The Cove Homes for Sale

Living in The Cove

Walton County files this community under the plat name Cove at Santa Rosa, recorded March 26, 2021 in Plat Book 23, page 40. A second recorded reference, a replat at Plat Book 23, page 80, turns up in the legal wording of all ten lots. The county's subdivision headers hold no entry called simply The Cove, so the plat name is the nearest recorded match to the market label. The state registry lists a similarly named corporation, The Cove at Santa Rosa Beach Owners Association, Inc., filed February 17, 2022 and active when checked on October 17, 2026, though nothing loaded here says it is the association for this plat.

The plat is ten single-family lots, five on each side of Carefree Lane West: even house numbers 18 through 58 on the north side, odd numbers 19 through 59 on the south. Lot size stays close to 5,000 square feet (0.115 acre on the county layer) across all ten, and the state roll gives each house a 2022 construction year. Two common-ground pieces of 0.24 and 0.88 acre share one parcel number. Its legal description reads all common areas and private drive as described on the plat, and the roll names Cove at Santa Rosa Owners Assoc Inc as owner of record, a wording that differs from the state registration.

Carefree Lane without the West is another street. It serves Santa Rosa Retreat, a separate ten-lot plat recorded July 31, 2018 in Plat Book 21, page 21, whose nearest corner lies about 70 feet from this one, so a search by street name can return either community. The county's municipal layer places no city over the plat, which makes Santa Rosa Beach a mailing label here, not a city limit. The county address layer carries flood Zone X on all ten lots, with zoning of Low Density Residential, four units per acre, under Ordinance 2018-29.

None of these records shows an assessment, a rule, an amenity, or whether a house may be rented short term; those answers sit in the recorded plat, replat, and declaration. On August 20, 2026, a lookup of the label The Cove in Santa Rosa Beach turned up one active and fourteen closed dwellings. Treat that as a dated name match, not a tally of houses or today's inventory.