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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 …

By Brenden Rendo, Realtor · Updated October 2, 2026

Every week a buyer asks me some version of the same question: is Florida home insurance still the deal-breaker everyone said it was two years ago? The honest answer has two halves, and most of the coverage you have …

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Maitland's median price is a poor guide to what a house here costs. Nearly a quarter of what closes here is condos at about $230,000, and they pull the headline down to a number that describes neither the condo …

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Winter Springs is Tuscawilla and everything else, and the two halves are further apart than the city's median suggests. Tuscawilla, the golf and lake country club side that runs along the south of the city, is where homes …

By Brenden Rendo, Realtor · Updated September 30, 2026

On September 24, Freddie Mac's weekly survey put the average 30-year fixed mortgage at 7.03%. That is the first reading above 7% since the week of January 16, 2025. If you have been watching this number since the summer, …

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Ocoee is two towns wearing one name. The old one sits between the lakes and the 429, 1980s and older houses with no homeowners association, and it sells for about $310,000 in under three weeks. The new one is …

Edgewater is where a detached house on its own lot still closes under $300,000 in the four counties, and it does that on the west bank of the Indian River, ten minutes south of New Smyrna Beach. The reason is Florida Shores, a grid of 1980s block homes platted decades …

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Windermere is two things that share a name. The Town of Windermere is a small lakefront place of a few thousand people with dirt roads, a 1980 median build year and about twenty sales a year. The Windermere …

By Brenden Rendo, Realtor · Updated September 27, 2026

Most buyers watching the Orlando area market see a price cut and wonder the same thing: is that the bottom, or is there more coming? One cut does not answer it. A seller can drop the price once to …