Glenn Rice Realtor

💦 Miami summer with kids. Here's where to take them.

Free and local: 🌊 Westwind Lakes Park (SW 152nd Ave, West Kendall). Free splash pad, sunrise to sunset. No admission, no reservations. Best for younger kids on a weekday. 🌿 Pinecrest Gardens (Red Rd). $5/person. Splash 'N Play + petting zoo + botanical gardens. Make a morning of it.

Water park days: 🛝 South Dade Park (SW 184th St). 3 water slides, splash pad, tot lot. $6 adults / $4 kids. Lifeguards on site. 🌀 Grapeland Water Park. Lazy river, slides, toddler splash zone. $9 kids (2-13) / $15 residents / $20 non-residents / under 1 free. The full day option.

Bonus: 🦁 Zoo Miami. 3 splash zones included with admission. Animals + water in one trip. ~$19-23. 🏊 Life Time at Pinecrest or The Falls. Resort-quality pools, less crowded. Day passes available.

More local family guides coming all summer. Follow so you don't miss them 👇

My father is a Marine. He also spent thirty years as a police officer with the City of Miami.

Over the years I've worked with a lot of active duty and veterans in South Miami-Dade. Families connected to Homestead Air Force Base, SouthCom in Doral, and bases that brought them here or took them somewhere new.

Every situation is different. Some need to sell fast. Some are ready to buy using their VA benefit. Some need a solid rental while the next step takes shape. I've helped with all three. There's no one-size answer. It depends on what makes sense for your family right now.

The real estate part usually isn't the hardest part. Everything around it is. My job is to make sure it doesn't add to that. That means being straight about the market, pricing correctly the first time, knowing how VA financing works with sellers in this area, and not wasting your time.

If you're active duty, a veteran, or a military family figuring out a housing decision in South Miami-Dade, let's have a straightforward conversation. No pressure, no pitch 👇

🏥 West Kendall Baptist Hospital isn't just expanding. Baptist Health is building a full medical campus on that corner.

The East Pavilion opened in 2023: 135,500 sq ft. Doubled emergency department to 35 treatment rooms. 70 new private inpatient rooms. Cardiac cath lab. Interventional radiology suite.

Since then: Baptist Health bought 18 more acres, now approved as a health and wellness district. 215,000 sq ft of medical offices. 70,000 sq ft of education space. A 125-room hotel. And a Women's Cancer Center completing construction this year, a 155,000 sq ft facility for breast, gynecological, and skin cancer care.

This corner of SW 88th and 162nd Ave is becoming one of the most complete medical destinations in South Florida.

For homeowners and buyers in West Kendall: healthcare infrastructure this size creates jobs, draws physicians who need to live nearby, and signals long-term institutional investment. When you live near infrastructure that keeps expanding, the value case gets stronger over time, not weaker.

Want to know what it means for values in your neighborhood? DM me 👇

🏠 PCS orders don't wait for the market. Neither did we.

A family in Princeton called me with weeks to sell before the husband's Army PCS move. No room for a slow listing. No time to test the market.

We priced it right from day one. One offer came in at asking. Thirty days from listing to contract. They closed, they moved, and they were ready for the next chapter.

Military families don't get to pick their timeline. The orders are the deadline, and that deadline is real. My job is to handle the real estate so they can focus on everything else.

If you or someone you know is facing a PCS move in South Miami-Dade, reach out. I know how to move fast without leaving money on the table 👇

2,000 people watched my video about Kendall’s first skyscraper. The comments were loud and clear. Traffic. Infrastructure. A neighborhood changing faster than the county can keep up with.

In this follow-up I’m covering what most people don’t know yet. The site is currently stalled, the original timeline has already slipped, and Baptist Main right across the street is about to add a significant number of new medical positions to that corridor.

This is the full picture. The good, the bad, and the parts nobody’s talking about yet.

DM me if you want to know what all of this means for home values in Kendall right now.



Is Kendall growing too fast?

What’s your biggest concern about Kendall’s growth?

🏙️ Kendall is getting its first skyscraper, and it's already rising on North Kendall Drive.

Shoma 88 is a 28-story mixed-use tower at 9595 SW 88th Street, right across from West Kendall Baptist. 405 rental units. 100,000+ sq ft of medical office space. Ground-floor retail, a food hall called Shoma Bazaar, rooftop pool, fitness center, co-working spaces. The first tower of its height in this corridor's history.

40% of those units are workforce housing under Florida's Live Local Act. Same amenities. Same building. Same rooftop pool. Not a separate section. Two-bedroom workforce units run $2,600 to $2,850/month for households earning up to 120% AMI. Rates locked in for 30 years.

Kendall has always been low-rise, car-dependent, strip malls on every corner. Shoma 88 is the first real signal that Kendall is urbanizing. On its own terms, around its own anchors, with its own hospital district and workforce.

This is the first tower. It won't be the last. Want to know how this impacts home values in the corridor? DM me 👇

🏡 Buying a home in Miami in 2026? Three things that matter more than most buyers realize.

1️⃣ Walkability. The fifteen-minute pod is real. Groceries, coffee, a doctor, dinner without touching your car. Palmetto Bay, Pinecrest, and parts of Kendall are building this right now.

2️⃣ Elevation. Flood Zone X isn't just a safety call. It's a financial one. No mandatory flood insurance changes your carrying costs. Two similar homes in Kendall can be completely different assets based on zone alone.

3️⃣ Work-from-home flexibility. A real room. A real door. Miami's hybrid workforce isn't going anywhere.

Check all three and you're not just buying a home. You're buying smart in a market that's changing fast.

Which one is your #1 priority right now? Drop it below 👇