Updates for Florida’s AllAboard Brightline high-speed passenger trains are coming at a rapid pace now as we get closer to the start of Miami – Fort Lauderdale – West Palm Beach service this summer. The Big Reveal On January 11, Brightline unveiled their first completed train-set – BrightBlue. With two locomotives and four coaches, the train-set is approximately 500 feet […]
Archives for January 2017
Biscayne Green – Last Hoorah – Tonight
All good things must come to an end… at least temporarily. Tonight is the last night of the Biscayne Green pop-up park on Biscayne Boulevard in downtown Miami. So come on out for the Last Hoorah from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. Live music by the GRAMMY-nominated local powerhouses PALO! and an opening set by the beloved, […]
8 Top Miami Home Improvement Projects
Here are seven mid-range and one upscale improvement projects that will increase the value of your Miami home by more than the project costs you, according to the new 2017 Cost vs Value report from Remodeling Magazine. In the nationwide average, there is only one home improvement project that “returns a higher value than its […]
Frost Museum of Science Hopes to Open in Spring 2017
Frank Steslow, President of the Patricia and Phillip Frost Museum of Science, told the Miami Herald in an interview Wednesday that construction on the downtown Miami museum is almost completed, and they are on track for a spring opening. The science museum will feature a three-level martini glass shaped tropical aquarium to spotlight “South Florida’s crucial aquatic […]
HUD Announces Suspension of Reduction to Mortgage Insurance Premiums
The Federal Department of Housing and Urban Development suspended a recent FHA mortgage insurance rate cut just an hour after Trump took office on Friday. Mortgage insurance is required for all FHA-backed loans, which are popular with first-time home buyers and borrowers with minimal funds for the down-payment. The Federal Housing Administration, which became a part of HUD […]
Market Trends – Greater Downtown Miami Rental Market
There are currently 2445 residential condominium units available for rent in the Greater Downtown Miami area… and there’s more inventory coming! As Integra Realty Resources (IRR) reported to the Miami Downtown Development Authority in the Q3 2016 Residential Market Study “Flash Report”, we had 3,748 new construction condominium units delivered in 2016, with an additional 2,774 units expected to be delivered […]