The Empress Condos for Sale

About The Empress

The Empress is unusually legible on the public record. Walton County lists forty four condominium unit parcels and one common area parcel at a single address, 1272 Scenic Gulf Drive. Forty of those parcels carry designators that number them by level, 201 through 1104 in an unbroken pattern of four to a level, second level through eleventh, with nothing numbered on the ground floor at all. The remaining four are designated P-1 through P-4 in their legal descriptions, which give them no level at all, while the county's address field numbers those same four parcels 1201 through 1204; the two fields disagree, which is why this page does not describe all forty four the same way and does not claim a level for those four. That pattern evidences the building's height without settling it: no agency source publishes a story count for this address, so none is printed here. Empress Owners Association, Inc. has been active on the Florida register since April 1997 and gives the building itself as its principal address, which is rare along this stretch, where associations of this size are usually run from a management company's office somewhere else. The beach arrangement is the claim worth reading slowly. The association's own common parcel stops roughly 340 feet short of the water. Where anything is recorded south and east of it, the parcel belongs to the Majestic Sun condominium and its owners association, and past that the roll shows no parcel at all before the Gulf shoreline that federal hydrography maps about 390 feet from these residences. Any right these owners hold in the sand is therefore a matter of recorded paper rather than of ground the association owns, and that paper is the document to ask for by name.

• Forty four unit parcels, forty of them numbered four to a level
• Numbered designators running from a second level to an eleventh
• Association registered office at the building itself
• Flood mapping that changes across the property