September 2016 - Rava Realty

Miami: Brazilian investors are back

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Brazilian investors, seeking an alternative to their country’s risky real estate market, are returning to Florida to invest in property and establish an income source in dollars. Back in Brazil, the economic crisis and rising unemployment have sent rents down 5.2 percent in the past year while rents in Miami were stable in the first half of the year.
Brazilians were third among foreigners searching for South Florida real estate in June, according to the Miami Association of Realtors, after ...

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Lowline in LES a reality or a dream?

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Near the Williamsburg Bridge and next to the Essex Street subway on Delancey Street is an underground one-acre expanse. That very land, dormant for the past 60 years, has long been conceived by Dan Barasch, a strategist previously with Google and the City of New York, and architect James Ramsey as a park — called the Lowline (inspired by the Highline). The duo finally received a nod of approval from the city which had issued an RFP earlier this year ...

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Remaking the Meatpacking District

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Meatpacking District, now a retail and tourist destination cemented by last year’s relocation of the Whitney Museum, continues to be reshaped due to rising commercial rents and consequently, rising retail availability rate. Cushman & Wakefield reported the neighborhood’s availability rate at 22.2 percent during the second quarter of 2016 — a 3.9 percentage point increase from the same time last year and a 5.2 percentage point increase from 2013.
Citing climbing costs, Hogs and Heifers, an iconic biker bar on ...

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Durst presence in Harlem?

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The company of Douglas Durst — the younger brother of infamous Robert Durst — is in talks to buy a large development site at 1800 Park Ave. at 125th Street from Bruce Eichner, who dug a foundation but wasn’t able to put up a planned apartment project. The corner is across the street from the Harlem Metro North station. A Durst purchase would be a game-changer for East Harlem.

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New normal in high-end NYC real estate: price cuts, gift cards & penthouse parties

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In New York, where more than 3,500 new luxury apartments are hitting the market this year, developers now have to work much harder for a sale. As a result, they are leaning on different sales tactics like offering limited price discounts, gift cards, parties for brokers or creating two units from one, to create momentum at their projects.
For example, in Soho at 10 Sullivan St., an 8,400-square-foot penthouse listed at $45 million was sliced into two smaller units. Neither ...

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Miami: Making over Lincoln Road

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While neighborhoods like Wynwood, Brickell and Midtown have grown in popularity, Lincoln Road has become stale for many locals and tourists. City of Miami seems to agree, and as a result, commissioned a renowned landscape architecture firm to dream up a new vision for the mall.
Last year, James Corner Field Operations presented a lush reimagination of the public space, featuring redesigned planters with seating carved out along the edges, a reorganization of cafe tables toward the center to create ...

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