Santa Rosa Beach Real Estate

Real Estate in Santa Rosa Beach, Grayton Beach and Scenic Highway 30A

Some of the more charming aspects of northwest Florida are found in the string of beach villages that punctuate the coast between Destin and Panama City Beach. Sunning themselves against the powdery beaches of the Gulf of Mexico these hamlets of angular and colorful homes along old Highway 30A - more Providence than Panhandle - seem almost too clean and perfect to be inhabited.

This almost surreal environment is not an illusion. Towns like Seaside, WaterSound, WaterColor, Grayton Beach and Seacrest Beach are in fact master planned, new urbanistic communities where every detail is blueprinted and the lifestyle flows through a choreograph of shops and avenues. There's more than a little irony that "The Truman Show," a movie about a man who's life is scripted for television, was filmed in Seaside.

Highway 30A Real Estate

The beaches of south walton - a tourist attraction of major proportions. Scenic Hwy 30A is an 18.5 mile stretch Destin and Panama City Beach four state parks, 27 miles of  bicycle/hiking trails, 11 rare coastal dune lakes and 11 beach communities. It's an exciting and eclectic mix of hot Caribbean colors and soft pastels, with architecture to match each beach community's aesthetic theme.  From Old Florida traditional 1- 2 and 3 story grayton beach homes to the cottages of Seaside with white picket fences and pedestrian pathways to the West Indies architectural style of Rosemary Beach with it's exotic wood shuttered sleeping porches and intimate courtyards, woven together by lanes, sand paths and boardwalks.

30A is the birthplace of and is all about New Urbanism, de-emphasizing cars, and anti-sprawl characterized by pedestrian-friendly villages with bustling town squares and houses with inviting front porches and hidden garages.

The Beaches of South Walton Real Estate and Planned Communities