Miami Beach, as is.
As Is · Volume 12 · September 2026
My father played beach football at 85th Street in 1970s Miami. Across the line was Steven Hunt Grabow — the best-dressed, most coordinated guy on the sand, an Aspen ski instructor once on the cover of the town phone book. My middle name came from him. The story of the name, and why it was always going to be Aspen.
As Is · Volume 11 · August 2026
A $50,000 check went out my car window on Pine Tree Drive and I searched the wrong side of the street for two hours in the dark. What caught it was a windbreak a New Jersey avocado farmer planted in 1909. Then the thirty doors I knocked on twelve years ago this summer, the dog I nearly ran over, and the one gate that opened.
As Is · Volume 10 · July 2026
A Whale, a west-facing lot with no lights on the land, and a deal that was done before the showing started. Then this month's reveal: the Touzet Studio design for 2880 Fairgreen Drive. The land and the complete plans together, $4,950,000. Meanwhile in Aspen, the video for 542 Carroll Drive crosses 142,000 views.
As Is · Volume 9 · June 2026
It began as a potato farm. Sixty years later, Starwood is the 960-acre gated mesa above Aspen where billionaires go to be left alone. The story of 542 Carroll Drive — the last remaining half of publisher William Ziff Jr.'s estate, now for sale at $29,990,000.
As Is · Volume 8 · May 2026
Roy Altman, my friend since 1996 freshman year at MCDS, is now a United States District Judge and a New York Times bestselling author. I went to his book signing. We shared a moment. Plus: a price reduction at 4501 Prairie.
As Is · Volume 7 · May 2026
Swire tore down the original Mandarin Oriental on Brickell Key on April 12 and is rebuilding the whole parcel — two new Kohn Pedersen Fox towers, 298 residences, delivery 2030. My client has two contracts in the building. The arc that started on La Gorce Circle in 2009 ended at the southern tip of Brickell Key.
As Is · Volume 6 · May 2026
I grew up in this building. My mother bought from Dan Paul — the attorney who argued Miami Herald v. Tornillo before the Supreme Court — in a 1992 cooperative tenant buyout. I've transacted on four of the eight units. Unit 1 is on the market, reduced from $920,000 to $890,000 on 21 May 2026.
As Is · Volume 5 · April 2026
The first monthly newsletter issue. Six years after the off-market $49.5M Star Island sale, the phone is ringing. Touzet Studio plans on Fairgreen are nearly ready. And the South of Fifth condo market is telling two completely different stories on either end.
As Is · Volume 4 · April 2026
A pest control guy brought me a Fairgreen deal in 2018 that I let slip. The comp across the street sold for $4.95M in May 2024 with the old house still standing. This is the block — and the promise — I finally kept.
As Is · Volume 3 · April 2026
There's a reason the billionaires don't live on the beach. They live on the bay. The definitive insider guide to Miami Beach's most prestigious waterfront corridor.
As Is · Volume 2 · April 2026
The story behind the off-market sale of 22 Star Island Drive — how a quiet deal during COVID became the spark that ignited Miami Beach's luxury market.
As Is · Volume 1 · March 2026
Standing on a 13,666-square-foot corner lot in Miami Beach, watching a 1933 house come apart piece by piece, you don't feel like you're destroying something. You feel like you're making room.