MAREA ESTATE MANAGEMENT
OUR STANDARD

Marea is new in Miami. The people are not.

Our founders' careers were spent building at the highest level in Manhattan. The standards, the tradespeople and the vendor network came south with them. That is the standard we come from, and the one we bring to your home here.

THE FOUNDERS

Jimmy A. Lerma

CO-FOUNDER · CONSTRUCTION

Two decades in luxury residential construction in New York, most recently as VP of Operations at one of the city’s top residential construction firms. He ran the work in Manhattan apartments where a single room can take a year and nothing is allowed to be approximate.

He brings the trades with him: the plasterers, carpenters, tile setters and stone fabricators he has worked beside for years.

Carlos Ospina

CO-FOUNDER · OPERATIONS

Fifteen years in operations, scaled globally at Uber Technologies — building businesses that run flawlessly at scale. He brings that discipline to a far smaller number of houses.

Scheduling, procurement, reporting and the daily follow-through: he is the reason the schedule and the budget hold up once a project is underway.

OUR FOUNDERS' WORK IN NEW YORK INCLUDES

Credentials, not a portfolio.

These are the buildings and the design teams our founders worked in and alongside during their New York careers. We list them because they set the standard your home is held to — not as work completed by this firm in Miami.

One57
432 Park Avenue
15 Hudson Yards
Baccarat Residences
The Kent
One Manhattan Square
100 Barclay
The Beekman Residences
995 Fifth Avenue
1010 Park Avenue
90 Morton
Central Park Tower
160 Leroy
ARCHITECTS & DESIGNERS

Our founders built their careers in the company of the most prestigious architects and interior design firms in the United States — the New York studios whose names sit on the city’s most iconic residences and towers. Working to those drawings is an unforgiving standard: details resolved to the millimetre, finishes reviewed under gallery light, schedules that hold across dozens of trades. On Park Avenue, along the High Line and above Central Park, they delivered the level of craft those firms stake their reputations on. That fluency — reading an architect’s intent and protecting it through every layer of the build — came south with them, and it is what we bring to your home.

New York residence interior
HOW WE WORK

Four things we do not bend on.

01
One point of contact
You never chase a subcontractor. One person owns every answer.
02
Priced before we start
Scope and cost agreed up front, tracked openly, changes shown before they happen.
03
Our own trades
The same crews on every job, chosen for craft rather than availability.
04
We stay after
The relationship continues into maintenance, not the final invoice.

Meet the people who will be at your house.

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