Miami Real Estate Investing Podcast With Peter Zalewski

In this episode of Miami Condo Mondays™, the hosts trace the E11even brand from its roots on Miami's original vice corridor to the delivery of the first of two condo towers across from the ultraclub.

Miami Condo Mondays™ features Peter Zalewski of the Miami Condo Investing Club™ and veteran broker Jenny Huertas of CVRRealty.com in a weekly deep dive into South Florida condo real estate.

Recorded in Greater Downtown Miami, the podcast delivers an hour of high-level analysis on preconstruction condos, market trends and investment strategies for the tricounty South Florida region of Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach.

The show leverages more than 60 years of combined institutional knowledge as Zalewski provides the macro perspective and Huertas offers on-the-ground micro insights from her daily experience in the trenches.

The show streams live every Monday at 4 pm on the social media accounts of both hosts to provide an authoritative look at the latest shifts in the condo market.

Episode Overview

In this episode of the Miami Condo Mondays™ podcast on April 27, 2026, co-hosts Jenny Huertas of CVR Realty and Peter Zalewski of the Miami Condo Investing Club™ examined the debut of the E11even Club Hotel & Residences—also referred to as the West Tower—in Greater Downtown Miami as the South Florida Winter Buying Season draws to a close at the end of April 2026.

The conversation traced the origins of the E11even brand from a historic strip club on the original northern boundary of the City of Miami at 11th Street to a three-story cabaret and ultimately an ultraclub that partnered with developer PMG to launch condo sales in January 2021, with completion originally projected by late 2023 before delays pushed delivery to early 2026.

During the 73-minute episode, the hosts reviewed the 457-unit, 65-story West Tower, where the Declaration of Condominium—recorded in February 2026—confirmed that roughly 90% of units range from 238 to 997 square feet, with approximately two-thirds of the building under 500 square feet, making the tower a predominantly suite-style, investor-oriented product.

Of the 44% of units that had already closed at the time of the broadcast, government records compiled by the Condo Ratings Agency™ showed that 68% were purchased by corporations or trusts rather than individuals, signaling that the building is being acquired by a super majority as an investment or short-term rental play rather than a primary residence.

On the resale market, 25 units were already listed at an average asking price of nearly $950,000 per door or $1,665 per square foot, roughly a 67% premium over the $667 per square foot average transaction price recorded across the broader Central Business District (CBD) of Greater Downtown Miami in the first five months of the 2025-26 Winter Buying Season, according to data compiled by CVRRealty.com.

Applying the “1% Rule” of real estate investing used by private money lenders, a condo seller asking $950,000 per unit would need to generate about $9,500 per month in rent to justify the price, an amount that is dramatically higher than the current median asking price of $2,800 per month.

The CBD submarket—defined as the Gen. Douglas MacArthur Causeway south to the Miami River, and Biscayne Bay west to I-95—is saddled with nearly 26 months of supply.

This amount of condo resale inventory is categorized as a Distressed Buyers Market, according to the Miami Condo Supply Tracker™.

This is copy of a live podcast recorded Fridays at 4 pm featuring Daniel Hernandez of Compass Real Estate, Peter Zalewski of MiamiCondo.Club and special guest Dr. Marvin Dunn.

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 April 24, 2026, podcast, Hernandez, Zalewski and special guest Dr. Marvin Dunn—activist, historian and professor emeritus—give their take on the following four topics:

1. When Life Gives Your Surface Parking…Build A Condo Tower

2. A Downtown Valuation Bump (And A Pleasant Coincidence)

3. The Best Covered Land Play Comes With Crops

4. The Underdeck Defunding Is A Classic Miami F.U.

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

Episode Overview

In this April 24, 2026, episode of the Buy, Sell, Hold Miami™ podcast, real estate advisor Daniel Hernandez of Compass Real Estate, longtime analyst Peter Zalewski of the Miami Condo Investing Club™ and special guest Dr. Marvin Dunn—activist, historian and professor emeritus—cut through the local rhetoric, delivering straight talk on four of the biggest topics of critical importance to Greater Downtown Miami 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.

