Red Road Commons in Coral Gables

The impact of Miami’s rapidly changing rental market is carrying over to student housing. While downtown Miami is seeing the biggest spike, students at schools like the University of Miami are paying premiums for apartments close to school and being forced to abandon the high-end digs they enjoyed during the worst of the condominium bust. “The rental market is just very expensive,” said Gus Lopez, a realtor with Village Realty South Florida who deals heavily in student housing near UM. “The rates are just getting more and more money.” [more]

The Real Deal asked a number of residential real estate agents what the strangest thing is that they’ve seen at an open house. The responses ran the gamut from a man crawling into a bed to check out the mattress and dozing off to a broker having to basically carry a client off a railing-less bridge to being chased by a wild boar while showing houses.

Here is a sampling of what the agents have encountered:

Andy Weiser, Coldwell Banker, Fort Lauderdale: There is the ordinary finding, the couple having sex in the bedroom. Every realtor worth his salt has seen that. That happens all the time. Some people do that as part of their whole fantasy thing. On a more serious note, it would have to be the guy who crawled into the bed to see what it would be like, and then fell asleep. That’s one of the more bizarre things. Click here for more. Compiled by Alexander Britell
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