Miami Real Estate Investing Podcast With Peter Zalewski

In this episode of The Peter Zalewski Show™, the host examines how developers and sellside agents who bet on a World Cup buyer wave instead watched pending sales and asking prices fall.The weekly podcast The Peter Zalewski Show™ features interviews with South Florida business leaders focused on real estate, finance and the economy.The program - hosted by Peter Zalewski of the Miami Condo Investing Club™ - is broadcast live every Wednesday at 4 pm (Miami time) at MiamiCondo.Club and on Peter Zalewski’s social media accounts to watch the free live broadcasts.The objective of the show is to deliver straight talk, share institutional knowledge and provide data-driven analysis on the macro and micro economic forces shaping the tricounty South Florida region of Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach.Episode OverviewIn the July 22, 2026, episode of The Peter Zalewski Show™ podcast, host Peter Zalewski puts a number on the promises made ahead of the FIFA World Cup that started on June 11, 2026.Coming into Miami’s World Cup involvement with seven matches and nearly 450,000 attendees passing through South Florida during the six-week tournament, developers and sellside agents pushed a narrative that the matches would generate a flurry of new condo buyers rushing into the tricounty region of Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach to sign a deal.The tournament wrapped up in Miami on July 18, 2026, with the third-place match between England and France. The World Cup ended the following day on July 19, 2026, when Spain beat Argentina in New Jersey.Zalewski's verdict on Miami's World Cup tournament for new condo sales was a zero.Based on state and listing data compiled in the South Florida Condo Cliff Index™, Zalewski tracks the resale market in the tricounty region on a Week-over-Week basis from June 9, 2026, through July 21, 2026, the six-week span bracketing Miami’s World Cup matches.Active listings did not climb on a flood of new buyers but actually fell 3.3%, a net loss of 808 units. Pending sales did not climb either, falling 4.7% for a net loss of 104 contracts.Vintage units that are at least 30 years old—and make up 68% of the tricounty condo stock—told the same story, down nearly 3.2% in listings and about 4.3% in pending sales.As for the pricing, buyers who did step forward drove pending sales prices down by nearly 1.7% Overall and about 3.8% on Vintage units, even as sellers moved the goalposts in opposite directions, nudging the Overall asking price up nearly 0.8% while the Vintage asking price slipped more than 1.8%.Zalewski reads the split as Overall sellers still betting on a rescue the pending sales numbers already seemed to veto.It is not to say buyers who came to South Florida for the World Cup could not come back but the immediate results show the tournament was probably more of a distraction than a buying opportunity, Zalewski said.The episode arrives as sellers already squeezed by rising maintenance fees, hefty special assessments and pricey insurance premiums under the Florida Condo Association Financial Cliff now face a new deadline.Fannie Mae is set to eliminate its Limited Review for condo mortgage applications in August 2026, a change Zalewski argues will make financing slower, harder and more expensive just as the 2026 Summer Buying Season of May through October enters its final stretch.Zalewski makes the case that six weeks of global attention bought South Florida condo sellers nothing, and that anyone still waiting on a World Cup rescue is running out of runway before the 2026-27 Winter Buying Season of November through April resets the calculus.The episode also serves as the latest breadcrumb in the build-out of the Condo Ratings Agency™, which is set to launch in November 2026 to coincide with the start of the 2026-27 Winter Buying Season.The Agency is tracking nearly 13,000 condo associations and about 760,000 units across the tricounty South Florida region of Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach.

In this episode of Miami Condo Mondays™, the hosts discuss why the median monthly rental rate in the tricounty region of Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach has fallen 20% since 2022.Miami Condo Mondays™ features Peter Zalewski of the Miami Condo Investing Club™ and veteran broker Jenny Huertas of CVRRealty.com in a weekly deep dive into South Florida condo real estate.Recorded in Greater Downtown Miami, the podcast delivers an hour of high-level analysis on preconstruction condos, market trends and investment strategies for the tricounty South Florida region of Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach.The show leverages more than 60 years of combined institutional knowledge as Zalewski provides the macro perspective and Huertas offers on-the-ground micro insights from her daily experience in the trenches.The show streams live every Monday at 4 pm on the social media accounts of both hosts to provide an authoritative look at the latest shifts in the condo market.Episode OverviewIn this episode of the Miami Condo Mondays™ podcast on July 20, 2026, co-hosts Jenny Huertas of CVR Realty and Peter Zalewski of the Miami Condo Investing Club™ document the erosion of landlord pricing power across South Florida in the last five years.The hosts contend that rents have entered a correction that mirrors the broader softening already underway in condo resale pricing in the tricounty South Florida region of Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach.The numbers pulled by CVRRealty.com reinforce the claim.The median monthly rental rate across Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties settled at $2,200 during the first half of 2026 from January through June, down from $2,750 during the same six-month period in 2022 but up $400 from the $1,800 median rent recorded in 2021, when Florida lifted its mask mandate and remote work fueled a wave of newcomers into the region.On a price per square foot basis, the tricounty median monthly rental rate fell to $2.26 during the first half of 2026 from $2.82 in 2022.During the 58-minute episode, the hosts trace the decline to a surge of corporate-owned rental towers undercutting individual condo owners with concessions unavailable to private landlords, including two months of free rent and security deposits as low as $500 in place of the traditional three months due at signing.Despite South Florida’s current 3.8 months of rental supply qualifying as a Landlords Market, the bid-ask spread between asking and achieved rents tells a different story.Miami-Dade County rental listings are striving for $2,930 monthly on a median basis yet achieve $2,500, a spread of 17.2%.Broward County landlords are asking $2,300 and achieving $2,000, a spread of 15%.Landlords in Palm Beach County are asking $2,650 but realizing only $2,200, a spread of nearly 21% for the widest of all in the three counties.Zalewski notes the spread should run closer to 20% in a market where landlords hold genuine leverage, meaning Broward and Miami-Dade owners are conceding ground faster than the headline supply figures suggest.Huertas shared a story about a recent negotiation from her own desk, where a prospective tenant countered a $3,300 listing with an offer of $2,600, illustrating how far renters are now willing to push.The hosts tie the rent decline directly to valuations through the “1% Rule” of real estate investing, the screening tool used by private lenders to size a property against its monthly income.They close the episode divided on the market’s outlook, with Zalewski bearish on landlords and Huertas bullish on tenants heading into the back half of 2026.Click play above to watch the analysis, and use the timestamped timeline and the Top 10 Takeaways below to navigate the program on demand.

In this episode of Miami Condo Mondays™, the hosts examine why Broward County condos are listed for resale at a 52% discount off of the South Florida Overall average asking price of $947,900 per unit.Miami Condo Mondays™ features Peter Zalewski of the Miami Condo Investing Club™ and veteran broker Jenny Huertas of CVRRealty.com in a weekly deep dive into South Florida condo real estate.Recorded in Greater Downtown Miami, the podcast delivers an hour of high-level analysis on preconstruction condos, market trends and investment strategies for the tricounty South Florida region of Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach.The show leverages more than 60 years of combined institutional knowledge as Zalewski provides the macro perspective and Huertas offers on-the-ground micro insights from her daily experience in the trenches.The show streams live every Monday at 4 pm on the social media accounts of both hosts to provide an authoritative look at the latest shifts in the condo market.Episode OverviewIn this episode of the Miami Condo Mondays™ podcast on July 13, 2026, co-hosts Jenny Huertas of CVR Realty and Peter Zalewski of the Miami Condo Investing Club™ put Broward County in the spotlight, arguing the market is the best opportunity in the tricounty South Florida region for condo investors chasing a discount.The numbers pulled by CVRRealty.com reinforce the claim.Broward County carries an Overall average asking price of less than $453,000 per unit compared to the South Florida Overall average of nearly $947,900.During the 61-minute episode, the hosts trace the gap to the county largely being built out during the 1970s and 1980s, decades before Miami-Dade County absorbed the bulk of new condo construction in the 21st Century.Veteran broker Huertas walks viewers through what the stock of Broward County condos look like on the ground: shorter buildings, fewer units, self-parking, cement balconies and asking prices of $325 per square foot compared to transaction prices of $261 per square foot for the Overall market in the first half of 2026 between January and June.The discount runs deeper in the Vintage condos that are at least 30 years old and now subject to Milestone Inspections mandated after the Champlain Towers South collapse on June 24, 2021.Vintage condo listings in Broward County have an average asking price of more than $261,425—or $246 per square foot—compared to transaction prices of about $240,000—or $216 per square foot—for a bid-ask spread of less than 9%.For comparison, Broward County’s Overall condo pricing has a bid-ask spread of more than 30%.Zalewski attributes the pricing disparity to sellers pricing their units at arbitrary numbers to meet their unwarranted expectations rather than current market value.In an on-the-spot analysis conducted during the episode, Huertas runs the numbers on her own team’s listings, where several units meet the “1% Rule” screening tool that measures whether monthly rent generates adequate revenue to justify a unit’s value.The hosts close the episode by outlining the headwinds facing Broward County sellers, pointing to 11.1 months of condo resale supply—which qualifies as a Buyers Market—in Broward County, a 30-year fixed mortgage rate of 6.75% and the looming elimination of the limited review by Fannie Mae in August 2026.Click play above to watch the analysis, and use the timestamped timeline and the Top 10 Takeaways below to navigate the program on demand.

In this episode of Miami Condo Mondays™, the hosts examine a South Florida condo market where listings have fallen to less than 23,625 units, yet the region still has nearly 11 months of supply.Miami Condo Mondays™ features Peter Zalewski of the Miami Condo Investing Club™ and veteran broker Jenny Huertas of CVRRealty.com in a weekly deep dive into South Florida condo real estate.Recorded in Greater Downtown Miami, the podcast delivers an hour of high-level analysis on preconstruction condos, market trends and investment strategies for the tricounty South Florida region of Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach.The show leverages more than 60 years of combined institutional knowledge as Zalewski provides the macro perspective and Huertas offers on-the-ground micro insights from her daily experience in the trenches.The show streams live every Monday at 4 pm on the social media accounts of both hosts to provide an authoritative look at the latest shifts in the condo market.Episode OverviewIn this episode of the Miami Condo Mondays™ podcast on July 6, 2026, co-hosts Jenny Huertas of CVR Realty and Peter Zalewski of the Miami Condo Investing Club™ test whether Miami’s run as a FIFA World Cup host city has translated into condo sales activity during the 2026 Summer Buying Season of May through October.Developers spent the early weeks of the tournament stocking sales centers with match-day raffles and hospitality events, betting that fans flooding into town for group-stage and knockout matches would extend their visits into condo shopping trips.Huertas—a veteran broker with 20 years of experience—reports a different reality from the trenches.Locals already active in the market, not visiting fans, are the ones placing offers, and the overall pace looks like an ordinary Summer Buying Season rather than a tournament-driven surge.During the 73-minute episode, Zalewski walks through the South Florida numbers behind that read. Active listings in the tricounty region of Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach have fallen to less than 23,625 units from a level closer to 26,000 just months earlier, yet the region still carries nearly 11 months of supply, a level the hosts classify as an elevated Buyers Market.The hosts also revisit the chaotic evacuation of the FIFA World Cup Fan Fest at Bayside Marketplace in Greater Downtown Miami during a lightning warning, a scene Huertas witnessed firsthand amid the Mexico vs. England match, as an example of how the World Cup consumed attention that developers had hoped would flow toward condo showrooms.The episode also previews the Summer Buying Season backdrop taking shape headed into August, when the elimination of the Fannie Mae limited review for condo mortgage applications is expected to compound an already soft market.Click play above to watch the analysis, and use the timestamped timeline and the Top 10 Takeaways below to navigate the program on demand.

This is copy of a live podcast recorded Fridays at 4 pm featuring Daniel Hernandez of Compass Real Estate and analyst Peter Zalewski of the Miami Condo Investing Club™.This is copy of a live podcast recorded Fridays at 4 pm in Miami featuring real estate advisor Daniel Hernandez of Compass Real Estate and analyst Peter Zalewski of the Miami Condo Investing Club™.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 July 10, 2026, podcast, Hernandez and Zalewski give their take on the following five topics:Worst Time For The GoodTimeMiami Will Become A Chopper TownMarinamaniaPublic Transit ≠ PriorityLive Local 4.0 Helps Local DevelopersThis podcast is broadcast live at 4 pm (EST) on the social media accounts of Daniel Hernandez and Peter Zalewski.Episode OverviewIn this July 10, 2026, episode of the Buy, Sell, Hold Miami™ podcast, real estate advisor Daniel Hernandez of Compass Real Estate and longtime analyst Peter Zalewski of the Miami Condo Investing Club™ cut through the local rhetoric, delivering straight talk on five of the biggest topics of critical importance to South Florida investors.The hosts debate each topic and declare whether it is a Buy, a Sell or a Hold. They do not always agree. The friction is the point.During the 70-minute episode, Hernandez and Zalewski examine topics that range from a foreclosed Miami Beach hotel unloaded at auction for $100 to a Terminal Island helipad proposal by Citadel’s founder Ken Griffin, and a proposed mega yacht marina on the former Seaquarium site on Virginia Key to a $7.6 billion shortfall exposing Miami-Dade County's stalled transit rail promises.The conversation also touches on newly sharpened punitive damages provisions under the Live Local Act and the statewide property tax referendum standoff. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis originally proposed eliminating taxes for homesteaded properties, but he is now distancing himself from the measure, explaining that Tallahassee lawmakers rewrote the proposed referendum for the November 2026 ballot.Click play above to watch Zalewski’s analysis, and use the timestamped timeline and the Top 10 Takeaways below to navigate the program on demand.

In this episode of Miami Condo Mondays™, the hosts debate the massive pricing spread opening up along the chronological line between Before Surfside and After Surfside era units.Miami Condo Mondays™ features Peter Zalewski of the Miami Condo Investing Club™ and veteran broker Jenny Huertas of CVRRealty.com in a weekly deep dive into South Florida condo real estate.Recorded in Greater Downtown Miami, the podcast delivers an hour of high-level analysis on preconstruction condos, market trends and investment strategies for the tricounty South Florida region of Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach.The show leverages more than 60 years of combined institutional knowledge as Zalewski provides the macro perspective and Huertas offers on-the-ground micro insights from her daily experience in the trenches.The show streams live every Monday at 4 pm on the social media accounts of both hosts to provide an authoritative look at the latest shifts in the condo market.Episode OverviewIn this episode of the Miami Condo Mondays™ podcast on June 29, 2026, co-hosts Jenny Huertas of CVR Realty and Peter Zalewski of the Miami Condo Investing Club™ analyze the dawn of the SIRS (Structural Integrity Reserve Study) Generation of new developments.This new era of construction is mandated by post-Surfside state laws requiring strict inspections, fully funded capital reserves and association transparency.Following the five-year anniversary of the Champlain Towers South collapse in Surfside—where nearly 100 people died and a $1 billion settlement was paid out to the families of the victims—the market has officially bifurcated into two distinct periods: Before Surfside (1963 to June 24, 2026) and After Surfside (June 25, 2026 and beyond).As developers roll out the first projects conceived for this new era—highlighted with the June 26, 2026, announcement of a 70-story Breitling tower in Miami’s Brickell Avenue Area submarket just two days after the five-year anniversary of the Surfside tragedy on June 24, 2021—a massive valuation chasm is opening.Units in Vintage condo towers that are at least 30 years old have asking prices that are discounted by 40% off the broader Overall market average price.During the 61-minute episode, Huertas and Zalewski evaluate whether preconstruction units will thereby command a 40% premium over that same Overall market, potentially creating a staggering 80-percentage-point price spread from the bottom of the ledger to the top.With safety mandates now serving as the baseline legal standard for all new projects across the board, the hosts analyze whether these new towers can actually command their premium pricing.The discussion targets the competitive, voluntary development upgrades buyers will expect when paying top dollar, including redundant elevator access, 24/7 on-site chief building engineers, proactive water-leak detection systems and an increased number of dedicated electric vehicle (EV) charging stations.The episode also serves as the latest breadcrumb in the build-out of the Condo Ratings Agency™, a proprietary analytical platform set to launch in November 2026 to track and evaluate the financial feasibility and structural stability of nearly 13,000 condo associations across the tricounty region.Click play above to watch the analysis, and use the timestamped timeline and the Top 10 Takeaways below to navigate the program on demand.

