My business partner, Shelly Montalvo, and I are the brokers and owners of Papillon Real Estate, a boutique real estate firm located in Coral Gables, FL (The "City Beautiful").

Papillon is a small full service equestrian brokerage focused on equestrian real estate, development and marketing.  From single family horse farms, to equestrian businesses and developments, we are your go-to solution.  If developing an equestrian community if your goal, we will help you find the land, conduct the feasibility study, create the branding and facility programming and sell the end product.  If you have land you want to develop OR if you are looking for land, contact us, we will work with you to create the perfect community.  Visit our current project in Sebring, FL, Saddle Ridge Natural Horse Community.

Horse owners and horses have special needs from other property owners. We are familiar with the special features horse owners require, be it fencing, barns, pasture, pens and more. We also understand the impact neighbors may have on horse owners and vice versa, especially here in Florida where the density is higher than other parts of the state. Zoning, existing structures, and allowable layout all play a part in finding the right property for you and we can assist you with all of this. Call us today about any of the equestrian properties on our website, South Florida Horse Properties or to help you find just the right location for your new horse farm.

If you do not find a property on this site that fits your needs, there are still many others, contact us and we will help. We have the largest list of available horse properties in South Florida as well as contracts with the top Equestrian Real Estate Specialists throughout Florida! If you are selling your horse property, we will market it to the RIGHT people. Horse owners, REALTORS who deal with horse properties and other equestrian industry specialists will all be notified of your listing. Our sister company, Papillon Redevelopment, a licensed and insured General Contractor, offers design, build and construction managment services for horse structures and facilities. We can offer one-stop shopping for all of your horse property needs.

Owning horse properties also has it's own challenges and benefits regarding taxes, which can become confusing.  Agricultral exemptions, 1031 Exchanges and more are things we can help you sort through.  We are Certified 1031 Exchange Realtors and will be able to discuss with you possible tax reduction strategies when either buying or selling a horse property.  

Where to live with your horses in Florida

Highlands County:

• Saddle Ridge - Natural equestrian community with large 10+ acre parcels and custom homes. 

Miami Dade County:

• Horse Country - The last stand of agricultural living in densely developed Miami.
• Homestead - Dade County's oldest agricultural community in South-West Dade County located at the footsteps of the Florida Keys with small town charm and rich heritage.
• Redland - Take a tour through this prospering agricultural community in South-West Dade County.
• 8.5 Sq. Mi. Area - The protected Eastern edge of the Florida Everglades which has, under strict regulation of the US Corp of Engineers, some residential population.

Broward County:

• Parkland - A community strong in equestrian living and family life.
• Southwest Ranches - The Town is a rural environment, filled with grazing animals, nurseries, farms, and exquisite and unique scenery and an abundance of wildlife.
• Davie - A family-oriented and diverse community that retains its hometown feeling, offers customer friendly services to its residents, both human and equestrian.

Palm Beach County:

• Wellington - One of South Florida's most well known equestrian communities and home of the Winter Equestrian Festival
• Loxahatchee - Home of Royal Palm Beach and The Acreage

Diversity is my middle name!  I thrive on knowing and experiencing new things and am constantly in flux of what I am working on, researching and discovering.  A passion for real estate and design has led me on a winding path to today.  College in Richmond VA (go Spiders) provided me a B.S. in Business Administration and a springboard to my first job as Asst. Project Manager at The Oliver Carr Company, which later became the Mammoth REIT, CarrAmerica, now a national Commercial Property owner, manager and developer (back then it was still private and we still worked with Mr. Carr).  After a few years there working my way to project manager and nearly completing a degree in interior design, I headed off to Germany where I lived with my then-husband and still-daughter, for 5 years. 

Returning to the US and moving to Miami started my next life, this time on the general contractor  side building the interiors of the commercial spaces I used to manage while with Carr.  Five years and many beautiful spaces later, my husband Cliff and I decided to go out on our own, and we started Papillon Redevelopment, a general contracting and development firm in Miami.  A year later Papillon Real Estate followed with my partner, Shelly Montalvo.

My passions are many, and I have miraculously managed to tie many into my work: real estate, horses, Florida history and off-the path locations, reading, technology and the web, mentoring, farm life, yoga, ancestry, historic preservation and architecture, writing and more.  

I truly believe that if you dream it, you can do it.  Two years ago I completed the Goofy Challenge,  Disney Marathon's Great Challenge of a 1/2 marathon on Saturday and a full marathon on Sunday.  I won't tell you it was easy, but I dreamed it and I did it.  Real estate, as is everything in your life, is the same, only YOU create your barriers which means you have the power to break through them.

My favorite quote -- "The universe tends to unfold as it should" from Harold and Kumar go to White Castle and, and in the famous words of NPR..."This, I believe".