Last week we showed you what real estate website Zumper found to be the median rent of an apartment in several different Miami neighborhoods. The prices ranged from $680 in inner-city Brownsville to over $4,500 in exclusive Fisher Island. It got us thinking though, what would paying the median rent…
The day after Miami Beach voters rejected a measure that would have allowed a developer to build a 250-foot-tall luxury condo and hotel tower on a historic beachside strip in North Beach, there were few hints about what may come next for the neighborhood. Developer Sandor Scher, who spent over…
Miami’s high-end real estate market has been one of the hottest in the world for the past few years with properties popping off the market at record-breaking rates, but not everyone has been a winner in the market. Pharrell Williams, of all people, has been trying to unload his provocative…
Former Miami Hurricane coach Al Golden is out of a job, and doesn’t seem to have a new one lined up, but he’d not taking any time to get out of Miami. The tie-wearing coach has put his South Miami mansion on the market for $1,990,000. Sure people say that the…
Miami still has the 8th most expensive rental market in all of America, but rents in many neighborhoods have held steady according to Zumper’s latest maps of median rents in each neighborhood. Well, most neighborhoods anyway. They continue to soar in both East Little Havana and Little Haiti, two cultural…
As developers and residents duke it out over the future of a beachfront strip in North Beach, activists contend Mayor Philip Levine and Miami Beach commissioners were unduly influenced by big money from businesses with stakes in the controversial development. Voters next week will decide whether to allow developer Sandor Scher…
In April, local fair housing organization Housing Opportunities Project for Excellence (HOPE) held an event at Jungle Island, the tropical zoo park on Watson Island, to honor “housing heroes” who had fought back against discrimination. Due to being mobility impaired, three of the honorees required use of a ramp to…
Miami-Dade has a lot of interesting architecture and structures, but most of the attention is paid to Miami and Miami Beach. That doesn’t mean the suburbs don’t pull their weight, though. In fact, you can find everything from city halls that look ripped straight out of Aladdin to one of…
When it comes to real estate in Miami right now there’s really no such thing as a deal, but if you’re a millennial looking to save some money, Trulia reports that it’s much cheaper for you to buy a home or apartment than it is to rent. In theory anyway…
After years of roller coaster speculation and hand-wringing, it’s now all but certain that David Beckham’s long-lost professional soccer franchise will play in a revamped stadium on the site of the former Orange Bowl, across from Marlins Park in Little Havana. But there’s still a problem: How to clear out enough…
Florida Bay, the body of water between the Everglades and the Keys that was once teeming with wildlife, may be on the verge of collapse. Last week, scientists reported that miles of sea grass have died in the bay in recent months, leaving behind a stinky smell and a cloud…
There’s a fierce battle being waged in Florida over access to one of our state’s greatest resources: the sun. With the effects of climate change ever more obvious, solar is a scorching hot policy topic, and we’re seeing a lot of activity around two competing solar ballot initiatives in Florida…
For four years, ever since New Times first reported that corporate behemoth Walmart planned to build a store in Miami’s burgeoning Midtown district, residents and protesters have vehemently opposed the big box store. Since then the retailer has all but assured a legal victory, but concerned citizens haven’t given up. The…
Ask a random person to name a few things they identify Florida and you’ll probably get answers like beaches, old people and orange juice. Orange juice is after all our official state beverage and oranges decorate our default license plates, but it turns out that the state’s OJ industry is…
Gentrification is an incredibly complicated social phenomenon. At its worse it means the local culture and identity created by lower class folks (in Miami, often immigrants) is replaced by what seems almost like focus group-tested trendiness and all sorts of bougie nonsense. At its best it means maybe an underutilized…
Last month brought news that the penthouse at the Faena House development on Miami Beach was sold for $60 million, making it the most expensive residential property ever bought in Miami and shattering the previous record by a cool $11 million. To Miamians it was an astounding accusation. To the…
Last year, The publicly funded Miami Omni Community Redevelopment Agency announced it was teaming up with film studio company EUE/Screen Gems Studios to build a brand new television and film studio right in the heart of the city. And perhaps everyones biggest curiosity was, “Well, what, uh, exactly are they…
Wynwood keeps it pretty low. Until very recently it was hard to find a building higher than two stories here, but Moshe Mana, a developer and the owner of the biggest continuous plot of land of in the rapidly changing neighborhood wants to get high. Really, really high. His company…
If you have a soft spot for failing outdoor shopping and entertainment complexes in the southern half of Miami-Dade then Federal Realty Investment Trust is your savior. After acquiring a majority stake in Coconut Grove’s CocoWalk earlier this year, Federal has now traveled a little bit down the South Dixie Highway…
As prices for beach and bayfront land continue to soar, developers are lining up for their parcel along the Miami River, which is quickly turning from a local hangout to the next Brickell. But not everyone’s in agreement about what the new neighborhood should look like. Plans and renderings were…
Miami Beach’s Lincoln Road has gone under a lot of changes in its relatively short history. Originally envisioned by Carl Fisher as an automobile-friendly “5th Avenue of the South,” the strip was converted into America’s second pedestrian mall in the ’50s under the eye of famed Miami architect Morris Lapidus. The…
2008 Miami was in the worse shape it had been in ages. On top of a global economic meltdown, our local real estate market had collapsed and the foreclosure crisis was at three-alarm status. So it’s really no surprise that we’ve grown so much since then considering we had such…
