Farmland sales in Polk County, Florida

61 recorded sales in the last 12 months, any size (30 of 10 acres or more).

Market middle: $14,489 an acre, the middle of 33 bare farmland sales of 20 acres or more at $500 an acre or more, Nov 2024 to Oct 2026 (middle half $10,604 to $27,002). Sales with buildings, forest and small parcels are listed below but kept out of this middle.

Two windows: this middle covers 24 months (33 sales). The Farmland Atlas page also shows the last 12 months, Nov 2025 to Oct 2026: 10 sales, median $13,297 an acre. Different windows, different numbers.

All of Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana, Vermont, New Jersey and Florida together: the September 2026 update, with the biggest buyers and unusual prices.

Florida sales come from the Department of Revenue's sale data files, joined to the assessment roll of the same year: land the roll codes agricultural (use codes 50 to 69, timberland 54 to 59 included). The files give the month of each sale, not the day, so Florida sales show a month. Only the sales the county property appraiser marked qualified (codes 01 and 02) count as market sales; every other deed is listed and kept out of the middles, and a deed with minimum stamps has no sale price. The files carry no buyer or seller names.

Every recorded sale

2133 sales on file, Jan 2009 to Aug 2026: 391 farmland, 494 with buildings, 71 forest, 1177 small parcels.

Every price here is a recorded sale: what the state's transfer record says was paid once the sale closed. Auction sales count once recorded. Asking prices and auction bids that did not close are never shown.

Newest first, Polk County, Florida
DateWhereAcresRecorded price$/acreTypeNoteNames
Aug 2026Bartow, Polk County, FL13$324,800$25,004small parcel
Aug 2026Bartow, Polk County, FL6.5$2,000,000$307,692small parcel
Aug 2026Babson Park, Polk County, FL19.1$765,200$40,000with buildings
Aug 2026Fort Meade, Polk County, FL5.8$405,400$69,537with buildings
Aug 2026Fort Meade, Polk County, FL2.3$65,000$28,139small parcel
Jul 2026Mulberry, Polk County, FL5.2$645,000$124,277small parcel
Jul 2026Polk City, Polk County, FL4.1$120,000$29,056small parcel
Jul 2026Haines City, Polk County, FL6$917,500$153,943with buildings
Jul 2026Fort Meade, Polk County, FL20$300,000$15,000farmland
Jul 2026Lakeland, Polk County, FL10$350,000$35,000with buildings
Jul 2026Fort Meade, Polk County, FL9$250,000$27,655with buildings
Jul 2026Fort Meade, Polk County, FL5.5$138,000$24,910small parcel
Jun 2026Haines City, Polk County, FL17.7$840,000$47,431with buildings
Jun 2026Lake Wales, Polk County, FL106.2$950,000$8,944farmland
Jun 2026Lakeland, Polk County, FL25.7$693,400$27,002farmland
Jun 2026Frostproof, Polk County, FL1$159,000$155,882small parcel
May 2026Bartow, Polk County, FL7.9$165,000$20,886small parcel
May 2026Davenport, Polk County, FL9.8$4,800,000$491,803forest
May 2026Frostproof, Polk County, FL4.8$69,900$14,716small parcel
May 2026Lakeland, Polk County, FL132.2$900,000$6,809farmland
May 2026Lake Wales, Polk County, FL6$155,000$25,833small parcel
May 2026Frostproof, Polk County, FL0.9$94,000$101,075with buildings
May 2026Lake Wales, Polk County, FL42.2$844,200$20,000with buildings
May 2026Bartow, Polk County, FL10.1$200,000$19,743with buildings
May 2026Fort Meade, Polk County, FL32.1$1,065,000$33,147with buildings
May 2026Polk City, Polk County, FL17.6$1,000,000$56,721with buildings
May 2026Winter Haven, Polk County, FL7.6$40,000$5,263small parcel
May 2026Frostproof, Polk County, FL90.9$1,100,000$12,104farmland
Apr 2026Lake Wales, Polk County, FL14.7$367,000$25,000small parcel
Apr 2026Auburndale, Polk County, FL7$800,000$114,943with buildings
Apr 2026Haines City, Polk County, FL9.8$72,500$7,406with buildings
Apr 2026Lakeland, Polk County, FL1.7$432,000$260,241with buildings
Apr 2026Lake Wales, Polk County, FL170.7$900,000$5,271with buildings
Apr 2026Bartow, Polk County, FL14.6$80,000$5,479small parcel
Mar 2026Fort Meade, Polk County, FL7.7$730,000$95,425with buildings
Mar 2026Lake Wales, Polk County, FL57.4$2,008,300$35,000farmland
Mar 2026Polk City, Polk County, FL5.8$609,000$105,363with buildings
Mar 2026Haines City, Polk County, FL19.1$976,000$51,234small parcel
Mar 2026Fort Meade, Polk County, FL38.6$560,000$14,489farmland
Mar 2026Haines City, Polk County, FL20$1,024,100$51,231small parcel
Mar 2026Lake Wales, Polk County, FL30$820,000$27,370with buildings
Mar 2026Fort Meade, Polk County, FL8.5$195,000$23,050with buildings
Mar 2026Fort Meade, Polk County, FL4.8$230,000$47,521with buildings
Mar 2026Fort Meade, Polk County, FL5$118,000$23,366small parcel
Feb 2026Fort Meade, Polk County, FL5.5$138,000$24,910small parcel
Feb 2026Lake Wales, Polk County, FL14$628,000$44,986small parcel
Feb 2026Bartow, Polk County, FL40.3$265,000$6,572farmland
Feb 2026Lakeland, Polk County, FL14.5$1,328,000$91,649with buildings
Feb 2026Babson Park, Polk County, FL1.8$136,500$75,414small parcel
Feb 2026Fort Meade, Polk County, FL12.6$226,500$18,005small parcel

Showing the newest 50 of 2133 sales.

Type: with buildings means the property class on the record shows a house, farm buildings or a business; forest means forest classes with no farm class (Wisconsin), timberland with no operating farm (Vermont) or timberland use codes (Florida); a small parcel is under 20 acres; farmland is the rest. Acres not stated: a return covering several parcels that does not give them.

A sale marked unusual is bare farmland whose price per acre sits well outside the market middle half; possible reasons above it: a house or buildings, timber or hunting ground, a building site or development land, or a neighbor paying more for the piece next door; below: a family or neighbor sale, a part interest, wooded, wet or poorer ground, no road access, or a land contract.

Florida sales carry no buyer or seller names in the state's file; the deed at the county has them.

A sale is listed when it carries a price and acres and a whole interest changed hands in a normal sale: gifts, family and related-party sales, quit claims, foreclosures and the like are left out, the same rule as Field Scout and the Farmland Atlas. Township and town are where the state places the sale; no parcel is pinned. None of this is an appraisal. Source: Florida Department of Revenue, sale data files joined to the assessment roll, agricultural land (sale months, not days), read Nov 5, 2026.

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