Miami Ranks #1 In New Index By The Economist: ‘Shift In The Balance Of Power’

The Economist has ranked Miami at the top of a new index that looks at the performance of ten global cities over the past few years.

The publication looked at four key measures to create the index: population growth, GDP growth, office vacancies and housing prices, all over the past three years.

Miami’s real GDP is said to have increased 10.6% since 2019, while housing prices are said to have increased 39.5% during the same period.

On the negative side, the population is claimed to have decreased 1.6%, while the office vacancy rate is said to be up 2.3%.

The overall numbers were enough to put Miami ahead of second-ranked Singapore on the list of cities that are thriving. San Francisco ranked at the bottom of the list, while New York placed fourth.

An accompanying article noted that local leaders in Miami have helped attract financial business such as Blackstone and Citadel to the city.

 

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Anon
3 months ago

Let’s keep it going. It’s up to all Miamians to eliminate the old cocaine and onlyfans Miami for the new cultural global city it is becoming.

Ghost of Neil Rogers
3 months ago

HAHAHA!!!!

Anonymous
3 months ago

Sex sells…oldest business on earth and Miami will continue to attract the beautiful, young, and materialistic

Anonymous
3 months ago

Agreed, I don’t want to become NYC, I like Miami like Miami. I grew up here and I don;t need your Ivory tower North East Opinions to cloud our culture and make it something more Americana. Thanks but no thanks.

calivalle
3 months ago

Need more white collar cowboys

Mad Dash
3 months ago

Leaders should now concentrate on improving mass transit and curtailing further suburban growth.

Anonymous
3 months ago

So don’t expand Metrorail to Homestead, and instead expand it to eastward South Beach and westward to old areas ripe for TOD.

Anonymous
3 months ago

ripe for TOD? RIPE?!? More like rotten at this point.
I agree, but the bottom line is there should be three westward arms from US1, one on Flagler, one on Bird, and one on Kendall. There now the whole Latino Community can be connected to downtown via rial the same way the black community gets to be.

Ghost of Neil Rogers
3 months ago

Lmao

KevinNash92
3 months ago

There should be more suburban growth, but SMARTER rather than just mindless sprawling outwards as has been the case historically. That means upzoning away from endless single-family homes, copypaste soulless strip malls and massive parking lots the size of football fields which were fine for South Florida’s population back in the 1930s-50s, not so much in the 2020s. More public transport is long overdue, and NOT half-baked buses.

Orange Bird
3 months ago

Sunshine State Winning!

Azarius
3 months ago

This is only the beginning ‼️

anon
3 months ago

house prices rising faster than gdp and population = money storage, death of growth.

Anonymous
3 months ago

Well that’s actually the old Miami. We really were a money storage city. All Brickell condos were empty most of the year, rich people from abroad parking their cash. Not anymore. Meaning that more people are actually living here. I have a tough time believing that population decreased. I’ve been living here since 2012 and this is much more busy than ever.

Anonymous
3 months ago

The size of the Brickell pie has grown period. More full time residents, but also still more money storage condo units. The pop decrease is for the entire City of Miami, not just Brickell.

Anonymous
3 months ago

It’s busier no doubt, but it’s peaking in the short term

Anonymous
3 months ago

peaking based on what? There are still buildable lost throughout Brickell and old three-story buildings dying to be demolished and replaced with 40-story buildings. Now Imagine if they started building 20 story buildings on the East Little Havana side of I95,… no way has the area peaked.

Anonymous
3 months ago

peaking in terms of build/economic cycle

Anonymous
3 months ago

Where do you come up with your facts? Brickell condos are empty most of the year?!? What is this assumption based on? Brickell is one of the most full areas in the country! Rich people may own those condos but they rent them to dumb North Eastern transplants who think they’re getting a deal on Manhattan-style living.

Anonymous
3 months ago

Learn to read before commenting.

Anonymous
3 months ago

Miami is a year around city now. I am young and moved here from New York and every month or so I have a friend call me up looking to move here.

Anonymous
3 months ago

Keep them coming, please! Love all the changes happening to Miami.

anon
3 months ago

Tell them to move back and do us real miamians a favor

Anonymous
3 months ago

Those numbers don’t make any type of sense. The only reason housing prices and local GDP have increased (which is correct), is because local population has exploded. Without more demand for lodging, prices would have stayed the same or declined. Those census numbers make no sense at all.

Aurelius
3 months ago

Miami is gaining high income people pushing prices higher while losing lower income people due to the same reason. The result is a slight decrease in net population.

Anonymous
3 months ago

Sorry, that also doesn’t make sense. Rich people also want to pay the least possible amount for their lodging (remember, that’s how we get rich). Meaning, it doesn’t matter if poor people get replaced by rich people, what matters is the total amount of lodging available vs the total demand (regardless of rich of poor). If housing prices go up, it only means that there is more people buying those houses. In this case, it is definitely more immigration. If you are from Miami, you will agree that our city is way fuller than it has ever been. And besides, every single bit of data from the past few years proves that everyone is moving here. The only odd data saying otherwise is that last census report, which is really strange.

