The Problems with Minimum Parking Requirements in Miami

Miami’s excessively high minimum parking requirements can prevent a great project from moving forward. A developer may have a brilliant idea for a site, but if he or she cannot accommodate parking within the footprint of the site the project will likely not break ground. The sad truth is that parking dictates development in Miami… Read more…

Downtown Urban Living is White Hot; Centro Sells 50% of Units in 60 days

The Miami Heat isn’t the only thing that is hot in Downtown Miami.  The downtown condo market continues its white-hot streak too.   According to Centro’s press release: More than 180 of the 352 units in approximately 60 days, indicating a surge for demand in urban residential real estate in the Downtown Miami market. The sales figures are reflective of… Read more…

What Homebuyers in Miami Want Now? Alicia Cervera on New Developments

This is the second of three interviews I did for StreetEasy with Alicia Cervera Lamadrid, Managing Partner at Cervera Real Estate .  In this interview Alicia talks about the consumer’s desire to buy into Miami’s emerging neighborhoods, urban infill, transit oriented development opportunites, green building and the consumer wanting to live in walkable neighborhoods. Alicia foresees that… Read more…

Alicia Cervera Talks About the Urbanization of Miami, Foreign Buyers & Brickell CityCentre

As many of you know I work for StreetEasy and last week I had the pleasure of interviewing Alicia Cervera Lamadrid, Managing Partner at Cervera Real Estate. We talked about some of the data we uncovered in StreetEasy’s Q1 Miami Residential Market Report, but also chatted about the urbanization of Miami that has occurred in Brickell and… Read more…