Coral Gables Gated Communities

Cocoplum has 413 homes in its two phases, 183 of them on the water, a private yacht club with 186 wet slips, and the broadest price ladder of any gated community in the city. This is where most gated transactions in Coral Gables actually happen, and where families enter the gated market intending to climb it.

Cocoplum's interior canals pass one fixed bridge, with 21 feet of clearance at Isla Dorada Boulevard by the City's bridge record, so the bridge sets how tall a boat a canal home can keep; its homes on the Coral Gables Waterway pass none.

Snapper Creek Lakes is a security special taxing district created by Miami-Dade County in 1996 (G-228) and administered by the City of Coral Gables, with 113 homes on the Property Appraiser's record and lots of an acre or more for 109 of them, with a median of 1.2 acres. Documented sales span $1.8M to $21.5M across 16 transactions since 2022; the recent median, the middle of its six sales of 2025–26, is $1,731/SF. The community record, at 10840 Old Cutler Road, closed in 2025 at $21.5M and $2,322/SF.

Hammock Lakes' three documented sales since 2022 ran from $3.6M to $8.0M, by MLS closed sales. The buyer pays for security and a mature banyan landscape, not for water access. Sixty-four homes sit inside the Hammock Lakes security district, by the Property Appraiser's record; 34 of them face its lakes. Banyan Lakes, along Banyan Drive, and Hammock Oaks Harbor, a kilometre south, each have their own district.

Gables by the Sea has the lowest documented entry point of the Coral Gables gated communities: $1.6M — a fraction of Gables Estates ($10.5M+) and Old Cutler Bay ($5.7M+). Quiet residential streets and 364 homes in the Coral Gables district. The community is governed by security district G-261, created by Miami-Dade County in 2022 for the Coral Gables side and administered by the City; the broader historical "Gables by the Sea" name spans two municipalities, and only the Coral Gables district is in scope here — the separate Pinecrest district is excluded.

Access note: 203 of its 364 homes reach Biscayne Bay without passing a bridge. South of Lugo Avenue, the canal homes reach the bay without a fixed bridge, except the western canals of Agua and Tagus Avenues, which have no water connection to the bay. North of Lugo Avenue, 59 canal homes reach the bay under the Lugo Avenue bridge, 9.5 feet of clearance by the City's record.