Miami’s foreclosure fiasco rages on, and its latest victim is a familiar face. Rapper/producer Wyclef Jean took out a $2 million mortgage to purchase and renovate a Miami Beach spread but failed to keep up on payments, according to the Palm Beach Post’s Jose Lambiet (who apparently doesn’t know much…
Fresh off the re-opening of the Fontainbleau, Miami Beach is bracing for another hotel ribbon-cutting. The Mondrian quietly opened its doors to guests two days ago, but the official grand opening will take place during Art Basel. The brains behind the design (and naked candy-throwing enthusiast), Marcel Wanders, is interviewed…
via Car Pages UK South of Fifth, the super-luxe ocean front condo complex, still has about a quarter of its units to unload so they’ve added a sweetener to the pot for potential buyers. What, like free maid service for a year? Waiving any owners associations fees? A complimentary netflix…
via Shop Midtown When the mega complex of Midtown Miami opened many worried it would stymie the growth of Wynwood’s art scene. How are artists supposed to meditate on all the darkness in the world when there’s a deal on 2 for 1 tube socks just a few block away?…
About two years ago Chad Oppenheim Architecture + Design announced plans for COR, a revolutionary green high-rise in the Design District. The building would incorporate wind turbines, photovoltaic panels, and solar hot water generation, and feature a hyperefficient exo-skeleton. It was originally supposed to be finished by 2009. Well, not…
via TMZ Joan Fleischman isn’t completely gone from The Herald, and is reporting that Alex Rodriguez and his soon to be ex-wife just listed their Coral Gables mansion for $14.876 million. That’s almost $3 million more than what they bought it for in 2004. Even the upper ends of the…
Another month, another overly detailed Forbes list. This one deal’s with the country’s most expensive zip codes, and Fisher Island’s 33109 came out on top this year. The average price for a home on the private island is $3,850,000. The zip also came in fourth on a supplementary list of…
via Raising The Roof The view from Apogee’s pent house, soon to be the sight of flag burnings. The penthouse of Apogee South Beach just went on the market for a whopping $22 Million. No joke. $22 Mill. Or, as pinko, Paris-based scum rag The International Tribune points out, only…
via Hope Now Owners of one in 62 homes in the Miami area filed for foreclosure in the last quarter alone, which makes the city the tenth hardest hit in the country. Ouch. Sometimes there’s no money left at the end of the month to make your mortgage payment when…
