Lake Patricia Homes for Sale — Miami Lakes

The Graham family finished the master plan for their 3,000-acre dairy farm in 1961, with Lester Collins laying out curving roads around lakes, and Miami Lakes opened on July 22, 1962 with Lake Patricia offering the first homes. The lake is man-made and roughly L-shaped, and it carries the name of Patricia Graham, wife of developer William A. Graham. The Lake Patricia Shopping Center at 13908 NW 67th Avenue followed in 1964, and the Miami Lakes Barbershop that opened there in 1966 was one of the Graham Companies' first tenants.

The neighborhood sits in the southeast corner of the town. NW 67th Avenue runs along one side, an office and light industrial park lies to the east, and Miami Lakeway South and NW 138th Street are the north and south edges. Inside, the streets curve and dead-end into cul-de-sacs under a tree canopy that has had six decades to grow, and several are named for lakes elsewhere in the country, Lake Como Terrace and Lake Saranac Avenue among them. The Miami Laker counts 234 single-family properties, about 72 of them with water views.

The housing stock is what the Grahams sold in the early 1960s: one-story concrete-block houses on wide lots that follow the bend of the street, many with carports that later owners enclosed and rooms added toward the back. Because the plan came first and the houses second, lot shapes vary more than in a grid subdivision, and the pie-shaped cul-de-sac lots and the lakefront lots along the L are the ones that draw the most attention.

Expect original floor plans to have been reworked at least once: kitchens opened to the living room, garages converted, patios screened or roofed, in some cases a second story added. The Miami Laker put the average house price at $475,239 in 2019; the town-wide numbers on our Miami Lakes page are the better current guide, and we pull comparable sales inside Lake Patricia itself before we advise on price.

Lake Patricia is not gated and the Miami Laker's profile names no mandatory homeowners association. What it does have is one of the Town of Miami Lakes' six special taxing districts, and this one is for lake maintenance only. The Town's lake contractor, SOLitude Lake Management, keeps the water in condition and stocks it; the Miami Laker reported tilapia, bass and golden shiners going in, paid for by the 72 lakefront owners, each of whom was assessed $232 in the 2018-2019 tax year.

The assessment is billed in advance for each tax year and appears as an itemized line under the non-ad valorem section of the property tax bill, so it shows up in the seller's tax record rather than in an HOA estoppel. District meetings are quarterly. Dry-lot owners are not in the district, which matters when you compare a lakefront listing with one across the street.

Daily errands stay close. The Lake Patricia Shopping Center at 13908 NW 67th Avenue has anchored the corner since 1964, and NW 67th Avenue connects south into Hialeah and north to Main Street, the town center with Town Hall at 6601 Main Street. The neighborhood's own tot lots sit inside the loops, and the Town's park system adds Miami Lakes Optimist Park with ball fields and a community center, Picnic Park East and Royal Oaks Park a short drive away.

Six traditional public schools serve the town, and all six kept their letter grades in the 2023-24 report: Bob Graham Education Center, Miami Lakes K-8 Center, Miami Lakes Middle School, Miami Lakes Educational Center, Barbara Goleman Senior High and Hialeah-Miami Lakes Senior High, just south of the town line. Zoning follows the exact address, so confirm it with the district. The Palmetto Expressway is the commute route.

Start with the age of the house. A 1962 roof has been replaced at least once, so ask for the permit and the date, and have the inspector look at the electrical panel, the drain lines and the window protection, since insurers price all three. Pull the Town's permit history for every enclosed carport, roofed patio or added room; an unpermitted addition is common in houses of this era and it affects both insurance and the appraisal.

On a lakefront lot, walk the bank. Ask who maintains it, whether there is a seawall or a natural slope, and confirm the district assessment on the current tax bill so your payment estimate uses the real number. Check the FEMA zone by address with the county map or our flood tool, because an AE or AH designation means mandatory flood insurance on a federally backed loan.

Buyers who look here are choosing the original Miami Lakes: the canopy, the curve of the street and the lake. They compare your house on three things you can document, the roof and window dates, the permit history of any addition, and whether the lot faces water. A clean permit file and a recent four-point inspection answer most of the questions before they are asked.

Photograph the street and the lake, not only the kitchen, and price against closed sales inside Lake Patricia rather than the town median, because Royal Oaks and Loch Lomond trade on different terms. Have the tax bill ready so the district assessment is visible.