Hat tip to daytrip for sending this along:
Excerpts:
SUNNY ISLES BEACH, Florida (AP) — The wow factor for Miami’s skyscraper condos no longer comes from a dazzling Atlantic Ocean view.
It takes something more audacious to sell beachfront property these days to the global ultra-wealthy who arrive in Miami with millions to spend on second or third homes. It takes words invested with meaning in the language of the international jet set:
Porsche. Giorgio Armani. Fendi.
With a slew of residential and hotel developments, Miami is embracing the notion that homes, like cars, handbags and jewelry, should carry luxe designer labels. The trend has spread from Europe, Asia and the Middle East, where developers discovered a few years ago that luxury-branded hotels and homes could command huge premiums that the moneyed set would happily pay.
The pull is so powerful that developer Gil Dezer’s Porsche Design Tower is mostly sold-out, even though construction won’t wrap until early 2016, meaning that most buyers committed millions based on blueprints.
Shaped like a piston driven into sand, the concrete-and-glass Porsche Design Tower will contain three car elevators. Each can whisk a convertible up 60 stories and then slide it into the owner’s personal steel-reinforced garage. (The owner can stay in the driver’s seat.) Inside the apartments, curved windows capture a vista of waves billowing from a midnight blue into a pale green along the shore.
“People look at these apartments as bank accounts,” Dezer said.
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Man, so many of your recent articles are just screaming “bubble top” it’s ridiculous.
I’m not changing the name of the blog, except, well…wasn’t it you who suggested?
http://www.doublebubbleinfo.com
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2015/04/01/governments-reckless-lending-putting-us-on-track-for-another-housing-bubble/
Mel is right though, stock up on the compensating factors because the last time the ship went down, it didn’t matter if your down payment was 3% or 10%.
http://www.housingwire.com/articles/33432-expected-fico-changes-to-aid-risky-borrowers
http://www.housingwire.com/articles/33429-huds-castro-to-realtors-we-want-alternatives-to-traditional-credit-scoring
What a slap in the face! We’ve spent decades carefully doing everything right to maintain an 800+ FICO score and “risky borrowers” are now going to get a bailout by having FICO change the rules for them!?
The system seems rigged and not in the favor of those like us the follow the rules to the letter.
Beam me up, Scotty!