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Jade East Towers Condos for Sale

A single Gulf-front high-rise on US Highway 98 East in central Destin, holding 88 residences in five repeating stacks plus three penthouses under one association, with covered ground-floor parking its recorded declaration guarantees to every owner.

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1996

Year Built

88

Total Units

Yes

Gulf Front

Year built, floor and unit figures are as published by the sources cited at the foot of this page. Confirm them against the association's own documents during diligence.

About Jade East Towers

Jade East Towers wears a plural name over a single building. Its recorded declaration speaks throughout of the building containing the units, and a 2003 certificate of amendment signed by the association's president puts the question beyond argument: the sole condominium that association operates is Jade East Towers, a condominium. What the record divides is position inside that one structure. The share of elements exhibit lays out five residential stacks of seventeen units apiece, named east to west, with East End and East Center at 1,619 and 1,624 square feet, a two bedroom Center stack at 1,314 square feet, and West Center and West End at 1,622 and 1,619 square feet. Three penthouses sit above them at 2,495, 2,645 and 2,500 square feet, and a 233 square foot commercial unit closes the schedule, which the declaration allows to be put to commercial purposes as well as the residential use the other units carry. That leaves 88 residences, the number this page reports, with the commercial unit counted separately. The recorded legal description settles the setting: the parcel lies south of State Road, cited in the instrument as U.S. Highway No. 98, and its boundary runs 350 feet south to a point marking the Gulf of Mexico before meandering east along the water. Amenities are thinly documented in the public record, and this page follows the record rather than filling the gap. The 2003 recorded amendment carries fitness center rules, which establishes a fitness center on the property. Covered parking on the ground floor is a limited common element, and the declaration guarantees every owner at least one space at no charge. For anything beyond those two, ask the association for a current amenity schedule. For diligence the association publishes its governing instruments openly, and among them the 2019 amendment addressing rental occupancy is the one a buyer weighing rental use should obtain in its recorded form first.

HOA & Fees

Jade East Towers Owners Association, Inc. has been an active Florida not-for-profit corporation since its 1994 filing with the state, and BBA Association Management has served as its management partner since December 2023. Ownership shares are not uniform here: the recorded declaration assigns each unit its share of the common elements and common surplus by unit type, so a penthouse, a three bedroom and the two bedroom plan carry different fractions of the whole. The association publishes its articles, bylaws, declaration and recorded amendments openly, and names its hazard and flood carriers. Budgets and current rules sit behind the owner portal rather than in that public set, so request them from the association during diligence.

Rental Policy

The recorded declaration's use restriction reads that each unit other than the commercial unit may be occupied only as a residence, either permanent or transient. That is the original language and not necessarily the rule in force: the association's published document set includes an instrument it lists as Amendment - Rental Occupancy, dated 09.23.2019 in that index, posted only as a scanned image whose terms cannot be read from the published copy. A 2003 recorded amendment layers on rules for a Spring Break period the board defines and posts each year. In that instrument's own words, registered guests are limited to six persons in a two bedroom unit and eight in a three bedroom, visitors are capped at half that number, and at least one parent or legal guardian over 25 must be in residence in any rental unit where persons under 25 are present. Those are the recorded association's terms as filed with the county, quoted here because a buyer relying on rental use needs to see them, and not a description by this page of who stays at the building. Pull the 2019 amendment and the association's current rules before relying on any rental use here. Destin also runs its own registration step for short term rentals, and the city publishes a current guide to it.

  • Direct Gulf frontage by the recorded legal description
  • Covered ground-floor parking, one space per owner
  • On-site fitness center

Live Inventory

Active Listings at Jade East Towers

Price Reduced Gulf FrontShort-term rental potential

$1,197,500

1018 Highway 98 Unit 1420

Destin, FL 32541

3 bd 3 ba 1,624 sqft
Gulf FrontShort-term rental potential

$1,499,000

1018 Highway 98 Unit 1720

Destin, FL 32541

3 bd 3 ba 1,624 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

Jade East Towers FAQ

Is Jade East Towers one building or several?

One. The plural sits in the name only. Its founding declaration uses the singular throughout, describing the building containing the units, and a certificate of amendment recorded in 2003 confirms that this association operates a single condominium. Position inside that one structure is what the record actually divides: five residential stacks of seventeen units each run east to west, three penthouses sit above them, and one small commercial unit is carried in the same schedule.

What street is Jade East Towers on?

US Highway 98 East. Three separate records agree: the state corporate file lists a principal address of 1018 Highway 98 E, a 2003 certificate of amendment gives 1018 Highway 98 East, and the founding legal description puts the parcel south of State Road, which that instrument names as U.S. Highway No. 98. None of the building's own records give it a beach-road name.

How close to the water does Jade East Towers actually sit?

Its own legal description carries the closest measure: the surveyed boundary reaches the Gulf of Mexico on a final southward call of 350 feet, then meanders east along the water for another 230 feet. That is a surveyed property line rather than a walking route, so read it as the depth of the parcel between the building and the water, and confirm how the sand is actually reached with the association.

What do the association's documents say about renting at Jade East Towers?

More than most buildings publish, and still not a settled answer. The declaration limits every unit but the commercial one to residential occupancy, and it frames that occupancy as permanent or transient rather than naming any minimum term. Its transfer section leaves a lease outside association approval, while asking for notice of a transfer except where the term runs under one month. Two later instruments bear on the same subject: a rental occupancy amendment the association dates 09.23.2019, published as a page image with no readable text, and a 2003 amendment setting occupancy limits during a board-defined Spring Break period. Because the most recent of the three cannot be read from the published copy, this page draws no rental conclusion. Read the current recorded documents and the association's rules.

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