Miami Home Prices Hit Another All Time High, Up For 140 Consecutive Months

Miami single-family home prices have now risen for 140 consecutive months – the longest streak ever recorded, according to the Miami Association of Realtors.

In July, the median sales price for homes sold in Miami-Dade was $631,670. That is a new record, and an increase of 10.8% compared to July 2022.

Condos and Townhomes are on a similar streak, with prices staying even or increasing in 140 of the last 146 months. The median sales price for condos and townhomes in Miami-Dade increased 10.5% in July 2023, compared to the same month last year.

Inventory remains extremely low compared to historical averages. The number of homes and condos available for sale last month was nearly 60% lower than July 2019, when it was close to the historical average.

 

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Millennial
1 month ago

I get that this is exciting for homeowners but this is actually pretty depressing news for many of us that dream of owning a home here. Especially considering how low wages are.

Ana
1 month ago

imagine you grew up in Miami, thinking if you have a 100k a year job you will be able to buy a mansion in the grove… which then changed to, if you have a 100k a year job you will be able to buy a house in the roads or maybe find a fixer-uper in the grove…. which then changed to, if you have a 100k year job you might find a house in West Miami or South Miami…. which then changed to, if you have a 100k a year job now you are able to rent a spot without roommates.

Anonymous
1 month ago

What’s funny about this is that you aren’t exaggerating. And what’s even funnier is that somebody who doesn’t know Miami would read that and think it happened over 20+ years, but all of that happened within 3 years! With my current income I would have been able to buy a house by the water in a nice bay location close to downtown/SoBe a few years ago. Now I can’t get shit for my money. Coconut Grove prices from 5 years ago look like a distant distorted reality.

Ana
1 month ago

More like ten years on that time line – but the big change was the last one.

Ana
1 month ago

BTW, people accuse me of being fake and not living in Miami – meanwhile I lived here my whole life, except when I went to college at UF. I did everything I was told to do, worked hard, went to college on scholarship (bright futures), went to Law School and got a good job… and nothing has worked out as planned. I live in an apartment next to the river on the LH side, and I like it, but I always dreamed of owning a home off tigertail ave growing up. That seems like a fantasy these days, and I’m getting old and I don’t think its every going to happen at this point.

Sven
1 month ago

Stop it Ana!
You can do it.
Don’t get your real estate investment and financial planning advice from this forum! (present company notwithstanding).

You seem to appreciate what you currently have, and keep doing that.
Surround yourself with good, thoughtful people, and successful people. There are plenty of ways to buy real estate and stop paying someone else’s mortgage.

Sven
1 month ago

Why?
Because you do not see what everyone who visits most obviously sees?

If WE had a Metromover 3 years ago, would you have bought then?

Don’t be bitter…just be VERY nice to your Landlord, if the LL put debt on the property that you should have bought 3 years ago, your LL probably has a 2.5% Mortgage for the next 27 years.

Anonymous
1 month ago

You left out being able to afford neighborhoods along the Metrorail north of Government Center station, but of course you don’t want to live in “those” neighborhoods.

Anon
1 month ago

Those aren’t middle class neighborhoods. Those are working poor neighborhoods. 100k/yr is a high income by South Florida salary standards, but lotsa luck being able to afford to buy anything more than a decent 1 bedroom condo in a true middle class neighborhood on that.

100k is poor, might as well be on welfare
1 month ago

A salary of 100k is considered high, as it’s comparable to what delivery workers earn, which is around the top of the poverty line. If you’re unable to earn more, it might be worth considering your living situation and making the best of what you have.

Anonymous
1 month ago

I’ve lived here my whole life. If you don’t agree with me you’re telling me you’re a kid living with his parents with no real adult experiences.

Anonymous
1 month ago

^^poor troll attempt. You probably make $15/hr p/t and live with your parents rent free.

Sven
1 month ago

BS.
#1. $100k is not poor.
#2.According to UPS, the average total compensation package for a UPS driver is $145,000 per year. This includes $95,000 in salary and $50,000 in benefits.

#3. If you are lawyer making less that $150,000 in compensation. Consider getting a day job at UPS and picking up some remote work.

