The school-sector market south of Sunset Drive: A-rated Sunset Elementary, three jurisdictions in one polygon, and houses that trade in the millions on the strength of the address. There are 51 houses for sale today. We read the closings, house by house, and the rental rule, before anything here goes on a shortlist.
The market, not the pitch
Two sets of numbers, and the gap between them is the useful part. On the left, what sellers are asking today. On the right, what buyers actually paid over the last twelve months.
Source: MLS (Miami Realtors / Bridge), single-family houses in South Miami, Miami-Dade County, read on 21 September 2026. Active: 51 listings, 0 of them at or under $700,000, ranging from $1,299,000 to $78,000,000. Closed: 97 sales in the twelve months to that date, at a median 94.7% of the last asking price, in a median 85 days. Closed leases are excluded. The zone is the Sunset Elementary attendance polygon, not the postcodes around it.
The book on the market is priced above what has been closing, by roughly 18% on price per square foot. That is a mix effect as much as a discount: the large and the waterfront sit longer. It is also the reason we underwrite from closings, never from asking prices.
One market, several prices
No. Grouped by postcode, the spread is real: 33143 asks a median $7,592,500 ($1,401/sf); 33156 asks a median $16,900,000 ($2,977/sf). Anyone quoting you a single average is averaging across all of them.
| Postcode | For sale | Median ask | $/sf | Closed 12 mo | Median paid | $/sf paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 33143 | 40 | $7,592,500 | $1,401 | 78 | $5,675,000 | $1,255 |
| 33156 | 7 | $16,900,000 | $2,977 | 13 | $17,950,000 | $2,564 |
| 33146 | 4 | · | · | 6 | $2,240,501 | $1,034 |
Read on 21 September 2026. Active listings and the closings of the twelve months to that date, grouped by postcode; a median on fewer than 5 records is withheld. The median house that sold was 4,823 sf and built in 1992. 11 of the 51 active houses are on water.
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Before we recommend anything
1 of the 51 houses on the market mention Airbnb or short-term rental use in their own MLS text. We have not read the vacation-rental ordinance of South Miami yet, so this page makes no claim about short stays: it is a year-round market until the rule is read, dated and sourced. Here is what we read, on the property you are actually considering, before it goes on a shortlist.
Under Florida Statute 509.032(7)(b), a city may prohibit or limit vacation rentals only through rules adopted on or before 1 June 2011. Whether South Miami has such a rule, and what it says, is read from its code with the ordinance number and its date. Until then, nothing here says yes or no.
Any stay of six months or less needs the state DBPR vacation-rental licence and carries the county tourist development tax on top of 6% Florida sales tax and the county surtax, whatever the city says.
What we read parcel by parcel is the record at the county and at the city, the flood zone and the roof age, and we note where we read it and on what date.
A homeowners association or a deed restriction can forbid what a city allows. On a house this is often the binding constraint.
What this means for an investor: underwrite this zone on annual leases and on resale, which is what the closings and the signed leases measure; a short-stay upside, if the ordinance allows one, is a bonus to verify, never the base case.
Florida Statutes 509.032(7)(b), 2025 text. The city ordinance has not been read for this page; when it is, its number, date and reader will appear here. Nothing on this page certifies that a rental is legal at any address, and no number here is a projection of what a house will earn.
Same coast, other rules
Other house neighborhoods a few minutes away, each with its own price and its own rental rule. The question that decides between them is answered on its own page.
Asked before every shortlist
We have not read the South Miami ordinance yet, so this page does not say. Under Florida Statute 509.032(7)(b) a city may only prohibit or limit vacation rentals through rules adopted on or before 1 June 2011; the answer is the ordinance number and its date, which we read before any shortlist. Any stay of six months or less needs the state DBPR licence and carries the tourist tax regardless.
51 are for sale on 21 September 2026, at a median asking price of $7,990,000 and $1,518 per square foot, from $1,299,000 to $78,000,000. Over the previous twelve months 97 sold, at a median $5,825,000 and $1,285 per square foot, in a median 85 days and at 94.7% of the last asking price.
63 single-family houses were leased through the MLS in the twelve months to 21 September 2026, at a median $14,000 a month and $4.87 per square foot. Against the median house sold in the same period that is a 2.9% gross yield before property tax, insurance, upkeep and vacancy, and it is a long-lease number, not a short-stay projection.
No. Grouped by postcode, the spread is real: 33143 asks a median $7,592,500 ($1,401/sf); 33156 asks a median $16,900,000 ($2,977/sf). Anyone quoting you a single average is averaging across all of them.
One email a week: what closed, what is new, one measured opinion. No listings dump.
The 12-month report · 24h
The closings of the last twelve months, the rents signed, and the rental rule with its source: the report behind the numbers on this page, plus a shortlist if you tell us the budget and what the house has to do.
What you get: the 12-month report on Sunset · a shortlist from the MLS and off-market · the parcel-level rental read, with its source and its date.
Send us the address. We come back with the closed comparables on its own street, the rents signed nearby and what the record says about rental use on that parcel.