Biscayne Bay holds a set of island communities that function differently from the rest of Miami. Some are their own municipalities. Some are reached only by ferry or a single guarded bridge. Almost all of them are small enough that a handful of sales in a year is a busy market.
Unincorporated Miami-Dade
Fisher Island
Reached only by ferry or boat. No road connects it to the mainland.
A private residential island of low-rise condominium buildings, a members club, marina and beach.
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Miami Beach
Star, Palm & Hibiscus Islands
Off the MacArthur Causeway, each island guard-gated at its single entrance.
Three islands of single-family waterfront estates. Star Island has roughly three dozen lots; Palm and Hibiscus are larger and slightly less formal.
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Indian Creek Village
Indian Creek
Connected to the mainland solely by the Surfside Bridge.
Its own incorporated village of waterfront estates arranged around a country club, with its own public safety department. One of the smallest municipalities in Florida.
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Miami Beach and City of Miami
Venetian Islands
Strung along the Venetian Causeway, open to through traffic.
A chain of residential islands with a mix of houses and small buildings. More neighborhood than compound, and the most walkable of the group.
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Miami Beach
Sunset Islands
Four islands off western Miami Beach, most of them guard-gated.
Waterfront estates with deep-water dockage, minutes from South Beach but set well back from it.
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Miami Beach
La Gorce
A gated enclave reached from Alton Road, in the middle of Miami Beach.
Built around the La Gorce Country Club, with a mix of golf-course and waterfront homes on an island connected by bridge.
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City of Miami
Brickell Key
One bridge from Brickell Avenue.
An island of high-rise condominium towers immediately across from the Brickell financial district, reached by one bridge.
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Bay Harbor Islands
Bay Harbor Islands
Two connected islands between Miami Beach and Bal Harbour.
Its own municipality, split between a residential island of houses and a second island of low-rise apartment buildings and shops.
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Village of Key Biscayne
Key Biscayne
Reached by the Rickenbacker Causeway from Brickell.
A barrier island village with state parks at both ends, a mix of houses and oceanfront buildings, and its own schools and municipal services.
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You will not find a price table on this page, and that is deliberate.
These are small markets. An island with forty homes may see two or three sales in a year, and a single unusual sale moves any average you could calculate from it. A price per square foot drawn from that few transactions describes those specific houses, not the island.
A good deal of what changes hands here is also handled privately, between owners, brokers and their existing clients, and never appears on a public listing site at all. So a portal search will show you a fraction of what is actually available, and the fraction it shows is not a random sample.
Which is why, on these particular addresses, the way in is a conversation rather than a search. Tell us which island you are interested in and what you are looking for, and we will tell you what is actually trading, what is quietly available, and what it takes to get in.
Tell us which island and what you are looking for, and we’ll tell you what is available, what has recently traded, and what the ownership and access rules actually require.
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