• Aerial view of the beach in Atlantic Beach, FL

    What Is Florida's Documentary Stamp Tax at Closing?

    Why Is There a "Documentary Stamp Tax" Line on Your Closing Statement? You're sitting at the closing table, maybe in a title office off A1A or in a conference room in Nocatee, flipping through the settlement statement your closing agent just handed you. Everything looks familiar until you hit a line

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  • Alligator in the water in St. Augustine, FL

    Why Anastasia State Park Is St. Augustine's Best-Kept Secret

    Ever Wonder Where St. Augustine Locals Actually Go to the Beach? You cross the Bridge of Lions, and the traffic noise falls away behind you. The road narrows under a canopy of live oaks, and then the dunes open up and there it is: a long stretch of pale coquina sand with almost no one on it. Sea oat

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  • Yellow bungalow with a picket fence in Fullerwood Park, St. Augustine

    What Do You Do With the Space Where a Fireplace Used to Go?

    What Do You Do With the Space Where a Fireplace Used to Go? You are standing in the living room of a house in Nocatee on a December evening, and something feels different, though it takes you a minute to place it. There is no mantel. No brick surround, no stack of split oak by the hearth, no flue cl

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