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Median list price
$1,000,000
For-sale active inventory
Price / sq ft
$370
Across active listings
Active inventory
35
On the market right now
Median days on market
67
Well-priced units move faster
✦ Computed live from MIAMI MLS active inventory · refreshed every few hours · updated July 23, 2026
Market pulse
How Overtown is trading
Median asking price by month listed, plus how active inventory splits — all live from MIAMI MLS active listings (not closed sales).
Median list price, by month listed
12-mo avg
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
+255.2%
Median list, recent vs. earlier
$2,307,314
12-month average
35
For-sale listings
What's on the market, by price
Share of active for-sale inventory
Under $500K
40% · 14
$500K – $1M
9% · 3
$1M – $3M
29% · 10
$3M – $10M
20% · 7
$10M+
3% · 1
The insider read
What Overtown actually is
Overtown is the most historically consequential neighborhood in Miami — founded in 1896 when Henry Flagler extended the Florida East Coast Railway south to Miami. The neighborhood occupies roughly the area bounded by NW 5th Street to the south, NW 22nd Street to the north, I-95 to the east, and NW 7th Avenue to the west. Greater Bethel A.M.E. Church (founded 1896, the same year the railroad arrived) + Saint John Institutional Missionary Baptist Church (1906) are among the oldest religious institutions in Miami-Dade County + remain active community anchors.
The contemporary Overtown story is community-led preservation + redevelopment under massive gentrification pressure. The Archives, History and Research Foundation of South Florida — founded 1977 by Dr. Dorothy Jenkins Fields — restored the Lyric Theater (re-opened 2014) + operates the Historic Overtown Folklife Village as a living cultural archive. The Overtown Performing Arts Center + the Sawyer’s Walk + Block 55 cultural-block developments are community-led redevelopment vehicles. The Southeast Overtown / Park West Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA) — established 1982 — provides redevelopment financing + affordable-housing oversight. Meanwhile, on the eastern edge, Brightline MiamiCentral station (opened 2018) + Miami Worldcenter (the $5B+ mixed-use mega-development covering 27 acres) are reshaping the geography + driving accelerated gentrification pressure into the neighborhood. Marcus Samuelsson’s Red Rooster Overtown (opened 2020 in the historic Clyde Killens building) brought national fine-dining attention. The Jackson Memorial Hospital + University of Miami Medical Campus + Miami-Dade College Wolfson Campus are adjacent + active employer anchors.
For real estate, Overtown is the most fundamentally complicated entry-tier market in Miami — extraordinary historical significance, extraordinary gentrification pressure, an active community-led preservation conversation, and proximity-pricing fundamentals (walking-distance to Brickell + Downtown + Bayfront + Brightline) that no other entry-tier Miami neighborhood approaches. Median single-family ~$400K. The housing stock is dominated by 1920s-1950s small bungalows + concrete-block shotgun houses + Mission Revival single-family (much of it documented by the Archives Foundation), with a meaningful share of 1960s-1980s small apartment buildings + a wave of newer infill condos + Miami Worldcenter-spillover townhomes on the eastern edge. The buyer pool is genuinely complex: preservation-conscious + cultural-heritage buyers, Brickell + Worldcenter-spillover professionals, medical-district employees from Jackson + UM, climate-conscious investors (the elevation here is higher than Brickell waterfront), and institutional cash-flow investors. The displacement-vs-preservation conversation is acute, well-organized, and morally serious; community organizations are deeply engaged in shaping what the next decade looks like.
The Overtown markets
- 1920s-1950s bungalows + shotgun + Mission Revival single-family — the foundational stock, $325-575K. Many documented by the Archives Foundation.
- Restored historic single-family — preservation-conscious renovations, $400-700K.
- 1960s-1980s small apartment buildings + duplexes — investor + small-multifamily, $400-900K.
- Newer infill condos + Miami Worldcenter-spillover townhomes (eastern edge) — $400-800K.
- Newer luxury condos + select penthouses (Brightline + Worldcenter periphery) — $600K-$2M+.
- Rentals — extensive medical-district + Worldcenter-overflow rental pool. Single-family $2,200-$3,800; apartments $1,400-$2,400.
Live Overtown inventory
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🏡 Overtown Single-Family Homes — bungalows + shotgun + Mission Revival
3-4 BR single-family — the 1920s-50s small-house stock that defines historic Overtown residential.
🏛️ Overtown Larger + Restored Single-Family
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🏘️ Overtown Townhomes
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🏬 Overtown Starter Condos
1BR + studios. Entry-tier ownership walking distance to Brickell + Downtown + Bayfront.
