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Manufactured Homes for Sale in Sebastian FL: Parks & Costs

Manufactured Homes for Sale in Sebastian FL: Parks, Prices, and Pitfalls Most manufactured homes for sale in Sebastian, FL sit in land-lease parks, where you buy the home and rent the lot, so the monthly lot rent matters as much as the price. The biggest land-lease option in town is Park Place, a 55+ Sun […]

Fellsmere FL Homes for Sale: Prices, Land and New Builds

Fellsmere FL Homes for Sale: Prices, Land and What to Expect Fellsmere is a small, rural city of about 4,800 people (2020 census) in western Indian River County, about 10 minutes west of Sebastian on County Road 512. Zillow put the typical Fellsmere home value at about $245,000 at the end of June 2026, which […]

Septic To Sewer In Indian River County

Septic to Sewer in Indian River County: What It Means for Your Home A 2023 state law gives roughly 28,000 Indian River County properties inside the lagoon watershed until July 1, 2030 to connect to central sewer or replace their septic with a nitrogen-reducing system. Fewer than 1,000 of those properties sit where county sewer […]

Indian River County Property Tax: How It Works in 2026

Indian River County Property Tax: How Your Bill Is Figured Your Indian River County property tax is your taxable value times the combined millage rate, divided by 1,000. One mill is $1 of tax for every $1,000 of taxable value. Combined 2025 rates ran from about 11.8 mills in Indian River Shores to about 18.4 […]

Vero Beach Gated Communities: A Guide by Price Band

Vero Beach Gated Communities: A Guide by Price Band Vero Beach gated communities run from island clubs with 24-hour manned gatehouses and homes well into eight figures down to mainland neighborhoods with a keypad gate and homes under $400,000. “Gated” covers two different things here: a manned gatehouse that logs every visitor, and an unmanned […]

Vero Beach Townhomes for Sale: Where, Prices and HOA

Vero Beach Townhomes for Sale: Where They Are and What They Cost Vero Beach has a small townhome market. A late September 2026 search on Homes.com showed 24 townhomes for sale, with a median asking price of $337,500. Most mainland townhomes list between about $230,000 and $450,000. River, island and club townhomes run from about […]

New Homes in Sebastian FL: Builders, Communities, Prices

New Homes in Sebastian FL: Builders, Communities and Prices Most new homes in Sebastian FL go up on scattered quarter-acre lots in Sebastian Highlands, where Maronda, Holiday Builders, D.R. Horton and Adams Homes all build and there’s no HOA. Base prices on builder sites in September 2026 started around $357,000 (Maronda) and ran into the […]

Vero Beach City Limits

Vero Beach City Limits, the Metro Area, and South Vero: What Your Vero Beach Address Really Means The city of Vero Beach had 16,354 residents at the 2020 census, which makes it smaller than the unincorporated area sitting just south of it. The “Vero Beach metro area” is a federal statistics label that covers all […]

Best Butcher Shops In Vero Beach

Best Butcher Shops in Vero Beach (and Where to Buy Local Beef) On August 7, USDA recalled almost 30,000 pounds of Argentine beef that entered the country without import reinspection, and it went to distributors and retailers in Florida. Vero Beach has a small but real set of butcher shops, and two of them sell […]

Vero Beach Fishing

Vero Beach Fishing: A Local Guide to Salt Water and Fresh Water Vero Beach sits on the Indian River Lagoon, which means shallow-water snook, redfish, and trout are usually a ten minute drive from wherever you’re staying. There’s no inlet in Vero itself, so running offshore means a trip north to Sebastian Inlet or south […]