The video above is meant for the non-local buyer who may not be familiar with the various neighborhoods throughout South Florida.  South of Fifth, also known as SoFi, is a neighborhood that encompasses the five southern most blocks of South Beach (and therefore Miami Beach).  Once regarded as one of the most dangerous neighborhoods in [...]

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South Beach Closed Condo Sales – November 2009 – There were 78 closed condo sales in South Beach last month.  The average sales price of these condos was $342 per square foot.
Miami Beach Closed Condo Sales – November 2009 – 59 condos in Miami Beach closed in November.  One of the sales did not include [...]

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Recently, the City of Miami Beach renovated 17 acres on the southern most end of South Beach, in a neighborhood known as SoFi, or South of Fifth.  Hargreaves Associates, of New York City, was hired to design and update this bayfront park at a cost of around $22 million.

On a recent visit to the park, [...]

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I was looking through the recently closed sales in South Beach and came across a 2 bedroom/2 bath condo foreclosure at Murano Grande that sold for $475,000, or $331 per square foot on February 9, 2009.  This is by far the lowest that a 2 bedroom condo in the Murano Grande has sold through the [...]

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There have been 10 closed sales for luxury condominiums in South Beach within the past three months that appear in the MLS.  I defined a sale as being a luxury condo sale if it had a sales price at or over $2.5M.  As you’ll see below, Apogee South Beach topped off the list with a [...]

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