An article in today’s Miami Herald suggests that the housing market has made a very small improvement in comparison to previous months. The home-price index for South Florida fell 28.2 percent from 2007, which is better than June’s 30.5 percent drop. This index includes Broward, Miami-Dade and Palm Beach counties. Standard & Poors, the company that compiles [...]
Continue reading...17. September 2008
Our present economical state doesn’t seem to be a deterrent for two developers hoping to construct a nine acre multi-use Worldcenter. Boca Raton’s Art Falcone and Jupiter’s Marc Roberts are hoping to get approval from the Miami Planning Advisory board today to construct what could be Miami’s largest urban development project in several years. According to [...]
Continue reading...6. August 2008
This coming fall, Miami Beach residents will be given a change in their normal parking routine. Instead of running outside to feed the parking meters while they are at home, a new in-car meter has been proposed and will affect more than just beach residents, who will no longer have to worry about keeping the meter from turning red. The relief is [...]
Continue reading...4. August 2008
The free trolley service offered in Doral began this past February in 2008, and it seems to have been a great success. There are already many regulars that use the service daily, and it seems as though this great idea has turned into a popular transportation source in the community. And thanks to a new technology that [...]
Continue reading...24. July 2008
Hey Oprah fans, you’re not going to want to miss this one. If you have dreamed of knowing what it feels like to live like the rich and famous, then why not buy one of their vacation condos in Florida! Oprah Winfrey’s Seaside Village Condo in Miami was put on the market about four months [...]
Continue reading...21. July 2008
With our overcrowded cities here in South Florida, those of us with four legged friends find ourselves searching for open grassy areas for our pups to romp and play. And in Aventura, the long awaited Waterways Dog Park finally opened this past weekend, giving dogs and their owners a place to escape their confined city homes and condos [...]
Continue reading...29. May 2007
Nothing spells D-I-S-A-S-T-E-R like a missed call from your real estate broker saying you are missing a signature, therefore the closing has been delayed. In an effort to serve the homebuyer in a faster, more efficient manner, said Inman News, more brokers have been custom-designing, buying and using web-based “transaction management systems” that allow homebuyers to [...]
Continue reading...22. May 2007
Ever wonder why people want to pack up everything they need to be comfortable to unpack it again just for one week in another house? Because Jones does it. According to an April NAR survey, 2006 saw more than 1 million vacation home sales. And the kicker is that folks weren’t buying for investment, they were actually [...]
Continue reading...22. May 2007
Most Expensive Home, Most Expensive Beachfront Home, it’s all the same. When you’re looking for the biggest and the best, only one thing comes to mind in South Florida, lately, and it’s Maison de L’Amitie. Click below to see our cast give it to you live from the Writer’s Block! Also dubbed Trump’s Palace by the Sea, [...]
Continue reading...21. May 2007
Remember our Expert Realty Blog last week about Britney Spears looking for a $30 million home in Miami Beach. (Her 15-minute concert at Mansion on Sunday May 20 supposedly rocked the house). Well, the 25-year-old is part of a growing trend. NAR reports younger home buyers equal one third of the total home buying population. Opting not [...]
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30. September 2008
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