Guide · Florida sales
How to find what a Florida house sold for
Look the parcel up on the county property appraiser's site and open its sales: each one lists the month, the price, a code that says whether it was an open-market sale, and the deed's book and page or instrument number. A price of $100 or $0 usually means a deed that paid little or no transfer tax, not a sale. To confirm a price, open the deed itself in the clerk's official records.
Step 1: open the parcel's sales on the appraiser's site
Find the house on its county's property appraiser site by address or parcel ID (how to look up a property in any county). The sales sit under the values, newest first. Most counties list several past sales; some go back decades.
Step 2: read the qualification code
Appraisers code every transfer for the Department of Revenue. The 2026 list of transfer codes sorts them into groups:
- 01 and 02: qualified, arm's length. The price is a fair read of the market.
- 03 to 06: arm's length, but left out of the state's checks: the property changed after the sale, or the deed covered several parcels (05) or crossed a county line (06).
- 11 to 21: disqualified by the deed itself: quit claim, corrective or tax deeds, deeds at the minimum stamp, transfers to or from banks, governments, estates or charities, part interests.
- 30 to 43: disqualified on evidence: sales between relatives or related companies, trades, forced sales, prices that do not match the stamps.
- 98 and 99: not decided yet.
Some counties' own sales pages use a letter instead, such as Q or U, for qualified or not.
Step 3: understand the $100 and $0 deeds
Florida's documentary stamp tax on a deed is 70 cents on each $100 of the price (section 201.02), and the price on the roll is usually worked out from those stamps. A deed given for a token sum, such as a parent adding a child to title or an owner moving a house into their own company, pays only the minimum stamp, and the minimum works back to $100. A deed that paid no stamps at all shows $0 or no price. Treat both as transfers, not sales. On the state's file, 81% of the 2025 transfers priced at $100 carry code 11.
Step 4: watch for multi-parcel sales
When one deed sells several parcels, code 05 requires the full price on every one of them. A house that sold with the lot next door shows the price of both. Do not read it as the house's price, and do not add the parcels up.
Step 5: open the deed at the clerk
The book and page, or the instrument number, point to the deed in the county clerk's official records. The deed names the seller and buyer, shows the stamps paid and the legal description. See official records vs the property appraiser for how to search there.
What Florida's sales file shows
| DOR sales file, by year of sale | Sales | Over $100 | Exactly $100 | Codes 01-06 | Multi-parcel |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 1,599,583 | 67.8% | 24.8% | 58.7% | 16.0% |
| 2022 | 1,404,978 | 63.2% | 28.5% | 54.6% | 16.4% |
| 2023 | 1,250,009 | 59.6% | 31.6% | 51.2% | 16.3% |
| 2024 | 1,229,748 | 57.4% | 32.7% | 49.8% | 17.0% |
| 2025 | 1,222,348 | 55.3% | 35.0% | 47.6% | 16.1% |
| 2026, to October | 489,371 | 56.7% | 33.9% | 48.5% | 13.2% |
Each row is one parcel in one transfer. In 2025, a third of the transfers on Florida's sales file carried a $100 price, and fewer than half were coded as arm's-length sales. Counting every source Map Views holds, the DOR file plus 24 counties' own files, there are 40,966,128 sale records: 63.5% with a price over $100, 25.4% at exactly $100 and 9.5% at $0 or blank.
Where it stops
- Month, not day. The state's file dates a sale by month. The deed has the day it was recorded.
- The price is the consideration. It can include furniture, or be one share of a package price (code 43).
- Mortgages are not here. What the buyer borrowed is a separate recorded document at the clerk.
- Older sales depend on the county. The state's file in Map Views starts in 2009; earlier sales show only where the county's own file goes back.
On Map Views
A parcel's History tab lists every sale on record: month, price, qualified or not (codes 01 to 06 count as qualified), multi-parcel, vacant or improved, book and page or instrument number, the deed type, and the seller and buyer where the county's file names them. Search can find parcels that sold in a date range or price range, and leave out the token transfers by keeping only sales over $1,000. The report's comparable sales help with a street or a neighborhood.
The recorded deed at the county clerk is the authority on a transfer, and the property appraiser on how it was coded. Map Views shows both files as the counties and the state published them.