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Yorker Lofts

Building facts

Address
444 NE 30th Street
Neighborhood
Edgewater
Year built
2005
Floors
10
Status
Completed
Pricing
Starting at $425,000

Verified 24 August 2026Miami-Dade County Property Appraiser1 source

Sources

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Building facts

Address
444 NE 30th Street
Neighborhood
Edgewater
Year built
2005
Floors
10
Residences
62
Status
Delivered — completed 2005

Key Takeaways

  • 62 homes make up The Yorker, — at 444 NE 30th Street in Edgewater — the declaration closes at exactly 100% on the county’s common-element share test, and all 62 folios are residential homes.
  • Median $/sq ft rose 3.9% from 2023 to 2026, — a modest move on thin volume — only 10 qualified sales closed across the four years, as few as 1 in three separate years.
  • The building’s current record sale is also its all-time record: — $730,000 on 10/6/2023, for a 1,356 sq ft home at unit 808 — $538 per square foot.
  • 53 of 62 homes (85.5%) have a documented round trip, — 45 sold for more and just 8 sold for less — a median gain of 23.0%, and the building’s four largest gains all belong to homes bought in 2005 and held 18 to 21 years.
  • A single $1,890,000 bulk deed from February 2003 spans 60 of the building’s folios, — the developer’s original bulk conveyance — correctly excluded from every price figure on this page, since dividing it by any one home’s size would fabricate a number.

Yorker Lofts, by the numbers

10Storeys
2005Year
CompletedStatus

Starting at $425,000. Source: the building record on this site.

444 NE 30th Street, Miami, Florida 33137 | Neighborhood: Edgewater

Sixty-Two Homes on NE 30th Street in Edgewater

I pulled all 62 folios the Miami-Dade County Property Appraiser has on file for The Yorker at 444 NE 30th Street, Miami, FL 33137 — the county’s own neighborhood field for this address reads Edgewater. The declaration closes at exactly 100.0000% on the county’s common-element share test, and all 62 folios are residential homes; there are no commercial, parking or storage folios to exclude.

The bed mix runs 29 homes (46.8%) at 1 bedroom, 26 (41.9%) at 2, and 7 (11.3%) at 3. Heated area runs from 643 to 1,356 square feet, median 963. One floorplate dominates: 963 sq ft accounts for 25 homes, 40.3% of the building on its own; four more sizes cluster near 650 square feet (651, 650, 643 and 652 sq ft, 7-8 homes each), plus 1,356 sq ft at 7 homes — together 61 of 62 homes, 98.4%.

On the 2026 tax roll, assessed values run from $75,733 to $540,788 across the 62 homes, with a median of $298,701.

I don’t have a confirmed year built, story count, architect or amenity list for this building beyond what the county record carries — none of that is in the property record, and I’d rather say so than fill it in from a listing site.

A Modest Gain on Thin Volume: Ten Sales in Four Years

YearQualified salesMedian priceMedian $/sq ft
20236$353,400$539
20241$380,000$591
20252$361,250$555
2026 to date1$360,000$560

Median $/sq ft rose 3.9% from 2023 to 2026, $539 to $560, and median price rose a similar 1.9%. Both lines point the same direction, but with only 10 qualified sales across the whole four-year span — as few as 1 in three of the four years — I’d call this a real but small move, not a strong trend. Against 62 homes, that’s a turnover of one home in 25 each year. 2026 is an incomplete year.

The building’s current record inside this window is $730,000, closed 10/6/2023, for a 1,356 sq ft home at unit 808 — $538 per square foot, and also the building’s all-time high on the county’s record. The four-year $/sq ft band runs $516 to $591, median $549.

Four Homes Held 18 to 21 Years, All Up Over 120%

Looking at homes bought and later resold, both legs a qualified transaction: 53 of the building’s 62 homes (85.5%) have one. 45 sold for more than the previous owner paid, 8 sold for less. The median change across all 53 is a gain of 23.0%, over a median 13.4-year hold; among the 45 gainers alone the median gain is 28.3%. The range runs from -59.6% to +150.0%.

The building’s four largest documented gains all share a pattern: bought in March 2005 for $152,000-$163,000, and sold between 2023 and 2025 for $355,000-$380,000, held 18.7 to 20.8 years, up 120.9% to 150.0%. Set against that, five qualified sales here, dated 2010-2011, closed at $119 to $140 a square foot — well below the building’s current band — and account for most of the building’s documented losses, including a 963 sq ft home bought for $285,000 in 2005 that sold for just $115,000 in 2011, -59.6%.

Worth flagging separately: a single $1,890,000 deed dated February 2003 spans 60 of the building’s 62 folios — the developer’s original bulk conveyance at building opening. I’ve excluded it from every price figure on this page; dividing a bulk sale by any one home’s square footage would fabricate a number that home never actually sold for.

