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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…

Miami, Florida
December 21st, 2008

How to sell you Miami or Miami Beach condo apartment for the most money in a buyers market!!

This is a question that I am asked daily. Let’s think about where the buyers are coming from and how best to attract them. Currently, the majority of buyers are from somewhere else, Canada, Europe, South America and, of course, the snowy, blowy, icy…Northeastern United States.

Here are several absolute requirements to get the top dollar…

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…

October 31st, 2008

Miami, Florida

When people visit www.MiamiCondoLifestyle.com and contact me about buying in the Miami & Miami Beach market, they ask the following question…“How far back in time have the Miami and Miami Beach condo prices dropped?” Today we are going to find out.

The charts below show data from October of 2003 until September of 2008, for the months on inventory on hand and the average price per square foot. For those of you who have been…

Bayside Village Condos - Fisher Island Luxury Oceanfront Apartments

Bayside Village Condos
are located on the Southeast side of Fisher Island Marina. They consist of one, two and three story buildings that face the marina and the southeast view of the Atlantic Ocean. They were built in 1986, 1987 and 1988 respectively.

Bayside Village offers just ninety-nine (99) residences on two and three floors with four different floorplans ranging in size from 1,847 to 5.800 sqft. These are…