Heron Walk Condos for Sale

About Heron Walk

Heron Walk keeps Sandestin at ground level rather than in the air. Residences meet the grounds directly, reached by stairs rather than elevator lobbies, with lawns in place of parking decks, which is a different proposition from the towers on the resort's gulf half. Walton County's assessment roll carries forty condominium parcels under the name, addressed 8960 through 8999 along the east and west arms of Heron Walk Drive, together with three parcels of common ground titled to the owners association itself. Height is the one dimension this page leaves unstated: no agency source publishes a story count here, and the federal structure inventory disagrees with the figure listing copy repeats, so we decline to settle it rather than pick a side. The water at the edge of the grounds is Horseshoe Bayou, which the federal names register lists as a bay feature in Walton County. The open reach of Choctawhatchee Bay lies farther north again, and the resort's Gulf shore is close to a mile south, so an outlook from these buildings is a bayou outlook rather than a bay one. Views differ building to building and are worth confirming for a specific residence. Flood mapping here is uniform in the way that matters and precise in a way it is easy to overstate. The effective federal map places every parcel inside Zone AE, the special flood hazard area, with no parcel escaping it and none carrying the coastal V designation. The mapped base flood elevation across the community is eight to nine feet, and the line between those two runs through the grounds rather than around them, so which figure applies to a particular residence is a question for the map read at that address rather than something this page can settle building by building. What is worth knowing is the uniformity of the zone itself: other communities on this side of the resort split between the special flood hazard area, the reduced-risk band and minimal hazard within a single address, which changes what insurance costs from one unit to the next. That does not happen here. Vintage sets the rest of the work. The owners association was chartered in October 1984, and a community of that age turns on its renovation and exterior project record, which deserves reading alongside the association's own budget and the separate master assessment. Recorded phases carry their own document sets, so establishing which phase a residence belongs to comes before comparing dues or rules.

• Forty condominium parcels across three phases
• Every parcel in FEMA Zone AE, mapped at eight to nine feet
• Two pools operated by the master association
• Horseshoe Bayou at the community's edge