The increase of Miami condominium construction has named the city a new state bird as some 25 thousand new units are developing into the skyline. The prices of these units have increased approximately 30 percent per year. It is expected that another 40,000 units be currently in the drawing board of real estate construction.

The United States Census Bureau announced Tuesday that construction spending in November was estimated at a rate of $1.5 trillion, which is 0.2 percent above the revised October estimate and 7.8 percent over the same period in 2004.

Through January to November of this year, construction spending was about $1.03 trillion, 9 percent above the $946.3 billion for this time in 2004

Florida-based CNL Financial Group has reduced its backup and recovery times by up to 90 percent with the upgrade to a tiered-storage infrastructure by NetApp Unified Storage Systems, VERITAS NetBackup software, and Decru DataFort security systems.

Lorraine Bracco filed bankruptcy the same year the Sopranos started. She explains that she’s never bought stock in her life, but that real estate “is like porn for me.”

“Listen, if I am going to get in a cab to go home, and I see a sign for an open house, I will go in. I like real estate because I am the boss,” Bracco said in a New York Times article this past Sunday.