Who The Yorker Suits, and Who It Doesn’t

The Yorker suits a buyer who wants Edgewater loft inventory concentrated in a few well-understood floorplates — the 963 sq ft plan alone is 40.3% of the building. It also suits a patient buyer: the building’s clearest gains all belong to owners who held 18 years or more, with a strong 85.5% of completed round trips showing a gain overall.

It suits buyers badly who need current market data — volume is thin, as few as 1 sale in three of the last four years — or who want a building untouched by the last downturn; five sales from 2010-2011 closed at a fraction of today’s rate per foot.

If you are selling: price off the $516-$591 four-year $/sq ft band and your unit’s specific floorplate. With volume this thin, the last comparable that closed may be your best and only recent reference point, so be ready to make your own case alongside it.

The Yorker — Frequently Asked Questions

How many homes are in The Yorker?

The Miami-Dade County Property Appraiser lists 62 folios for The Yorker at 444 NE 30th Street, Miami, FL 33137 (Edgewater), and all 62 are residential homes. The declaration closes at exactly 100.0000% on the county’s common-element share test.

Has median $/sq ft at The Yorker gone up or down recently?

It rose 3.9% from 2023 to 2026, $539 to $560. With only 10 qualified sales across the whole four-year span — as few as 1 in three of the four years — this is a real but small move, not a strong trend.

What is the highest price a home has sold for at The Yorker?

The building’s current and all-time record is $730,000, closed 10/6/2023, for a 1,356 sq ft home at unit 808 — $538 per square foot.

Do owners at The Yorker typically make or lose money?

Of the building’s 62 homes, 53 (85.5%) have a documented round trip: 45 sold for more, 8 for less. The median change across all 53 is a gain of 23.0%, and the building’s four largest gains all belong to homes bought in 2005 and held 18 to 21 years.

What is the $1,890,000 sale at The Yorker about?

That figure is a single bulk deed from February 2003 spanning 60 of the building’s 62 folios — the developer’s original bulk conveyance at building opening, not a sale of one home. It is correctly excluded from every price figure on this page.

Why did some homes at The Yorker lose money?

Five qualified sales dated 2010-2011 closed at $119 to $140 a square foot — well below the building’s current band. They account for most of the building’s documented losses, including one home down 59.6%.

What is not known about The Yorker from the county record?

Year built, story count, architect and amenity details are not part of the Property Appraiser’s record, so none of those facts appear on this page. Only what the county record itself supports is published here.

Sources and further reading

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Yorker Lofts and the truth about Miami lofts

Miami has almost no true converted-warehouse lofts. That single fact explains the whole category, and almost nobody says it plainly. Unlike SoHo, Tribeca or Chicago’s West Loop, Miami’s urban core was never built out as multi-story manufacturing, so there was very little industrial stock to convert. Nearly every building marketed here as a loft is purpose-built new construction in a loft aesthetic — high ceilings, concrete floors, open plans, floor-to-ceiling glass — constructed between roughly 2002 and 2016. Parc Lofts at 1749 NE Miami Court is the notable exception, described in the trade as one of the few genuine industrial-loft buildings in the city, with 15-foot ceilings on floors one to four and 20-foot ceilings above.

Yorker Lofts was built in 2005 in Edgewater across 10 floors. That places it squarely inside the loft-construction window — the pre-crisis condo boom that produced essentially all of Miami’s loft inventory. No meaningful loft product has been added since.

The value case, in numbers

Loft product is the genuine affordability play inside Miami’s urban core. Downtown loft-style condominiums trade at roughly $414 to $451 per square foot — Neo Lofts at $414, Loft Downtown I at $425, Loft Downtown II asking $451 — against a Downtown luxury benchmark of $730 per square foot in Q1 2026. That is 55 to 62 per cent of the going rate for comparable urban-core square footage.

Two further numbers matter. Loft Downtown II’s trailing six-month sold average was $422 per square foot against a $451 asking average, at 129 days on market — sellers are taking less than ask, and taking a while. And Downtown carried 46 months of luxury inventory in Q1 2026, the highest in Greater Downtown. If you are buying, that is as much negotiating leverage as this market offers anywhere.

Carrying cost is the quiet advantage

Loft buildings are small, low-amenity and cheap to run, and it shows in the monthly. Loft Downtown II carries an HOA of about $0.93 per square foot per month and Neo Lofts about $1.15. A South Beach trophy tower runs $4 to $7 per square foot per month — The Setai sits near $4.55. On a 1,000 square foot unit that is a difference of roughly $3,000 to $6,000 every month, before you have paid a mortgage. For investors, it is the entire reason the rental maths works.

Why no more lofts will be built

Land economics closed the category. Edgewater luxury traded at $978 per square foot and Brickell at $950 in Q1 2026, while loft product sits near $420. No developer builds a four to six-storey, 35 to 70-unit loft building on land that pencils for a 40-storey tower. High ceilings make it worse: a 20-foot ceiling consumes the volume of nearly two conventional floors, so under fixed height and FAR limits every foot of ceiling is traded directly against sellable units.

