We Buy Houses in North Miami, As They Sit

North Miami turned 100 in 2026: it incorporated on February 5, 1926 as the Town of Miami Shores, took its present name in 1931, and grew out of the Arch Creek farming settlement whose depot stood where 125th Street meets the railroad tracks. The houses are among the oldest we buy: the median ties with North Miami Beach. The median North Miami home was built in 1967, four of every five predate 1980, and the typical owner has been in place since 2007. Keystone Point and Sans Souci sit on the bay side of Biscayne Boulevard; Sunkist Grove, Irons Manor and Griffing Estates are the inland grid.

Selling in North Miami has a step of its own: when a home is sold, the City requires a Certificate of Re-Occupancy from its Building and Zoning Department. The inspection checks that the property is used as a single-family home, not its condition; it costs $110 for a house, condo, duplex or triplex, the City allows up to ten business days to schedule it, and closing without it exposes the seller and the buyer to a fine and enforcement. We schedule it and build it into the date you pick.

More than half of North Miami's occupied homes are rented, so the seller is often a landlord and the house is often a 1960s house with the original everything. The title company orders the City's lien search from the Collections & Liens Division, per folio, at $70 for five or more business days, $90 for three, or $120 for 24 hours; it covers water, sewer, sanitation and stormwater balances, special assessments, and code-compliance tickets and liens. A code lien can be mitigated through the City Manager on a $250 application once the violations are corrected. We buy the house with the tickets attached.