Shortline Lake Estates Homes for Sale

Living in Shortline Lake Estates

The county file uses more than one Shortline Lake label, each under its own parcel series. Series 33-2S-20-33300 is Phase I, with 15 parcels: 14 platted-lot parcels cited to Plat Book 7, page 49, two of which each join two lots, and one portion of a Santa Rosa Plantation lot described by measurements. That plat was filed on August 5, 1987, resubdivides Lots 39 and 40 of the Santa Rosa Plantation Company plat, marks the lake as not included, and notes that the Block A lots are to be platted to the waterline. Series 33-2S-20-33310 is The Cottages, with 39 parcels, 38 of which spell out Plat Book 9, page 44. That plat was filed on September 2, 1992 and draws 39 numbered lots around common area tracts; the county's parcels join lots 28 and 29 and add one parcel described as the common area east of Lot 26, which the county roll lists under a private limited liability company rather than an association. A separate parcel in a neighboring series uses a Phase One lot corner as its starting point. A sale comparison should retain the particular legal wording and parcel ID instead of treating the labels as interchangeable.

Counting by parcel series gives 54 parcel IDs, not the 18 whose legal text spells out the full name, since many lots abbreviate it. Phase I has 15 single-family parcels. The Cottages have 29 single-family, 9 vacant and 1 site-improvement parcel. Those are county record classes, not a house count, and county coding cannot resolve current availability.

The 2026 statewide roll gives Phase I build years of 1989 through 2024 and living areas of 2,182 to 5,358 square feet, on lots with a middle value near half an acre. In The Cottages, 29 parcels are built, from 1992 through 2025, with living areas of 1,203 to 4,566 square feet on lots with a middle value near a quarter acre. Forty-eight county address points fall inside the parcel outlines, all labeled Santa Rosa Beach 32459: Slalom Way (32), Trick Circle (10), Jump Street (5) and Sugar Drive (1). They help match a record and cannot settle mailing treatment, access rights, residency, or the outer line of either phase.

No municipality covers any of the 54 parcels. The county's zoning layer puts them in Conservation Residential, labeled two units per acre (Ordinance 2018-29), and no planning overlay or dune lake protection area reaches them. The Cottages plat states that all roads and drainage within The Cottages are private and not county maintained. The state corporate registry holds a Shortline Lake Estates homeowners association, a nonprofit filed in 1995 and administratively dissolved in October 2002, and the 1987 developer corporation, dissolved in 1995; searches on the Shortline Lake and Cottages of Shortline names found no active association, so responsibility for the private roads has to be traced in recorded documents. Lots 21, 22, 31 and 32 on the western edge of The Cottages are the four that Point Washington State Forest borders, according to the county's copy of the state managed-areas map.

The national water-features map, laid over the county's lot lines, draws a mapped water body across part of 22 parcels, 21 in The Cottages and one in Phase I, from about 3 to 67 percent of a lot, so recorded acreage and dry ground need not match. Measured by share of ground, FEMA's flood map leaves 14 of the 15 Phase I parcels wholly in minimal-hazard Zone X, with about 6 percent of the fifteenth in Zone A. In The Cottages, 4 parcels are clear, 20 are crossed by the Zone A boundary and 15 lie wholly in Zone A, an approximate zone mapped without a base flood elevation. Walton County publishes a form for requesting a base flood elevation where an approximate A Zone has none.

A search by the name Shortline Lake Estates, limited to dwellings in Santa Rosa Beach, found no active listing and ten sold on August 20, 2026; the record does not state the closing window those ten cover. That search follows a name, not a county series or plat, so refresh it and match the parcel before using any sale. Governance, rental terms, amenities, and a complete boundary require documents beyond these map and listing records.