Calling it "Corporate Chic" might be accurate. However, that's still rather generous for the latest expansion of the iconic Fontainebleau, Miami's most legendary hotel.
Lincoln Road still hasn't really gotten back to its old self since the halcyon before-Covid-times, when the Miami Beach pedestrian shopping street was eternally packed with people and retail rents were sky high.
Literally just completed, this $25 million house located on 130 W Rivo Alto Drive on Miami Beach's Rivo Island is plush, plush, plush, having been plopped on the market December 5th.
A modest and unassuming Art Deco bungalow, on one of San Marino Island's landlocked blocks away from the island's vast bayfront villas, has just hit the market for the not-unassuming price of almost three million dollars.
Chad Oppenheim, whose work we've covered on the Big Bubble before, is an iconic Miami-based contemporary architect known for his extremely minimalist, luxurious, and expensive work. Even a monograph, which is fancy architecture speak for "book," that he put out about his work was big and luscious.
One of Miami Beach's most historic homes, the G.E. House of the Future, built in 1934 by iconic architect Robert Law Weed, but associated with the 1933 Chicago World's Fair, is on the market for $5.390 million, and boy is it a deliciously well-restored art deco gem.
Ximena Caminos, one of the creative masterminds of the Faena Hotel, and ex-wife of hotel owner Alan Faena, restored this pink Miami Beach house, making it her home base at the time.
$75 million houses used to be rare in Miami. Heck, they used to be rare everywhere, and they're still rare in a lot of places. But in Miami, they're seemingly all over the place.
A variety of vintage postcards of Miami Beach, found in the Flickr collections of two avid postcard collectors Phillip Pessar and More_Than_Sunshine, show a side of Miami Beach as seen from the sidewalk, the street, or even the curb.
It's a sign of just how obscene the Miami real estate market is, when a nice but ultimately not particularly outstanding Mediterranean Revival number on Miami Beach attempts to get over four times the price it sold for 11 years ago.