The consequence is a permanently closed supply category with structurally tiny unit counts — Ilona Lofts has 16 units, Wynwood Lofts 35, Montclair 41, Star Lofts 47, Bay Lofts 54, Uptown 66, Parc Lofts 70, Filling Station 81. In buildings that small, one owner deciding not to sell measurably moves availability.

Where Miami’s lofts actually are

  • Downtown Miami — Loft Downtown I and II. The walkable core, on the Metromover, and the most accessible luxury submarket in the city.
  • Arts & Entertainment District — Parc Lofts and Filling Station Lofts, next to the Adrienne Arsht Center, between Downtown and Wynwood.
  • Wynwood — Wynwood Lofts, in the gallery district by Wynwood Walls, with Midline Miami’s 10,000 square foot live-music venue at Arlo Wynwood open since January 2026.
  • Edgewater — Star Lofts, Bay Lofts and Uptown Lofts, in the top-performing Miami neighbourhood of Q1 2026 with 120 per cent year-on-year sales growth.
  • Miami River and Brickell edge — Neo Lofts, on the riverfront dining corridor. Brickell is Greater Downtown’s fastest-selling submarket at 75 days on market.

Who buys lofts in Miami

Creative professionals first — Parc Lofts is documented as a favourite among photographers, musicians and artists, and Wynwood Lofts is explicitly marketed as a live/work building. Then entry-point urban buyers, because Downtown lofts start around $282,000 to $307,000, well under the $425,000 Miami-Dade condo median. And rental investors, drawn by the low carry: Loft Downtown II listed 17 units for rent against 15 for sale in July 2026.

At the top of the market the buyer is different again. Parc Lofts units run 1,970 to 3,774 square feet with 15 to 20-foot ceilings at $1.3M to $3.0M. That is a fundamentally different proposition from a 700 square foot Brickell tower unit at the same price — and there is nowhere else in Miami to buy it.

Frequently asked questions

Are there real converted-warehouse lofts in Miami?

Very few. Parc Lofts at 1749 NE Miami Court is described in the trade as one of the few true industrial-loft buildings in Miami, with 15-foot ceilings on floors one to four and 20-foot ceilings on floors five and six. Most Miami buildings marketed as lofts, including Neo Lofts, Filling Station Lofts, Wynwood Lofts and Loft Downtown I and II, are purpose-built new construction in a loft aesthetic dating from 2002 to 2016.

How much does a loft cost in Miami?

Downtown loft-style condominiums start around $282,000 to $307,000 and average $414 to $451 per square foot across Neo Lofts, Loft Downtown I and Loft Downtown II, on 2026 data. Large-format industrial lofts sit far higher: Parc Lofts runs roughly $1.3 million to $3.0 million at about $756 per square foot for units of 1,970 to 3,774 square feet.

Are Miami lofts good value compared with condos?

On a per-square-foot basis, clearly. Downtown loft product trades at roughly $414 to $451 per square foot while the Downtown luxury condo segment ran $730 per square foot in Q1 2026. Carrying costs are lower too: Loft Downtown II has an HOA near $0.93 per square foot per month against $4 to $7 in South Beach trophy towers.

Which Miami neighborhoods have lofts?

The concentrations are Downtown Miami with Loft Downtown I and II, the Arts and Entertainment District with Parc Lofts and Filling Station Lofts, Wynwood with Wynwood Lofts, Edgewater with Star, Bay and Uptown Lofts, and the Miami River and Brickell edge with Neo Lofts. South Beach has a small cluster of boutique loft buildings including Ilona Lofts and Montclair Lofts, and Coconut Grove has Lofts at Mayfair.

What are the largest lofts in Miami?

Parc Lofts has the largest floorplates of any loft building in the city, with units from 1,970 to 3,774 square feet. Filling Station Lofts runs 832 to 1,639 square feet with 18-foot ceilings. Most Downtown loft towers top out near 1,150 to 1,185 square feet.

Why does nobody build new lofts in Miami anymore?

Land economics. Edgewater and Brickell luxury condos traded at $978 and $950 per square foot in Q1 2026 while loft product trades near $420. A four to six-storey building with 35 to 70 units cannot compete for the same land as a 40-storey tower, and 20-foot ceilings consume roughly two conventional floors of height under fixed limits. No meaningful loft supply has been added since about 2016.

How long do Miami lofts take to sell?

Loft Downtown II averaged 129 days on market over the six months ending July 2026, with sold prices averaging $422 per square foot against an asking average of $451. Downtown carried 46 months of luxury inventory in Q1 2026, the highest in Greater Downtown, which gives buyers meaningful negotiating room.

Who buys lofts in Miami?

Three groups. Creative professionals, since Parc Lofts is documented as a favourite among photographers, musicians and artists and Wynwood Lofts is marketed as a live/work building. Entry-point urban buyers, because Downtown lofts start below $310,000 against a $425,000 Miami-Dade condo median. And rental investors attracted by the low HOA structure, with Loft Downtown II listing 17 units for rent against 15 for sale in July 2026.

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