Hotel is getting creative.  The 392 -room Fairmont Turnberry Isle Resort & Club in Aventura, Florida offers guests a “Future Floridian”  package: Hunt for a South Florida home, and you will receive a preferred list of real estate agents, GPS to navigate the area, valet parking and two hour long massages for “tired footsies”.

Buy a home in the area and Turnberry will throw in resort discount for “future house guests”.  Only the best is offered in Aventura from Hotel stays to the greatest mall The Aventura Mall, parks for all ages like Founders Park, great restaurants, schools and is surrounded by jogging paths around the brilliant five star Turnberry golf course.  Aventura a planned community only half mile from the ocean a great place to live.

 Welcome to the Arts and Events calender for Miam, look at : MiamiEventGuide.network

Arts and Cultural events in Miami reach residents and visitors from near and far.  Gteater Miami, on Florida’s southeast coast, pulsates with vibrant, multicultural appeal.

Here are a few………

Art Deco happenings, gallery openings, sizzling nightlife, excitement from Miami Dolphins football and Miami Heat basketball to the Florida Marlins baseball.

Annual events range from Art Deco Weekend, the FedEx Orange Bowl Classic, and the Miami Grand Prix to Calle Ocho, Art Basel Miami Beach, the Winter Party, King Mango Strut and the Christmas Eve’s Matzo Ball.

Also popular are the Coconut Grove Arts Festival (one of the most prestigious in the country) Miami-Bahamas Goombay festival, Easter Seals Festival of Chefs, and the Biltmore International Food and Wine Festival.

Miami has more to offer year round since the weather is warm and sunny most of the time.  No matter what your interests are weather it is theater, fine dining, great shopping or purchasing Real Estate….

Call Tammy or Marci to assist you.

In September of 2000 Peter Loftin a telecommunications billionaire, purchased the house from Vresace Estate for about $19 million and has resided in his new home from time to time.

The city has allowed Mr. Loftin to convert the Versace house to a member’s only club and in addition is being used as a Luxury Hotel.    Room rates at this 5 *****star hotel staart at:  In low season  from$1,200/per night and during high season from $3,995/per night.

Looking for luxury Real Estate call Tammy or Marci for assistance.

Number 1-   SHOPPING, SHOPPING AND MORE SHOPPING  Aventura Mall is the greatest shopping mall anywhere. You have Nordstroms, Bloomingdales and Macy’s as the main anchors and every other chain or boutique you can think of. If that’s not enough you have Bal Harbor shops less than 15 minutes away with all the top designer stores like Chanel,Fendi, Saks and so many more.

Number 2- LOCATION   Aventura is about 20 minutes from Fort Lauderdale to the North and South Beach to the South. Both international airports are less than 30 minutes away and the beach is 5 minutes by car, just over one bridge and your there.

Number 3- SCHOOLS Aventura has it’s own charter school for kindergarden through  eighth grade and probably will have a high school one day. The other public schools are very close by and are all good. The school buses pick the kids up near almost every building in Aventura. There are also at least three religious schools just minutes away.

Number 4- SAFETY  I have lived in or very near to Aventura for a long time and believe it to be about the safest place I know. I am sure there is some crime but I have never worried or given any thought to walking around late at night or letting my older children do so. Aventura has it’s own police department and it’s not that big an area so they are always close by.

Number 5- EXCLUSIVITY I do not want to sound elitist but Aventura does attract a certain resident. It is very international and it is probably more common to see a Bentley than a Honda in Aventura. Usually the Starbucks parking lot looks more like a high end luxury car dealer than a coffee shop parking lot. You will see Maserati’s, Ferraris and Mercedes as off they were giving a buy one get one free.                                      

Aventura also has Turnberry Country Club with a  newly renovated beautiful golfcourse , fabulous upscale restaurants and lovely outdoor shopping and mingling areas. You can also walk around the golfcourse which is three and half miles in the center of town and at all hours you will meet people exercising,socializing and walking their dogs.

I could come up with 15 more great things about this beautiful city but I think you get the idea, and if you don’t come see for yourself. Then when you fall in love call me to find a home in this great city.

1.  Wife interested in work out facilities and spa, which the building had a 20,000 sq. ft  space.

2.  Pool and children’s area

3.  Restaurant on site

4.  Close to Montessori School

5.  Close to shopping and air port

The “STAR”  Team assisted with condominium match which the customer loved.  In addition were helpful with……

1.  Finding the best Montessori school

2.  The Home Owners Association interview

3.  Setting up Florida Power and Light connection alson setting up  phone connection and accessing transportation.

4.  Getting the customer acquainted with the neighborhood tops our making our customer comfortable with their new surrounding.

