-bedroom lines. These are single-residence floors, so the bay view is not shared with a neighboring line on the same level. The developer's press page includes coverage headlined around a full-floor penthouse at La Maré, which points to the project's emphasis on this format, though buyers should confirm exactly which residence any given report describes.

Height changes what the water view contains. Lower floors sit closer to the shoreline, landscaping and boat slips, so the water feels immediate and the activity on the dock is part of the scene. Higher floors trade that immediacy for a wider sweep across Biscayne Bay and the surrounding islands. Neither is better in the abstract; it depends on whether you want to be near the water or above it.

A listing aggregator describes the Bay Collection's unit mix as three- and four-bedroom homes plus penthouses, and MILLION reported publicly presented plans there in the range of roughly 2,897 to 5,389 square feet. The same outlet characterizes the Bay Collection as larger-format villa living. For anyone considering a penthouse, the questions are practical: how much of the terrace is covered, whether a private pool is included, how the plan is entered, and what the bay view looks like from the primary suite rather than the living room.

The water at La Maré is not only a view. The Signature Collection's marketing lists private boat slips available to residents and a landscaped bayfront shoreline with lounge areas, and the Regency Collection's page mentions a private marina. A boat owner should ask each collection what size vessels the slips accommodate, how slips are assigned or sold, and what the process is for reaching the bay and the Atlantic from the Bay Harbor Islands waterways.

The rooftop is the other shared waterfront space. The Signature Collection's features include a resort-style rooftop pool deck with a jacuzzi, lounge chairs, daybeds, an outdoor kitchen and a bar and lounge. Listings for the Bay Collection describe an infinity pool, a rooftop bar, a spa with steam and sauna, a fitness center and an on-site doorman. Amenity lists differ between collections, and some are described only in third-party material, so confirm each against the developer's current offering plan.

Bay Harbor Islands itself is a quiet residential community, and La Maré positions its homes as primary residences rather than vacation units. MILLION's comparison with a neighboring project noted that La Maré emphasizes waterfront and marina living. That emphasis shows up in the layouts: the buildings are oriented toward the bay, with the glass and terraces facing the water.

Because La Maré spans three buildings at different stages, the most useful comparison is by line rather than by brand. Start with the bedroom count and whether a den is included, then compare interior area against terrace area, then consider the floor. The Signature plans, for example, move from a den-equipped three-bedroom on the second floor to full-floor four-bedroom homes on the upper levels, while the Regency Collection offers a broader spread, down to two-bedroom homes.

Next, ask for the current status of each building. Florida YIMBY reported in October 2024 that construction had begun on the Signature Collection, and the Regency and Bay collections have been presented at different points in the development timeline. Delivery dates, availability and pricing change, and they should be confirmed directly with the developer's sales team rather than relied on from a summary.

Finally, look closely at the specifics of the water view. Ask which direction each plan faces, what lies between the terrace and the bay, whether a private plunge pool is part of the plan, and how the building's slips and rooftop connect to the shoreline. For help comparing lines across the three collections, Denis Smykalov and Wolsen Waterfront can walk through the published floor plans and outline what to verify with the developer.