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Lake Helen is a small city in west Volusia County, founded by Henry DeLand and named after his daughter, and it is the old-town option between DeLand and Orange City. Almost no home that sells here comes with an …

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Chuluota is an unincorporated community east of Oviedo in Seminole County, and its housing market comes in two sizes that barely overlap. On one side are the small houses on the old town plats, where homes in …

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Okahumpka is a small unincorporated crossroads in western Lake County, a few miles south of Leesburg, and almost everything that sells here is newer than people expect. About six in ten homes sold in the last twelve months were …

Bella Collina is the guard-gated golf community on the south side of Montverde, on Lake Apopka and its own spring-fed Lake Siena, and it is really three markets behind one gate. The estate sections, where houses on lots of about an acre typically closed at close to $3 million; Bella …

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Howey-in-the-Hills is a small lake town in central Lake County, best known for the Mission Inn resort and its golf, and its market has turned toward new construction. A third of the homes sold under its address in the …

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Ponce Inlet is the small town at the southern tip of the barrier island, home of the Ponce de Leon Inlet Lighthouse, and it is the most expensive place to buy a house of the three here. …

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South Daytona is the small residential city between Daytona Beach and Port Orange on the Halifax River, and it is the most old-fashioned housing market of the three. About two thirds of the homes sold here in the last …

By Brenden Rendo, Realtor · Updated October 29, 2026

The economy grew at a 3.40% annual rate last quarter, and the Federal Reserve still held rates the day before, with two members voting to raise them. On this week's Orlando Real Estate Buzz, Brenden Rendo and mortgage co-host …