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South Florida opens inland from the beach, in the planned city George Merrick drew in the 1920s: the first report covers Coral Gables, its Mediterranean Revival streets, its grand hotel and quarry pool, and what planned luxury costs a century later.
Metro Snapshot
Coral Gables sets the first comparison points. Its Redfin median sale price of $1,400,000 (September 2026) buys a Walk Score of 99 at the Miracle Mile core, an apartment market averaging $3,342 a month, and downtown Miami about seven miles northeast. Around it, the metro brackets the range: Coconut Grove trades leafier and looser to the east, South Miami trades smaller along Red Road, and the waterfront enclaves at the Gables southern edge trade into eight figures.
Reports in This Metro
Coral Gables
The planned city that kept its plan: George Merrick built a Mediterranean Revival city under a banyan canopy in the 1920s, with plazas, grand entrances, a quarry turned swimming pool and a downtown where every shop sat within a two block walk, about seven miles southwest of downtown Miami.
Median $1,400,000Walk Score 99
Photo: Ebyabe, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
Around Coral Gables sit its natural comparisons: Coconut Grove to the east, South Miami along Red Road, and Pinecrest to the south.