During the 71-minute discussion, Hernandez, Zalewski and Dunn examined the collision of politics, public land and private profit at the center of the proposed Trump Presidential Library site in Greater Downtown Miami.

The site of the future Trump Presidential Library is a 2.5-acre property previously owned by Miami Dade College that Zalewski estimates could support up to 2,500 condo units and carries an estimated land value of about $368 million, yet was transferred by the State of Florida to the Trump Library Foundation for $10.

Dunn—an 85-year-old Miami institution who grew up picking crops in the fields of Central Florida and went on to chair the psychology department at Florida International University—described in plain terms why he filed suit to block the transfer, and why a subsequent federal constitutional lawsuit is now being prepared by a Miami law firm with support from a legal team in Washington, D.C.

The conversation pulled back the curtain on the legislative maneuvering in Tallahassee that preceded the land deal, including a recently adopted state law that bars local governments from interfering with or blocking the construction of a future presidential library.

Zalewski walked through the math that condo developers would run on the site, explaining why proximity to Miami-Dade County’s public transportation network of Metromover, Metrorail, TriRail and trolleys eliminates the need to build costly parking spaces and significantly increases the number of units that can be built, pushing the land’s value well beyond the Miami-Dade County Property Appraiser’s valuation.

The discussion shifted to the former Miami Arena site—a few blocks away from the Trump Presidential Library property—now controlled by The Witkoff Group, which paid $94 million for the land in 2021.

In this episode of The Peter Zalewski Show™, the host explores the real estate repercussions of people leaving the tricounty region at a time when prices are falling and costs are rising.

The weekly podcast The Peter Zalewski Show™ features interviews with South Florida business leaders focused on real estate, finance and the economy.

The program - hosted by Peter Zalewski of the Miami Condo Investing Club™ - is broadcast live every Wednesday at 4 pm (Miami time) at MiamiCondo.Club and on Peter Zalewski’s social media accounts to watch the free live broadcasts.

The objective of the show is to deliver straight talk, share institutional knowledge and provide data-driven analysis on the macro and micro economic forces shaping the tricounty South Florida region of Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach.

Episode Overview

In the April 22, 2026, episode of The Peter Zalewski Show™ podcast, host Peter Zalewski delivers a solo deep dive into why the tricounty South Florida region of Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach experienced a drop of nearly 67,000 residents on a Year-over-Year basis.

The latest U.S. Census Bureau data estimates the South Florida population at 6.39 million as of July 2025, down more than 1 percent from the 6.46 million people projected to be living in the tricounty region in July 2024.

It is worth noting that the latest Census numbers reflect the period before the Trump Administration ramped up its aggressive immigration enforcement policy that was locally reinforced by Florida opening the Alligator Alcatraz popup detention center on Southwest 8th Street, some 50 miles west of the Brickell City Centre shopping center in Greater Downtown Miami.

During the 44-minute episode, Zalewski argued that while the population drop is not massive, it contradicts the marketing hype consistently promoted by sellside brokers that Miami is one of the hottest destinations in the United States.

He said that local news headlines and social-media influencers have repeatedly hyped the fact that tech billionaires such as Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook, Larry Page of Google and Jeff Bezos of Amazon relocated to South Florida as proof of Miami’s popularity.

The Wall Street Journal blames affordability as the primary reason for the population drop in an article entitled “Florida’s Population Boom Fizzles As High Costs Drive Away Middle Class” published on April 19, 2026.

“Florida’s migration patterns are changing dramatically,” according to the Wall Street Journal. “Residents in their prime working years are heading to other states, often citing affordability concerns. Meanwhile, an influx of wealthy people from other states—turbocharged during the pandemic—has helped drive up home prices.

“Inflation in parts of Florida outpaced the national average over the past decade and home-insurance rates soared.”

Zalewski said the affordability issue has only intensified since July 2025, and he expects an even deeper drop in the South Florida population when the Census Bureau publishes its July 2026 estimate.

