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Archives for January 2017

Brightline Unveils BrightBlue Trains & Begins Track Testing

January 27, 2017 by MelanieDawn 2,401 Comments

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 […]

Filed Under: Central Business District, Infrastructure Tagged With: AllAboard, BrightBlue, BrightLine, train

Biscayne Green – Last Hoorah – Tonight

January 26, 2017 by MelanieDawn 773 Comments

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, […]

Filed Under: Central Business District, Events, Lifestyle Tagged With: Biscayne Green, downtownMiami, Miami

8 Top Miami Home Improvement Projects

January 25, 2017 by MelanieDawn 69 Comments

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 […]

Filed Under: Market Trends, Real Estate Tagged With: home improvement, Miami, remodel, renovation

Frost Museum of Science Hopes to Open in Spring 2017

January 24, 2017 by MelanieDawn 1,563 Comments

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 […]

Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Central Business District, Omni/Park West Tagged With: downtownMiami, FrostScience, Miami

HUD Announces Suspension of Reduction to Mortgage Insurance Premiums

January 23, 2017 by MelanieDawn 91 Comments

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 […]

Filed Under: Financing, Real Estate Tagged With: FHA, HUD, mortgage

Market Trends – Greater Downtown Miami Rental Market

January 20, 2017 by MelanieDawn 256 Comments

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 […]

Filed Under: Brickell, Central Business District, Market Trends, Midtown, Omni/Park West, Real Estate, Wynwood

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