Pinecrest: Estate-Sized Lots

Every sale on this page is counted by where the house sits inside Pinecrest's village boundary, whatever neighborhood the listing agent typed into the MLS (how the sorting works).

What You Will Actually Pay

Over the past twelve months, 233 Pinecrest single-family homes closed at a $2,725,000 median, and the middle half of those sales landed between $1,850,000 and $4,400,000. Sorting the same sales by lot size splits the village into three price bands.

On lots under half an acre, the middle half of 103 sales traded between $1.6 million and $2.3 million. Half-acre to one-acre lots, another 103 sales, ran $2.5 million to $5 million. The 27 sales on an acre or more spread from about $3.8 million to $10.9 million.

The year a house was built moves the price too. The 31 homes built since 2020 sold at a $6.9 million median, and a recent build on a lot under half an acre can close above an older house on a full acre. That is why I price a Pinecrest home off the lot and the year it was built before I look at the square footage.

What I Tell My Clients

Pinecrest closes about 60 homes a quarter, so a few large estate sales can swing one quarter's median. I price a specific house against recent sales on similar lots in the same school boundary and treat the village-wide median as background.

The pace picked up this year. The median home went under contract in 43 days in the third quarter, against 92 a year earlier, and supply stood at 5.4 months on October 4, inside my four-to-six-month balanced range. Active listings ask about 21% more per square foot than buyers just paid, so I price sellers to the closed sales and tell buyers to read the asking price as an opening position.

Before you fall for a house, confirm its school assignment with M-DCPS. Attendance boundaries do not follow the village line, and some southern addresses zone to schools in Palmetto Bay.

School quality is the primary engine of Pinecrest demand, and it is the first thing I verify on any target home, because attendance boundaries do not follow the village line.

On the public side, the core feeder pattern runs through Palmetto Elementary, which holds a 10/10 GreatSchools rating, and Pinecrest Elementary, long one of the top-rated elementary schools in Florida. Palmetto Middle School carries an 8/10 rating, and the pattern feeds into Miami Palmetto Senior High School, the zoned high school for most of the village. Southwood Middle School, rated 9/10, sits just south of the village line in Palmetto Bay and serves part of the area, and Howard Drive Elementary, rated 9/10, sits just over the line in Palmetto Bay with a boundary that reaches into south Pinecrest. Because two of those schools straddle the municipal line, the only reliable way to know a specific home's assigned schools is to check the address against the current Miami-Dade County Public Schools boundary, which I do before we tour.

Countywide magnet options widen the picture. Coral Reef Senior High, a magnet school south of the village, carries a 9/10 rating and draws students from across the county by application rather than by home address.

Private and independent schools give Pinecrest buyers a strong second track. Gulliver Preparatory's upper school is at 6575 North Kendall Drive in Pinecrest. Its Marian C. Krutulis PK-8 campus is at 12595 Red Road in Coral Gables. A short drive out, Westminster Christian School runs a PK-12 campus in Palmetto Bay, and Ransom Everglades sits farther north in Coconut Grove. Several faith-based schools also operate in and around the village.

GreatSchools recalculates its scores each data cycle, so the exact number on any school can move between the day you read this and the day you enroll. The relative picture in Pinecrest has been stable for years. The elementary schools rate at or near the top of the county, and that consistency, more than any single year's score, is what holds up home values here.

Pinecrest trades some commute convenience for its space and its schools, and it is worth being specific about what that trade looks like.

US-1, the South Dixie Highway, runs the western length of the village and is the main artery north toward Coral Gables, Coconut Grove, and downtown, and south toward Palmetto Bay and Cutler Bay. The two principal east-west roads are SW 88th Street, Kendall Drive, across the north end, and SW 104th Street, Killian Drive, through the middle. For the expressway network, the Snapper Creek Expressway, State Road 878, runs just north and west of the village and connects US-1 with the Don Shula Expressway, State Road 874. That gives drivers a reasonably quick path to the broader county highway system without an expressway cutting through the neighborhoods themselves.

Public transit is limited. Pinecrest is not on the Metrorail line. The nearest stations are Dadeland North and Dadeland South, both just off US-1 at the village's northern edge, which puts a park-and-ride commute to Coral Gables, the health district, and downtown within reach for residents on the north side. Metrobus routes serve US-1 and the main cross streets, but the village is built around the car, and most households drive. Dadeland South access update, checked September 19, 2026: station construction affects bus access, traffic flow and pedestrian routes. The station is open. Check the county's current project advisory before planning your connection.

For representative off-peak drive times from central Pinecrest, near Pinecrest Gardens: the University of Miami campus in Coral Gables is roughly 15 minutes; Coral Gables and the Miracle Mile district run about 20 minutes; Miami International Airport is around 25 minutes and roughly 13 miles by way of the Palmetto Expressway; and Brickell and downtown Miami, about 11 to 15 miles out, run roughly 25 to 35 minutes depending on the route. Those figures stretch during rush hour, and US-1 in particular slows at peak. If a short commute to the urban core is the top priority, the northern neighborhoods nearer Kendall Drive and the Metrorail stations shave the most time.