Selling Your Home Windermere, Winter Garden & Dr. Phillips, FL
Representation That Protects Your Value
Selling a home begins with a well-defined strategy. At Infinity Realty Group, we understand that accurate pricing, informed positioning, and strong representation directly influence how a property performs in today’s market. We provide sellers with clear, data-driven guidance rooted in local market conditions, helping you make confident decisions from the very start.
Our approach centers on understanding your goals, timeline, and how your home fits within the broader competitive landscape. Rather than relying on assumptions or generic valuation models, we carefully analyze comparable sales, current buyer demand, and neighborhood trends to craft a pricing and positioning strategy designed to generate meaningful interest.
Throughout every stage, we represents your interests with professionalism and attention to detail. From reviewing offers to managing negotiations and coordinating next steps, our role is to advocate for you, streamline the process, and ensure each decision aligns with your best possible outcome.
Selling a home in Florida: costs, disclosures and timing (2026)
Quick answer: In Orange County, the seller usually pays the deed stamp tax of 70 cents per $100 of the price, which is $3,150 on a $450,000 sale. Florida sellers must disclose known problems that affect value and are not easy to see, even in an "as is" sale, and must give the buyer a flood disclosure. Commissions are negotiable and not set by law. If you buy another Florida home, you can carry up to $500,000 of your homestead tax savings with you.
1. Price from recent sales
Start with what similar homes in your own community sold for in the last few months. See median prices for 52 communities on our home value page, and the latest trends in our monthly market reports.
2. Know your selling costs
- Deed stamp tax: 70 cents per $100 of the sale price in Orange County. The AS IS contract puts this on the seller unless you negotiate otherwise.
- HOA or condo estoppel certificate: the association must issue it within 10 business days, or it may not charge a fee. The current cap is $299, plus $119 for delivery within 3 business days and up to $179 if the account is behind. The contract usually puts this fee on the seller.
- Commissions: broker fees are not set by law and are fully negotiable. You can choose to offer to pay the buyer's agent, but the offer cannot go on the MLS, and your listing agent must disclose any such payment to you in writing and get your approval.
3. Disclose what you know
Under the Florida Supreme Court's 1985 decision in Johnson v. Davis, a seller who knows of facts that materially affect value, are not readily observable and are not known to the buyer must disclose them. An "as is" contract does not remove this duty. You must also give the buyer the statutory flood disclosure at or before contract signing: whether you know of flood damage while you owned the home, filed a flood claim or got flood aid. Homes built before 1978 need a lead-paint disclosure. Florida law says a death or a suicide in the home, or an occupant's HIV status, is not a material fact.
4. Moving within Florida? Take your tax savings
If you had homestead on January 1 of any of the past 3 years, you can carry up to $500,000 of your Save Our Homes savings to a new Florida homestead. File Form DR-501T with the new homestead application. Our property tax guide explains how portability works.
5. Foreign sellers: FIRPTA
If the seller is a foreign person, the buyer usually must withhold 15% of the price for the IRS. For a home the buyer will live in, the rate is 10% from $300,001 to $1,000,000, and there is no withholding at $300,000 or less. Talk to a tax adviser early.
Not legal or tax advice. Sources: Florida Statutes sections 201.02, 201.031, 689.302, 689.25, 720.30851 and 193.155; Johnson v. Davis, 480 So. 2d 625 (Fla. 1985), as quoted in The Florida Bar Journal; DBPR estoppel fee schedule; NAR Settlement FAQs; Florida Realtors/Florida Bar AS IS Residential Contract (ASIS-7x, 2026); IRS FIRPTA pages and Publication 515 (2026); EPA. Checked October 9, 2026.
