Area Guide
Miami Shores homes for sale — what buyers should know
Miami Shores calls itself the Village, and it behaves like one: its own police force, its own recreation department, a country club with golf and tennis, and a downtown along NE Second Avenue where residents actually run into each other. The housing stock is the draw — 1920s Mediterranean revival alongside excellent mid-century modern and MiMo examples, on wide lots under a heavy tree canopy.
Prices generally run $750,000 to $1.6 million for well-kept homes west of Biscayne, with the eastern section toward the bay reaching $2 million to $6 million, particularly for waterfront on the Little River and Biscayne Bay. Renovation projects are common and the village's architectural sensibility rewards restraint over gut-modernization.
Barry University sits at the northern edge, the Shores Performing Arts Theatre and the village's aquatic center anchor recreation, and the MiMo District along Biscayne Boulevard has become one of Miami's better restaurant corridors. Downtown Miami is fifteen to twenty minutes south; the Design District is ten.
This suits families who want character and community, architects and designers who care what a house is, and buyers priced out of Coral Gables who want the same feeling from a different decade.