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A full-floor penthouse at the Ritz-Carlton Residences in Sunny Isles Beach, Florida, has sold for $21 million, the developers announced Thursday. Spanning the entire 51st floor at the 52-story condominium tower, the penthouse has 7,760 square feet of interior space,...

In less than eight weeks, Covid-19 has re-ordered virtually every industry in the world. Now that hundreds of millions of people have gotten a new taste of how important “home” actually is—as a safe haven, a de facto schoolhouse, an impromptu remote office, and a...

As Central Florida begins gradually reopening after a six-week shutdown due to the coronavirus pandemic, the city of Winter Park is blocking off portions of Park Avenue, Morse Boulevard and New England Avenue to create a Mother's Day "weekend opportunity." Winter Park...

Old Town in Kissimmee will once again open its doors to guests next week but things won’t quite be in full swing, reported ClickOrlando. Many of the shops and restaurants at the popular attraction have been closed for weeks due to social distancing guidelines set in...

Literally translating to "cheese and pepper," the cheesy pasta dish Cacio e Pepe is a storied staple of Roman cuisine. Cacio e Pepe combines two hard cheeses — parmigiano reggiano and pecorino romano — with grated black pepper. Beautiful for its simplicity, it's one...

Despite being closed, spots like O Cinema, the Frost Science Museum, and even Jungle Island are offering some pretty cool online content, mostly free for you to stream, reported Thrillist. The Museum of Contemporary Art, Perez Art Museum, Museum of Discovery and...

Even though the Frost Museum of Science is technically closed, they’re still teaching us a thing or two. Frost Museum is one of the best museums in Miami and provides a very different tour that brings together sciences, aquarium and planetarium in a modern and super...

Wynwood, Miami’s trendy arts district, has built a worldwide reputation over the past 20 years as a mecca for street art, nightlife and unique boutiques. But facing the threat of the coronavirus, the small businesses that give it life are facing an existential threat....

Inter Milan soccer player Alexis Alejandro Sánchez scored a new home in South Florida, reported The Real Deal. The striker, who plays for the Chilean national team and is on loan from Manchester United, paid $2.45 million for unit 2604 at the Ritz-Carlton Residences,...

As reported by CNBC, Financial advice website SmartAsset analyzed data for the 500 largest U.S. cities to determine the top “boomtowns” in the country. The site considered seven metrics in its ranking: population change, unemployment rate, number of jobs created, GDP...

Pompano Beach in northern Broward County had the highest rent increase in the country over the past year. The apartment buildings for rent in the city had an average 11% increase in lease payments per month, from an average $1,377.72 to $1,548, according to a study by...

Developer Inmobiliaria Brom has topped out Optima Onyx Tower, a Class A, 308,198-square-foot office high-rise in Aventura, Fla. General contractor NV2A Group broke ground on the project in 2017 and is on schedule for completion in the second quarter of 2020. The Onyx...

A Mexican steel executive purchased a unit at the Ritz-Carlton Residences, Sunny Isles Beach. According to The Real Deal, Property records show the executive paid $5.05 million for unit 4205 at the luxury condo tower. Fortune International Group and Château Group...

REACH and RISE, two sleek, 43-story premier luxury condominium towers, are part of Brickell City Centre, Swire Properties’ landmark $1.05 billion mixed-use development center transforming Downtown Miami’s skyline. Reach and Rise Towers Residences are delivered move-in...

Original Article: https://www.themiamihurricane.com/2020/04/24/vibrant-calle-ocho-quiet-during-covid-19/ Brimming with coffee shops, Latin American art galleries and many busy restaurants, Calle Ocho (Eighth Street) traverses one of Miami’s most vibrant Cuban...

Out on the street there were very few people, mostly cops and bums, the former standing guard at street corners, the latter hanging about, smoking cigarettes. Many of the cops and their cars were congregated in front of Domino Park, which I really wanted to see....

GlobalPro Ventures is working on plans for two new projects in Allapattah and Coconut Grove. The firm, led by Daniel Odess and Matthew Sengsourinh, is in the permitting process for the conversion of a six-unit townhouse building into an office building with...

With South Florida’s stay-at-home orders in full swing, many people are using their kitchens a lot more frequently. So how does one stock it up like a pro? We turned to eight top chefs around Miami to ask for their best tips for pantry staples. Below eight different...

Yesterday, Miami Beach City Manager Jimmy L. Morales sent a memorandum to members of the city's Finance and Economic Resiliency Committee that outlines what he described as a "Resilient Recovery Plan" for the city, including restaurants. Morales did not set a...

A home in the Isleworth community in Windermere topped all West Orange-area residential real-estate transactions from April 9 to 16. The home at 5506 Isleworth Country Club Drive, Windermere, sold April 15, for $5.25 million. Built in 1992, it has six bedrooms, seven...

