Russian Buyers Guide to South Florida Real Estate: Sanctions Landscape, Sunny Isles, and What Still Works in 2026

The Russian buyer landscape in South Florida changed substantially after February 2022. For Russian nationals not on any sanctions list, the purchase path still exists. Here is what the current environment actually looks like and how to navigate it.

The Russian buyer landscape in South Florida changed substantially after February 2022. The honest answer is that some of what I describe here reflects how things work now, not how they worked three years ago. I will address both periods, because many Russian buyers I work with today either purchased before 2022 and have questions about their current situation, or are Russian nationals living in third countries who are navigating the current environment. The History: Why Sunny Isles Sunny Isles Beach earned the nickname "Little Moscow" over two decades of Russian buyer concentration. Trump Royale, Château Beach, Jade Signature, Porsche Design Tower, and other Sunny Isles towers developed deep Russian buyer communities. The draws were consistent: the safe jurisdiction for asset preservati...