Florida Real Estate Investment Opportunities with Ross Kuflik

09/30/2026

You used to shop the Design District. Soon you'll live there.

Same streets, same galleries, same restaurants you already drive to on weekends. The only new thing is a front door with your name on it.

Almost 1,000 residential units are planned in and around the district. Kempinski, Fouquet's, Jean-Georges. These aren't retail leases, they're addresses.

Joe DaGrosa called it a natural outgrowth. Buyers want less congestion and a quick shot to downtown, and the district already had both. It just didn't have bedrooms.

I tell my relocating clients this a lot. A neighborhood you already know how to enjoy is worth more than one you're guessing about.

The buyers moving on this early are choosing the address while it's still forming. The ones who wait will pay for what's already proven.

If the Design District has been your Saturday habit, it might be worth a conversation.

09/29/2026

Nobody says this at the sales gallery preview.

Two towers can sit three blocks apart, same price point. One respects the street it landed on. One never noticed there was a street.

You find out which one you bought years after you close, not at the preview event.

So I check the developer before I check the floor plan. Old habit from medicine, look at the underlying condition first, not the symptom that shows well.

In West Palm Beach right now, with everything going up, that read is worth more than the renderings.

Happy to tell you which buildings I'd walk into and which I'd walk past.

09/28/2026

The Mets owner picked Delray Beach over Miami.

Steve Cohen runs a $30 billion fund. He paid $24.6 million for an estate in Delray. 31,000 square feet, a 250,000 gallon pool, the biggest residential pool in Florida.

When buyers call me from New York, the first question is almost always about a Miami tower.

The biggest money rarely ends up in one. It goes where the estate lots are nearly gone and the street stays quiet. That's Delray right now.

I treat a purchase like this as a symptom. You look at where the capital went, not the pool.

The tower photographs better. The quiet address is the better diagnosis.

09/27/2026

There is a phase before a listing exists. Few buyers see it.

Developers release the preferred floors and the best water views to a short list of agents with qualified clients. Then the rest opens to the market.

The units that appreciate fastest often never become a listing at all.

I hold those relationships across Palm Beach County's pre-construction projects. Olara, Maison d'Or, the Ritz-Carlton Residences in Palm Beach Gardens.

My clients see the unit weeks before the public does.

If you're relocating to South Florida and searching portals, you're looking at what survived that phase. Message me before the next release.

09/26/2026

09/26/2026

Ten million dollar sales are breaking records across South Florida. That's a map of where serious wealth is quietly relocating. I read that map for a living.

The numbers first.

194 homes at $10 million or more in Miami-Dade this year. Already past last year's record. Palm Beach County just set its own.

Sales at $30 million and up in Miami were up 110% in the first half of the year.

Now the part the headlines skip.

Total sales were down 1.1% last month. Broward is off 4.5% for the year.

So the record and the slowdown are happening at the same time. The top and the middle of this market are moving in opposite directions.

That happens when a narrow pool of relocating wealth concentrates into trophy inventory that can't be rebuilt. These buyers decided to move before they ever got on the plane. The house is the last step, not the first.

I was a physician before I was a realtor, and I still read numbers like symptoms. A record at the ceiling with soft volume underneath tells you who is buying and why. The record itself tells you almost nothing.

If you're thinking about South Florida at that level, the signal is already on the table.

09/25/2026

Everyone sees the oceanfront tower. Few ever see the home with a yacht on one side and a sunset dock on the other.

In Miami, true dual waterfront lots are almost extinct. The geography that made them stopped being made decades ago.

One side gives you protected passage and real boating. The other gives you open water and light. Almost no parcel does both.

The few that exist rarely hit the open market. They move through relationships, quietly.

Which is why the gate is less the price and more who tells you it's available.

I keep a short list. It stays short.

09/24/2026

What a master plan meeting does to your address.

I sat with the West Palm Beach master plan update the way I once read a chart before a diagnosis. Line by line. It tells you which corners get denser, which views get blocked, which streets quietly climb in value.

The room is public. Almost nobody shows up.

The mayor is asking for support and I think the update deserves it. The growth is already here. The plan is the city trying to build roads, schools, and services ahead of the demand instead of chasing it.

Buyers ask me about finishes and floor plans. I'd rather they read the plan first. It decides what their view looks like in five years.