Selling Your Home in Jacksonville, Florida: A Seller's Guide
The official IRS guidance on the $250,000/$500,000 capital gains exclusion for a primary residence sale, including the ownership and use tests. Essential reading for any Northeast Florida seller before they list.
The Florida Department of Revenue's official explanation of the documentary stamp tax charged on deeds at closing, currently $0.70 per $100 of sale price outside Miami-Dade County. A line item every Duval or St. Johns County seller sees on their closing statement.
The CFPB's breakdown of who typically pays which closing costs in a Florida transaction. Sellers, not buyers, customarily pay for the owner's title insurance policy in most of the state; a detail worth knowing before negotiating.
Before listing, sellers can check their home's current assessed value and recent comparable sales through Duval County's own property records search. A good sanity check before setting an asking price.
Northeast Florida Association of Realtors' monthly data on median sale price and days on market — the same numbers a listing agent uses to help a seller price competitively rather than guess.
The American Society of Home Inspectors' standards on what a typical inspection checks — useful for sellers who want to get ahead of issues (roofing, HVAC, past flooding) before a buyer's inspector finds them first.
For military sellers PCSing out of NAS Jax or Mayport, this IRS topic explains which moving expenses remain deductible for active-duty service members, a tax detail civilian sellers no longer get but military sellers still can.