A contracting population is the last thing that cash-strapped condo sellers struggling through the Florida Condo Association Financial Cliff want to hear at the end of the all-important South Florida Winter Buying Season that concludes at the end of the month.

The reason is, the heat, humidity and hurricane warnings of the Summer Buying Season—May through October—typically thin out the buyer pool, leaving only data-driven investors looking for discounts.

In anticipation of the Summer Buying Season, condo sellers have already cut their average asking prices by 6.5% on a per square foot basis, according to a recent report.

It is unclear how much lower asking prices will go as this Summer Buying Season has the potential to be a dud for sellers and a boon for buyers given an unusually crowded calendar of competing distractions beyond the usual heat, humidity and hurricane warnings that traditionally thin the pool of visitors.

In this episode of Miami Condo Mondays™, the hosts debated whether a 90% price premium in Coconut Grove and 5 bulk deals at the Flow House signal a coming collapse or a market recalibrating.

Miami Condo Mondays™ features Peter Zalewski of the Miami Condo Investing Club™ and veteran broker Jenny Huertas of CVRRealty.com in a weekly deep dive into South Florida condo real estate.

Recorded in Greater Downtown Miami, the podcast delivers an hour of high-level analysis on preconstruction condos, market trends and investment strategies for the tricounty South Florida region of Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach.

The show leverages more than 60 years of combined institutional knowledge as Zalewski provides the macro perspective and Huertas offers on-the-ground micro insights from her daily experience in the trenches.

The show streams live every Monday at 4 pm on the social media accounts of both hosts to provide an authoritative look at the latest shifts in the condo market.

Episode Overview

In this episode of the Miami Condo Mondays™ podcast on April 20, 2026, co-hosts Jenny Huertas of CVR Realty and Peter Zalewski of the Miami Condo Investing Club™ examined whether wealthy newcomers are walking into a classic Miami real estate ambush as the South Florida Winter Buying Season closes at the end of the month.

The conversation explored how out-of-towners and investment funds are pouring money into the South Florida real estate market at a time when local buyers—who recognize the traditional signs of a downturn—have moved to the sidelines, especially in overhyped markets such as Coconut Grove and Greater Downtown Miami.

During the 64-minute episode, the hosts discussed how the warning signs are increasingly obvious to those familiar with Miami’s past cycles of booms and busts that date back to the Great Florida Land Boom of the 1920s and the South Florida Condo Boom of the 2000s.

The latest data for this analysis was collected for the upcoming Coconut Grove Condo Correction Walking Tour™ scheduled for 10 am Saturday, April 25, 2026.

Coconut Grove is defined as the Eddie Rickenbacker Causeway west to LeJeune Road, and U.S. 1 south to Biscayne Bay.

The massive discount in Coconut Grove condo prices was highlighted, where an average price of $3.5 million per unit is currently being asked by sellers on April 20, 2026.

This represents a 90% markup from the $1.8 million average transaction price set during the 2025 Summer Buying Season.

Traditionally, condo shopping occurs during the Winter Buying Season and the respective transactions eventually close in the Summer Buying Season.

In Coconut Grove, a Fear Of Missing Out (FOMO) anxiety is being displayed by newcomers who are rushing into “luxury, wellness condos” that carry a significant price tag while “Vintage” condo units that are at least 30 years old are on the resale market at a 62% discount.

Zalewski described this Wellness Vs. Vintage condo price disparity as a clear sign that out-of-town investors are overly optimistic that “trees will grow to the moon” while locals—who have been through the violent swings of the South Florida condo market before—are heading to the sidelines.

Another example of this retreating of the locals is on full display at Adam Neumann’s 466-unit Flow House condo conversion in the Central Business District (CBD) of Greater Downtown Miami.

The 41-story tower has successfully sold 58% of the units but government records compiled by the Condo Ratings Agency™ show that sales are being propped up by bulk deals for multiple properties rather than individual unit transactions.