Stop Entitlements
1 month ago

Haha, they come across as quite entitled. Desiring a mansion in Coconut Grove on a modest salary seems unrealistic. It’s interesting how they can’t even maintain their own outdated homes, yet believe resisting development and public improvements will secure their affordability. Perhaps they should consider relocating to a more affordable area along the metro north.

Anonymous
1 month ago

so you’re suggesting that local residents gentrify and displace other local residence to make way for who – the super-rich NY’ers and CA tech people?

Anonymous
1 month ago

It’s their homes, they get to do what they want. If you actually owned anything beyond an iPhone you’d understand.

Never greener on the other side
1 month ago

Come out to San Francisco!

Nope
1 month ago

Yeah salaries have gone up and it sounds like this person thought they could float on into a mansion, crazy fantasy world.

Anonymous
1 month ago

100k a year is not floating. Wages have not gone up much in the last ten years. It’s that the people that moved to Miami make much more than the people living here.

Anonymous
1 month ago

It’s not even so much that they’ve moved here. It’s that they’ve plowed mega$$$ into vacation homes and investment properties here. They’re using homes here as cash vaults.

Anonymous
1 month ago

thank you, you’ve proved my point,… they have so much money they can stash it away in a second home

Sven
1 month ago

If this second home cost the Producer $2Million dollars to buy. The ANNUAL property taxes will be +/- 2% of that purchase price.

$40,000 EVERY year in property taxes will be paid by this despised second home owner.

+/- 40% of all property taxes go to Miami Dade Public Schools.
That is, about $16,000 EVERY SINGLE YEAR. Whether they have kids or dont.

Think about your contributions to society. Think about your contribution to the Miami Dade Public Schools.

Don’t get mad at the people buying $2m second homes.

Thank them…all this “stashing away” is a tremendous benefit to the quality of life of Miamians .

Sven
1 month ago

My wages have.

My value and my pay increased substantially from 20 years old to when I was 30 years old.

My value and my pay increased substantially from 30 years old to when I was 40 years old.

Once you pass 40, it’s ridiculous. Especially if you read a lot, work a lot, and constantly improve on your skill set and expertise.

The producers win in the end. The parasites who stagnate do not.

Sven
1 month ago

My first Miami job paid $24k and I had a room in a house with 4 housemates for about 4 years.
Then, a roommate in a house and then apartment making +/- $80k per year for another 10 years. But then I bought a one bedroom condo….not my dream condo…but something. i keep paying my own mortgage, and keep trading up.

Prices have been going up.
My skill set has been getting better.
Equity has increased.
And now my neighbor just sold his house for twice of what I paid for mine about 6 months before.

My parents never told me how to be smart with money. But they bought their first house early in their 20’s when it SEEMED expensive, and over the long haul, they paid their mortgage down with every monthly payment, and their value increased. They led by example.

Go buy something with three bedrooms and find any number of suckers to rent out those other rooms from you until you are ready to trade up.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Inventory remains low because people are locked into their low mortgages rates and will not sell. Who would give up a 2.3% mortgage when even a cd now gives you 5%? Runaway inflation on construction costs and the new world of expensive construction financing hinders new construction. Not, to mention the land costs of developing.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Nobody will as of now, but if/when a recession hits and job losses mount then some will be forced to sell and inventory will rise.

Aurelius
1 month ago

The problem is that we are so far below historical inventory that even if some were forced to sell that would only get us close to the historical average.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Getting close to historical supply average would bring price appreciation rates back to normal.

Huh
1 month ago

Nobody will sell their main residences. People are living here to stay.

What
1 month ago

They will when they lose their job and have to move to Dallas to find another comparable one. Has happened repeatedly in the past. Will happen again.

Sven
1 month ago

When did this happen before?

I recall the global banking crisis of 2008/9, but never a time when Miami was uniquely “devastated” in the last generation or two.

Giii
1 month ago

What inventory is low???

Anon
1 month ago

Miami needs to relax – ya’ll have no business charging 800k for a box in Hialeah

Anonymous
1 month ago

It’s mind boggling–$800k takes at very least $300k/yr household income–who the heck who makes that kind of money wants to live in a 1400 sq ft 1950s Hialeah dump? That’s dentist/lawyer money.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Lawyers are grossly under payed in Miami. Like can we go on strike?

