Hillsborough County, Florida
Sell your land in Carrollwood for cash
Parcel Buyers buys vacant lots in Carrollwood for cash, including patio-home lots in this 1960s Lake Carroll subdivision on county utility or well and septic. You get a written, no-obligation cash offer within 24 hours, and closings run through an independent title company, typically in about 10 days, with no fees or commissions.
By Parcel Buyers · · Lot figures from the 2026 Florida property tax roll · How we made this page
Quick answers
- Who buys land for cash in Carrollwood?
- Parcel Buyers is a direct land buyer that makes written, no-obligation cash offers on vacant lots and acreage in Carrollwood, Hillsborough County, usually within 24 hours. Sales close through an independent title company, typically in about 10 days, with no fees or commissions to the seller.
- How many vacant lots are in Carrollwood?
- The 2026 Florida property tax roll lists 158 vacant residential lots in Carrollwood; 15% are patio-home lots, and the median lot is 0.25 acre.
- How is a cash offer for land in Carrollwood set?
- We start from recent sales of similar lots nearby, like the 2025 prices on this page, then adjust for water and sewer, road access, flood zone, lot size and any title issues, and for the time and cost of reselling. You get one written number, not a range.
- How do I know a land buyer in Carrollwood is legitimate?
- A real buyer closes through an independent, licensed title company and never asks you to pay anything up front. We never charge sellers a fee, deposit or closing-cost advance, and the title company pays you by check or wire at closing.
- How many vacant lots in Carrollwood got a home on the tax roll in 2025?
- 50 vacant lots in Carrollwood changed from vacant-residential use to a home with new-construction evidence on the 2026 final tax roll.
Local data
Carrollwood land at a glance
Tax-roll figures cover parcels in the 18 Hillsborough County block groups that the 2020 Census assigns to the Carrollwood CDP (Census boundaries, not city limits), mostly addressed Tampa (95% of the lots) in Hillsborough County. Local rules and services are sourced below.
Property addresses here read Tampa (95%).
| Vacant residential lots | 158 parcels classified vacant residential on the 2026 tax roll [1] |
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| Most common lot size | Patio-home lot (5,000–7,000 sq ft): 15% of vacant lots; next, quarter-acre lot at 11%. Median lot: 0.25 acre (10,740 sq ft). [1] |
| Typical assessed value | $64,400 median just (market) value for a vacant lot; the middle half fall between $21,200 and $132,400 [1] |
| Recent lot sale prices | Too few arm's-length vacant-lot sales in 2025 to report a reliable median for Carrollwood [1] |
| Owners who live elsewhere | 4% of vacant lots have an owner mailing address outside Florida (most often TX, MI, MD) [1] |
| Platted around Lake Carroll | Developer Matt Jetton's Sun State Homes began planning this area in 1959, and more than 900 homes were built around Lake Carroll by 1970, giving the community its name. [2] |
| Unincorporated, not the City of Tampa | Carrollwood is an unincorporated community in Hillsborough County, even though most of its addresses read Tampa. County Development Services, not Tampa City Hall, issues permits and sets zoning here. [2],[3] |
| Carrollwood Elementary opened in 1963 | Carrollwood Elementary School opened in 1963 as the subdivision's build-out continued through the decade. [2] |
| A country club followed in 1972 | The Carrollwood Country Club was built in 1972, after the original Lake Carroll lots were largely sold and the community kept expanding west through the 1970s and 1980s. [2] |
| Septic permits go through DOH-Hillsborough | Where a Carrollwood lot still needs one, a septic permit and its inspection come from the Florida Department of Health in Hillsborough County rather than Tampa's building office. [4] |
| Flood zone is address-specific | A Carrollwood address can land in a high-risk Special Flood Hazard Area (zones A or V) or the lower-risk X zone on Hillsborough's flood zone tool; a federally backed mortgage in the high-risk zones requires flood insurance by law. [5] |
| A yearly stormwater charge even on a vacant lot | Carrollwood's vacant lots fall under Hillsborough's non-residential stormwater schedule rather than the homeowner rate, working out to 2.17 cents per square foot with a $92.58 floor for 2026. [6] |
| Vacant lots that got a home on the tax roll in 2025 | 50 recorded with new-construction evidence. [1] |
| Years of lot supply at the 2025 building pace | 3.2 years; simple ratio, not a forecast. [1] |
| 2026 so far (Jan-Sep) | County-level for Hillsborough County: 260 recorded vacant-lot sales; median $200,000. [1] |
Pricing
What is a lot in Carrollwood worth?