The Miami Children’s Museum is an incredible institution that allows children to learn while they are having fun. In fact, It is a non-profit educational organization that aims to encourage children to play, imagine, create and learn. It was first established in 1983...

A portion of this article previously appeared in Patch at: https://patch.com/florida/miami/plymouth-church-uses-technology-maintain-fellowship For years, Plymouth Church in Coconut Grove and its West Grove sister church, Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church, have...

Original articl: https://patch.com/florida/miami/ron-magill-has-seen-40-earth-days-zoo-miami-none As the public face of the largest zoological garden in Florida and one of the largest zoo in the US, the communicator director of the place, Ron Magill, has many fond...

With a few beaches in Florida reopening for limited purposes and more to follow in the coming days and weeks, members of your private residential community may be even less tolerant about common amenities remaining closed. However, convenience must always be...

Original Article: https://www.miamirealtors.com/2020/04/21/miami-home-sales-increase-again-in-march-2020/ Miami-Dade County total home sales, luxury transactions, median prices and dollar volume increased year-over-year in March 2020, according to the MIAMI...

Measures to contain the spread of coronavirus are still shifting by the day — and so are responses by investors, developers, builders, banks and buyers. To track the impact in real-time, RE|source Miami is asking area real estate professionals in various sectors for...

The National Association of Realtors is now reporting that a quarter of Realtors with clients putting contracts on homes this past week in the U.S. had at least one do so without physically seeing the property. For those clients, the median amount of homes toured -...

A recent news published by The Real Deal informs that a Ohio gastroenterologist called Ramesh Gandhi just purchased a unit at luxury oceanfront condo Ritz Carlton in Sunny Isles Beach. The unit was sold by Fortune International Group and the Château Group for $5.16 M....

Where would you hide your super luxury car if a hurricane approaches? What about keeping in the living room of your high-end oceanfront condo in South Florida? Believe it or not, that is exactly what happened during Hurricane Dorian when the storm was arriving the...

Watch below the video about luxury building Brickell Flatiron in Downtown Miami.

Original article: Dupon Registry Despite the current uncertainty of the luxury market, Miami real estate seems to be holding strong with another luxury penthouse sale at $11.2 million earlier this month. The extravagant penthouse is one of the six upper-level units...

If there’s one thing we’ve learned while social-distancing is that we don’t visit Miami’s cultural institutions enough. Right now, we miss the days we almost went to PAMM, or drove by the Bass but wound up at Sweet Liberty instead. We’re lucky our cherished local...

Gil Dezer has halted condo marketing efforts and laid off some hotel employees amid the COVID-19 pandemic, but he’s confident both crucial sectors of South Florida’s economy will bounce back once business resumes. Sunny Isles Beach-based Dezer Development is known for...

This post is part of original article at NY Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/21/business/miami-fashion-luxury-condo.html Across Miami, luxury condos are teaming up with upscale brands in a bid to stand out in a crowded field and reach new consumers. The trend...

Not long ago, South Beach was known for the place where action takes place in the Sunshine State, in the south part of Miami. The north part of the city didn’t have the same appealing and were not visited as much. But today, things changed a lot! South Beach has no...

According to The Real Deal, Dezer Development has tried to evict at least six tenants from its Intracoastal Mall in North Miami Beach, in order to move ahead with its redevelopment of the mall, according to the Daily Business Review. Dezer could build up to 2,000...

According to The Real Deal, Gil Dezer’s Dezer Development paid $15 million for a missing piece of a waterfront assemblage in North Miami Beach where he is planning a mixed-use project. The Sunny Isles Beach developer has been working on plans for a major redevelopment...

Ultra in Miami may have been canceled, but on Saturday night, producer and DJ David Guetta put on a big show outside of Icon Brickell and the W Brickell. The two-hour concert was streamed live as millions tuned in around the world. It was in partnership with the Miami...

According to market data from Douglas Elliman on Thursday, Miami Luxury Homes sales were stable across South Florida in the first quarter of this year, reflecting strength before the Covid-19 pandemic hit the state. Price trends, however, diverged across the area’s...

Condo sales in Miami-Dade County began to drop last week. A total of 61 Miami condos for sale were sold for $41.5 million last week, amid the coronavirus pandemic. That is compared to 102 units that sold for $54 million the previous week. Condos last week sold for an...

Florida’s governor on Friday gave the green light for some beaches in Florida and parks to reopen if it can be done safely, and north Florida beaches became among the first to allow people to return since closures because of the coronavirus. Duval County beaches were...

The richest zip code in America is just as exclusive and elite as the people who live there. Fisher Island, located just off the coast of Miami, is accessible only by ferry or water taxi and is a haven for the world’s richest. The 216-acre island has diverse...