Most Miami Heat stars opt for a Miami Beach mansion, a downtown condo or an estate in the like of Coconut Grove or Coral Gables. The team’s reigning star, Goran Dragic, decided to look a little bit more north in his search for a permanent pad in the 305 and…
Thousands of hotel rooms are scheduled to come on the market in the next few years in the already hotel-heavy Miami market, but hotels are no longer the only choice tourists have for lodging. Airbnb has shaken up the hotel market by allowing people to directly lease their homes out…
Miami’s urban core has long been missing a feature almost every major city on earth has: an Apple store. For years downtowners and mainlanders have had to travel to South Beach, Kendal or Aventura if they’ve wanted to visit the Genius Bar or pick up a new Mac charger chord. …
Last year hedge fund billionaire Kenneth Griffin set Miami real estate records when he purchased the penthouse at the Faena House in Mid-beach for $60 million. It was the most expensive residential real estate transaction in Miami-Dade history, and the single most expensive home sale in America during 2015. Well,…
Gun lovers across Florida who fear someone is coming to steal their guns now have even more places to go shopping for more guns, according to a new report. Data analyzed by research firm BuildZoom shows there are now 47 percent more sellers from which to buy guns in the…
Ask a bunch of kids which feature they’d like to see in their dream mansion, and you’ll likely hear a few of them say they’d want a water slide that connected their bedroom directly to the pool. Well, a newly built $34 million spec home on Miami Beach makes that…
If you want to live a lifestyle infused with that Armani touch, buy a unit in the underconstruction luxury towaer Residences by Armani/Casa in Sunny Isles Beach. But if you really, really love everything Armani and want a once in a lifetime Armani experiance, well, you’ll have to buy the Penthouse. …
King of Diamonds might be the world’s greatest hip hop strip club, a place where Floyd Mayweather makes it rain $100,000 in one night and Lil’ Wayne regularly drops the equivalent of a small European nation’s GDP. But some of KOD’s strippers say that wealth hasn’t filtered down to them,…
Hotels, by definition, are for tourists. Yet Miami locals love our hotels. We love eating at their restaurants, sneaking into their pools, dancing at their clubs … sometimes waking up in their beds next to a Brazilian we met at their club. You know how it goes. There’s no short…
The dirty secret of Miami’s latest luxury condo boom? Some of those sky high penthouses are being bought by international criminals and other shady individuals in order to launder money. How many? Well, the Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) wants to find out. Take Spanish drug kingpin Alvaro Lopez…
You won’t win the Powerball prize. Your chance of winning that now $1.5 billion jackpot is something like 0.000000003 percent per ticket. That, of course, hasn’t stopped you from fantasizing about what you would do if you win. You’d probably buy a garage full of Ferraris (even, though, you know it’s…
If you’ve got $8.6 million sitting around you could buy your choice of any number of posh penthouses in Miami-Dade, or you could look a bit south and buy yourself your own private island. An island dubbed East Sister Rock that sits just off the coast of Marathon is on…
One of the most ambitious development projects slated for Miami has ditched its signature feature. The Miami Worldcenter Development has announced that it will no longer include an enclosed shopping mall. The news comes just months before the mall was scheduled to breakdown. Instead, the development will now include a…
Who can forget all those magical television moments that happen on Kourtney & Khloé Take Miami? Like that time Kourtney said something ridiculous and Khloé just looked at her with that expression that was like “Wow, you’re being so ridiculous right now.” Or that other time they had an argument but…
The FAA has recently set new, higher limits in certain parts of Miami, and the race to build Miami’s biggest tower is on.
While LeBron James was in town during those glorious but brief four years he and his family laid down roots here that had us thinking maybe, just maybe he truly was serious about staying in Miami for the long run. For example, his wife Savannah opened a juice cafe called…
With their prime location just off South Beach and luxe cache, the four gated Sunset Islands are home to some of Miami Beach’s most rich and famous residents, from mega-developer Scott Robins to nightclub impresario David Grutman. In a neighborhood known for its epic sunset views, where homes sell for…
With shiny new towers popping up all over the place now, it’s easy to forget that about four years ago the Miami real estate market was in shambles. Of course, the market has more than recovered and prices are now back on par with their previous peak in 2005 and…
It’s not secret that Miami Beach is one of the hottest destinations for New Year’s Eve in the world. You probably couldn’t dream of a better place to spend the holiday. It has some of the best nightclubs and parties in the world for counting down the clock, and the…
During a dispute over payment for a roofing job, roofer Salomon Susi told attorney Rami Shmuely to “pay your fucking bill!” Shmuely, being an attorney and all, decided to sue. He claimed that Susi’s use of the profanity violated a law meant to curb harassment of debtors. Well, a three-person panel of…
The old golden rule is that you’re not supposed to spend more than a third of your income on rent, but for many Americas that’s just not possible anymore. In 1960 only 24 percent of Americans were paying more than that. By 2000 that number had reached 30 percent. As…
Apparently someone didn’t pick up their copy of The New Yorker this week, because despite growing concerns that sea level rise may some day in the not too distant future leave Miami Beach nearly uninhabitable, real estate on the island continue to be a hot commodity. In fact, the building…
