Neighborhoods / Aventura
A planned cityAventura
A planned city with its own municipality, developed on the strip between Biscayne Bay and the Intracoastal. Aventura Mall is its commercial core; the surrounding tower line and the housing around the golf course produce a dense residential fabric within walking distance of the mall.
The character of the area
Aventura is a city with its own municipality, developed as a plan on the strip between Biscayne Bay and the Intracoastal. Unlike Miami neighborhoods that grew organically, the road layout, the commercial area and the residential clusters here were designed from the start — the legibility of the street fabric follows from that.
Aventura Mall sits at the core of the city, and daily life is largely organized around it. The Don Soffer walking trail along Country Club Drive is one of the few examples in South Florida that makes moving through the day without a car realistic.
The area offers a middle scale for a buyer who does not want the density of the city center but does not want suburban isolation either: high-rise living, but in a walkable setting and markedly far from central Miami.
Scale in Aventura is built vertically rather than horizontally: most of the city area consists of high-rise residential towers and the planned green space around them. That is why the area forms its own category between the suburban house fabric and the downtown tower — carrying the advantages of both, and the trade-offs of both.
The weight of daily life gathers along the shopping center line: retail, dining and transit connections meet at the same point. Because the city’s own free service connects to that center, walking distance to it becomes a criterion of its own when choosing an address.
Two items come up often here: association fees and distance. The towers keep their common areas large and well maintained, and that shows up in the buildings’ management costs. Distance works the other way: the gap from central Miami is a separate time cost for someone commuting daily — but for someone who works in the area or travels rarely, that item hardly comes up at all.
The city’s boundaries are relatively legible: Aventura is pressed into the strip between the Intracoastal and Biscayne Bay, and that narrowness limits new supply. Making room for new housing mostly runs through renewing the existing stock, which produces a market where new projects are infrequent and the standing stock is decisive.
Worth knowing
Aventura is far from central Miami and from the airport; for someone whose daily work is in Brickell or Downtown, that distance is a price paid every day. Building association fees also run high here — before making an offer, ask separately what the fee covers.
Verifiable facts
Facts we have been able to verify one by one for Aventura; the source for each row is printed beside it.
The Aventura Express service is free and open to the public; it consists of three color-coded routes (Purple, Green, Yellow) and all routes stop at the transit terminal garage at the shopping center, allowing transfers to Miami-Dade and Broward County Transit lines. The service does not run on Sundays and takes a midday break every day.
Aventura’s city parks include Founders Park, Founders Park South, Peace Park, Veterans Park and Waterways Park; the city operates them together with the Community Recreation Center.
Aventura Mall houses a collection of works by local and international artists that is regarded as museum-caliber, and it works alongside the neighboring open-air area called The Abbey.
Source: Aventura Mall
Don Soffer Aventura High School is a tuition-free charter high school provided by the City of Aventura; it works with Cambridge and College Board Advanced Placement programmes and is located at 3151 NE 213th St.
Source: Don Soffer Aventura High School
Brightline’s Aventura station was built on West Dixie Highway next to the shopping center; it includes a pedestrian bridge linking the station directly to the center and a bus drop-off area for Miami-Dade Transit passengers.
Source: Miami-Dade County — Brightline Aventura station announcement
Sales market in Aventura
- Median sale price
- $442,500
- Median price per ft squared
- $336
- Recorded sales
- 834
Source: recorded sales from the Miami-Dade County Property Appraiser. Arm’s-length sales only; intra-family transfers, foreclosures and other non-market transactions are excluded. Scope: the municipal boundary of Aventura · sales recorded between August 1, 2025 and August 1, 2026.
Neighborhood boundaries are approximated by ZIP code; parts of adjacent neighborhoods may share the same code. These figures describe recorded deed transfers, not current asking prices.
Year-over-year change is deliberately not published: in this dataset it measures the composition of what sold rather than price. We do not fill a figure we cannot measure with an estimate.
Branded developments in Aventura
All developments- Viceroy
Viceroy Residences Aventura
Pre-construction · Est. completion · 2028
$925K–2.8M
MiamiLi is an independent broker, not the developer. Project information is based on the developer’s public announcements; delivery dates and prices can be changed by the developer.
Aventura in the news
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Frequently asked questions about Aventura
- Do I need a car in Aventura?
- Not entirely, within the city: the municipality’s free Express service circulates on three routes and offers transfers to county and neighboring-county bus lines at the terminal in the shopping center. But the service does not run on Sundays and stops at midday every day; if you leave the city regularly, a car remains practically necessary.
- What price level should I expect?
- We do not give an invented range: the market section on this page shows the city’s measured median and how many transactions it is based on. Within Aventura, floor, exposure and the quality of the building’s common areas separate prices markedly; because what the monthly association fee covers changes the total cost, it should be asked about separately before an offer.
- Which school for my child?
- The city provides its own tuition-free charter high school; Don Soffer Aventura High School works with Cambridge and Advanced Placement programmes and its source is in the list above. Because charter school enrolment can depend on application and capacity rather than attendance boundaries, we recommend confirming the enrolment conditions directly with the school.
- What is there in the area besides the shopping center?
- The center carries the weight of daily life, but the area is not only that: the city parks and recreation center, walking areas close to the water line and the towers’ own social facilities are the other parts of daily life. The shopping center’s art collection also forms a public walking route.
- How do you get to central Miami and the airport?
- The area is far from central Miami and the airport; for a daily commuter that distance is a fixed time cost. Against that, there is an intercity rail station next to the shopping center, with a pedestrian bridge linking the station to the center and a bus drop-off area — so a non-car option does exist.
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