Neighborhoods / Pinecrest
Large lotsPinecrest
A low-density village with its own municipality and large lots. The building stock is predominantly single-family; there are no towers and no dense apartment fabric. Pinecrest Gardens is its public core.
The character of the area
Pinecrest is a village with its own municipality, laid out as low-density from the start. The most concrete thing that separates it from the rest of Miami-Dade is lot size: the building stock is predominantly single-family, and there is no tower or dense apartment fabric.
Pinecrest Gardens is the public core; together with Coral Pine Park and Red Road Linear Park it forms the green spine of the village. The street fabric is tree-lined and largely not built for foot traffic — daily life here is organized around the car.
The area speaks to a buyer who wants to move away from Miami’s density entirely and prioritizes a house with a garden. Distance from the city center is the price paid for that choice.
Transport is built to the village’s own scale: for middle and high-school students who do not qualify for district bus service, the village runs a free circulator that links neighborhoods to schools. The routes offer transfers to the county bus at certain stops; a car is therefore not strictly the only option, though it remains decisive in adult daily life.
Most public space is given over to sport and the outdoors: the parks the village runs lead with tennis and pickleball courts, baseball and soccer fields and walking paths. The botanical-garden cultural venue brings a year-round programme of concerts and festivals to the area — this is not only a quiet suburb, but a place with its own cultural calendar.
Education is the most discussed topic in the area: within the village limits there are district schools at the elementary, middle and high-school grades, and the village’s own list names them one by one. Private school options are gathered in the same area as well; school access tends to be the most visible factor in choosing an address here.
Worth knowing
Pinecrest is a car-centered community: public transport is not a practical option and a vehicle is needed for everything. Large lots also make garden maintenance a permanent expense. For someone working in the city center, daily travel time can be the deciding factor here.
Verifiable facts
Facts we have been able to verify one by one for Pinecrest; the source for each row is printed beside it.
The Pinecrest People Mover the village operates is a free circulator: it links neighborhoods and schools, runs on three routes — northern, central and southern — and keeps separate timetables for middle and high school. It is designed for students who do not qualify for district bus service, and transfers to the county bus are possible from selected stops.
The village manages nine parks and facilities. In the listing, Coral Pine Park comes with a playground, lighted walking paths, tennis and pickleball courts, a pro shop and a preserved pineland area; Suniland Park is listed with baseball, football and basketball. Pawcrest Park is the village’s only off-leash dog park, with separate areas for large and small dogs.
Pinecrest Gardens is the botanical garden and cultural venue inside the village limits; it is open seven days a week and runs a year-round programme of concerts, festivals and a weekly farmers market.
Source: Pinecrest Gardens
The district schools the village lists are: Palmetto Elementary, Pinecrest Elementary, Howard Drive Elementary, Palmetto Middle and Miami Palmetto Senior High. The same list also names private schools such as Gulliver Preparatory and Temple Beth Am.
Source: Village of Pinecrest — Schools
The village’s parks and recreation department handles programme registration and facility rental through a single system; the point of contact and registration is the Pinecrest Community Center. Facility rules and rental terms are published on the same department’s pages.
Sales market in Pinecrest
- Median sale price
- $2,325,000
- Median price per ft squared
- $738
- Recorded sales
- 251
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 Pinecrest · 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.
Pinecrest in the news
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Frequently asked questions about Pinecrest
- How do children without district bus service get to school?
- The village runs a free circulator precisely for that gap: middle and high-school students who do not qualify for district bus service can use the routes. They are split into northern, central and southern lines, timetables are separate for middle and high school, and transfers to the county bus are possible from selected stops. Registration opens separately for each school year.
- Is there anything other than single-family houses?
- The building stock is predominantly single-family; there is no tower or dense apartment fabric. That is what buyers here are looking for, but it also narrows the options: because the number of houses visible on the market at one time is limited, the decision process usually takes longer than in neighboring areas.
- How much does daily life depend on a car?
- Adult daily life largely depends on a car; the village’s service is built around schools and offers transfers to the county bus at selected stops. Large lots also turn garden maintenance into a permanent expense item. For someone working in the city center, daily travel time can be the deciding factor here.
- What price level should I expect?
- The market section on this page shows the area’s measured median and how many transactions it is based on. In a single-family fabric, lot size, exposure and the buildable rights on the land separate prices more than square footage does, so the median stays weak at describing what any one house is worth.
- Are there enough public spaces?
- The village manages nine parks and facilities; among them are lighted walking paths, tennis and pickleball courts, baseball and soccer fields and the village’s only off-leash dog park. On top of that the botanical-garden cultural venue is open seven days a week and runs a year-round programme of concerts and festivals. Park and facility registrations go through the village’s own system.
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