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DIVISION OF ADMINISTRATION, STATE of Florida, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION, Appellant, v. George B. ESPEY, et al., Appellees.
    No. 81-625.
    District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.
    March 23, 1982.
    Rehearing Denied May 10, 1982.
    H. Reynolds Sampson and Alan E. DeSer-io and Walter Kelly and John H. Beck, Tallahassee, for appellant.
    Albury, Morgan & Hendrick and James T. Hendrick, Key West, for appellees.
    Before HUBBART, C. J., and HENDRY and FERGUSON, JJ.
   PER CURIAM.

We affirm the final judgment based on a jury verdict awarding appellee $20,075 in this eminent domain action. The trial court properly allowed the jury to consider, as evidence of the value of the property, a comparable sale to the condemning authority subsequent to the date the declaration of taking was filed. See City of Fort Lauderdale v. Casino Realty, Inc., 313 So.2d 649 (Fla.1975); Division of Administration, State, Department of Transportation v. Samter, 393 So.2d 1142 (Fla. 3d DCA), pet. for rev. denied, 402 So.2d 612 (Fla.1981); Wilkerson v. Division of Administration, State, Department of Transportation, 319 So.2d 585 (Fla. 2d DCA 1975); Central and Southern Florida Flood Control District v. Dinkines, 165 So.2d 189 (Fla. 3d DCA 1964); cf. Home Owners of Winter Haven, Inc. v. Polk County, 320 So.2d 480 (Fla. 2d DCA 1975), cert. denied, 336 So.2d 106 (Fla.1976).