McKafka Development Group is a fully integrated real estate group with development, property management and realty services, specializing in construction and acquisition of properties in South Florida.
Directors Fernando Levy Hara and Stephan Gietl realized their shared passion for real estate and architecture while attending the Advanced Management Development Program in Real Estate (AMDP) at Harvard University Graduate School of Design. AMDP is exclusively for entrepreneurs and senior-level professionals with minimum 15 years of real estate-related experience. Both Levy Hara and Gietl are in the meantime sought after speakers at Harvard University, especially on real estate cycles.
Levy Hara and Gietl have specialized during the downturn of the economy in the years 2009 and 2010 in acquiring distressed assets, amongst them notes, fractured condominiums and land. Both developed residential and commercial projects in South Florida, Europe and Latin America including the successful waterfront condominiums Regatta and Bay View Lofts in Miami Beach. Since it’s inception, McKafka Development Group has acquired notes, properties and development sites exceeding 100 million USD in value and has sold more than 500 units mostly to international investors. With it’s latest condominium development, The Crimson, McKafka Development Group will leave an imprint on Miami’s skyline.
McKafka Development Group is excited to announce its latest development addition, a 282 multifamily project in Sarasota, Florida. With this development McKafka Development Group is evidencing once more its right timing for the market.
Stephan Gietl is likewise Fernando Levy Hara a principal and co‐founder of Aventura, FL‐based McKafka Development Group. He serves as the Chief Finance Officer and Chief Operating Officer of the company.
Originally from Austria, was responsible for the completion of a mix-used project called Palladium in Downtown Prague with more than one million square feet of shopping center, office and parking space. Stephan is instructor of Executive Education at Harvard and member of Harvard's Board of Real Estate Academic Initiative.
Levy Hara is likewise Stephan Gietl a principal and co‐founder of Aventura, FL‐based McKafka Development Group. He serves as a Managing Partner and Chief Executive Officer, as well as the Broker and Founder of McKafka Realty, LLC, one of three separate divisions under the company umbrella.
Originally from Argentina, planned, designed and built more than one million square feet of commercial and residential projects in South Florida, including Bayview Lofts and Regatta in Miami Beach, and One Aventura Executive Center in Aventura. Fernando is instructor of Executive Education at Harvard and member of Harvard's Board of Real Estate Academic Initiative.
Stated dimensions are measured to the exterior boundaries of the exterior walls and the centerline of interior demising walls and in fact vary from the dimensions that would be determined by using the description and definition of the \"unit\" set forth in the declaration. All floorplans and development plans are approximate and subject to change.