Fortune International Group

Fortune International Group is a Miami real estate developer and brokerage founded in 1983 by Edgardo Defortuna. The firm develops luxury oceanfront condominiums across South Florida and runs a large sales and marketing arm that reaches international buyers. Fortune is co-developing the St. Regis Residences Sunny Isles Beach, a two-tower branded project on the Atlantic. Over four decades it has become one of the most active names in the region’s ultra-luxury market, pairing development with the brokerage muscle to pre-sell towers to a global clientele.

Three businesses operate under one roof at Fortune International Group, and the combination is the point: development, exclusive on-site sales and marketing representation, and brokerage. The company describes itself as the only privately owned real estate brand in South Florida to combine all three.

The development arm has delivered more than 30 residential towers and roughly 8 million square feet. Separately, Fortune Development Sales acts as the exclusive on-site sales and marketing representative for third-party developers, with a portfolio of over 100 projects. Across owned and marketed properties, the group counts more than 120 residential towers and around 31,000 units marketed and sold, against roughly $3 billion in annual sales.

On the brokerage side, the 2022 tie-up with Christie’s International Real Estate created Fortune Christie’s International Real Estate, one of the largest independent brokerages in South Florida. It runs more than 1,000 multilingual agents across twenty-one local and international offices, four of them flagship locations on Brickell Avenue, and plugs the firm into a global network of roughly 100,000 luxury real estate professionals. Brokerage services extend past resale into leasing, new development marketing, property management and private lending.

Branded residences are where the firm has spent much of its recent energy, and it was doing this well before the model became standard in luxury housing. Current and recent work includes ORA Residences by Casa Tua, The Ritz-Carlton Residences in both Sunny Isles Beach and Pompano Beach, Jade Signature, Jade Ocean and Jade Brickell. The pattern is partnership with hospitality brands, lifestyle innovators and design and architecture practices to produce buildings that cannot be replicated by a competitor down the beach.

Fortune frames the design process as a dialogue rather than a handoff — a running consideration of how living spaces, the people in them and the surrounding environment interact. That collaborative structure, with a recurring group of architects, designers and brand partners, is how the firm says it maintains consistency across projects that span four decades and multiple market cycles.

Geographically the work is concentrated in Miami and Miami-Dade County, with the Christie’s affiliation covering Miami-Dade and Broward, and development along the Sunny Isles Beach and Pompano Beach oceanfront. Buyers come from well outside Florida: the group positions itself as a global representative to international purchasers of South Florida luxury property, which is what the twenty-one-office footprint and multilingual agent base exist to serve.

For developers evaluating a sales and marketing partner, the relevant distinction is that Fortune sells third-party projects with the same in-house teams that market its own buildings, and offers strategic guidance on product and positioning rather than pure sales execution. For buyers and brokers, contact runs through the company’s Miami offices, with a dedicated broker tools portal for cooperating agents.