Florida's homestead exemption lowers the taxable value of your primary home — typically saving several hundred dollars every year — and limits how fast your assessment can rise. You have to apply for it once; it isn't automatic.
Our county-wide analysis found nearly 50,000 Northeast Florida properties that appear owner-occupied and have no homestead exemption on file. Many owners simply never filed — especially recent buyers, inherited homes, and long-paid-off houses.
The exemption is filed directly with the county Property Appraiser at no cost — that has always been true and always will be. If you bought recently, you may even still be able to claim this year's exemption under Florida's late-filing provisions; otherwise a filing today takes effect January 1 of next year.
We guarantee the paperwork. You receive a complete, accurate homestead application prepared from the public record, with step-by-step instructions for filing it with your county. If we don't deliver that, you don't pay — full refund, no argument.
We don't guarantee the county's decision, because it isn't ours to make. Approval depends on facts only you can attest to — chiefly that the home is your permanent residence and that you owned it as of January 1 — and on your actually filing the application. Anyone who promises you an outcome the county controls is telling you something they can't know. What we will do is check the public record first and tell you if it doesn't look like a fit; we'd rather decline the job than sell you a filing that can't succeed.
Timing: an application filed now generally takes effect for the following tax year (Florida's deadline is March 1). If you bought recently, you may still be able to claim the current year under the late-filing provisions — we'll tell you which applies to your property.
$59 on its own, or $39 added to any appeal purchase. Flat fee, once — not a percentage of anything, and never a subscription.
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JUSTVALUE is a private company operated by Canopy Press LLC, not affiliated with any Property Appraiser. Savings estimates are based on typical Duval millage and exemption values; individual results vary. Filing directly with the county is always free.