The Isle of Venice is one of a cluster of named barrier islands that Fort Lauderdale built into its canal network generations ago, each one a narrow finger of land surrounded by navigable water on all sides. The names — Venice, Hispaniola, Bimini — were aspirational geography, a developer's promise of something European, something apart.
Casa Murano, positioned on a 120-foot stretch of Rio Grande Canal with no fixed bridges between it and the Atlantic Ocean, makes good on that promise in a way no address on this island has before.
This is a completed building — eight residences, five stories, delivered in 2024 — and that fact alone changes the conversation—no construction risk. No deposit schedule timed to excavation milestones. Eight homes, each with its own 50' × 15' deep-water dock, its own private rooftop terrace with a hot tub and Wolf summer kitchen, and its own elevator lobby.
The Rio Grande Canal, outside the building's 120-foot frontage, carries boats uninterrupted by a single bridge from the Intracoastal Waterway to the ocean inlet.
Adache Group Architects, headquartered in Fort Lauderdale and active across 45 countries on five continents, designed a building that makes its scale a feature rather than a constraint. At five stories and eight residences — two per floor — Casa Murano reads from the waterfront as a private compound rather than a condominium.
The building does not have a lobby in the conventional sense; it has a residential entry that flows directly to individual elevator lobbies for each home, creating vertical separation between neighbors that most mid-rise buildings only simulate.
Adache, who designed the W Fort Lauderdale Hotel & Residences and the Sandpearl Resort in Clearwater Beach — the latter of which earned Florida's first LEED Green Building Certification for a resort — brings hospitality-grade design discipline to a project with fewer than 10 units.
The result is a building that presents as a boutique hotel from the canal and as a private villa compound from within. The façade is contemporary and restrained: clean horizontal lines, floor-to-ceiling glazing, continuous wraparound balcony terraces with glass railings that maintain uninterrupted sightlines to the water from every elevation.
Studio IDC, a South Florida and Caribbean boutique design firm whose philosophy is described as warm, deliberate, and collected, with a hint of history and a nod to the future, handled the interiors. The material palette runs through Mia Cucina cabinetry, quartz and porcelain countertops, Wolf and Sub-Zero appliances, porcelain tile floors throughout, and marble-clad primary bathrooms with soaking tubs, rain showers, dual sinks, and separate vanities.
Every residence includes Italian-designed closets in the guest rooms. This detail reads as a flourish but signals a consistent approach: no room was finished to a standard different from the one before it.
Casa Murano offers condos for sale in Fort Lauderdale's Las Olas Isles in one configuration: three bedrooms, a den, and 4.5 bathrooms across approximately 3,100 square feet, with 692 square feet of exterior terrace space plus a private rooftop deck.
Every residence on every floor follows this plan, with south-facing units oriented toward Rio Grande Canal water views and north-facing units toward Dubrovka Street and the broader neighborhood. Floor positions differ primarily in rooftop terrace size.
The kitchen in every residence is 23'10" × 13'2" — a dimension more typical of a private home than a condominium, with a walk-in pantry at 11'6" × 3'1" and a living room anchored at 16'1" × 21'8". The main bedroom measures 14'6" × 20'7", with a dedicated walk-in closet measuring 7'3" × 13'7" and a master bath measuring 13'3" × 15'7".
The den/home office, at 8'11" × 13'2", functions as either a formal study or a fourth sleeping space with direct access from the main corridor. A wet bar with a full-height wine cooler and sink anchors the living room.
Floor Plan Overview
Note: Unit 3-S sold at $3,450,000 ($1,110/sq ft) in October 2024, topping Broward County's weekly condo sales. Current pricing for available units should be confirmed with a Bogatov Realty advisor, as market values have appreciated from original launch pricing.
At eight homes, Casa Murano's amenity program is intentionally small. What it does offer is precisely calibrated to the way boat owners, waterfront residents, and Las Olas regulars actually live — not amenities designed for a brochure, but ones that function daily.
Private Marina
120 feet of Rio Grande Canal frontage hosts eight 50' × 15' deep-water dock slips, one assigned to each residence, each with dockside power. The canal provides unobstructed ocean access — no fixed bridges between the marina and the Intracoastal, no drawbridge transit planning, no tidal window scheduling.
For owners who use their boats regularly, this is the building's most operationally consequential feature, and one that no comparable vertical condominium in Las Olas Isles currently replicates.
Rooftop Terraces
Every residence has a private rooftop terrace equipped with a hot tub and a Wolf 36" gas grill summer kitchen. Terrace sizes run from 563 sq ft (Floors 3 and 4) to 622 sq ft (Floor 2) to 830 sq ft for the penthouses. A private staircase connects each residence to its own rooftop from the primary living level.
These are not shared amenity decks — each is a private outdoor room overhead, accessed only by the residents of that unit.
Shared Outdoor Spaces
A heated waterfront pool faces the canal with a full BBQ area and lounge deck. An open green space with fire pit provides the kind of unstructured outdoor common area that high-density buildings rarely have room for. The site area is 14,400 sq ft — generous for a Las Olas Isles building — and the outdoor programming makes good use of it.
