Philippe Houdard could be Brickell’s future: He has gone car-less. Houdard, the co-founder of office-space sharing firm Pipeline, sold his Honda Accord when he moved to Brickell from South Beach last year. He walks when he goes to dinner. He takes Uber to meetings. “Brickell has the density to do everything I need within several blocks,” Houdard said. “It’s...

Buying a whole block on Miami Beach’s Lincoln Road simply wasn’t enough for Spanish billionaire Amancio Ortega. The Zara owner has yet again smashed a Miami record with the $500 million purchase of downtown’s Southeast Financial Center, an iconic office building that seller JPMorgan Asset Management began shopping around earlier this year. In a single deal,...

A group that paid $10 million for property in Miami’s Little River neighborhood plans to redevelop it. AHOS 2 LLC, owned by Avra Jain and Joe Del Vecchio, sold the 178,810-square-foot office building at 7942 N.E. 2nd Ave. to MD 79th Holding LLC, managed by Robert Daniels in Miami Beach. Metro 1 Commercial’s Alfredo Riascosrepresented the sellers while Devlin...

Giant mortgage investor Freddie Mac plans to dispense with traditional appraisals on some loan applications for home purchases, replacing them with an alternative valuation system that would be free of charge to both lenders and borrowers.  Can computers, big data and advanced analytics replace real live humans when it comes to accurately valuing the home you...

When it comes to homebuilding, Miami is a top 75 market to watch in 2017, according to a joint report from PwC and the Urban Land Institute. The city’s No. 62 ranking comes as little surprise, as Miami, while continuing to see strong residential construction spending, has been losing some of its heat. During the month of September, builders spent more than $267...

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