In this episode of The Peter Zalewski Show™, the host marks the anniversary of the Champlain Towers South collapse on June 24, 2021, by examining what buyers and sellers face in the years ahead.The weekly podcast The Peter Zalewski Show™ features interviews with South Florida business leaders focused on real estate, finance and the economy.The program - hosted by Peter Zalewski of the Miami Condo Investing Club™ - is broadcast live every Wednesday at 4 pm (Miami time) at MiamiCondo.Club and on Peter Zalewski’s social media accounts to watch the free live broadcasts.The objective of the show is to deliver straight talk, share institutional knowledge and provide data-driven analysis on the macro and micro economic forces shaping the tricounty South Florida region of Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach.Episode OverviewOn the five-year anniversary of the Champlain Towers South condo collapse, host Peter Zalewski pivots from the normal Wednesday livestream of The Peter Zalewski Show™ to air an in-depth conversation recorded June 18, 2026, with Oscar Musibay of Lee & Associates on the latest episode of the Miamees On Fire™ program.The 64-minute discussion—recorded at the South Miami headquarters of Miami’s Community News—examines the South Florida condo market before and after the 40-year-old Champlain Towers South at 8777 Collins Ave. collapsed at 1:22 am on June 24, 2021.Nearly 100 people died in the tragedy, and the families of the victims ultimately received a $1 billion settlement.In the aftermath of Surfside, the Florida Legislature adopted measures now forcing cash-strapped unit owners to contend with rising maintenance fees, hefty special assessments and pricey insurance premiums.This dynamic is called the Florida Condo Association Financial Cliff.The episode also serves as the latest breadcrumb in the build-out of the Condo Ratings Agency™, set to launch in November 2026 to coincide with the start of the 2026-27 Winter Buying Season.The Agency is tracking nearly 13,000 condo associations and about 760,000 units across the tricounty South Florida region of Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach counties, using state records to evaluate the financial feasibility, stability and viability of individual associations.The Peter Zalewski Show™—which livestreams at 4 p.m. on Wednesdays—returns to its normal format next week.Click play above to watch Zalewski’s analysis, and use the timestamped timeline and the Top 10 Takeaways below to navigate the program on demand.

In this episode of Miami Condo Mondays™, the hosts discuss why buyers are increasingly choosing older condos just five years after the Champlain Towers South collapsed in Surfside on June 24, 2021.Miami Condo Mondays™ features Peter Zalewski of the Miami Condo Investing Club™ and veteran broker Jenny Huertas of CVRRealty.com in a weekly deep dive into South Florida condo real estate.Recorded in Greater Downtown Miami, the podcast delivers an hour of high-level analysis on preconstruction condos, market trends and investment strategies for the tricounty South Florida region of Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach.The show leverages more than 60 years of combined institutional knowledge as Zalewski provides the macro perspective and Huertas offers on-the-ground micro insights from her daily experience in the trenches.The show streams live every Monday at 4 pm on the social media accounts of both hosts to provide an authoritative look at the latest shifts in the condo market.Episode OverviewIn this episode of the Miami Condo Mondays™ podcast on June 22, 2026, co-hosts Jenny Huertas of CVR Realty and Peter Zalewski of the Miami Condo Investing Club™ mark the five-year anniversary of the Champlain Towers South collapse in Surfside.The hosts take stock of what has changed—and what has not—in the condo market along the Miami-Dade County barrier island.During the 70-minute episode, Huertas and Zalewski revisit the early morning hours of June 24, 2021, when a 12-story, 136-unit building fell, killing nearly 100 people and triggering the most sweeping overhaul of the Florida Condo Law in history.Five years later, the hosts assess the current state of the condo market where the tragedy occurred.The stakes are considerable for cash-strapped unit owners who are struggling to afford condo living in South Florida.An estimated 750,000 people—about 1.5 residents per unit—live in the more than 508,000 Vintage condos that are at least 30 years old in the tricounty South Florida region of Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach.Built in 1981, the Champlain Towers South was about 40 years old when it fell.As part of the build-out of the Condo Ratings Agency™, Zalewski presents a breakdown of the more than 1,150 condo associations and nearly 69,400 units across the Miami-Dade barrier island—from South Beach north to Sunny Isles Beach—tracking how many projects qualify as Vintage.The research shows Vintage condos currently have an average asking price of less than $639,000—or nearly 65% less than the $1.8 million Overall average asking price on the barrier island—as rising maintenance fees, hefty special assessments, and pricey insurance premiums squeeze owners on both sides of the age divide.Click play above to watch Zalewski's analysis, and use the timestamped timeline and the Top 10 Takeaways below to navigate the program on demand.

This is copy of a live podcast featuring Daniel Hernandez of Compass Real Estate, Peter Zalewski of MiamiCondo.Club and guest Eliott Rodriguez, candidate for Florida's 27th Congressional District.This is copy of a live podcast recorded Fridays at 4 pm in Miami featuring real estate advisor Daniel Hernandez of Compass Real Estate and analyst Peter Zalewski of the Miami Condo Investing Club™.For this week’s episode, former CBS News Miami TV anchor Eliott Rodriguez—who is now running for Congress in Florida’s 27th District—joined the discussion as a special guest to share his thoughts on the South Florida real estate market and much more.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 June 19, 2026, podcast, Hernandez, Zalewski and Rodriguez give their take on the following four topics:As A Matter Of Fact, A Fact Is A FactMiami Will Become Affordable AgainAlligator Alcatraz. So What?Condo Towers Are Safer NowWe Love LibrariesThis podcast is broadcast live at 4 pm (EST) on the social media accounts of Daniel Hernandez and Peter Zalewski.Episode OverviewIn this June 19, 2026, episode of the Buy, Sell, Hold Miami™ podcast, real estate advisor Daniel Hernandez of Compass Real Estate and longtime analyst Peter Zalewski of the Miami Condo Investing Club™ are joined by special guest Eliott Rodriguez, the veteran CBS News Miami TV anchor who stepped away from a nearly 50-year journalism career to run as a Democrat for Florida's 27th Congressional District.The hosts and Rodriguez debate five topics of critical importance to South Florida investors and declare each a Buy, a Sell or a Hold. They do not always agree. The friction is the point.During the 57-minute episode recorded on the eve of the five-year anniversary of the June 24, 2021, Champlain Towers South collapse in Surfside, Rodriguez discusses why he left the anchor desk after a quarter century, addressing the sale of CBS parent company Paramount and his concerns about editorial independence under the new ownership.The conversation turns to whether Miami real estate will be affordable again for the next generation, weighing the Florida Live Local Act against municipal pushback and a deficit-driven rise in mortgage interest rates.Hernandez and Zalewski also press Rodriguez on Alligator Alcatraz and its effect on Miami’s crucial international buyer pool, before turning to whether condo towers are safer on the eve of the Surfside anniversary.The hosts close the episode with Rodriguez on the proposed 2.5-acre land transfer on Biscayne Boulevard in Greater Downtown Miami to the Trump Presidential Library Foundation, a deal Zalewski estimates undervalues the Miami Dade College site by hundreds of millions of dollars.It is a conversation that cuts through the hyperbole and gives people local perspectives, with a bit of an edge.Click play above to watch Zalewski’s analysis, and use the timestamped timeline and the Top 10 Takeaways below to navigate the program on demand.

In this episode of Condo Capitalism™, Peter Zalewski reflects on the state of the barrier island condo market as South Florida marks the Champlain Towers South collapse on June 24, 2021.Condo Capitalism™ is a weekly podcast hosted by Peter Zalewski of the Miami Condo Investing Club™ that provides data-driven analysis on distressed real estate—foreclosures, shortsales and bank-owned REOs—in the tricounty South Florida region of Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach.The program tracks the Florida Condo Association Financial Cliff, where rising maintenance fees, special assessments and insurance costs are squeezing cash-strapped owners.On the show, experts analyze how the national “two-sided risk”—rising inflation and falling employment—magnifies these local pressures, potentially forcing a capitulation by owners who can no longer afford condo living.Join Peter Zalewski at MiamiCondo.Club for a livestream every weekday at 4 pm (Miami time). On-demand recordings of all shows are available here.Episode OverviewIn the June 18, 2026, episode of the Condo Capitalism™ podcast, host Peter Zalewski drills down into ZIP code 33154—covering Bal Harbour, Surfside and Bay Harbor Islands—to examine the Modern vs. Vintage condo split on the barrier island of Miami-Dade County.The episode arrives on the eve of the five-year anniversary of the Surfside tragedy on June 24, 2021, when nearly 100 people died and a $1 billion settlement was paid to the families of the victims.Vintage condos—defined as at least 30 years old—are at the center of the post-Surfside scrutiny.Using state records compiled by the Condo Ratings Agency™, Zalewski determined that the nearly 7,400 condo units located in 138 associations in 33154 are split almost evenly between Modern units at 50.1% and Vintage units at 49.9%.The Florida Legislature's post-Surfside reforms are now forcing cash-strapped unit owners to contend with rising maintenance fees, hefty special assessments and pricey insurance premiums, a dynamic known as the Florida Condo Association Financial Cliff.The pressure is showing up in the Overall resale market where nearly 390 condos are listed in 33154 at an average asking price of $3.6 million with more than 15 months of supply. The Miami Condo Supply Tracker™ classifies this level of supply as a Deteriorating Buyers Market.Nearly 160 Vintage condos are listed at an average asking price of $1.2 million per unit with about 10 months of supply for a Buyers Market.Zalewski applies the 1% Rule of real estate investing to the ZIP code’s rental market to assess whether asking prices for both Overall and Vintage condos can be justified by underlying fundamentals, and makes the case that the window for data-driven buyers willing to do their homework is open.The Condo Ratings Agency™ is designed to give those buyers the tools to act on that window when it launches in November 2026 to coincide with the start of the 2026-27 Winter Buying Season.The Agency is tracking nearly 13,000 condo associations and about 760,000 units across the tricounty South Florida region of Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties using state records to evaluate the financial feasibility, stability and viability of individual condo associations.Click play above to watch Zalewski’s analysis, and use the timestamped timeline and the Top 10 Takeaways below to navigate the program on demand.

In this episode of The Peter Zalewski Show™, the host analyzes how condos at least 30 years old are reshaping the calculus in Northeast Miami-Dade County on the five-year anniversary of the tragedy.The weekly podcast The Peter Zalewski Show™ features interviews with South Florida business leaders focused on real estate, finance and the economy.The program - hosted by Peter Zalewski of the Miami Condo Investing Club™ - is broadcast live every Wednesday at 4 pm (Miami time) at MiamiCondo.Club and on Peter Zalewski’s social media accounts to watch the free live broadcasts.The objective of the show is to deliver straight talk, share institutional knowledge and provide data-driven analysis on the macro and micro economic forces shaping the tricounty South Florida region of Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach.Episode OverviewIn the June 17, 2026, episode of The Peter Zalewski Show™ podcast, host Peter Zalewski drills down into ZIP code 33160, which is the single greatest concentration of condos in the tricounty South Florida marketplace.The episode breaks down how many of the nearly 27,700 units across Sunny Isles Beach, Aventura and Eastern Shores are Modern vs. Vintage—at least 30 years old—in the post-Surfside era.Using state records compiled by the Condo Ratings Agency™, Zalewski maps how the Modern vs. Vintage split in 33160 diverges sharply depending on which side of the Intracoastal Waterway a buyer is shopping, and why that distinction matters more today than the old real estate mantra of location, location, location.The episode arrives on the eve of the five-year anniversary of the Surfside tragedy on June 24, 2021, when nearly 100 people died and a $1 billion settlement was paid to the families of the victims.In response, the Florida Legislature adopted several measures that are now forcing cash-strapped unit owners to figure out how to pay for rising maintenance fees, hefty special assessments and pricey insurance premiums. This dynamic is known as the Florida Condo Association Financial Cliff.With nearly 1,800 condos currently listed for resale in 33160 representing more than 19 months of supply, sellers are sending a clear signal in what the Miami Condo Supply Tracker™ classifies as a Deteriorating Buyers Market.Zalewski makes the case that the window for data-driven buyers willing to do their homework is open.The episode also serves as the latest breadcrumb in the build-out of the Condo Ratings Agency™, which is set to launch in November 2026 to coincide with the start of the 2026-27 Winter Buying Season.The Agency is tracking nearly 13,000 condo associations and about 760,000 units across the tricounty South Florida region of Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties using state records to evaluate the financial feasibility, stability and viability of individual condo associations.Click play above to watch Zalewski’s analysis, and use the timestamped timeline and the Top 10 Takeaways below to navigate the program on demand.

In this episode of Miami Condo Mondays™, the hosts analyze how 9,200 of Middle Beach's nearly 11,750 units are at least 30 years old, five years after the Surfside condo collapse on June 24, 2021.Miami Condo Mondays™ features Peter Zalewski of the Miami Condo Investing Club™ and veteran broker Jenny Huertas of CVRRealty.com in a weekly deep dive into South Florida condo real estate.Recorded in Greater Downtown Miami, the podcast delivers an hour of high-level analysis on preconstruction condos, market trends and investment strategies for the tricounty South Florida region of Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach.The show leverages more than 60 years of combined institutional knowledge as Zalewski provides the macro perspective and Huertas offers on-the-ground micro insights from her daily experience in the trenches.The show streams live every Monday at 4 pm on the social media accounts of both hosts to provide an authoritative look at the latest shifts in the condo market.Episode OverviewIn this episode of the Miami Condo Mondays™ podcast on June 15, 2026, co-hosts Jenny Huertas of CVR Realty and Peter Zalewski of the Miami Condo Investing Club™ open Season Two's second episode on the night Miami hosts its first-ever FIFA World Cup match.During the 66-minute episode, Huertas and Zalewski size up what the World Cup is and is not delivering for South Florida’s hospitality sector.Hotel rates and ticket prices tell a story that hoteliers, short-term rental operators and fans may not have seen coming.The episode then pivots to the core data segment.As part of the build-out of the Condo Ratings Agency™, Zalewski presents a first-of-its-kind breakdown of Miami Beach’s condo stock across three zip codes—South Beach’s 33139, Middle Beach’s 33140 and North Beach’s 33141—covering 930 associations and more than 45,265 units.Middle Beach's Vintage concentration stands well above the other two Miami Beach submarkets, with consequences for owners and buyers that the hosts discuss in detail five years after the Champlain Towers South collapse on June 24, 2021.The finding from the Condo Ratings Agency™ emerges as rising maintenance fees, hefty special assessments and pricey insurance premiums push many Middle Beach owners toward the Florida Condo Association Financial Cliff, making condo living cost prohibitive for longtime owners and new buyers alike.As part of the 2026 Summer Buying Season initiative to publish episodes more quickly, the podcast summary has been eliminated, meaning viewers should use the timestamped timeline and the Top 10 Takeaways to navigate the show on demand.

