South Beach Condo Blog

Miami Beach was always destined to become exactly what it now is: a playground. Check out this video from the ‘6o’s. Nothing really has changed except maybe for the fashions.

I haven’t been around much lately; the reason for that will become apparent very soon. In the meantime, this post was inspired by an email from a consumer who wants to buy a Miami Beach condo and asked me for some insight. Since I didn’t readily know the answer to the question (and I usually do), I figured it was time [...]

Miami Beach is a really unique place.  That’s why I get a tad frustrated with the media for lumping Miami Beach into Greater Miami’s real estate statistics on foreclosures, short sales and shadow inventory. Now there’s new phrase du jour, “double dip.” 

I liken Miami Beach to Manhattan or Beverly Hills.  Manhattan real estate operates on its own from the greater [...]

The big sales in Miami Beach keep rolling on in.  On the heels of a $15M sale at Setai South Beach and A-Rod’s $7.4M land purchase on N. Bay Road, 88 La Gorce Circle, on gated La Gorce Island, closed today for $16M.
The home, which was built in 2008, has 17,200 interior sf, 10 bedrooms, two docks, and a five [...]

A-Rod has been looking for a place on Miami Beach for years- pre-Madonna, post-Madonna.  At one time he had Shaq’s Star Island home under contract, the estate that Naomi Campbell’s beau, Vladislav Doronin, bought about one year ago.
The parcel of land, which is 46,690 sf, has 230 linear ft. of prime, wide-bay waterfrontage and spectacular, unobstructed views of downtown Miami.  The land [...]

Miami is bringing BLING! Jim Clark, founder of Netscape and developer of two downtown Miami condos, lists PH Villa A for $27M. Andrew Barroway of Philadelphia sells PH Villa B at Setai South Beach for $15M.