Sale prices no longer reported

[Joyce Potts]

Joyce,

That is not true. What is no longer required to be filed is a separate form prescribed by the Department of Revenue (DOR) known as a form DR 219 that reported limited sales information. This office never used that information anyway. We always take the sales information from the deed itself.

Let me know if you have any other questions.

David Johnson, CFA, ASA
Seminole County Property Appraiser
Phone: 407-665-7500
Fax: 407-665-7924
Email: david@scpafl.org

 

[BOB PADRICK]

Thanks-it didn't make sense on the face of it-the doc stamps are based on the purchase price, so the sales price would still be known by the county-so why wouldn't the sales prices be used....?

 

[JamieWest]

Thanks Joyce. That is very good news!

 

[Couch Potato]

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.

The state quit processing the forms last year, so why would any reasonable person think anything would change when the form is no longer required to be sent to the state for recycling?

 

[Mztk1]

That's too bad. I would have loved to see them stop reporting the sales price at the county appraiser's site where we had to fish the price off the deed and do the .007 thing (at least that what it is in most counties). I always check the deed anyway and if the information were made less public it could have taken the sails out of the AVMs.