The event will be covered extensively by Fox Business Network and Anchor of FBN:AM, Cheryl Casone, who is taking her New York film crew to Miami's sandy beaches to interview some of the real estate industry's biggest names at the Summit.

The panelists will be part of this year’s Summit at one of the grandest residential locations in all of South Florida, where they will dialogue about the latest in the real estate market conditions and development.  Listen and learn from them by purchasing your ticket to the Summit HERE.

They are:

Dolly Lenz, Founder, Dolly Lenz Real Estate, Jenny Lenz, Managing Director, Dolly Lenz Real Estate

Jenny Lenz, Dolly Lenz

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Dolly Lenz has been called "New York's Real Estate Queen" by The Economist. The Wall Street Journal named her the number" One Real Estate Broker in the United States". The former Vice Chairman of Prudential Douglass Elliman left that post to start her own luxury sales and marketing firm. During her career, she has sold $12 billion in properties, including a triplex penthouse for $57 million purchased by Robert Murdoch, as well as the New York Foundling's $45 million West Village Mansion. She has also managed the sales and marketing efforts for many of New York's most illustrious properties including the Ritz-Carlton at 50 Central Park South, the iconic Apthorp and Manhattan House condominiums, The Cipriani Residences, and 515 East 72nd Street.

Dolly is a Fox Business contributor as well as a columnist for Australia's largest publication, The Australian. She is repeatedly sought after to represent some of the most exclusive properties in the world.

Jenny Lenz is a native New Yorker. She attended The Dalton School on Manhattan's Upper East Side and subsequently The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, majoring in Economics and French . While there, she worked at Barclays as a Summer Analyst in the Investment Banking Division and upon graduation accepted a full time Analyst position in its Industrials Group.

She then transitioned into real estate, following in her mother's footsteps working for Dolly Lenz Real Estate. Her passion for the business started at an early age as she was exposed to some of the most breathtaking properties in the world, accompanying her mother on business trips to Europe and Asia. She has also fulfilled numerous speaking engagements at real estate conferences throughout the U.S and Australia. She strives to continue her mother's tradition taking on the New York and international real estate markets. She is regularly asked to opine on real estate matters on various media outlets including CNBC, NBC, and Fox Business. Jenny is also a columnist for The Australian–Mansions.

Mary Ann Osborn, Leading Broker, Century City

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Reaching over $1 billion in sales over the last eight years, Mary Ann Osborn has secured her position as a leading broker in Century City and Los Angeles.

Through her extensive knowledge of the market and preconstruction projects, she offers her clients a smooth and satisfactory transaction, from beginning to end. Her market knowledge, professionalism, level of integrity, and customer service qualify her as a broker of choice for new luxury condominiums in Century City. Osborn’s interpersonal skills and tactful approach has been validated by the particular demands of servicing an elite clientele.

She has been quoted in Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and Westside Today, among others. 

She was the director of sales for The Century, a 42-story masterpiece designed by world-renowned Robert A.M. Stern Architects and developed by The Related Companies as their flagship entry into the West Coast. 

Richard Steinberg, Douglas Elliman Real Estate

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Richard Steinberg is one of New York's most successful and prominent brokers of apartments and townhouses. Grossing over $150 Million in sales yearly, Steinberg has consistently been a top producer. His comprehensive knowledge of the Manhattan marketplace has made him a frequently cited expert on real estate in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Observer and other publications. Steinberg previously starred on the hit HGTV television show "Selling New York," and can now be seen on "The American Dream New York City", which airs on WLNY-CBS. He has a client roster of New York's top celebrities, politicians, and business leaders.

Over the course of his career, Steinberg has successfully brokered sales in virtually all of the city's notable condominiums, cooperatives and townhouses. He has worked with private individuals and developers to identify a townhouse for purchase, renovation, and resale at significant profits in addition to working with individuals to identify townhouses as long-term homes. Developers have used Richard's expertise in closing out last remaining units in the top condominiums. He is adaptive to client needs, discreet, and known for his careful negotiations on their behalf. Richard holds a Doctorate degree, raised two children in New York along with his wife, and is a long-time resident of the Upper East Side.

