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Michael Linton   |   FL Broker License BK703722   |   39 Years Experience   |  (312) 612-1031

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Free 12-Page Brief · Ten Florida Counties · October 2026

Find Distressed CRE Deals
Before Your Competition Does.

Where commercial distress and bank-held property actually sit across ten Florida counties, from Orlando and Tampa to Fort Lauderdale, ZIP by ZIP, built from every commercial parcel on the 2026 Florida tax roll. Plus the playbook for working those deals, from a broker who spent his career on the bank side of distressed assets.

What's inside

Distress is scattered, not systemic. Here is where it sits.

The 25 ZIP codes with the most distress, from the Florida Commercial Distress Brief
Twelve pages. Ten county tables, the 25 ZIP codes that matter, the playbook and a 20-item due-diligence checklist.
The ten counties at a glance. Parcels, arm’s-length sales, median $/SF, building age, out-of-state ownership, distress transfers and bank-held parcels for Orange, Seminole, Osceola, Lake, Volusia, Polk, Hillsborough, Pinellas, Marion and Broward.
Where it concentrates. The 25 ZIP codes carrying the most distress, then the top ZIP codes county by county, each with local pricing and building age.
The distressed-deal playbook. How to source a deal before it’s listed, price it against its own ZIP, underwrite it like a credit officer and make the bank’s decision easy.
The 20-item due-diligence checklist. Title, liens, code cases, Phase I, flood, insurance, roof, estoppels and the rest: everything a bank’s asset manager checks before a distressed sale closes.
Bonus: The Florida REO Home Buyer’s Guide. Mike’s 31-page book on buying bank-owned homes in Florida, sent free with the brief.

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How we find it

Three steps. No guesswork.

1

Start from the whole roll

Every commercial and industrial parcel on the Florida Department of Revenue 2026 tax roll, not a scraped list of whatever hit the courthouse this week.

2

Flag the distress the state flags

Transfers the state codes as lender or deed-in-lieu, bankruptcy or receiver, and forced or pre-foreclosure sales, plus commercial parcels a bank owns that are not branches.

3

Read it like the bank does

Price each signal against its own ZIP’s arm’s-length sales, so you know whether a distressed asset is a discount or just a bad building.

Want your own ZIP codes?

The brief covers ten counties. If you buy, lend or broker somewhere else in Florida, Mike will pull the commercial sales, pricing and distress signals for your markets and send a one-page summary at no cost. For ongoing deal flow, see the Florida Market Map, distressed commercial real estate and commercial BPO services.

Source: Florida Department of Revenue 2026 final tax roll (NAL/SDF) via LGData, Linton Global calculations. Bank-held counts are upper bounds; some parcels may be bank operations property. For informational purposes only; not an appraisal or investment advice. Linton Global Solutions is a Florida-licensed real estate brokerage, not a lender, broker-dealer or investment adviser.