Building Infrastructure
Casa Murano includes a whole-building generator — not a standard feature in boutique residential construction — which eliminates the operational uncertainty that South Florida hurricane seasons introduce for marina-dependent owners.
Enclosed double-volume garages with EV charging are assigned per unit. An advanced security system and building-wide Wi-Fi complete the base infrastructure. The building is pet-friendly.
The Las Olas Isles is the address that Fort Lauderdale built for itself. While the beach hotels anchor the coastline and Brickell anchors Miami's financial identity, Las Olas Isles occupies a quieter, more specific category: a residential canal neighborhood whose streets are named after islands — Venice, Corsair, Bimini, Bahia — and whose residents navigate both by car and by boat.
Casa Murano sits on Isle of Venice Drive, accessed from the north side of Las Olas Boulevard, within a neighborhood where the primary throughfare for boats is the Intracoastal Waterway and where the nearest traffic signal is a drawbridge.
Las Olas Boulevard, less than a five-minute walk, is Fort Lauderdale's most functional luxury mile: not a retail strip but a working neighborhood street that happens to contain some of the area's best dining.
A Saturday on Isle of Venice
Saturday mornings on Isle of Venice run on boat time, not restaurant time.
The captains wave at each other from their helms with the casual familiarity of people who share a driveway. The first sign that the rest of the neighborhood has woken up is the smell of coffee from the Las Olas corner café that opens at nine-thirty, its outdoor tables facing the bridge over Rio Grande Canal rather than the street.
For those who want something quieter, Casablanca Café has a back patio overlooking the Intracoastal that most visitors miss because they sit at the front. The observation is not atmospheric — the back patio is genuinely on the water, with a dock, and occasional boats tie up for a meal.
The one adjustment new residents make is learning that Las Olas Isles is not a bar neighborhood after ten at night. The foot traffic is domestic — couples walking dogs along the canal embankment, early-retirees who bought their boats specifically for this address, the occasional rental guest from a Compass listing who hasn't figured out the drawbridge schedule yet.
If the evening energy of Las Olas Boulevard itself is what you're after, it's a short walk. Still, the island itself goes quiet, and that quiet is part of the value proposition most buyers articulate only after they've lived here a season.
Casa Murano occupies a specific and underserved market position: a completed, boutique waterfront condo in Fort Lauderdale's Las Olas Isles with assigned deep-water dock slips — a product that the pre-construction pipeline in this neighborhood has not replicated at this scale or this level of specification.
The most frequently cited comparable new development in Las Olas Isles — Serene, also an 8-unit boutique building with boat slips and rooftop decks — launched at $3.5M and above, with 45-foot dock slips versus Casa Murano's 50-foot slips. Serene has not yet completed construction as of mid-2026.
Casa Murano's advantage over competing pre-construction inventory is structural: it is a finished product with confirmed finishes, confirmed dock access, and a transaction record. The risk premium that pre-construction buyers pay is not present here.
Rental demand in Las Olas Isles for waterfront units with private dock access is specific and consistent. Unit 2-S rented for $14,500 per month in 2025, a figure that reflects both the building's finishes and the operationally unusual inclusion of a boat slip.
Each of the eight dock slips is 50' × 15', assigned exclusively to its unit, with dockside power. The canal at this location has no fixed bridges between the building and the ocean inlet, meaning ocean access requires no drawbridge coordination.
This is a structural advantage over many Las Olas Isles addresses, where one or more drawbridge transits are standard. The competing boutique development in the area, Serene, offers 45-foot slips and is still under construction as of mid-2026.
The maintenance fee is $0.49 per square foot. On a standard 3,108 sq ft south-facing unit, this is approximately $1,523 per month.
For comparison, boutique buildings in Las Olas Isles without concierge or amenity programming typically run $0.75 to $1.00 per square foot. Casa Murano's fee reflects a program calibrated to a small owner community.
These are different products. Bungalow East is a 34-unit oceanfront tower in North Beach Village with ocean and Intracoastal views but no private marina access.
Pier Sixty-Six is a three-tower, 92-residence development with a 164-slip marina — a resort-scale project at a different price point and ownership structure.
Casa Murano is an 8-unit development on a private canal with individual dock slips, no fixed bridges, and no shared marina infrastructure.
For a side-by-side with current available inventory across Fort Lauderdale waterfront condos, contact a Bogatov Realty advisor directly.
Harbordale Elementary School is approximately 0.7 miles from the building and is within the Broward County public school system. Sunrise Middle School and Fort Lauderdale High School serve the neighborhood at the secondary level.
Private school options along Broward Boulevard and in the Coral Ridge area add alternatives within a 15-minute drive. Families should verify current enrollment zoning directly with Broward County Schools before purchase.
To explore available residences at Casa Murano, review current pricing, or compare with similar waterfront listings on the Las Olas Isles, contact a Bogatov Realty advisor or submit an inquiry on this page.
