Coconut Grove Homes For Sale

Single-Family Houses for Sale in Coconut Grove: Start With How You Want to Live

Each kind of house here suits a different way of living.

Older Houses and New Construction

An older house can be an Old Florida cottage with a history and a garden: a house you can make your own, room by room.

A new house is for a move without a project: you unpack and live. The new construction homes of the neighborhood must be built to the Florida Building Code’s standard for the High Velocity Hurricane Zone, which covers Miami-Dade.

An updated older house can give you both: a cottage’s garden and old trees, and rooms that are already finished.

Waterfront Homes and Estates

Waterfront homes in Coconut Grove sit on Biscayne Bay, some with a boat dock.

An estate on an acre or more leaves room for a guest house and space between you and the street. If privacy comes first, start with the homes in gated communities.

The Top of the Market

At the top of the market are the luxury homes in Coconut Grove, and frontage on the bay is what cannot be added later. The city owns nearly all of the 1.5-mile shoreline between Peacock and Kennedy parks, so private lots on that stretch are few.

The Moorings, a small enclave in South Coconut Grove, has about 38 single-family lots on three streets, so the choice there is small. In December 2025, a house in the Camp Biscayne enclave sold for $71.9 million.

Some houses never reach the public listings, so the market has to be followed closely.

Where Houses Sit in Coconut Grove: North Grove, Center Grove, South Grove and the Village Center

Each part of the Grove has its own kind of house. The city’s zoning divides much of the Coconut Grove neighborhood into four areas: North Grove, Center Grove, South Grove and the Village Center.

North Grove lies along the bay, with six marinas along one stretch of South Bayshore Drive. It includes Villa Woodbine, on a limestone bluff over the bay, and the Treasure Trove subdivision, with homes built between 1993 and 2000. For a house near the marinas, start in North Grove.

Center Grove, between US 1 and Oak Avenue from SW 27th to SW 32nd Avenue, has about a hundred single-family houses, almost all on lots under 10,000 square feet, next to townhouses and two-unit buildings. For a house on a smaller lot near the Village Center, look in Center Grove.

The Village Center has fewer and smaller houses, and the Coconut Grove Sailing Club marina, with 247 wet slips. For a house near a club marina and the center of the Grove, look in the Village Center.

South Grove has a group of houses the city has designated historic, among them the Marjory Stoneman Douglas House and the Farkas Residence. At least six more date from the early 20th century. For a historic house the city protects, start in South Grove.

Whichever house you start with, the reasons to buy one here come down to six.

Why Buyers Choose a House in Coconut Grove: Character, Shade and the Bay

What draws buyers to the Grove comes with a house here.

A House With Character, on a Street That Keeps Its Own

The city caps a house’s height, and in NCD-3, the conservation zoning for much of the Grove, next-door houses by one builder may not use the same architectural plans, so a street here does not fill with copies.

The rules bind your neighbors as well, so the street you choose is shaped by the same limits as your house.

Old Trees and a Garden of Your Own

Old trees are shade you cannot buy later. The City of Miami protects larger trees, so a rebuild next door needs a city permit before a protected tree there can come down.

In NCD-3, at least 30% of a single-family lot stays green, so the garden is part of the house, not the space left over around it.

The Bay and a Dock of Your Own

Three yacht clubs stand on the Grove’s stretch of Biscayne Bay, and Dinner Key Marina has a size-based waitlist for annual slips.

With a private dock, there is no slip to wait for. You go out on the water when you want, from the garden, and the bay becomes part of an ordinary weekday, not a weekend plan.

Errands on Foot, With Brickell a Short Drive Away

Walk Score rates Northeast Coconut Grove 74, “Very Walkable,” and Southwest Coconut Grove 60, “Somewhat Walkable.”

From the Village Center, Brickell is about 4 miles and downtown Miami about 6 miles by road, around 10 to 12 minutes without traffic.

In the more walkable parts, a café or a park can be a walk from the house. So a house with its own garden does not mean giving up the city.

Schools Close to Home

The address sets the public school: Miami-Dade County Public Schools assigns it by attendance boundaries. Miami-Dade public schools with 33133 addresses include Coconut Grove Elementary and, on the Coral Gables side of the ZIP code, George W. Carver Elementary and Middle School.

Ransom Everglades has two campuses in Coconut Grove, on South Bayshore Drive and Main Highway; Carrollton School of the Sacred Heart has two on Main Highway.

When the school you want comes first, the search narrows to the streets around it, and the school day starts a few minutes from home, not in morning traffic.

A private school’s admission calendar can also set the timing of the move.

How to Compare Houses in Coconut Grove: Settle the Lot and the Street First

Choosing among houses that look alike in the listings is the harder part. Two listings at a similar price can be very different purchases, and the photos do not show why.

What the Price Pays For: Ground, Street and House

Much of a house’s assessed value can be the ground under it. On six Coconut Grove parcels checked in Miami-Dade County’s 2026 tax roll, land made up between about half and all of the total.

These are assessments, not sale prices, but they show the share of land changing from house to house. If a house is mostly land and you plan to rebuild, it is worth comparing by the land and what the lot allows, not by a finish you would take down.

The lot and the street weigh as much as the house: a big lot with old trees, a tight lot with a new house, a quiet block or a through street each change what a price buys.

A renovation can change almost anything inside a house, but it cannot add a foot to the lot or move the street. So the lot and the street come first; the house can change later, within the city’s rules.

What a lot allows, from a guest building to height and floor area, is set for each address, so it belongs in the comparison too.

The Cost of a Year in the House

Beyond the price, a year in the house has its own cost. Property tax is recalculated from your purchase price, so the seller’s current tax bill is not a guide to yours.

Homeowners and flood insurance add to it, as does maintenance of the roof, the trees and, on the water, the seawall. Federal flood insurance is priced for the house itself, from its distance to water, elevation and rebuilding cost, so two houses side by side can cost different amounts to insure. The yearly cost belongs in the comparison before the offer, not after.

What to Check Before an Offer

A few things are worth checking before an offer, because they change what a house will cost you and what you can do with it.

Whether the work on the house was permitted. A permit history shows only the work the city approved, and unpermitted work can surface later, at appraisal or resale.

Flooding the seller knows of. Florida law requires the seller to disclose it in writing, at or before the contract signing, for the time they owned the house, so it is on the table before you sign.

The age of the house and the roof. For a house more than 20 years old, Citizens Property Insurance requires a four-point inspection when you apply for a policy, and once a roof reaches 15 years, its condition can decide what an insurer asks for.

On the water, the dock and the seawall. What they will need can be part of the price talk, not a surprise after closing.

Whether the house is designated historic. Exterior changes, new construction and demolition then need the city’s approval, and the requirement stays with the house after a sale.

None of this has to rule a house out; it changes what you offer.

The answers to these sit in different records, and bringing them together for one address starts with one message.