Miami doesn’t need new office space-we have a 7 year supply (Globe Street)
Brickell eyesore site purchased for $18.5 million by Related (SFBJ)
Hugo Chavez-Miami’s favorite real estate agent-sends more business our way (SFBJ)
FDOT hitting the I-395 crack pipe again; destroying one neighborhood at a time (Curbed)
Collins Park on South Beach is coming back to life (Curbed)
The Real Deal is having a party with a roundtable discussion (TRD)
The real question: Does MARKETING MATTER? Yes! Attend the first ever half-day interactive seminar at the Miami Beach Convention Center Nov. 1 featuring a slew of top industry pro’s to bring your social media, PR & online sales presence to the NEXT STEP! http://www.miamibeachchamber.com/elc_marketing_matters.html
In the interest of full disclosure, I have just been hired by StreetEasy to lead business development for the company in South Florida. If you aren’t familiar with StreetEasy you should probably get familiar with the website if you are looking to buy, sell or rent property. StreetEasy is the largest and most popular real estate website in NYC and the company is now expanding to South Florida.
The website is really amazing and I’m not just saying that because I now work for the company. I didn’t give up a 10 year career in private banking to go work for a rinky-dink website. StreetEasy makes searching for property easy and fun. With StreetEasy you can search for property by neighborhood or building. You can even customize the boundaries of your search and save searches to a folder and share them with your friends and your broker.
Customize your search area and save and share. You can receive immediate updates via email as soon as a new listing hits the market
StreetEasy provides you with plenty of free research material at your fingertips so that you can make an informed decision. Most of the information is free and for and additional $10 per month you can have full access to the site.
Now you can search by building and see everything that is currently listed in that building and what units have sold for.
We had our launch event on Thursday at the Marquis in Downtown Miami. The event was well attended by nearly 100 industry leaders and the feedback we received was very positive from the brokers that attended. See for yourselves…
Laura Steinbruckner and Jacky Teplitzky- The Jack Teplitzky Team (DouglaElliman)
Susie Glass (Cervera), Sofia Song (StreetEasy) Anuca Valverde (Cervera)
Marisela Cotilia and Imad Akhrass (DouglasElliman)
Fernanda Barros and Giorgio Prestipino (Chris Brooks Realty)
Daniel Sultan (StreetEasy) and Ines Hegedus-Garcia (Majestic Properties)
Martin Bravo (Metro1 Properties) and Mauricio Rojas (Parallel Investments Realty)
Deborah Conway and Sofia Song (StreetEasy) with Nelson Gonzalez
(What a lucky guy!)
Kathaleen Smarsh (Coldwell Banker) and Margot Zengotita
If you have any questions regarding StreetEasy, please feel free to contact me directly: [email protected]
Great event on Thursday November 1st at 12:30.
Searching for residential real estate is about to get more exciting and easier for South Floridians. StreetEasy officially launched their South Florida site today and now you can search for your dream pad by using search features such as crime stats and school zone data for specific neighborhoods. The site is very intuitive to use and you will find that it is seamless to move all around searches, listings, buildings, neighborhoods, realtors, and how it all connects to the piece of real estate you are searching for. You will also be able to search for recorded sales, and eventually public transit data will be added to the site.
From StreetEasy’s press release:
StreetEasy is proud to announce the expansion of our real estate website into the South Florida region. We’re confident the transparency and simplicity our site will bring to the marketplace will transform the real estate search process for consumers and realtors in South Florida.
StreetEasy is widely credited for bringing much needed clarity to New York City’s complex residential real estate market. We bring together disparate and inaccessible information and then organize and present it in ways that make sense for real estate professionals and consumers alike. We’re able to do this because we understand how dense, vertical cities work and we recognize the importance of accurate and objective real estate information. After all, buying a home is one of the biggest personal and financial decisions out there and we know how complicated and stressful the process is. We make this process easier. In New York, we’ve done this by creating a site that understands and responds to the needs of the local market and its consumers. Unlike other local real estate websites, StreetEasy is a completely unbiased third party. We’re not brokers and we’re not consumers. We’re simply here to inform, empower and connect the two.
We are now taking what we’ve learned and bringing it to Miami and South Florida. We’re confident our local, ground-up philosophy will have the same impact in Miami and the greater region as it has in New York. Both Miami and New York are cities defined by their verticality, their density, their diversity and their intense appetite for all things real estate related. With so much development and international investment going on right now, we are excited to be entering these markets.”
Welcome to South Florida!
Check them out: http://streeteasy.com/