Villa Lago Condos for Sale

About Villa Lago

Villa Lago is recorded as a plat rather than as a condominium, and that single fact reorders everything a buyer needs to ask. Walton County's 2025 assessment roll carries 139 lots under the legal description Villa Lago S/D, forty two of which name the book the plat was filed in, book 17, where the only pages the roll names anywhere are 15 and 16; 137 assess as single family residential and two remain vacant. An owner here takes a lot in fee, not a unit and an undivided share, so the condominium statute that governs most addresses behind these gates does not reach this street at all. One more parcel belongs to the picture and is easy to miss, because its legal description begins with the streets rather than with the subdivision name: the roadways and common areas threading these lots are a parcel of their own, carried at 1981 Baytowne Loop and owned by the Sandestin Owners Association, the resort wide body, rather than by any association of this neighborhood's own. The build history is the second surprise. Actual year built on the roll begins in 2007 and continues through 2023, heaviest in 2012 and 2013, with several houses completed inside the last few assessment cycles, which means two neighbors can be separated by fifteen years of building code. Eighty two addresses sit on Baytowne Loop and fifty seven on Boardwalk Drive, and the assessed lot areas total about ten and a third acres, a compact footprint for that many houses. Flood mapping then divides the tract, and it divides individual lots as well as streets. Read across the whole of each lot rather than at one point inside it, the special flood hazard boundary crosses a substantial share of this plat: a single lot can hold ground rated Zone AE at a mapped base flood elevation of seven feet and ground outside the hazard area at the same time, and on one Boardwalk Drive lot two federal test points a few feet apart return the two different answers. Walton County's own flood layer reaches the same reading as the federal one. Both Zone X subtypes appear here as well, and which one a lot returns moves with where the test point falls. The determination belongs to the parcel and never to the neighborhood, and on this plat it may not resolve to one answer even for a single lot, so it is worth pulling the elevation certificate alongside it.

• 139 platted lots recorded as Villa Lago S/D
• Fee lots rather than condominium parcels
• Addresses on Baytowne Loop and Boardwalk Drive
• Special flood hazard boundary crosses individual lots