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Three 1980s buildings at 1100 Highway 98 East in east Destin, filed as separate phases in 1981, 1982 and 1983, whose parcel lines run past the mapped shoreline onto the beach beside Sterling Sands.

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Gulf Front

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4.9 out of 5

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About Grand Mariner

The county record puts this property nowhere near the harbor. Its three plats sit together at 1100 Highway 98 East, sharing boundaries with the Sterling Sands and Destin Beach Club filings about two and a half miles east of the pass, measured from the parcel outlines to the East Pass polygon. Phase I carries 28 residences built in 1981 on 1.42 acres, Phase II 26 built in 1982 on 1.24 acres, and Phase III 30 built in 1983 on 1.52 acres, for 84 residences across roughly 4.18 acres. The addressing file places homes on seven levels in each of the three buildings and two more on an eighth level of building B, and those two were recorded under the 1983 phase rather than the 1982 phase that produced the twenty-six beneath them. Frontage is the Gulf, and the geometry is close rather than generous: the parcel outlines do cross the mapped shoreline, but by about 27 feet at the widest point and by only a few feet along most of the frontage, with the two ends sitting within about four feet of the water's edge. The Coastal Construction Control Line crosses the property, and flood mapping assigns velocity zones over the seaward half. Nothing in the roll records a dock, a slip or a marina parcel under any of the three names.

HOA & Fees

What is the HOA fee at Grand Mariner?

As of November 11, 2026, based on one listing on the MLS, the reported HOA fee at Grand Mariner is $877 a month. Fees vary with unit size and type, so the fee for a specific residence is the one its listing and the association state.

Based on one active MLS listing that reports an HOA fee. Fees billed quarterly, twice a year or yearly are shown as a monthly equivalent. See the listings

Three buildings mean three certificates of occupancy and three separate obligations. Every deadline section 553.899 sets for this property is already behind it: on construction years of 1981, 1982 and 1983, all three buildings turned thirty long before the statute's July 2022 cutoff, which placed them in the group whose first milestone report was due by the end of 2024. So the question here is never whether an inspection is owed but whether three of them were completed, and what each one found. Ask for each one's completed report separately, because a clean result on one says nothing about the other two, and settle which phase your residence belongs to before reading any of them.

Rental Policy

Short-term rentals: not allowed, per our brokerage's rental review.

An out-of-state owner at Grand Mariner should plan for one city rule early. Destin requires a local contact who can reach the property within one hour. That person is named as the emergency contact on the required sign at the property. Registration runs by calendar year from January 1, with late fees after two spring dates. The zoning map, not the highway address, shows whether the parcel sits in an eligible district. Grand Mariner has three recorded declarations, one for each phase. Read the one for your phase.

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Vrbo ratings for the vacation rentals in Grand Mariner.

4.9 out of 5

232 reviews across 3 reviewed listings

  • Vrbo 4.9 from 232 reviews on 3 reviewed listings

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Market data by Key Data · 3 units tracked in Grand Mariner · Nov 2025 to Nov 2026

  • Gulf frontage on the east Destin beach
  • Three phases: 1981, 1982 and 1983
  • 84 residences across three buildings
  • Seven levels, with two on an eighth
  • About 4.18 acres combined

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Active Listings at Grand Mariner

Short-term rental is reported as not allowed at Grand Mariner, so no rental-eligibility marker is shown on these listings. Confirm the current position in the recorded declaration and the association's house rules during diligence.

Gulf Front

$750,000

1100 Hwy 98 Unit A-602

Destin, FL 32541

2 bd 2 ba 1,160 sqft

Building Answers

Grand Mariner FAQ

How much is the HOA fee at Grand Mariner?

As of November 11, 2026, based on one listing on the MLS, the reported HOA fee at Grand Mariner is $877 a month. Fees vary with unit size and type, so the fee for a specific residence is the one its listing and the association state.

Where does this property actually stand, and does it have boat slips?

At 1100 Highway 98 East on the Gulf beach in east Destin, sharing plat boundaries with Sterling Sands and Destin Beach Club. Nothing in the county's parcel roll records dockage of any kind under the three phase names, and the nearest harbor water, the Old Pass Lagoon polygon, lies a little over a mile west of these parcels.

How many buildings are there, and were they built together?

Three, filed a year apart in 1981, 1982 and 1983 on the county's construction years. Building B is the odd one: two residences on its eighth level were recorded under the 1983 phase while the twenty-six below them were recorded under the 1982 phase.

Is this beachfront?

Yes, and three independent county layers say so, though the first of them by a narrower margin than this page once claimed. The parcel outlines do cross the mapped Gulf edge, but the crossing measures about 27 feet at its widest and only a few feet along most of the frontage, which is the geometry of a property line sitting on the shoreline rather than reaching well past it. A Coastal Construction Control Line segment runs through the property, and the county's flood mapping puts a velocity zone at a base flood elevation of eighteen feet across all three phases, with a second velocity zone at sixteen feet reaching the Phase III parcels.

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