Your firm announced the Miami office. HR sent the relocation packet. You've got 90 days, two cars in a Manhattan garage, and no idea how the shipping actually works when the destination is a Brickell tower. That's the moment most of our finance-relocation clients call us. Here is everything we tell them.
Multiple major hedge funds, private equity firms, and family offices have opened or relocated Miami offices since 2020, with the largest concentration in Brickell. If you're relocating with one of them — or making a one-way permanent move to Florida for retirement — your car-shipping profile is different from a snowbird's in a few specific ways. This page covers both patterns: finance corporate relocations into Brickell (Citadel, hedge funds, family offices), and permanent one-way retiree moves to The Villages, Boca, and Naples. For the full route context, see the NYC to Miami car shipping route guide.
Corporate relocation car shipping — what actually happens on a finance move
Finance relocations look different from other NY→FL shipments in three ways. First, more vehicles per household (typically two, sometimes three counting a garage weekend car). Second, higher-value vehicles that skew toward enclosed transport. Third, tighter timing sync with the corporate move because your firm has a start date on the calendar.
Your firm's relocation coordinator (if you have one) usually contracts with a national relocation-management company that handles household goods. Car shipping is often billed separately. That's actually good news — it means you get to pick your own broker for the vehicles, and you can time it to save money instead of synchronizing to the corporate calendar.
Most finance clients we work with are two-earner households or single high-earners with a second garage car. The playbook varies slightly for each. For base pricing across every vehicle type, start at the NY to FL cost guide.
The two-vehicle household — how we actually book it
Two cars, two carriers, two dates. That's the pattern we recommend for almost every finance household we work with.
Your daily driver goes on open transport in an off-peak week (June through August). Cost: $950 to $1,400 depending on vehicle size and exact ZIPs. Delivery window: 3 to 5 days. This car arrives before you do so it's in your garage when you land.
Your garage weekend car — the Porsche, the M3, the Range Rover, whatever the "not a Camry" car is — goes on enclosed transport, timed to arrive a week or two after the daily driver. Cost: $1,800 to $3,200. Delivery is white-glove, into the building loading dock rather than a curbside meet.
Why not both on the same hauler? Because a hauler carrying an enclosed exotic and an open sedan doesn't exist. You'd have to pay enclosed rates on the daily driver, which is $500 to $900 of money spent on a feeling. Separate carriers, separate rates, cleaner logistics.
Executive concierge shipping — what the $200-$400 premium buys
The mid-tier and top-tier brokers all offer some version of "executive concierge" or "white-glove" service. It's a real category of service and it's worth understanding before you shop.
What you're paying for: a single point of contact throughout the move (not a call-center rotation), guaranteed pickup within 24 hours of your requested date, enclosed transport with $250,000-$1,000,000 cargo insurance, driver-scouts-the-address protocol (so the driver arrives knowing which Brickell tower ramp to use), and video delivery documentation so you have a walkaround record for your own insurance file.
What you're not paying for: faster transit. Once loaded, an enclosed hauler runs I-95 at the same speed as an open hauler. Executive service compresses the pickup window and improves service quality, not the drive time. Our luxury Manhattan → Palm Beach guide covers the very top tier of this service for the highest-value exotics.
Brickell tower delivery — the actual protocol
Brickell luxury towers all follow the same delivery protocol. Some are stricter than others but the pattern is consistent.
24 hours before delivery, we submit to your building security: driver's name, MC number, DOT number, phone number, and expected delivery window. Building security logs it and issues a temporary vendor pass. On delivery day, the driver arrives, security waves them through, and delivery happens at a specific loading dock or ramp rather than the main port cochere.
Some towers have vehicle-size restrictions in the garage itself. Aston Martin Residences, One Thousand Museum, Waldorf Astoria Residences, Brickell Flatiron, Echo Brickell, and Icon Brickell all have some version of "over-height" limits that affect Range Rovers, Escalades, and other full-size SUVs. If your building has restrictions, delivery happens at street level and the residence side takes it into the garage. Verify with your concierge before shipping.
Timing — the finance relocation shipping calendar
The playbook we run for finance clients:
- Weeks 12-8 before start date: Book off-peak transport for the daily driver. Rate lock through the summer window.
- Weeks 8-4 before start date: Ship the daily driver. Confirm Brickell garage access for your vehicle profile.
- Weeks 4-2 before start date: Ship the second vehicle (enclosed if warranted). Confirm delivery protocol with building security.
- Week 0 (start date): Fly down. Household goods scheduled to arrive same week. Both cars already in your garage.
This sequence avoids peak-season pricing on shipping, avoids sync-with-movers premium, and gets both cars operational before your first day at the office. Total shipping cost for a two-vehicle household using this playbook: typically $2,200 to $4,500 depending on second-vehicle tier.
Retirees and permanent movers — the one-way relocation playbook
Finance relocations and retiree relocations share more shipping logistics than most people realize. Both are one-way permanent moves. Both are destination-focused (not round-trip like snowbirds). Both often involve two vehicles and a household-goods truck arriving in sequence. The differences are the destination community and the timing pressure.
The largest destinations we deliver retiree one-way moves into:
- The Villages (Central FL). The country's largest active-adult community. HOA-logged commercial vehicle access. Common cross-sell: shipping a golf cart alongside the car (some carriers combine).
- Boca West / Boca Grove (Palm Beach County). Gated 55+ country club. Driver name and DOT number logged 24 hours ahead. Popular with NYC and Long Island retirees.
- Pelican Bay / Naples (Gulf Coast). Low-hanging tree canopies on some interior streets — we pre-scout addresses.
- Boynton Beach / Delray Beach 55+ corridors. Multiple communities; standard delivery access on most.
- Sun City Center (near Tampa). Gated 55+, straightforward delivery.
Retiree timing is less pressured than finance timing but the seasonal-price rules still apply. Ship the car in an off-peak week (June through August) at 15-20% below annual average. Fly down when your household-goods truck arrives. You save the same money either way — you just have fewer hard deadlines on the calendar.
The insider note we tell every retiree client: if you sold the NY house and this is a genuine one-way move, register the car in Florida within 30 days. Florida requires it, and NY state auditors flag high-earners who claim FL domicile while keeping NY registration. Two separate topics that intersect on this exact move.
Tax and registration notes finance clients ask about
Two things we're often asked but always defer to a tax advisor on:
First, IRS Publication 521 changes in 2018 removed the personal moving-expense deduction for most employees. If your firm reimburses car shipping as part of your relocation package, that reimbursement may or may not be excluded from your W-2 depending on how it's structured. Your firm's tax team or a personal advisor should confirm.
Second, Florida registration is required within 30 days of establishing FL residency. Florida has no state income tax, which is often part of the relocation calculus. But domicile rules are complex — you can't casually claim FL residency while spending most of your year in NYC. New York state auditors watch for this pattern with high-earners. Get advice before you file.
Neither of these affects your shipping quote directly. They do affect the total financial picture of the move.
Ready to plan your Miami move?
The car shipping calculator gives you live rates for both vehicles using today's fuel index. For the full route logistics — city pairs, snowbird timing, borough pickup rules — start at the NY to Florida route hub. If your firm is putting you up in Palm Beach or Coral Gables temporarily, the NYC to Miami city-pair guide covers those adjacent neighborhoods.