Northshore Homes for Sale

Living in Northshore

Northshore is a group of 26 townhouses inside Sandestin, numbered 960 through 985 along Northshore Drive, with a Miramar Beach mailing address in ZIP 32550. The county writes the name two ways: the common-area legal description and the street say Northshore, while most unit legal descriptions say North Shore, so run title and permit searches under both. The townhouses went to record in four phase plats, which the legal descriptions cite at Plat Book 9, pages 19, 30 and 39, and Plat Book 10, page 17, and the state roll dates the homes from 1991 to 1993.

Each home stands on its own small parcel, drawn by the county at roughly 1,050 to 4,130 square feet of ground. The unit legal descriptions convey an interest in all common elements, and where the county's printed text runs long enough it adds designated limited common elements. Everything else on record here is a single parcel classified as common area, mapped in four separate pieces totaling about 2.8 acres as drawn, plus a small vacant parcel labeled Parcel B in phase three. That is why the county lists 28 parcel numbers for a place with 26 homes. The legal description of the common-area parcel cites only the phase one plat, so whether it also holds the common ground of the later phases, and which limited common elements go with a given unit, are questions for the recorded declaration and the phase plats, not the parcel map.

Every one of the 26 home parcels has ground in Zone AE on FEMA's national flood layer. Twenty-five lie wholly within it, mostly at a 7-foot base flood elevation, with an 8-foot band crossing parts of 960, 976 and 977. Parcel 978 is the exception: the zone line crosses it and roughly a third of its ground maps as Zone X. Zone VE, carrying a 10-foot base flood elevation, touches only one piece of the common area and Parcel B. Request the unit's elevation certificate and its flood policy history before the inspection period closes.

Sandestin is not an incorporated town, and when every mapped piece of Northshore is tested against Walton County's three municipalities (Paxton, DeFuniak Springs and Freeport), none falls inside one, so county government has jurisdiction here. The owners association's 2026 hurricane evacuation plan puts North Shore in its north-side group, routed south on Sandestin Boulevard through the North Gate to US 98. Its new-owner page explains that the master assessment funds security, most common roads and drainage, landscaping, lakes, sanitation and two pools, that each neighborhood association maintains the property within its neighborhood, and that tennis, beach service and the beach club belong to the resort company. A carrying-cost estimate therefore has to add whatever the neighborhood association itself bills to the master assessment, with any resort amenity priced separately.