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Your a realtor. You just started in the business or you have been at it for a while. You want to take better pictures of your real estate listings but you can't budget for a professional photographer. You want to make your clients happy but all you have is an Iphone or Android smartphone. What […]

Bad Real Estate Photos are usually part of a bigger problem. How important is photography to selling real estate? Well, it's like bread and butter, mac and cheese, ying & yang. I think you get the point. They are intimately tied together. There is tons of research that discusses in great detail how properties with […]

Is a Real Estate Website Enough? The Short Answer is, no. A resounding NO. Realtors get inundated with emails offering them "the ultimate" website to drive traffic to them and give them the holy grail of leads. The problem is that EVERY realtor is receiving this message and every realtor on some level already has […]

With New Times Comes New Changes You've probably noticed that our blog page has been rather sparse for a number of years now. Where have we been? Well, It's not like we haven't had anything to say. https://www.instagram.com/emh3_luxury_realestate/ We've been keeping busy posting interesting articles and informative pieces while marketing our clients listings. For the […]

Armed with high-tech software and years of crime data, Miami police believe they will soon be able to stop crimes by predicting when and where they will occur.. I can't help but feel that basically officers are being told to hang out in high crime areas more than usual because the map shows what intrinsically Police […]

New home sales fall in March WASHINGTON (AP) – April 23, 2015 – Sales of new U.S. homes plummeted in March, as the spring buying season opened with sharp declines in the Northeast and South. The Commerce Department said Thursday that new home sales fall to 11.4 percent in prior month to a seasonally adjusted […]

This is Real Estate viewing on a galactic scale. If space traveling the universe had a scenic route, this would be it. It’s a 3D fly-through of the nebula Gum 29 with the stunning star cluster Westerlund 2 in the middle and it’s absolutely gorgeous. The image was taken by the Hubble and shown off […]

How have Brickell real estate trends and the 33131 zip code condominium resales performed over the last year? Brickell real estate trends have shifted back to new construction rekindling demand for prime Brickell and Downtown Miami Luxury Real Estate. A lot of attention has been given to the new condo boom within the Brickell and […]

Travel Time Map for Miami How long does it take to get from one part of the city to another? One question that always comes up as a real estate broker is "how long does it take to get from my home to work?". With the amount of experience we have in the business it's […]

Where to Run in Miami I admit it... I am a map and data junkie... We live in a super connected world that constantly tracks and analyzes all myriad of things in our lives. Some of this data becomes quite interesting when overlayed on a map. The above map image by Data Underload over at Flowing Data, […]

It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work youput in the hours.   Quote by Sam Ewing   Sometimes, working harder is not always what makes the difference. It's working smarter and thinking your way through a situation that can change an outcome to your favor. Sam Ewing Quotes […]

Porsche Design Tower Penthouse For $32.5 million you can own the Ultimate South Florida Luxury Penthouse The Porsche Design Tower Penthouse is without a doubt one of the most luxurious, expansive, unique and exclusive pieces of real estate to come on the market. Now is the chance to be the first owner of what is […]

Where to Bike and Run South Florida An interactive map showing where to bike and run South Florida and beyond. Brought to you buy Strava Labs. This is an incredibly large data set of places to bike and run South Florida but also just about anywhere in the world you can imagine. The data is […]

Truth Facts Info Graphics that Poke Fun at every things in our lives From the creators of WUMO come these fantastic info graphics that chronicle some of the more frustrating but simply irrefutable truth facts about daily living. I love the graphic of what it's like to live in suburbia. I have clients who live in […]

Real Estate Market Report First Quarter April 2014 Is the real estate market continuing to Improve? Here are 7 info graphics and their importance on current real estate trends not just for the South Florida Luxury Real Estate Market but real estate markets in general which is provided by Emh3.com Luxury Real Estate Brokers and […]

Pinecrest McMansions Are they really ruining the Village of Pinecrest Character? The Miami Herald recently published an article about a Village of Pinecrest council meeting. In this meeting, the idea of studying the possibility of limiting McMansions on smaller lots was proposed. On the face of it, this is a reasonable thing to consider. If […]

The Geography of Beer via Twitter How to buy luxury real estate using the geography of beer. Okay, truth be told, we don't literally expect everyone to buy their next luxury home from us based on beer ALONE...  Though we are always happy to share a pint in the process or after. But, we do […]

How Cities Grow What would it look like if you could view the growth of a major city over the course of almost 200 years from above? Well, now you have your answer? These three videos show the almost Rorschach inkblot like growth of major cities around the world. Granted, the symmetry might be lacking […]

Most Expensive Real Estate in South Florida It was reported a few days back that a home in California was sold for over $102,000,000.00 dollars! The Buyer (A Billionaire from France) paid cash for the property. So, what does $102,000,000.00 get you in California? You get a 4.6 acre 50,000 square foot estate with a […]

Villa Kogelhof is simply a stunning use of glass, concrete and open space. As much modern art as home, Villa Kogelhof has won numerous international design awards not only for it's uncompromising aesthetic, but also for it's ability to put together ultra luxury with self sufficient (energy neutral) design principals. This is going "off the […]