This is copy of a live podcast recorded Fridays at 4 pm featuring Daniel Hernandez of Compass Real Estate and analyst Peter Zalewski of the Miami Condo Investing Club™.This is copy of a live podcast recorded Fridays at 4 pm in Miami featuring real estate advisor Daniel Hernandez of Compass Real Estate and analyst Peter Zalewski of the Miami Condo Investing Club™.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 June 12, 2026, podcast, Hernandez and Zalewski give their take on the following four topics:Superman SofferAll In On AllapattahSayonara SolarisDelivering In DowntownFisher Island Is Mayor Levine Cava’s (Eminent) DomainThis podcast is broadcast live at 4 pm (EST) on the social media accounts of Daniel Hernandez and Peter Zalewski.Episode OverviewIn this June 12, 2026, episode of the Buy, Sell, Hold Miami™ podcast, real estate advisor Daniel Hernandez of Compass Real Estate and longtime analyst Peter Zalewski of the Miami Condo Investing Club™ cut through the local rhetoric, delivering straight talk on five of the biggest topics of critical importance to South Florida investors.The hosts debate each topic and declare whether it is a Buy, a Sell or a Hold. They do not always agree. The friction is the point.During the 61-minute episode, Hernandez and Zalewski examine topics that range from a stalled Mercedes-Benz branded tower in Miami’s Brickell Avenue Area submarket to a developer’s bet on Allapattah with a former Rubell family site, and a quiet Brickell condo termination tied to Citadel founder Ken Griffin to the short-term rental glut piling up in Miami’s Central Business District.The conversation also touches on a Fannie Mae warrantability snag forcing one preconstruction buyer toward a hard-money loan, and the eminent domain standoff regarding the Related Group’s $180 million Fisher Island fuel terminal site.As part of the 2026 Summer Buying Season initiative to publish episodes quickly, the podcast summary has been eliminated.Click play above to watch Zalewski’s analysis, and use the timestamped timeline and the Top 10 Takeaways below to navigate the program on demand.

In this episode of Miami Condo Mondays™, the hosts discuss whether international soccer fans will buy up some of the 11.5 months of condo supply listed for resale in the tricounty region.Miami Condo Mondays™ features Peter Zalewski of the Miami Condo Investing Club™ and veteran broker Jenny Huertas of CVRRealty.com in a weekly deep dive into South Florida condo real estate.Recorded in Greater Downtown Miami, the podcast delivers an hour of high-level analysis on preconstruction condos, market trends and investment strategies for the tricounty South Florida region of Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach.The show leverages more than 60 years of combined institutional knowledge as Zalewski provides the macro perspective and Huertas offers on-the-ground micro insights from her daily experience in the trenches.The show streams live every Monday at 4 pm on the social media accounts of both hosts to provide an authoritative look at the latest shifts in the condo market.Episode OverviewIn this episode of the Miami Condo Mondays™ podcast on June 8, 2026, co-hosts Jenny Huertas of CVR Realty and Peter Zalewski of the Miami Condo Investing Club™ mark the one-year anniversary of Miami Condo Mondays™ and open Season Two with a discussion about the May 2026 condo sales data stretching back to the year 2000.South Florida’s headline number out of the May 2026 statistics is 11.5 months of condo supply listed for resale in the tricounty region of Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach.The Miami Condo Supply Tracker™ classifies that reading at the high end of a Buyers Market, moving closer to entering a Deteriorating Buyers Market, which begins at 13 months.With 24,300 condos sitting unsold at an average asking price of $967,000, and sellers demanding a 52% premium above the $636,000 average transaction price from the recently concluded 2025-26 Winter Buying Season, the market is testing the outer boundary of the Buyers Market tier.Sellers are not moving fast enough to avoid it.South Florida’s Overall condo sales posted their first year-over-year gain since 2021 in May but only after sellers cut prices.Vintage condos—units at least 30 years old that represent the dominant share of both the tricounty market's 760,000 units and all transactions—tell a similar story, with sellers showing signs they are closer to capitulation than their Overall market counterparts.The episode covers the wall of headwinds facing sellers for the remainder of the 2026 Summer Buying Season: the FIFA World Cup drawing tourists but not condo shoppers, mortgage rates climbing toward 7%, a new Federal Reserve chairman who may have to raise rates rather than cut them and a coming Fannie Mae policy change in August 2026 that will make condo financing harder to obtain.Huertas and Zalewski also revisit the call she made in Season One—that the market felt like 2007 before the 2008 selloff—and discuss what kind of event it would take to finally break the standoff between stubborn sellers and buyers waiting for price capitulation.They also share a practical rule of thumb for buyers who want to move now without “catching a falling knife.”Season One produced a year’s worth of calls that held up. Tune in to find out what Season Two has in store.As part of the 2026 Summer Buying Season initiative to publish episodes more quickly, the podcast summary has been eliminated, meaning viewers should use the timestamped timeline and the Top 10 Takeaways to navigate the show on demand.

This is copy of a live podcast recorded Fridays at 4 pm featuring Daniel Hernandez of Compass Real Estate and analyst Peter Zalewski of the Miami Condo Investing Club™.This is copy of a live podcast recorded Fridays at 4 pm in Miami featuring real estate advisor Daniel Hernandez of Compass Real Estate and analyst Peter Zalewski of the Miami Condo Investing Club™.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 May 29, 2026, podcast, Hernandez and Zalewski give their take on the following four topics:Once Somebody Gets There, They’ll Be ThereKissing Babies Sells More CondosMiami-Dade’s $400 Million Oopsies On Fisher IslandFlorida Man Is Thirsty For Tax SavingsGables Estates - You Ain’t Seen Nothing YetThis podcast is broadcast live at 4 pm (EST) on the social media accounts of Daniel Hernandez and Peter Zalewski.Episode OverviewIn this May 29, 2026, episode of the Buy, Sell, Hold Miami™ podcast, real estate advisor Daniel Hernandez of Compass Real Estate and longtime analyst Peter Zalewski of the Miami Condo Investing Club™ cut through the local rhetoric, delivering straight talk on five of the biggest topics of critical importance to South Florida investors.The hosts debate each topic and declare whether it is a Buy, a Sell or a Hold. They do not always agree. The friction is the point.During the 58-minute episode, Hernandez and Zalewski examine topics that range from developers seeking attention on TV, podcasts and social media to calm the market fears to luxury home speculation in ritzy Gables Estates in Coral Gables.The conversation also touches on a new legislative proposal to offer property tax relief for Florida homeowners, Miami-Dade County’s fuel farm conundrum and a Miami Beach developer calling Fort Lauderdale residents “idiots” for resisting a proposed development on Sunrise Boulevard in Broward County.As part of the 2026 Summer Buying Season, the podcast summary has been eliminated. Click play above to watch Zalewski’s analysis, and use the timestamped timeline and the Top 10 Takeaways below to navigate the program on demand.

In this episode of Condo Capitalism™, Peter Zalewski discusses a new report that ranks nearly 200 condo market zip codes based on total existing units across South Florida's tricounty region.Condo Capitalism™ is a weekly podcast hosted by Peter Zalewski of the Miami Condo Investing Club™ that provides data-driven analysis on distressed real estate—foreclosures, shortsales and bank-owned REOs—in the tricounty South Florida region of Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach.The program tracks the Florida Condo Association Financial Cliff, where rising maintenance fees, special assessments and insurance costs are squeezing cash-strapped owners.On the show, experts analyze how the national “two-sided risk”—rising inflation and falling employment—magnifies these local pressures, potentially forcing a capitulation by owners who can no longer afford condo living.Join Peter Zalewski at MiamiCondo.Club for a livestream every weekday at 4 pm (Miami time). On-demand recordings of all shows are available here.Episode OverviewIn the May 28, 2026, episode of the Condo Capitalism™ podcast, host Peter Zalewski breaks down a new report ranking nearly 200 South Florida zip codes by total condo units across the tricounty region of Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach.The top of the list holds few surprises. Sunny Isles Beach's 33160 zip code ranks No. 1 with nearly 28,000 units. South Beach's 33139 zip code is No. 2 with nearly 23,000 units. The Brickell Avenue Area’s 33131 zip code in Greater Downtown Miami checks in at No. 3 with nearly 19,750 units.The No. 10 slot is another matter. Western Broward County's 33313 zip code—covering the Lauderhill-Lauderdale Lakes suburbs—lands in the Top 10 on the strength of nearly 12,000 units. The neighboring Lauderhill-Tamarac zip code of 33319 ranks 12th with more than 11,350 units.Lauderhill's Top 10 ranking is a direct byproduct of Broward County's decades-long condo construction boom in the second half of the 20th century, when developers built heavily into the western suburbs.The rankings are a result of the buildout of a Condo Ratings Agency™, which is a platform designed to grade the financial stability of individual condo associations using government data to provide buyers, sellers, lenders and regulators an objective measure that goes beyond sellside marketing campaigns.To build it, Zalewski started with the Florida Condo Law of 1963. From there, he reconstructed a county-by-county ledger of every active association and unit built since. State records show nearly 13,000 condo associations encompassing about 760,000 units have gone up across South Florida in the past six decades.Of that total, 67% of the units are now classified as Vintage condos based on being at least 30 years old. Vintage condos have been the subject of greater scrutiny in the five years since the Surfside condo collapse in June 2021 when nearly 100 people died and a $1 billion settlement paid out to the families of the victims.Broward County dominated the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. Miami-Dade took the regional lead in the 1990s and accelerated sharply in the 2000s, accounting for more than 113,000 of the roughly 195,000 units built that decade across the tricounty area.As part of the 2026 Summer Buying Season, the podcast summary has been eliminated. Click play above to watch Zalewski’s analysis, and use the timestamped timeline and the Top 10 Takeaways below to navigate the program on demand.

In this episode of The Peter Zalewski Show™, litigator Stevan Pardo discusses what unit owners need to know about the litigation process, branded buildings and condo-hotel projects after Surfside.The weekly podcast The Peter Zalewski Show™ features interviews with South Florida business leaders focused on real estate, finance and the economy.The program - hosted by Peter Zalewski of the Miami Condo Investing Club™ - is broadcast live every Wednesday at 4 pm (Miami time) at MiamiCondo.Club and on Peter Zalewski’s social media accounts to watch the free live broadcasts.The objective of the show is to deliver straight talk, share institutional knowledge and provide data-driven analysis on the macro and micro economic forces shaping the tricounty South Florida region of Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach.Episode OverviewIn the May 27, 2026, episode of The Peter Zalewski Show™ podcast, host Peter Zalewski interviews Miami litigator Stevan Pardo of Pardo Jackson Gainsburg & Shelowitz for a wide-ranging conversation on condo association law, construction defect litigation and the legal forces reshaping the South Florida market.Pardo—who was born in Miami, educated at Duke University and began his career as the 63rd attorney at Greenberg Traurig before founding his boutique law firm in 2002—brings more than four decades of experience representing both developers and condo associations.After spending his early career on the developer side—working alongside the principals at the Related Group and Lennar—Pardo pivoted to representing what he calls "the little guys," the condo owners and associations who need protection when buildings fall short of what was promised.The conversation covers legislative changes requiring Structural Integrity Reserve Studies (SIRS), the uncertainty that results from underfunded reserves and rotating boards and why lawsuits have become unavoidable in many developer-to-association turnovers in South Florida.Pardo and Zalewski also examine the cautionary tale of the former Canyon Ranch agreement at the Carillon condo project on Miami Beach—where a bankruptcy judge erased the name overnight—and what that case reveals about the risks buyers assume when purchasing units in branded buildings.As part of the 2026 Summer Buying Season initiative to publish episodes quickly, the podcast report has been eliminated.Click play above to watch the full conversation, and use the timestamped timeline and the Top 10 Takeaways below to navigate the program on demand.

This is copy of a live podcast recorded Fridays at 4 pm featuring Daniel Hernandez of Compass Real Estate and analyst Peter Zalewski of the Miami Condo Investing Club™.This is copy of a live podcast recorded Fridays at 4 pm in Miami featuring real estate advisor Daniel Hernandez of Compass Real Estate and analyst Peter Zalewski of the Miami Condo Investing Club™.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 May 22, 2026, podcast, Hernandez and Zalewski give their take on the following four topics:The Fontaine-BluesQuite The Chateau In Coconut GroveMcKinsey Push Validates Miami Office MarketBillionaire Beach Has A Sunny ForecastSlumming In South Miami (SoMi)This podcast is broadcast live at 4 pm (EST) on the social media accounts of Daniel Hernandez and Peter Zalewski.Episode OverviewIn this May 22, 2026, episode of the Buy, Sell, Hold Miami™ podcast, real estate advisor Daniel Hernandez of Compass Real Estate and longtime analyst Peter Zalewski of the Miami Condo Investing Club™ cut through the local rhetoric, delivering straight talk on five of the biggest topics of critical importance to South Florida investors.The hosts debate each topic and declare whether it is a Buy, a Sell or a Hold. They do not always agree. The friction is the point.During the 64-minute episode, Hernandez and Zalewski examine topics that range from a new court ruling affecting condo-hotel owners to a blockbuster land flip in Coconut Grove, and the expanding footprint of billionaires in Miami Beach to the expansion plans of a prominent consultancy in Greater Downtown Miami.The conversation also touches on affordability pressures squeezing Miami residents, a long-delayed redevelopment project in South Miami and what tightening mortgage rules from Fannie Mae could mean for condo buyers in the months ahead.As part of the 2026 Summer Buying Season, the podcast summary has been eliminated.Click play above to watch Zalewski’s analysis, and use the timestamped timeline and the Top 10 Takeaways below to navigate the program on demand.

In this episode of Condo Capitalism™, Peter Zalewski discusses the history of condo development in the tricounty region and why it matters for rating the financial health of aging buildings today.Condo Capitalism™ is a weekly podcast hosted by Peter Zalewski of the Miami Condo Investing Club™ that provides data-driven analysis on distressed real estate—foreclosures, shortsales and bank-owned REOs—in the tricounty South Florida region of Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach.The program tracks the Florida Condo Association Financial Cliff, where rising maintenance fees, special assessments and insurance costs are squeezing cash-strapped owners.On the show, experts analyze how the national “two-sided risk”—rising inflation and falling employment—magnifies these local pressures, potentially forcing a capitulation by owners who can no longer afford condo living.Join Peter Zalewski at MiamiCondo.Club for a livestream every weekday at 4 pm (Miami time). On-demand recordings of all shows are available here.Episode OverviewIn the May 21, 2026, episode of the Condo Capitalism™ podcast, host Peter Zalewski traces the origins of condo development across the tricounty South Florida region of Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach.The research is part of the buildout of a Condo Ratings Agency™ that will use government data to grade the financial stability of individual condo associations.The agency will give buyers, sellers, lenders and regulators an objective measure of a building's condition beyond its physical appearance.To build it, Zalewski went back to the beginning—the creation of the Florida Condo Law in 1963—and reconstructed a county-by-county record of every active association and unit built since.State of Florida records show that nearly 13,000 condo associations encompassing more than 760,000 units have been built across the tricounty area during the past six decades, with 67% of those properties now classified as Vintage, meaning they are at least 30 years old and subject to mandatory structural inspections and potentially large special assessments.Broward County dominated condo construction through the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, while Miami-Dade County emerged as the regional leader beginning in the 1990s and accelerated sharply in the 2000s, adding more than 113,000 of the roughly 195,000 units built that decade across the tricounty area.As part of the 2026 Summer Buying Season, the podcast summary has been eliminated.Click play above to watch Zalewski’s analysis, and use the timestamped timeline and the Top 10 Takeaways below to navigate the program on demand.

