Moving to South Florida
Why Miami and Florida
Categories: Miami, Moving to South Florida, Real Estate News
hiStaying on that theme…Miami is one of the US #1’s in domestic tourist destination. And foreign visitor numbers are still growing despite the global economic problems. This year has been a bumper year so far for tourist numbers. In the coming years with the new airport expansion capacity will more than double!
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Real Estate – The Foreclosure Dilema – Supply & Demand
Categories: As Heard on the Street, Condo Communities, Foreclosures, Miami, Moving to South Florida, Real Estate News, South Florida Market Stats
hiHow can so many smart people be so dumb as to overbuild so much? Are developers so stupid that they could not see they were overbuilding? This happened before-how could they let it happen again? How long is it going to take to sell all these condos?
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Miami’s Real Estate-Another perspective.
Categories: Buying Real Estate, Coral Gables, In The News, Miami, Moving to South Florida, Real Estate News, South Florida Market Stats
hiSome experts see Miami’s economic future in worse condition than the rest the country – I have different outlook based on my knowledge of design, construction and real estate. I see Miami excellently positioned for the next cycle of growth. South Florida is ahead of the building curve with available inventory and with recent price adjustments, there’s plenty [...]
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Crabby Old Cutler Road
Categories: As Heard on the Street, Community Information, Cutler Bay, Just For Fun, Life & Style, Miami, Moving to South Florida, Palmetto Bay, Real Estate News
hiWhen I was a child I remember my parents would go crab hunting along Old Cutler Road. Weather conditions had to be perfect, the moon had to be full and if it was a rainy night that is all they needed to pack the kids into my uncle’s van and drive [...]
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Porque mudarte a North Miami, a Biscayne Landing?
Categories: Aventura, Condo Communities, En Espanol, Gated Communities, Life & Style, Listings, Miami, Moving to South Florida, Real Estate News
hiDonde puedes encontrar apartamentos totalmente nuevos con unas vistas muy serenas de la Preserva y en pisos altos de la Bahia y el Oceano y sin embargo en una localizacion super central cerca a trabajo, colegios, universidades, centros comerciales, Costco, Target, Publix. Tambien estas cerca a Aventura y las playas de Sunny Isles Beach, el [...]
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New Elementary School that is Ahead of the Game!
Categories: Community Information, Golfcourse Communities, Miami, Moving to South Florida, Real Estate News, The Burbs
hiSpanish Lake Elementary partially opened its doors this school year (07-08). When I say partially, I mean 1/3 of the school started at the new campus & the other 2/3s of the students are in portables at other elementary schools. My kids were among the lucky ones that got to start at the [...]
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El mejor distrito escolar en Miami, FL – mapas, estadísticas y enlaces
Categories: Buying Real Estate, Community Information, En Espanol, International, Miami, Moving to South Florida, Palmetto Bay, Pinecrest, Real Estate News, South Florida Market Stats
hiAntes de tomar la decisión de mudarse para Miami, es muy importante considerar los colegios en el área.
En Miami, las escuelas se categorizan con un sistema de “grados” muy parecidos a los “grados” o calificaciones de los estudiantes. Las escuelas en el condado Miami-Dade tienen grados de “A” (grado mas alto) hasta “F”.
El distrito escolar [...]
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Best School District in Miami, FL – Boundaries, Scores, School Links
Categories: Around Town, Buying Real Estate, Community Information, Front Page, Life & Style, Miami, Moving to South Florida, Palmetto Bay, Pinecrest, Real Estate News
hiMoving to Miami poses many questions to the relocating family. The most important among them is, “Will my child be in a good school district?”
Schools in Miami-Dade County are “graded” from “A” to “F”.
The best all-around school district in Miami is the Palmetto School District.
This district consists of the following schools: Pinecrest Elementary, Palmetto Elementary, [...]
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FUN community service for kids !
Categories: Around Town, As Heard on the Street, Coconut Grove, Community Events, Community Information, Coral Gables, Just For Fun, Miami, Moving to South Florida, Pinecrest, South Miami
hiVisit http://www.volunteermatch.org/ for FUN community service venues for kids, teens, and adults. Whether you want to save the rain forests, the environment, gorillas… be a host family for an exchange student… volunteer abroad… help out with the Dinosaurs of China exhibit at the Miami Museum of Science & Planetarium…be a special event volunteer at the [...]
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Italian Cooking Show… and Wine Tasting in Coral Gables at “Mia Cucina”
Categories: Around Town, As Heard on the Street, Community Events, Community Information, Coral Gables, Life & Style, Miami, Miami Beach, Moving to South Florida, Real Estate News, South Miami
hiThere’s competition for Miami Spice, in Coral Gables ! Once a month, all summer long, the high tech Italian kitchen design store on Coral Way, “Mia Cucina”, has been hosting gourmet cooking classes … coupled with wine tastings. Gourmet beyond words, they invite from the top Italian [...]
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