Luxury Furniture for  a Luxury Real Estate lifestyle in South Florida. We put a lot of effort and energy into spreading the word about our luxury real estate offerings. But what makes an amazingly unique residence are the finishing touches and thoughtful details that add value while imbuing a level of sophistication and chic exclusivity. […]

Quote by Voltaire Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers    Why in the world is a real estate broker doing a quote by voltaire on his real estate blog? Well, ask the right questions and you get the right answers. sometimes that means seeing what is in front of you […]

US City Open Data Census How Open is your cities public records and information? I am something of a data junkie. This list which is part of US City Open Data Census Meta strives to open up and make available as much information as possible so that people can make informed decisions about where they […]

Wishing you and your family and loved ones a wonderful new year. We look forward to being of service to you and bringing you some great new features and an updated website for your use and pleasure. All the Best & Happy New Year! THE EMH3.com / Sieckel LLC Family   Update: If you are […]

Manatees in Miami When do you find Manatees in Miami? Our firm just sold a listing at Palmetto Bay Fl www.5984paradisepoint.com. In the process of doing due diligence, we came across a group of Manatees together behind our listing in the Canal that services both Royal Harbor Yacht Club and Deering Bay which is also […]

Okay. This has nothing to do with Real Estate but the creativity and humor is top notch.Enjoy! Song is from Motorhead "Motörhead" (doing one of their more popular tunes) and the song is the Ace of Spades which got a lot of airplay during the MTV head bangers ball time period.This was created by compressorhead. […]

Nature Does Not Proceed By Leaps Linnaeus Image Credit to Wikipedia

Stop ACTA & TPP:Tell your country's officials: NEVER use secretive trade agreements to meddle with the Internet. Our freedoms depend on it!

Sopa Pipa Petition So what is a real estate brokerage doing writing about a SOPA PIPA petition?

Miami Crime Map That Updates Regularly

Real Estate Marketing Old School Real Estate Marketing vs. Online Real Estate Marketing: Which is better?

A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet. Orson Welles Quote  

Resorts World Miami: An idea whose time has come or the initial expression of a better idea waiting to happen?

520 Brickell Key Dr Miami Fl 33131 This page contains all current listings for Brickell Key I and is updated daily.

Brickell Key II at 540 Brickell Key Drive, Miami, Fl 33131. All real estate listings are updated daily.

Holding grudges is like letting someone live rent free in your brain...

Far be it from me to say that real estate is better than gold (actually, I do think real estate better than gold), but the folks over at Trulia when conducting their Bi-annual survey on

Biscayne Triangle Truck Roundup. Good eats from Miami Gourmet Food Trucks. Every Tuesday on Biscayne and 109th street. Gotta check it out!  

Here is a peek at how condo  real estate closing data for Miami distressed sales activity clustered in Miami-Dade County this past week.

The Freedom Tower had returned to it today one of it's most distinguishing features after months of being refurbished. Miami Dade Community College

Buying in Little Havana. Is it a good Real Estate Bet? Buying in Little Havana? Real estate values have depreciated right along with it's neighbors in Brickell West, The Roads and just about everywhere else. (UPDATED in 2016 READ BELOW) If you are looking to invest

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Our Broker and Managing Partner of EMH3.com and Sieckel LLC just received a Google Maps Favorite Places designation on Google Maps for being one of the most popular places to click on within our market for real estate!   EMh3.com and it's parent company Sieckel LLC, have been doing business for quite some time in […]

Here are some great renderings of the soon-to-be connection between the Miami Intermodal Center next to the airport and the Metrorail transit system that runs from Dadeland Station (Pinecrest) all the way to Hialeah and Doral.

Metro-Dade County Miami Mayor's Wireless Initiative Expands. Miami Metrorail and Buses Get Wifi. No more stuck on the bus or Metrorail train waiting for your next fix of internet!

Florida's home sales of single family homes and condos year to year benchmark was up in September for the first time in 13 months.

Homebuyer Tax Credit ...It's official! The Homebuyer Tax Credit is going to be sticking around for a while

Real Estate Short Sales in Florida. The long and not so short of it. But they are not impossible either. Just annoying to all involved.

HVCC rules, Appraisal and Lending practices in Real Estate

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Musuem Park Update (With Photos Above) A few days back we took a trip to visit one of our clients listings which is for rent at 900 Biscayne and we snapped a few updated photos of what is turning into a very wonderful green space with already active Perez Art Museum and soon to open […]

Save Our Homes Florida NOT Such a Savings...?

In a move that is will almost certainly give currency to the idea that Brickell and Downtown Miami are getting serious

In an article posted on Market Watch, research and data were used to show rising price trends in multiple real estate rental markets based on research by The Center for Housing Policy.

In the Miami Herald today was an article discussing the Village of Key Biscayne's latest effort to keep their ocean front park for local use only.

Lending Rules for Condominiums