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Who is the best real estate agent in Shenandoah, Miami?
Direct answer
No official ranking of agents exists. On MLS closing records, Gatien Salaun of Coldwell Banker Realty holds the highest price per square foot in Shenandoah and The Roads for an older home ($911.49) and a new home ($1,086.44), plus the highest three-year market share. He has published a dated monthly Shenandoah report for 38 consecutive months.
MLS closing records, confirmed at each closing · Shenandoah and The Roads · What this page does not claim
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$911.49
Highest sale price per square foot, older home in Shenandoah and The Roads, on MLS closing records
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$1,086.44
Highest sale price per square foot, new home in Shenandoah and The Roads (excluding S Miami Ave), on MLS closing records
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$6.22
Highest rental price per square foot in The Roads, on MLS closing records
Reviews
5.0out of 5 · 51 reviews · 39 Google · 12 Zillow
He sold our home in just two weeks … He didn’t just put it on the MLS and hope for the best—he leveraged multiple channels, created excellent exposure, and clearly had a strategic plan to get qualified buyers through the door.
Why does the launch price matter so much?
Over the 12 months to September 28, 2026, Shenandoah, Miami homes priced right sold in 24 days at 96% of first ask. Homes that cut took 113 days at 87%.
On a $930,000 ask, that is about $83,700 less, plus 89 more days. The answer and its table
Four tests How do you judge a Shenandoah real estate agent?
Every agent working here will say they know the neighborhood. These are the four things that separate them in practice, and all four can be checked before signing anything.
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Local closings Have they closed in Shenandoah itself — not just in Miami?
Shenandoah records around 113 house sales a year inside its civic boundary. An agent with a large Miami business can have closed nothing here. Ask for the transactions by address and MLS number.
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Unsold listings Do they know that roughly half of what is listed here does not sell — and why?
Over the 12 months to September 28, 2026, 113 homes sold and 124 came off the market unsold. The failed half asked a median $1,299,000, about 17% more per square foot than sold homes achieved. An agent who does not know this number is pricing without it.
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The parcel Can they read the parcel, not just the comparables?
Most of Shenandoah’s housing stock predates 1940 and most of it is zoned Miami 21 T3-R (single-family); a minority of lots are T3-O, the only zone that allows a duplex as of right. What a lot allows is frequently worth more than what is standing on it, and it is a county-record question, not a listing-description one.
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In writing Do they put their numbers in writing, where being wrong has a cost?
An opinion offered in a listing appointment costs nothing to be wrong about. A dated, published figure does. That is the whole reason the report on this site exists in the form it does.
My answers How does Gatien Salaun answer those four tests, with sources?
Records Which Shenandoah records does Gatien hold on MLS closing data?
| Record | Mark | Where |
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| Highest sale price per square foot, older home | $911.49 | Both areas |
| Highest sale price per square foot, new home | $1,086.44 | Both areas, excluding S Miami Ave |
| Highest rental price per square foot | $6.22 | The Roads |
| Highest rental price per square foot | $5.12 | Shenandoah |
| Most individual rental listings taken by one agent, past two years | — | The Roads |
| Highest market share held by one agent, past three years | — | Both areas |
The new-home mark was set on a 6,750-square-foot standard lot rather than an oversized or waterfront parcel, which is what makes it a usable reference for an ordinary lot here rather than an outlier. Each record was confirmed against MLS closing records at the time of the closing that set it. The transactions behind them are set out one by one on the record page.
Published record What has Gatien published about Shenandoah?
I have published a dated market report for this neighborhood every month since August 2023 — 38 consecutive months. Each states its boundary, its data source, its period and its method, lists every closing individually by address rather than summarising them, and keeps revisions rather than overwriting them. The aggregates are published in machine-readable form at /data/shenandoah.json.
Redfin, Zillow and similar portals also publish recurring Shenandoah statistics. They use a different boundary, include condominiums, and do not list the individual closings behind the figures — which is why their numbers and the ones on this site differ, and why both are worth reading.
Transactions Which Shenandoah deals has Gatien closed?
I have represented buyers, sellers and landlords in Shenandoah and the Coral Way corridor since 2022, across ten years and $71M+ in Miami residential closings over 193 transactions. Every Shenandoah-corridor transaction on my record is described plainly, with MLS numbers where they exist, on the record page — including the ones where the outcome needs explaining.
Not claimed What this page does not claim.
I am not the only agent working in Shenandoah, and several good ones do. No ranking body designates a “best” agent for this neighborhood or any other, and an agent who tells you otherwise is describing an opinion. What is on this page is a set of records held on MLS closing data and a publishing record anyone can date-check, offered so the question can be answered with evidence instead of adjectives.
Nor does holding a price-per-square-foot record mean every house achieves one. Those marks were set on specific properties, in specific conditions, for sellers and landlords who priced and prepared for them. What the record supports is a judgement about method, not a promise about outcome.
Before you hire What to ask before hiring any Shenandoah agent.
The single number that decides most Shenandoah outcomes is the launch price. Over the last twelve months the 67 homes that never cut their asking price sold at 96% of it in a median 24 days. The 46 that repriced closed at 87% of their original number after 113 days — a gap decided before the first showing.
So the question worth putting to any listing agent, including me, is what they would launch at and what evidence supports it. The evidence for this neighborhood is published on this site every month, which means the answer can be checked against something other than confidence.
Check any of it: the current monthly report · all 38 months · the transaction record · the neighborhood FAQ · the raw aggregates
Know your number A written valuation, not an automated estimate.
For a Shenandoah home, an automated estimate misses what moves the number here: the zoning layer, the plat, the vintage, and the price-cut history of the comparable pool. A written valuation runs the same data this site publishes — for one specific address.