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Capri by the Gulf Condos for Sale

Twenty-four separately titled 1956 lots at 3100 Scenic Highway 98 in Crystal Beach, four of which reach the mapped shoreline while the other twenty stand between about 137 and 263 feet back from it.

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Gulf Front

About Capri by the Gulf

Okaloosa County does not record this as a condominium. Its twenty-four residential parcels sit in one parcel identifier series under the Crystal Beach plat, each carrying its own recorded acreage and each classed by the property appraiser in the detached-house and townhouse use group rather than as a condominium unit. Twenty-three of them carry legal descriptions reading unit 101 through unit 122 and unit 126; the twenty-fourth, addressed as unit 123, is filed under a metes and bounds description that never uses the name, which is why searching by name alone comes back one lot short. All twenty-four show a 1956 construction year. The lots are neither equal nor arranged in one row. Four of them, units 107, 108, 115 and 116, run to the mapped Gulf shoreline and measure roughly 90 to 100 feet across by 145 to 180 feet deep at about a quarter acre apiece. The other twenty sit behind those four, most of them about 77 feet by 40 feet, standing between about 137 and 263 feet back from the water when each lot's own outline is measured against the Gulf polygon. That gap is also why this page carries no property-level Gulf front marking: the shoreline belongs to four of the twenty-four lots rather than to the block, each lot is titled and sold on its own, and a single yes or no across the address would be wrong about one group or the other. The twenty-four residential lots total about 2.03 acres, and a twenty-fifth parcel in the same series, classed as an office building and addressed as an office at the same street number, adds about another tenth of an acre. The block's boundaries meet the Crystal Pier Courtyard townhouses and the Crystal Sands condominium.

HOA & Fees

The first question here is which recorded instrument governs, because the ownership form is not the one the name suggests. Okaloosa County files each of the twenty-four residences as its own parcel with its own acreage and classes them in the detached-house and townhouse use group rather than as condominium units, so a buyer should not assume a condominium declaration, a condominium association or the statutory package that follows from chapter 718. That distinction decides more than paperwork. The state's milestone inspection regime reaches only buildings held, in whole or in part, under the condominium or cooperative form, so at this address the obligation follows the recording rather than the marketing, and twenty-four separately parcelled houses may sit outside it entirely. The roll answers the common-ground question only halfway, and the half it answers is easy to miss. No parcel in this series carries a common-area use class, and the twenty-fifth parcel is classed as an office building rather than as common ground; but that same parcel is recorded to Capri by the Gulf Homeowners, so there is association-held ground here even though the roll does not label it that way. Ask the seller for the governing documents by name, and for whatever instrument creates the shared obligations over that parcel and the dune crossing.

Rental Policy

Destin's signage requirement lands differently on property titled this way. The city code requires the posted short term rental sign to sit prominently on the registered dwelling's own property, so that its content is legible from the public right of way, and to carry the management company, an emergency contact, the occupancy limit and the number of onsite parking spaces, and the city states that those signage rules override any conflicting homeowner association restriction. Each of the twenty-four residences here is its own parcel, so each registers in its own right and each posts its own sign. Crystal Beach Resort and Crystal Beach Neighborhood both appear among the districts where the city generally allows the use, but which of them covers a given lot is a zoning map question rather than an address question.

  • Twenty-four separately titled lots
  • 1956 construction year on every parcel
  • Four of the twenty-four lots reach the shoreline
  • Crystal Beach plat, about 2.03 residential acres
  • Coastal Construction Control Line crosses part of the block

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Active Listings at Capri by the Gulf

Short-term rental permission at Capri by the Gulf is not settled for the property as a whole by any record this page can cite, so no rental-eligibility marker is shown on these listings. Ask which terms reach the specific unit you are considering, in the recorded declaration and the association's house rules, and confirm its standing under local registration rules during diligence.

Gulf Front

$455,000

3100 Scenic Hwy 98 Unit 113

Destin, FL 32541

1 bd 1 ba 600 sqft
Price Reduced Gulf Front

$425,000

3100 Scenic Hwy 98 Unit 119

Destin, FL 32541

1 bd 1 ba 500 sqft
Gulf Front

$445,000

3100 Scenic Hwy 98 Unit 122

Destin, FL 32541

1 bd 1 ba 484 sqft
Gulf Front

$445,000

3100 Scenic Highway 98 Unit 121

Destin, FL 32541

1 bd 1 ba 484 sqft

Building Answers

Capri by the Gulf FAQ

Is this a condominium?

Not on the county's roll. All twenty-four residences are filed as separate parcels under the Crystal Beach plat, each with its own recorded acreage, and the property appraiser puts them in the detached-house and townhouse use group rather than in the condominium one.

Does every residence front the beach?

No, and this is the one thing to get right before comparing anything here. Four lots, units 107, 108, 115 and 116, reach the mapped Gulf shoreline, none of them crossing into the mapped water: each stops within a few feet of it, so the boundary follows the shoreline rather than running past it. The twenty lots behind them stand between about 137 and 263 feet back from the water, and each is a fraction of the size of the front four. Because the frontage belongs to four lots and not to the property, this page does not mark the address as Gulf front; read the individual parcel rather than the block name.

How old are these residences, and how many levels do they have?

The county records 1956 on all twenty-four parcels. Height is a separate question and this page will not answer it. The county's addressing file returns one constant in its level field across all twenty-five records at this address, the office record included, and a field that never varies from one residence to the next is not measuring anything. No level count is published here for that reason.

What does the flood map say, and does it say the same thing across the block?

It does not, and the difference is one of the sharpest things separating one lot here from another. Read lot by lot against each parcel outline, the county's flood insurance rate map puts a velocity zone at a base flood elevation of 15 feet over twenty-four of the twenty-five parcels in this series, covering the whole of the four front lots and the whole of most of the back ones, with an area of minimal hazard reaching the lots along the northern edge. One parcel, the lot addressed unit 123, returns minimal hazard and no velocity zone at all. A single flood answer quoted for the address will therefore be wrong about somebody, so get the answer for the parcel you are actually buying.

Why do listings and county records disagree on how many lots there are?

Because one of them is filed under a legal description that never uses the name. Twenty-three parcels here read Capri by Gulf; the twenty-fourth, addressed as unit 123, is described by metes and bounds instead, so any search run on the name alone returns twenty-three and misses a residence. Counting by parcel identifier series returns twenty-four residential lots and one office parcel, and the state's own cadastral agrees at twenty-five.

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