These are open-market sale prices. A direct cash offer is usually lower, because a cash buyer closes in days and takes on the time and cost of reselling the lot.
See what similar lots sold for
What moves the price in Carrollwood
A 1960s plat still sets today's lot lines
Matt Jetton's Sun State Homes laid out this area around Lake Carroll starting in 1959, and more than 900 homes went up by 1970 as the plat filled in. Carrollwood Elementary followed in 1963 and the Carrollwood Country Club in 1972, as the community kept expanding west. A lot's original 1960s plat lines, not a current listing description, still control its buildable footprint and any easements recorded against it. [2]
A Tampa mailing address, a county permit office
Mail addressed to Carrollwood says Tampa, but the permit file does not go to Tampa City Hall; unincorporated status here puts Hillsborough County Development Services in charge of the review. The old Lake Carroll plat connected plenty of 1960s lots to county water and sewer, yet pockets of this scope still sit on a private well with a septic permit from the county health department. Confirming which category a specific lot falls into matters more to a build budget than its decades of Carrollwood branding. [3],[4]
A countywide bill that ignores the plat's age
Hillsborough's stormwater district does not care that a lot was platted back in 1959; a vacant parcel still lands on the non-residential fee schedule, working out to $0.0217 a square foot with a $92.58 floor for 2026, charged apart from the regular tax bill and settled in arrears near year end. Anyone pricing out a lot's holding cost should pull this year's number rather than an older one. [6]
One 2025 sale is not enough for a trend line
A single arm's-length, single-parcel vacant-lot sale closed in this scope across the whole of 2025, so any median or price band drawn from it would be meaningless. The number the tax roll does carry, a median just value of $64,400, is an assessment figure rather than proof of what a buyer paid, and it is not a Parcel Buyers offer. On a sample this thin, a lot's confirmed utility status and flood zone say far more about its value than any claimed area trend. [1]
Common situations
Selling land in Carrollwood in these situations
A piece of the original Sun State Homes plat
A lot tracing straight back to Matt Jetton's original Lake Carroll plat is not too old to sell. More than 900 of those houses went up between 1959 and 1970, and whatever undeveloped ground is left from that era has often passed through two or three owners since. An independent title company reads the chain back to the original plat and flags anything that has to be resolved first. [2]
Stormwater or tax charges have stacked up
Stacked-up county charges do not block a closing. Both the stormwater assessment and the property tax bill accrue on a vacant Carrollwood lot every year regardless of whether it sits idle, and a tax bill left unpaid long enough moves toward a certificate sale under Florida law. With your consent, that debt comes out of the sale proceeds at the closing table instead of needing to be cleared beforehand. [6],[7]
The owner moved away decades after the plat sold
Moving away from Tampa does not take a Carrollwood lot off the market. 4% of this scope's vacant-lot owners already list a mailing address outside Florida, and the paperwork runs the same for them: electronic signatures, a mail-away closing handled by the title company, and payment by check or wire once everything clears. [1]
Step by step
How do I sell my land in Carrollwood?
From your first message to money in hand, with nothing left out. Requesting an offer costs nothing and commits you to nothing.
See every detail of the process-
Tell us about your land
Fill out the short form (about 60 seconds) or email us. A land specialist reaches out to confirm the details, usually the same business day.
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Get your cash offer within 24 hours
We review the property and send a written, no-obligation cash offer within 24 hours. It is a real number, not a range. Take it or leave it, with no pressure either way.
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Sign electronically
If you accept, everyone signs the purchase agreement electronically. There is nothing to print or mail at this stage.
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We inspect, the title company verifies
Our team inspects the land and an independent title company runs a title search for liens or taxes owed. If the land does not pass inspection, you are never charged anything.
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Close and get paid
The title company prepares the closing documents for notarization and issues your funds by standard check, overnight check, or wire transfer. A typical sale closes in 10 days.
Questions
Selling land in Carrollwood: common questions
Is Carrollwood part of the City of Tampa?
No. Carrollwood is an unincorporated community in Hillsborough County, even though most addresses here read Tampa. Hillsborough County Development Services issues building permits and sets zoning, not Tampa City Hall.