Anonymous
3 months ago

Tide is turning and high rates are catching up to the 99% slowly…this time is different though, right?

Anonymous
3 months ago

The population is literally going down.

Anonymous
3 months ago

They skew those numbers – maybe the city of Miami lost people, but that’s a very small city. Did the Metro Miami Area lose people, no – it gained a whopping 10%. So I believe that Miami Dade might have lost people, but the greater metro area of Miami is still growing as rapidly as any other Metro area out there – like Dallas and Houston – only it’s happening in a land-constrained geography which pushes prices up exponentially because of the lack of land and high zoning which allows tall buildings.

One more lane bro
3 months ago

This is a child’s view of pricing. Vulgar supply and demand ideology without any understanding of context and complicating factors. Housing prices are not purely or even msotly determined by the *need* for housing. Unless you think millions of people suddenly vanished (didn’t need housing anymore) in 2001, 2008, 2017, etc., and then they all rematerialized out of thin air. YIMBYism is a new libertarian religion based on trust me bro economic concepts.

Anonymous
3 months ago

What? It ALL has to do with supply and demand. Nothing else. Every other factor that you mention is in function of supply and demand. You talk from a high horse without actually having a clue of how markets actually work. Need for housing is what is causing the current spike in price in Miami. Miami has always been an “investment city”, something nice to add to your portfolio. It still is, but what has changed is that now people are moving here, therefore causing more demand for Miami’s real estate. I do feel like a child having to explain such basic concepts.

Denzel
3 months ago

Only thing I can think of is real estate investors are pushing prices up and people are leaving

Anonymous
3 months ago

“The best city of Latin America and it’s located in the USA” – Professor Scott Galloway

anon
3 months ago

Hope it can stay to it’s roots, with all of these transplants gentrifying it, only a matter of time before the latin pop. drops to 40% and don’t get me started on the black community 😵‍💫😔

EJS
3 months ago

I agree with Anon who posted that rising housing prices greater than GDP doesn’t bode well. I’m hoping Cava’s success so far with adding lots of housing and density to the city core is enough to not make Miami the next L.A. (Don’t get me wrong, I love L.A. but moved from there for more affordability).

Anonymous
3 months ago

Except Cava hasn’t actually done anything with tangible results.

Anonymous
3 months ago

She’s the only elected official looking out for Miami and improving quality of life!

Anon
3 months ago

We really need more business and jobs. Housing is still cheap in Miami but the salaries and business needs to pick up, and or just for restaurant owners. Although love that they are making a success for the food scene here!

Anonymous
3 months ago

Housing is still cheap in Miami…🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Anonymous
3 months ago

This report is boloney. Miami has a long ways to go. Credit the COVID pandemic and remote work. The good paying jobs are from out of state companies; not local.

Anonymous
3 months ago

Let’s see those housing values keep rising!! Miami on fire!!

Anonymous
3 months ago

It really only helps if you sell out and move somewhere win the country with much lower housing costs.

anon
3 months ago

rising prices just prices out the educated workers that the city needs to grow? capital gains for homeowners doing absolutely nothing productive for the economy is not a win.

Anonymous
3 months ago

That’s funny

Tom
3 months ago

Hmm. Doing a great job, just take a closer look at work first housing, send some planners to Singapore . Singapore seems to be doing a good job with that….. it’s also a very very successful city internationally. Thanks

Anonymous
3 months ago

Nothing to make you feel better than constant comparisons to cities that have had staying power for decades if not a hundred years. Way to act like this little period proves anything. God, everything here is so trendy and short term. They think 10yrs here is like a hundred years elsewhere. Actually exist for more than a couple years before speaking in such permanent language. There are like 200 cities around the world that has gone through several hills and valleys. Chill.

Anonymous
3 months ago

100%

Ann
3 months ago

40% housing price increase since 2019? No chance that is correct? Weird data?

Anonymous
3 months ago

It’s hysterical when Floridians think their smart.

MiamiCityMan
3 months ago

Where’s the link to the original ranking?

Cover the Podiums
3 months ago

we just need more workforce housing near mass public transit

Anonymous
3 months ago

We need high end housing near public transportation! There’s already too much affordable housing around transit. Rich people want to walk too!

Anonymous
3 months ago

yeah…they wanna walk and live along the beach or Bay, not along your precious to yourself public transit

Anonymous
3 months ago

They want both, convenient spots by public transportation and the hub of activities is a top priority for wealthy people who actually work and need to get around. Look at Manhattan, rents and property values are most expensive near the subway hubs, and then get less expensive further toward the water but rise up again directly on the water.