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Selling a house in Florida

Selling a house in Florida turns on paperwork a buyer's inspector and a buyer's insurer will ask for: the permit record on work already done, the association documents if you are in one, and the age of the roof. Selling Houses works across Orange, Osceola, and Seminole counties, plus Deltona and the Volusia cities beside it.

What does a Florida buyer ask for that catches sellers out?

Roof age, first. In Florida a buyer's ability to insure the house depends on it, so a roof with no permit record and no receipt turns into a negotiation rather than a line on a disclosure. The same goes for a re-pipe, a panel change, or an addition: if the work happened and the permit never closed, it surfaces during inspection.

Association documents second. If the house is in a homeowners association, the buyer is entitled to a disclosure summary before the contract is signed, and the association has a statutory window to produce an estoppel figure for closing. Neither runs on your schedule.

Which office holds the permit record on your house?

It depends on whether the house sits inside a city's limits. A municipality with its own building department issues and holds permits for work inside those limits, and the county holds the rest. Two houses a mile apart can have their records in two different systems.

Each city page here names the office that holds the record for that city, and links the county property appraiser and the permit search, so you can check your own address before an inspector does.

Does it matter which county the house is in?

For the records, yes. The property appraiser, the permit search, the official records for liens and past sales, and the utility accounts are all county or city level, and the tax bill you hand a buyer comes from the county.

For the sale itself the rules are the same across the state, which is why the city pages here spend their space on what is genuinely local: which office to call, what the housing stock of that city tends to raise at inspection, and what is worth gathering first.

Sell your house in these Florida cities

Orange County

Osceola County

Seminole County

Volusia County

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Last updated September 19, 2026