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.
Enter your address and we will show you what the public record holds: whether your parcel shows a transferred benefit, whether the roll suggests a prior homestead benefit that may still be transferable, and the worksheet arithmetic the county uses. We name the form — DR-501T — and link you to your county's page for it.
We do not prepare the application and we do not charge for any of this. You file it yourself: the transfer is claimed under penalties of perjury, so the facts have to be yours, and no power of attorney or representative is required. The Property Appraiser calculates the final transferable amount and makes all determinations.
Property owners may apply for portability directly with the county Property Appraiser at no charge.
The same statewide screen behind our homestead finding: 617,235 parcels across Florida's 67 counties that appear owner-occupied and carry no homestead exemption on the current roll. Our screen reaches all 67 Florida counties, and so does our address checker. Comparable-sales analysis runs in 36 of them today, and expands county by county. How this was measured →
Enter your address — we'll check this property's record.
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.
JustValue is an independent, third-party review of Florida property-tax records — not affiliated with any county property appraiser, and never paid a percentage of your savings.