Miami's Little Havana Emerges As One Of Few Sellers Market For Condos
A review of the latest condo statistics shows the average asking price in Miami's Little Havana is about $456 per square foot.
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Miami’s Little Havana neighborhood is in a sellers market for condos with about four months of supply currently listed for sale near the end of the South Florida Winter Buying Season, according to an analysis of statistics compiled by CondoVulturesRealty.com.
Miami’s Little Havana neighborhood is defined for this report as Southwest 8th Street north to Florida State Road 836 and/or the Miami River, and Interstate 95 west to Southwest/ Northwest 37th Avenue. Little Havana is located west of Greater Downtown Miami, north of Miami’s Coconut Grove and east of Coral Gables.
In the 12 months of 2023, buyers purchased an average of nearly eight units per month for a total of about 92 units between January and December.
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Based on the current active listings in the Multiple Listing Service – a database used by Realtors to market condos – the Little Havana neighborhood is in a sellers market with a supply of less than 35 units available for purchase.
Generally, six months of supply is considered equilibrium for the housing market. Less months indicates a sellers market and more months points to a buyers market from a negotiating perspective.
This is an about-face from the sellers market of the pandemic years when a plethora of work-from-home employees relocated to South Florida from places such as California, Illinois and New York. The influx of transplants to South Florida bought up or leased out much of the available housing supply, which increased prices and triggered new development.
Rising property values from strong demand, skyrocketing insurance prices following the Surfside condo collapse disaster and high interest rates from a series of hikes by the Federal Reserve brought the South Florida housing market to a standstill in the second half of 2023.
Industry watchers are at odds as to the direction of the South Florida housing market in 2024. Bullish investors are predicting housing demand will reignite once interest rates begin to fall. Bearish investors contend that home prices are too high and likely to collapse in the months ahead.