How hot is South Florida’s housing market? See how it ranks in U.S.
The Miami area’s residential transactions jumped by 78% over the last year, outpacing the sales growth of more than 50 other U.S. metro areas, according to the latest RE/MAX National Housing report.
Miami-Dade County, Broward and Palm Beach have the third-highest year-over-year increases in condo and single-family home sales when comparing the total number of sales from June 2020 to June 2021. The Miami metro area had 3,248 sales in June 2020 and 5,793 in June 2021. The Denverheadquartered brokerage firm RE/MAX analyzed the total number of sales from the Multiple Listing Service for 53 U.S. metro areas.
Honolulu ranked first with an approximately 92% increase, from 623 sales to 1,198 sales. New York ranked second with 81% year-over-year growth, from 1,863 transactions to 3,365 transactions.
The Miami metro area ranked ahead of Philadelphia, which had about a 65% year-over-year change from 5,066 sales to 8,334 sales. Pittsburgh placed fifth for having a 58% increase, from 1,897 transactions to 3,003 transactions.
Miami’s housing market got a boost during the pandemic with buyers flocking from the Northeast
and West Coast for a variety of reasons, said Josh Bolgren, senior vice president of region development at RE/MAX.
“Honolulu and Miami drew out-of-state buyers moving into the market. For those able to work remotely, both offered a desirable destination in a warmer climate,” he said. “COVID restrictions halted much of the real estate activity in New York and Philadelphia in spring 2020. For this reason, the numbers are a bit skewed, and why we now see such large increases in yearover-year transactions.”
Inventory continues to decrease, according to the Miami Realtors Association sales reports published in June. MiamiDade has 2.2 months of supply of single-family homes and six months of condos; Broward has 1.4 months of supply of houses and 2.8 months of condos.
“As long as inventory is low and demand remains high,” Bolgren said, “buyers can expect prices to continue rising, although possibly at a more moderate pace.”