Where is Sweetwater, Florida?

Sweetwater is a small city in west Miami-Dade County on the north side of Tamiami Trail, directly across from the main campus of Florida International University. Its homes lie between Tamiami Trail and Flagler Street east of Florida's Turnpike, and the city reaches north along the Turnpike to Dolphin Mall and the Dolphin Expressway, with Doral to the north and Miami International Airport a practical drive east.

Is FIU in Sweetwater?

No. The Modesto A. Maidique Campus of Florida International University sits just south of Tamiami Trail, outside the city line, and Sweetwater begins on the north side of the road. The two are tied together all the same: many Sweetwater houses and duplexes near campus are marketed for student rentals, and listings in those blocks call the area the University District. Check the tax record for the municipality of any home near the campus.

How much does a home in Sweetwater cost?

Prices run from townhomes and condominiums at the lower end to houses and duplexes near FIU priced for their land, and the market table on this page shows the current figures. Between them sit the three and four bedroom houses of the 1960s to the 1980s, priced by their lot, their condition and any added unit. The table is refreshed daily from the MLS with median asking and sold prices for houses and condos.

Can I buy a duplex or a student rental in Sweetwater?

Yes. Duplexes and the occasional triplex come up in the Sweetwater Groves plat near campus, and several houses there have been enlarged to five or six bedrooms and are marketed to investors. Before you buy for rental income, confirm with the city how many units and bedrooms are permitted, what occupancy rules apply, and what the current leases say, and get a flood insurance quote, since much of the city sits in flood zone AH.

Why are some Sweetwater houses priced like land?

Because near FIU the lot can be worth more than the house. Owners in the blocks closest to campus are marketing single lots and groups of neighboring lots as redevelopment sites for taller residential buildings, so an older house there may be priced as a site rather than as a home. Whether a buyer can build depends on the city's zoning and site plan approval, which we check before comparing the price with land sales.

What is my Sweetwater home worth?

A free valuation from us starts with the closed sales that match your home: the same part of the city, the same era, lot and condition for a house, income property sales and the rents for a duplex or triplex, and land sales where your lot sits near the campus. Permitted added bedrooms or units, impact windows, a newer roof and parking all move the number. When you are deciding whether to list, ask for a full comparative market analysis; if speed matters more than price, ask for a cash offer.

Do you already have buyers looking for homes in Sweetwater?

BreakThru Realty works with hundreds of prequalified buyers searching for properties. We keep each buyer's requirements on file: the neighborhoods, the price range, the property type and the features they are waiting for. Whether one of them fits your home is something a licensed broker checks for your property specifically, before the call. Your home may be the one a buyer is waiting to find; we confirm it before we call it a match, and a potential match is a conversation, not an offer.

Sweetwater Real Estate & Homes for Sale

Your next move in Sweetwater deserves a better strategy: buy, sell or invest with the numbers in front of you.

Sweetwater is a small city in west Miami-Dade County directly across Tamiami Trail from the main campus of Florida International University: concrete block houses and duplexes on lots of about six thousand square feet, townhome communities from the 1980s, and income property and redevelopment sites in the blocks closest to the university.

Sweetwater Market at a Glance

Actualizado en octubre 30, 2026 de BeachesMLS.

Newest Sweetwater Homes for Sale

The 12 newest homes, condos and townhomes on the market in Sweetwater, straight from BeachesMLS. The 12 listings on this page run from $397,000 to $1,900,000, with a median of $1,072,500, about $543 per square foot, and they have been listed a median of 65 days.

The community with the most listings here is Sweetwater Groves 14 Ac (8), 8 of the 12; the others are spread across 4 more communities.
Por tipo: 6 casas unifamiliares, 5 propiedades multifamiliares y 1 casas adosadas o villas.
Las habitaciones van de 3 a 6, con una mediana de 4; fueron construidas entre 1954 y 1989, con una mediana de 1970.
1 de las 12 tienen piscina y 1 están frente al agua.

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	Casas unifamiliares	Condominios y casas adosadas
Anuncios activos	8	18
Precio de lista mediano	$836,500	$279,000
Precio de lista mediano por pie²	$461/pies²	$320/pies²
Promedio de días en el mercado	107 días	102 días
Vendidos en los últimos 90 días	7	2
Precio mediano de venta (90 días)	$698,000	$327,500
Precio de venta como % del precio de lista	97.6%	96.9%
Meses de inventario	3.4 meses	27 meses
Precio de venta mediano frente al de hace un año	+37.5%	+21.3%

Fuente: BeachesMLS. Anuncios activos al octubre 30, 2026; las cifras de ventas cubren cierres en los últimos 90 días, en comparación con los mismos 90 días del año anterior. No es una tasación. Cómo se calculan estas cifras.