Cody Vichinsky, Founding Partner, Bespoke Real Estate

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Cody Vichinsky is a Founding Partner of Bespoke Real Estate, the first and only $10M+ brokerage firm with no independent agents, and Bespoke Marketing, a fully integrated luxury branding, and marketing agency. Under Vichinsky and his older brother Zachary's leadership, Bespoke Real Estate has been consistently ranked #1 in the $10M+ market with nearly $3 billion in $10M+ property transactions and curated an exclusive portfolio of nearly $2 billion $10M+ properties. The Vichinsky's attributes much of this success to Bespoke's disruptive business model that enables clients to have access to Bespoke's entire company of niche-specialists who work collectively on their behalf, instead of working within the limits of what a single agent can provide. Under the same guiding principles of providing clients enhanced value, the Vichinsky's have spearheaded much of the growth and development of Bespoke Marketing, which has represented a global roster of luxury and hospitality brands as well as some of the most exclusive real estate in the world

Olivia Hsu Decker, Co-Owner, Golden Gate Sotheby's International Realty

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Olivia Hsu Decker is co-owner of Golden Gate Sotheby’s International Realty, with 23 offices in the San Francisco Bay Area from Silicon Valley to Napa Valley and 16 cities in between.

Born in Shanghai, China, Olivia has been marketing luxury properties since 1979. She was #1 agent at Merrill Lynch Realty in the 1980s among the 16,500 sales associates nationwide. She completed an international real estate study at the University of Oxford in 1990, founded Decker Bullock Realty with Bill Bullock in 1991 and acquired Sotheby’s International Realty franchise in 2007. Her company is a leading luxury home brokerage in the San Francisco Bay Area with sales over $4 billion in 2018.

Olivia has a unique sales ability and connection to an affluent clientele. She combines the Sotheby’s International Realty’s global exposures and her vast network of local, national and international connections she developed over 40 years. She consistently matching the extraordinary homes with extraordinary clients, many are billionaires, business leaders, and celebrities. Olivia handled over $3 billion in properties in her career. She sold some of the most expensive homes over $20 million in Marin County and Silicon Valley. She is also a real estate investor, among other properties, she owned and sold Chateau de Villette and Chateau de Grimaldi in France and currently owns four luxury homes in Belvedere and London.

Jay Parker, Chief Executive Officer, Douglas Elliman Florida Brokerage

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Real estate industry leader and veteran, Jay Phillip Parker has served as the Chief Executive Officer of Douglas Elliman Florida Brokerage since 2013. Responsible for the advancement of a leading provider of luxury real estate services across Florida, he has successfully grown Douglas Elliman's presence in markets from Miami to Jupiter, to Palm Beach and St. Petersburg with a total of 21 offices and more than 1,100 agents.

Under Parker's leadership, Douglas Elliman Florida marked a banner year in 2018 with $4.7 billion in total sales volume, which was up 30% over the prior year. Jay has been a key figure in the growth of the brand, which is now represented in luxury real estate markets in 60 countries and six continents through its partnership with London-based Knight-Frank Residential.

A graduate of the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario, Canada, Parker completed the study abroad program in Tel Aviv, Israel while earning his Bachelor's Degree. He went on to earn his Juris Doctorate from the University of Miami School of Law in May of 1998. A member of the Florida Bar Association, Parker serves on the Board of Governors for the Miami Beach Chamber of Commerce, as President of the Executive Board of Mount Sinai Medical Center Foundation and a member of the Miami Association of Realtors Leadership Board.

Ben Bacal, Creator, Rila App

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Ben Bacal began his career at the young age of 24. In his first year as a REALTOR^®, he sold more than $17 million in real estate. Since then, Bacal has sold more than $2 billion in real estate, and his successes garnered him the front cover of the LA Times Business Section and inclusion on The Wall Street Journal list of top 1000 agents, nationwide. A few of his notable transactions include: 1181 Hillcrest, which marked the largest sale ever in the city of Beverly Hills at $70,000,000; Madonna’s Beverly Hills home, which sold for $19,500,000; and the sale of the Megan Ellison (film producer and Oracle heir) compound on Nightingale Drive which sold for over $47,000,000—just to name a few.

Ben’s professional salesmanship, infused with the innate ability to articulate the vision and intrinsic value of the Los Angeles real estate market, has helped him reach the pinnacle of the real estate game. As a result, he used his vast experience to co-found Rila, a mobile app designed to provide the community with free, unencumbered access to real estate and like-minded industry professionals.

Michael Goldstein, President, Trump Group

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Michael Goldstein is President at the Trump Group with more than 35 years of experience in the real estate industry. He has sold over $5 billion in properties during his successful career. Goldstein has sales, marketing and branding experience and is instrumental in designing floorplans and developing the extraordinary amenities for the Acqualina brand.

