Buy, Sell, Hold Miami™ Real Estate Podcast For Week Of Dec. 12, 2025

For this episode of the Buy, Sell, Hold Miami™ podcast, special guest Josh D'Alemberte of Who Tutors joins Daniel Hernandez of Compass Real Estate and Peter Zalewski of MiamiCondo.Club to discuss the state of education in South Florida.Welcome to Buy, Sell, Hold Miami™ weekly podcast for a no-nonsense perspective on South Florida real estate from a pair of locals with differing opinions.Each week, real estate advisor Daniel Hernandez of Compass Real Estate and longtime analyst Peter Zalewski of the Miami Condo Investing Club™ break down the housing market headlines, unpack policy changes and provide unfiltered analysis on everything from condo terminations to Vintage unit fire sales, luxury speculative homes to developer strategies.Whether you are a homeowner, investor or real estate professional, Hernandez and Zalewski will give a local perspective on what is really happening across the tricounty South Florida region of Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach with no fluff, no hype and plenty of data-backed opinions.We call balls and strikes on when to buy, sell and hold.Episode TopicsFor the Dec. 12, 2025, podcast, Hernandez, Zalewski and special guest Josh D’Alemberte of Who Tutors educational services to discuss five educational topics of importance to South Florida investors:Coconut Grove Is Hot, Hot, HotMiami Is Pricing Out Its Own StudentsThe Wealthy Forgot About Public SchoolsCharter Schools Solve The Education ProblemMiami’s New Mayor Is Developers’ BestieThis podcast is broadcast live at 4 pm (EST) on the social media accounts of Daniel Hernandez and Peter Zalewski.Episode OverviewIn this Dec. 12 2025, episode of Buy, Sell, Hold Miami™ podcast, Hernandez and Zalewski are joined by special guest Josh D’Alemberte—a South Florida educator for 30 years and founder of a local tutoring company Who Tutors—to cut through the local rhetoric, and deliver straight talk about the South Florida education system.During the nearly 85-minute discussion, D’Alemberte—who was Hernandez’s eighth-grade social studies teacher—detailed how a city’s school system is a primary concern for families relocating to South Florida, creating an immediate link between education and property value.The discussion spanned the stratospheric growth of South Florida, the financial viability of public schools amid enrollment declines and the political climate surrounding new city leadership and its impact on development.A significant portion of the conversation was dedicated to the challenges facing public education, particularly the rise of charter schools—privately run but publicly funded institutions that draw tax dollars from the traditional public system.The discussion then pivoted to the need for better utilization of public land, with D’Alemberte suggesting that underutilized school sites should be used for affordable housing for teachers and essential workers instead of being allocated to private interests.The episode concluded with a look at newly elected City of Miami Mayor Eileen Higgins, who has been dubbed a “developer’s bestie” due to raising significantly more money from real estate interests than her competitor.Higgins has pledged to fix the city’s notoriously slow and opaque permitting process, which developers frequently blame for project delays.Zalewski expressed optimism about Higgins, suggesting the mayor-elect take advantage of the business opportunities generated by the previous administration’s marketing efforts and bring much-needed transparency to the system, suggesting solutions like a fee-tiered structure for expedited permits and outsourcing non-essential bureaucracy.The hosts agreed that improving the permitting system would benefit the city by encouraging more construction that generates higher property tax revenue that can be used to address the chronic lack of affordable housing and make good on the long-term investment in the public interest.