At least five bulk deals—ranging in quantity from 11 units to 25 units each—have transacted even though the project has only been for sale for six months, according to a recent report.

These bulk deals account for about 30% of the building’s total transactions since launching in October 2025.

This is copy of a live podcast recorded Fridays at 4 pm featuring Daniel Hernandez of Compass Real Estate, Peter Zalewski of MiamiCondo.Club and special guest Benji Power of Procida Development Group.

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 April 17, 2026, podcast, Hernandez, Zalewski and special guest Benji Power of Procida Development Group give their take on the following five topics:

1. The RAD Program Is RAD

2. Lobbying The State Is Easier Than Lobbying Municipalities

3. The Urban Development Boundary (UDB) Should Be Abolished

4. Attainable Condos Are The Answer To Affordable Housing

5. The Affordability Outlook In South Florida Is Looking Better Than Ever

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

Episode Overview

In this April 17, 2026, episode of the Buy, Sell, Hold Miami™ podcast, real estate advisor Daniel Hernandez of Compass Real Estate, longtime analyst Peter Zalewski of the Miami Condo Investing Club™ and special guest Benji Power—the Miami director of real estate development for Procida Development Group—cut through the local rhetoric, delivering straight talk on five of the biggest 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.

During the 81-minute discussion, Hernandez, Zalewski and Power examined the shifting landscape of South Florida real estate as developers and officials use state mandates and public-private partnerships to tackle a deepening affordability crisis against the backdrop of an overextended market cycle.

Power described the mechanics of the Rental Assistance Demonstration (RAD) program and its role in redeveloping aging public housing.

The conversation identified the friction between state-level mandates and local zoning control, specifically how the Florida Live Local Act allowed developers to bypass municipal hurdles.

Zalewski examined the historical cycles of the Miami market, arguing that the current run since 2012 has ignored the inevitable correction that follows a decade-long bender.

Hernandez cited the economic importance of the ornamental plant industry as a reason to maintain the Urban Development Boundary (UDB) against suburban sprawl.

The hosts debated whether attainable condos can bridge the gap for residents earning 80% of the area median income or if such projects are too complex to finance without heavy subsidies.

Power pointed to the upcoming 2026 delivery of thousands of units as the true test for Florida’s new housing laws.

This episode is a must-watch for anyone with questions or concerns about the future of housing affordability in Miami-Dade County.

In this episode of The Peter Zalewski Show™, veteran analyst Jack McCabe points to the Mercedes-Benz Places foreclosure in Miami as a possible symbolic end to the pandemic-era condo boom.

The weekly podcast The Peter Zalewski Show™ features interviews with South Florida business leaders focused on real estate, finance and the economy.

The program - hosted by Peter Zalewski of the Miami Condo Investing Club™ - is broadcast live every Wednesday at 4 pm (Miami time) at MiamiCondo.Club and on Peter Zalewski’s social media accounts to watch the free live broadcasts.

The objective of the show is to deliver straight talk, share institutional knowledge and provide data-driven analysis on the macro and micro economic forces shaping the tricounty South Florida region of Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach.

Episode Overview

In the April 16, 2026, episode of The Peter Zalewski Show™ podcast, host Peter Zalewski interviewed veteran analyst Jack McCabe of McCabeResearch.com about a South Florida condo market he described as at a precipice as the Winter Buying Season ends and a high-stakes Summer begins next month.

During the 63-minute episode, McCabe pointed to the foreclosure filing against the Mercedes-Benz Places tower in Greater Downtown Miami as a mile marker for what he contended could be the symbolic end of the pandemic-induced condo boom that ran from 2021 through 2023, and raised the question of how many other projects would follow.

On the resale side, the numbers told a similar story.

Zalewski cited South Florida closed sales statistics that showed the average price per square foot for a condo had dropped roughly 2% Year-over-Year across the broader tricounty South Florida region of Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach.

Vintage units—that are at least 30 years old—were down nearly 4%.

