Q & A with Steve Geller 07/27/09 What if Florida homeowners could cut their property insurance premiums in half? It would save homes and stimulate the American economy, according to Steve Geller, a former state...
Q & A with Jay Caplin 07/23/09 Jay Caplin is a man on the move. The former Cushman & Wakefield capital markets director in Florida recently left the firm to join Steelbridge Partners, a Miami commercial r...
Renters fill Midtown units 07/21/09 The luxury Midtown Miami development hit a record-high condominium occupancy
in its three residential buildings, but the $2.3 billion mixed-use complex isn’t seeing those rates...
Athlete home sales strained amid luxe market woes 07/16/09 Professional athletes don't give up on the playing field, and some
won't quit in South Florida's brutal real estate arena despite plunging
property values. Regardless of how w...
Related converts CityPlace lofts 07/15/09 The Related Companies will gamble a quarter of a million dollars to
convert Downtown West Palm Beach residential lofts to office space, a
move with millions of dollars at stak...
Hotel gets $12M loan despite crunch 07/09/09 A pair of Miami developers managed to close a multimillion-dollar loan
to build an economy hotel at the edge of Coral Gables, attracting
notice and offering an indication of w...
Are condo-hotels making a comeback? 07/08/09 Condo-hotels were all the rage in the mid-2000s, offering developers a
path to steady revenue and permanent profit, or so it seemed at the
height of the boom. The scramble to ...
Global slowdown hits Miami market 07/01/09 Miami is an international city, and some of its real estate troubles come from woes beyond its borders. Industrial vacancy is expected to rise and rents fall in Miami-Dade
Coun...
Q & A with analyst Jack McCabe 06/29/09 Consultant Jack McCabe is an unofficial spokesperson for South
Florida's real estate market. His firm, McCabe Research &
Consulting, is a nationally recognized leader in r...
Keller Williams on the hunt for mergers in down market 06/26/09 South Florida's real estate market is one of the hardest hit regions in
the country, but bad times for brokerages also mean opportunities for
consolidation as smaller, weakene...
Skyline lights buck odds 06/22/09 Ron Shuffield (left) and Alyce Robertson
With dozens of high-rise condos in trouble and an urban core that isn't
too active after dark, some analysts expected Downtown Miami t...
Urban office revival in the offing 06/18/09 Call it a low-cost flight to quality. Vacancy rates in Miami's office market have eclipsed the 15 percent mark for
the first time in five years, and many landlords face a dilem...
Reversed fortunes, reverse mortgages 06/15/09 A growing number of senior citizens are securing reverse mortgages to
increase their cash flow in retirement or to avoid financial troubles,
a sign of growing financial insecu...
Does commercial real estate need a stimulus? 06/11/09 Government stimulus and financial market intervention haven’t been this
aggressive since the Great Depression, and we haven't seen the last of
it. Government loan facilities e...
Area brokerages staff up for opportunities 06/10/09 South Florida's real estate ranks, thinned by the market collapse, are
starting to increase again as brokerages anticipate an upturn. Some struggling part-timers left the busin...
Blanca blazes new trail after leaving Cushman & Wakefield 06/04/09 Even as South Florida's commercial real estate market faltered, Tere Blanca was readying a big move last autumn, from being senior managing director and branch manager of Cushma...
1450 Brickell plans to ward off storms with curtain wall 06/03/09 As hurricane season approaches, companies doing business in Downtown
Miami easily recall Wilma's glass-shattering wrath. The 2005 storm blew
out tens of thousands of windows a...
Palm prices jump back a decade 06/01/09 The once pricey Palm Beach County market now can pull in first-time
buyers at bargain rates. Homes that once sold for close to $350,000
are selling for about $200,000 today, a...
Chinese drywall problems hit already-battered market 05/27/09 A growing number of South Florida families must choose between health and housing. For most families whose homes were built with contaminated Chinese
drywall, it's no decision ...
Hollo readies Downtown boutique hotel 05/20/09 Developer Tibor Hollo is about to watch his latest hotel vision rise from the dirt in crowded Downtown Miami. In
June, the president of Florida East Coast Realty plans to start...
