South Miami Real Estate

January 5, 2016

Recently Listed by Val Byrne in South Miami 8031 SW 58th Avenue

We snuck this listing in over the holidays so we didn’t get into the post holiday back-to-business craziness, and it just confirms what we already know in South Miami: the search for a home is 24/7!  We weren’t on the market an hour when the appointment requests started (and we didn’t […]
November 24, 2015

So Much in SOMI!

  Wow, what a difference a couple of weeks makes! I am a great fan and advocate of South Miami, aka “The City of Pleasant Living”, and am so excited when I see new families moving into the neighborhood.  Five great luxury homes went on the market near the heart-of-South […]
November 13, 2015

It’s Friday the 13th!!!!

Today is the third and last “Friday the 13th” in 2015, and it was so much fun!  Our very happy, festive, and hungry EWM Coral Gables office celebrated its annual “Pot Luck” luncheon, and it is known fact that EWM Realty International not only claims the largest real estate market […]
June 3, 2015

Val Byrne Just Sold These Two Charmers in South Miami!

   7130 SW 55th Terrace in Bridgepoint 3 Bedrooms | 2.5 Baths List Price:$458,495 6250 SW 62nd Place 4 Bedrooms | 3 Baths List Price: $510,000 Congratulations to the two lucky Buyers who’s perseverance and tenacity paid off!  The new Buyer in Bridgepoint spent almost two years looking for the right home, […]
February 26, 2015

Will We See The End Of Controlled Choice?

Brief background: In the 1980’s Miami-Dade County Public Schools established “Controlled Choice,” a system whereby the school system selected the school that a student would attend. It was intended to desegregate the schools. Fast forward to 2015 and Coral Gables is the county’s only remaining city to have Controlled Choice, […]
January 21, 2015

All Eyes Are On Miami!

  Did everyone read last week’s Business Monday cover story about Miami being a leading luxury capital of the world?   It was a WOW moment for Miami where we were defined as “a cosmopolitan playground for the world’s wealthy,” “the American Riviera,” and “a magnet for capital and people from all […]
December 4, 2014

A Bright Star Has Dimmed in South Miami…Goodbye Hans Huseby:(

  Hans Huseby, proprietor of FootWorks, father of the Mercedes Benz Corporate Run, a fixture in South Miami for the past 40 years, and THE most wonderful man passed away this past Saturday. So wonderful and loved was he that Sunset Drive from Red Road to SW 59th Avenue was closed […]
October 29, 2014

Miami Home Prices Up 10.5% in August!

That was tucked away on page 3 of the Business Section in the Miami Herald today (had it been bad news it would have been plastered across the front page!). That 10.5% increase is reflective of the Miami real estate market since August 2013. I have been selling residential real […]
October 23, 2014

Trick or Treat on “Happy Street”!

I put my Halloween wares out last night. Actually, we carved a pumpkin about 10 days ago but with all the rain and heat it didn’t fare so well – it had a melt-down so to speak. Our house on “Happy Street” is ready for the Halloween Parade, which is […]