He joined the Trump Group in 1998 when they began developing Acqualina, with the first building debuting in 2006. After the resort, they introduced The Mansions at Acqualina. The sales office opened in 2012 and the building sold out in 21 weeks. The Mansions opened in 2015. The sales gallery for The Estates at Acqualina opened the following year. A native of New York, Michael has been living and working in South Florida for almost four decades.

Sue Nickason, Vice President of Marketing and Sales, Provenance Properties

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Sue Nickason is Vice President of Marketing and Sales at Provenance Properties, a portfolio that includes international business development, marketing of visitation and commercial real estate leasing in the New Urbanism community of Camana Bay, operation of Provenance Properties – the official Christie’s International Real Estate affiliate in the Cayman Islands - and sales and marketing for luxury residential projects developed by Dart Real Estate including The Residences at Seafire and OLEA.

She has worked in marketing and development in the recreational property industry for 20 years. Her experience includes working with independent hotels and resorts, shared ownership properties, mixed use communities and condotels. She is highly experienced in working with developers from concept development and market assessment through to market implementation and operation.

Originally from Canada, Nickason moved to the Caribbean over a decade ago. She holds a MBA in Marketing (with Distinction) from the School of Hotel Administration at the University of Guelph, and a BA (Honors) from Mount Allison University, as well as certificates in economic development, adult education, customer service, revenue management, protocol and communications.

Full Schedule of Events at Haute Residence 2020 Luxury Miami Real Estate Summit:

11:00am – 11:30am: Welcome and Registration

11:45am – 1:15pm: Titans of Miami – “East Coast Kings”

Masters of the Miami skyline sound off on where they see the luxury market heading and its evolution.

Developer Panelists: Gil Dezer, Louis Birdman, Dan Kodsi, Shahab Karmely, Marcelo Kingston, Edgardo Defortuna, Ricardo Tabet, Eric Fordin

1:15pm – 1:30pm: Jumbo Loan King

Eric Fessler, expert entrepreneur, has over 30 years of mortgage banking experience closing over $10 billion. Fessler discusses the procurement of jumbo loans in single-family homes along with warranty and non-warranty new condominium developments on a nationwide scale.

1:30pm – 2:30pm: Lunch – Residences by Armani/Casa

Network with the greatest minds of development and brokerage in the luxury real estate market.

2:45pm – 3:45pm: International Power Brokers Panel

Top broker/agents from key international real estate meccas such as Miami Beach, Los Angeles, New York City and Cayman Islands sound off on the latest in market conditions and development.

Panelists: Dolly Lenz and Jenny Lenz (NYC), Mary Ann Osborn (LA), Richard Steinberg (NYC), Cody Vichinsky (NYC) Olivia Hsu Decker (San Francisco) Jay Parker (Miami), Ben Bacal (Hollywood Hills), Michael Goldstein (Miami), Sue Nickason (Cayman Islands)

4:00pm – 5:00pm: Miami Power Brokers

Top South Florida brokers share their knowledge on the evolution and direction of the luxury market today.

Panelists: Jill Eber, Maria Eugenia Alvarez Vitale, Jeff Miller, Lourdes Alatriste, Steve Solomon, Crista Ryan, Sebastian Tettamanti, Christian Martinez

5:00pm: Summit Closing Remarks

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Ground has just broken on Adrian Smith and Gordon Gill Architecture’s Greenland Tower Chengdu which, at 100 stories, will be southwestern China’s tallest building and the fourth-tallest edifice in the nation upon its 2018 completion. At 468 meters, it will overshadow the city’s current tallest building, the Chengdu IFS Towers, by approximately 200 meters.

Located in the center of the flourishing Dongcun district, the structure’s design was inspired by the unique ice mountain topography around Chengdu, which, according to the design studio, symbolizes the city’s growth and promising future.

Greenland Tower Chengdu is located in the center of the booming Dongcun district.

At 468 meters Greenland Tower Chengdu will be China’s fourth-tallest building, upon its 2018 completion.

Greenland Tower Chengdu acts as a light sculpture to diffuse light from 360 degrees, connecting the sky and the earth.

“Like the mountain ridges reflecting the light of the sky and the valleys reflecting light from the earth, the iconic tower will perform as a light sculpture to diffuse light from 360 degrees, creating a connection between sky and earth,” the architecture firm said.

At night, Greenland Tower will glisten brilliantly (via LED lights) like a sparkling glacier, accentuating the structure's crystalline form. In addition to reflecting light from mountains and earth, Greenland Tower Chengdu’s mixed-use functionality will also reflect local society and contribute to the city’s advancement as an economic powerhouse within China.