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A value range built from comparable Sweetwater sales, with the reasoning
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Living in Sweetwater

Sweetwater sits on the north side of Tamiami Trail, SW 8th Street, facing the Modesto A. Maidique Campus of Florida International University, which lies just outside the city line. Its homes fill the blocks between Tamiami Trail and Flagler Street from about SW 102nd Avenue west to Florida's Turnpike, and from there the city reaches north along the Turnpike to Dolphin Mall and a district of offices, shops and warehouse sites by the Dolphin Expressway, with Doral beyond it. Sweetwater has its own city government and police department. The university shapes the market: houses and duplexes near campus are marketed to investors who lease to students, buildings for student housing have gone up in the blocks closest to the campus, and listings there call the area the University District. Recent listings name Sweetwater Elementary or Dr. Carlos J. Finlay Elementary, Ruben Dario Middle or Paul W. Bell Middle, and G. Holmes Braddock Senior High or Miami Coral Park Senior High; confirm the school for the address with the district. The Turnpike and the Dolphin Expressway put Miami International Airport, Doral and downtown Miami within a practical drive.

Houses, Duplexes and Townhomes Near FIU

Most homes in Sweetwater were built from the mid 1950s to the late 1980s. The large Sweetwater Groves plat, laid out in lots of about six thousand square feet, holds one story concrete block houses and duplexes from the 1950s and 1960s, many of them enlarged over the years; several now have five or six bedrooms after additions, or a separate unit with its own entrance and kitchen. Toward the east side, smaller plats such as Sunshine Estates, West Garden and Raineys have houses from the 1960s and 1970s on lots of up to about ten thousand square feet, and toward the west, University Courts, built in 1989 near SW 116th Avenue, has two story homes on small lots. Townhome and condominium communities such as Sweetwater Creek and University Villas date from the 1980s and usually come in below the price of a house. Recent listings across the city show flood zone AH, an area of shallow ponding where a lender usually requires flood insurance, so get the elevation certificate and an insurance quote early. And because so many homes have been enlarged, compare the bedrooms and units in the listing with the county property record and the permits before you offer.

Where the Sweetwater Label Begins and Ends

The MLS label and the city line mostly agree in Sweetwater, with two exceptions worth knowing. A few homes inside the city are filed under a Miami address, because the 33174 ZIP code also covers unincorporated neighborhoods around the city, so a search for Sweetwater alone can miss them; we check the municipality on the tax record for every home in the ZIP. And some land listings labeled Sweetwater, such as sites on NW 128th Avenue, lie west of the Turnpike in unincorporated Miami-Dade, where the county rather than the city sets the zoning. Inside the city, the north end along the Dolphin Expressway is commercial, with Dolphin Mall, offices, shops and warehouse sites, and the homes are concentrated south of Flagler Street. On the south edge, the Tamiami Canal runs along the north side of Tamiami Trail, and a short street of houses faces it across from the campus; the city's waterfront listings sit on this canal. Treat the canal as an open view and a quiet edge, and ask what the bank behind the house allows and who maintains it.

Vecindarios

Sweetwater is small enough to read street by street. The middle of the city, on both sides of SW 109th Avenue from Tamiami Trail to Flagler Street, is the Sweetwater Groves plat, with its houses and duplexes from the 1950s and 1960s, and the blocks of it closest to the campus, which listings call the University District, are where student rentals, duplexes and redevelopment sites gather. Toward the west, around SW 114th to SW 117th Avenues, University Courts, Sweetwater Creek, University Villas, Sweetwater Gardens, Sweetwater Hills and Sweetwater Park hold the townhomes, condominiums and small lot houses of the 1980s. Toward the east, around SW 100th to SW 106th Avenues, Sunshine Estates, West Garden, Raineys and Richardson Kellett hold larger lots and houses from the 1960s and 1970s, with a neighborhood park close by. North of Flagler Street the city turns commercial toward Dolphin Mall. The price, home type and lifestyle pages below cut the market the way buyers search it, and the investment pages carry the duplexes and triplexes.

