A white lighthouse at the end of a walkway lined with palm trees

Neighborhoods / Key Biscayne

An island village

Key Biscayne

An island municipality connected to the mainland by a single road, the Rickenbacker Causeway. Both ends of the island are parkland: the residential section is the middle, between Crandon Park and Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park.

The character of the area

Key Biscayne is an island municipality connected to the mainland only by the Rickenbacker Causeway. That single connection is its most defining feature: everyone entering and leaving the island uses the same road, which produces both its calm and its constraint.

Both ends of the island are public parkland: Crandon Park to the north, Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park to the south. Housing gathers in the middle section between them, so the buildable area is naturally limited and cannot expand.

The building stock ranges from low-rise houses to mid-scale buildings; Village Green is the center of public life at island scale. It is one of the Miami-Dade communities where family-scale demand concentrates most.

Worth knowing

The single road cuts both ways: it means fragility as much as calm. There is no alternative route during storm evacuations and road closures, and the island location directly affects insurance costs. The causeway toll is also a fixed item of daily travel — a permanent expense that belongs in the budget.

Sales market in Key Biscayne

Median sale price
$1,805,000
Median price per ft squared
$996
Recorded sales
226
Currently listed for sale
162
Median days on market
74 days

Active listing figures from the SEF MLS feed for the municipal boundary of Key Biscayne, as of September 22, 2026. The closed-sale figures above come from recorded deeds — the two measure different things. Listing data provided by the Southeast Florida MLS (MIAMI REALTORS®) IDX feed. Copyright Southeast Florida Multiple Listing Service © 2026. Accuracy of listing information is not guaranteed. Listing information is provided for personal consumer, non-commercial use, solely to identify potential properties for potential purchase. All other use is strictly prohibited.

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 Key Biscayne · sales recorded between June 1, 2025 and June 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.

Listings in Key Biscayne

We cannot filter the listing feed automatically for this neighborhood: its boundaries do not separate from its neighbors by postal code, so any list we drew here would also contain listings from adjacent neighborhoods. Rather than show a list that is wrong, we show none. If you are looking here, write to us directly — we search the portfolio by hand and put together a list for you.

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