Florida commercial real estate data, county by county.

Not any more. Section 212.031, Florida Statutes, was repealed effective 1 October 2025 by chapter 2025-208. Florida was the only state in the country that levied a sales tax on commercial real property leases, and the rate had been stepped down over several years before the repeal removed it entirely.

Any lease analysis, occupancy cost model or market study still carrying it is pricing a tax that no longer exists. Across a ten year hold that error compounds into a real number, and it is the single most common stale assumption in Florida underwriting right now.

The Florida Department of Transportation publishes annual average daily traffic through Florida Traffic Online, at permanent count stations and at interpolated segments, with truck percentage where classification stations exist.

Those counts are held here at count year 2024 and resolve at the address, so you read the volume on the corridor beside a specific parcel rather than reading a state map and estimating. Two sites with identical AADT can be entirely different businesses once you separate throughput from access, which is why the count belongs next to the parcel rather than in a separate tool.

Run the address in the workspace at the top of this page. The platform holds 593,586 FEMA flood hazard records for Florida and resolves the zone at the parcel.

Panel status is established per county rather than inferred from the state appearing in a coverage list. Coverage inside a state is uneven, and a county with no mapped panel is a completely different statement from a county with no flood risk. Where a panel is not held this platform says so instead of returning a reassuring blank.

Zoning in Florida is set by the county for unincorporated land and by the municipality inside city limits, so the authoritative source is that jurisdiction's own zoning map and land development code. Florida has 67 counties and more than 400 municipalities, each with its own district names and permitted use tables, and there is no statewide zoning map or standard schema.

The step most people skip is that the zoning district is only half the answer. A use has to be consistent with the comprehensive plan future land use designation as well, and where the two disagree the plan governs. A parcel can carry a commercial zoning district and still fail if its future land use category does not support the use, and the fix for that is a plan amendment rather than a rezoning.

No official one exists. Zoning is a local power in Florida and the state publishes no consolidated map, so a statewide view has to be assembled from more than 460 separate jurisdictions that use different district names, different permitted use tables and different data formats for the same underlying concept.

That fragmentation is the reason a usable statewide zoning layer is hard rather than merely tedious, and it is why most tools claiming national zoning coverage are thin once you check a specific parcel. A C-2 district in one county is not a C-2 district in the next.

Florida has five water management districts: South Florida, St. Johns River, Southwest Florida, Suwannee River and Northwest Florida. Which one applies is a function of where the site sits hydrologically rather than which county it falls in, and district boundaries cross county lines.

This matters because the district, not the city or county, reviews stormwater through the Environmental Resource Permit. That review runs on its own timeline alongside local site plan review rather than after it, and assuming the city handles stormwater is one of the most common scheduling errors on a Florida project.

The county for unincorporated land, or the municipality inside city limits. Each administers its own land development code, so the reviewing body, the fee schedule and the timeline are local questions rather than state ones.

Stormwater is the exception worth knowing, and it is covered in the water districts section above: it is reviewed by the water management district on its own clock, running alongside local review rather than after it.

Miami-Dade and Broward. The High Velocity Hurricane Zone carries the most stringent wind provisions in the Florida Building Code and materially changes construction cost, product availability and inspection requirements.

Wind-borne debris requirements extend well beyond those two counties along much of the coastal state, so a site outside the HVHZ can still carry significant wind-driven cost that a national construction benchmark will miss entirely.

An expedited future land use amendment available for sites of 50 acres or fewer. It is decided at a single local hearing rather than going to state coordinated review with the Department of Commerce and the reviewing agencies.

That threshold is a genuine fork in an entitlement schedule: a 49 acre site and a 51 acre site can be months apart on approval, which is worth establishing before a parcel goes under contract rather than after.

A designation under Chapter 380, Florida Statutes, placing additional state oversight on development. Florida has five: the Florida Keys, the City of Key West, Big Cypress, the Green Swamp across Lake and Polk counties, and Apalachicola Bay.

Inside those boundaries development density is constrained and local land development regulations are subject to state review. The Green Swamp is the one most often missed, because it sits inland in two counties that are otherwise among the most active development markets in central Florida.

Most commercial development does. The Environmental Resource Permit governs stormwater management and impacts to wetlands and surface waters, and it is issued by the relevant water management district or by the Department of Environmental Protection depending on the activity.

Wetlands are prevalent enough across Florida that many sites carry them, and federal Section 404 authority returned to the Army Corps after the state assumption was vacated in February 2024, which changed the permitting path mid-cycle for projects already in process.

It depends on the project rather than the state. SBA SOP 50 10 8 requires an independent feasibility study for certain start-up and special purpose properties, and lenders frequently require one beyond the mandatory cases where a project carries construction risk, a new market, or an untested revenue model.

The requirement is federal, so it does not vary between Florida and anywhere else. The market analysis inside the study very much does, which is why a consultant who does not know the water management district structure or the 50 acre amendment threshold will produce a study a credit committee sends back.