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The holidays bring time spent with friends and family. If you’re the host with the most, this also means lots of prep work and planning for your celebrations, especially when your home is the gathering place. And, if you’re pressed for space for a large crowd, you’ll need to employ a bit of creativity to make the most out of the space you do have. Here’s a list of clever small space entertaining tips and tricks to host a big gathering in a small space. Make Space for Coats . (Yes, even in South Florida... maybe) Your guests will arrive and the first thing they’ll do is take off their coats, scarves, and hats. Make room in your coat closet, or if that’s not an option, purchase a folding clothing rack to stash in a bedroom for use during the party and then fold up and store when not in use. De-clutter.  That curated stack of coffee table books and candles are a chic accent to your living room, but party guests will need surfaces to put their drinks and food down. Tempora...

One Thousand Museum condos will be the latest addition to the Museum Park area of Downtown Miami at 1000 Biscayne Boulevard. One Thousand Museum (1000 Museum) will join the four existing luxury towers located across the street from Bicentennial Park which is soon to be renamed "Museum Park". This thirty acre urban park will house both the new Miami Art Museum and the new Miami Science Museum. One Thousand Museum will be the newest ultra-luxury project located in Miami Downtown and will be sixty-two stories tall and offer just eighty-three (83) half-floor and full floor residences ranging in size from 4,500 to 9,800 square feet. These flow-through design apartments will offer residents incredible panoramic views of Biscayne Bay, the Miami and Miami Beach skylines and the light show that is the "Magic City"! ONE Thousand Museum, a new tower designed by world renown architect Zaha Hadid will soon grace the Downtown Miami skyline. Developed by Louis Birdman and Gre...

The synergy between classic cars and luxury property as a desired asset and sound investment is becoming ever more apparent – both highly coveted, and not only giving a huge amount of enjoyment and personal satisfaction to those lucky enough to own either, but also seen by many as a good way to diversify their investment portfolios. Full Report Here

If you're selling your home, chances are good you're familiar with the concept of staging your home. Real estate agents recommend your home look its best to prospective buyers, and home staging is a great way to ensure you receive top dollar. But did you know you should stage the exterior of your home too? Failing to update the look of your home's exterior can cause buyers to get a bad first impression when they initially arrive to view your home.  Whether your audience are  luxury home buyers  or you are selling your starter home, staging the exterior of your home will have a major impact in the sale of your home.  If you want to put exterior home staging to work, here are five elements you should consider tweaking. Clean Your Exterior Windows and Screens Nothing says poor maintenance like dirty windows and window screens. If your windows are caked with dust or muck from the last rainstorm, open house visitors are going to wonder what other maintenance j...

Okan Tower will have a 294-room Hilton-branded hotel, 236 condo-hotel units, 153 condos, 64,000 square feet of Class A office space and a restaurant on the 67th floor. Okan Group unveiled the project at an event at its 3,000-square-foot sales gallery in Istanbul on Wednesday. The architecture firm behind the tower’s bold design in tribute to Turkish culture is Behar Font & Partners. Okan Tower’s studio, one-, and two-bedroom condo-hotel units will be delivered turnkey furnished, ranging in size from 447 to 1,245 square feet, while its condo-residence offerings will include one- to three-bedroom units plus a den, ranging from 698 to over 2,071 square feet; and 4 duplex-style penthouses ranging from 1,873 to more than 2,142 square feet.  Okan Tower will also offer world-class amenities, including high-speed elevators with separate access for various mixed-use components, a sky pool with panoramic views from the 70th floor, outdoor lounge, Hammam spa, state-of-the-art health...

The Opportunity Zone Program is becoming more and more popular in South Florida. Florida has 427 designated Opportunity Zones, 68 of them are in Miami Dade County. Areas include:  Liberty City, Opa-Locka, Carol City, Little Haiti, North Miami and Aventura.  See map above. T he program provides tax incentives to developers who build in these areas. An Opportunity Zone is an economically - distressed community where new investments, under certain conditions, may be eligible for preferential tax treatment. Localities qualify as Opportunity Zones if they have been nominated for that designation by the state and that nomination has been certified by the Secretary of the U.S. Treasury via his delegation authority to the Internal Revenue Service. Opportunity Zones are designed to spur economic development by providing tax benefits to investors. First, investors can defer tax on any prior gains until the earlier of the date on which an investment is sold or exchanged, o...

Is it easier today for homebuyers with a high debt ratio and subpar credit scores to qualify for a mortgage than it's been in years? And if so, what might that mean for first-time and repeat buyers who are struggling with credit and debt issues but still hope to buy a home? When the Federal Reserve polled senior bank executives last month on whether they've been loosening credit criteria for home-mortgage applicants, most bankers said, "no way, not us." They've kept their rules tight to avoid the problems the lending industry experienced in the housing bust of the last decade. Studies by the Urban Institute's Housing Finance Policy Center have estimated that lenders' historically strict underwriting standards have prevented millions of would-be buyers from becoming homeowners. Researchers said that between 2009 and 2014, 5.2 million mortgages were "missing" – they would have been made if lenders had relaxed their tough post-recession requi...