• These are Miami’s top construction firms,Francisco Alvarado, Matthew Elo

    These are Miami’s top construction firms

    For Martin Melo, a principal with Melo Group, a Miami-based development and general contracting firm, the past year signaled a winding down of the city’s most recent development boom.  “I think we are at the end of the cycle for projects that began shortly after the pandemic,” Melo told The Real Dea

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  • Ranking the top resi players in Miami,Katherine Kallergis, Kate Hinsche, Matthew Elo, Joseph Jungermann

    Ranking the top resi players in Miami

    It’s hard to say when exactly fortunes turned, but real estate players agree: Much of Miami-Dade County is in a buyer’s market.  “It’s definitely a buyer’s market up to $2 million, $3 million bucks,” Duff Rubin, Coldwell Banker’s regional president for the Southeast, said. “You see a lot of stale in

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  • The Closing: Robert Rivani,Francisco Alvarado

    The Closing: Robert Rivani

    Robert Rivani, a commercial real estate maverick who bolted Los Angeles for Miami, recently arranged his latest coup: Playboy is moving its Hollywood headquarters to The Rivani, his newly rebranded, seven-story mixed-use project in Miami Beach.  Rivani started out as a sneakerhead and sold his colle

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