Saturday, 13 August 2016

Brash Trump Disciple Shakes Up Miami’s Luxury Real-Estate Market | Glen Richard Buzzetti

On a swampy summer afternoon, Gil Dezer led a tour of his latest exercise in excess, a condo tower with smartphone-controlled elevators that will whisk both residents and their vehicles home. He made a detour to another project, touting its hurricane-proof windows by violently kicking them with his Gucci loafers. Then he ushered the group into a chauffeured Cadillac Escalade for the ride to the ultimate destination -- 50 feet away.
That is how Dezer rolls. He’s a jet-set member of a real estate pack that’s either turning a patch of greater Miami into the Florida Riviera or over-saturating it with high-end properties, depending on who has your ear.

With his father, Michael Dezer, he developed more Miami-area properties for Donald Trump than he can count on one hand, a collaboration that helped build a family fortune the Bloomberg Billionaires Index puts at $1.2 billion. Then the son went on a hunt. “I needed another brand.” He found two: Porsche Design Tower and the adjacent Residences by Armani Casa in Sunny Isles Beach, on a barrier island 19 miles from downtown.  Read More......

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