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 3, 2026, podcast, Hernandez and Zalewski give their take on the following five topics:
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 3, 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 61-minute discussion, Hernandez and Zalewski examine the political and financial implications of the Trump brand planting its flag in Greater Downtown Miami, from the free land valued at over $360 million to renderings of a vertical development that looks more like condo and hotel tower than a presidential library.
The conversation broadens to include the renaming of Palm Beach International Airport to Donald J. Trump International Airport, raising questions about cost, timing and whether concentration of brand equity in Miami-Dade and Palm Beach counties is a stroke of genius or an overreach.
The duo turns toward Coral Gables, where the once-vibrant Miracle Mile shopping district has been hollowed out by high rents, an aging demographic and the slow exodus of the affordable businesses that once gave the corridor its energy and foot traffic.
A sobering assessment of Miami’s preconstruction condo market follows, as Hernandez and Zalewski warn that developers who borrowed heavily at high interest rates and failed to hit their sales targets this Winter Buying Season are now staring down canceled projects or even foreclosures.
With private lending default rates tripling from 2% to over 7% in Southwest Florida, Zalewski argues that the next 30 days represent a make-or-break moment for some of the most recognizable projects in the pipeline.
An innovative infill development strategy south of Miami International Airport—one that involves filling in an artificial lake to create workforce housing—is held up as a model for the kind of creative thinking the region needs.
The episode closes with a street-level examination of the Greater Downtown Miami intersection of Northeast 36th Street and Biscayne Boulevard, a chokepoint born from Henry Flagler’s 19th-century railroad grid that is now surrounded by billions of dollars in planned development with no clear solution to the gridlock that already paralyzes the neighborhood daily.
Episode Top 10 Takeaways
Miami’s preconstruction condo market is quietly heading toward a wave of foreclosures as undercapitalized developers run out of time and money.
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