Does the county still charge fees on a Carrollwood lot with no house on it?
It does. A vacant Carrollwood parcel falls under the county's non-residential stormwater schedule, $0.0217 per square foot with a $92.58 floor for 2026, and that assessment lands in addition to the ordinary property tax bill, not in place of it.
Can I sell a Carrollwood lot that was never hooked up to sewer?
Yes, as is. We purchase vacant land regardless of its water, sewer or road status. Part of this scope already connects to county utility lines while other lots run on a well with a Department of Health septic permit, and we confirm which one applies during our pre-offer inspection.
Why doesn't this page list a 2025 median sale price for Carrollwood?
Only one vacant lot in this scope sold in 2025, far too thin a sample for a real median. The $64,400 figure shown for median just value comes from the tax assessment process, not from actual buyer activity, and should not be read as a sale price.
Owner resources
Guides for your situation
- How to Sell Land During a Divorce
Florida land can be sold during a divorce when the people with authority to convey title sign and the sale follows every applicable agreement and court order. Divorce law may treat land as marital even when only one spouse appears on the deed.[1][2] If ownership, signing authority, or the division of proceeds is unsettled, have a Florida attorney and the closing title company resolve those issues before closing.
- Cape Coral North 1 East UEP Assessment for Lot Owners
North 1 East's first amortized UEP installment is scheduled for the November 2026 tax bill. For the City's sample 10,000-square-foot parcel receiving all three utilities, maximum annual installments total $3,385 over 30 years, $3,616 over 25 years, or $3,961 over 20 years. The sample's three initial-prepayment amounts totaled $32,288, but each parcel's mailed notice controls.[1][2][3][4]
- Selling a Vacant Lot With Code Enforcement Liens
Yes, a Florida vacant lot with a code enforcement lien can often be sold, but first confirm the violation, daily fine, compliance status, and written payoff with the city or county that issued the order. A fine can accrue until the violator complies or judgment is entered in an enforcement suit.[1] A reduction is not automatic. A clear-title closing normally needs a current payoff and a documented satisfaction or release path.
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What happens after you send this
- A land specialist reaches out, usually the same business day, to confirm the details.
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- You decide. Requesting an offer costs nothing and commits you to nothing.
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Nearby areas we buy
- Tampa
7,618 vacant lots · 2025 median lot sale $315,000
- Lutz
715 vacant lots · 2025 median lot sale $280,000
- Citrus Park
596 vacant lots · 2025 median lot sale $95,000
- Hillsborough County
23,267 vacant lots countywide
How we made this page
Parcel Buyers is a land-buying company based in Florida. We buy vacant land directly from owners and publish these local pages so owners can see what land in their area is doing before they sell, to us or anyone else. We count the tax-roll figures ourselves from state data, take local rules and fees from the official sources listed below, and use AI tools to help research and draft the text. Every number links to its source, and we update the page when the data changes.
Method and sources
Tax-roll figures cover parcels in the 18 Hillsborough County block groups that the 2020 Census assigns to the Carrollwood CDP (Census boundaries, not city limits), mostly addressed Tampa (95% of the lots). Source [1] is our own count of the Florida Department of Revenue's 2026 final property tax roll: "vacant residential" means land-use code 000; lot sizes use the land square footage on the roll; values are the county property appraiser's just (market) value as of January 1, 2026; sale prices count only arm's-length sales of a single lot that was vacant when it sold and was still vacant on January 1, 2026 (bulk and multi-parcel deeds removed). Page updated October 30, 2026. The reviewed 2026 recorded-sale window runs from January through September 2026; unreviewed recent sales are excluded. County-level figures are used on this place page.
- [1] Florida Department of Revenue (data); Parcel Buyers (analysis), Parcel Buyers analysis of the 2026 final Name-Address-Legal (NAL) property tax roll (accessed 2026-10-03)
- [2] Wikipedia, Carrollwood, Florida (accessed 2026-10-30)
- [3] Hillsborough County Government, Development Services (accessed 2026-10-30)
- [4] Florida Department of Health in Hillsborough County, Septic Systems (accessed 2026-10-30)
- [5] Hillsborough County Government, Find My Flood Zone (accessed 2026-10-30)
- [6] Hillsborough County Government, Stormwater Program (accessed 2026-10-30)
- [7] Hillsborough County Tax Collector, Delinquent Property Tax (accessed 2026-10-30)