Posts from October 2026

A home inside the City of South Daytona sits in Volusia County tax district 401, and the 2026 final rate there is 19.3218 mills. That is $19.3218 of tax for every $1,000 of taxable value, down from 19.7303 the year before. It comes from fourteen separate lines that eight taxing authorities levy, and one of those authorities, the city itself, accounts for more than a third of the total with a single line. If you are looking at South Daytona homes for sale, the lines below follow the address no matter who owns the house today. What does not follow the house is taxable value, and for a buyer that number starts over.

This guide stays on the South Daytona bill. See also the

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The 2026 millage rate for a Ponce Inlet home is 18.0518 mills, which is $18.0518 of tax for every $1,000 of taxable value, down from 18.2303 in 2025. That number is only part of the November bill this year. The town added a stormwater assessment of $288 per equivalent residential unit, and it sits outside the millage.

If you are looking at Ponce Inlet homes for sale, the rate is the easy half to read, because every parcel in tax district 405 faces the same eleven lines. See also the guide to living in Ponce Inlet and the guide to Volu...

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The millage rate is the same for every New Smyrna Beach home in tax district 601, and it is 16.0137 mills this year, down from 16.3370 in 2025. That is $16.0137 of tax for every $1,000 of taxable value, and it comes from fifteen separate lines that eight taxing authorities levy. Buyers tend to stop at the bottom number, and in New Smyrna Beach the bottom number is not the whole bill.

If you are looking at New Smyrna Beach homes for sale, two items on the November bill deserve attention before the millage does. One is a fire assessment that was not on the city's 2025 roll. The other is a stormwater charge that went up. Neither is a mill, so neither is inside the 16.0137. Our

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Two houses in DeLand can look alike on paper and still get different bills, because one sits inside the city limits and the other sits in unincorporated Volusia County. On the appraiser's 2026 final rates the DeLand parcel carries 0.8895 mills more, which is $88.95 for every $100,000 of taxable value. The line decides which taxing authorities send you a bill, who collects your trash, who issues your permits and who sets your water rate. If you are looking at DeLand homes for sale, find out which side of the line an address falls on before you fall for the kitchen.

The comparison here is against an unincorporated parcel on the county's west side. The rest of the difference is not in the tax table at all. It lives on the uti...

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If you search for Ormond-by-the-Sea real estate, the first thing to know is that the mailing address will say Ormond Beach and the county will not. In the Volusia County Property Appraiser's weekly file for the unincorporated northeast, 3,527 of the 3,528 parcels with ZIP code 32176 list their city as Ormond Beach, and every one of them sits in tax district 200, which the county's own millage table labels "County - Northeast." The city of Ormond Beach is district 201. Our Ormond-by-the-Sea homes for sale page covers the listings, and this guide covers the part the listing photos leave out.

We already have a general guide to

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How much land do you need to build a house near Bunnell? Inside the city, the AG&S agricultural district asks for five acres per home and the AG agricultural district asks for one acre. Which number applies depends on a question most listings never answer: which government's rules does this particular parcel live under? Two rule books cover the land around town. One belongs to the City of Bunnell, the other to Flagler County, and they set different minimum lot sizes, different setbacks and different expectations for water and sewer. If you are browsing Bunnell homes for sale and the lot sizes start to climb past an acre, this guide is the checklist that comes before the offer.

We are a brokerage, not a surveyor or an engi...

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