MIAMI—We've recently taken a look back at some of the most pivotal real estate cases in 2014. Manny Farach, an attorney with the West Palm Beach office of law firm Richman Greer, served up 5 Real Estate Law Cases You Should Remember and 3 Land Use Legal Battles Worth Noting. The most popular of the bunch was A Cautionary Tale for Brokers.

But before we close the door on the 2015 predictions, let's look at five more. I reached out to Holland & Knight to get a sense of what its attorneys see coming down the pike in 2015. Here's what they told me:

1. Tech Scene Rising

“South Florida development will increasingly be attuned to the expansion of the local urban tech start-up scene, with a focus on Miami as the tech capital for Latin America, and also to the area's growth as an international art market and destination,” David Sofge, senior counsel in the firm's Fort Lauderdale office, tells GlobeSt.com. Indeed, eMerge Americas made a big splash in Miami last May.

2. Redevelopment Opportunities Revealed

“In Miami, some of the most interesting opportunities will be found in urban redevelopment, in places that seemed non-viable before,” Vivian De Las Cuevas-Diaz, a partner at the firm, tells GlobeSt.com. “As a result, developers who are willing to be creative with space will be rewarded.”

3. Credible Crowdfunding

Crowdfunding has been working its way into the commercial real estate financing world, but Sofge sees the trend maturing in 2015. He says, “'Accredited' crowdfunding will increasingly be a force in some market sectors, although due to legal requirements and logistical constraints the expansion will be gradual. True equity crowdfunding for non-accredited investors is still barely on the horizon, and may not survive the SEC's regulatory process in any useful form.”

4. Marketplace Lending Expands

Finally, Sofge is betting marketplace lending, also known as P2P, will expand. “Marketplace lending will expand in small-dollar retail transactions, and for large transactions will increasingly provide financing for the higher-risk parts of development projects,” he predicts, “enabling banks to finance lower-risk portions of a project that suit their strategic and regulatory parameters.”