McCabe and Zalewski discussed whether these statistics were the first real crack in pricing and whether the declines would intensify in the upcoming months as more units sold at lower valuations.

McCabe cautioned sellers not to expect lower mortgage rates any time soon, describing the current inflationary environment as leaving the Federal Reserve—and its new chair—no room to cut.

The conversation turned to the Summer Buying Season, and how the heat, humidity and hurricane warnings that define the period from May through October thin the buyer pool and could accelerate that drop.

Zalewski asked whether the FIFA World Cup matches scheduled for South Florida in June and July would divert attention away from the condo market entirely.

Zalewski pointed to the 1.25% decline—rather than a projected 8.5% gain—in overseas passenger traffic at Miami International Airport in 2025, and questioned whether it signaled that the foreign investor pool of Canadians, Europeans and Latin Americans was already drying up.

The two examined how some South Florida condo developers were notorious for exaggerating preconstruction sales figures and predicted the pressure to do so would only grow as demand slowed.

McCabe shared a story about one of his developer clients whose presales showed 20% of the units were under contract even though the marketing materials claimed 80% of the building was “sold.”

The episode closed with a discussion of why some veteran bulk buyers were reportedly sitting on the sidelines rather than negotiating with sellers directly, preferring instead to wait for the courts to set pricing after two South Florida condo associations recently filed for bankruptcy.

In this episode of Miami Condo Mondays™, the hosts mark 20 years of Condo Vultures® while sizing up the prospects of unit owners on Brickell Key as a developer prepares to build two new towers.

Miami Condo Mondays™ features Peter Zalewski of the Miami Condo Investing Club™ and veteran broker Jenny Huertas of CVRRealty.com in a weekly deep dive into South Florida condo real estate.

Recorded in Greater Downtown Miami, the podcast delivers an hour of high-level analysis on preconstruction condos, market trends and investment strategies for the tricounty South Florida region of Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach.

The show leverages more than 60 years of combined institutional knowledge as Zalewski provides the macro perspective and Huertas offers on-the-ground micro insights from her daily experience in the trenches.

The show streams live every Monday at 4 pm on the social media accounts of both hosts to provide an authoritative look at the latest shifts in the condo market.

Episode Overview

In this episode of the Miami Condo Mondays™ podcast on April 13, 2026, co-hosts Jenny Huertas of CVR Realty and Peter Zalewski of the Miami Condo Investing Club™ examine Greater Downtown Miami’s Brickell Avenue Area—a submarket of more than 100 condo towers and 30,000 units—with less than three weeks left in the ever-important South Florida Winter Buying Season of November through April.

The latest data for this analysis was collected for the upcoming Brickell Avenue Area Condo Correction Walking Tour™ scheduled for 10 am Saturday, April 18, 2026.

The Brickell Avenue Area is defined as the Eddie Rickenbacker Causeway north to the Miami River, and Biscayne Bay west to I-95.

During the 74-minute podcast, Huertas and Zalewski also mark the 20th anniversary of Condo Vultures®, the research and brokerage firm Zalewski founded two decades ago with the tagline "Killing comps Since 2006," a reference to using data to push back against the inflated price comparables that developers and sellside brokers routinely use to “justify” asking prices.

The Brickell Avenue Area currently has 1,170 condos listed for sale at an average asking price of $842 per square foot, and those listings have been sitting on the market for an average of 167 days—nearly the entire six-month-long Winter Buying Season—without finding a buyer.

That compares to the $656 per square foot that condos actually traded for during the busy Summer Buying Season of 2025, creating a premium of roughly 28% that is well above the 20% spread Zalewski uses as a benchmark for a balanced market.

The Brickell Avenue Area is currently in a Deteriorating Buyers Market with 16.8 months of condo resale supply, according to the Miami Condo Supply Tracker™.

With just 18 days left in the Winter Buying Season, sellers who have not cut prices are running out of time before Summer’s heat, humidity and hurricane season thin the buyer pool for another six months.