Sould you be on the look out for a first class top notch building with status, call or email the  ”The Star Team”.

Miami Beach

From past experience I know that always makes a bad day better. As I am heading towards South Beach I drive over the causeway and the water is really turquoise. It looked like the color they make the opening scene of CSI Miami T.V. show. I always thought they artificially colored those beginning shots, but here it was just gorgeous. Then I saw the port where all the cruise ships depart from on my right and to the left was Star Island home to many of the rich and famous.

I exited the causeway and as I made my way up 5th street the energy there was palpable. Here it was the last week of February and people were dressed ready for the beach. The shops and restaurants were bustling and there was no sign of trying economic times here. My thought was how unique an area this was and how fortunate I was to live here. No doubt if I was visiting that I wouldn’t want to stay for good.

When I finished a terrific lunch topped off with a colada (cuban coffee) for the ride home I decided to take the long way home up Collins Avenue through South Beach, then North Beach to Bal Harbour everywhere planted with bright beautiful flowers and realized my not great day couldn’t get much better.

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If you know Miami at all check out this 1957 video of how Miami used to be . You’ll see that as much has changed a lot is still the same.

View from Bella Mare

Yesterday I needed to go with an appraiser to a beautiful 2 story penthouse at  Bella Mare in Williams Island.

When we walked in the penthouse it seemed so empty, concrete floors, barely painted, almost sad. I sat down in a folding chair to wait for him and past the emptiness of the apartment was this magnificent view of an endless ocean, clouds almost level with the apartment, so beautiful. I started to think how few people in this world get to live like this, wake up to the natural wonder of the beach and ocean.

I started to envision the life that would take place in this huge empty space, making it beautiful with lovely furnishings. I imagined the owners having parties, enjoying family and friends there. Conversations the couple would have there sitting on their fabulous balcony, making love there, enjoying children, maybe grandchildren in this amazing home.

When we were ready to leave I looked back at the empty sad space and realized it wasn’t so much empty as it was just waiting for the life to inhabit it and the potential to bring real joy to it’s owners. We get so caught up in the deal, the financing, market conditions and more that we lose sight of what people are really buying and that is really the dream that surrounding yourself with such beauty will bring you happiness and make your life more beautiful as well.

Indian Creek Island

The most expensive property in Miami that is for sale right now will only set you back a cool $57 million. What do you get for that hefty price tag?

You get to live on one of the most prestigious islands in Miam Beach known as Indian Creek Island , home to the wealthiest and some very famous residents. You get a 2 story home still under construction that will be 30,000 square feet on an 80,000 square foot lot. You also have 200 feet on the bay with ocean access.

The house will have 10 bedrooms, 10 bathrooms and 4 half baths. It will also have room for 7 garage spaces. The description talks about “light filtering louvered walls,certified green house, rooftop lawn,a panic room,and a chromatherapy spa and massage room”  Truly amazing one of a kind home!

19777 East Country Club Drive Aventura, Florida

The Yacht Club Condominium a gated community, built in 1994 and completed in 1995 by Jorge Perez of The Related Group.   Situated on nine acres of land  in the heart of Aventura, with nine low rise individual buildings consisting of six stories and 48 condos in each building of one bedroom one bath, two bedrooms two baths and three bedrooms two baths, architecturally designed with a Mediterranean charm and look.

Location and Amenities

The property is surrounded by three views the Intracoatal Waterway, The Turnberry Marina and The Turnberry Fairmont professional golf course.  Amenities include, two tennis courts, children’s playground, clubhouse, indoor racquetball court, fitness center, gas grills for outdoor grilling, business center, jacuzzi and a beautiful pool in the center of the property surrounded by tropical foliage.  In addition The Yacht Club has it’s own marina with eighteen boat slips up to  70′ feet and a floating dock for sunning and fishing.   The property has in house management with office on site.

Location,Location,Location

As far as location the property is in what we call in Real Estate LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION.  In walking distance to the Aventura mall just one and a half miles around the golf course, close to the Aventura school of excellence, houses of worship and very close to the beach.

The Yacht Club Condominiums are great for primary residences and also for secondary home owners.  One of the special aspects of the property is the ability for owners also to rent their apartment immediately and in short term intervals of one month at a time.

Prices range from the height $400’s to the $200’s at the moment my co -worker and I have listings of all styles and price ranges.  Feel free to call.

Tammy Schweitzer -954-805-6580

EWM Realty, Aventura, Florida