By Brenden Rendo, Realtor · Updated September 27, 2026

National headlines this month said condo sales fell to a data low and condo supply spiked to a 14-year high. That is a real national number, and it is worth asking what it actually looks like in Orange, Seminole, …

Photo: PoultrySaga, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Lake Nona is a newly built market with one of the ten highest household incomes in this series, and its median sale price is lower than it was a year ago. Those two facts are not in conflict. The …

Photo: Whoisjohngalt, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Mount Dora is the town people mean when they say old Florida: a hilly downtown on Lake Dora with a lighthouse, a hundred-year-old inn, antique shops and a festival calendar that runs most of the year. It is also, …

Photo: Gamweb, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Port Orange is the town people end up in after they price the beach. It sits on the mainland between Daytona Beach and New Smyrna Beach with a bridge to each, its reported violent crime rate is far below …

Photo: Ajr24g, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

New Smyrna Beach is the answer for people who want to live near the ocean without living inside the Daytona Beach calendar of bike weeks, race weeks and spring break, and the price of that answer depends almost entirely …

By Brenden Rendo, Realtor · Updated September 27, 2026

Every week someone asks me a version of the same question: is it finally a buyer's market? It is a fair question, because the headline numbers look like one. Sellers across Orange, Seminole, Lake and Volusia counties cut asking …

The Villages is the one place on this list where a buyer can honestly be told there is no homeowners association, and it is also the place where that sentence needs the most explaining. There is no HOA board, but there is a bond on the tax bill, an annual …

By Brenden Rendo, Realtor · Updated September 18, 2026

"Homes are sitting" is the most repeated line in Central Florida real estate right now, and on its own it tells a buyer or seller almost nothing. Sitting where? At what price? And has the seller actually moved? I …

By Brenden Rendo, Realtor · Updated September 16, 2026

If your feed looked like a bond trading desk this week, you are not imagining it. On Monday, September 14, the 10-year Treasury yield closed at 4.97%. It reached 5.00% the next day and closed at 5.01% on Wednesday, …