Why Miami?
Why should you consider making Miami your home or at least your second home? Let me discuss some of these reasons with you while I enjoy this perfect sunny day at 80F ...
• Affordable Homes. Buy a Home in Miami as the market offers record affordability, amenities, and seller incentives; Miami-Dade homes are 50% more affordable in the last five years and a weak U.S. dollar gives greater discounts for foreign buyers.
• Beautiful Beaches. Greater Miami has 84 miles of Atlantic Ocean coastline, 67 square miles of inland waterways and more than 15 miles of world-famous beaches.
• Miami is the only city in the country to be bordered by two national parks, Everglades National Park and Biscayne National Park.
• Commercial and Investment Real Estate. Vacancy rates for all commercial sectors in Miami are below the national average; retail and multifamily are outperforming most major markets in the U.S.
• Gateway to the Americas. Miami's is a strategic location between Latin America and Europe; “Capital of the Americas”- it is perfect for business and video businesses.
• Port of Miami. Cruise capital of the World with more than 4 million passengers a year. Also serves 240 seaports; 9 million tons of sea cargo. Top markets China, Italy, Hong Kong, Honduras and Brazil.
• Beach used to be a mangrove swampland before its heavy development back in the 1920’s.
• Julia Tuttle, one of Miami’s main founders, is the only women to have founded a major city in the USA.
• The first sunblock was invented by a pharmacist on Miami Beach named Benjamin Green in 1944 (not so long ago!)
• Miami is named after the Mayaimis, a Native American tribe who were living in the area until the 18th century. The Mayaimis took their name from Lake Okeechobee, which was called Mayaimis or “big water”.
• In Miami proper alone there are about 700 hotels and motels with more than 50,000 rooms available
• The world’s largest collection of Art Deco buildings is found on Miami Beach with over 800 separate structures.
• Forbes Magazine ranked Miami the “Cleanest City in America in 2008”. Mostly because there is no heavy industry in the area which keeps the air quality pristine.
• Miami houses the largest cruise ship port anywhere in the world (and they are even in the process of expanding it!)
• There is no recorded temperature in Miami of over 100 degrees Fahrenheit!
• Miami is home to the world's only Everglades eco-system, made famous in Marjorie Stoneman Douglas' book The River of Grass.
• Miami is home to 150+ ethnicities and 60+ languages
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