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Condo
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Condo
$1,244,800
555 NW South River Drive # 630, Miami FL 33136 – Residential
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Overtown rentals
🏡 Overtown Single-Family Rentals
$2,200-$4,000/mo. Single-family + townhome rentals — medical-district + professional tier.
🏬 Overtown Standard Rentals
Under $2,500/mo. Apartments + 1BR condos — the Worldcenter-overflow + Brickell-overflow pool.
The places that make Overtown, Overtown
Lyric Theater + Historic Overtown Folklife Village
819 NW 2nd Avenue. The Lyric Theater — built in 1913 by entrepreneur Geder Walker — was the South’s most important theatrical + concert + film venue. Cab Calloway, Ella Fitzgerald, Sammy Davis Jr., Nat King Cole, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Sarah Vaughan, Lena Horne + countless others performed here. Restored 2014 by the Archives Foundation. The Lyric anchors the Historic Overtown Folklife Village — the City of Miami’s cultural-heritage district preserving the architectural + cultural fabric of Overtown. The Folklife Village hosts the Overtown Music Project + the Lyric Live concert series + community-history programming. On the National Register of Historic Places.
Archives Foundation of South Florida
819 NW 2nd Avenue (Lyric Theater complex). Founded 1977 by Dr. Dorothy Jenkins Fields — Miami-Dade Public Schools’ first archivist. The Foundation operates exhibits, oral-history programs, walking tours. The Foundation’s stewardship of the restored Lyric Theater is the central cultural-preservation accomplishment in Overtown’s modern era.
Sir John Hotel + Mary Elizabeth Hotel
NW 7th Avenue + surrounding blocks. Both hotels were lost during the I-95/I-395 displacement era. The site of the Sir John is memorialized; the Foundation + the Folklife Village preserve the photographic + oral-history record. The legacy is the soul of the contemporary preservation effort.
The historic churches — Greater Bethel A.M.E. + Saint John Baptist + Mount Zion
Multiple locations. Greater Bethel A.M.E. Church (245 NW 8th Street) — founded 1896, the same year the railroad reached Miami — is among the oldest continuously-operating religious institutions in Miami-Dade County. Saint John Institutional Missionary Baptist Church (founded 1906), Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Church + Ebenezer United Methodist Church + Bethel A.M.E. Christian Methodist Episcopal are among additional historic congregations.
Booker T. Washington Senior High School
1200 NW 6th Avenue. Founded 1926. Booker T. Washington Senior High is one of the most historically significant educational institutions in Miami — the alma mater of countless professional + civic + entertainment + athletic leaders. Today it operates as a Miami-Dade County Public Schools magnet for Marine + Maritime Studies + Health Sciences. The Booker T. Washington alumni network + the school’s Tigers identity remain woven into the cultural fabric of Overtown.
Jackson Soul Food + Two Guys + Red Rooster + the soul food row
Multiple locations. Jackson Soul Food (950 NW 3rd Avenue, since 1946) — the legendary Miami soul-food institution. Fried chicken, oxtails, collards, mac-and-cheese, candied yams, cornbread + sweet tea — the Southern + Caribbean cooking that defined Overtown’s everyday rhythm + remains a daily community gathering. Two Guys Restaurant (NW 3rd Avenue) — another long-standing soul-food + Caribbean institution. Red Rooster Overtown (Marcus Samuelsson, opened 2020 in the historic Clyde Killens building, NW 2nd Avenue) brought national fine-dining attention + Sunday-supper community programming to the neighborhood. Trick Daddy’s Sunday’s Eatery (rapper Trick Daddy’s restaurant, NW 11th Street) — Miami hip-hop celebrity-anchored soul food. The food row is the living continuation of the neighborhood’s cultural-economic infrastructure.
Overtown Performing Arts Center + Sawyer’s Walk + Block 55
NW 11th Street + surrounding blocks. The Overtown Performing Arts Center (opened 2018, 1074 NW 14th Street) is the community-led arts + performance + workforce-training facility serving the neighborhood. Sawyer’s Walk + Block 55 / The Block — the mixed-use community-anchored development on NW 7th Avenue between 6th + 7th Streets — combine affordable + market-rate housing, retail, cultural-program space under a community-benefits framework. These are the contemporary community-led answers to the historical question of who decides what redevelopment looks like.