For buyers willing to look past the shiny marketing of preconstruction projects, the hosts pointed to Vintage condos—units at least 30 years old—as the area of the market where the math is closest to making sense, trading at roughly a 36% discount to the Overall market.

On the rental side, the median lease price of about $3,700 per month implies a market value of around $370,000 per unit under the “1% Rule” of real estate investing versus an average asking price of $1.3 million.

This spread means most of today’s buyers would effectively be subsidizing their tenants at the current asking prices.

The most telling sign of where the Brickell Avenue Area submarket is heading came from a cloud of dust on Sunday morning, April 12, 2026, when Huertas watched the Mandarin Oriental Hotel come down in a controlled implosion on Brickell Key.

This week’s Miami Condo Market Intelligence Report™ newsletter look backs at the firm's 2006 founding, the parallels to today's correction and the lessons learned by the characters who were there.

In this week’s issue of the Miami Condo Market Intelligence Report™ newsletter, we step back from the weekly data analysis to mark an anniversary that is either a testament to institutional patience or a cautionary tale about a South Florida real estate market that refuses to correct itself in a timely fashion—possibly both.

April 2006 marked the formal launch of Condo Vultures® following incorporation the previous month of March 2006 when Zalewski left the journalism that he had studied at the University of Missouri.

The company name and tagline were blunt: Killing Comps Since 2006™.

The full story of how that happened—and what it produced—is best told by the people who were there.

The anniversary celebration occurred on the April 8, 2026, episode of The Peter Zalewski Show™ that aired on MiamiCondo.Club.

The episode—provided below—brings many of the players together for the first time in two decades. Watch it.

From Newsroom To Buyside Brokerage

The origin of Condo Vultures® is, at its core, a story about recognizing when the game has changed before everyone else does.

Before the pivot to buyside brokerage services, more than 13 years were spent in journalism covering the banking and real estate machinery behind the most aggressive condo construction cycle in South Florida history.

The foundation for that work was laid alongside titans of the South Florida business press, including Miami Herald reporter and editor Larry Birger, whose “South Florida Business Focus” program on WLRN set the standard for cutting through the spin to deliver verifiable, defendable and actionable information to an audience that deserved better than a press release.

Miami Daily Business Review columnist Charles Kimball—whose family passed down his legendary handwritten index cards cataloguing years of South Florida transactions—was another early influence in that same tradition.

The analytical framework for understanding the condo market itself came from a generation of South Florida real estate experts whose rigor shaped the way the numbers were read, including Jack McCabe, Lewis Goodkin and the late Michael Y. Cannon.

These were not commentators. They are analysts who built their reputations on data at a time when data was hard to get and harder to interpret.

That reporting background turned out to be the most valuable asset the Condo Vultures® operation would ever have.

The developers, lenders, investors and regulators who built the South Florida condo market had all been interviewed so their business models were not mysteries.

When the moment came to cross from the press box to the field, the learning curve that stops most people simply did not exist.

After leaving journalism in March 2006, the focus narrowed to the South Florida condo market, first as a buyside operator executing bulk transactions during the bust, then as a Wall Street consultant, market analyst and expert witness drawing on the same data discipline that had powered the brokerage work.

What did exist from the start was a thesis and a name—Condo Vultures®—that the industry hated on sight.

That reaction was the first confirmation the thesis was correct.

Grinding Advantage

The competitive edge was not technology. Big Data was not a concept in 2006. The platforms, algorithms and automated valuation tools that analysts take for granted today did not exist.

Building a statistical picture of the South Florida condo market meant pulling Florida Sunshine Law public records by hand, visiting the courthouse, cross-referencing county filings manually and grinding through the numbers one building at a time.

That grinding process was the advantage.

Every other participant in the market was operating on instinct and marketing materials

This is copy of a live podcast recorded Fridays at 4 pm in Miami featuring real estate advisor Daniel Hernandez of Compass Real Estate and analyst Peter Zalewski of the Miami Condo Investing Club™.