In this episode of The Peter Zalewski Show™, the host charts the condo market's evolution decade by decade in the tricounty region of Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach between 1963 and 2026.The weekly podcast The Peter Zalewski Show™ features interviews with South Florida business leaders focused on real estate, finance and the economy.The program - hosted by Peter Zalewski of the Miami Condo Investing Club™ - is broadcast live every Wednesday at 4 pm (Miami time) at MiamiCondo.Club and on Peter Zalewski’s social media accounts to watch the free live broadcasts.The objective of the show is to deliver straight talk, share institutional knowledge and provide data-driven analysis on the macro and micro economic forces shaping the tricounty South Florida region of Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach.Episode OverviewIn the May 20, 2026, episode of The Peter Zalewski Show™ podcast, host Peter Zalewski provides a data-driven breakdown of the chronological evolution of the South Florida condo market from a development perspective between the 1960s and 2026.Beginning with the creation of the condo law in Florida in 1963, the tricounty region of Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach has experienced booms and busts that have ultimately resulted in nearly 13,000 associations with more than 760,000 units, according to research from the Condo Ratings Agency™ based on state records.In the early history of South Florida’s condo market, Broward and Palm Beach counties dominated the development game, accounting for nearly 75% of the 43,000 units created in the 1960s, 72% of the nearly 245,400 units in the 1970s and about 67% of the more than 179,500 units in the 1980s.The following decade, however, Miami-Dade County emerged as the main focal point for condo development, growing its market share to about 67% of the nearly 57,500 units added between 1990 and 1999.During the go-go days of the 2000s, Miami-Dade County’s market share of new condos pulled back to 58%, but the total number of South Florida units added topped 195,000 in South Florida.In the 2010s, as the South Florida real estate market experienced a robo-signing foreclosure wave during the Great Recession, Miami-Dade County’s share of new condos grew to 81% of nearly 29,000 units during the decade.In the first half of the 2020s, Miami-Dade County represents about 71% of the more than 10,850 units delivered as of May 9, 2026, according to the report.A wave of new towers that are scheduled to be completed in the second half of the decade will dictate where the South Florida condo market goes next.Zalewski dissects these ebbs and flows of the South Florida market over the last 60 years during this 34-minute episode recorded in Greater Downtown Miami.As part of the 2026 Summer Buying Season initiative to publish episodes quickly, the podcast summary has been eliminated.Click play above to watch Zalewski’s analysis, and use the timestamped timeline and the Top 10 Takeaways below to navigate the program on demand.

In this episode of Miami Condo Mondays™, the hosts discuss the repercussions of a new report from the Condo Ratings Agency showing 67% of tricounty units are at least 30 years old.Miami Condo Mondays™ features Peter Zalewski of the Miami Condo Investing Club™ and veteran broker Jenny Huertas of CVRRealty.com in a weekly deep dive into South Florida condo real estate.Recorded in Greater Downtown Miami, the podcast delivers an hour of high-level analysis on preconstruction condos, market trends and investment strategies for the tricounty South Florida region of Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach.The show leverages more than 60 years of combined institutional knowledge as Zalewski provides the macro perspective and Huertas offers on-the-ground micro insights from her daily experience in the trenches.The show streams live every Monday at 4 pm on the social media accounts of both hosts to provide an authoritative look at the latest shifts in the condo market.Episode OverviewIn this episode of the Miami Condo Mondays™ podcast on May 18, 2026, co-hosts Jenny Huertas of CVR Realty and Peter Zalewski of the Miami Condo Investing Club™ discuss a new report from the Condo Ratings Agency™ showing the tricounty South Florida region of Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach has nearly 509,000 Vintage units that are at least 30 years old.The report is notable as it contradicts the talking points of the sellside brokers who claim—on the eve of the five-year anniversary of the Surfside condo collapse in June 2021—that Vintage condos are a nonissue—rather than a systemic risk—as this segment represents only a sliver of South Florida’s Overall market.In reality, the new report shows that Conventional units built since 1997 account for only 33% of the South Florida condo stock.Vintage condos are a primary driver of rising maintenance fees, hefty special assessments and pricey insurance premiums that have led to surging expenses for condo owners.The rising costs of condo living is prompting an increasing number of unit owners to head for the exits, a trend reflected by the first jump in unit sales in four years during the recently concluded 2025-26 South Florida Winter Buying Season of November through April.To unload their units, cash-strapped owners have cut their prices and accepted lower offers.We predicted this phenomenon back in June 2024 when we coined the term the Florida Condo Association Financial Cliff.In January 2025, we called for a 40% price drop in South Florida condo prices driven by the recalibration of the industry and measured against the inflated valuations of the go-go days of 2021-23 when out-of-town buyers flooded into South Florida to work from home and not have to wear a mask during the pandemic.During the 47-minute episode, Huertas and Zalewski review the statistics, examine the charts and provide insightful analysis about what the repercussions could be now that it has been documented that the South Florida condo market is dominated by Vintage units.As part of the 2026 Summer Buying Season initiative to publish episodes more quickly, the podcast summary has been eliminated, meaning viewers should use the timestamped timeline and the Top 10 Takeaways to navigate the show on demand.

To celebrate the program's one-year anniversary, co-hosts Daniel Hernandez of Compass Real Estate and analyst Peter Zalewski of the Miami Condo Investing Club™ announce the 2026 BSH Award winners.This is copy of a live podcast recorded Fridays at 4 pm in Miami featuring real estate advisor Daniel Hernandez of Compass Real Estate and analyst Peter Zalewski of the Miami Condo Investing Club™.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 May 15, 2026, podcast celebrating the program’s one-year anniversary, Hernandez and Zalewski nominated, debated and selected the winners of the 1st Annual BSH Awards in the following five categories:Rookie Of The Year AwardHighest Bar Tab Of The Year AwardCarl Fisher Ballyhoo AwardOnly In Miami AwardCan’t Get It Up AwardThis podcast is broadcast live at 4 pm (EST) on the social media accounts of Daniel Hernandez and Peter Zalewski.Episode OverviewIn this May 15, 2026, episode of the Buy, Sell, Hold Miami™ podcast, real estate advisor Daniel Hernandez of Compass Real Estate and longtime analyst Peter Zalewski of the Miami Condo Investing Club™ cut through the local rhetoric, delivering straight talk and skepticism on five of the biggest topics of critical importance to South Florida investors.The hosts debate each topic and declare whether it is a Buy, a Sell or a Hold. They do not always agree. The friction is the point.During this 55-minute episode celebrating the program’s one-year anniversary, Hernandez and Zalewski nominate, debate and select the winners of the 1st Annual BSH Awards in five categories.The categories are:Rookie Of The YearHighest Bar Tab Of The YearCarl Fisher BallyhooOnly In MiamiCan’t Get It UpAs part of the 2026 Summer Buying Season initiative to publish episodes quicker, the podcast summary has been eliminated, meaning viewers should use the timestamped timeline and the Top 10 Takeaways below to navigate the program on demand.

In this episode of Miami Condo Mondays™, the hosts explore how sales rose 6.2% as a 3.0% drop in the median price per square foot spurred buyer interest across the tricounty condo market.Miami Condo Mondays™ features Peter Zalewski of the Miami Condo Investing Club™ and veteran broker Jenny Huertas of CVRRealty.com in a weekly deep dive into South Florida condo real estate.Recorded in Greater Downtown Miami, the podcast delivers an hour of high-level analysis on preconstruction condos, market trends and investment strategies for the tricounty South Florida region of Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach.The show leverages more than 60 years of combined institutional knowledge as Zalewski provides the macro perspective and Huertas offers on-the-ground micro insights from her daily experience in the trenches.The show streams live every Monday at 4 pm on the social media accounts of both hosts to provide an authoritative look at the latest shifts in the condo market.Episode OverviewIn this episode of the Miami Condo Mondays™ podcast on May 11, 2026, co-hosts Jenny Huertas of CVR Realty and Peter Zalewski of the Miami Condo Investing Club™ discuss the final condo sales statistics from the 2025-26 South Florida Winter Buying Season of November through April.During the 74-minute episode, Huertas and Zalewski review the statistics, examine the charts and provide insightful analysis about South Florida condo sales increasing for the first time since the 2021-22 Winter Buying Season of the pandemic.As part of the 2026 Summer Buying Season initiative to publish episodes quicker, the podcast summary has been eliminated, meaning viewers should use the timestamped timeline and the Top 10 Takeaways to navigate the show on demand.

This is copy of a live podcast recorded Fridays at 4 pm featuring Daniel Hernandez of Compass Real Estate and analyst Peter Zalewski of the Miami Condo Investing Club™.This is copy of a live podcast recorded Fridays at 4 pm in Miami featuring real estate advisor Daniel Hernandez of Compass Real Estate and analyst Peter Zalewski of the Miami Condo Investing Club™.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 May 8, 2026, podcast, Hernandez and Zalewski give their take on the following four topics:Nobody Wants To Buy At The DelmoreThis Branding Thing Is Getting Out Of HandTenants Are Flowing Into WynwoodThe Deauville Dirt Is Worth The FightTremendo LoteThis podcast is broadcast live at 4 pm (EST) on the social media accounts of Daniel Hernandez and Peter Zalewski.Episode OverviewIn this May 8, 2026, episode of the Buy, Sell, Hold Miami™ podcast, real estate advisor Daniel Hernandez of Compass Real Estate and longtime analyst Peter Zalewski of the Miami Condo Investing Club™ cut through the local rhetoric, delivering straight talk on five of the biggest topics of critical importance to South Florida investors.The hosts debate each topic and declare whether it is a Buy, a Sell or a Hold. They do not always agree. The friction is the point.During the 59-minute episode, Hernandez and Zalewski examine a the lack of sales for a new tower on the site of the Surfside condo collapse, a new condo tower named after the popular “White Lotus” series on HBO, Adam Neumann’s latest real estate play, a lawsuit related to the ownership a Miami Beach oceanfront development site and a $500 million land listing in Greater Downtown Miami.As part of the Summer Buying Season initiative to publish episodes quicker, the podcast summary has been eliminated, meaning viewers should use the timestamped timeline and the Top 10 Takeaways below to navigate the program on demand.

In this episode of Condo Capitalism™, Peter Zalewski discusses the latest condo trends in the Overall and Luxury markets of Broward County between November 2025 and April 2026.Condo Capitalism™ is a weekly podcast hosted by Peter Zalewski of the Miami Condo Investing Club™ that provides data-driven analysis on distressed real estate—foreclosures, shortsales and bank-owned REOs—in the tricounty South Florida region of Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach.The program tracks the Florida Condo Association Financial Cliff, where rising maintenance fees, special assessments and insurance costs are squeezing cash-strapped owners.On the show, experts analyze how the national “two-sided risk”—rising inflation and falling employment—magnifies these local pressures, potentially forcing a capitulation by owners who can no longer afford condo living.Join Peter Zalewski at MiamiCondo.Club for a livestream every weekday at 4 pm (Miami time). On-demand recordings of all shows are available here.Episode OverviewIn the May 7, 2026, episode of the Condo Capitalism™ podcast, host Peter Zalewski pivots away from the distressed market this week to focus on the latest Broward County condo trends emerging during the recently concluded 2025-26 Winter Buying Season of November through April.In Broward County, Overall condo sales increased by 2.8% to more than 4,300 units in the Winter Buying Season compared to last year but the median price per square foot decreased by 8% to $206, according to data from CVRRealty.com.Broward County’s Luxury condo market—defined as a minimum price of at least $1 million per unit—experienced a 22% surge in sales to 222 transactions despite a 12% increase in the median price per square foot.Zalewski discussed these points and all of the latest Broward County condo trends during this 50-minute episode recorded in Greater Downtown Miami.As part of the Summer Buying Season initiative to publish episodes quicker, the podcast summary has been eliminated, meaning viewers should use the timestamped timeline and the Top 10 Takeaways below to navigate the program on demand.

In this episode of The Peter Zalewski Show™, the host discusses the latest condo trends in the Overall and Luxury markets of Miami-Dade County between November 2025 and April 2026.The weekly podcast The Peter Zalewski Show™ features interviews with South Florida business leaders focused on real estate, finance and the economy.The program - hosted by Peter Zalewski of the Miami Condo Investing Club™ - is broadcast live every Wednesday at 4 pm (Miami time) at MiamiCondo.Club and on Peter Zalewski’s social media accounts to watch the free live broadcasts.The objective of the show is to deliver straight talk, share institutional knowledge and provide data-driven analysis on the macro and micro economic forces shaping the tricounty South Florida region of Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach.Episode OverviewIn the May 6 2026, episode of The Peter Zalewski Show™ podcast, host Peter Zalewski discusses the drop in the average price per square foot for Miami-Dade County condo sales during the recently concluded 2025-26 Winter Buying Season of November through April.In Miami-Dade County, Overall condo sales increased by 3.7% to more than 4,500 units in the 2025-26 Winter Buying Season compare to last year but the median price per square foot decreased by 1.2%, according to data from CVRRealty.com.Miami-Dade County’s Luxury condo market—defined as a minimum transaction price of $1 million per unit—experienced a 10% increase in sales to 924 in response to on a 2.5% drop in the median price per square foot.Zalewski discussed these points and all of the latest Miami-Dade County condo trends during this 47-minute episode recorded in Greater Downtown Miami.As part of the Summer Buying Season initiative to publish episodes quicker, the podcast summary has been eliminated, meaning viewers should use the timestamped timeline and the Top 10 Takeaways below to navigate the program on demand.

This week’s Miami Condo Market Intelligence Report™ newsletter announces the changes coming to the Miami Condo Investing Club™ between May and October as the South Florida market continues to unwind.In this week’s issue of the Miami Condo Market Intelligence Report™ newsletter, we examine the changes coming to the Miami Condo Investing Club™ for the 2026 South Florida Summer Buying Season of May through October in an effort to provide even more actionable information for members targeting opportunities in the tricounty region of Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach.The centerpiece of this Summer Buying Season is a project we have been tinkering with for more than 15 years: a Condo Ratings Agency™ that will assess the financial health and structural viability of condo associations across South Florida.We are not talking about the generic rankings based on sellside brokers promoting their favorite projects that pay high commissions and feature celebrity residents for social media posts but rather market moving insights that data-driven investors can use to differentiate opportunities from value traps.Think Moody’s. Think S&P. Think Fitch.Now, think the Condo Ratings Agency™ for evaluating South Florida’s 13,000 associations.Instead of rating public companies and municipalities, the Condo Ratings Agency™—which will rely upon our experience as a Wall Street consultant, expert witness and nonpracticing real estate broker—will rate the condo buildings that line the South Florida coast east of I-95.Many of these condo projects are now being forced by state law to confront decades of deferred maintenance, mandatory structural inspections and reserve fund shortfalls that have sent monthly fees and special assessments surging for cash-strapped unit owners across South Florida.Before writing off these older condo projects that we call Vintage when they reach their 30-year anniversary, consider that many of the units have asking prices that are 40% less than the Overall market, have superior locations to the new generation of buildings as they were constructed in or before 1996 and feature significantly more square footage compared to the current space being built by developers.The impetus behind the Condo Ratings Agency™ traces back to the Great South Florida Condo Boom and Bust of 2002-2011 when we were asked by bankers to figure out a better way for portfolio lenders to understand the financial state of a particular condo association.Our early efforts—that included putting up a website in April 2011—were eventually snuffed out by legal advice suggesting that a thorough evaluation of condo associations—in which boards vehemently resist sharing their information so as to maintain their reputation—could potentially impact valuations.Fast forward to June 2021 when the Champlain Towers South collapsed on the Miami-Dade County barrier island in Surfside, killing nearly 100 people and resulting in a $1 billion settlement with the families of the victims.In the nearly five years since the Surfside tragedy, legislators have passed sweeping new requirements focused on bringing transparency to the Florida condo market by way of mandatory evaluations every 10 years called Structural Integrity Reserve Studies (SIRS) and Milestone Inspections at a project’s 30-year anniversary.Beside the rising maintenance fees, hefty special assessments and pricey insurance premiums that have followed, at least one Florida municipality—Miami-Dade County— has moved to make specific information public with the Community Association Registry.Unfortunately, Miami-Dade County is an outlier at the moment but the day of being able to rate condo associations based on defendable metrics is near and we are jumping on the opportunity this Summer to prove it.

