After consecutive months in the doldrums, the Miami-Dade real estate market showed some signs of revitalization in March. According to the latest monthly report by the Miami Association of Realtors, sales for single-family homes in Miami-Dade set a new record last month, jumping to 1,276 from 1,168 (or 9.2 percent) over March 2016. This tops the previous record for March of 1,242 homes sold in 2015.

The number of townhouse and condo sales also rose 2.3 percent year-to-year to ...

Jason Barr, an urban economist at Rutgers University, created an interesting index that measures the price of Manhattan land from 1866 to 2013, using data on sales of vacant land. In the four decades following the Civil War, NYC emerged as the economic capital of the U.S. And as Barr’s index reveals, rapid business and population growth boosted the price of land and spurred the construction of the city’s first skyscrapers. And between 1900 and 1930, Manhattan land prices rose ...

In 2016, there were 2,202 condos delivered in greater downtown Miami and based on what’s under construction for 2017, that number should rise to 3,456 delivered units — according to the Miami Downtown Development Authority. But looking ahead to 2018 and 2019, new product deliveries should fall to 2,846 and 1,960 respectively. That’s because not many projects are expected to break ground this year since many of the new condo and apartment projects currently proposed may have to wait till ...