Community Details at a Glance
Navarre Beach is a Gulf-front community on Santa Rosa Island in Santa Rosa County, reached by the Navarre Causeway and administered by the county rather than an incorporated town. Its defining feature is land tenure: the island is leasehold, owned by Escambia County, leased to Santa Rosa County under a 99-year lease from 1956, and sub-leased to property owners, who hold the structure on leased land and pay county property taxes (per a 2014 Florida Supreme Court ruling). Housing ranges from Gulf-front high-rise condos, many in active vacation-rental programs, to Sound-side condos and single-family and canal-front homes. There is no island-wide HOA and no CDD; each condo building runs its own association. A fee-simple conversion effort backed by the leaseholders association and both counties has advanced in Congress but is not yet law. Public schools are in the Santa Rosa County School District; verify the exact assignment by address.