Anonymous
1 month ago

Lol, and in the last article someone was talking about how many top 100 lawyers were moving to Brickell while at the same time saying how its mom and pop. the people on this message board don’t want to advocate for the middle class. It’s all about making brickell nicer and more walkable or remembering how I95 was bad for Overtown in the 60’s. When this NYC message looses its footing they just shift topics.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Lots of urban planning fairies on here and 20somethings stuck with adolescent mentalities who likely have never put in an honest day’s work in in their lives.

Dalron J
1 month ago

Miami is becoming the wealth capital of America. Most of the rich or successful people I know want to move down because weather, water, and no taxes. I only see the issue becoming worse.

Anonymous
1 month ago

…… and low crime compared to other States.

Anonymous
1 month ago

10%+ appreciation over the past year—hey that’s down from nearly 30% appreciation the prior 12 months.

Anonymous
1 month ago

If you’re a buyer (like me) you’re screwed…basically cant expect a long term return much more than inflation at these prices on top of 7.5% mortgage rates

Anonymous
1 month ago

^that’s the way real estate has historically appreciated–1-2 percent above inflation. Last 3 years are an outlier.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Property prices will double in Brickell in the next five years. We are on the cusp of a Manhattan level boom and if you don’t buy now you will be priced out completely.

Anonymous
1 month ago

What? Manhattan level prices maybe, but boom? Population isn’t spiking and we don’t have enough units to get to that kind of population level

Something Tells Me
1 month ago

There’s more COVID lockdowns coming, and NY and other comparable cities aren’t getting any cheaper. Prepare for another big real estate boom, prices doubling up again soon.

Anonymous
1 month ago

OK Realtor

MMN
1 month ago

I’m just about to list my 2bed/2.5bath in 900 building and have a 3.125% mortgage I got in 2021. People’s lives need to move on. I don’t get the feeling of ‘stuck’. Live your life in what makes you happy, not dictated to by a mortgage rate. Which btw, you can always refinance if rates come down in 2/3 years or whenever.

Harv
1 month ago

I am loving my life by listing my condos for rent

Anon
1 month ago

You’re a fool for letting go of that mortgage rate.

Sven
1 month ago

Can I assume your mortgage?

SoBeMom
1 month ago

An increase in price of 10.8% YOY, but a much greater increase in PITI due to the big increases in interest rates and insurance.

Sven
1 month ago

You get what you vote for.

Anonymous
1 month ago

ITT “how dare I can’t afford million dollar prices with my useless college degree!” and “turn everything into multi-family, never mind infrastructure shortcomings!”

Anon
1 month ago

Statistic is slightly misleading. “Median” home prices have increased because regular home buyers are no longer in the market and only upper class buyers can afford to buy higher end homes in todays interest rate environment; hence, the 10.8% median increase.

Conrad
1 month ago

It was never intended for Miami to become an enclave of the ultra uber rich. We already have billionaire row on Collins Avenue, Brickell and Park West. Do you realize that retail workers will be forced out of Miami? This will come back to bite us in the a$$..remember I told you this 🙄

miami beach is escapist haven / Miami city is real
1 month ago

Lol Miami Beach is the playground for the rich, the City of Miami is the residences and workplace for the rich. It was always this way!

Sven
1 month ago

Conrad….have you studied the history that happened before you born?

Miami WAS intended, and WAS marketed as a place for the ultra rich. Go pick up the book, “Then and Now” Miami. Check out the mansions that used to line the waterfront in Brickell, on Collins Ave, and all throughout Miami and the beaches.

Also…pack a nice lunch, tour Viscaya, and be sure to listen to the docents talk about Deerings parties prior to the Roaring Twenties.

Anonymous
1 month ago

That’s NOT necessarily good news for the area. We’re becoming San Francisco, LA east.

Anonymous
1 month ago

At least politicians here aren’t dumb enough to adopt policies sold as solving the affordable housing crisis but end up making the situation even worse (rent control, inclusionary zoning, banning single-family zoning etc.).

Anon
1 month ago

not yet, at least

Anonymous
1 month ago

We just need to stop building affordable housing and never give out drugs and we will have a rich city. Perfect!