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 April 10, 2026, podcast, Hernandez and Zalewski give their take on the following five topics:

1. Bad For Branding

2. Coastal Implosion

3. Trickledown Condonomics

4. PortMiami Is Cruisin’

5. Short-Term Rentals Having A Moment

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

Episode Overview

In this April 10, 2026, episode of the Buy, Sell, Hold Miami™ podcast, real estate advisor Daniel Hernandez of Compass Real Estate and longtime analyst Peter Zalewski of the Miami Condo Investing Club™ cut through the local rhetoric, delivering straight talk on five of the biggest 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.

During the 63-minute discussion, Hernandez and Zalewski examine the financial tremors shaking the Greater Downtown Miami skyline, ranging from the foreclosure woes of the planned Mercedes-Benz tower to the literal implosion of the Mandarin Oriental hotel on Brickell Key.

The conversation raises pointed questions about the “vig” developers pay to license luxury car and fashion brands for planned condo projects and whether these vanity plays can survive a market where interest rates and alleged legal defects are beginning to sideline even the most seasoned developers.

In this episode of The Peter Zalewski Show™, litigator Gina Clausen Lozier of the Clausen Choquette law firm discusses changes to condo association coverage since the Surfside tragedy.

The weekly podcast The Peter Zalewski Show™ features interviews with South Florida business leaders focused on real estate, finance and the economy.

The program - hosted by Peter Zalewski of the Miami Condo Investing Club™ - is broadcast live every Wednesday at 4 pm (Miami time) at MiamiCondo.Club and on Peter Zalewski’s social media accounts to watch the free live broadcasts.

The objective of the show is to deliver straight talk, share institutional knowledge and provide data-driven analysis on the macro and micro economic forces shaping the tricounty South Florida region of Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach.

Episode Overview

In the April 9, 2026, episode of The Peter Zalewski Show™ podcast, host Peter Zalewski interviews litigator Gina Clausen Lozier of the Clausen Choquette law firm in Palm Beach County about how South Florida condo associations risk not being paid what they are owed when filing an insurance claim, and why it is becoming increasingly difficult for boards to fight back.

The conversation explores how insurance costs are eating up a significant portion of what condo owners pay every month in maintenance fees, even as the actual coverage provided by those policies has in many cases gotten worse, not better.

During the 64-minute episode, Clausen Lozier walks listeners through why the bills that arrive after a hurricane can be far larger than most condo boards ever expected, how Vintage buildings that are at least 30 years old could end up being paid less than expected to cover repair costs and why the same building inspections that were mandated to protect unit owners after the Surfside condo collapse in June 2021 could now be turned against condo associations when trying to collect on a claim.

Clausen Lozier spent nearly a decade working for insurance companies before changing sides, and she brings that background and experience to every case she takes on today.

After the hurricane seasons of 2004 and 2005, she defended insurance companies against the volume of claims that followed and learned how the industry determines which claims to pay, which ones to drag out and which ones to settle for as little as possible.

She now puts that knowledge to work for South Florida condo associations, most of which are run by volunteers who probably never expected their unpaid board positions to effectively turn into full-time jobs.

The episode also takes a deep dive into the financial squeeze hitting condo associations right now due to rising maintenance fees, hefty special assessments and pricey insurance premiums resulting from post-Surfside legislation.

Zalewski has previously described this growing financial pressure on cash-strapped unit owners as the Florida Condo Association Financial Cliff.

For the first time, Florida condo associations are now required as of 2026 to start setting aside money for future repairs, and many buildings are scrambling to raise the funds through special assessments or by obtaining loans to pay for the necessary restoration work.

Private lenders are increasingly offering to fill that financial gap for associations, but at interest rates of a reported 9% to 12%, further adding to the expenses of condo living in South Florida.

Clausen Lozier pointed out that the condo associations unknowingly shopping for the inspection reports with the lowest estimates for necessary repairs could be creating legal complications in the future.

The bottom line from this episode is that a lot of condo owners in South Florida are paying for insurance coverage that may not perform the way they expect when the time comes to actually use it.