Miami Herald

The sales centers for condominium projects line Collins Avenue like game booths at a carnival, each offering enticements more grand than the next. From private elevators to private swimming pools,...

Somewhere behind the cloud of cigarette smoke billowing over the desk sits Michael Swerdlow, king of an $800 million real estate empire reaching from Kendall to Tampa. Swerdlow, a chain-smoking...

South Florida mortgage companies are laying off employees, closing offices and consolidating operations to cope with a drastic reduction in demand for loans. Major lenders such as J.I. Kislak in...

The most presumptuous and frivolously used postulate in fandom (and sports writing) is to surmise that Sunday's loser was "outcoached" by the winner. Often, that may be true. More often,...

The owners of the just-rebuilt Promenade Plaza shopping center in South Dade, Fla., cut the traditional ribbon and gave speeches about how its success will benefit the community. This time,...

The Nevada-Las Vegas basketball office resembled the White House, circa 1974, last week. Megalomania and paranoia hung in the air like the smell of a dead rat. There was sweat...

More than two years after Hurricane Andrew ripped through South Dade County, revealing a pattern of shoddy construction and lax inspection, South Florida homeowners say they would be willing to...

Space, the final frontier. And for $5.25, you can buy a piece of its doorstep. So says a Fort Lauderdale company with a name that sounds like it came from...

Luxury is a relative term. And German developer Thomas Kramer-who owns a big chunk of South Miami Beach-believes there's no hotel in the region truly deserving of the word's highest...

In the country that seduced the world with shoot-'em-up images of Rambo and Miami Vice, real violence in American cities is scaring off foreign visitors in unprecedented numbers and eroding...