7 Best Real Estate Agents in Miami – 2026

Miami’s real estate market is running at full speed in 2026, with total home sales rising 14.3% year-over-year in June 2026 and luxury sales above $1M jumping 29.14% in the same period.

Deal flow at the top is moving fast and cash buyers dominate. The agent you choose affects your outcome in a measurable way.

The seven agents and teams listed here appear in verified third-party rankings for 2026. Those rankings are drawn from RealTrends Verified, The Real Deal’s Miami data, EffectiveAgents MLS records, and published sales volume reporting. Each agent below has at least one independently documented data point confirming their track record in the Miami market.

What Are the Key Takeaways for Choosing a Miami Agent?

• According to The Real Deal’s analysis, the top 25 agent teams in Miami closed about $6.4 billion in on-market sales in the 12-month period ending August 2025, volume that points to deep market access at the top tier.
• RealTrends Verified publishes a 2026 Miami ranking based on transaction volume, a third-party benchmark for agent performance in the market.
• Cash sales made up a substantial share of all Miami closed sales in September 2025, a dynamic that rewards agents with direct networks rather than those who depend entirely on MLS exposure.
• Luxury market metrics matter for agent selection: the Q3 2025 Miami luxury condo market posted a median sale price of $1.8M and a median of 81 days on market, timing that separates agents who know pricing from those who guess.
• Neighborhood-level transaction counts separate genuinely local agents from those who claim city-wide coverage without the closed deals to back it up.
• The Jills Zeder Group closed $1.85 billion in sales volume in 2025, more than double the No. 2 large team in RealTrends Verified rankings, making documented volume the clearest separator at the top of the Miami market.
• Wesley Ulloa at LUXE Properties shows a leading career transaction count and substantial all-time sales volume in verified MLS data, a transaction depth that spans multiple market cycles.
• Miami luxury condo median sale price hit $1.8M in Q3 2025 with a median of 81 days on market, pricing precision at this level rewards agents with continuous deal flow in the segment.
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• South Florida averages one $10M home sale per day and posted its most $20M-and-up condo sales in history in 2025, ultra-luxury market conditions that favor agents with documented deal history at that price tier.
• Cash sales made up a large share of all existing condo sales in September 2025, meaning the right agent’s buyer network is as important as their MLS access.

Miami’s best real estate agents are ranked by verified third-party sales volume, neighborhood transaction depth, and MLS-documented deal history. The Jills Zeder Group led Miami in 2025 with $1.85 billion in closed sales. For investors seeking Miami real estate exposure without a full transaction, Ark7 offers fractional rental property shares from $20.

1. The Jills Zeder Group

Brokerage: Coldwell Banker Market Focus: Luxury residential, Miami Beach, Coral Gables, Miami-Dade County Third-Party Recognition: RealTrends Verified No. 1 large team by sales volume, five consecutive years

The Jills Zeder Group holds the top position in this list on the strength of documented volume. According to HousingWire, the team closed $1.85 billion in sales volume in 2025, more than double the No. 2 large team in the same RealTrends Verified rankings. That figure is confirmed across multiple third-party outlets covering the Miami luxury market.

The team operates across Miami Beach, Coral Gables, and the broader Miami-Dade luxury corridor.

The Jills Zeder Group’s client base skews toward high-net-worth buyers and sellers, including international purchasers who account for a significant portion of Miami’s cash transactions. In Miami Beach, 62% of buyers paid cash for homes in Q3 2024, according to Florida Realtors, a dynamic this team’s network is built around.

The group’s scale means access to off-market inventory, which matters in a market where a top luxury agent’s access to exclusive, off-market listings can determine whether a buyer even sees a relevant property.

