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Florida Deed Forms

Florida deeds are needed for buying or selling real estate in Florida. A deed is a document that allows a seller to transfer property to another at an agreed-upon price. When purchasing a property, it is important to perform a title or land records search to confirm that the seller owns all relevant interests.
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Deed Types (3)


General Warranty – This type of deed includes a guarantee from the seller that they own the property without anyone else who can claim an interest in the property.

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Quit Claim – This type of deed has no guarantee from the seller that they own the property.

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Special Warranty – This type of deed provides a limited warranty. The seller is assuring the buyer that they have not conveyed their interest to anyone else other than the buyer.

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Appraiser’s Parcel ID

This must be included in the Legal Description.[1]

Recording

Must be filed, after being signed, witnessed, and notarized, with the Clerk of the Circuit Court along with the required filing fee.

Signing

All signatures must be acknowledged meaning that all parties must sign in front of a notary public along with two (2) witnesses (Search Notaries in Florida).[2]

Florida Property Search

In Florida, each county has a county recorder who is in charge of land records. Most counties have the records online, at least going back several years. If you need to go back further, you can go to the recorder office and complete a manual title search. Florida has a site where you can do a search of all the counties:
 

Step 1

Go to MyFloridaCounty.com and click “Search now”:

MyFloridaCounty.com search page

Step 2

You will be brought to this page:Statewide official records search page

Step 3

The more information you have, the better. At a minimum, you should have the county in which the property is located and the name of the person selling the property. Enter the name of the grantor under “party name” and click the county in which you are searching. You will be brought to a page like this:

Statewide official records search results

Step 4

When you find everything that you need, click the boxes of the documents you want and click “continue”. You will be brought to this payment page where you click “continue”:

Review order page

Step 5

The next page asks for your payment information:

Payment Info page

Step 6

Once you have found that deed that grantor received when he or she bought the property, you will then have the name of the previous grantor. You will then want to repeat the process with that grantor and keep repeating the process until you have found all of the transfers for the last 50 years. You want to consider that you are not just looking for deeds, but other documents such as liens and assignments and easements. These are interests that can “encumber” the property.