Downtown Miami has changed. No longer does the area shut down when the clock strikes five. The past decade has seen the area come to life with new museums and parks, performing arts spaces, restaurants and bars, condominiums, a continuously growing community college and retail/shopping outlets.Developers have made many plans. Museum Park will replace the former...

Villa Majorca at 343 Majorca Avenue is being billed as “The Jewel of Coral Gables” and it should be. With a location on the corner of Majorca Avenue and LeJeune Road, it’s in the perfect spot.A historic area with incredible Mediterranean architecture, fantastic restaurants, phenomenal golfing and chic shopping, Coral Gables can now also add a nightlife and cultural scene to its repertoire.

During the last five years, the neighboring neighborhoods (say that fast three times) of Wynwood and the Design District have boomed into areas where artists, designers and musicians want to be. This creative resurgence has led to a residential explosion in the areas.Midtown Miami in the heart of the District started it all with buildings that boast residential, retail, restaurants and nightlife. There’s 2 Midtown Miami, 4 Midtown Miami

Taking its place along the ever-expanding Miami skyline, situated along that sharp turn in Downtown Miami that curves onto Biscayne Boulevard, is One Miami a 44- and 45-story set of structures towering up toward the sky and providing incredible bayviews and of the yachts that call that patch where Biscayne Bay and the Miami River meet home.

The most frequent topic of conversation in the condo market is value. What’s the value?  Truth is, it is a matter of analyzing building-by-building, neighborhood-by-neighborhood.  The rebound of this recession is very “building and neighborhood” specific. There are buildings that have done an excellent job of working through the “new reality pricing” over these past two years,  such as Jade Brickell, Brickell on the River, 1060 Brickell and Icon Brickell.