I heard about this from a reliable source and spent some time on the Department of Revenue's (DOR) website for details, found nothing and thought surely someone here would know about it. The lack of response here had me questioning the whole thing. So I googled the web and found the following news story. After reading the news story, I searched DOR by the form number and found this tidbit:
http://dor.myflorida.com/dor/tips/tip08b04-01.html
Friday, May 16, 2008
Under new state law, property sale information will be harder to get
South Florida Business Journal - by Brian Bandell
The Broward County attorney's office is drafting an ordinance to make price disclosure mandatory for property sales because a state law would eliminate that requirement on June 1.
Without the form used to supply this information, it would be harder for the public to view the price of property sales, according to representatives from the county clerk and property appraiser's offices. Jack McCabe, president of Deerfield Beach-based McCabe Research & Consulting, said losing readily accessible sales data would stifle research of Florida's real estate market. Buyers and sellers would lose the information that has empowered their decision-making, he said.
Since 1986, the Florida Department of Revenue has required that a DR-219 form be filed, with the buyer or seller listing a sales price when a deed on a property is transferred. The state stopped processing these forms on July 1, 2007, because it did not believe the information included was reliable. At the DOR's urging, Gov. Charlie Crist signed a law on April 22 that will eliminate this form as of June 1.