At night, Greenland Tower will glisten brilliantly (via LED lights) like a sparkling glacier.

The design for the 395,305-square-meter complex (which includes a main tower, two small towers and a six-story podium) interprets and integrates Chengdu’s urban structure, local culture and Chinese traditional feng shui theory in a modern form. Like many of today’s modern big city structures, Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture intends to create a comfortable garden city environment with convenient traffic patterns for vehicular, pedestrian and metro transportation.

The main tower features 120,000-square meters of office space in the lower zone, a 51,000-square-meter luxury hotel in the middle zone, and 42,000-square meters of “CEO suites” in the high zone. The two smaller towers (116-meters tall and 147-meters tall respectively) will accommodate luxury “SoHo apartments.” Meanwhile the podium boasts 14,000-square meters of retail space, a 16,000-square-meter conference center with a bridge connection to the main tower, and an 8,000-square-meter exhibition center. A roof garden will offer 360-degree views of the city.

Greenland Tower is a 395,305-square-meter complex with a main tower, two small towers and a six-story podium.

The main tower boasts office space in the lower zone, a luxury hotel in the middle zone, "CEO suites” in the high zone and a rooftop garden.

Chengdu is China’s fourth most populous city (14 million people) and capital of the Sichuan province in Southwest China. It is known for its cuisine, ancient fortress wall (built during the Qing dynasty), the New Century Global Centre entertainment complex (one of the the world's largest buildings), and giant pandas—including the Sichuan Wolong Giant Panda Nature Reserve, the largest preserve in the world, just 81 miles away from Chengdu.

Sichuan province is prone to major seismic activity, including a 6.6-magnitude quake in April 2013. Greenland Tower Chengdu compensates for the high seismic zone, using a geometrical plan, a tapered form and a high-performance damper bracing system to ensure the structure’s stability and efficiency. The building façade, MeP and other systems are designed with “high-efficiency sustainability features, creating a new generation of the high-performance super tall building,” according to the firm.

Adrian Smith & Gordon Gill Architecture designed Jeddah, Saudi Arabia's Kingdom Tower, slated to become the tallest structure on earth upon completion.

Adrian Smith & Gordon Gill Architecture recently designed Jeddah, Saudi Arabia’s Kingdom Tower (an ultra modern structure whose observation deck resembles Star Trek’s Starship Enterprise spacecraft), which is slated to become the world’s tallest building (1,000-plus meters high) when construction finishes. Smith also worked on the Burj Khalifa, a skyscraper in Dubai, United Arab Emirates touted as the tallest man-made structure in the world, standing at 829.8 meters.

By 2018, Chengdu’s natural surrounding ice mountains will have its manmade equal—a modern high-rise tower that will shed a little more light about the city's culture, customs and lifestyle. More impressively, the Greenland Tower will be symbolic of the economic prowess of China—which surpassed the United States as the world’s largest economy this week.

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That reality is precisely what inspires artist Jing Jing Naihan Li’s one-of-a-kind furniture designs. Beneath each piece, a surprise lurks like a Jack-in-the-Box. The secret? Functionality.

Naihan Li's Crates series features industrial designed stainless steel.

Crates conceals mobile furniture objects that reveal true functions when unfolded.

Naihan Li’s home studio is an extension of her work as a designer, but life in Beijing means her studio could be confiscated or demolished at any time by government forces—which she admits is a reality faced by many Chinese artists in the Caochangdi Art District, where she resides.

Under the circumstances, one can understand Naihan Li’s dilemma—how can she express freely without risking her literal freedom and all she creates? Li met this challenge by reaching deeply into her creative bag of tricks to develop a new lifestyle product, “Crates”—mobile furniture objects that conceal their true functions like a state secret until unlocked or unfolded. The Crates series is made of black walnut or industrial-style stainless steel with a mirror finish (or both).

A tea table from the Crates series, with hidden compartments for herbal enjoyment.

Concealed couch from the Crate series.

Crates furniture was born in 2010 while Naihan Li was unpacking shipping crates full of exhibition artworks. She sketched and created efficient crated furniture which turned into a crated office, kitchen, and bedroom set series. The Crates series replicates metal shipping containers which, when opened, reveal essential household or office functions locked inside—a desk, a tea table, a chair, a bookshelf, a bar, an entertainment center, or a kitchen apparatus.

It’s hard for Americans to imagine why furniture must be concealed or evacuated quickly. After all, the clandestine microfilm days of the Cold War are over (...or are they?). We’ve all seen concealed office desks, whose purpose is to maximize small spaces, hide clutter, or conceal what may contradict the living space. Li’s furniture is multipurpose, designed for speed—with wheels ready to roll like an airliner preparing to take off.

