Bayside Marketplace -- a place we've been to once, because our best friend used a Chili's gift certificate from her grandma there -- is up for sale. The owner, General Growth Properties, is in a superbad financial situation (who isn't?) and has decided Bayside doesn't fit into its core niche of focusing on suburban shopping malls. But we've always thought the open-air mall was the most suburban part of downtown. There's a Chili's. Bayside relies heavily on cruise ship-destined passengers, an
Miamism.com is a lifestyle real estate company dedicated to using media innovations to promote its services. The website is home to "Mojito 411" a weekly updated, video-based mojito review series from South Florida restaurants. It's a great idea, well-executed. The video above is from Scorch Grillhouse in North Miami; you can find it listed here in our extensive restaurant database. Enjoy the video and drink up. Miamism.com claims the unreal estate market is actually on the upswing.
​The Banana has a friend named Betty, who earlier this year picked up a two-bedroom condo on Brickell Avenue for $109,000. Betty got the unit at a bargain because it was in foreclosure. But you wouldn't know that by checking the Miami-Dade County Property Appraiser's online property search database, a tool used by everybody from real estate agents to regular
folks to help determine selling prices.
A search of Betty's purchase shows she paid $340,000 in 2006. That's the price the person who los
Florida seemed to be on the fast track to over taking New York as the third most populace state by the 2010 census. Since 2000, Florida's population has boomed by over 3,000,000 and the 2008 estimate put us at 18,328,340, just shy of New Yorks 19,490,297. But according to a new study by University of Florida's Bureau of Economic and Business Research Florida's population shrunk for the first time in 60 years. The study estimates that it dipped by about 58,000 between April 2
Alex Izaguirre​The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development sent affordable housing developers in Miami-Dade County an early Christmas present. This past October 16, HUD secretary Shaun Donovan announced 18 south Florida cities will receive $69 million for community development grants, homeowner assistance programs, emergency shelter grants, and housing for people with HIV/AIDS.The pot of money includes $26.2 million for Miami, $1.4 million for Miami Gardens, $3 million for Miami Beach
Riptide was feeling all warm and fuzzy this morning. No, it wasn't just from all the vodka in our coffee. (What, like you don't start your day with a little 'Russian java'?) Flickr / CC BY-SA 2.0​The latest employment numbers came out this morning, and it looks like our Kanye-on-the-VMAs-esque disaster of an economy is finally on the rebound. The ArmaRecession may finally be hitting rock bottom. Yay!But then we talked to Peter Zalewski, head of Condo Vultures and both Riptide and Michael Moore
