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Crystal Sands Condos for Sale

One 1995 condominium name covering two separate three-level buildings at 3184 and 3290 Scenic Highway 98 in Destin, together holding 85 residences on 4.82 acres in Crystal Beach.

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About Crystal Sands

The single most useful thing to know before shopping here is that Crystal Sands is not one building. Okaloosa County files 85 residences under the one condominium name, but its addressing records split them between two street numbers on Scenic Highway 98: 48 at 3184 and 37 at 3290. The county's building footprint layer confirms two structures on the ground, each three levels tall, with roughly a dozen to sixteen residences per level. All of it carries a 1995 construction year and 4.82 mapped acres, and one more parcel, about 2.05 acres, sits under the same ownership as vacant commercial land with no year of construction recorded against it. The only plat that actually touches this property is Crystal Beach itself, measured against the parcel outlines rather than a box drawn around them: the Grand Caribbean East and West condominium plats come within about 100 and 116 feet respectively without meeting a boundary, and the Crystal Pier Courtyard townhouses stop roughly 295 feet away. The southern parcel boundary follows the mapped edge of the Gulf of America without reaching into it, and the state's Coastal Construction Control Line crosses the property in two places.

HOA & Fees

An association carrying two separate structures has to schedule roofs, exterior envelope work and painting across both, and the two can fall due in different years even under one budget, so ask how the reserve plan sequences them rather than reading a single line for the property. Height is the other thing to check. At three levels each, both buildings sit at the threshold Florida uses in several places: section 553.899 reaches condominium buildings three stories or more for milestone structural inspection, on a clock counted from the certificate of occupancy date, and the county's recorded 1995 construction year would put the thirty-year mark in 2025. Because the statute keys to the occupancy certificate rather than the appraiser's year, confirm the actual date with the association before relying on it, and ask for the inspection report and the reserve study that follows from it.

Rental Policy

Destin's overnight occupancy limit is settled residence by residence at Crystal Sands rather than once for the condominium name. A registration attaches to one home at one street number, so a residence at 3184 and a residence at 3290 hold separate registrations beneath the same declaration, and each carries whatever limit its own floor plan produces. The city's arithmetic allows two adults for each bedroom in that home and a flat four people beyond them, subject to an overall stop at 24 people, and it governs the hours from 10:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m. rather than the daytime. Ten bedrooms would be needed before that overall stop bit at all, so the bedroom line is the one to work out against the specific plan before trusting a marketing sleeps-count. Whether short term use is permitted here at all depends on the parcel's zoning district under the city's program and on the condominium's recorded declaration, neither of which any public source gathered for this page resolves. Verify both.

  • Two buildings under one condominium name
  • Three levels at each address
  • 85 residences on 4.82 acres
  • Parcel boundary at the Gulf
  • Additional 2.05-acre commercial parcel

Live Inventory

Active Listings at Crystal Sands

Short-term rental potential

$750,000

3290 Scenic Highway 98 Unit 202B

Destin, FL 32541

1 bd 2 ba 806 sqft
New Gulf FrontShort-term rental potential

$819,000

3290 Scenic Highway 98 Unit 309B

Destin, FL 32541

2 bd 2 ba 1,072 sqft

The short-term rental badge above is not a permission of record. It reflects the MLS short-term-rental field where a listing discloses one, and otherwise where the home sits. Confirm the association's current rules and the local registration requirement before relying on it.

Building Answers

Crystal Sands FAQ

Is Crystal Sands one building or more than one?

Two. County addressing records divide the 85 residences between 3184 Scenic Highway 98, which holds 48, and 3290 Scenic Highway 98, which holds 37, and the county's building footprint layer shows two structures on the property.

What is the level count at each address?

Three levels each. The county's per-residence address records assign roughly twelve to sixteen homes to each level at both street numbers, which is what puts the property right at the three-story mark that several Florida condominium rules turn on.

Is there land here beyond the two buildings?

Yes. Alongside the 4.82 mapped acres carrying the residences, the county lists a further parcel of about 2.05 acres under the same condominium name, classed as vacant commercial and with no construction year recorded against it.

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