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Top 25 Pre-foreclosure Short Sales Condo Buildings in Miami, Florida

January 5th, 2009

2008 is in the books. Whew!! So what are the statistics about the condos for sale in Miami- Dade county?

  • Total Housing Units in Miami-Dade county - 1,000,000 100%
  • Total Condos for Sale in MLS - 22,247 2.2%
  • Total Short Sale Condos in MLS - 6,524 .6%
  • Total Short Sale Condos in Miami- 1,024 .1%

Short Sale Miami condos are often foreclosed upon by the lender before…

Miami Condo Market Report

Miami-Dade County, Florida
December 30, 2008

I hope you made it through the calorie blasts of the Holidays unscathed!! The New Years Day
weather forecast is for highs in the high 70’s and sunny…of course!

Miami Condo Investments

Todays Update will be brief as we are only including our latest Bank Owned Miami Condos list click here. The list is much larger than normal, you may want to bookmark it as we are now updating it weekly.

This week there are…

Interest Rate Watch

Buyers should lock in rates now

Supported by the Federal Reserve’s recent decision to cut its overnight federal funds rate to a range of zero to 0.25 percent, the 30-year fixed rate mortgage hit a 37-year low last week reaching 5.17 percent. That’s the lowest the 30-year mortgage rates have been since Freddie Mac began its weekly mortgage rate survey in 1971, noted Frank Northaft, Freddie Mac chief economist.

Click here for the full article and…

December 14, 2008

On September 15th of this year we posted an article on the Brickell Key condominiums which included a graph of sales activity for the eleven buildings there (please see Diagram 1)

Building Name Total
Units
Units
For Sale
Percent Closed
Sales
Short
Sales
Avg List $
per SqFt
Avg Sold $
per SqFt
Year Built
Asia 123 17 13.8% 0 0 $973 TBD 2008
Brickell Key One 316 28 8.9% 7 1 $341 $294 1982
Brickell Key Two 397 33 8.3% 9 6 $399 $353 1991
Carbonell 284 51 18.0% 9 3 $485 $442 2005
Courts at Brickell Key 318 46 14.5% 10 15 $388 $356 2002
Courvoisier Courts 272 44 16.2% 5 15 $281 $260 1997
Isola 300 50 16.7% 8 20 $271 $261 1990
One Tequesta Point 288 23 8.0% 8 3 $420 $383 1995
St Louis 134 12 9.0% 0 3 $430 TBD 1995
Three Tequesta Point 237 22 9.3% 8 2 $498 $462 2001
Two Tequesta Point 268 18 6.7% 10 0 $526 $453 1998
Totals 2991 345 11.5% 74 68 $593 $445

Diagram 1

Here is an updated graph for sales from January through November for Brickell Key buildings. Interestingly enough,…

December 9th, 2008
Miami, Florida

Today, the Miami Condo Lifestyle team will start publishing a series of articles on the
changing dynamic in condo sales activity in Miami and Miami Beach, Florida.

Initially, we will focus on the distressed buildings with the highest percentage of closed sales for 2008. Our research shows that the Club at Brickell Bay, Vue at Brickell, Mark on Brickell, Skyline at Brickell and the Jade at Brickell are the top five buildings in…

ICON South Beach, Miami Beach, Florida 33139
November 29th, 2008

Now that ICON Brickell is closing and has all the buzzzzzzzzzzz, I thought I would revisit ICON South Beach and see how it’s going after four years.

Currently, there are forty-seven (47) condos for sale ranging in price from $450,000 to $15,900,000. That’s a little more than sixteen (16) percent of the total units. They range in price per sq ft from $500.00 to $1,500.00 and there is…

Ocean Reserve condos are the best investment value near the ocean for the price. There are many short sales which will be foreclosed upon and become bank-owned properties that are priced the best. Get great deals on bank owned foreclosure properties at Ocean Reserve, just one block from the Atlantic Ocean starting at $139,000.

This beautiful Intracoastal waterfront community, Ocean Reserve, has direct open beach access across the street from A1A and the Atlantic Ocean. This luxury…