The I-95 + I-395 viaducts — the displacement scars
The physical viaducts of I-95 (north-south, eastern edge) + I-395 (east-west, severing the southern half of Overtown from Downtown + Bayfront Park) are the central scars of the 1960s federal-highway displacement era — when an estimated 12,000-20,000 residents were displaced, roughly half the housing stock was demolished, and the commercial corridor was destroyed. The Signature Bridge project (an in-progress redesign of the I-395 viaduct with an arching signature sculptural design + ground-level reconnection elements) is the contemporary infrastructure attempt to reconnect what the original highway construction severed. Whether the rebuild restores meaningful connection — or simply paves over the displacement memory — is an active community conversation. The viaducts are not abstract; they are the daily geography of life in Overtown.
Miami Worldcenter + Brightline MiamiCentral — the eastern gentrification edge
Eastern edge. Miami Worldcenter — the $5B+ mixed-use mega-development covering 27 acres east of Overtown on the former Park West urban-renewal site — is the largest urban development in Miami’s history. Phased build-out delivers Class A residential towers (Caoba, Bezel, Legacy Hotel + Residences), Class A retail (Citi Trends, Ross, Earl’s, Sephora, multiple restaurants), entertainment, hospitality + the Miami World Center plaza. Brightline MiamiCentral (opened 2018, NW 1st Avenue + NW 4th Street) is the Brightline higher-speed rail terminal — direct service to Fort Lauderdale + Boca Raton + West Palm Beach + Orlando (since 2023). The combination of Worldcenter + Brightline + the adjacent Adrienne Arsht Center + Knight Center has fundamentally reshaped the geography of the Overtown eastern edge + is driving accelerated gentrification pressure into the neighborhood.
Living in Overtown
Schools
- Booker T. Washington Senior High School — district public, the historic + magnet (Marine + Maritime Studies, Health Sciences) high school.
- Phillis Wheatley Elementary, Frederick Douglass Elementary — district public, both named for historic figures.
- Jose de Diego Middle + Charles R. Drew K-8 Center — district public.
- Mater Academy + Doral Academy + Somerset Academy charter networks — multiple campuses.
- Saint Francis Xavier Catholic School + multiple Catholic + Christian options.
- For academic magnets families apply to MAST Academy, TERRA Environmental, School for Advanced Studies, Design + Architecture Senior High.
Getting around
- NW 2nd Avenue + NW 3rd Avenue — the historic commercial spines.
- NW 7th Avenue + NW 17th Avenue — main north-south arteries.
- NW 14th Street + NW 20th Street — east-west connectors.
- I-95 + I-395 — immediate-adjacent freeway access (the displacement-era viaducts are also the modern commute infrastructure).
- Metromover Overtown station (NW 8th Street) + Culmer Metrorail station + Metrorail Brickell + Government Center transfers.
- Brightline MiamiCentral — direct higher-speed rail to Fort Lauderdale + Boca + West Palm + Orlando.
- Downtown 5 min · Brickell 5-8 min · Wynwood 8 min · Miami Beach 15 min · MIA 12 min · Jackson Memorial + UM Medical Campus walking distance.
- Walking distance from many residential blocks to the Lyric Theater + Archives Foundation + Brightline + Worldcenter.
Overtown 2026 market: what we’re watching
- Brightline + Miami Worldcenter eastern-edge gentrification pressure. The combination of Brightline MiamiCentral + Miami Worldcenter + the adjacent Adrienne Arsht Center + Knight Center has fundamentally reset the eastern-edge land-economics of Overtown. Worldcenter phases continue to deliver; Brightline ridership continues to grow. The eastern-edge pricing pressure is durable + accelerating; the community-led redevelopment response (Block 55, Sawyer’s Walk, Overtown Performing Arts Center, CRA-led affordable-housing) is the social-license counterweight.
- Archives Foundation + Lyric Theater preservation as cultural-anchor value driver. The Lyric Theater + Archives Foundation + Historic Overtown Folklife Village are increasingly recognized as cultural-heritage assets that materially anchor neighborhood value. Preservation-conscious + cultural-heritage buyers form a meaningful + growing buyer segment; restoration-conscious renovations command premiums.
- Jackson Memorial + UM Medical Campus employer demand. The Jackson Memorial Hospital + University of Miami Medical Campus + the broader Miami Health District is the area’s largest employer cluster. Physician + nursing + medical-research + medical-professional buyer demand is concentrated + price-resistant. Walking-distance-to-medical addresses move at meaningful premiums.
