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Florida Save Our Homes Portability: Moving Your Tax Cap

If you leave one Florida homestead for another, you may port up to $500,000 of your Save Our Homes assessment difference to the new home. File Form DR-501T with your new homestead application by March 1, and establish the new exemption within three years of January 1 of the year you abandoned the old one.

Florida Seller Disclosure: Material Facts, Flood Form, and Radon

Florida sellers must disclose known facts that materially affect a home's value and are not readily observable to the buyer. There is also a required flood disclosure at or before contract signing, plus statutory radon language, even when a home is sold as is.

Florida Homestead Exemption and Save Our Homes Cap Explained

A Florida homestead exemption cuts your home's taxable value by about $50,000 today, and voters just approved a much bigger cut starting in 2027. It also qualifies you for the Save Our Homes cap, which limits yearly assessed-value growth to 3% or the CPI change, whichever is less.

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