Cover the Podiums
1 month ago

Keep demolishing single family homes and create affordable mid-rise communities…Its literally the only solution

Anonymous
1 month ago

What about for those in the market to buy single family houses? Not much of a solution for those buyers.

Aurelius
1 month ago

Miami is not going to be a market for average people to own single family homes. Think Manhattan.

Anonymous
1 month ago

All of Miami? Come on now. This place is nothing like Manhattan, the financial capital of the world. Most here work service industry and construction jobs $15-$30/hr.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Labor costs in Miami are way higher than in Manhattan. Construction handymen and cleaners make twice as much as they do in Manhattan. It’s interesting that labor expenses are much higher in Miami. What’s noticeable is that the workers often feel entitled and struggle with showing up on time. You really have to keep an eye on them to make sure the work is good. Strangely, they even ask for more money than they would in Manhattan. It’s quite puzzling! The salaries need to go up, and wages need to go down.

Anonymous
1 month ago

^^get tested for drugs

Anonymous
1 month ago

Economically, Miami is far more Jacksonville than Manhattan.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Think something else other than Manhattan, including even other parts of NYC.

Anonymous
1 month ago

People commute over two hours to have a single family house and work in NYC, maybe some people should move to Boynton Beach or Lake Worth and take the train to Miami for work.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Or maybe 20 and 30 somethings will have to rent places in Kendall and Doral instead of Brickell and drive to work. Ohhhhh no!

Cover the Podiums
1 month ago

Umm…you do know we are surrounded by ocean and everglades right? We ran out of room. Single family homes will soon be only an option for millonaries. You might need to move to Orlando or Tampa

Anonymous
1 month ago

^^you can’t even spell millionaires, so guess it’s off to a lifetime of renting with roommates for you!

Anonymous
1 month ago

They can commute like everyone else if they can’t afford one of the thousands of single family homes in the city already

Anonymous
1 month ago

You anti-single family home folks are hilarious. You think any apartment building replacement will rent below two grand for a studio?

Anonymous
1 month ago

At least the roads will be clean with nice landscaping and lighting, and people can walk feeling safe. That’s what development does bro. I’ll take that over one of those boarded up single family homes with bars on the windows.

Anonymous
1 month ago

That’s why building vertically will be important in Miami. It’s a defense against flooding and will allow for single family homes. There is a weird rule in Miami that you can only build 2 floor houses, why not three or four floors? If you do that you can pack them in closer together.

Yikes
1 month ago

At least they won’t have bars on the window and be rat infested shit holes with chickens running around.

Anon
1 month ago

The amount of single-family homes in Miami is what’s stopping more inventory from being developed. If you want your own private mansion you should move to Parkland or Lake Worth.

Anon
1 month ago

People wanting simple normal under 2000 sq ft houses are looking for mansions?

Anon
1 month ago

In a dense city? Absolutely. That kind of low density is not compatible or sustainable in Miami. Otherwise we’d be Orlando or Phoenix.

Anonymous
1 month ago

We need to completely redevelop Little Havana – so much fertile land and knock down structures

Anonymous
1 month ago

Yeah that’s huge for being in the city. Try moving to the burbs.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Not all of even just city of Miami limits is city.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Right… arbitrarily upzone neighborhoods for multi-family when transit is a joke and traffic is already a nightmare. But at least I’m paying 500 dollars less, right?

Anonymous
1 month ago

If you want your pod house, move to Hong Kong.

Anon
1 month ago

If you want your farm move to Wyoming. This is a real city.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Even inner rings of Queens/Brooklyn got single family houses 🤡

Yikes
1 month ago

Railroad houses, not these mansions everywhere

Anonymous
1 month ago

where are “mansions everywhere”, and in what realm do you equate working-class SFH’s with mansions?

Anonymous
1 month ago

Nobody is wanting a pod house. I think we are saying if you want an affordable house, move to Lake Worth.

Anonymous
1 month ago

So true! And most them look like shi$$ and any other city would tear them down or enforce some fines for not maintaining the Yards properly!

Anonymous
1 month ago

It’s their own private property, they can do what they want with their houses and you have no choice but to respect it.

Anonymous
1 month ago

You can thank the folks in Park West for this amazing achievement.