- Southeast Overtown / Park West CRA redevelopment funding + community-benefits compliance. The CRA’s tax-increment financing + affordable-housing oversight + community-benefits enforcement are the policy infrastructure for how redevelopment proceeds. Watch CRA-funded projects, community-benefits-agreement compliance, and affordability set-aside enforcement — these are the social-license conditions for the neighborhood’s next decade.
- Cash-flow + investor cap rates vs preservation tension. Investor cap rates work meaningfully better than Brickell or Wynwood; institutional + out-of-state cash-flow buyers are active. The preservation-conscious community response includes both legal-advocacy (Community Benefits Agreements, anti-displacement protections) and cultural-preservation activism. Buyers + investors should understand the community context + engage respectfully + transparently. The most successful market participants are those who recognize Overtown’s cultural-heritage value as part of the asset thesis, not separate from it.
Frequently asked questions
Is Overtown safe?
Generally safer than many media + outdated reputations suggest, with normal block-by-block variability common to any older urban Miami neighborhood. The NW 2nd Avenue cultural corridor + Brightline + Worldcenter-adjacent + Folklife Village + Jackson Memorial-adjacent zones are heavily-trafficked, Police-monitored, and stable. Some interior blocks have more variability. Crime trends have improved meaningfully over the past decade alongside the redevelopment investments. Pull crime overlays + drive specific addresses + walk the blocks in person before any offer; the right reading is block-level not neighborhood-level.
What’s the historical significance?
Overtown is one of Miami’s oldest neighborhoods, founded 1896 for Henry Flagler’s railroad workers. The Lyric Theater (1913) was the South’s most important theatrical venue. I-95 + I-395 construction in the 1960s displaced 12,000-20,000 residents + destroyed half the housing stock. The Archives Foundation + restored Lyric Theater + Overtown Performing Arts Center are the contemporary preservation infrastructure. It is the most historically consequential neighborhood in Miami.
What’s the Brightline + Miami Worldcenter impact?
Significant + accelerating. Brightline MiamiCentral (the higher-speed rail terminal serving Fort Lauderdale + West Palm + Orlando) + Miami Worldcenter (the $5B+ mixed-use mega-development covering 27 acres) sit immediately east of Overtown + have reset the eastern-edge land-economics. Worldcenter phases continue delivering Class A residential, retail, hospitality, and entertainment; Brightline ridership continues to grow. The result is durable + accelerating gentrification pressure into Overtown — a major real-estate dynamic that the community-led preservation organizations (Archives Foundation, CRA, Block 55, Sawyer’s Walk, Overtown Performing Arts Center) are actively engaging with to shape what redevelopment looks like.
Is Overtown a good first-time-buyer market?
Yes — meaningful and historically underrated. $325-575K gets a small bungalow or shotgun-house single-family in a walking-distance-to-Brickell-and-Downtown + Brightline-adjacent + Worldcenter-spillover + medical-district-walking-distance neighborhood with the deepest cultural heritage in Miami. The trade-off: older housing stock, variable block-by-block condition, displacement-era highway viaducts as daily-life infrastructure, and a complex community-context that asks buyers to engage thoughtfully. For first-time buyers who value cultural depth + climate-resistant urban location + value pricing + appreciation thesis tied to community-led redevelopment, hard to beat in Miami-Dade.
Schools serving Overtown?
District public: Phillis Wheatley + Frederick Douglass Elementary, Jose de Diego Middle, Charles R. Drew K-8, Booker T. Washington Senior High (the historic high school + magnet for Marine + Health Sciences). Charter: Mater + Doral + Somerset Academy networks. Private: Saint Francis Xavier Catholic + multiple Catholic + Christian options. Magnets: MAST, TERRA, School for Advanced Studies, Design + Architecture Senior High.
Can I buy an Overtown property with Bitcoin?
Yes. Title companies in the Downtown + Brickell + Worldcenter corridor that work Overtown addresses are experienced with BTC closings at all price points. The cultural-heritage + preservation-conscious buyer pool has growing crypto-comfort. BTC pricing displayed on every listing.
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What the numbers say about living in Overtown
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Flood reality
About 6% of active for-sale homes here are mapped in a FEMA Special Flood Hazard Area. Confirm a specific home's zone, elevation and insurance before you buy.
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What you'll pay
Median asking price is $1,000,000 (about $370/sq ft) — +25% vs MCR median.
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What's available
Condominium is the most common home type among the 35 homes for sale right now.
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Renting here
Median asking rent is $2,375/month across 25 active rentals — useful if you're weighing rent vs. buy.
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