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Raw data sources: American Community Survey (U.S. Census Bureau), U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Federal Housing Finance Agency.
Methodology: NeighborhoodScout uses over 600 characteristics to build a neighborhood profile… Read more about Scout's Real Estate Data
With a population of 8,002, 4,302 total housing units (homes and apartments), and a median house value of $665,033, Miramar Beach house prices are not only among the most expensive in Florida, Miramar Beach real estate also is some of the most expensive in all of America.
Large apartment complexes or high rise apartments are the single most common housing type in Miramar Beach, accounting for 55.60% of the town's housing units. Other types of housing that are prevalent in Miramar Beach include single-family detached homes ( 28.55%), duplexes, homes converted to apartments or other small apartment buildings ( 8.36%), and a few row houses and other attached homes ( 4.93%). Towns that are predominantly high-density buildings are relatively uncommon in the US. Because of the density, these types of towns are often walkable and compact, and often have a lively downtown.
Dwellings in Miramar Beach tend to be quite small (one, two, or no bedrooms) and owner occupied. In fact, 53.47% of the homes in Miramar Beach have two or fewer bedrooms.
There is a lot of housing in Miramar Beach built from 1970 to 1999 so parts of town may have that "Brady Bunch" look of homes popular in the '70s and early '80s, although some of these houses were built up through the early '90s as well. There is also a lot of housing in Miramar Beach built between 2000 and later ( 37.38%). A lesser amount of the housing stock also hails from between 1940-1969 ( 1.42%).
A decent proportion of the Miramar Beach housing stock is seasonally occupied. That is, homes and condos in Miramar Beach are occupied by people for a portion of the year - mainly for vacation purposes - and then locked up and left unoccupied for the remainder of the year as owners return to their primary residences. This characteristic of the Miramar Beach housing market speaks to its popularity as a vacation location of choice.
Appreciation rates for homes in Miramar Beach have been tracking above average for the last ten years, according to NeighborhoodScout data. The cumulative appreciation rate over the ten years has been 98.88%, which ranks in the top 40% nationwide. This equates to an annual average Miramar Beach house appreciation rate of 7.12%.
Over the last year, Miramar Beach appreciation rates have trailed the rest of the nation. In the last twelve months, Miramar Beach's appreciation rate has been 0.96%, which is lower than appreciation rates in most communities in America. In the latest quarter, NeighborhoodScout's data show that house appreciation rates in Miramar Beach were at 3.82%, which equates to an annual appreciation rate of 16.18%.
Importantly, this makes Miramar Beach one of the highest appreciating communities in the nation for the latest quarter, and may signal the town's near-future real estate investment strength.
Relative to Florida, our data show that Miramar Beach's latest annual appreciation rate is lower than 70% of the other cities and towns in Florida.
$665,033
for Florida
for nation
4,302
$3,583 / per month