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Watercolor Beachside Condo

1848 E Co Hwy 30A, Watercolor, FL 32459

Walton County · Watercolor

By Josh Parish, Founding Editor · Updated 08/28/2026

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Watercolor Beachside Condo is a Gulf-Front building in Watercolor, FL, built in 2001, standing 3 stories with 22 condos. Short-term rentals are allowed, sale prices fall in the $2.8M–$4.2M band, and on-site amenities include a pool, a fitness center, and tennis courts.

2001
Built
22
Units
3
Stories
Gulf Front
Frontage
Allowed
Rentals
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Amenities
  • —Pool
  • —Fitness
  • —Elevator
  • —Tennis
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Closest by car: private Gulf-front beach; grocery — Publix - WaterColor Crossings (1.2 mi); town center — Seaside Town Center (0.4 mi); hospital — Ascension Sacred Heart Emerald Coast (11 mi); airport — Northwest Florida Beaches Intl (ECP) (21 mi).

Customary Use
Customary Use

Watercolor Beachside Condo sits right on the Gulf. Along this coast, the wet sand below the mean high-water line is always open to the public. Where a beach has been rebuilt with public money, that open stretch can reach farther up, to a marked Erosion Control Line. The dry sand in front of it is private, with no public-use ruling on record. Reflects the public record as of June 2026.

How customary use works on the Emerald Coast →

County and court records. Editorial assessments are the author's own. Not legal advice.

Geographic Overlays
Geographic Overlays
FEMA flood zone (parcel): X
FIRM panel: 12131C0684H, effective 12/30/2020
Coastal Barrier Resources System (CBRS): Outside all three
Coastal Construction Control Line (CCCL): Landward
Evacuation zone: A
Critically eroded shoreline: Critical. Florida DEP designates the Seagrove Beach shoreline (R78 to R98) as critically eroded — the state's term for a beach where erosion now threatens buildings, roads, parks or habitat. A restored beach keeps that designation so it stays eligible for state money to maintain it. WaterColor and Seaside sit landward of the control line and were added to this segment so the federal project could be managed as one stretch. The nearest point of that stretch sits about 950 feet from this building.
Structural Integrity Reserve Study (SIRS): Not in the DBPR dataset (as of 07/31/2026).
A structural integrity reserve study is a state-required engineering study of a building's big-ticket parts and the money set aside to replace them.
Florida law requires a structural integrity reserve study at least every 10 years for each residential condominium building three habitable stories or higher. Section 718.112(2)(g)1., Florida Statutes (2025).
Source: Florida DBPR SIRS Reporting Database (D7) — pre-July-2025 + July-2025-and-after lists, searched 2026-07-31 · as of 07/31/2026
Source: FEMA NFHL (https://hazards.fema.gov/arcgis/rest/services/public/NFHL/MapServer) layer 28 Flood Hazard Zones — flood zone, SFHA and base flood elevation; layer 3 FIRM Panels — FIRM panel and effective date. USFWS/USGS CBRS Mapper (https://gis1.wim.usgs.gov/server/rest/services/CBRSMapper/CoastalBarrierResourcesSystem/MapServer) layer 3 CBRS Units — CBRS status. Florida DEP (https://ca.dep.state.fl.us/arcgis/rest/services/OpenData/COASTAL_ENV_PERM/MapServer) layer 2 Coastal Construction Control Lines — CCCL position; layer 3 Coastal Critical Erosion Areas — critically eroded shoreline, read against FDEP's Critically Eroded Beaches in Florida, August 2025, in which Okaloosa and Walton were last revised June 2014. Florida DEM (https://services.arcgis.com/3wFbqsFPLeKqOlIK/ArcGIS/rest/services/Evacuation_Zones_20230608/FeatureServer) layer 12 Evacuation_Zones_20240226, last edited 2024-02-26 — evacuation zone. · as of 2026-07-27
County parcel record
Watercolor Beachside Condo — Parcel parcel record
Parcel08/20/2026Walton County · FDOR 2025 · Esri/Maxar
Watercolor Beachside Condo — Block parcel record
Block08/20/2026Walton County · FDOR 2025 · Esri/Maxar
Watercolor Beachside Condo — Area parcel record
Area08/20/2026Walton County · FDOR 2025 · Esri/Maxar
Association & Recorded Documents
Association: WaterColor Beachside Condominium Association, Inc.
Declaration: Declaration of Condominium recorded 09/26/2013, OR Book 2931 Page 4104 (instrument #1254548)
Use Rules
Minimum rental term: No minimum lease term in the Declaration; residential use permitted and leasing is expressly not a Business (Decl. §9.1). Condominium-level use restrictions incorporate the WaterColor Master Declaration use restrictions (§9.3, Exhibit C to the Master Declaration, not in this instrument).
Common Questions

What is the minimum rental term at Watercolor Beachside Condo?

No minimum lease term in the Declaration; residential use permitted and leasing is expressly not a Business (Decl. §9.1). Condominium-level use restrictions incorporate the WaterColor Master Declaration use restrictions (§9.3, Exhibit C to the Master Declaration, not in this instrument). The declaration is the property's recorded rulebook, filed in the county records. Source: Walton County official records, instrument #1254548.

What is the owners association at Watercolor Beachside Condo, and when was its declaration recorded?

The association of record is WaterColor Beachside Condominium Association, Inc. Recorded declaration: Declaration of Condominium recorded 09/26/2013, OR Book 2931 Page 4104 (instrument #1254548). Source: Walton County official records.

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