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High Pines and Ponce-Davis are two unincorporated pockets of Miami-Dade inside zip 33143. The combined footprint runs roughly a square mile: High Pines occupies the block bounded by Sunset Drive (SW 72nd Street), Davis Drive (SW 80th Street), School House Road, and SW 57th Avenue. Ponce-Davis wraps east and south of that, bordered by Coral Gables on three sides and extending down to SW 88th Street. School House Road splits the two sub-areas north-south.
Ponce-Davis, the eastern half, trades on lot size. The median Ponce-Davis closing over the last 12 months landed at $5,500,000 on a median 0.85-acre lot, with a median 84 days on market across 29 single-family sales. These are estate-scale parcels, many with original 1950s and 1960s homes, and a steady pipeline of teardowns and custom builds. Inventory turns slowly because most of these homes don't come to market often.
High Pines, the western half, trades more on location than lot size. The median closing over the last 12 months was $3,450,000 on a 0.27-acre lot, with a median 41 days on market across 21 sales. Buyers here tend to run younger than in Ponce-Davis, and the hardest competition is for Sunset Elementary-zoned addresses under $3M, driven by the teardown-rebuild pattern on quarter-acre lots.
Neither area is incorporated; governance runs through Miami-Dade County. What actually moves prices here is the block-level mix of original 1950s and 1960s ranches, renovations, and recent new construction, and the lot-size spread between the two sub-areas. After 20+ years covering 33143, pricing starts at the last four sales on your specific street and the permit history on the houses flanking them. County-wide averages run too coarse for this granularity.
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High Pines + Ponce-Davis
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Why High Pines + Ponce-Davis
The Value Proposition
High Pines sits on quarter-acre lots in an unincorporated pocket of 33143, zoned Sunset Elementary (10/10), between Coral Gables and Pinecrest. Pinecrest cleared 251 sales at a $2,535,000 median on 77 days over the same window (MLS, Apr 2025 - Mar 2026), with twice the lot for the same money but ten to fifteen minutes further from the urban cores. South Miami, which shares the Sunset Elementary zone, sat cheaper at a $1,166,250 median on smaller lots closer to the Sunset Drive commercial district. High Pines sits between those two positions, carrying Pinecrest's school zone at something closer to Pinecrest's pricing on lots that walk to the Gables.
On the east side, Ponce-Davis trades on lot-to-value. A comparable Coral Gables estate sits on a quarter-acre to half-acre parcel at similar or higher prices; Ponce-Davis delivers closer to a full acre in the same corridor, with the 12-month top closing at $23M. Combined submarket volume sat against 459 closings in Coral Gables and 251 in Pinecrest over the same window. At this volume across a square mile, the listings that matter on your specific block don't stay public long, which is why I work 33143 every week.
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Common Questions
Frequently Asked Questions
Single-family homes across the combined High Pines and Ponce-Davis submarket are transacting at a $4,525,000 median (MLS, Apr 2025 - Mar 2026) across 50 closed sales, down 9.5% year over year. The two sub-areas price very differently: Ponce-Davis at a $5,500,000 median on 0.85-acre lots, High Pines at a $3,450,000 median on 0.27-acre lots. Median days on market is 65 combined, with Ponce-Davis at 84 and High Pines at 41.
Both sit inside zip 33143 as unincorporated pockets of Miami-Dade, between Coral Gables to the north and Pinecrest to the south. Ponce-Davis is estate-scale with mature oak canopy and older custom homes, many on half-acre-plus parcels. High Pines is mostly 1950s and 1960s ranches on quarter-acre lots, with an active teardown-rebuild pipeline and the closest-in access to Sunset Elementary from a sub-$3M price point. Neither is incorporated, so neither carries a city tax layer or municipal permit queue.
The public elementary is Sunset Elementary, rated 10/10, which is one of the reasons the submarket holds its price. Private options in the immediate area include Epiphany Catholic, Our Lady of Lourdes Academy, and St. Thomas Episcopal. Middle and senior boundaries vary by exact address, so buyers should confirm with Miami-Dade County Public Schools before closing.
Yes, with two caveats. One, you need to pick the right sub-area for your budget. Ponce-Davis is an estate-scale market with a $5.7M median; High Pines is a quarter-acre-lot market with a $2.5M median. Two, you need to be comfortable with unincorporated status, which means county-only permitting and no village architectural review. Past those, the fundamentals are strong. Sunset Elementary is rated 10/10. Access to US-1, Red Road, and the Gables is direct. There's no city tax layer, and volume was up 34% year over year. Source: MLS, Apr 2024 - Mar 2026.
Buyers in this submarket are usually cross-shopping Coral Gables, Pinecrest, and Glenvar Heights at the same time, so you want an agent who works the block-level comps on both sides of School House Road and can read how school zoning, lot size, and recent teardown activity price into the number on a given street. I'm Jorge Guanche, a Compass agent ranked in the Top 1.5% nationally by RealTrends, with 20+ years of Southwest Miami-Dade experience and 100+ five-star reviews. Happy to walk through what the data shows on your specific block.
Neither was annexed into Coral Gables, Pinecrest, or South Miami when those surrounding cities and villages incorporated. Coral Gables proposed annexing both in 2018; Miami-Dade County rejected the proposal in 2019. Both areas remain under direct county governance, which keeps permitting, zoning, and property tax decisions at the county level rather than at a city or village level. Buyers should confirm parcel specifics with the county before closing.
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The two sub-areas don't trade on the same fundamentals. If you want a real read on lot-to-value in Ponce-Davis or the teardown-vs-renovation math on a High Pines parcel, the comp data is specific to your block. Happy to pull it and talk through it.