Author: Built World

Cafecito Club: May 8 at Ludlow Coffee Supply

It is time for the next Cafecito Club. Builties are coming together at Ludlow Coffee Supply on Brickell for our monthly meetup. If you are active in commercial real estate, drop by. There is no formal agenda and no presentations—just industry peers talking shop, sharing market intel, and catching up over good coffee. Date: May […]

Q4 2025 Miami Industrial Market Update: A Submarket-by-Submarket Breakdown

  At Built World Advisors, we believe that you can’t manage what you don’t measure. As we close the books on 2025, we are releasing our Q4 Industrial Market Reports for the five key Miami submarkets we cover. Whether you are a warehouse owner benchmarking your asset’s value or an investor analyzing the next move, […]

Be The Bank: Why Smart Sellers Are Funding Their Own Deals

  The hardest part of selling a warehouse right now isn’t finding a buyer. It’s getting the buyer funded. With interest rates still sticky and banks tightening their grip, traditional lenders are killing deals. They are asking for higher debt-service coverage ratios and offering lower Loan-to-Value (LTV) limits. This leaves many qualified buyers stuck. They […]

Forget Price Per Foot: What Actually Determines Value

Everyone wants to talk about “price per square foot.” It is the cocktail party number. However, if you are actually trading or refinancing in the current Miami industrial market, that number is just noise without context. Whether you are preparing to sell or just benchmarking your portfolio, these are the five metrics that actually move […]

Leave the Fleece Vest at Home: Cafecito Club is Back Feb 13th

Let’s be honest. The Miami Commercial Real Estate scene can be… a lot. If we see one more LinkedIn post about “The Grind,” “Crushing It,” or someone posing with a leased Lamborghini in front of a Class C warehouse, we might lose it. We know, we know. You’re “busier than ever.” You have an “exclusive […]

Kicking Off 2026 with the Built World Cafecito Club

We’re starting 2026 the only way we know how: with strong coffee, good vibes, and the best Commercial Real Estate network in South Florida. If your goal for the new year is to source more deals, find new partners, or just keep your finger on the pulse of the market, Cafecito Club is where you […]

Malcolm Butters, Co-Founder & CEO, Butters Construction & Development

When it comes to warehouses in South Florida, Malcolm Butters has pretty much seen it all, built it all, and survived every cycle along the way. In this episode, he walks us through his journey from a Montreal kid working in his dad’s inner–city furniture business and dodgy off–site warehouse alleys, to moving to Florida […]

What Rising Construction Costs Mean for Warehouse Values

  If you have tried to build anything in Miami recently, you already know what is happening. Construction costs are through the roof. Concrete, steel, labor, and nearly every other input that goes into a warehouse project has climbed significantly over the past few years. There is a silver lining. For warehouse owners, rising construction […]

Cafecito Club returns on December 12 at 9am-ish

Miami might not wake up early, but when it does, it shows up strong. Join us on Friday, December 12 at 9am-ish (Miami Standard Time) at the Brightline Station inside the Central Fare Food Collective for a morning of good coffee, easy conversations, and the kind of networking that actually feels human. Cafecito Club started […]