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 10, 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 10, 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 63-minute discussion, Hernandez and Zalewski examine the financial tremors shaking the Greater Downtown Miami skyline, ranging from the foreclosure woes of the planned Mercedes-Benz tower to the literal implosion of the Mandarin Oriental hotel on Brickell Key.
The conversation raises pointed questions about the “vig” developers pay to license luxury car and fashion brands for planned condo projects and whether these vanity plays can survive a market where interest rates and alleged legal defects are beginning to sideline even the most seasoned developers.
The duo turns their attention to the spectacle of this weekend’s scheduled demolition of a Brickell Avenue Area icon, a move that serves as a backdrop for a brewing seawall assessment battle on Claughton Island.
Hernandez and Zalewski debate whether the residents of the manmade island are being left to foot the bill for progress as Swire Properties transitions from visionary leadership to a more divestment-focused strategy.
A clinical analysis of “Trickle-Down Condonomics” follows, as Zalewski lays out his thesis on the I-95 divide in South Florida, where high-priced luxury condo projects are located east of the highway while nearly 275,000 construction workers who build them live to the west of the region’s most important roadway.
With median incomes in the Brickell Avenue Area hitting $130,000 while the workforce struggles on $19 an hour, the hosts discuss whether Miami’s engine of development is increasingly decoupled from the real people who build it.
The logistical efficiency of PortMiami is held up as a model for regional economic power, though Zalewski argues for a radical redesign that would eliminate parking garages on the island to make room for higher-value uses.
The discussion highlights the new Shore Power initiative, which promises to scrub the air of smog equivalent to 37,000 cars as the cruise capital continues its expansion.
The episode closes with a street-level examination of the short-term rental explosion in Greater Downtown Miami, where 90% of new units are being built as modernized timeshares.
With U.S. inflation jumping to 3.3% and the South Florida condo market yet to be stress-tested by a true economic downturn, Zalewski questions whether these international, all-cash investments are heading for a reckoning that the sales brochures did not predict.
Episode Top 10 Takeaways
The South Florida condo market's shift toward a model where upwards of 90% of new units are short-term rentals represents a massive, untested experiment.
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