A little over a week ago, I was able to take my first tour of Jade Ocean – a condominium in Sunny Isles Beach. Sunny Isles Beach is an incorporated city located North of Bal Harbour and just South of Golden Beach. Many of the condominiums built along the ocean in Sunny Isles Beach are luxury condominiums and some of the finest buildings built in South Florida. Jade Ocean is no exception. Jade Ocean was designed by Carlos Ott. He also designed Jade Beach which opened a year prior.

I was very impressed with what I saw at the Jade Ocean. The building is directly on the ocean so you can imagine all of the views would be incredible. All apartments in the building have ocean views. Most have also intracoastal views. The building is also created entirely of glass which maximizes the views of the ocean. The building at the time I visited had an estimated 25% closing rate. I expect this rate to go up rapidly now that the building is opened up more for touring. Also model units were in the process of being put together to give buyers and idea of what is possible in these units. Pricing has also been reduced from preconstruction pricing in order to facilitate closings and new sales. Here are the photos of Jade Ocean:

While I was in the building I also had a unique opportunity to tour the penthouse apartment. There are only two condominiums at the very top and both of the apartments were already under contract and expected to close. So expect these two units to never be available at least for 5-10 years. Here are the photos of the North facing penthouse:

If you are interested in purchasing a unit at Jade Ocean give me a call to schedule a private tour – Samir Patel, Licensed Real Estate Broker – Miami Condo Realty, Inc. – 305-503-6183

I was on my way to Marina Blue Condo today to pick up something from the management when I noticed a ton of black smoke nearby. Luckily I had my camera with me and got to the scene just before the Firefighters got to the scene. A short school bus was completely engulfed in flames just steps away from the American Airlines Arena. The police worked quickly to keep everyone away. As I was standing nearby I heard a few loud pops (assuming it was probably the tires popping). It was unclear if anyone was still inside at the time of the fire but I think everyone got of the bus immediately before most of the damage, thank GOD

Here is the video in HD:

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I also wanted to let you all know that we are on twitter @MiamiCondo. You can follow us by following username @MiamiCondo

I wanted to let all of you readers know about what I have been working on for the last few weeks. I am in the middle of a complete redesign for Miami Condo Realty and you can see an example on one of my other niche property websites for MiamiWaterfrontCondos.com. I have decided that the layout I finalize will be ported over to all of our real estate focused sites in South Florida. It will be a great opportunity to build brand awareness through our background skins which will be visible on all of the sites. Tell me what you think so far after visiting our site: www.MiamiWaterfrontCondos.com

In May of 2009 I took a few tours of Marquis Miami Condo just as the building had opened to brokers. Marquis Condos is a brand new luxury Downtown Miami Condo which is one of the tallest condominium projects ever built south of New York and which is expected to open this month. I was able to take many photos of Marquis which I posted earlier and I did take my video camera in to take some video as well. The video I shot is below and I will reset the video embed once YouTube enables the HD on this file. Also please keep in mind that this video was taken in May of 2009 so some of the common areas did not have furniture, etc.

Enjoy in HD:

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If you are interested in viewing one of these units in person please contact me at 305-213-0336 – Samir Patel – Licensed Real Estate Broker of Miami Condo Realty, Inc.