According to Li's website, her furniture is “created for Beijing’s shifting urban playground where industrial and artist spaces are quickly discovered and soon destroyed, the furniture is mobile so you can roll it right into your studio, loft or gallery.” The designer's exqusite furniture is rolling in and out of showrooms and exhibitions worldwide with resounding success.

Foosball game table in stainless steel

Concealed wooden desk made of black walnut

The furniture is literally a defense mechanism—fold and go… fast! The need for such furnishings illustrates the differences between the lifestyles in East and West. When freedom isn’t readily available, expression is hush-hush, even if it’s a cool concept. Naihan Li’s designs are exceptional in their own right, but they’re also societal statements which many westerners may take for granted—that is, aside from their creatively-carved beauty. She’s expanded her “crates” expression with concealed furniture replicating famous world landmarks throughout her collections.

Transport is a common theme in Naihan Li’s work. Her solutions to traveling with big furniture pieces inspired other series such as “Fold” (mobile and collapsable tables and display units created after Li saw Caochangdi’s residents using cheap, plastic-folding stools); and "Flammable" (to-scale artistic candle recreations of the world’s most recognizable landmarks).

Swirl table from the "Fold" series in rosewood, acrylic, brass and stainless steel.

Skyscraper candles from the Flammable series, featuring famous landmarks.

Again, Eastern influences counter the West. For instance, Li says, “For someone who is not entirely comfortable with the intrusion of modern skyscrapers into their civic space, watching them burn down can be truly satisfying,” referring to her "Flammable" collection. For westerners, the sight of burning skyscrapers may recall 9/11 terrorism. Beauty, as always, is in the eye of the beholder. Such is art.

Li’s “I Am a Monument” series again shrinks monuments (including the New York Stock Exchange building, Pentagon, and U.N. headquarters) down to an acceptable size, in order to satisfy Chinese citizens' desire for meticulously-sculpted architectural icons and art installations for the home. Among her most famous pieces is the OMA CCTV wood cabinet installation, which replicates the big media outlet’s headquarter towers in Beijing. Her "Beehive" series boasts an inexpensive design made of collapsible, three-dimensional cardboard boxes, whose modular functionality allows for use as pedestals, walls, and storage space.

Naihan Li's OMA CCTV wooden cabinet installation which replicates the famous contemporary headquarters of Beijing's big media outlet. headquarter towers in Beijing

The modern OMA CCTV headquarters in Beijing, the city where Naihan Li resides.

Li was born in Harbin, China and moved to Beijing as a child in the mid-1980s amid the explosion of imported cultural concepts that defined the era. She later studied design and architecture at London’s Bartlett School of Architecture before returning to Beijing in 2004, only to find the city in a volatile state of rapid development and simultaneous decay. Among her finished constructions are the Keruo Space in Caochangdi and the Royal Kitchen Restaurant and Gift Shop inside the Forbidden City.

She’s worked on many exhibition designs, and as creative director on the NIKE Golden 08 Beijing Olympic Creative research project. In 2008, Naihan Li worked as the project coordinator and designer for the UBS Art Collection Show entitled “Memories for Tomorrow” at the Shanghai Art Museum; “Moving Horizons” at the Beijing National Art Museum; and the Guangdong Art Museum show, “Fact and Fiction.” Her installation “Brandenburg Gate” was also displayed in the Goethe Institute’s 20th Anniversary project in Beijing entitled “Goethe Night.”

Meticulously-carved wooden framework of Edinburgh Palm House royal botanical garden conservatory.

The New York Stock Exchange installation from the I Am a Monument series.

Art installations like this representation of the Pentagon (I Am a Monument series) are highly regarded in the homes of China's citizens.

In 2011, she worked as the exhibition designer for the Gwangju Design Biennale Un-Named section, curated by Branden McGetrick under the art direction of Ai Weiwei, and presented the "Fold" series of furniture. She was a featured designer at 2011 Beijing Design Week, and initiated Caochangdi’s participation as one of the three major design hub locations during 2012 Beijing Design Week.

It appears Beijing has more spectacles to behold post-Olympics: the furniture art works of Naihan Li. But one must observe swiftly, for much of her work is on wheels... here today, gone tomorrow. She’s not taking anything for granted, and neither should we westerners.

Jing Jing Naihan Li

Concealed bar

Photos and details courtesy of Dezeen

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