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Fruitland Park sits on US 441/27 between Leesburg and The Villages, and it is easy to assume it is one more retirement market. It is not. About nine in ten homes sold here in the last twelve months were …

Sorrento is the part of Lake County that grew up in the 2000s. More than half of the homes sold here in the last twelve months were built between 2000 and 2019, more than double the share in Mount Dora or Eustis, while brand new homes were the smallest share …

By Brenden Rendo, Realtor · Updated October 15, 2026 · listing data as of October 6, 2026

The 2026 Atlantic season got its first hurricane late. Isaias became a hurricane in the Gulf on the night of October 7, peaked at Category 3 on October 9 and made …

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Geneva is where Seminole County keeps its land. More than eight in ten homes sold here in the last twelve months sat on an acre or more, and half on about five acres or more, against about four in …

By Brenden Rendo, Realtor · Updated October 14, 2026

On November 3 you will be asked to approve or reject Amendment 3, which would raise the homestead exemption for every non-school property tax levy to $150,000 in 2027 and $250,000 in 2028. I am not going to …

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Close to six in ten homes sold in Minneola in the last twelve months had never been lived in, and seven in ten were built since 2020, more than in Groveland or Clermont on both counts. Much of that …

By Brenden Rendo, Realtor · Updated October 23, 2026

Every list of Windermere's most expensive neighborhoods you can find online stops at Isleworth and calls it a day. That is not useful if you are actually shopping here, because the interesting part of this zip code is not …

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DeBary is really two towns sharing one zip code. At the south end, near the SunRail station, Rivington and Spring Walk at the Junction are selling brand new townhomes and houses, nearly all of them with a homeowners association. …

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About half of the homes sold in Groveland in the last twelve months had never been lived in. The median home that changed hands here was built in 2023, and only about one sale in fifteen was a home …