2. Wesley Ulloa – LUXE Properties

Brokerage: LUXE Properties Market Focus: Residential, Miami-Dade County Third-Party Recognition: Top verified agent on EffectiveAgents, verified MLS transaction data

According to EffectiveAgents, Wesley Ulloa at LUXE Properties is the top verified agent in Miami, with a leading career transaction count and substantial all-time sales volume in verified MLS data. Those figures are drawn from verified MLS data, not self-reported totals. Transaction count at this scale puts Ulloa in a category of agents who have closed deals across market cycles, not just in favorable conditions.

EffectiveAgents notes that in a Miami market where only a small share of homes clear above list and a notable share see price reductions, the right representative measurably affects the final number. Ulloa’s transaction depth across Miami-Dade suggests consistent activity rather than a concentration in a single price band or neighborhood. Agents with this kind of MLS footprint typically have direct relationships with buyer pools that don’t wait for public listings.

3. The Chad Carroll Group

Brokerage: Compass Market Focus: Luxury residential, Miami, Miami Beach, Coconut Grove Third-Party Recognition: Featured in The Real Deal Miami rankings; covered in Variety’s Showbiz Real Estate Elite Report

Chad Carroll has a documented sales history in Miami luxury across multiple reporting periods. Variety’s Showbiz Real Estate Elite Report noted that Carroll, the top Compass Florida agent and former “Million Dollar Listing Miami” star, closed a significant volume in 2022 sales. The Real Deal’s November 2024 coverage of Miami agents operating in a challenging market placed Carroll among the top-producing teams in Miami-Dade County.

Carroll’s focus spans Miami’s luxury condo inventory and single-family market. The luxury condo segment is particularly data-intensive: the Q3 2025 Miami luxury condo median price per square foot hit $995, up 2.7% from the same quarter in 2024, the kind of granular pricing movement that rewards agents with a continuous deal flow in the segment rather than periodic participation.

4. Fredrik Eklund and John Gomes – Douglas Elliman

Brokerage: Douglas Elliman Market Focus: Luxury residential, Miami and multi-market Third-Party Recognition: Variety’s Showbiz Real Estate Elite Report 2024

The team of Fredrik Eklund and John Gomes operates across New York, California, Texas, and Florida. Variety’s 2024 Elite Report documented that the team has averaged $4 billion in annual transactions over the last four years.

The Eklund-Gomes team’s Florida presence covers Miami luxury, where apartments and condominiums made up 58% of luxury real estate spending in the U.S. in 2024, a segment that aligns with their documented transaction profile.

Their Miami activity sits within the broader context of a market where international buyers purchased 49% of new South Florida construction, pre-construction, and condo conversion sales over the 18-month period ending June 2025. A team with documented multi-market ultra-luxury activity is positioned to reach that buyer pool directly.

5. Tal and Oren Alexander – Official

Brokerage: Official Market Focus: Ultra-luxury residential, Miami and multi-market Third-Party Recognition: Variety’s Showbiz Real Estate Elite Report 2024

The Alexander team operates through their own firm, Official, which has expanded into Los Angeles, Aspen, and the Bahamas alongside their Florida base. Variety’s 2024 coverage documented that Tal and Oren Alexander represented the buyer in the $239 million penthouse at 220 Central Park South, the highest-priced residential purchase in U.S. history at the time.

The Alexander team’s Miami focus sits at the ultra-luxury end of a market that is setting its own records. According to June 2026 data, South Florida averages one $10M home sale per day and posted the most $20M-and-up condo sales in its history in 2025. The Alexander team’s transaction history at that price level is directly relevant to buyers and sellers operating at the top of the Miami market.

6. Ximena Penuela – Fort Realty

Brokerage: Fort Realty Market Focus: Ultra-luxury residential Third-Party Recognition: No. 1 by median deal size in The Real Deal’s 2025 Miami residential brokers ranking

The Real Deal’s 2025 Miami top residential brokers data showed that Ximena Penuela with Fort Realty ranked first among all agents and agent teams by median deal size, with a typical sale of $19.5 million. That figure reflects a concentration in the segment of the market where deal complexity, off-market access, and buyer relationships operate very differently than in the broader residential market.

