The Woods Homes for Sale

Living in The Woods

Walton County files The Woods as two subdivisions. The header for subdivision 27-2S-19-24050 reads The Woods S/D, recorded 09-96 in Plat Book 12, page 23. The header for 34-2S-19-24051 reads The Woods S/D Phase II, recorded 2-24-05 in Plat Book 16, page 54. The two sit side by side and together measure about a quarter mile across and half a mile long.

A county search for the words The Woods in legal descriptions returns 71 records for 68 parcel numbers, but the two series hold 72 records and 69 parcel numbers. The extra number, 34-2S-19-24051-000-0640, is classed single-family and sits among Phase II numbers ending 0470 through 0670, yet it has no legal text or owner name in the county layer, so a name search never finds it. Phase I has 46 lots and a common parcel. Phase II has 21 lots and a common parcel drawn in four pieces, which is why the record count runs ahead of the parcel count. By county class the 67 lots are 54 single-family and 13 vacant, from about 0.50 to 1.82 acres and roughly 52.6 acres in all, against 26.9 acres of common ground.

Phase I and Phase II list different owners for their common ground. Phase I's common parcel, about 15.7 acres whose legal text includes a nature preserve, lists Woods Owners Assoc Inc. Phase II's streets and nature preserves, about 11.2 acres, are listed under Point Washington Estates Owners Association Inc. An owner field does not show what either body charges or governs.

County address points place 56 addresses inside the outlines, all labeled Santa Rosa Beach, 32459, on Woodbriar Drive, Bay Trace, Fern Way, Brookwood Drive, Aviary Lane, Still Oaks Cove, Fern Cove, Ivy Lane and one on Point Washington Road. Many vacant lots have no address point. The county municipal layer is empty here, so both plats lie in unincorporated Walton County. Phase I is zoned Residential Preservation and Phase II Conservation Residential at two units per acre, both under Ordinance 2018-29. No adopted planning overlay reaches either plat, and the county's Point Washington overlays begin roughly half a mile away.

Flood zones differ lot by lot. Measured at an interior point, 40 of The Woods' 67 lots fall in Zone X, with two of those in the shaded 0.2 percent annual chance area. Fifteen read Zone A with no published base flood elevation, 11 read Zone AE at base flood elevations of 7, 8 or 9 feet, and one reads Zone VE. All 12 AE and VE lots are in Phase I, while Phase II has three Zone A lots and otherwise Zone X. FEMA's national layer and Walton County's flood layer gave the same zone at every parcel record, and a lot that crosses a boundary needs its own determination from the county's Floodplain Manager.

Two active homes and ten closed sales turned up when The Woods was searched on August 20, 2026. The search cannot tell a Phase I home from a Phase II one, so keep it as a dated sample, not inventory.