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Central Florida & Florida
Florida
Housing Search:
"A free place to list & find
affordable housing in Florida."
Florida
Living Network:
"Find
practically every home for sale in Florida." And find a realtor, too.
Florida
Property Appraiser Websites:
Helpful appraiser links sorted by county.
Greater
Orlando Association of Realtors:
Info about more 12,000+ homes
for sale in Central Florida. Specify desired prices, living areas, features,
and amenities. Includes links to other
sites
about schools, universities, and employment opportunities.
Home
Builders Association of Mid-Florida:
Provides
an online guidebook to the Parade of
Homes and a directory of HBA members.
National
Association of Exclusive Buyer Agents:
Offers
a list of local members.
Orange
County Comptroller:
Search
this database to get public records including
deeds, mortgages, claims of lien, Declarations of Domicile, criminal convictions, and
final
judgments from court cases.
Orange
County Property Appraiser:
Perform a record search by owner, parcel id,
address, etc. Also provides other useful real estate
information.
Orlando
Real Estate Web Sites:
Yahoo!'s links to local real estate.
Orlando
Sentinel Online Real Estate Classified:
A searchable site for the Sentinel's real estate classified ads.
U.S.
Department of Housing and Urban Development: Orlando Office:
HUD information pertaining to Orlando.
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Cost of
Living & City Profiles
Bankrate.com
Cost of Living Comparison:
Includes "groceries, housing,
utilities, transportation, health care and miscellaneous goods and services. It does not include the effects of state and local taxes. The information is updated quarterly."
Cost
of Living Comparison, Salary Calculator:
CityRating.com helps you find "the
best places to live in the USA."
Epodunk.com:
Profiling 46,000 cities, villages, towns, townships and more.
Sperling's
Cost of Living Comparison:
Compare cities side by side in
important categories. Enter your current salary to figure out how much more (or less) you'll need to make.
Yahoo!
Real Estate - Neighborhood Profiles:
Get profiles of major cities,
including cost of living, population, average yearly utility costs, and more.
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General Information
Cyberhomes:
Listings in 76 cities with mapping
capabilities.
FloodSmart:
"Find
out your relative flood risk today, online."
Enter
your address for the relative flood risk, links to flood insurance resources, plus a list of
agents
serving your area.
HomePath:
Helpful hints on the home-buying process,
including payment & affordability calculators and a glossary of mortgage & financial terms.
Homes
and Land Magazine:
Listings from local editions of the
magazine -- sale and rental listings from 15,000 communities.
Microsoft
Real Estate:
Provides info for the first-time
home buyer. Includes info on schools, crime, and
demographics in various neighborhoods.
National
Association of Realtors:
Get 1 million+ home listings; includes calculators to compare
mortgages, cost of living, salaries, insurance, and typical
moving expenses in different
cities.
The Real
Estate Book:
A good selection of listings from all the
states (except Montana, Wyoming, Iowa, and West Virginia),
Canada, and Mexico; with links to other useful
web sites.
Rent.net:
Offers more detailed information about a
smaller number of properties.
U.S.
Department of Housing and Urban Development:
The federal government's one-stop site for
all your housing needs.
Who's
Who in Luxury Real Estate:
1,000+ properties in 35+
countries listing at over $500,000; full of tantalizing details
and pictures!
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Home
& Property Values
Home
Sales by Zip Code:
Type
in your zip code to find out how many homes sold in your area and average
purchase price. Data is by month and year from present as
far
back as 2001.
Orange
County Property Appraiser:
Once your property
record is open, click on the "Sales Analysis Report" to find recent sales of homes in your area.
Zillow.com:
Type in your address
for an aerial view of your neighborhood, the current value
of your home & those around you! Use the virtual compass to explore
other areas.
Statistics
2008 Power
Broker Report:
Seven hundred real estate agencies are ranked by
closed transactions and closed sales. See which states have the
most agents and also the
companies to watch. From the publisher of
Real Estate magazine.
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