For sellers positioning above $10M, or buyers seeking to transact in that tier, an agent whose median transaction sits at $19.5M brings a practical point of reference that agents operating primarily below that threshold do not. Miami Beach luxury condo prices provide context: in Q3 2025, the median price per square foot in the Miami Beach luxury condo market reached $1,292, up from $1,123 in Q3 2024, the kind of pricing move that an agent with this deal size profile tracks closely.

7. Verified Top Agents via HomeLight and EffectiveAgents Directories

Directories: HomeLight Miami, EffectiveAgents Miami Data Source: Verified MLS transaction records and agent-reported volume Coverage: Miami-Dade County, all price tiers

For buyers and sellers not operating in the ultra-luxury tier, agent-matching directories that run on verified MLS data provide a practical shortcut. HomeLight publishes a current-year Miami agent ranking page updated for 2026. EffectiveAgents filters Miami agents by verified MLS transaction data and publishes performance stats including transaction count and sales volume for each ranked agent.

Both directories surface agents at the neighborhood level, useful in a market where asking how many transactions an agent has closed in a specific neighborhood in the last 12 months serves as a practical filter for neighborhood-level expertise. An agent who has closed twenty transactions in Brickell holds a different informational edge than one who has closed twenty across all of Miami-Dade.

How to Choose the Right Miami Real Estate Agent

How Does Transaction Volume Help You Choose a Miami Agent?

Match the agent’s documented deal history to your price range. An agent whose median sale sits at $19.5M has different contacts and pricing instincts than one whose median is $600K. RealTrends Verified and The Real Deal’s annual Miami data are two widely used third-party sources for ranking agents by volume. The top 20 brokerages in Miami-Dade County closed nearly $19 billion in on-market sales in the 12-month period ending August 2025, figure out which portion of that market you’re transacting in before filtering agents.

Why Does Neighborhood-Level Experience Matter?

Miami is not one market. In Q2 2025, Brickell’s median sales price was $1.5 million and it led downtown neighborhoods with 62 sales that quarter. Sunny Isles Beach ran at a substantially elevated median sale price in Q1 2025, reflecting a significant increase from Q4 2024. Coconut Grove tracks on its own curve: 2023 sales volume held steady at $858M with average sale price up 30% to $2.36M. Ask any agent how many transactions they have closed in your specific target neighborhood in the last twelve months, not across the metro.

How Important Is Off-Market Access in Miami?

Pocket listings and pre-market deals are a real feature of Miami’s luxury segment. The National Association of Realtors’ Policy Statement 8.0 requires listing brokers to submit listings to the MLS within one business day of marketing to the public. Genuine off-market deals, those not yet marketed at all, still flow through agent networks. When vetting an agent, ask whether the agent has access to off-market listings, not just pre-listings, the distinction between a property that hasn’t been marketed yet and one that has been sent to a mailing list is significant.

What Should a Miami Agent Be Able to Show You?

An agent who can show you independent data on price history and comparable sales, not just a verbal overview, is operating with more rigor than one who walks you through comps verbally. In a market where Miami’s median home price ran from $850,000 at the start of 2024 to $819,700 by the end of 2024, pricing precision matters. Agents who can produce a report rather than a reassurance are worth the extra vetting time.

What Type of Agent Representation Does Florida Law Provide?

Florida law shapes what representation you are actually getting. Under SEFMLS rules, Florida law presumes all licensees operate as transaction brokers unless a single agent relationship is established in writing. A transaction broker provides limited representation and does not act in a fiduciary capacity, while a single agent owes fiduciary duties to the principal and cannot represent both parties in the same transaction. Clarifying this before signing a representation agreement is practical, not academic.

What Makes a Top Miami Agent Different from a General Realtor?

The Miami Herald notes that a real estate agent works under a broker’s supervision, while a broker has additional training and licensing and can run a brokerage and supervise other agents. A Realtor is specifically an agent who is a member of the National Association of Realtors and follows its Code of Ethics. The title alone does not distinguish performance.

