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BAYOU WOODS Home Values: What Homes Actually Sell For

Buying here? See Bayou Woods homes for sale and the Bayou Woods community guide (Fort Walton Beach).

BAYOU WOODS (Fort Walton Beach, FL): 4 recorded closings in the 12 months ending 2026-07-25, a 10-year price record, and the year-by-year record — every number from recorded MLS closings, none from an estimate model.

In the current window, sellers accepted a median 95.2% of original asking; the median sale took 42 days (window ending 2026-07-25).

The 10-year recorded price history

Over the recorded series, BAYOU WOODS’s median sold price moved from $169,000 (2012) to $357,612 (12 months ending 2026-07-25) — +112% over that span, with every year’s figure from recorded closings, not a model.

The last decade in BAYOU WOODS, briefly

The recorded series starts in 2012 at $169,000. Against the 2024 peak of $395,000, the current median stands at -9%. Annual sales volume here has ranged from 0 to 8 closings a year (10-yr average 3.9). With roughly 3.9 closings a year, BAYOU WOODS’s medians move in steps, not curves — a handful of unusual sales can swing a year, which is why the sales count sits next to every figure above.

What actually trades here: 100% detached single-family in the current window.

The BAYOU WOODS housing stock, from the live feed

From the live MLS feed as of 2026-07-25: The homes listed or recently sold were built between 1960 and 1962 (median 1960); none of the 3 geocoded listed or recently sold homes sits in a FEMA special flood hazard zone (median elevation 21 ft). See the current BAYOU WOODS listings →

At BAYOU WOODS’s $357,612 median and Okaloosa County’s adopted 12.89 mills (FY2025-26), a home assessed at that price carries roughly $4,610 a year in property tax before exemptions, or about $4,100 with the full Florida homestead exemption — a buyer’s first-year figure; a long-time owner’s Save Our Homes cap can be far lower, which is one reason resale taxes jump at closing. Municipal and special-district millage varies inside the county; see the Okaloosa County tax page.

Selling in BAYOU WOODS right now: what the record says

Current asking prices run a median $365,000 against the $357,612 recorded sold median (+2%) — the gap between what sellers hope and what the record shows. Momentum’s market-heat index for BAYOU WOODS reads 41/100 (computed from DOM, sale-to-list, and absorption; 2020–21 peaked in the 70s here).

Cash bought 0% of recorded BAYOU WOODS sales in the window ending 2026-07 (0 of 4) — a fact worth knowing before assuming every buyer needs an appraisal to close. Asking and recorded sold prices are within a few percent of each other here, so the table above is close to what a BAYOU WOODS buyer will actually pay; the spread on any single home comes down to size, condition and timing.

How BAYOU WOODS compares with its neighbors

Communities buyers shopping BAYOU WOODS are also weighing (nearest by map distance), each on its own recorded 12-month closings. A median well above the neighbors is a ceiling to price against; well below is where the value argument lives.

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