Sunrise Beach Homes for Sale

Living in Sunrise Beach

Walton County's subdivision header for SUNRISE BEACH S/D carries number 02-3S-20-34200, cites Plat Book 9, page 32, and bears a county review note dated August 20, 1997. A header ties a plat to a run of parcel numbers. It names no lot, owner or house, so a listing still has to be matched to its own parcel number and legal text.

Searching the county roll by that series returns 41 parcels: 39 coded single family, one vacant, and one common-area parcel of about 1.29 acres that covers the plat's streets, easements and rights-of-way, with Sunrise Beach Homeowners Assoc Inc in its owner field. The vacant parcel is Lot 8, and its legal text also describes a private drive between Lots 8 and 9. Legal text runs from Lot 1 to Lot 40; Lots 1 and 40 cite the Sunrise Beach II Replat in Plat Book 20 rather than Plat Book 9, and one record has no owner or legal text at all. Searching by the words Sunrise Beach instead returns 39 parcels, but two are vacant tracts of roughly half an acre from a neighboring series whose legal text only starts at the southeast corner of Lot 8, and four lots are missed because their legal text is spaced oddly or blank.

The statewide property roll, refreshed to the 2026 roll, lists 40 rows under the same parcel prefix: 38 residential (use code 001), one vacant (000) and one common-area (009), all with a Santa Rosa Beach 32459 address in Walton County. It omits the record that has no legal text. Its physical addresses name Seaward Drive on 27 parcels, Daybreak Court on 7 and Sundown Court on 5; the streets parcel is filed under Seward Drive, a spelling no lot uses. The same roll records years built from 1992 through 2002 for 37 of the 38 homes and 2025 for the other.

Walton County's zoning layer labels these parcels Residential Preservation under Ordinance 2018-29, and its mapped neighborhood-plan overlays do not reach them. Laid over FEMA's flood zones, 34 of the 41 parcels sit wholly in Zone X, the minimal-hazard area, while Lots 1 through 7 lie mostly in Zone VE, the coastal high-hazard zone. Mapped base flood elevations of 11, 12 and 15 feet each cross every one of those seven lots, so a single elevation per lot is not supported; FEMA's national layer agrees with the county's. The August 19, 2026 reading of one active listing and 33 closed sales in Santa Rosa Beach came from a search on the Sunrise Beach name alone, so some of those rows may belong to other records that share the words. It has aged and should be rerun before anyone leans on it.