This is copy of a live podcast recorded Fridays at 4 pm featuring Daniel Hernandez of Compass Real Estate and analyst Peter Zalewski of the Miami Condo Investing Club™.This is copy of a live podcast recorded Fridays at 4 pm in Miami featuring real estate advisor Daniel Hernandez of Compass Real Estate and analyst Peter Zalewski of the Miami Condo Investing Club™.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 May 1, 2026, podcast, Hernandez and Zalewski give their take on the following four topics:Key Biscayne’s Drain Game Is WeakIf You Build It, The Kids Will ComeAnother One (On Brickell Key)Aston Martin Builds A Great CarKen Billions Is Coming On BSH!This podcast is broadcast live at 4 pm (EST) on the social media accounts of Daniel Hernandez and Peter Zalewski.Episode OverviewIn this May 1, 2026, episode of the Buy, Sell, Hold Miami™ podcast, real estate advisor Daniel Hernandez of Compass Real Estate and longtime analyst Peter Zalewski of the Miami Condo Investing Club™ cut through the local rhetoric, delivering straight talk on five of the biggest topics of critical importance to South Florida investors.The hosts debate each topic and declare whether it is a Buy, a Sell or a Hold. They do not always agree. The friction is the point.During the 52-minute episode, Hernandez and Zalewski examine five pressure points testing the limits of South Florida's celebrated boom, ranging from a wealthy island community gambling with its own flood future to a billionaire land rush quietly reshaping the region's private school landscape.Along the way, the hosts debate a trio of Greater Downtown Miami stories that raise hard questions about money, litigation and whether the market's newest and most powerful players actually understand the city they are betting on.The first story starts with water and ends with a question about judgment.Key Biscayne—one of Miami’s wealthiest island communities in South Florida where the median home price is about $1.6 million—has just walked away from a study, betting instead on a flood control strategy that neighboring Miami Beach has already tried and publicly abandoned.Next comes a story about schools, or more precisely, about what happens when the people moving to Miami discover that money alone cannot buy a seat at the right lunch table.A cluster of billionaires new to South Florida have started funding their own private schools, unwilling to wait for the existing system to catch up to their ambitions.The third story focuses on Brickell Key where a Vintage condo tower is rumored to be in the crosshairs of a pair of developers with big plans and a large checkbook.The hosts discuss how difficult it is to get a building full of owners to agree on anything, especially selling their units to a development group once a story has been leaked to the press.For the fourth story, Hernandez and Zalewski discuss a new lawsuit filed against the developer of the Aston Martin condo tower, raising questions not about the look of the building but about whether the developer knows what he has gotten himself into with the latest suit.

In this episode of Condo Capitalism™, Peter Zalewski examines the distressed market on the final day of the 2025-26 Winter Buying Season as cash-strapped owners are increasingly being forced out.Condo Capitalism™ is a weekly podcast hosted by Peter Zalewski of the Miami Condo Investing Club™ that provides data-driven analysis on distressed real estate—foreclosures, shortsales and bank-owned REOs—in the tricounty South Florida region of Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach.The program tracks the Florida Condo Association Financial Cliff, where rising maintenance fees, special assessments and insurance costs are squeezing cash-strapped owners.On the show, experts analyze how the national “two-sided risk”—rising inflation and falling employment—magnifies these local pressures, potentially forcing a capitulation by owners who can no longer afford condo living.Join Peter Zalewski at MiamiCondo.Club for a livestream every weekday at 4 pm (Miami time). On-demand recordings of all shows are available here.Episode OverviewIn the April 30, 2026, episode of the Condo Capitalism™ podcast, host Peter Zalewski identified 20 bank-owned condos currently listed in the tricounty South Florida region of Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach for less than $100,000 per unit, with the lowest asking price at $39,000—or $44 per square foot—for an 880-square-foot unit in Delray Beach.During the 47-minute episode, Zalewski delivered a status report on the distressed market—shortsale and Real Estate Owned (REO) by lenders—on the final day of the 2025-26 Winter Buying Season of November through April.Zalewski explained how the date of April 30, 2026, carried particular weight for both buyers and sellers heading into the heat, humidity and hurricane warnings of the Summer Buying Season of May through October, when the pool of buyers shopping for condos typically thins out as investors begin to look elsewhere.The 20 REO condos currently listed for resale at or below $100,000 were identified as part of a broader distressed inventory of 474 properties—a mix of 406 REOs and 68 shortsales—currently listed in South Florida, according to data from CVRRealty.com.The current supply of distressed inventory represents about 1.9% of the roughly 25,500 condos currently listed for resale in South Florida.The three lowest-priced REOs listed for resale are all located in Delray Beach in Palm Beach County, with asking prices of $39,000, $41,000 and $59,900, translating to $44, $54 and $68 per square foot, respectively.Broward County has emerged as the primary focus area for distressed buyers, with an average REO asking price of less than $274,000 per unit compared to nearly $782,000 in Miami-Dade and about $490,000 in Palm Beach County.Zalewski examined Vintage condos separately, noting that 287 of the 406 total REO units on the market were at least 30 years old, making older units the primary source of the distressed inventory in the tricounty region.Vintage condos have faced greater scrutiny in the aftermath of the Surfside condo collapse in June 2021, when nearly 100 people died and a $1 billion settlement was paid out to the families of the victims.

In this episode of The Peter Zalewski Show™, veteran developer Henry Torres is betting the next opportunity in Miami is not luxury towers or rental projects but moderately priced condo buildings.The weekly podcast The Peter Zalewski Show™ features interviews with South Florida business leaders focused on real estate, finance and the economy.The program - hosted by Peter Zalewski of the Miami Condo Investing Club™ - is broadcast live every Wednesday at 4 pm (Miami time) at MiamiCondo.Club and on Peter Zalewski’s social media accounts to watch the free live broadcasts.The objective of the show is to deliver straight talk, share institutional knowledge and provide data-driven analysis on the macro and micro economic forces shaping the tricounty South Florida region of Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach.Episode OverviewIn the April 29, 2026, episode of The Peter Zalewski Show™ podcast, host Peter Zalewski interviews veteran developer Henry Torres of the Astor Cos. in Coral Gables about why he is betting that the most overlooked opportunity in Miami real estate right now is moderately priced condos in the Little Havana neighborhood.The conversation focuses on why Torres—who had 85 contracts fall through on the 128-unit Nordica tower on Coral Way in Miami during the Great South Florida Condo Boom and Bust of 2002 to 2011—relied on his development experience to change the focus of a rental project that he is currently constructing into the Havana Enclave condo tower with 179 units at 315 NW 27th Ave.During the 77-minute episode, Torres—who spent 25 years selling seafood to nearly every major cruise line sailing out of South Florida before unloading his company Empire for $88 million in 2001—shared his insights from 24 years of developing condo and rental units about the future of the Miami residential real estate market at this tenuous moment.Torres makes the argument that the rental market in South Florida is overbuilt, the luxury condo market is concentrated between Greater Downtown Miami and the Miami-Dade County barrier island and the working-class buyer in Little Havana has been ignored by every developer chasing a wealthier customer somewhere else.Havana Enclave, he said, is built for that buyer. Studios start in the mid-$300,000s. One-bedrooms open in the low $500,000s. Two-bedrooms start in the low $700,000s. Every unit comes with a full-sized refrigerator, a washer and dryer, a walk-in closet and a space the owner can self park.Torres is asking buyers to put down a 30% deposit, a requirement he connects directly to what he watched happen during the go-go days of the 2000s when buyers with little or nothing invested walked away from signed preconstruction contracts.The 30% deposit, he argued, is not a barrier. It is the difference between a condo projects full of committed owners and a building full of investors who leave the moment the market trends change.The episode also gives Torres the opportunity to assess where the broader Miami condo market stands today compared to the last cycle.Torres is not sounding an alarm, but he is not dismissing the risks either.Construction costs have risen between 40% and 50% since before the pandemic.Institutional money built rental towers across South Florida in 2021, 2022 and 2023 without much concern for short-term returns, and that supply is now putting pressure on rental rates across the region.Torres does not see interest rates falling fast enough to change that equation anytime soon.What Torres does see is a city where billionaires are arriving with capital, and working-class families are spending $100,000 to $150,000 to renovate their Little Havana homes as they have nowhere else to go.

In this episode of Miami Condo Mondays™, the hosts trace the E11even brand from its roots on Miami's original vice corridor to the delivery of the first of two condo towers across from the ultraclub.Miami Condo Mondays™ features Peter Zalewski of the Miami Condo Investing Club™ and veteran broker Jenny Huertas of CVRRealty.com in a weekly deep dive into South Florida condo real estate.Recorded in Greater Downtown Miami, the podcast delivers an hour of high-level analysis on preconstruction condos, market trends and investment strategies for the tricounty South Florida region of Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach.The show leverages more than 60 years of combined institutional knowledge as Zalewski provides the macro perspective and Huertas offers on-the-ground micro insights from her daily experience in the trenches.The show streams live every Monday at 4 pm on the social media accounts of both hosts to provide an authoritative look at the latest shifts in the condo market.Episode OverviewIn this episode of the Miami Condo Mondays™ podcast on April 27, 2026, co-hosts Jenny Huertas of CVR Realty and Peter Zalewski of the Miami Condo Investing Club™ examined the debut of the E11even Club Hotel & Residences—also referred to as the West Tower—in Greater Downtown Miami as the South Florida Winter Buying Season draws to a close at the end of April 2026.The conversation traced the origins of the E11even brand from a historic strip club on the original northern boundary of the City of Miami at 11th Street to a three-story cabaret and ultimately an ultraclub that partnered with developer PMG to launch condo sales in January 2021, with completion originally projected by late 2023 before delays pushed delivery to early 2026.During the 73-minute episode, the hosts reviewed the 457-unit, 65-story West Tower, where the Declaration of Condominium—recorded in February 2026—confirmed that roughly 90% of units range from 238 to 997 square feet, with approximately two-thirds of the building under 500 square feet, making the tower a predominantly suite-style, investor-oriented product. Of the 44% of units that had already closed at the time of the broadcast, government records compiled by the Condo Ratings Agency™ showed that 68% were purchased by corporations or trusts rather than individuals, signaling that the building is being acquired by a super majority as an investment or short-term rental play rather than a primary residence.On the resale market, 25 units were already listed at an average asking price of nearly $950,000 per door or $1,665 per square foot, roughly a 67% premium over the $667 per square foot average transaction price recorded across the broader Central Business District (CBD) of Greater Downtown Miami in the first five months of the 2025-26 Winter Buying Season, according to data compiled by CVRRealty.com.Applying the “1% Rule” of real estate investing used by private money lenders, a condo seller asking $950,000 per unit would need to generate about $9,500 per month in rent to justify the price, an amount that is dramatically higher than the current median asking price of $2,800 per month. The CBD submarket—defined as the Gen. Douglas MacArthur Causeway south to the Miami River, and Biscayne Bay west to I-95—is saddled with nearly 26 months of supply. This amount of condo resale inventory is categorized as a Distressed Buyers Market, according to the Miami Condo Supply Tracker™.

This is copy of a live podcast recorded Fridays at 4 pm featuring Daniel Hernandez of Compass Real Estate, Peter Zalewski of MiamiCondo.Club and special guest Dr. Marvin Dunn.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 April 24, 2026, podcast, Hernandez, Zalewski and special guest Dr. Marvin Dunn—activist, historian and professor emeritus—give their take on the following four topics:When Life Gives Your Surface Parking…Build A Condo TowerA Downtown Valuation Bump (And A Pleasant Coincidence)The Best Covered Land Play Comes With CropsThe Underdeck Defunding Is A Classic Miami F.U.This podcast is broadcast live at 4 pm (EST) on the social media accounts of Daniel Hernandez and Peter Zalewski.Episode OverviewIn this April 24, 2026, episode of the Buy, Sell, Hold Miami™ podcast, real estate advisor Daniel Hernandez of Compass Real Estate, longtime analyst Peter Zalewski of the Miami Condo Investing Club™ and special guest Dr. Marvin Dunn—activist, historian and professor emeritus—cut through the local rhetoric, delivering straight talk on four of the biggest topics of critical importance to Greater Downtown Miami investors.The hosts discuss each topic and then announce whether each of them is a Buy, a Sell or a Hold on the issue. Their verdicts often differ, leading to sharp debate on the issue before moving on to the next topic.During the 71-minute discussion, Hernandez, Zalewski and Dunn examined the collision of politics, public land and private profit at the center of the proposed Trump Presidential Library site in Greater Downtown Miami.The site of the future Trump Presidential Library is a 2.5-acre property previously owned by Miami Dade College that Zalewski estimates could support up to 2,500 condo units and carries an estimated land value of about $368 million, yet was transferred by the State of Florida to the Trump Library Foundation for $10.Dunn—an 85-year-old Miami institution who grew up picking crops in the fields of Central Florida and went on to chair the psychology department at Florida International University—described in plain terms why he filed suit to block the transfer, and why a subsequent federal constitutional lawsuit is now being prepared by a Miami law firm with support from a legal team in Washington, D.C.The conversation pulled back the curtain on the legislative maneuvering in Tallahassee that preceded the land deal, including a recently adopted state law that bars local governments from interfering with or blocking the construction of a future presidential library.Zalewski walked through the math that condo developers would run on the site, explaining why proximity to Miami-Dade County’s public transportation network of Metromover, Metrorail, TriRail and trolleys eliminates the need to build costly parking spaces and significantly increases the number of units that can be built, pushing the land’s value well beyond the Miami-Dade County Property Appraiser’s valuation.The discussion shifted to the former Miami Arena site—a few blocks away from the Trump Presidential Library property—now controlled by The Witkoff Group, which paid $94 million for the land in 2021.

