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Destin West Beach & Bay Resort Condos for Sale

Six separately recorded condominiums across both sides of the island highway, completed between 2002 and 2006, with the beach half owning water frontage and the bay half facing Choctawhatchee Bay.

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About Destin West Beach & Bay Resort

One resort name covers six separate condominium filings on the Okaloosa County roll, and the differences between them are the whole story. On the beach side, Destin West Beach & Bay Resort carries a 2002 year built with a header record reading 96 units at 1517 Miracle Strip Parkway, and Gulf Side Villas carries 2006 with a header reading 35. Across the highway on the bay side sit Pelican and Sandpiper, both 2004 with headers reading 48 units each, then Heron with 54 and Osprey with 37, both 2006. That is four completion years, six declarations and roughly 318 recorded units under a single trading name. Frontage differs by half as well, and it is the fact most often stated too broadly about this resort. Gulf frontage here is not a property of the campus; it belongs to the beach side of the highway only. The 3.29 acre beach-side parcel reaches the Gulf. The state's coastal construction control line, which by law tracks the landward limit of the beach and dune system, crosses through this parcel rather than stopping at its edge, and no other owner is recorded on the county roll between this filing and the water. It carries 96 units, and Gulf Side Villas stands on the same side with 35 more, though its own 0.17 acre parcel stops short of the sand and sits at the inland end of that block. That is 131 of the 318 units those six header records count. The other 187, in Pelican, Sandpiper, Heron and Osprey, sit across Miracle Strip Parkway with no gulf frontage of any kind; on that side the resort holds a 4.98 acre Santa Rosa Island parcel of residential common area running north to water outside the reach of the county's own mapped Santa Rosa Sound, whose polygon ends about seven tenths of a mile west of here; the county's hydrography layer carries no other named water body today, so this page does not assert a name for the water at this site. The two halves stand about 200 feet apart across the highway at their closest, measured parcel to parcel. Because no single yes or no is true of the whole resort, this page publishes no property-wide frontage answer and gives the split instead.

HOA & Fees

Six filings mean six sets of books, and a figure quoted for the resort describes none of them. Completion years run from 2002 to 2006, so structural inspection clocks under section 553.899 fall due in different years for different buildings, the earliest reaching thirty years from its certificate of occupancy well before the latest. Flood placement is the item a resort-wide figure damages most, because the mapping changes building by building and inside one of the buildings. All four bay filings sit within an AE special flood hazard area. Every addressed location at Pelican and Sandpiper returns a base flood elevation of 9 feet, covering those 96 units, and every one at Osprey returns 10 feet, covering its 37. Heron is the exception and no scalar fits it: the boundary between those two mapped areas crosses the building, and its addressed locations come back at 9 feet at the southern end and at 10 feet at the northern end, breaking the unit numbering at the same place on every level rather than scattering between the two. On the beach side nearly every addressed location falls in the 0.2 percent annual chance band, outside a special flood hazard area with no elevation mapped, while the seaward part of that filing's own ground is mapped VE at base flood elevations of 13 and 16 feet and a small number of its addressed locations return VE at 16. So no one elevation describes this campus, either half of it, or in Heron's case even one building. Identify the recorded condominium a unit belongs to first, then ask that association for its own study, budget and insurance summary, and read the elevation certificate for the specific unit alongside them.

Rental Policy

This campus lies in unincorporated Okaloosa County under the island covenants, so no city registration applies and the county's own guidance is the starting point. Both halves are zoned B-3, which the covenants define as a light commercial and concession area carrying forward the hotel, hotel court and apartment house uses permitted in B-2; the restricted island classification the county names in its owner guidance is B-1, which does not reach here. A state lodging license and county tourist development tax registration are still required, and because six associations govern this campus, the recorded declaration and house rules differ building to building and must be read for the specific unit.

