Miami, FL
Miami Beach says it’s breaking up with spring break, but is it really?
:quality(70)/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/uscannenberg/QS6LQ6CZ3VCQVJDKODRLYCTCXE?ssl=1 "Miami Beach says it’s breaking up with spring break, but is it really?")
Miami Beach has long been a classic spring break destination, but the city has had enough of the chaos.
The City of Miami Beach posted a YouTube video called âMiami Beach Is Breaking Up With Spring Breakâ letting tourists know that they donât plan to tolerate chaos this March. And this time, itâs serious.
According to the video, those headed to South Beach can expect curfews, bag checks, restricted beach access, DUI checkpoints, one hundred dollar parking, and strong police enforcement for drug possession and violence.
Gov. DeSantis has also said he will deploy 140 state troopers across Florida. 45 of them will be in Miami beach.
Danny Saravia-Varela is a Miami resident studying film production at the University of Southern California, and said spring break has been taking a toll on the locals.
Saravia-Varela: I know that during spring break, Iâm not going to Miami Beach. You know what I mean? Like Miami Beach is a very, itâs known to be a pretty dangerous place during spring break.
Last year, two fatal shootings occurred at South Beach, and the year before, there was a nonfatal shooting in a crowd of spring breakers. Curfews were set in place after that, but Saravia-Varela didnât think they helped much. In fact, they often times end up making life harder for the locals.
Saravia-Varela: The city is never very good at handling these kinds of situations. Theyâre raising parking prices and parking is already unbearable, like as a local, you canât go anywhere in Miami and enjoy it, you know what I mean? And itâs like theyâre doing all these things that in order to deter like these tourists that are not respecting the place, but itâs also worsening the experience of living in Miami for locals that are home.
Saravia-Varela said that though too many tourists come in thinking Miami is lawless, a lot of the blame falls on the city itself.
Saravia-Varela: During spring break, itâs just like the most exaggerated version of the problem that happens year round that tourism is getting in the way of locals live.
Saravia-Varela was hopeful that measures such as DUI checkpoints might help to curb crime. But, he said those who can afford the penalties will pay them.
Saravia-Varela: Spring break always happens, you know, because the industry is there for and itâs always gonna, itâs always gonna want tourists even though the city says that they donât.
For those of you planning to go to Miami for your break, be safe and respectful.
The Cleveland Browns traded for an extended right tackle, former Houston Texan Tytus Howard, at the start of free agency as they began their rebuild of the offensive line that was awful in 2025. But Howard has played every position on the offensive line except for center, so if it’s all about getting your best five on the field, which it should be, there’s a chance Howard doesn’t play at right tackle in 2026.
While doing a mock draft on Peter Schrager’s podcast, former Tennessee Titans general manager Ran Carthon had the Browns drafting Miami (FL) right tackle sixth overall. He talked about the issue with Howard, but said Mauigoa could either take over the tackle spot or be a really good guard.
Carthon said he knows that Mauigoa would be one of their best five, whether it is at guard or tackle. Some will say that a guy who may be best at guard isn’t worth the sixth overall pick, and I have to disagree. You should draft the best football players, and Francis Mauigoa is my highest-rated offensive lineman and seventh overall. It might be at guard, but I have a good feeling that Mauigoa will find a home in the NFL as a high-quality offensive lineman.
Inventory of homes and condos across the coastal Miami mainland and Miami Beach and the barrier island markets fell in the first quarter, marking the first big inventory drops since 2023.
The Corcoran Group’s first quarter reports don’t cover all of Miami-Dade County, but they offer insight into how the coastal markets, which have a higher share of luxury properties, are performing.
In Miami Beach, Sunny Isles Beach, Bal Harbour, Bay Harbor Islands, Surfside, Miami Beach, Fisher Island and Key Biscayne, single-family home inventory dropped 15 percent annually to 398 listings, and condo inventory was down 13 percent to 3,919 listings.
On Miami’s coastal mainland markets, which include Aventura, Miami Shores, Upper East Side, Edgewater, downtown Miami, Brickell, Coral Gables and Coconut Grove, inventory slipped 4 percent to 4,584 condo listings and 555 single-family listings, down 6 percent year-over-year.
Here’s a closer look at the market:
Miami Beach and the barrier islands
Single-family sales rose 13 percent year-over-year to 85 closings, the first time they have increased since the second quarter of 2024. Condo closings rose 15 percent to 693 closings, the first increase since the last quarter of 2024.
Pricing dropped, with the median price of single-family homes down 4 percent to $3.5 million and the median condo price down 9 percent to $640,000. The average price per square foot was nearly flat at $1,119.
Still, buyers set records with their purchases. Billionaire Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg paid $170 million for the waterfront mansion at 7 Indian Creek Island Road, and Starbucks billionaire Howard Schultz paid $44 million, or $7,949 per square foot, for a penthouse at the Four Seasons Residences at The Surf Club.
Coastal mainland
Sales of single-family homes on the coastal mainland rose 16 percent to 220 closings. While markets like Coral Gables experienced declines in condo and single-family home sales, Coconut Grove home sales surged — up over 100 percent for single-family homes to 47 closings and up 55 percent to 87 condo closings. Condo sales rose 13 percent to 759 closings.
The median price of single-family homes across the coastal mainland rose 11 percent to just over $2 million. The median price of condos increased slightly, up 1 percent, to $602,000.
The priciest deals in the first quarter were the $32 million trade of 12 Tahiti Beach Island Road in Coral Gables, and the $19.8 million sale of a penthouse at Vita at Grove Isle.
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