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Raw data sources: American Community Survey (U.S. Census Bureau), U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Federal Housing Finance Agency.
Methodology: NeighborhoodScout uses over 600 characteristics to build a neighborhood profile… Read more about Scout's Real Estate Data
With a population of 455,924, 190,282 total housing units (homes and apartments), and a median house value of $673,174, Miami house prices are not only among the most expensive in Florida, Miami real estate also is some of the most expensive in all of America.
Large apartment complexes or high rise apartments are the single most common housing type in Miami, accounting for 60.10% of the city's housing units. Other types of housing that are prevalent in Miami include single-family detached homes ( 23.13%), row houses and other attached homes ( 8.63%), and a few duplexes, homes converted to apartments or other small apartment buildings ( 7.39%). Cities with mostly row houses, apartments, and other high density housing types are relatively uncommon, and characteristic of compact cities that frequently have a downtown or other neighborhoods where amenities are within walking distance and a lot of street life can be seen.
Miami is dominated by renter-occupied one, two, or no bedrooms apartments. 69.87% of Miami's dwellings are rentals.
Miami homes and real estate are some of the newest in America. 34.22% of Miami's housing was built since 2000, making the city have a very new look and feel. If you like the amenities of newer homes and subdivisions, then you will probably like what the Miami real estate market has to offer. Quite a bit of the housing here was also built between 1940-1969 ( 32.63%), and between 1970-1999 ( 25.25%). There's also some housing in Miami built before 1939 ( 7.90%).
Vacant housing appears to be an issue in Miami. Fully 13.43% of the housing stock is classified as vacant. Left unchecked, vacant Miami homes and apartments can be a drag on the real estate market, holding Miami real estate prices below levels they could achieve if vacant housing was absorbed into the market and became occupied. Housing vacancy rates are a useful measure to consider, along with other things, if you are a home buyer or a real estate investor.
In the last 10 years, Miami has experienced some of the highest home appreciation rates of any community in the nation. Miami real estate appreciated 158.90% over the last ten years, which is an average annual home appreciation rate of 9.98%, putting Miami in the top 10% nationally for real estate appreciation. If you are a home buyer or real estate investor, Miami definitely has a track record of being one of the best long term real estate investments in America through the last ten years.
Over the last year, Miami appreciation rates have trailed the rest of the nation. In the last twelve months, Miami's appreciation rate has been 2.62%, which is lower than appreciation rates in most communities in America. In the latest quarter, NeighborhoodScout's data show that house appreciation rates in Miami were at -0.39%, which equates to an annual appreciation rate of -1.56%.
Notably, Miami's appreciation rate in the latest quarter is one of the lowest in America.
Relative to Florida, our data show that Miami's latest annual appreciation rate is higher than 60% of the other cities and towns in Florida.
One very important thing to keep in mind is that these are average appreciation rates for the city. Individual neighborhoods within Miami differ in their investment potential, sometimes by a great deal. Fortunately, you can use NeighborhoodScout to pinpoint the exact neighborhoods in Miami - or in any city or town - that have the best track record of real estate appreciation, by the latest quarter, the last year, 2 years, 5 years, 10 years, or even since 2000, to assist you in making the best Miami real estate investment or home purchase decisions.
$673,174
for Florida
for nation
190,282
$2,717 / per month