Zilbert's Miami Beach and South Beach Real Estate Blog

Setai Mansion In The Sky Fetches Big Money (In Miami Beach)

Posted on: Friday, December 16th, 2011 in: Market Updates

South Florida Business Journal by Jeff Zbar, SoFla Luxe Date: Friday, December 16, 2011, 12:00am EST Jeff Zbar – SoFla Luxe – South Florida Business Journal In one of the top sales of its kind in recent memory, Penthouse Villa A atop the Setai Resort and Residences on Collins Avenue and 20th Street in Miami [...]

City Square Developer Raises Cash in Bulk Sale

Posted on: Saturday, June 5th, 2010 in: Our Condo Listings

June 04, 2010 By: Eric Kalis – Daily Business Review (Miami) Maefield Development, which has been busy trying to save its massive City Square project in Miami, sold 46 residential condos and two commercial units in Capri South Beach for nearly $31 million. Operating as MaeCapri, Indianapolis-based Maefield sold the units for $30.79 million to [...]

New Florida Law Protects Condo Owners

Posted on: Thursday, June 3rd, 2010 in: Our Condo Listings

Florida Governer Crist signed the Distressed Condominium Relief Act this week

Wall Street Journal: Luxury Sales Bounce Back

Posted on: Thursday, June 3rd, 2010 in: Market Updates

After a near-disastrous 2009, the luxury market appears to be making a comeback, driven by growing buyer confidence, improved financing conditions and more-realistic seller pricing.

NYPost: Mark Zilbert Interviewed on Miami Beach Real Estate Market

Posted on: Saturday, December 5th, 2009 in: Market Updates

Beach ball By ANDY WANG Last Updated: 5:18 PM, December 3, 2009 Posted: 11:59 PM, December 2, 2009 The Miami winter social season starts in earnest this week as Art Basel, Art Miami and dozens of satellite events take over much of the city’s prime real estate. But when it comes to selling ultra-pricey Miami [...]

Corus Auction Promises Property ‘Mark’

Posted on: Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009 in: Market Updates

By LINGLING WEI and ANTON TROIANOVSKI – Wall Street Journal About 10 investors are expected to submit bids to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. by Friday for $5 billion in condominium loans and other property held by the failed Corus Bank, in a key test of U.S. commercial real-estate values. The government-run auction, with loans [...]

Caribbean Miami Beach gets new owner

Posted on: Friday, September 4th, 2009 in: Market Updates

South Florida Business Journal – by Brian Bandell A New York City investor is the new owner of the Caribbean Miami Beach condominium. The buyer, an affiliate of New York City-based Melohn Properties, bought the mortgage from ailing Corus Bank. The Chicago-based bank (NASDAQ: CORS) had given Caribbean Group Owners a $127.7 million mortgage to [...]

Investors Snapping Up Downtown Miami Condos

Posted on: Thursday, August 20th, 2009 in: Market Updates

David Sutta (CBS4)  Are the good ‘old days of real estate back? It appears so in Downtown Miami. In recent weeks developers have sold hundreds of condos, in a flurry of activity they haven’t seen since the peak of the housing market. Some builders are actually running out of inventory. The first building to sell [...]

Luxury home sales on the rise again in South Florida

Posted on: Sunday, August 2nd, 2009 in: Market Updates

BY MONICA HATCHER mhatcher@MiamiHerald.com Patricia Delinois’ Black-Berry is buzzing again. After a long, dreary drought, her Sunday afternoons are filling up with open houses.Delinois, who handles very expensive real estate, says a flurry of new activity is providing hope that the luxury home market has a pulse again, after taking a beating in recent months [...]

Recovery Signs in Housing Market Stir Some Hope

Posted on: Wednesday, July 29th, 2009 in: Market Updates

By DAVID STREITFELD New York Times After a plunge lasting three years, houses have finally become cheap enough to lure buyers. That, in turn, is stabilizing prices, generating hope that the real estate market is beginning to recover. Eight cities, including Chicago, Cleveland, Denver and San Francisco, showed price increases in May, up from four in [...]