A renovated 2005 house at 11 S Lake Bridge Ln, in the Watersound community of Inlet Beach, sold for $6.2 million, the highest-priced home sale publicly reported in the Crestview, Florida metro area for the week of August 10 through August 16, 2026. The five leading sales RealtyWire tracked across the metro area that week combined for $21.90 million.
Santa Rosa Beach carries three addresses on this week’s list, all of them inside the Watercolor community, while the leading sale sits in Inlet Beach and the No. 4 closing in Miramar Beach. Build years run from 2005 to 2024, and the group takes in a Gulf-view house topped by a rooftop observation deck, two residences completed in 2024 and a golf-course home at Sandestin Golf & Beach Resort.
No. 1 — $6,200,000 · 11 S Lake Bridge Ln, Inlet Beach, Florida
The metro area’s highest reported sale of the week was 11 S Lake Bridge Ln, a four-bedroom house in the Watersound community of Inlet Beach that sold for $6,200,000. Built in 2005 and recently renovated, it carries a reported 3,082 square feet and stands steps from the community dock and a private beach access, with views over Camp Creek Lake, a coastal dune lake, and the Gulf.
Listing materials identify Ashley Gilbreath as the designer behind the renovated interiors. The main level sits upstairs, where cypress cathedral ceilings and a fireplace anchor the open living and dining rooms and NanaWall doors fold back to a partially covered balcony above the water. The kitchen is built around a six-burner range under a brass-strapped hood, a reclaimed antique island and a waterfall-edge peninsula, with the primary suite on the same floor under a vaulted ceiling.
A loft-style study on the third floor looks down on the rooms below, and the rooftop observation deck above it takes in water views at sunrise and sunset. The courtyard, screened by native landscaping, was built around a new pool with a tanning ledge and ipe decking and a covered outdoor kitchen, while the first floor adds a flexible bunk room that opens through a second set of NanaWall doors, a guest suite and two garage bays.
Miriam Dillon Team of Rosemary Beach Realty LLC was the listing agent. The sale closed on August 13, 2026, putting the team at the listing side of the No. 1 transaction in RealtyWire’s Crestview Metro Area Top 5 for the week ending August 16, 2026. The property previously changed hands for $5,600,000 in 2022. Leighann Nash of Engel & Voelkers 30A Beaches represented the buyer.
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No. 2 — $6,000,000 · 81 Watercolor Blvd W, Santa Rosa Beach, Florida
The No. 2 sale, at $6,000,000, was 81 Watercolor Blvd W in Santa Rosa Beach, a 2007 house of six bedrooms and a reported 4,374 square feet in the Watercolor community. The sale closed August 10, 2026.
Detailed listing remarks were not available for this property, so the record here rests on the transaction and the home’s own history: it previously changed hands for $4,900,000 in 2025.
Spears Group of Compass was the listing agent. The $6,000,000 closing placed the group at the listing side of the second-highest reported home sale in the metro area for the week, and at No. 2 in RealtyWire’s Crestview Metro Area Top 5 for the week ending August 16, 2026.
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No. 3 — $3,800,000 · 58 String Lily Cv, Santa Rosa Beach, Florida
A residence completed in 2024 at 58 String Lily Cv took the No. 3 position at $3,800,000. Listing materials identify Greg Jazayeri as the architect, Borges Brooks as the builder and Kaitlyn Tiller of Kalon Home as the designer of the four-bedroom house, whose reported square footage is 3,516. Cathedral ceilings with exposed beams rise more than 20 feet above the main rooms, over hardwood floors that run through an open living, dining and kitchen plan.
A Sub-Zero refrigerator and a Wolf range anchor the kitchen, alongside custom Smithart cabinetry and a butler’s pantry, and the living room opens onto a screened porch with a second fireplace and an outdoor grill. Each bedroom is arranged as a private suite, the floor above adds two porches, a family game room and a bunk room, and the house carries a whole-house water purification system with demineralization at the kitchen faucet.
Randy Carroll and Blake C Jones of Scenic Sotheby’s International Realty were the listing agents. The closing was dated August 10, 2026, and the sale ranked No. 3 in RealtyWire’s Crestview Metro Area Top 5 for the week. The property previously changed hands for $860,000 in 2021, before the current residence was completed in 2024. Clint J Taylor of Scenic Sotheby’s International Realty represented the buyer.
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No. 4 — $3,250,000 · 1472 Baytowne Ave E, Miramar Beach, Florida
A custom house completed in 2024 inside Sandestin Golf & Beach Resort sold on August 14, 2026 for $3,250,000. The four-bedroom residence at 1472 Baytowne Ave E in Miramar Beach carries a reported 3,497 square feet and stands near the 16th tee of the Raven Golf Course, on a homesite raised roughly three to four feet above the properties around it. Accordion glass doors open the main rooms onto a courtyard with an oversized pool, a spa sized for 10, an outdoor kitchen and two porcelain-tiled decks facing the course.
Inside are engineered hardwood floors, custom Marquis cabinetry, a kitchen with an oversized island and a wine refrigerator, motorized window shades and a fireplace. The build details run to a rubberized exterior moisture barrier, threaded rebar reinforcement, 36-inch roof overhangs, integrally colored stucco, a standby generator and an insulated 24-by-34-foot garage with epoxy flooring.
Michael P Bell of Compass was the listing agent. The property went under contract 9 days after the current listing date, and the closing ranked No. 4 in RealtyWire’s Crestview Metro Area Top 5 for the week ending August 16, 2026; Compass also held the listing on the week’s No. 2 sale. The property previously changed hands for $500,000 in 2021, before the current residence was completed in 2024. Shannyn P Stevenson of Newman Dailey Resort Properties represented the buyer.
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No. 5 — $2,650,000 · 277 Pine Needle Way, Santa Rosa Beach, Florida
The fifth sale, at $2,650,000, is a 2010 house at 277 Pine Needle Way in the Forest District of Watercolor, set on an oversized lot beside a nature preserve. Four bedrooms and four and a half baths are laid out across a reported 2,518 square feet, with two bedrooms on the main floor, a reading nook, an upstairs loft and two more en suite bedrooms above. A front porch faces the street and a screened back porch sits among the pines.
The house sold fully furnished and turnkey, and the oversized lot leaves room to add a garage with a carriage house and a pool. Watercolor residents have access to nine community pools and a private beach club.
Nikita Korkh and Karen M Holder of EXP Realty LLC were the listing agents. The sale closed August 14, 2026 and completed RealtyWire’s Crestview Metro Area Top 5 for the week ending August 16, 2026. The property previously changed hands for $2,570,000 in 2023. Destin K Holland of Scenic Sotheby’s International Realty represented the buyer.
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RealtyWire selected these transactions from publicly reported residential sales identified for the calendar week ending Sunday, August 16, 2026. The report may exclude private, off-market, delayed or nondisclosed transactions. Prices, property details and professional representation are reported as available at publication and may be updated following confirmation from transaction participants.
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