Miami Real Estate

The Cloisters: Located in Coconut Grove, this gated community features 40 private villas. Each villa has three floors and offers 4,500-7,900 square feet of living space and private elevators. Each villa has 3-5 bedrooms, 2 car garages, and a rooftop terrace overlooking fabulous views of the bay, ocean and city. The Cloisters community offers residents a pool, clubhouse and tennis court.

Gables by the Sea: Located in Coral Gables, this prestigious community has much to offer. Residents enjoy luxurious estates and channels/waterways with ocean access. The community boasts a playground, basketball and tennis courts as well as 24 hour security patrol and guard house. True to its name, life revolves around the sea, with sailing, water skiing, and scuba diving as year round activities. Gables by the Sea offers luxury living in a tranquil coastal setting. Read the rest of this entry »

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You are invited and welcome!  Come for lunch (lake side) this Wednesday 12pm- 2:30pm!  Preview this Contemporary 2 Story on E-Lake   -  13724 SW 92 Ct.  -  by the Falls.   $2,249,000.  Breathtaking waterviews…Come see it during the day… then come back for a spectacular sunset! Just listed by Pam Mayers and the Restivo Team.  

Directions:  US 1  to  SW 136 St (turn west… past  the Falls Shopping Center). Turn (south) at SW 92 Ave (corner of Macy’s). Turn right (north) at SW 92 Court … and follow the curve.

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Contemporary  Two Story Miami Waterfront  – Just Listed For Sale… 13724 SW 92 Ct,  Miami, Florida 

E-LAKE …  A True Miami Lifestyle…  ON VACATION … Living In Your Own  RESORT  Home!

 This private oasis is nestled on a quiet side street,  abutting  Miami’s highly desirable recreational and motorized  freshwater  E-Lake.  The 76 acre Miami lakefront community is home to residents who rarely relinquish their claim to the lakefront!   Here’s a contemporary home – 13724 SW 92 Court, Miami, Florida  33176 -  renovated and modern, with high ceilings, a truly breathtaking ”great room”, modern European kitchen overlooking the lake, dual stairwells, a wine cellar,  indoor black granite spa with lake views, private dock with electric boat lift, private beach, and a beachfront outdoor covered summer-kitchen.  Read the rest of this entry »

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South Miami residents have waited a long time to see a community pool added to Murray Park and they may finally get their wish. Construction could start late next year, as the city now has enough money to build it.

City Commissioners could give City Manager Roger Carlton the green light to start designing the project as well as applying for building permits. Carlton told the Commissioners that he has more than $1.4 million in grants from the city’s Community Redevelopment Agency Funds as well as from the County’s Housing and Community Development department. Approximately $317,000 is set aside for the design of the pool with the rest saved for the pool’s construction.

There are still a few concerns regarding the pool’s construction, but the Commissioners and the City Manager will continue their discussions. Carlton believes that “every community needs a pool,” and South Miami might soon have one. For the complete article, click here.

If you would like to live near the proposed community pool, or for any of your real estate needs in South Florida, I would love to help. Send me a note here.

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One benefit to buying a Miami condo in a well-established building is having  added space …  space that  is often missing in  newer high-rises.

While Miami  is unquestionably known for it’s  spanking new construction,  our ever changing skyline of both  pre-construction and  brand new buildings offers  some  older gems too… (spacious alternatives) …  all along the coastline.   Read the rest of this entry »

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Do you own a one-story home in Pinecrest? If so, you are  (likely!)  holding onto one very hot commodity!   Over the past several months, Alexandra and I have noticed that there are increasingly sparse-pickings of single-story houses in Pinecrest.  We are keeping an eye peeled, on behalf of a  handful of  buyers we are working with… who are wanting to buy…  and ready to buy …  and there is very little available for sale in Pinecrest that fits their needs. 

Not that many years back, Pinecrest was a sea of older, ranch-style homes.  Now, many of those homes have been added to (or demolished) to make way for rather grandiose homes  -    the majority of which are two-story. 

Four to five bedroom homes (single story!) with a pool, are in fairly short supply.  Whether listed for (or valued anywhere between) $900,000 and $2 million … they are too big … Read the rest of this entry »

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In real estate, location is everything … The same applies to timing.  In the midst of a major South Florida real estate downturn, and a disasterous economic climate that Miami has been swimming through over the past several years,  I’m not at all convinced that breaking ground and launching one of the biggest projects Coral Gables has seen in awhile was well-timed: Old Spanish Village.  

Ponce Circle Developers (a partnership between Jose R. Mas and Juan C. Mas of the Mas Group, and Raphael Sanchez of the Sanchez Group) obviously disagreed though Read the rest of this entry »

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Miami Neighborhoods …  by Alexandra and Vicki Restivo … Esslinger, Wooten,Maxwell

Each neighborhood in MIAMI has a vibe… a rhythm of it’s own… something different, unique, and special. Miami literally has something for everyone! 

Brickell

Brickell, abutting Downtown Miami, is Miami’s up and coming neighborhood with new construction springing up seemingly overnight. Businesses, banks, offices, shops, restaurants and condos, waterfront walkways, the quaint Miami River and spectacular views of the Bay (from literally everywhere) have catapulted the area into a bubbling metropolis. Nouveau chic, and truly the place to Read the rest of this entry »

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Ugo Colombo’s 32 story highrise  luxury condo in Coconut Grove continues to attract buyers… three years post-opening…. and three years after selling out $5 million  in condos within literally the first 45 minutes!  

 Grovenor House, built in 2006,  is Colombo’s sole waterfront condo in Coconut Grove…  his other high end highrises primarily concentrated along Brickell Avenue and on Miami Beach.

List prices today in the MLS  for Grovenor House condos run  $669,000 – $16,900,000 ($419-$1,855 / square foot). 

That puts the average list price at $2,506,875  for 2,761 square feet of air space overlooking Coconut Grove’s Biscayne Bay…. in other words $739 per square foot – asking price.

  Despite the Miami condo glut, and recent foreclosures hitting the high-end real estate market hard, Grovenor House and other waterfront luxury property is holding it’s value. The overall lack of buildable waterfront property adds a premium to existing ‘waterfront’… in Miami as elsewhere.

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In the 1870’s, pioneers William and Mary Brickell maintained a trading outpost in the area that has now become today’s Brickell.  In their trading outpost days, Mary envisioned luxurious waterfront estates… which were built… but have  since pretty much given way to a new face of  Brickell :  highrise office towers and luxury condominiums.  Brickell has become quite a different picture in recent years. Read the rest of this entry »

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