Best Miami Neighborhoods 2026 — Ranked by Sales Activity

The compute job re-runs after every full MLS sync (currently weekly) and after manual triggers by the editorial team. The "updated" date at the top of the page reflects the last successful run.

Real estate moves slowly. A single-quarter window catches too few sales per building — a luxury condo with two closings in a quarter versus one in the prior year would register as "2× velocity," which isn't a real signal. Six months captures 2–3 days-on-market cycles and stabilizes the ratio.

Miami sales are seasonal — Q1 snowbird activity doesn't resemble Q3. Comparing each six-month window to the same six months one year earlier cancels that seasonality so a Q1 reading reflects the year-over-year story, not the tourist cycle.

No. All four axes filter to sold or for-sale listings only. Closed rentals have DOM and price curves that don't belong in a for-sale demand index — including them would depress scores across the board.

No — it's descriptive. The ranking tells you which markets have actually been closing more, faster, at higher sale-to-list ratios over the past six months. It's a measurement of current momentum, not a forecast of next year's prices. Treat it as a starting point for deeper research.

Entities with too few comparable sales in the current window get a score of zero and fall out of the ranked list. For buildings we require at least 3 sales in the past 6 months and 5 in the trailing 12 months; for neighborhoods we require 10 in the trailing 12. This keeps single-transaction noise from distorting the index.