2361 SW 18th Ave, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33315

This is not your typical Florida property. Custom-built with an out-of-the-box urban loft feel, this CBS home has solid concrete walls, floors and a precast concrete plank roof reinforced with commercial-grade steel, plus hurricane impact glass. An enclosed laundry/bathroom with its own entrance doubles as a storm-safe room for total peace of mind. No HOA, on a quiet street that stayed dry during this fall’s King Tides, after River Oaks’ 2024 Stormwater Preserve infrastructure upgrade. Inside, 14-ft ceilings and a custom 10-ft entry door lead to an open kitchen with mid-century metal cabinetry and a wood-burning fireplace. The showpiece: an authentic Morris Lapidus-designed Verde Alpi serpentine mantel, circa 1954, salvaged from the Presidential Suite of the iconic Fontainebleau Miami Beach in 2006, with two bronze Satyress figures and a sculpted boar’s head centerpiece. Massive 12-ft sliding glass doors open to a shaded garden of exotic palms and mature live oaks, with a winding...