Southwinds Condos for Sale

About Southwinds

Southwinds is not one condominium and treating it as one is the first mistake available here. Walton County's roll carries 165 parcels in condominium use along Southwinds Drive, and the legal descriptions sort them into three separately recorded filings: Southwinds at Sandestin in the 4400 block with sixty one units, Southwinds II in the 4500 block with fifty, and Southwinds III in the 4600 block with fifty four, the three sets ranged side by side along the shore rather than stacked back from it. The state registry accounts for two of the three. Southwinds at Sandestin Condominium Association, Inc. took its charter on June 7, 1995 and Southwinds III Condominium Association, Inc. on March 4, 1999, both active today; no separately named active corporation for the middle filing appears in the registry, which makes the governing body a question for the documents rather than for the street number. The seaward edge repays the same care. No unit parcel here reaches the water. The ground between the buildings and the beach is recorded to the Southwinds associations themselves and, past them, to a parcel held by the resort's corporate owner. That lines up with what the Sandestin Owners Association publishes about the beach generally: it owns none of the sand and none of the parking that serves it, access runs through easements, and certain stretches are reserved to named communities. A deed here conveys a residence, not a shoreline. The flood map draws the same distinction in its own vocabulary. Read by coverage, which asks what share of each parcel's ground each zone holds rather than which zone a single test point lands in, not one of the 165 unit parcels holds any special flood hazard area ground. Both subtypes of Zone X are present across them, the minimal hazard zone and the shaded two tenths of one percent band, and the boundary between the two runs through a good many of the parcels rather than around them, so no count of residences by subtype appears here. Zone VE, mapped at a base flood elevation of twelve feet, begins on the seaward ground itself, the common area recorded to the Southwinds association and the resort company parcel beyond it, and Zone A reaches parts of that common ground as well. The residences stand behind that line; the ground an owner crosses to reach the water does not.

• Three separately recorded condominiums under one name
• 165 condominium unit parcels along Southwinds Drive
• Every unit parcel mapped outside the flood hazard area
• Frontage parcels held by the associations and the resort company