Selling a Home in Sweetwater

Your Sweetwater buyer may already be looking. BreakThru Realty works with hundreds of prequalified buyers searching for properties. Each one tells us the areas, the price range, the property type and the features they want, and we keep that on file. Before you list, a broker checks your home against those requests and prices it from recent MLS sales near it, and if no buyer on file fits, the plan reaches the rest of the market. Selling in Sweetwater starts with a question most owners do not ask: is the buyer already searching? BreakThru Realty works with hundreds of prequalified buyers searching for properties, and before you list, a broker checks your home against the requirements those buyers have given us, from bedrooms and parking for a family to the income an investor needs from a duplex near FIU, and reaches out to the buyers it fits. Your property may be the one a buyer is waiting to find. If no buyer on file fits, the plan reaches the rest of the market through the MLS listing that cooperating agents across Miami-Dade search, priced from matched closed sales: a house against sales of the same era and lot size nearby, a duplex against income property sales and its own rents, and a lot near campus against land sales, since a site can be worth more to a developer than the house on it is to a family. Throughout, the strategy is built around your objectives: the price you need, the timing of any tenant's lease and where you go next. Request Your Property Valuation for a first number from matched sales, See If We Already Have Your Buyer before you sign a listing agreement, ask for a full comparative market analysis when you are ready, or ask for a cash offer if a fast, as is sale matters more than price.

Investing in Sweetwater

Investors in Sweetwater buy for one of three reasons, and the campus across Tamiami Trail sits behind two of them. The first is student and staff rental income: houses enlarged to five or six bedrooms and duplexes near campus lease by the room or by the unit, subject to the city's rules on occupancy and the permits behind each bedroom. The second is the family rental, a house leased by the year to a household that wants the schools and the drive to Doral. The third is land: owners near FIU are marketing single lots and assemblages of neighboring lots for taller residential buildings, which depends on the city's zoning and site plan approval. Few listings here publish their net operating income, so we rebuild it from the leases, the taxes, the insurance and the flood zone. Get Your Investment Property Analysis and we model the rent from current Sweetwater leases and the resale from matched sales before you offer.

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Sweetwater Real Estate FAQ

Where is Sweetwater, Florida?: Sweetwater is a small city in west Miami-Dade County on the north side of Tamiami Trail, directly across from the main campus of Florida International University. Its homes lie between Tamiami Trail and Flagler Street east of Florida's Turnpike, and the city reaches north along the Turnpike to Dolphin Mall and the Dolphin Expressway, with Doral to the north and Miami International Airport a practical drive east.
Is FIU in Sweetwater?: No. The Modesto A. Maidique Campus of Florida International University sits just south of Tamiami Trail, outside the city line, and Sweetwater begins on the north side of the road. The two are tied together all the same: many Sweetwater houses and duplexes near campus are marketed for student rentals, and listings in those blocks call the area the University District. Check the tax record for the municipality of any home near the campus.
How much does a home in Sweetwater cost?: Prices run from townhomes and condominiums at the lower end to houses and duplexes near FIU priced for their land, and the market table on this page shows the current figures. Between them sit the three and four bedroom houses of the 1960s to the 1980s, priced by their lot, their condition and any added unit. The table is refreshed daily from the MLS with median asking and sold prices for houses and condos.
Can I buy a duplex or a student rental in Sweetwater?: Yes. Duplexes and the occasional triplex come up in the Sweetwater Groves plat near campus, and several houses there have been enlarged to five or six bedrooms and are marketed to investors. Before you buy for rental income, confirm with the city how many units and bedrooms are permitted, what occupancy rules apply, and what the current leases say, and get a flood insurance quote, since much of the city sits in flood zone AH.
Why are some Sweetwater houses priced like land?: Because near FIU the lot can be worth more than the house. Owners in the blocks closest to campus are marketing single lots and groups of neighboring lots as redevelopment sites for taller residential buildings, so an older house there may be priced as a site rather than as a home. Whether a buyer can build depends on the city's zoning and site plan approval, which we check before comparing the price with land sales.
What is my Sweetwater home worth?: A free valuation from us starts with the closed sales that match your home: the same part of the city, the same era, lot and condition for a house, income property sales and the rents for a duplex or triplex, and land sales where your lot sits near the campus. Permitted added bedrooms or units, impact windows, a newer roof and parking all move the number. When you are deciding whether to list, ask for a full comparative market analysis; if speed matters more than price, ask for a cash offer.
Do you already have buyers looking for homes in Sweetwater?: BreakThru Realty works with hundreds of prequalified buyers searching for properties. We keep each buyer's requirements on file: the neighborhoods, the price range, the property type and the features they are waiting for. Whether one of them fits your home is something a licensed broker checks for your property specifically, before the call. Your home may be the one a buyer is waiting to find; we confirm it before we call it a match, and a potential match is a conversation, not an offer.