CCIM Conference Has Upbeat Outlook

By Jim Fried This month, we did a remote broadcast live from the 10th-annual CCIM Outlook Conference in Miami, which was attended by real estate businesspeople from all over the

The Power of Teams

By Steve Garber What do we really do on our own? Very little, if anything, at all! Your family is a team. Your medical care is a team. Your business

High Times for High Buildings

It was the summer of 1929 and Miami was buzzing with the extravagance of the Roaring ’20s economy. New innovators and business types had freshly relocated to the city after

An Island of Dreams

Most of the coverage of Mehmet Bayraktar’s Island Gardens development has come in snippets. A lot of it has dealt with the delays in bringing the $1 billion mega-yacht marina

Cultural Catalyst

Faena House Miami Beach

Faena District promises to be a game changer for Miami Beach By Leslie Kraft Burke It may sound like a lofty goal when the creators of the Faena District in

Brazil’s private banker in Miami

Frances Sevilla-Sacasa heads Banco Itaú International Miami with assets of$11.5 billion By Joseph A. Mann Jr. / Photography by Larry Wood Frances Aldrich Sevilla-Sacasa manages money. A lot of money. As CEO

Strike up the Brand

Marketing gurus join forces to target women with new branding and entertainment company By Beverly Barna When longtime marketing gurus Mark Alfieri and Pat Patregnani met about a year ago, they

Why South Florida?

An expert panel talks about what’s going right and what challenges the region faces By Kevin Gale It still doesn’t hurt to treat a job candidate to dinner at Joe’s