Mount Dora

Mount Dora is a small market with a wide spread, and the interesting inventory rarely looks interesting online. A historic-district house is bought on its bones — foundation, roof, wiring, what the last renovation actually did versus what it covered up — and the listing photos are usually the least informative part of the file. Out at Sullivan Ranch, Lakes of Mount Dora and Stoneybrook Hills you're in a different and much more conventional market, and on the Harris Chain you're buying water access, which has its own set of questions entirely.

This is our home office. That's not a slogan on this page — it means we've been inside a lot of these houses, we know which downtown blocks close for the festivals and which ones just get loud, we know which lakefront frontage is usable and which is a seawall problem waiting, and we know the contractors who work on 1920s houses without wrecking them. Tell us what you're after and we'll tell you what's really out there, including the things not yet listed.