After reading a letter to the Editor in the Biscayne Times written by Peter Otto, I have to add my 2 cents.  Here’s what Peter writes:
Shorecrest, We Implore You:  Don’t Get Historic on Us – After reading Erik Bojnansky’s story about efforts to expand the MiMo/Biscayne Boulevard Historic District (“They Want to Grow MiMo,” December [...]

A lot of you will be reading this thinking its a bit boring (at least Rick thinks so), but I wanted to address this because a lot of our Miami Beach Real Estate customers are constantly asking us about certain elements  of historic homes – so here it is …proceed with CAUTION.
Historic Cuban Barrel Tile [...]

You’ve been driving in the MiMO District seeing this ginormous Coppertone Girl Sign for months and have no clue what it’s about – happy to say that there is history behind it and it is not at all about the little girl’s butt or tan line.
It’s vintage, it’s an icon, it’s now restored and prominently [...]

We are reviving an old post about historic windows since we have received so many questions about windows this week. I wrote this back in October 2007 – remember to look in the category section of the blog under “historic homes” or “architecture” for informative articles that may help you with restoration of historic [...]

Miami Shores Real Estate is known for it’s fair supply of historic homes or Mediterranean Revival Architecture.  The real estate market historically treats these properties differently than the common home.   These historic homes not only sell for more, but there is less supply and more demand which makes them HOT even in our recuperating “down [...]