In this episode of The Peter Zalewski Show™, the host explores the real estate repercussions of people leaving the tricounty region at a time when prices are falling and costs are rising.The weekly podcast The Peter Zalewski Show™ features interviews with South Florida business leaders focused on real estate, finance and the economy.The program - hosted by Peter Zalewski of the Miami Condo Investing Club™ - is broadcast live every Wednesday at 4 pm (Miami time) at MiamiCondo.Club and on Peter Zalewski’s social media accounts to watch the free live broadcasts.The objective of the show is to deliver straight talk, share institutional knowledge and provide data-driven analysis on the macro and micro economic forces shaping the tricounty South Florida region of Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach.Episode OverviewIn the April 22, 2026, episode of The Peter Zalewski Show™ podcast, host Peter Zalewski delivers a solo deep dive into why the tricounty South Florida region of Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach experienced a drop of nearly 67,000 residents on a Year-over-Year basis.The latest U.S. Census Bureau data estimates the South Florida population at 6.39 million as of July 2025, down more than 1 percent from the 6.46 million people projected to be living in the tricounty region in July 2024.It is worth noting that the latest Census numbers reflect the period before the Trump Administration ramped up its aggressive immigration enforcement policy that was locally reinforced by Florida opening the Alligator Alcatraz popup detention center on Southwest 8th Street, some 50 miles west of the Brickell City Centre shopping center in Greater Downtown Miami.During the 44-minute episode, Zalewski argued that while the population drop is not massive, it contradicts the marketing hype consistently promoted by sellside brokers that Miami is one of the hottest destinations in the United States.He said that local news headlines and social-media influencers have repeatedly hyped the fact that tech billionaires such as Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook, Larry Page of Google and Jeff Bezos of Amazon relocated to South Florida as proof of Miami’s popularity.The Wall Street Journal blames affordability as the primary reason for the population drop in an article entitled “Florida’s Population Boom Fizzles As High Costs Drive Away Middle Class” published on April 19, 2026.“Florida’s migration patterns are changing dramatically,” according to the Wall Street Journal. “Residents in their prime working years are heading to other states, often citing affordability concerns. Meanwhile, an influx of wealthy people from other states—turbocharged during the pandemic—has helped drive up home prices.“Inflation in parts of Florida outpaced the national average over the past decade and home-insurance rates soared.”Zalewski said the affordability issue has only intensified since July 2025, and he expects an even deeper drop in the South Florida population when the Census Bureau publishes its July 2026 estimate.A contracting population is the last thing that cash-strapped condo sellers struggling through the Florida Condo Association Financial Cliff want to hear at the end of the all-important South Florida Winter Buying Season that concludes at the end of the month.The reason is, the heat, humidity and hurricane warnings of the Summer Buying Season—May through October—typically thin out the buyer pool, leaving only data-driven investors looking for discounts.In anticipation of the Summer Buying Season, condo sellers have already cut their average asking prices by 6.5% on a per square foot basis, according to a recent report.It is unclear how much lower asking prices will go as this Summer Buying Season has the potential to be a dud for sellers and a boon for buyers given an unusually crowded calendar of competing distractions beyond the usual heat, humidity and hurricane warnings that traditionally thin the pool of visitors.

In this episode of Miami Condo Mondays™, the hosts debated whether a 90% price premium in Coconut Grove and 5 bulk deals at the Flow House signal a coming collapse or a market recalibrating.Miami Condo Mondays™ features Peter Zalewski of the Miami Condo Investing Club™ and veteran broker Jenny Huertas of CVRRealty.com in a weekly deep dive into South Florida condo real estate.Recorded in Greater Downtown Miami, the podcast delivers an hour of high-level analysis on preconstruction condos, market trends and investment strategies for the tricounty South Florida region of Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach.The show leverages more than 60 years of combined institutional knowledge as Zalewski provides the macro perspective and Huertas offers on-the-ground micro insights from her daily experience in the trenches.The show streams live every Monday at 4 pm on the social media accounts of both hosts to provide an authoritative look at the latest shifts in the condo market.Episode OverviewIn this episode of the Miami Condo Mondays™ podcast on April 20, 2026, co-hosts Jenny Huertas of CVR Realty and Peter Zalewski of the Miami Condo Investing Club™ examined whether wealthy newcomers are walking into a classic Miami real estate ambush as the South Florida Winter Buying Season closes at the end of the month.The conversation explored how out-of-towners and investment funds are pouring money into the South Florida real estate market at a time when local buyers—who recognize the traditional signs of a downturn—have moved to the sidelines, especially in overhyped markets such as Coconut Grove and Greater Downtown Miami.During the 64-minute episode, the hosts discussed how the warning signs are increasingly obvious to those familiar with Miami’s past cycles of booms and busts that date back to the Great Florida Land Boom of the 1920s and the South Florida Condo Boom of the 2000s.The latest data for this analysis was collected for the upcoming Coconut Grove Condo Correction Walking Tour™ scheduled for 10 am Saturday, April 25, 2026.Coconut Grove is defined as the Eddie Rickenbacker Causeway west to LeJeune Road, and U.S. 1 south to Biscayne Bay.The massive discount in Coconut Grove condo prices was highlighted, where an average price of $3.5 million per unit is currently being asked by sellers on April 20, 2026.This represents a 90% markup from the $1.8 million average transaction price set during the 2025 Summer Buying Season.Traditionally, condo shopping occurs during the Winter Buying Season and the respective transactions eventually close in the Summer Buying Season.In Coconut Grove, a Fear Of Missing Out (FOMO) anxiety is being displayed by newcomers who are rushing into “luxury, wellness condos” that carry a significant price tag while “Vintage” condo units that are at least 30 years old are on the resale market at a 62% discount.Zalewski described this Wellness Vs. Vintage condo price disparity as a clear sign that out-of-town investors are overly optimistic that “trees will grow to the moon” while locals—who have been through the violent swings of the South Florida condo market before—are heading to the sidelines.Another example of this retreating of the locals is on full display at Adam Neumann’s 466-unit Flow House condo conversion in the Central Business District (CBD) of Greater Downtown Miami.The 41-story tower has successfully sold 58% of the units but government records compiled by the Condo Ratings Agency™ show that sales are being propped up by bulk deals for multiple properties rather than individual unit transactions.At least five bulk deals—ranging in quantity from 11 units to 25 units each—have transacted even though the project has only been for sale for six months, according to a recent report.These bulk deals account for about 30% of the building’s total transactions since launching in October 2025.

This is copy of a live podcast recorded Fridays at 4 pm featuring Daniel Hernandez of Compass Real Estate, Peter Zalewski of MiamiCondo.Club and special guest Benji Power of Procida Development Group.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 April 17, 2026, podcast, Hernandez, Zalewski and special guest Benji Power of Procida Development Group give their take on the following five topics:The RAD Program Is RADLobbying The State Is Easier Than Lobbying MunicipalitiesThe Urban Development Boundary (UDB) Should Be AbolishedAttainable Condos Are The Answer To Affordable HousingThe Affordability Outlook In South Florida Is Looking Better Than EverThis podcast is broadcast live at 4 pm (EST) on the social media accounts of Daniel Hernandez and Peter Zalewski.Episode OverviewIn this April 17, 2026, episode of the Buy, Sell, Hold Miami™ podcast, real estate advisor Daniel Hernandez of Compass Real Estate, longtime analyst Peter Zalewski of the Miami Condo Investing Club™ and special guest Benji Power—the Miami director of real estate development for Procida Development Group—cut through the local rhetoric, delivering straight talk on five of the biggest topics of critical importance to South Florida investors.The hosts discuss each topic and then announce whether each of them is a Buy, a Sell or a Hold on the issue. Their verdicts often differ, leading to sharp debate on the issue before moving on to the next topic.During the 81-minute discussion, Hernandez, Zalewski and Power examined the shifting landscape of South Florida real estate as developers and officials use state mandates and public-private partnerships to tackle a deepening affordability crisis against the backdrop of an overextended market cycle.Power described the mechanics of the Rental Assistance Demonstration (RAD) program and its role in redeveloping aging public housing.The conversation identified the friction between state-level mandates and local zoning control, specifically how the Florida Live Local Act allowed developers to bypass municipal hurdles.Zalewski examined the historical cycles of the Miami market, arguing that the current run since 2012 has ignored the inevitable correction that follows a decade-long bender.Hernandez cited the economic importance of the ornamental plant industry as a reason to maintain the Urban Development Boundary (UDB) against suburban sprawl.The hosts debated whether attainable condos can bridge the gap for residents earning 80% of the area median income or if such projects are too complex to finance without heavy subsidies.Power pointed to the upcoming 2026 delivery of thousands of units as the true test for Florida’s new housing laws.This episode is a must-watch for anyone with questions or concerns about the future of housing affordability in Miami-Dade County.

In this episode of The Peter Zalewski Show™, veteran analyst Jack McCabe points to the Mercedes-Benz Places foreclosure in Miami as a possible symbolic end to the pandemic-era condo boom.The weekly podcast The Peter Zalewski Show™ features interviews with South Florida business leaders focused on real estate, finance and the economy.The program - hosted by Peter Zalewski of the Miami Condo Investing Club™ - is broadcast live every Wednesday at 4 pm (Miami time) at MiamiCondo.Club and on Peter Zalewski’s social media accounts to watch the free live broadcasts.The objective of the show is to deliver straight talk, share institutional knowledge and provide data-driven analysis on the macro and micro economic forces shaping the tricounty South Florida region of Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach.Episode OverviewIn the April 16, 2026, episode of The Peter Zalewski Show™ podcast, host Peter Zalewski interviewed veteran analyst Jack McCabe of McCabeResearch.com about a South Florida condo market he described as at a precipice as the Winter Buying Season ends and a high-stakes Summer begins next month.During the 63-minute episode, McCabe pointed to the foreclosure filing against the Mercedes-Benz Places tower in Greater Downtown Miami as a mile marker for what he contended could be the symbolic end of the pandemic-induced condo boom that ran from 2021 through 2023, and raised the question of how many other projects would follow.On the resale side, the numbers told a similar story.Zalewski cited South Florida closed sales statistics that showed the average price per square foot for a condo had dropped roughly 2% Year-over-Year across the broader tricounty South Florida region of Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach.Vintage units—that are at least 30 years old—were down nearly 4%.McCabe and Zalewski discussed whether these statistics were the first real crack in pricing and whether the declines would intensify in the upcoming months as more units sold at lower valuations.McCabe cautioned sellers not to expect lower mortgage rates any time soon, describing the current inflationary environment as leaving the Federal Reserve—and its new chair—no room to cut.The conversation turned to the Summer Buying Season, and how the heat, humidity and hurricane warnings that define the period from May through October thin the buyer pool and could accelerate that drop.Zalewski asked whether the FIFA World Cup matches scheduled for South Florida in June and July would divert attention away from the condo market entirely.Zalewski pointed to the 1.25% decline—rather than a projected 8.5% gain—in overseas passenger traffic at Miami International Airport in 2025, and questioned whether it signaled that the foreign investor pool of Canadians, Europeans and Latin Americans was already drying up.The two examined how some South Florida condo developers were notorious for exaggerating preconstruction sales figures and predicted the pressure to do so would only grow as demand slowed.McCabe shared a story about one of his developer clients whose presales showed 20% of the units were under contract even though the marketing materials claimed 80% of the building was “sold.”The episode closed with a discussion of why some veteran bulk buyers were reportedly sitting on the sidelines rather than negotiating with sellers directly, preferring instead to wait for the courts to set pricing after two South Florida condo associations recently filed for bankruptcy.

In this episode of Miami Condo Mondays™, the hosts mark 20 years of Condo Vultures® while sizing up the prospects of unit owners on Brickell Key as a developer prepares to build two new towers.Miami Condo Mondays™ features Peter Zalewski of the Miami Condo Investing Club™ and veteran broker Jenny Huertas of CVRRealty.com in a weekly deep dive into South Florida condo real estate.Recorded in Greater Downtown Miami, the podcast delivers an hour of high-level analysis on preconstruction condos, market trends and investment strategies for the tricounty South Florida region of Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach.The show leverages more than 60 years of combined institutional knowledge as Zalewski provides the macro perspective and Huertas offers on-the-ground micro insights from her daily experience in the trenches.The show streams live every Monday at 4 pm on the social media accounts of both hosts to provide an authoritative look at the latest shifts in the condo market.Episode OverviewIn this episode of the Miami Condo Mondays™ podcast on April 13, 2026, co-hosts Jenny Huertas of CVR Realty and Peter Zalewski of the Miami Condo Investing Club™ examine Greater Downtown Miami’s Brickell Avenue Area—a submarket of more than 100 condo towers and 30,000 units—with less than three weeks left in the ever-important South Florida Winter Buying Season of November through April.The latest data for this analysis was collected for the upcoming Brickell Avenue Area Condo Correction Walking Tour™ scheduled for 10 am Saturday, April 18, 2026. The Brickell Avenue Area is defined as the Eddie Rickenbacker Causeway north to the Miami River, and Biscayne Bay west to I-95.During the 74-minute podcast, Huertas and Zalewski also mark the 20th anniversary of Condo Vultures®, the research and brokerage firm Zalewski founded two decades ago with the tagline "Killing comps Since 2006," a reference to using data to push back against the inflated price comparables that developers and sellside brokers routinely use to “justify” asking prices.The Brickell Avenue Area currently has 1,170 condos listed for sale at an average asking price of $842 per square foot, and those listings have been sitting on the market for an average of 167 days—nearly the entire six-month-long Winter Buying Season—without finding a buyer.That compares to the $656 per square foot that condos actually traded for during the busy Summer Buying Season of 2025, creating a premium of roughly 28% that is well above the 20% spread Zalewski uses as a benchmark for a balanced market.The Brickell Avenue Area is currently in a Deteriorating Buyers Market with 16.8 months of condo resale supply, according to the Miami Condo Supply Tracker™. With just 18 days left in the Winter Buying Season, sellers who have not cut prices are running out of time before Summer’s heat, humidity and hurricane season thin the buyer pool for another six months.For buyers willing to look past the shiny marketing of preconstruction projects, the hosts pointed to Vintage condos—units at least 30 years old—as the area of the market where the math is closest to making sense, trading at roughly a 36% discount to the Overall market.On the rental side, the median lease price of about $3,700 per month implies a market value of around $370,000 per unit under the “1% Rule” of real estate investing versus an average asking price of $1.3 million. This spread means most of today’s buyers would effectively be subsidizing their tenants at the current asking prices.The most telling sign of where the Brickell Avenue Area submarket is heading came from a cloud of dust on Sunday morning, April 12, 2026, when Huertas watched the Mandarin Oriental Hotel come down in a controlled implosion on Brickell Key.

