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NYC Luxury Real Estate: Duplex at 740 Park Sells for $32M

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008

As you know, I am fascinated with 740 Park. Curbed is reporting that #4/5 A has traded at $32M to an unidentified buyer. In the past, I have compared 740 Park to Apogee South Beach. I know from being inside Apogee South Beach that it is without peer in Miami Beach real estate, and apparently 740 […]

New York City Real Estate: Are You Next?

Saturday, January 19th, 2008

Last week I attended the INMAN Connect, a real estate technology conference. While attending various seminars and listening to many people’s opinions about this or that, there was one common question throughout the conference which kept coming up in every conversation:   What’s next for Manhattan real estate? I saw it everywhere, from Dolly Lenz’ quote in The Real Deal: […]

Miami Beach Real Estate: Luxury South Beach Condo Inventory

Friday, January 18th, 2008

I recently had a client who purchased a large condominium in South Beach.  While doing my research on available inventory of like/kind units in the neighborhood, I came to dissect each one of the luxury buildings to find out how many units were comparable to my buyer-client’s unit.  Here are some interesting real estate tid-bits about large units […]

Miami Beach Real Estate: Condominium Statistics for 2007- Who’s Right and Who’s Wrong?

Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008

I’ve had a large number of people contacting me and asking me about 2007 condo stats for Miami Beach and South Beach condos. I plan to do the 2007 statistics this week and post most of them by this weekend. I plan to analyze each Miami Beach condo’s stats separately, and group them by neighborhood […]

Miami Beach Real Estate: The Upside of a Declining Market

Sunday, December 23rd, 2007

New York Times wrote an article today on a subject that has been rolling around my pretty little head lately. Since insurance rates and property taxes seem to be clouds over the Miami real estate market, then the anticipated lower taxes on declining property values will be the silver lining of that cloud. While every […]

Beautiful Holiday Decorations: ICON South Beach

Wednesday, December 19th, 2007

I have seen a number of condominium decorations this season and I think this one “takes the cake.” ICON South Beach went ALL OUT on a professionally decorated, 25 foot, live Christmas Tree.