Aventura Title Company

Aventura did not exist, in any real sense, fifty years ago. The land was swamp until the early 1970s, when the developer Donald Soffer and his partners began filling it and building, and the name they chose, Spanish for adventure, came from a remark about what a gamble the whole thing was going to be. What rose from that gamble is one of the most recognizable skylines in northeast Miami-Dade: a planned city of luxury high-rises between Biscayne Boulevard and the Intracoastal, anchored by one of the largest shopping malls in the country and, since 2018, by a ninety-three-foot Carsten Höller slide twisting down the side of it.

For a buyer or seller, the youth of Aventura is the key to the place. This is, overwhelmingly, a condominium and planned-community market, which means that in most Aventura transactions the documents that govern a building or an association are not a footnote to the property; they are a large part of the property itself. Buying a unit here means buying into the records, the finances, the assessments, and the disclosures of the association that runs it, and reading all of that closely is what protects you from inheriting a problem somebody else created. The association's estoppel certificate confirms, to the dollar, what is owed at closing, and on a financed purchase the lender's own requirements have to be folded into the same timeline so nothing slips. Many Aventura associations also have to approve the buyer or process a transfer of the unit, and coordinating that approval alongside the estoppel certificate is part of keeping the closing on schedule.

The records themselves tend to be modern, which is a help, but the diligence is no less important for it. A careful title search confirms the chain of title and surfaces anything that does not belong, an unreleased mortgage, a lien from a prior owner, an easement nobody mentioned, and whatever it finds is raised as an exception in the title commitment and cleared before closing, so that the owner's and lender's policies we issue through Commonwealth Land Title and First American rest on solid ground. Aventura also draws a large international and all-cash buyer pool, especially from Latin America, and those deals move best when the escrow is run by people who have handled a great many like them and who document entity and trust ownership correctly the first time.

That combination, a condominium-heavy market and a steady flow of cross-border buyers, is exactly the kind of work a boutique firm is built for. Union Title Services has been closing Florida transactions since 1985. We are family-owned and counsel-led through the affiliated Law Offices of Thomas G. Sherman, P.A., and being counsel-led is the part that matters most in Aventura: an attorney is part of your file from the start, not a referral you go hunting for when a question about association documents or a foreign buyer's paperwork finally surfaces.

Florida sets title premiums by law, so the rate is identical at every agency; the real difference is who is doing the work and whether you can get them on the phone. When you call our Coral Gables office, you reach the people actually doing the work, and the lawyer is in the same building rather than another area code. Closing funds are moved securely, with wiring instructions confirmed by voice. We close throughout Florida, and we give an Aventura high-rise contract the same attention whether it is a first condominium or a penthouse on the water. If an Aventura closing is on the horizon, the best time to call is early, while there is still room to head off the small surprises before they become large ones. Reach us at (305) 444-4508.