Welcome to Buy, Sell, Hold Miami™ weekly podcast for a no-nonsense perspective on South Florida real estate from a pair of locals with differing opinions.

Each week, real estate advisor Daniel Hernandez of Compass Real Estate and longtime analyst Peter Zalewski of the Miami Condo Investing Club™ break down the housing market headlines, unpack policy changes and provide unfiltered analysis on everything from condo terminations to Vintage unit fire sales, luxury speculative homes to developer strategies.

Whether you are a homeowner, investor or real estate professional, Hernandez and Zalewski will give a local perspective on what is really happening across the tricounty South Florida region of Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach with no fluff, no hype and plenty of data-backed opinions.

We call balls and strikes on when to buy, sell and hold.

Episode Topics

For the Nov. 14, 2025, podcast, Hernandez and Zalewski give their take on the following five topics:

1. Distressed Downtown

2. Statehouse Silliness

3. Miami Real Estate Myth Bustin’

4. Brickell Key Seawall Shenanigans

5. Ken Billions Swings For Fences

This podcast is broadcast live at 4 pm (EST) on the social media accounts of Daniel Hernandez and Peter Zalewski.

Episode Overview

In this Nov. 14, 2025, episode of Buy, Sell, Hold Miami™ podcast, Hernandez and Zalewski cut through the local rhetoric, delivering straight talk on five pivotal market topics of critical importance to South Florida investors.

The hosts discuss each topic and then announce whether each of them is a Buy, a Sell, or a Hold on the issue. Their verdicts often differ, leading to sharp debate on the issue before moving on to the next topic.

The conversation kicked off with the looming auction of a prime site in Greater Downtown Miami on Biscayne Boulevard, which currently houses a tired tower with a Holiday Inn hotel.

This piece of land was originally slated for the World Trade Center Miami project—a development that was an ideological legacy of the early 2000s with the push for a Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA).

The FTAA was to create a free-trade zone from Alaska south to Argentina.

At the time, the project embodied the vision of Miami as the potential home of the FTAA secretariat headquarters, officially making it a hub for international commerce and trade to substantiate the region’s self-described role as the Gateway to Latin America.

Zalewski detailed how two decades of political and trade shifts—from the ultimate collapse of the FTAA to modern protectionism and the implementation of tariffs—have effectively ended that initial grand vision.

The site, which was envisioned to symbolize global trade ambition, is now set to hit auction with a reported reserve price of $101 million against a distressed debt note.

Hernandez questioned why the fully permitted site isn’t penciling for developers at its initial asking price of $175 million, suggesting that excessive condo inventory in Greater Downtown Miami might be the root cause.

Zalewski countered that the true reason for the fire sale is purely economic.

Development dirt rapidly sees capitulation in a sideways or slowing market because the expensive land cannot generate a return, rendering it Uninvestable at high values.

Despite the distress, both hosts agreed the auction represents a strong opportunity, with a bullish outlook on acquiring the dirt at a lower price point.

The co-hosts then pivoted to the ongoing political circus in Florida’s capital of Tallahassee, dissecting the “silly” political showmanship of Gov. Ron DeSantis’ moonshot attempt to eliminate property taxes for homesteaded properties.

The Florida legislature has responded with a series of fragmented and politically motivated resolutions designed to eliminate or drastically reduce property taxes for homesteaders.