Doral mayor faces probe over ties to children’s former land
Doral Mayor Luigi Boria The request for a zoning change on a five-acre Doral tract formerly owned by the mayor’s children renewed the debate over a potential conflict of interest. The City Council...
View ArticleNorth Lauderdale memorial to feature rock debris from 9/11
From left: North Lauderdale and Sept. 11 memorial in New York North Lauderdale will commemorate the Sept. 11 attacks around a makeshift monument from rocks and debris flown down from New York. The city...
View ArticleToday’s priciest listing: $1.9M
Today’s priciest new listing is a five-bedroom, five-bathroom single-family home asking $1.9 million. The 5,769-square-feet home is located at 9400 Southwest 61st Court in Pinecrest in Miami-Dade...
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Top stories yesterday on The Real Deal: 1. Court orders O.J. Simpson’s house seized 2. Dutch developer of floating cities eyeing S. Florida, NYC 3. Heat players got played in real estate scam: witness
View ArticleSouth Florida home inventory rose, sales fell
South Florida home inventory (click to enlarge) Residential inventory in South Florida rose slightly to 32,784 from 32,600 active listings for the week ending August 19, 2013. During the same period,...
View ArticleDEP eyes wetlands to ‘surplus’ for development
Oleta State Park The Department of Environmental Protection identified 150 acres of land in Oleta State Park and several acres in the Keys that could be seized for development in a report that has...
View ArticleMovies versus dinosaurs for Miami park development bid
Two companies are vying to develop a massive entertainment complex next to the Miami Zoo. Billionaire media mogul Rupert Murdoch has proposed building a $930 million hotel and retail complex centered...
View ArticleSouth Florida July home sales surge to ’05 heights
Natascha Tello Single-family home sales are surging in South Florida to heights unseen since the last boom and bust cycle that ended in collapse five years ago. In Miami-Dade County, sales of...
View ArticleMysterious offshore trust buys Fisher Island debt
Fisher Island in Miami Beach As if a dispute over property connected to an alleged murder in Russia weren’t trouble enough, several sites slated for development on the ultra-rich Fisher Island are also...
View ArticleTampa Bay struggles with retail development
International Plaza at 2223 North Westshore Boulevard in Tampa While much of Florida is teeming with retail projects, Tampa Bay is an anomaly. The greater Tampa Bay area has no big developments in the...
View ArticlePalm Beach County luxury home sales on a roll
House in Palm Beach Palm Beach County luxury real estate sales soared in July, and yet it couldn’t top May, the top month yet. Ninety-eight single-family homes sold for more than a million dollars...
View ArticleToday’s priciest listing: $3.8M
3080 Northeast 41st Street in Fort Lauderdale Today’s priciest new listing is a four-bedroom, five-bathroom single-family home asking $3.8 million. The 7,365-square-feet home is located at 3080...
View ArticleConstruction underway at Margaritaville resort: PHOTOS
The proposed $147 million Margaritaville Beach Resort in Hollywood.Developers, financiers, construction magnates and city officials gathered in Hollywood at the site of the future Margaritaville Beach...
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Top stories yesterday on The Real Deal: 1. Mysterious offshore trust buys Fisher Island debt 2. Dutch developer of floating cities eyeing S. Florida, NYC 3. Court orders O.J. Simpson’s house seized
View ArticleMidtown residents appeal Wal-Mart permit
Wal-Mart’s rendering for Midtown Miami (inset: opponent Grant Stern) Residents of Miami’s Midtown, a new, master-planned community near the artsy Design District, are appealing Wal-Mart’s Class 2...
View ArticleTRD announces Fall 2013 South Florida Market Report
The Real Deal is gearing up to launch the Fall 2013 issue of the South Florida Market Report. Distributed in TRD’s October issue, the report will include rankings of the top residential brokerages in...
View ArticleOui, Oui: French are invading SoFla market
The Canadian and French flags First, it was the Brazilians and the Venezuelans. Now, it’s the French and Canadians who are snapping up South Florida’s real estate. The French took the top spot as the...
View ArticleSwire awards $520M Brickell CityCentre contract to two firms
Rendering of Brickell CityCentre Swire Properties is giving a $520 million contract for the first phase of a mixed-use Miami project to Americaribe, the subsidiary of French construction company...
View ArticlePalm Beach tourism could peak this year
Crowded beach in Lake Worth Tourism in Palm Beach County is expected to either tie or exceed its all-time high this year, the Sun-Sentinel reported, citing tourism officials. Six million visitors...
View ArticleHomestead mayor arrested for secret consulting
Steve Bateman The mayor of Homestead was arrested Wednesday on charges of unlawful compensation, marking the third arrest of a city mayor in Miami-Dade County since July. Authorities arrested Homestead...
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