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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 …

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Lady Lake is the town The Villages grew out of, and the two are hard to separate on a map or in a listing search. The largest single block of homes that sold with a Lady Lake address in the last …

By Brenden Rendo, Realtor · Updated October 8, 2026

In September, 1,038 Central Florida sellers took the sign out of the yard without a sale. Some listings expired. More were canceled early. It is easy to blame the market. But 2,975 homes did sell in the same four …

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The short answer: Tavares is a good fit for buyers over 55, for boaters, and for anyone who wants a new house in the low to mid $300,000s, as long as the job is not a daily drive into …

By Brenden Rendo, Realtor · Updated October 7, 2026

Most buyers scroll right past a listing once it has been up for a year. They figure something must be wrong with it, or that the seller will never budge. In Central Florida right now that habit skips 750 …

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Eustis is an old lakefront town with a new town being built around it. More than a quarter of the homes that sold here in the last twelve months were brand new, in subdivisions on the edges of town, …

By Brenden Rendo, Realtor · Updated October 6, 2026

In January I told you the handcuffs were slowly loosening. The share of mortgages above 6% had just passed the share below 3%, and an owner with a 4.8% rate was no longer stuck on the rate, only on …

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The short answer: For a buyer who wants Seminole County schools close to Orlando for less than Winter Springs, Casselberry is usually a good fit. What you get is an older house, often near a lake, in a city that runs …

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Longwood is the Seminole County suburb for people who want a house and the ground it sits on. Five of every six sales here are single-family homes, the median one is a 2,200 square foot house from the late …

Altamonte Springs is two markets that barely touch. Four in ten homes that sell here are condos, most of them built in the 1970s and 1980s, and they close at about $160,000 after about ten weeks on the market. Just over half are single-family houses from the 1960s and …