If you owned a Florida home with a homestead exemption and moved to a new one, you're allowed to bring your built-up tax savings with you. That transfer is called portability — and it only happens if you claim it. Many people never do.
The transferred benefit is capped at $500,000. If it isn't transferred, your new home is assessed as if that benefit never existed.
To qualify, the new homestead must be established by January 1 of the third year after the previous homestead was abandoned.
If you qualified but never filed the transfer application, it can generally still be filed — the benefit applies going forward, not retroactively. Each year it goes unclaimed is a year of savings that cannot be recovered.
The Property Appraiser calculates the final transferable amount and makes all determinations.
Prior-property identification and record review, a completed transfer application (Form DR-501T) ready for signature, filing instructions for the county, and confirmation follow-up. You sign and file the application yourself — it is your own attestation, and no power of attorney or representative is required.
Portability Recovery — $99, or $79 when bundled with another product. If a complete, filing-ready transfer application isn't in your hands, you don't pay. The county determines the final benefit.
Property owners may apply for portability directly with the county Property Appraiser at no charge.
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JUSTVALUE is a private company operated by Canopy Press LLC, not affiliated with any Property Appraiser. A flagged record is not a determination of entitlement; the county decides all transfers. Filing directly with the county is always free.