Old Florida Cottages Homes for Sale

Living in Old Florida Cottages

The county records the plat as Emerald Ridge Townhomes, while Old Florida Cottages is the current name of a nonprofit corporation. Florida's registry shows document N95000003003 filed on June 20, 1995, and an amendment filed June 26, 2000 whose entry says the old name was Emerald Ridge Townhomes Homeowners Association. That matching name is the link between the two, and no record cited here states outright which lots the corporation serves. The same history records administrative dissolutions for a missed annual report in September 2001 and September 2016, with reinstatements in March 2003 and April 2017. None of those entries describes dues, rules or common property.

Walton County's header for parcel series 02-3S-20-34162 reads Emerald Ridge Townhomes, recorded in October 1996 in Plat Book 12, page 24. The series draws 39 outlines for only 37 parcel numbers: 36 lots filed under the single-family use code, and one common parcel (its legal text reads all common areas and road) drawn in three pieces. Each lot is drawn at between 1,593 and 2,137 square feet, about an acre and a half in all, and the common parcel takes nearly two acres of a plat that totals about three and a third. The state roll lists that common parcel at only 8,154 square feet, so the drawn outlines carry the acreage here and the roll's land figure does not.

Florida's 2026 roll dates the 36 houses to three years: 22 in 2000, 13 in 1999 and one, Lot 11, in 1997. Living area spreads much wider, from 1,174 to 3,016 square feet with a median of 1,716, and ten of the houses report more living area than lot area. All 36 carry Emerald Dune Circle addresses with a Santa Rosa Beach mailing town and ZIP code 32459. County Highway 30A runs about 215 feet north of the nearest lot corner, measured to the county's road centerline.

Each of the 39 outlines meets exactly one FEMA designation, Zone X, whose map subtype reads minimal flood hazard, and none meets a base flood elevation. A saved MLS search run on August 19, 2026 under the Old Florida Cottages name found 32 sold listings and none active. It carries no closing dates, so it shows neither a sales period nor current availability. These records do not establish assessments, design rules, amenities, access rights or rental terms, which sit in the association's recorded documents and in title work on a given lot.

Two names for one place make sale records easy to misfile, so match each closing in the sales trends for Old Florida Cottages to a parcel number on Emerald Dune Circle. A listing that mentions Old Florida may instead mean Old Florida Village on Hidden Lake Way, and the legal description settles which. Other plats are in the Santa Rosa Beach neighborhood directory, and current homes around town are on the Santa Rosa Beach real estate page.