This week’s Miami Condo Market Intelligence Report™ newsletter look backs at the firm's 2006 founding, the parallels to today's correction and the lessons learned by the characters who were there.In this week’s issue of the Miami Condo Market Intelligence Report™ newsletter, we step back from the weekly data analysis to mark an anniversary that is either a testament to institutional patience or a cautionary tale about a South Florida real estate market that refuses to correct itself in a timely fashion—possibly both.April 2006 marked the formal launch of Condo Vultures® following incorporation the previous month of March 2006 when Zalewski left the journalism that he had studied at the University of Missouri.The company name and tagline were blunt: Killing Comps Since 2006™.The full story of how that happened—and what it produced—is best told by the people who were there.The anniversary celebration occurred on the April 8, 2026, episode of The Peter Zalewski Show™ that aired on MiamiCondo.Club.The episode—provided below—brings many of the players together for the first time in two decades. Watch it.From Newsroom To Buyside BrokerageThe origin of Condo Vultures® is, at its core, a story about recognizing when the game has changed before everyone else does.Before the pivot to buyside brokerage services, more than 13 years were spent in journalism covering the banking and real estate machinery behind the most aggressive condo construction cycle in South Florida history.The foundation for that work was laid alongside titans of the South Florida business press, including Miami Herald reporter and editor Larry Birger, whose “South Florida Business Focus” program on WLRN set the standard for cutting through the spin to deliver verifiable, defendable and actionable information to an audience that deserved better than a press release.Miami Daily Business Review columnist Charles Kimball—whose family passed down his legendary handwritten index cards cataloguing years of South Florida transactions—was another early influence in that same tradition.The analytical framework for understanding the condo market itself came from a generation of South Florida real estate experts whose rigor shaped the way the numbers were read, including Jack McCabe, Lewis Goodkin and the late Michael Y. Cannon.These were not commentators. They are analysts who built their reputations on data at a time when data was hard to get and harder to interpret.That reporting background turned out to be the most valuable asset the Condo Vultures® operation would ever have.The developers, lenders, investors and regulators who built the South Florida condo market had all been interviewed so their business models were not mysteries.When the moment came to cross from the press box to the field, the learning curve that stops most people simply did not exist.After leaving journalism in March 2006, the focus narrowed to the South Florida condo market, first as a buyside operator executing bulk transactions during the bust, then as a Wall Street consultant, market analyst and expert witness drawing on the same data discipline that had powered the brokerage work.What did exist from the start was a thesis and a name—Condo Vultures®—that the industry hated on sight.That reaction was the first confirmation the thesis was correct. Grinding AdvantageThe competitive edge was not technology. Big Data was not a concept in 2006. The platforms, algorithms and automated valuation tools that analysts take for granted today did not exist.Building a statistical picture of the South Florida condo market meant pulling Florida Sunshine Law public records by hand, visiting the courthouse, cross-referencing county filings manually and grinding through the numbers one building at a time.That grinding process was the advantage.Every other participant in the market was operating on instinct and marketing materials

This is copy of a live podcast recorded Fridays at 4 pm in Miami featuring real estate advisor Daniel Hernandez of Compass Real Estate and analyst Peter Zalewski of the Miami Condo Investing Club™.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 April 10, 2026, podcast, Hernandez and Zalewski give their take on the following five topics:Bad For BrandingCoastal ImplosionTrickledown CondonomicsPortMiami Is Cruisin’Short-Term Rentals Having A MomentThis podcast is broadcast live at 4 pm (EST) on the social media accounts of Daniel Hernandez and Peter Zalewski.Episode OverviewIn this April 10, 2026, episode of the Buy, Sell, Hold Miami™ podcast, real estate advisor Daniel Hernandez of Compass Real Estate and longtime analyst Peter Zalewski of the Miami Condo Investing Club™ cut through the local rhetoric, delivering straight talk on five of the biggest topics of critical importance to South Florida investors.The hosts discuss each topic and then announce whether each of them is a Buy, a Sell or a Hold on the issue. Their verdicts often differ, leading to sharp debate on the issue before moving on to the next topic.During the 63-minute discussion, Hernandez and Zalewski examine the financial tremors shaking the Greater Downtown Miami skyline, ranging from the foreclosure woes of the planned Mercedes-Benz tower to the literal implosion of the Mandarin Oriental hotel on Brickell Key.The conversation raises pointed questions about the “vig” developers pay to license luxury car and fashion brands for planned condo projects and whether these vanity plays can survive a market where interest rates and alleged legal defects are beginning to sideline even the most seasoned developers.

In this episode of The Peter Zalewski Show™, litigator Gina Clausen Lozier of the Clausen Choquette law firm discusses changes to condo association coverage since the Surfside tragedy.The weekly podcast The Peter Zalewski Show™ features interviews with South Florida business leaders focused on real estate, finance and the economy.The program - hosted by Peter Zalewski of the Miami Condo Investing Club™ - is broadcast live every Wednesday at 4 pm (Miami time) at MiamiCondo.Club and on Peter Zalewski’s social media accounts to watch the free live broadcasts.The objective of the show is to deliver straight talk, share institutional knowledge and provide data-driven analysis on the macro and micro economic forces shaping the tricounty South Florida region of Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach.Episode OverviewIn the April 9, 2026, episode of The Peter Zalewski Show™ podcast, host Peter Zalewski interviews litigator Gina Clausen Lozier of the Clausen Choquette law firm in Palm Beach County about how South Florida condo associations risk not being paid what they are owed when filing an insurance claim, and why it is becoming increasingly difficult for boards to fight back.The conversation explores how insurance costs are eating up a significant portion of what condo owners pay every month in maintenance fees, even as the actual coverage provided by those policies has in many cases gotten worse, not better.During the 64-minute episode, Clausen Lozier walks listeners through why the bills that arrive after a hurricane can be far larger than most condo boards ever expected, how Vintage buildings that are at least 30 years old could end up being paid less than expected to cover repair costs and why the same building inspections that were mandated to protect unit owners after the Surfside condo collapse in June 2021 could now be turned against condo associations when trying to collect on a claim.Clausen Lozier spent nearly a decade working for insurance companies before changing sides, and she brings that background and experience to every case she takes on today.After the hurricane seasons of 2004 and 2005, she defended insurance companies against the volume of claims that followed and learned how the industry determines which claims to pay, which ones to drag out and which ones to settle for as little as possible.She now puts that knowledge to work for South Florida condo associations, most of which are run by volunteers who probably never expected their unpaid board positions to effectively turn into full-time jobs.The episode also takes a deep dive into the financial squeeze hitting condo associations right now due to rising maintenance fees, hefty special assessments and pricey insurance premiums resulting from post-Surfside legislation.Zalewski has previously described this growing financial pressure on cash-strapped unit owners as the Florida Condo Association Financial Cliff.For the first time, Florida condo associations are now required as of 2026 to start setting aside money for future repairs, and many buildings are scrambling to raise the funds through special assessments or by obtaining loans to pay for the necessary restoration work.Private lenders are increasingly offering to fill that financial gap for associations, but at interest rates of a reported 9% to 12%, further adding to the expenses of condo living in South Florida.Clausen Lozier pointed out that the condo associations unknowingly shopping for the inspection reports with the lowest estimates for necessary repairs could be creating legal complications in the future.The bottom line from this episode is that a lot of condo owners in South Florida are paying for insurance coverage that may not perform the way they expect when the time comes to actually use it.

In this episode of Miami Condo Mondays™, the hosts explore why Coral Gables is lagging the South Florida condo market where a 2% drop in the price per square foot drove a 5% increase in unit sales.Miami Condo Mondays™ features Peter Zalewski of the Miami Condo Investing Club™ and veteran broker Jenny Huertas of CVRRealty.com in a weekly deep dive into South Florida condo real estate.Recorded in Greater Downtown Miami, the podcast delivers an hour of high-level analysis on preconstruction condos, market trends and investment strategies for the tricounty South Florida region of Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach.The show leverages more than 60 years of combined institutional knowledge as Zalewski provides the macro perspective and Huertas offers on-the-ground micro insights from her daily experience in the trenches.The show streams live every Monday at 4 pm on the social media accounts of both hosts to provide an authoritative look at the latest shifts in the condo market.Episode OverviewIn this episode of the Miami Condo Mondays™ podcast on April 6, 2026, co-hosts Jenny Huertas of CVR Realty and Peter Zalewski of the Miami Condo Investing Club™ explore why Coral Gables is lagging the broader South Florida condo market as the 2025-26 Winter Buying Season closes in on its final 25 days.The latest data for this analysis was collected for the upcoming Coral Gables Condo Correction Walking Tour™ scheduled for 10 am Saturday, April 11, 2026.Coral Gables is defined as Southwest 8th Street south to Southwest 72nd Street, and Douglas Road (37th Avenue) west to Red Road (57th Avenue).During the 69-minute podcast, Huertas and Zalewski discuss how the numbers are finally saying out loud what they have been warning about for months.South Florida condo sales rose 5% during the first five months of the Winter Buying Season of November through March but do not mistake that for strength.Sellers generated those sales by cutting their average price per square foot 2% to $400, according to the data from CVRRealty.com.Strip out the highend deals that skew the averages and the median price per square foot tells a harder truth with Overall prices down 4% and Vintage units—at least 30 years old—down 7%.Many Vintage condo owners are scrambling for the exits as rising maintenance fees, hefty special assessments and pricey insurance premiums have made the costs out of reach in the aftermath of the Surfside condo collapse in June 2021.Zalewski has called this the Florida Condo Association Financial Cliff since coining the phrase in June 2024.The duo agreed that the unit owners who saw it coming quickly moved to cut their price to get out. The sellers who refused are running out of time in the Winter Buying Season to find a buyer.The latest statistics served up a fresh reminder of what happens to sellers when the momentum changes.A preconstruction condo development in the Brickell Avenue Area of Greater Downtown Miami that was marketing itself under the Mercedes-Benz brand was hit with an $80 million foreclosure lawsuit, according to the South Florida Business Journal.Zalewski said the foreclosure action shows that the trees in Miami do not actually grow to the moon as the sellside brokers would suggest.If the broader South Florida market is bending under the Condo Cliff, Coral Gables is a market that is already showing signs of breaking.In the first five months of the Winter Buying Season, Coral Gables condo sales dropped 23% and the average price per square foot fell 8.5% Year-over-Year, according to the data.The Vintage segment did not fare any better. Vintage condo sales plunged nearly 32% and the average price per square foot fell 9.4%, according to the data.Huertas said the statistics show that buyers can do the math to find the best value when shopping for a South Florida condo.

This is copy of a live podcast recorded Fridays at 4 pm in Miami featuring real estate advisor Daniel Hernandez of Compass Real Estate and analyst Peter Zalewski of the Miami Condo Investing Club™.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 April 3, 2026, podcast, Hernandez and Zalewski give their take on the following five topics:Trump TrumpsCoral Gables Has PR ProblemPerils In PreconstructionNow This Is Infill!One Intersection To Rule Them AllThis podcast is broadcast live at 4 pm (EST) on the social media accounts of Daniel Hernandez and Peter Zalewski.Episode OverviewIn this April 3, 2026, episode of the Buy, Sell, Hold Miami™ podcast, real estate advisor Daniel Hernandez of Compass Real Estate and longtime analyst Peter Zalewski of the Miami Condo Investing Club™ cut through the local rhetoric, delivering straight talk on five of the biggest topics of critical importance to South Florida investors.The hosts discuss each topic and then announce whether each of them is a Buy, a Sell or a Hold on the issue. Their verdicts often differ, leading to sharp debate on the issue before moving on to the next topic.During the 61-minute discussion, Hernandez and Zalewski examine the political and financial implications of the Trump brand planting its flag in Greater Downtown Miami, from the free land valued at over $360 million to renderings of a vertical development that looks more like condo and hotel tower than a presidential library.The conversation broadens to include the renaming of Palm Beach International Airport to Donald J. Trump International Airport, raising questions about cost, timing and whether concentration of brand equity in Miami-Dade and Palm Beach counties is a stroke of genius or an overreach.The duo turns toward Coral Gables, where the once-vibrant Miracle Mile shopping district has been hollowed out by high rents, an aging demographic and the slow exodus of the affordable businesses that once gave the corridor its energy and foot traffic.A sobering assessment of Miami’s preconstruction condo market follows, as Hernandez and Zalewski warn that developers who borrowed heavily at high interest rates and failed to hit their sales targets this Winter Buying Season are now staring down canceled projects or even foreclosures.With private lending default rates tripling from 2% to over 7% in Southwest Florida, Zalewski argues that the next 30 days represent a make-or-break moment for some of the most recognizable projects in the pipeline.An innovative infill development strategy south of Miami International Airport—one that involves filling in an artificial lake to create workforce housing—is held up as a model for the kind of creative thinking the region needs.The episode closes with a street-level examination of the Greater Downtown Miami intersection of Northeast 36th Street and Biscayne Boulevard, a chokepoint born from Henry Flagler’s 19th-century railroad grid that is now surrounded by billions of dollars in planned development with no clear solution to the gridlock that already paralyzes the neighborhood daily.

In this episode of The Peter Zalewski Show™, Olga Rogers—in-house sales agent for the Square Hallandale office and retail condo project—explains why some businesses are ditching their landlords.The weekly podcast The Peter Zalewski Show™ features interviews with South Florida business leaders focused on real estate, finance and the economy.The program - hosted by Peter Zalewski of the Miami Condo Investing Club™ - is broadcast live every Wednesday at 4 pm (Miami time) at MiamiCondo.Club and on Peter Zalewski’s social media accounts to watch the free live broadcasts.The objective of the show is to deliver straight talk, share institutional knowledge and provide data-driven analysis on the macro and micro economic forces shaping the tricounty South Florida region of Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach.Episode OverviewIn the April 1, 2026, episode of The Peter Zalewski Show™ podcast, host Peter Zalewski interviews in-house sales agent Olga Rogers about the new eight-story Square Hallandale office and retail condo being developed in Southeast Broward County.The conversation centers on a simple but compelling idea that business owners in South Florida no longer have to write a rent check every month and can instead buy their own commercial space, build equity and control their own future.During the 32-minute episode, Rogers—a veteran of South Florida preconstruction sales who is making her first foray into commercial condo space—walks listeners through the Hallandale Beach project's location, pricing and amenities.The two also discuss the project’s preconstruction deposit structure and monthly expenses while exploring the notion that owning commercial space is not as complicated or out of reach as many small business owners might think.The episode also touches on the trends shaping South Florida’s commercial real estate landscape, including a wave of wealthy individuals and corporations relocating from the Northeast and Latin America in search of a more business-friendly environment.Many longtime residents of Southeast Broward County will recognize the nearly two-acre development site on the north side of Hallandale Beach Boulevard, which for years served as a popular pop-up location for Christmas tree sales during the holiday season.Situated between I-95 and Dixie Highway, the project offers easy access to the major roadways that connect the beachfront communities of Southeast Broward County and Northeast Miami-Dade County.

In this episode of Miami Condo Mondays™, the hosts discuss how Fort Lauderdale condos at least 30 years old are asking $503,000 compared to the Overall market asking price of $1.3 million per unit.Miami Condo Mondays™ features Peter Zalewski of the Miami Condo Investing Club™ and veteran broker Jenny Huertas of CVRRealty.com in a weekly deep dive into South Florida condo real estate.Recorded in Greater Downtown Miami, the podcast delivers an hour of high-level analysis on preconstruction condos, market trends and investment strategies for the tricounty South Florida region of Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach.The show leverages more than 60 years of combined institutional knowledge as Zalewski provides the macro perspective and Huertas offers on-the-ground micro insights from her daily experience in the trenches.The show streams live every Monday at 4 pm on the social media accounts of both hosts to provide an authoritative look at the latest shifts in the condo market.Episode OverviewIn this episode of the Miami Condo Mondays™ podcast on March 30, 2026, co-hosts Jenny Huertas of CVR Realty and Peter Zalewski of the Miami Condo Investing Club™ explore why buyers in Fort Lauderdale are turning their backs on luxury condos and zeroing in on older, more affordable units as the Winter Buying Season enters its final 30 days.The latest data for this analysis was collected for the upcoming Fort Lauderdale Condo Correction Bus Tour™ scheduled for 10 am Saturday, April 4, 2026.Fort Lauderdale is defined as Oakland Park Boulevard south to Marina Mile Boulevard - State Road 84, and the Atlantic Ocean west to I-95.During the 69-minute podcast, Huertas and Zalewski discuss how the latest Fort Lauderdale condo statistics tell a story about the growing spread between the average Overall asking prices of nearly $1.3 million versus the average closed sales price of more than $623,000 recorded in the 2025 Summer Buying Season of May through October.This is a gap of more than 100% between what cash-strapped condo sellers are asking and what buyers are willing to pay for a unit in a market with nearly 1,050 units available for resale, according to the data from CVRRealty.com.The discount is even more dramatic for buyers who are focusing specifically on Vintage condos—units that are at least 30 years old—that have an average asking price of $503,000, a discount of nearly 60% compared to the Overall market asking price of $1.3 million per unit, according to the data.Zalewski said the situation is growing increasingly dire at the higher end of the Fort Lauderdale market.Condos priced above $1.2 million are not trading, resulting in more than 35 months of supply.For context, equilibrium in the condo market is between 6.0 and 6.9 months of supply. Fewer months indicates a Sellers Market and more months suggests a Buyers Market.Fort Lauderdale condos with asking prices of at least $1.2 million are in an Illiquid Buyers Market, according to the Miami Condo Supply Tracker™.An Illiquid Buyers Market is defined as being on “life support” where “a lack of liquidity and buying activity exists due to overwhelming supply and minimal demand.”As the Winter Buying Season moves closer to Summer’s heat, humidity and hurricane warnings, Zalewski expects the buyer pool to dwindle to only data-driven investors looking for discounts.Many Vintage condo owners are scrambling for the exits as rising maintenance fees, hefty special assessments and pricey insurance premiums have made it cost prohibitive in the aftermath of the Surfside condo collapse.Zalewski has called this the Florida Condo Association Financial Cliff since coining the phrase in June 2024.Huertas and Zalewski wrap up the episode by agreeing that Fort Lauderdale condo sellers face further pricing capitulation in the coming months as the gap between asking prices and reality grows harder to ignore.

