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Aqua Resort Condos for Sale
A single 2007 condominium of 233 recorded units at 15625 Front Beach Road, whose own common ground crosses the coastal control line and meets the water.
2007
Year Built
233
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 Aqua Resort
This building is recorded once, not in phases. The state cadastral returns 233 condominium unit parcels under the legal name AQUA at 15625 Front Beach Road, every one carrying a 2007 year built, alongside a single common area parcel of about 2.67 acres titled to Aqua Condominium and four small mixed use parcels still held by the developer. Those four are not among the 233 and are not residences anyone can buy, but they are part of what is recorded at this address and are worth knowing about before reading a budget. The common parcel settles the frontage question in a way marketing language cannot. It begins at the road and ends at the water, and on the way it crosses the coastal construction control line, which runs through this block at latitude 30.21241. The line carries the county's name but is not the county's work. Florida rule 62B-26.024 describes it, gives its department as Environmental Protection and carries a 1997 effective date, and state law puts the permitting of anything built beyond such a line with that department unless a local government has formally taken the program on. Read against the line at their own longitudes rather than against a single latitude, all 233 recorded unit parcels lie seaward of it, the furthest by about 150 feet, so the beach here is held in ownership rather than reached by easement over somebody else's parcel. Flood mapping divides the site rather than covering it uniformly: points tested inside the seaward part of the common parcel return FEMA's VE zone, a special flood hazard area, with a base flood elevation of 14 feet, while points in its landward part return Zone X, minimal hazard, with no base elevation assigned. Because the county files each unit as a small point parcel rather than as a building footprint, no public map can place an individual residence in one zone or the other; the unit's own elevation certificate can. Unit designators run to 2311, evidencing occupied levels into the low twenties, though no agency publishes a story count and none appears above. Walking distance to the Pier Park district is real but should be stated honestly: measured polygon edge to polygon edge, the nearest Pier Park LLC retail holding lies about 1,366 feet northwest, so roughly a quarter mile rather than a doorstep, and the direction of travel is inland. This page carried a second, shorter figure to land held by the district's own taxing authority; it has been withdrawn rather than revised, because the roll files two records under that one parcel identifier with different outlines and no nearest distance quoted from it would be reproducible. Jurisdiction is settled here rather than contested: Bay County's municipal layer and four separate vintages of the Census place boundary return the same answer, placing the parcel inside the City of Panama City Beach, so one set of municipal rules governs a dwelling at this address.
HOA & Fees
One declaration keeps this budget simpler than the multi-phase properties nearby, but the exposure is not simpler: the association's common parcel runs to the water, which puts the dune face, the deck between the building and the sand and everything seaward of the control line on its own maintenance ledger. Work on that seaward ground answers to the Florida Department of Environmental Protection rather than to the county, which lengthens the approval path for anything structural out there. The reserve study Chapter 718 imposes on any residential condominium of three or more stories reaches this one, and from the last day of 2024 the money it sets aside stopped being available for redirection by member vote. Water-facing systems here are approaching two decades of salt exposure, so that study is the document to read first.
Rental Policy
Panama City Beach requires a certificate before any dwelling inside city limits may be let for stays under a month, and renewals run annually with a re-inspection. Registration runs through the fire department rather than through planning, so an owner's calendar depends on inspection scheduling as much as on paperwork. The maximum occupancy a unit may hold is not a number the owner sets: the fire department supplies it after a passed inspection, and the owner must post it inside the unit. What the Aqua declaration itself permits is in no record reached for this page, so obtain it from the association before assuming any particular use.
- Water frontage held in the association's own common parcel
- Recorded as one condominium with a single 2007 year built
- Pier Park retail about a quarter mile northwest
- Every recorded unit parcel seaward of the coastal control line
- Velocity flood zone across the seaward part of the site
Live Inventory
Active Listings at Aqua Resort

$579,000
15625 Front Beach Road Unit 2006
Panama City Beach, FL 32413

$734,000
15625 Front Beach Road Unit 1004
Panama City Beach, FL 32413
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
Aqua Resort FAQ
Does this building own the ground it sits on down to the water?
The state parcel layer returns a common area of about 2.67 acres titled to Aqua Condominium that runs south across the 1997 coastal construction control line and meets the water. Frontage here therefore rests on ownership rather than on a recorded easement over an adjoining parcel, which is not the case at every address on this coast. One consequence worth pricing: whatever the association owns beyond that line answers to a state regulator, since the line was drawn under an Environmental Protection rule rather than by any local government.
Was Aqua built in phases?
No. All 233 condominium unit parcels share one legal name and one 2007 year built. Behind them the roll carries a single common area parcel and four small mixed use parcels still titled to the developer, which are recorded at the same address but are not residences and are not counted in the 233. That single vintage is worth knowing on this stretch of Front Beach Road, where several of the larger resorts are recorded as two or three separate condominiums with different completion years.
How far is the Pier Park district on foot?
About a quarter mile. Measured polygon edge to polygon edge, the nearest Pier Park LLC retail holding sits about 1,366 feet northwest of this property's own ground. That is a genuine walk rather than the doorstep adjacency often implied for buildings along this stretch, and the direction is inland rather than along the beach.
Sources
- Florida Department of Revenue: statewide cadastral parcel layer (accessed August 23, 2026)
- Bay County BayView map service: coastal construction control line (accessed August 23, 2026)
- Florida Administrative Code rule 62B-26.024: Bay County coastal construction control line (accessed August 23, 2026)
- Florida Statutes 161.053: coastal construction control lines (accessed August 23, 2026)
- FEMA National Flood Hazard Layer: flood hazard zones (accessed August 23, 2026)
- United States Census Bureau TIGERweb: incorporated place boundaries (accessed August 23, 2026)
- Florida Statutes 718.112: bylaws, budgets and reserves (accessed August 23, 2026)
- City of Panama City Beach: short-term rental registration (accessed August 23, 2026)
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