Guide · Data freshness
How often Florida property records update: the yearly roll, monthly sales, and what lags
Owner, value and use on Florida's property roll change once a year: the roll describes each parcel as of January 1, and the state posts it in July and again from October. Sales move faster, because the state's final-roll file and many appraisers' own files carry them month by month. In our copy today most counties hold sale records through August 2026; four are partial since June, and three still stop in the spring.
The roll runs on a yearly clock
- January 1. Real property is assessed as it stands that day (section 192.042). The owner on the roll is the owner on that date.
- By July 1. Each appraiser must finish valuing every parcel (section 193.023).
- July. The Department of Revenue posts the preliminary roll files: names and parcels (NAL), sales (SDF) and business property (NAP).
- October. The first final rolls follow, and a later final once the value adjustment board's changes are in. The Department's data request page says review and posting can take up to a month, and only the newest version of each roll is online.
So a statewide roll file changes two or three times a year, and each version still describes January. A sale in March shows up as a new owner on next year's roll.
Sales move monthly
The state's sale file is part of each roll release, so it is only as fresh as the last posting. Many appraisers also publish their own sales files, with the exact day and the deed type. The ones we read in late October held deeds dated as late as 22 October. That is where the gap between the yearly roll and a recent sale gets closed.
The preliminary file posted this July ran into June 2026, but thinly: it held 93% as many sale records for April as for April 2025, 73% for May, and almost nothing after. Its last whole month is April.
What each county holds in our copy
We compared each month of 2026 with the same month of 2025 in the state's file. A month near 100% is whole; one far below it is still filling in. Grouped by where the recent sales come from:
| Where sales after May come from, measured 1 November 2026 | Counties | July | August | September |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The county appraiser's own sales file | 27 | 111% | 96% | 51% |
| The state's final-roll sale file only | 33 | 96% | 85% | 31% |
| A county file that holds part of the sales (Broward, Escambia, Holmes, Washington) | 4 | 39% | 35% | 33% |
| The preliminary file only (DeSoto, Liberty, Santa Rosa) | 3 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
County files can pass 100% because they list deeds the state's file leaves out. Eleven of the 27 reach 80% or more for September: Alachua, Bay, Collier, Flagler, Martin, Okaloosa, Pasco, St. Lucie, Sarasota, Seminole and Volusia, with Monroe at 76%. Two of the 27 stop early: Miami-Dade and Highlands are whole through July only.
The other dates in our copy
- Preliminary roll: loaded for all 67 counties on 11 September 2026 (Liberty on the 12th).
- Final roll: fetched 24 and 25 October: final for 56 counties, still preliminary for 10, none posted for Jackson.
- Building details (beds, baths, stories, heated area): read from 51 appraisers' own files between 24 and 29 October.
- Current owner files from 9 appraisers, dated 18 to 24 October.
- Flood zones: FEMA's layer, fetched 25 October. Future land use is the slowest: a statewide compilation of 2020 plans.
What lags, plainly
- The owner. In most counties the owner is January's. We flag 156,447 parcels as sold after the roll, and the final roll names a different owner than the preliminary on 192,739.
- Four partial counties. Broward, Escambia, Holmes and Washington have no final roll posted yet, and the county files we hold carry about a third of a normal month. Their sales after May are incomplete.
- Three spring counties. DeSoto, Liberty and Santa Rosa have neither a final roll nor a county sales file in our copy: nothing after June. Read their medians as running to April.
- Baker. Its own sales file stops in September 2024; the state's final-roll file carries it through August 2026.
Why the four sources differ, county by county, is its own page: where each field comes from. For the smallest rolls, see small rural counties.
On Map Views
Every report ends with the roll it read and the day we loaded it: "Florida DOR 2026P roll for" the county, then the date. Where a final roll is posted, the report adds the final just value and says when it names a different owner. A parcel sold after the roll is marked as such, with the deed's new owner where we have it. Building details name the appraiser's file and the day we read it. The sales list, under the report's history tab, gives every recorded sale we hold with its month and price, so the newest month in a county is plain on the page. See what a house sold for to read one.
The county property appraiser is the authority on each parcel's owner and value, and the Department of Revenue on the statewide roll files. The percentages are ours, read on 1 November 2026, and they will move as the counties post more.