This is copy of a live podcast recorded Fridays at 4 pm in Miami featuring real estate advisor Daniel Hernandez of Compass Real Estate and analyst Peter Zalewski of the Miami Condo Investing Club™.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 March 27, 2026, podcast, Hernandez and Zalewski give their take on the following five topics:Want A Permit? Give Up Some LandBaywalk - They’ll Get It DoneCity Hall Dirt Too Luxe For BureaucratsMe Gusta More AirportsA Business Case For A Tokyo FlightThis podcast is broadcast live at 4 pm (EST) on the social media accounts of Daniel Hernandez and Peter Zalewski.Episode OverviewIn this March 27, 2026, episode of the Buy, Sell, Hold Miami™ podcast, real estate advisor Daniel Hernandez of Compass Real Estate and longtime analyst Peter Zalewski of the Miami Condo Investing Club™ cut through the local rhetoric, delivering straight talk on five of the biggest topics of critical importance to South Florida investors.The hosts discuss each topic and then announce whether each of them is a Buy, a Sell or a Hold on the issue. Their verdicts often differ, leading to sharp debate on the issue before moving on to the next topic.During the 64-minute discussion, Hernandez and Zalewski analyze the legal battles over property rights, the growing pains of the congested local airports and the sudden arrival of massive Japanese investments into the heart of Greater Downtown Miami.The conversation shifts from the courtroom to the tarmac as the duo debates the looming capacity crisis at Miami International Airport and the search for expansion sites in West Kendall or the Everglades.A recent land acquisition by Tokyo-based investors in Greater Downtown Miami provides a backdrop for a broader discussion on whether international capital is arriving late to the current real estate cycle.Historical parallels to previous investment bubbles are examined by Hernandez and Zalewski to determine if the influx of sovereign wealth signals a market peak or a new era of growth.The planned relocation of Miami’s City Hall from the waterfront in Coconut Grove to the new Inter Miami stadium complex near the airport is dissected for its impact on local influence and real estate values.Structural concerns regarding the aging condo projects in Sunny Isles Beach highlight the growing friction between legacy properties and the modern luxury towers rising along the Atlantic coast.A supply surge in Greater Downtown Miami serves as a warning from the duo for those navigating the transition between the South Florida Winter Buying Season and Summer’s heat, humidity and hurricane warnings that historically thin the buyer pool.The discussion provides a transparent look at the mechanics of the South Florida real estate market through the lens of two veteran observers who refuse to rely on industry platitudes.This briefing is essential for anyone seeking to understand the shifting landscape of property ownership and municipal power in the region.

In this Miami Condo Exchange™ episode, Peter Zalewski breaks down a week of modest but meaningful gains as the clock ticks down on the ever-important Winter Buying Season that ends in five weeks.The Miami Condo Exchange™ is a live podcast at 4 pm (Miami time) on Tuesdays covering the latest South Florida condo stats, metrics and trends hosted by expert Peter Zalewski of the Miami Condo Investing Club™.Recorded weekly in Greater Downtown Miami, the program’s core premise is to analyze condos as commodities, no different than salty snacks, oil or pork bellies.The weekly show intends to cut through the marketing hype to focus strictly on the numbers for investors and real estate professionals.A regular feature of the Tuesday show is the Miami Condo Cliff Index™, which tracks active listings and pending sales in realtime to forecast official closed sales data that lags by 30 to 120 days.Tune in every Tuesday at 4 pm at MiamiCondo.Club or on the social media account of Peter Zalewski to watch the livestreams free.Episode OverviewIn the March 24, 2026, episode of the Miami Condo Exchange™ podcast, host Peter Zalewski examines a tricounty South Florida region of Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach that is still moving—just not sprinting.The South Florida Overall Condo Cliff Index™ posted a modest but meaningful gain of 1.62% in the week ending March 24, 2026, as sellers and investors approach the final five weeks of the Winter Buying Season with intensity before Summer’s heat, humidity and hurricane warnings thin the buyer pool.This week’s 9.42 reading is the highest ever recorded since the Overall Index launched on Jan. 1, 2025, to coincide with the Florida Condo Association Financial Cliff.The South Florida Vintage Condo Cliff Index™—which tracks units at least 30 years old—more than kept pace, climbing 2.24% to a record 8.91 points on March 24, 2026, from 8.71 points the prior week, marking back-to-back-to-back all-time highs for both indices.In nine of the first 12 weeks of 2026, the Overall Index has trended upward while the Vintage Index has done so in 10 of 12 weeks, suggesting the South Florida condo market has found direction.The Condo Cliff is defined as a moment where the cost of condo living becomes unwieldy for cash-strapped owners due to rising maintenance fees, hefty special assessments and pricey insurance premiums resulting from the post-Surfside legislation.Sellers who can not afford to stay appear to be finally pricing their units to sell, prompting buyers—who have not yet been willing to chase—to step forward.The current number of active listings confirmed the tight balance with Overall and Vintage inventories both edging up about 0.07%, respectively.South Florida’s Overall listings stand at nearly 26,100 units with Vintage listings accounting for nearly 69% of the total as of March 24, 2026.Overall pending sales—a gauge of buyer confidence—rose 1.70% to nearly 2,460 contracts, of which pending sales of Vintage units climbed 2.31% to nearly 1,600.Increasing pending sales set against flat active listings is how both indices went up for the week ending March 24, 2026.The county-by-county breakdowns are where the trends are emerging in South Florida.Palm Beach County’s Overall Index surged 3.66% to a record 11.98 points, marking the highest reading in the tricounty region.

In this episode of Miami Condo Mondays™, the hosts discuss the steep pricing correction and mounting inventory currently overwhelming units at least 30 years old in Northeast Miami-Dade County.Miami Condo Mondays™ features Peter Zalewski of the Miami Condo Investing Club™ and veteran broker Jenny Huertas of CVRRealty.com in a weekly deep dive into South Florida condo real estate.Recorded in Greater Downtown Miami, the podcast delivers an hour of high-level analysis on preconstruction condos, market trends and investment strategies for the tricounty South Florida region of Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach.The show leverages more than 60 years of combined institutional knowledge as Zalewski provides the macro perspective and Huertas offers on-the-ground micro insights from her daily experience in the trenches.The show streams live every Monday at 4 pm on the social media accounts of both hosts to provide an authoritative look at the latest shifts in the condo market.Episode OverviewIn this episode of the Miami Condo Mondays™ podcast on March 23, 2026, co-hosts Jenny Huertas of CVR Realty and Peter Zalewski of the Miami Condo Investing Club™ explore how tumbling Vintage prices and soaring Overall inventory are creating severe friction in Sunny Isles Beach as the Winter Buying Season winds down in less than 40 days.The latest data for this analysis was collected for the upcoming Sunny Isles Beach Condo Correction Walking Tour™ scheduled for 10 am Saturday, March 28, 2026.Sunny Isles Beach is defined as Haulover Beach Park north to Golden Beach, and the Atlantic Ocean west to the Intracoastal Waterway.The discussion centers on how this former Motel Row targeting working-class tourists has rapidly transformed following its 1997 incorporation into a corridor—dubbed Billionaires Row—featuring ultra-luxury condo towers with price tags exceeding $10 million per unit.During the 76-minute podcast, Huertas and Zalewski discuss how local officials have embraced luxury condo developers aspiring to build some of the tallest structures in South Florida.Many of these towers increasingly feature international brand names such as Armani Casa, Porsche Design and Trump licensed by developers who are hoping to achieve maximum prices from wealthy buyers.The discussion highlights how these ultra-luxury highrises are currently skewing Overall market metrics while disguising a nearly 6% drop in the price per square foot in the first three months—November 2025 through January 2026—of the Winter Buying Season, according to a recent report.The realtime metrics have exposed a fundamental imbalance in Sunny Isles Beach with more than 1,100 condo units listed for resale, representing nearly 22 months of supply.This level of condo resale supply indicates Sunny Isles Beach is in a Severe Buyers Market, according to the Miami Condo Supply Tracker™.It is worth noting that while Overall condo prices are down on a per square foot basis, the situation is dramatically different for Vintage units that are at least 30 years old.Vintage condo sales prices are down nearly 19% on a price per unit basis and about 13% on a per square foot basis in the first half of this Winter Buying Season compared to a year ago, according to the data from CVRRealty.com.Cash-strapped owners of Vintage condos are scrambling for the exits as rising maintenance fees, hefty special assessments and pricey insurance premiums have made it cost prohibitive for many in the aftermath of the Surfside condo collapse.We call this the Florida Condo Association Financial Cliff.

This is copy of a live podcast recorded Fridays at 4 pm in Miami featuring real estate advisor Daniel Hernandez of Compass Real Estate and analyst Peter Zalewski of the Miami Condo Investing Club™.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 March 20, 2026, podcast, Hernandez and Zalewski give their take on the following five topics:Big Cities Worried About Taxes Too‘The Market Is Great’Beach Is So BackFlorida Legislature Goes Loco For Live LocalData Center-RamaThis podcast is broadcast live at 4 pm (EST) on the social media accounts of Daniel Hernandez and Peter Zalewski.Episode OverviewIn this March 20, 2026, episode of the Buy, Sell, Hold Miami™ podcast, Hernandez and Zalewski cut through the local rhetoric, delivering straight talk on five of the biggest topics of critical importance to South Florida investors.The hosts discuss each topic and then announce whether each of them is a Buy, a Sell or a Hold on the issue. Their verdicts often differ, leading to sharp debate on the issue before moving on to the next topic.During the 64-minute discussion, Hernandez and Zalewski analyze the proposed elimination of homesteaded property taxes across the tricounty South Florida region of Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach.The debate centers on a potential $72.8 million shortfall in the Fort Lauderdale general fund representing 14.0% of its revenue.Zalewski and Hernandez examine the resulting pressure on the city to potentially shift the tax burden onto tourists via about a $5.54 surcharge per visitor.The hosts investigate whether these revenue losses will jeopardize funding for arts, public health institutions and parks.They analyze the long-term sustainability of municipal budgets if ad valorem taxes—which are based on the assessed value of a property—are eliminated in a statewide referendum.

In this episode of Condo Capitalism™, Paul Sardon of Sardon Law And Title discusses how lenders are counting on a retooled foreclosure system to avoid repeating the mistakes of the Great Recession.Condo Capitalism™ is a weekly podcast hosted by Peter Zalewski of the Miami Condo Investing Club™ that provides data-driven analysis on distressed real estate—foreclosures, shortsales and bank-owned REOs—in the tricounty South Florida region of Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach.The program tracks the Florida Condo Association Financial Cliff, where rising maintenance fees, special assessments and insurance costs are squeezing cash-strapped owners.On the show, experts analyze how the national “two-sided risk”—rising inflation and falling employment—magnifies these local pressures, potentially forcing a capitulation by owners who can no longer afford condo living.Join Peter Zalewski at MiamiCondo.Club for a livestream every weekday at 4 pm (Miami time). On-demand recordings of all shows are available here.Episode OverviewIn the March 19, 2026, episode of the Condo Capitalism™ podcast, host Peter Zalewski interviews Miami real estate attorney Paul Sardon of Sardon Law And Title about the overarching changes lenders have implemented to better handle any future 2008-style condo selloff in South Florida.The discussion explores the idea that financial institutions—which learned from the Great Recession—have overhauled their internal systems to be better organized to handle a surge in distressed real estate before it jams up their operations.During the 77-minute discussion, Sardon and Zalewski reminisced about the South Florida foreclosure crash of 2008 through 2011 that resulted in some borrowers remaining in their properties for years without paying their mortgages.Sardon explained that the current process has been retooled, resulting in a streamlined approach where an entire foreclosure—from a default to an auction—can be completed in as little as 120 days if the courts are not flooded with cases.Unlike the previous crash where many borrowers avoided long-term liability, Sardon said lenders are now more aggressive in pursuing personal liability including deficiency waivers and tax consequences known as a 1099-C for debt cancellation.The revamped foreclosure process—which has not yet been stressed tested—could face its first challenge in the near future in South Florida.Cash-strapped condo owners are increasingly facing rising maintenance fees, hefty special assessments and pricey insurance premiums in the aftermath of the post-Surfside legislation.We call this the Florida Condo Association Financial Cliff.

In this episode of The Peter Zalewski Show™, economist Anita Funtek discusses how the South Florida residential market faces a tech upheaval similar to the collapse of the taxi medallion system.The Peter Zalewski Show™ features one-on-one interviews with South Florida business leaders focused on the systemic pressures of real estate, finance and the global economy.Hosted by Peter Zalewski of the Miami Condo Investing Club™, the program is broadcast live every Wednesday at 4 pm at MiamiCondo.Club and across all realtime social media platforms.The objective of the show is to deliver straight talk, share institutional knowledge and provide data-driven analysis on the macro and micro economic forces shaping the tricounty South Florida region of Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach.By prioritizing candor over politeness, The Peter Zalewski Show identifies the existing and emerging players, latest trends and structural shifts occurring from Greater Downtown Miami to Fort Lauderdale to West Palm Beach.Episode OverviewIn the March 18, 2026, episode of The Peter Zalewski Show™ podcast, host Peter Zalewski interviews Anita Funtek—an economist, real estate broker and founder of the Future Institute Of New Environment—to dissect a structural shift in the housing market from the Florida Keys north to the tricounty South Florida region of Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach.The conversation identifies a critical pressure point where skyrocketing insurance, maintenance fees and special assessments are forcing a total recalibration of building standards and methods across South Florida and the Florida Keys.During the 71-minute episode, Funtek—who produced the Miami New Construction Show at the Miami Beach Convention Center a decade ago— explains why the traditional model of luxury over substance is no longer viable for a new generation of mobile, environmentally conscious buyers.The dialogue between Funtek and Zalewski focuses on the “Living Laboratory” being established in the Florida Keys, a climate-exposed testing ground designed to prove the efficacy of 3D-printed housing and hurricane-proof materials for broader application in Miami, Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach.Listeners will discover how new legislation regarding Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs) is creating a release valve for South Florida’s affordability crisis, allowing homeowners to offset the systemic pressures of the Florida Condo Association Financial Cliff.This episode serves as a realtime scoreboard for market sentiment, contrasting the “cautiously optimistic” talking points of traditional economists with the hard data of a market where prices remain 40.0% above prepandemic levels.From the impact of the Iran War on global capital flight to the rise of robotic construction, this deep dive provides the technical and cultural nuance required to navigate the changing South Florida residential real estate market at this pivotal time.