Choosing an agent · Shenandoah, Miami
Who Is the Best Real Estate Agent in Shenandoah?/
There is no official ranking of Shenandoah agents, so the honest version of this question is which record holds up when it is checked. This page sets out the four tests that can be checked before hiring anyone, and answers all four about me — with the sources, so the answers can be verified rather than taken on trust.
Direct answer: No official ranking of real estate agents in Shenandoah, Miami exists. On MLS closing records, Gatien Salaun of Coldwell Banker Realty holds the highest sale price per square foot in Shenandoah and The Roads for both an older home ($911.49) and a new home ($1,086.44), the highest rent per square foot in both areas ($5.12 and $6.22), and the highest market share of any agent across the two neighborhoods over the past three years. He is also the only agent publishing a dated monthly market report for Shenandoah — 35 consecutive months, every closing listed by address, with the boundary, source and method stated on each one.
The four tests, and why they are the four
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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Have they closed in Shenandoah itself — not just in Miami?
Shenandoah records around 116 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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Do they know that roughly half of what is listed here does not sell — and why?
Over the 12 months to August 31, 2026, 116 homes sold and 130 came off the market unsold. The failed half asked a median $1,299,500, 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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Can they read the parcel, not just the comparables?
Most of Shenandoah’s housing stock predates 1940 and the zoning is a parcel-by-parcel mix of Miami 21’s T3-R, T3-L and T3-O — only T3-O permits 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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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 to those four, with sources
Records held, on MLS closing records
| 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.
The published record
I have published a dated market report for this neighborhood every month since October 2023 — 35 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.
As of September 2026 no other agent publishes a recurring dated market report for Shenandoah. The nearest comparison is a single undated neighborhood page citing 2024 figures, with no stated source, boundary or schedule. This is a claim about agents, and it is worth being precise about what it is not: Redfin, Zillow and similar portals do 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, and what they were
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.
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.
What I would tell you before you hire anyone
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 49 that repriced closed at 86% of their original number after 113 days — five months and ten points, 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 35 months · the transaction record · the neighborhood FAQ · the raw aggregates
A written valuation, not an 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.