Florida recording fee calculator

The answer up front: recording an instrument in Florida's official records costs $10.00 for the first page and $8.50 for each additional page, plus $1.00 for every indexed name beyond four — identical in all 67 counties because the fee is statutory (Fla. Stat. §28.24(13)). A two-page deed: $18.50. A twenty-page mortgage: $171.50.

Where the numbers come from

The quoted "ten dollars a page" is really a statutory stack — this page computes it from the components: the $5.00/$4.00 base recording charge (§28.24(13)(a)-(b)), the $1.00/$0.50 Public Records Modernization Trust Fund charge ((13)(d)), and the $4.00-per-page court-technology service charge ((13)(e)). E-recording services may add their own convenience fee on top — that part is the vendor's, not the clerk's.

The recording fee is the small line: a deed also owes documentary stamps, and a mortgage owes note stamps plus the nonrecurring intangible tax — run those alongside this one, or see the whole picture in the closing cost worksheet.

Statutory fees as of the 2025 Florida Statutes; the clerk's invoice controls. Informational only.

Quick answers

How much does it cost to record a deed in Florida?

$10.00 for the first page and $8.50 for each additional page, uniform in every Florida county (Fla. Stat. §28.24(13)) — a typical two-page deed records for $18.50. Documentary stamps on the transfer are separate and usually much larger.

Are recording fees the same in every Florida county?

Yes — the clerk's fee is set by state statute, not by the county. What varies is any e-recording vendor's convenience fee if you record electronically through a third party.

What's actually inside the $10 first-page fee?

Three statutory pieces: $5.00 base recording and indexing (§28.24(13)(a)), $1.00 for the Public Records Modernization Trust Fund ((13)(d)), and a $4.00 court-technology service charge ((13)(e)). Instruments indexing more than four names add $1.00 per extra name ((13)(c)).

What else is due when a deed or mortgage records?

Transfer taxes: deeds owe documentary stamps and mortgages owe note stamps plus the nonrecurring intangible tax — those are computed by our transfer-tax and intangible-tax calculators and dwarf the recording fee itself.