We Buy Houses Across Marion County

ATTOM’s 2026 mid-year foreclosure report listed the Ocala metro ninth among the 227 US metros with at least 200,000 people, with filings on 0.31 percent of housing units in the first half of the year. The Marion County Clerk of Court and Comptroller is also the county recorder, so deeds, mortgages and recorded liens are in the Clerk’s Official Records. The Clerk now sets every foreclosure sale online at marion.realforeclose.com, and tax deed sales run online at marion.realtaxdeed.com. If you are behind on a mortgage or on property taxes, those sites and the court docket show whether a sale date exists. This is general information, not legal advice.

Probate cases are heard at the Marion County Judicial Center in Ocala, part of the Fifth Judicial Circuit, which also covers Citrus, Hernando, Lake and Sumter counties. If you inherited a Marion County house, we can buy it once the personal representative has authority to sell, working with the estate’s attorney.

Much of Marion County drains toward two Outstanding Florida Springs, Silver Springs and the Rainbow Spring Group. The state’s 2018 basin management plan for them drew priority focus areas from Marion County’s own primary springs protection zones. Under section 373.811, on lots of one acre or less inside a springs basin plan where sewer is not available, a new septic system must be an enhanced nutrient-reducing type or remove at least 65 percent of nitrogen.

For existing systems, the Department of Environmental Protection says homes in a priority focus area must connect to sewer or upgrade to an enhanced system when a repair or modification permit is needed, and septic permits in Marion County are handled by the department rather than the county health office. So a failing tank near the springs can cost far more than a standard replacement. We buy houses with failing or outdated septic as they are. This is general information; check your parcel with DEP.

Outside Ocala, Belleview, Dunnellon and the county’s other towns, code cases go to the Marion County Code Enforcement Board, seven members appointed by the county commission who generally meet on the second Wednesday of the month. Case and lien searches are requested through the county’s Civic Access permitting portal as an “Advanced Property Search.”

FEMA approved individual assistance for Marion County homeowners after Hurricane Irma in 2017 and Hurricane Milton in 2024; after Ian and Helene the county received public assistance only. The Florida Geological Survey lists 489 reported subsidence incidents in Marion County, most never field-verified, so a report near your address is not proof of a sinkhole. We buy homes with storm damage, cracks or a past ground-settling claim.