Richard Bezold, chair of the Akerman Real Estate Practice Group, and Neisen Kasdin, office managing shareholder of Miami, were quoted in the Bloomberg BNA Real Estate Law and Industry Report article titled, "Industry's Mood Toward Investing in Property Increasingly Upbeat with Multifamily in Lead." The article highlighted many of the key takeaways from the survey conducted at the U.S. Real Estate Summit, focusing on the predominance of the multifamily sector in primary markets such as Miami and Orlando. Bezold and Kasdin offered insight as to why multifamily development is currently the strongest in the industry.

"At some point something else has to take over & multifamily has to back off a little bit. But I think that for the most part people who are looking to invest money in 2013 still feel like multifamily is the safest place to put it," Bezold said.

"From my perspective there is no question that in the early going the greatest interest is in the urban core & the suburban communities closer to the urban core… I think a large part of that is an ongoing lifestyle shift throughout the country, and when things began to pick up after the recession, that trend was accelerated," Kasdin said.