Coconut Grove grew up as a bayfront village before the City of Miami was incorporated, and the streets still read that way: a heavy tree canopy, a walkable village core along Main Highway and Grand Avenue, and waterfront blocks that open onto Biscayne Bay and Dinner Key. The housing mix is houses first — older cottages, renovated homes, and bayfront properties — with some condominiums nearer the commercial streets rather than a wall of towers. It fits people who want a residential pocket inside the City of Miami, close to the water and a village main street, without living in the Brickell high-rises. If the search is for a planned Mediterranean city or larger south-Dade lots, that is Coral Gables or Pinecrest, not the Grove.