Miami has a new vice: bottom-fishing for condo bargains.
Some are searching for investment properties, confident home prices will eventually rebound. In hard-hit Miami-Dade County, condos originally costing as much as $1.4 million at the peak of the market now sell in some cases for $840,000, a 40 percent drop. Farther north, a coming auction at [...]

Two years ago, Angie Cifarelli of New Jersey signed a pre-construction contract to buy a condo at the Residences at Midtown in Palm Beach Gardens.
Purchase price in the contract: $404,500.
Last month’s appraised value of the newly completed condo: $200,000.
A property worth less than half its value in 2006 is all you need to know about [...]

A 12-to-14-story hotel and condo tower, as well as a multimillion-dollar water park, could be coming to downtown Ogden, the City Council was told Tuesday night.
Midtown Development of Orem wants to buy nearly 2 acres on a prime corner of the city-owned Junction mall for the hotel-condo tower. It would be [...]

High above the fray, Jan Rattia strolls onto his 49th-floor terrace and checks the Ga. 400 traffic. He takes a glimpse of the Connector. Then he pauses to take in the skyline.
Afterward he can fix coffee in the morning kitchen and commute downstairs to the lobby of the Four Seasons Hotel for a business meeting.
Such [...]

Every once in awhile we like to take you into the world of the social elite in a little feature we call Social-ist (we know, we are so clever with those -ists!). Last week we attended the preview party of the new Hotel ZaZa. We had been hearing a lot about this swank tank, and [...]

Developers are bullish about future demand for office-condo units, even though there are signs that the Valley’s market is becoming oversaturated in some areas.
In fact, they are in the process of increasing the area’s inventory of such space by as much as 65 percent and show no signs of slowing even as units remain on [...]

Chamberlain & McCreery of Cordova, TN, purchased vacant land at 71 Belvedere in Memphis and is in the process of closing on the Ashley Manor apartments from Steve Woodyard with Woodyard Realty Corp. of Memphis.
The 6,000-square-foot, 16-unit apartment building on .82 acres was built in 1920 and is in the Midtown submarket. Old Zinnie’s, which [...]

Call it the Metro Atlanta commuter backlash.
Fed-up commuters — conquering traffic congestion by simply moving closer to work.
And one of the most popular “live-work-play” communities is right in the urban heart of Metro-Atlanta’s vast, 28-county sprawl, a region that is now the fastest-growing in the nation, with 5.1 million people and counting.
The community is Midtown [...]

Step through elevator doors and a marble foyer.
Floor-to-ceiling windows looming over downtown Seattle, the Space Needle and Elliott Bay.
It’s late afternoon. Then, a few minutes later, the skyline stands out in the dark of night.
And a few minutes after that, it’s daytime again.
Welcome to ESCALA, where the elevator, skyline and daylight are fake. But the [...]

Jeff Harvey, Vice President and Director of Operations of Willow Hotels LLC, today announced the appointment of Christophe Thomas as general manager of the Shoreham hotel on 33 West 55th Street. In addition to overseeing day-to-day operations, Thomas will lead new initiatives to bring a heightened level of personalized service to the 174-room boutique property.
“We [...]

A once deserted West Side corridor is about to begin its transition into one of New York City’s most exciting residential neighborhoods with the opening of Archstone Clinton, a spectacular high-rise luxury apartment community that stretches from 51st Street to 53rd Street along the westerly blockfronts of Tenth Avenue. With leasing now officially underway and [...]

Downtown Boston’s condominium market staged a year-end rebound, resulting in a modest 3.4 percent decline in condo prices for all of 2006.
The median price for the 3,494 condos sold in 2006 was $449,000, according to Listing Information Network, or Link. Sales fell 9.8 percent for the year, making it the slowest year downtown since 2003.
The [...]