Sell Your House Fast in Lake County, Florida

All About Real Estate buys property for cash across Lake County: Clermont and Minneola in the south, Leesburg, Eustis, Mount Dora and Tavares (the county seat) around the Harris Chain, and the rural land in between. About 45% of the county lives outside any of its 14 cities and towns. We buy houses, mobile homes, citrus and pasture land, lake lots and commercial property, in any condition.

Petru Pusta on the phone with a homeowner at the All About Real Estate office

Areas we buy in

Clermont · Leesburg · Eustis · Groveland · Tavares · Minneola · Mount Dora · Lady Lake · Mascotte · Fruitland Park · Umatilla · Astatula · Montverde · Howey-in-the-Hills · Mount Plymouth · Sorrento · Astor · Yalaha.

The Lake County market right now

Across all home types, Lake County’s median sale price for the three months ending August 2026 was $383,716, down 1.6% from a year earlier, with a median of 66 days on market. A single-family-only county figure wasn’t published for that period. New construction around Clermont keeps pressure on older resale homes.

Selling with code violations or liens in Lake County

The Lake County Office of Code Enforcement (315 W. Main St., Tavares) handles unincorporated areas. Each city enforces its own codes. Cases go to a Code Enforcement Special Master on the third Wednesday of each month at 10 a.m. in the County Commission Chambers. Fines can reach $1,000 a day for a first violation, $5,000 a day for a repeat and $15,000 for an irreparable one. A recorded fine becomes a lien on the property and the owner’s other property, lasts up to 20 years, and can be foreclosed after three months unpaid, except on a homestead (Fla. Stat. 162.09).

After compliance, the county code allows a written fine reduction request to the code enforcement manager, which goes to a Special Master hearing. The listed mitigating factors include transfer to a new owner who brings the property into compliance, so we can buy the house with the lien on it, fix the violation and ask for the reduction ourselves.

Facing foreclosure in Lake County

Lake County still holds foreclosure sales in person at the Lake County Courthouse, 550 W. Main St., Tavares, weekdays at 11 a.m. when scheduled. Tax deed sales are online at lake.realtaxdeed.com. Both are run by Clerk of the Circuit Court & Comptroller Gary J. Cooney. The sale is set 20 to 35 days after final judgment (Fla. Stat. 45.031). We can close before it.

Inherited a house in Lake County

Lake is part of the 5th Judicial Circuit with Citrus, Hernando, Marion and Sumter, and its Probate Division sits at the Judicial Center in Tavares. Summary administration is usually available for estates of $150,000 or less after exempt property, or when the owner died more than two years ago (Fla. Stat. 735.201).

The Green Swamp

Part of southern Lake County, around Lake Minneola, Lake Louisa and the SR 50 corridor, is inside the Green Swamp Area of Critical State Concern, designated by the Legislature in 1979. Lake County’s rules there cap impervious surface at 50% of an altered site, keep septic systems at least 75 feet from wetlands and water, and require flood-prone floors at least 18 inches above the regulatory flood level. Those limits shrink the pool of buyers for teardowns and expansion projects. We price them in and buy anyway.

What we buy and how it works

What we buy. All residential and commercial property: single-family homes, townhomes, condos, multifamily (duplexes, triplexes, fourplexes and apartment buildings), mobile homes on land you own (not in land-lease parks), vacant lots and land, and commercial property (retail, office, industrial and mixed-use), as-is, in any condition. That includes the hard ones: code violations and liens, foreclosure, probate and inherited property, hostile holdover occupants, hoarder houses, and sinkhole, storm or flood damage.

How it works. 1) Tell us about the property online or call (786) 753-8500. 2) We look at it with you, in person or by video, and make a written cash offer, usually within 24 hours. 3) You pick the closing date: as soon as 7 days, or later if you need time. We pay the standard seller closing costs, and you pay no commissions. We buy directly; in some sales we close alongside a partner investor, but you sign one contract with us and get one closing date either way.

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Lake County FAQ

Can a new owner get a Lake County code fine reduced? Yes. Transfer to a new owner who brings the property into compliance is one of the factors the Special Master considers.

Do you buy lake lots and acreage? Yes, including old grove land and pasture.

Do you buy in The Villages area near Lady Lake? Yes, where the community’s resale rules allow.

Sources: Redfin Lake County market (all home types) · Lake County Code Enforcement · Code enforcement resources · Lake Clerk tax deeds · Lake Clerk foreclosure FAQ · 5th Circuit Lake Probate