  • Six separately recorded condominiums under one resort name
  • Gulf frontage on the beach side only, reaching 131 of 318 units
  • Bay-side common area of 4.98 acres on water beyond the county's mapped Santa Rosa Sound
  • Roughly 318 recorded units completed between 2002 and 2006
  • B-3 island zoning under the county covenants

Live Inventory

Active Listings at Destin West Beach & Bay Resort

New

$519,999

1322 Miracle Strip Parkway Unit L08

Fort Walton Beach, FL 32548

2 bd 2 ba 971 sqft
NewShort-term rental potential

$749,999

1326 Miracle Strip Parkway Unit Heron 302

Fort Walton Beach, FL 32548

3 bd 2 ba 1,776 sqft
Short-term rental potential

$590,000

1322 Miracle Strip Parkway Unit 307

Fort Walton Beach, FL 32548

2 bd 2 ba 1,255 sqft
Price ReducedShort-term rental potential

$264,900

1517 Miracle Strip Parkway Unit 403

Fort Walton Beach, FL 32548

1 bd 1 ba 460 sqft
Short-term rental potential

$619,000

1328 Miracle Strip Parkway Unit 505

Fort Walton Beach, FL 32548

3 bd 2 ba 1,587 sqft
Price ReducedShort-term rental potential

$535,000

1515 Miracle Strip Parkway Unit 503

Fort Walton Beach, FL 32548

1 bd 2 ba 913 sqft
Short-term rental potential

$315,000

1517 Miracle Strip Parkway Unit 406

Fort Walton Beach, FL 32548

1 bd 1 ba 460 sqft
Short-term rental potential

$535,000

1324 Miracle Strip Parkway Unit L1

Fort Walton Beach, FL 32548

1 bd 2 ba 971 sqft
Short-term rental potential

$535,000

1324 Miracle Strip Parkway Unit L05

Fort Walton Beach, FL 32548

1 bd 2 ba 954 sqft
Short-term rental potential

$463,000

1322 Miracle Strip Parkway Unit 404

Fort Walton Beach, FL 32548

1 bd 2 ba 954 sqft
Price ReducedShort-term rental potential

$270,000

1517 Miracle Strip Parkway Unit 308

Fort Walton Beach, FL 32548

1 bd 1 ba 460 sqft
Price Reduced Gulf FrontShort-term rental potential

$450,000

1515 Miracle Strip Parkway Unit 209

Fort Walton Beach, FL 32548

1 bd 2 ba 913 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.

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Building Answers

Destin West Beach & Bay Resort FAQ

Which recorded condominium does a Destin West unit actually belong to?

One of six, and the answer decides which documents a buyer inherits. The beach side of the highway holds Destin West Beach & Bay Resort and Gulf Side Villas; the bay side holds Pelican, Sandpiper, Heron and Osprey. County header records give those six unit totals of 96, 35, 48, 48, 54 and 37, with completion years of 2002, 2004 and 2006, and a small office condominium sits alongside them. Ask for the legal name written on the deed rather than the resort name carried on the listing.

Is Destin West a Gulf front resort?

Partly, and which part a unit sits in decides the answer. The beach side of Miracle Strip Parkway holds 131 of the 318 units, and the 3.29 acre parcel under the 96 unit filing there reaches the Gulf, established here by what stands between it and the water rather than by the county's water body layer: nothing does, on this filing's own recorded roll, and the same parcel is the one the coastal construction control line crosses rather than merely meets. The other 187 units, in Pelican, Sandpiper, Heron and Osprey, stand across the highway on the bay and have no gulf frontage of any kind. Because the answer is different for the two halves, no property-wide frontage figure is published here and no beachfront rental comparison is drawn for the resort as a whole. Check which recorded condominium a unit sits in before treating a beachfront price as its comparison.

Which water does the bay side actually face?

The county's water body layer no longer carries a name for the water at this longitude. Its only current feature, Santa Rosa Sound, ends about seven tenths of a mile to the west, which is why this page states what the water is not rather than a name for what it is. The resort's 4.98 acre bay-side common area reaches that water; the individual building parcels behind it do not.

Does the beach side or the bay side carry more flood exposure?

The honest answer is that it depends on whether you ask about the residences or about the land, and the two answers run opposite ways. Every addressed location in the four bay filings sits inside an AE special flood hazard area, at a base flood elevation of 9 feet under Pelican and Sandpiper and 10 feet under Osprey, with Heron carrying both because the boundary between the two mapped areas runs through it. Nearly every addressed location on the beach side sits instead in the 0.2 percent annual chance band, outside a special flood hazard area with no base elevation mapped, which is what makes the bay half look like the exposed one. Read by ground rather than by address the beach filing carries the severest mapping on this campus, because the seaward part of its parcel is mapped VE at base flood elevations of 13 and 16 feet, which is the coastal high hazard category. Severity is not the same as extent, though, and this page draws no conclusion about which half of the campus holds the larger share of hazard ground. Ask for the figure that applies to the specific building rather than one quoted for the resort, and read it alongside that building's elevation certificate.

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