Subject: Real Estate Sector

• The Great Showdown

  January 26, 2007

• The Broward Lobbyist List

  October 31, 2007

• Pulp O' The Mornin'

  January 31, 2008

• Zell's Losing Streak

  June 3, 2008

• Best Palm Beach Post Writer

  May 16, 2002

• Best Place to Spot Celebrities

  May 16, 2002

• Starting Tomorrow, the Post-Apocalyptic South Florida Housing Market

  The South Florida housing market has been in quicksand so long that we almost forgot there might be a rock bottom. So let's try to look at the bright side of this report from Denver, in which Greater Fort Lauderdale is singled out as the "riskiest" housing market of the 50 (fifty!) that were studied. Umm, hello from Ground Zero?Somehow it makes it worse to read how Denver's real estate market is looking up. This is supposed to be a national crisis, damn it! Misery loves company, and we can't fig

  January 15, 2009

• Best Reason to Avoid Riverfront

  May 12, 2005

• Personal Business

  March 13, 2008

• Letters From the Issue of February 12, 2009

  February 12, 2009

• The Mommy Monologue

  Will Lauderdale Lakes commish Haynes' career crash on the reefs of fatherhood?

  September 18, 2008

• They'll Take Your Houses

  South Florida's real estate forecast calls for pain

  March 6, 2008

• Ol' Man Wiley Had a Farm

  The patriarch of Waldrep Farm wouldn't go near the place nowadays. Will anybody else?

  February 7, 2008

• Rent to Moan

  The condos at Dadeland Place are selling, but dwellers feel dissed

  November 22, 2007

• Punxsutawney Punks

  It’s Groundhog Day for the Crumbs

  March 16, 2006

• Chump Tower

  South Florida's housing bubble has popped, suckas! But the Donald still wants your millions for his condos.

  June 22, 2006

• Lennar Hedges on Chinese Drywall Deal

  It's this way for Chinese drywall.A couple of weeks ago, I wrote this story about homeowners who are searching for who's to blame for the Chinese drywall that's wrecking their homes. In the article, I referenced this deal being offered by South Florida-based Lennar home builder, which has agreed to fix homes if homeowners won't later sue. Lennar, it seems, wasn't very happy about that part of the deal going public.The company's Los Angeles-based media-relations person, Glenn Bunting, wrote me th

  May 14, 2009

• Spaces For Artists

  May 14, 2009

• Trump Organization Explains: It's Not His Tower

  What's in a name? Serious lawsuits.Last week we introduced you to the saga of the Trump International Hotel & Tower in Fort Lauderdale. Buyers have filed lawsuits alleging they were misled to believe that Donald Trump was a developer of the building -- or, at the very least, that the tower would bear his name. Three years ago, the Donald himself came down and hosted a star-studded party for buyers.  Brochures featured Trump's bio and a letter signed by him, saying, "It is with great ple

  June 9, 2009

• An Elegant Flip, Then a Bellyflop

  Flickr User: random dudeIt's one of those obvious but still necessary tasks: Now that the Florida housing market has been revealed as one giant scam, someone had to document exactly how it happened. So that after we all get buried by debt, Pompeii-style, some future archeologists can piece together our culture, then display it in a museum so that fourth-graders on a field trip can have the wisdom that came with our failure.So, thanks, Sarasota Herald-Tribune, for taking a whole year to sift thro

  July 21, 2009

• Forecast for Condo Lender Corus Bank: Awful, and Getting Worse

  Photo by C. StilesTao Sawgrass in Sunrise is owned by Corus.​Behind some of the area's biggest condo ghost towers -- Tao Sawgrass in Sunrise and Trump International Hotel & Tower in Fort Lauderdale -- lies one very cash-strapped bank. Chicago-based Corus Bank has become a poster child for the condo meltdown, because it lent money to at least 16 South Florida condo projects before the real estate bubble burst. Now that condos aren't selling, developers can't repay their construction loans,

  August 7, 2009

• Despite Massive Losses, Related Wants to Keep Building in West Palm

  Photo by C.StilesCityPlace South Tower is now in foreclosure.​Miami-based real estate giant The Related Group has struggled to weather the housing bust, watching its massive Icon Brickell condo project on Biscayne Bay sit largely empty, while its CityPlace South Tower in West Palm Beach goes into "friendly foreclosure." But that hasn't stopped Related's thirst to keep building. According to the Palm Beach Post, Related Companies is one of five development teams now vying to build a hotel to se

  August 10, 2009

• Will Condo Builder the Related Group Buy Corus Bank?

  Photo by C.StilesWith CityPlace South Tower in foreclosure, what is Related thinking?​You have to hand it to the Related Group. No matter how bad the economy gets or how many ghost towers dot the skyline, the Miami real estate giant keeps looking for ways to make a buck. Here's the current philosophy: We can't pay our own bills. But hey, let's buy more stuff and hope for the best!According to the Wall Street Journal, Related Companies of New York is now trying to buy the assets of a bank that

  August 25, 2009

• Fort Lauderdale Foreclosures Investing for You Good Option

  courtesy blog.thebittingerteam.com​Like many who ask, "What is Fort Lauderdale"? we at Juice have answer for you. It is beautiful foreclosure capital, playground of good deals for opportunity investment. Indeed, some have called "Venice of America" this place because (in addition to canals, beaches, and boats,) Fort Lauderdale have many empty housing sinking steadily into muck. Also many 4B 4BTH previously listed maybe $800,000 now shall be plucked for $50,000, perhaps!So say this article* wit

  August 28, 2009