What separates the agents on this list from the broader pool is documented transaction volume, third-party verification of their MLS records, and active presence in the specific segments they claim to serve.

Real estate agents do more than show homes; negotiations and contract work are a large part of the job. In Miami’s market, where cash sales accounted for a large share of all existing condo sales in September 2025, the deal complexity of a transaction favors agents who have run the same playbook dozens of times in the same market segment.

The buyer network an agent brings is also measurably larger than it may appear. A retargeting audience of 400,000+ buyers is materially different from a contact list of a few hundred past clients, not in kind but in reach and speed, particularly for sellers trying to move inventory in a market where Miami inventory grew from 1,763 single-family homes at the start of 2024 to 2,232 by the end.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Who are the most documented real estate agents in Miami by sales volume?

The most documented agents by verified third-party sales volume in 2026 include the Jills Zeder Group, which closed $1.85 billion in sales volume in 2025 per RealTrends Verified, and Wesley Ulloa at LUXE Properties, who shows a leading all-time sales volume and career transaction count in EffectiveAgents MLS data. The Real Deal tracks the top 25 Miami agent teams annually by on-market sales and publishes their figures each year.

Is it worth using a luxury real estate agent for high-end Miami properties?

For transactions above $1 million, a segment where Miami-Dade sales rose 29.14% in June 2026, a luxury-focused agent brings pricing precision calibrated to a median of 81 days on market and per-square-foot data that general agents may not track. An agent whose median deal size matches your price tier brings directly relevant contacts and off-market access that a generalist typically does not.

How are Miami real estate agents paid?

According to Investopedia, real estate agents are usually paid through a commission, a percentage of the property’s sale price. In Miami, commission structures are negotiable and the Buyer Representation Agreement required since August 2024 means buyer-side compensation now requires explicit written agreement before touring homes. Clarify compensation structure with any agent before signing.

What is the Miami real estate market doing in 2026?

Miami-Dade posted its strongest June in three years with sales rising year-over-year for the 10th consecutive month as of June 2026. The luxury segment is particularly active: total $1M-and-up home sales in Miami-Dade increased 29.14% in June 2026. South Florida also averages one $10M home sale per day, making it the top ultra-luxury market in the country.

What should I ask a Miami realtor before hiring them?

Three questions carry the most weight: (1) How many transactions have you closed in this specific neighborhood in the last 12 months; per Miami Condo Insider guidance, neighborhood transaction count is the most direct measure of local expertise; (2) Can you show me independent data on comparable sales rather than a verbal summary; (3) Do you have access to genuine off-market listings, not just pre-listed properties that have already been marketed. The answers to those three questions separate agents with active local networks from those working off the same MLS data as everyone else.

Where can I find verified Miami real estate agent rankings?

The most reliable third-party sources for verified agent rankings in Miami are RealTrends Verified, which publishes a 2026 Miami ranking by transaction volume; The Real Deal, which publishes annual Miami residential broker data ranked by volume and median deal size; and EffectiveAgents, which pulls rankings from verified MLS records. Self-reported volume from an agent’s own website is not a substitute for third-party verification.

What percentage of Miami home sales are cash transactions?

Cash sales made up a substantial share of all Miami closed sales in September 2025, a rate that makes an agent’s direct buyer network as important as their MLS access.

What is the difference between a buyer’s agent and a seller’s agent in Miami?

The Miami Herald defines the distinction clearly: a buyer’s agent represents the buyer by helping them find properties and negotiate purchases, while a seller’s agent represents the seller by focusing on marketing the property and securing the best price. Confirm in writing which relationship applies before any property is shown.

How do Miami real estate agent commissions work after the 2024 NAR settlement?

Since August 2024, buyer-side compensation in Miami requires a written Buyer Representation Agreement before an agent can tour homes with a buyer. Commission is negotiable and is no longer automatically bundled into the seller’s closing costs. Confirm the exact compensation structure and who pays it in writing before signing any representation agreement.

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