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Indian Creek Condo Guide

Indian Creek Village consists of one golf course, one guarded bridge and roughly forty waterfront estates — the island nicknamed the Billionaire Bunker patrols its own shoreline by boat. Nothing here is listed casually; when a property trades, it makes national news and a nine-figure comp.

Indian Creek by the Numbers

These benchmarks come from recorded MLS closings in Indian Creek during the past year — prices that actually traded and rents that were actually signed, never list prices — and they recalculate on their own as new closings post.

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Closed sales, past year
$170M
Median closed price
$6,096
Median $ per sqft
109 days
Typical days to sell
Closings by Property Type
TypeClosingsMedian price
Single Family Residence1$170,000,000
Month-by-Month Closings
MonthClosingsMedian price
Mar 20261$170,000,000

The Guarded Island

Indian Creek Village is a private island in Biscayne Bay organized around one golf course, a few dozen estates and a single bridge with a guardhouse — a municipality smaller than most condominium associations, patrolled by its own police on land and by boat on the water. The press long ago named it the Billionaire Bunker, and the roster of owners has only reinforced the label. What residents actually purchase is subtraction: no traffic, no visitors, no commerce, no noise.

There is no conventional market to analyze. The waterfront parcels ringing the Indian Creek Country Club course each combine bay frontage, private dockage and acreage that cannot be assembled anywhere else on this coast, and they change hands rarely — often off-market, sometimes at figures that reset national benchmarks. Original houses have mostly given way to compound-scale new construction. Ownership here functions like citizenship in a forty-household nation, and access, for serious buyers, runs through relationships rather than listings.

Off the Island

The guarded bridge lands in Surfside at 91st Street, which makes that town's grocery, deli and beach conveniences the village's practical main street. Bal Harbour Shops sits five minutes away, the airports around thirty-five, and private aviation considerably closer in practice. The island itself supplies the golf course, the water and the quiet — everything else was intentionally left on the far side of the guardhouse.

Buying a Condo or Home in Indian Creek

Much of the demand here comes down to forty guarded estates around a private golf course. Use the bedroom and property-type benchmarks to see where your budget lands in Indian Creek, then shortlist buildings before you shortlist units — the association behind a condo shapes your monthly cost as much as the floor plan does. Any listing you open puts the photos, the unit record and the broker one tap away.

A mortgage-backed purchase in South Florida generally needs a month to six weeks to reach closing; an all-cash buyer can finish in roughly half that. For a condo, build in time for the association application and board interview, ask early for the budget, reserve study and milestone-inspection status, and get windstorm and flood quotes before writing an offer. Started on day one, none of this slows a Indian Creek purchase down.

Leasing in Indian Creek

Sensibly priced Indian Creek rentals rarely sit; many lease within a few weeks, and landlords commonly collect the first and last month's rent plus a security deposit at signing. Condo rentals also need the association's tenant approval, which runs on the board's calendar. The signed-rent table shows what tenants agreed to pay by bedroom count during the past year, and the rental map shows what is open for lease today.

Around Indian Creek: Places Worth Knowing

Indian Creek Country Club

The private course and clubhouse around which the entire village is arranged.

The waterfront perimeter

Every estate faces the bay; the skyline across the water is the community's shared view.

Surfside and Bal Harbour

The village's conveniences and dining, one guarded bridge away.

Where Indian Creek Eats

The Surf Club Restaurant

Keller's room in neighboring Surfside, the closest destination table to the guardhouse.

Bal Harbour Shops dining

Carpaccio, Makoto and Le Zoo cover the island's nights out.

Indian Creek Schools

Ruth K. Broad Bay Harbor K-8 Center
Public

The area's assigned A-rated K-8 and the start of the local public pipeline.

Regional independent schools
Private

Village families draw on the county's leading private schools, with commutes arranged accordingly.

Attendance zones get redrawn from time to time. Before a school factors into a purchase, confirm the assignment for that exact address with Miami-Dade County Public Schools and check private-school admission with each school itself.

Indian Creek Condo & Home Buying Questions

Why do condo values in Indian Creek vary so much from one building to the next?

Indian Creek draws buyers for forty guarded estates around a private golf course, yet condo pricing here is set tower by tower: construction era, reserve funding, amenities, insurance costs and view lines can separate two buildings on the same block. Treat the closed-sale benchmarks in this guide as the baseline, then compare individual buildings before you narrow down to a unit.

Where can I find recent sale prices for Indian Creek?

The Indian Creek benchmarks near the top of this guide report the past year's median closed price, price per square foot and bedroom-level medians. They are recalculated from recorded MLS closings as new ones post, so you are never reading a quarterly report that went stale weeks ago.

Is a condo or a single-family house the better fit in Indian Creek?

Start with the property-type table, which shows how condo closings in Indian Creek compare with houses and townhouses. Choosing a condo makes the association's budget, reserves, master insurance policy and approval process part of your purchase; choosing a house makes the roof, windstorm coverage and upkeep yours alone. Each property type has its own map search in the links further down.

How can I see every Indian Creek condo that is listed right now?

Open the Indian Creek condos-for-sale map. It plots each active MLS listing within the city limits, lets you filter by bedrooms, price and property type, and refreshes whenever the feed does — no stale or off-market units.

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