
Seller's Agent in 2019
SHARON MCAULIFFE
Keller Williams Realty FWB
(850) 797-2505
5 in this area
55 Total Sales
Estimated Value: $820,000 - $1,011,844
Talk about Southern Comfort! Picture yourself in this beautiful custom-built single-owner waterfront home featuring a sandy beach, providing more than enough room for a large family with its 5 bedrooms and 4 baths. Colonnaded porches and balconies lend elegance and outdoor living space to the front and back facades, with gorgeous Choctawhatchee Bay views from the back balcony. Large picture windows everywhere let in an abundance of natural light. The house is freshly painted inside in a soft apricot color that changes with the light from season to season and room to room, transitioning from a creamy beige to yellow to peach. Take a look at the color changes as you look through the photos, or come see for yourself! And don't miss the 3D Walkthrough Virtual Tour under Photos. Continues... As you enter the house, note the decorative glass in the brand new front door and hand-made stained glass in the transom. Well-maintained original hardwood oak flooring lends its warmth throughout most of the house. A wide arched entryway opens to your right into a spacious room that could be either a formal living or a dining room. There is framing in the wall between this room and the kitchen for a doorway, if you want to open it back up.
Walk through to the wide open great room and kitchen, as your gaze rises to the soaring windows in the two-story informal dining area (or breakfast nook) next to the kitchen. The great room features a wood-burning fireplace, newly rebuilt with a contemporary facade echoing the kitchen's decor. Built-in cabinetry provides ready storage, and the entire house is wired for just about any type of entertainment you can imagine. Just off the living room is the first of four full baths, leading through to what would be an ideal guest bedroom at the front of the house, with a door opening to the front entry hall.
The kitchen is a chef's dream! Granite counters, oak cabinetry and contemporary tile backsplashes lend a modern flair to the warm woods and terra cotta color tiles. A full gas range combines with an additional gas wall oven for plenty of space to cook for a crowd. Kids can line up at the breakfast bar in the morning, or for an after school snack before homework. A lovely oak cabinet over the sink, with glass doors facing both the kitchen and the living room, adds an elegant touch.
The spacious master bedroom features a huge bay window, perfect for a relaxing afternoon reading a favorite book. One of the owner's favorite things has been waking to the sun streaming in and watching the changes in the landscape as each year evolves. A huge walk-in closet can accommodate more than enough clothing for two wardrobes, and its walls were specially built to function as a hurricane shelter. The large master bath offers a new 7-foot shower surround and a jetted tub, plus cultured marble dual vanities and a new mirror. All this and a heat lamp, too!
Up the attractive staircase you will find wide balconies on both north and south sides of the house, with spectacular Bay views from the south balcony. There are three additional roomy bedrooms and two more full baths, one with a new tile floor. Be sure to look for the secret hideaway office through a door inside the northwest bedroom's closet! An open area looking out over the informal dining area and through the second-story windows to the Bay offers still more common living space, as well as built-in bookshelves. Add a couple of desks and make it a work space, or whatever else your imagination creates.
The piece de resistance for this 1.09 acre lot is its 85 feet of sandy beach on Choctawhatchee Bay. On your way to the boardwalk just out the back door is a screened-in porch, where you could barbecue rain or shine. Stroll along the boardwalk through the wetland forest and enjoy seasonal cattails or wild blackberries along the way. On summer evenings you can see the fireworks across the Bay in both Destin and Fort Walton Beach. And if you enjoy watersports, you should be able to obtain the necessary permits to build your own dock.
There are so many more features to this house it's hard to describe them all! Lots of built-in cabinetry and shelving. New roof in 2018, brand new microwave, new refrigerator in 2017, Bosch dishwasher in 2015 and washer/dryer (Whirlpool duet, gas dryer with steam function) in 2012. Two geothermal heating/cooling systems that keep your electric bills to an average of $200/month, plus they heat the water in the 75-gallon Phoenix water heater when the AC is running. The upstairs geothermal unit was replaced in 2012, and the downstairs had the coil replaced in 2015. The central vac system was recently serviced and runs great.
Call to make your showing appointment today! Buyers should verify measurements and any other details important to them. Don't miss this fantastic waterfront house at a great price!
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Date | Buyer | Sale Price | Title Company |
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Strayn John David | $660,000 | Old South Land Title |
Date | Status | Borrower | Loan Amount |
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Open | Strayn John David | $420,236 | |
Closed | Strayn John David | $481,837 | |
Closed | Strayn John David | $625,328 | |
Previous Owner | Durbin Ronald C | $34,400 | |
Previous Owner | Durbin Ronald C | $556,300 | |
Previous Owner | Durbin Ronald C | $99,000 | |
Previous Owner | Durbin Ronald C | $395,000 |
Date | Event | Price | Change | Sq Ft Price |
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04/15/2019 04/15/19 | Sold | $660,000 | 0.0% | $225 / Sq Ft |
02/08/2019 02/08/19 | Pending | -- | -- | -- |
01/20/2019 01/20/19 | For Sale | $660,000 | -- | $225 / Sq Ft |
Year | Tax Paid | Tax Assessment Tax Assessment Total Assessment is a certain percentage of the fair market value that is determined by local assessors to be the total taxable value of land and additions on the property. | Land | Improvement |
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2024 | $6,671 | $595,133 | -- | -- |
2023 | $6,671 | $577,799 | $0 | $0 |
2022 | $6,519 | $560,970 | $0 | $0 |
2021 | $6,506 | $544,631 | $0 | $0 |
2020 | $6,457 | $537,111 | $274,550 | $262,561 |
2019 | $4,498 | $381,047 | $0 | $0 |
2018 | $4,459 | $373,942 | $0 | $0 |
2017 | $4,322 | $361,794 | $0 | $0 |
2016 | $4,206 | $354,353 | $0 | $0 |
2015 | $4,241 | $351,890 | $0 | $0 |
2014 | $4,212 | $349,097 | $0 | $0 |
Seller's Agent in 2019
SHARON MCAULIFFE
Keller Williams Realty FWB
(850) 797-2505
5 in this area
55 Total Sales
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Seller Co-Listing Agent in 2019
Tom McAuliffe
Keller Williams Realty FWB
(888) 332-5553
10 in this area
53 Total Sales
Buyer's Agent in 2019
Paula Sherman
ERA American Real Estate
(850) 218-0537
15 in this area
290 Total Sales
Source: Emerald Coast Association of REALTORS®
MLS Number: 814440
APN: 04-2S-23-4750-000B-0090