Luxury buying is booming, South Florida’s top homebuilders say. Mid-market housing, not so much

South Florida is mirroring the K-shaped economy, as luxury and cash buyers prosper while interest rates hit the mid market harder, homebuilders said Tuesday at The Real Deal’s “Building the Sun Belt: Master-Planned Communities and the Future of Single-Family Housing in Florida” event. Five of South Florida’s top single-family homebuilders — Misha Ezratti of GL Homes, Brent Baker of PulteGroup, Bobby Julien of Kolter Urban, Noah Breakstone of BTI Partners and Don Whetro of AR Homes — sat down Tuesday night at the Turnberry Isle Country Club in Aventura to talk about the industry. TRD’s South Florida bureau chief Katherine Kallergis […]

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