By 2025, what will Miami’s downtown look like? If it’s not underwater, the Miami Downtown Development Authority (DDA) hopes the area will have been cultivated into the “business, social and cultural epicenter of the Americas.” It’s a lofty endeavor,

From Jan. 2013 to Oct. 2015, year-over-year decreases in the share of total home sales occurring in all cash have averaged 2.7 percentage points. However, in Nov. 2015 (the latest available data) the pace of decline slowed to 0.7

EWM Realty International recently named Denise Sicuso the new managing broker of their Pinecrest office. In her new position, Sicuso will focus on the day-to-day oversight of EWM’s Pinecrest office, including management of sales activity, training exercises and the

Avatar Real Estate Services recently announced that the broker associate, Richard S. Green, joined its South Miami office. Prior to his new job, Green also worked with Coldwell Banker Residential Real Estate. Green graduated from Florida State University with a degree

In true Miami fashion, despite a double-digit drop in sales across both property types (single-family homes and condominiums) home price growth continues to amaze. The city’s single-family market – a weaker counterpart to condos – has been slowing for

The Naples-Immokalee-Marco Island area has the highest well-being in the country, according to a new analysis by Gallup and Healthways. For its analysis, Gallup assigned areas with a well-being score, and the Naples area had the highest well-being index score across

Once again, the Miami housing market proves a haven for flippers Miami is one of the nation’s top housing markets for home flipping activity, according to Trulia’s “Big Flippers and High Rollers” report. Trulia’s report measured home flipping activity through 2015’s

In early 2015, we reported that less than 50 percent of Realtors said their brokerage had proactive safety procedures in place, which many found disconcerting, considering how vulnerable agents can make themselves when visiting with clients whom they might

Last year was a positive one for Miami real estate, but what do the specific trends tell us about the market’s health? We recently reported record-breaking sales in Mimi-Dade’s single-family home market. To get a better idea of the

In January, Niche, a website that ranks and reviews schools at every level of education, gave us the top high schools with the best teachers. This month, it’s the best private high schools. In its 2016 Best Private High Schools

Though crime can be found in all major cities, the severity and frequency of it vary greatly from metro to metro, as two new reports from real estate analytics provider NeighborhoodScout recently pointed out. Annually pulling data from upwards of 18,000

The Miami Association of Realtors has installed its new leadership, and it will be headed by new residential president, Miami Beach Realtor Carlos Gutierrez. The principle Realtor of Gutierrez Group Miami Real Estate, an affiliate of Keller Williams Miami

Miami is a great city to get married in – and that means great things for housing Miami is the eighth-best area in the country to get married, according to a new ranking from WalletHub. Analyzing three main factors –

Homebuyers in Miami break even on their homes sooner than expected It takes two and a half years for homebuying to make more financial sense than renting in Miami’s housing market, according to a recent analysis from Zillow. The “Breakeven

There are a lot of cities in the U.S. – Houston, New Orleans – that have felt the sting of falling crude values (“sting” being a cozy euphemism for economic haymaker). But the news isn’t all bad. Take, for instance, mortgage

Ability by Acierto has named luxury real estate veteran Robert Morales vice president of operations. In his new position, Morales will guide day-to-day project management for Bijou Bay Harbor, the company’s planned luxury waterfront development in Bay Harbor Islands.