The Real Deal | Miamians spend up to 58% of income on rent in minority neighborhoods.

In  Miami, residents can expect to spend more of their paychecks on rent if they live in a mostly black or Hispanic neighborhood than if they live in a predominantly white neighborhood, according to a new report.

The share of income needed to pay rent in black communities in Miami is 58.2 percent, higher than the national average of 43.7 percent. In Miami’s predominantly Hispanic neighborhoods, it’s 55.1 percent, also higher than the national average of 48.1 percent.

In Miami’s white neighborhoods, residents will spend about 41.7 percent of their paychecks on rent, the Zillow report found.

The general rule of thumb is that people should spend about a third of their incomes on housing, which they do on average in the U.S.

In Los Angeles, Zillow found that renters should expect to shell out 50 percent of the incomes on housing in white areas, 63 percent in Hispanic neighborhoods and nearly 64 percent in black communities. Rental affordability has been on the decline since 2011 and has worsened in minority neighborhoods, according to Zillow.

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THE REAL DEAL | Downtown Miami to see surge of nearly 3,500 new condos delivered in 2017 as resale pricing falls: report

As new condo units continue to come online in 2017, resale pricing in Miami’s urban core is reporting a drop for the first time in eight years.

Greater Downtown Miami’s condo inventory will grow by 3,456 new units this year, the largest surge of new product expected over the next three years, according to the latest Miami Downtown Development Authority report authored by Integra Realty Resources.

That annual growth is expected to fall after 2017: 2,846 units will be delivered in 2018 and 1,960 units in 2019. Between 2014 and 2019, 12,257 new units will be completed. While that number is high, it’s still significantly less than the more than 21,000 condos that flooded the market between 2004 and 2009, according to the report, which focused on July 2016 to January 2017.

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