Seacrest Beach's Real Rental Numbers — And Their Limits
Most 30A neighborhood pitches for a rental return borrow a zip-code average and call it neighborhood-specific, because almost no analytics platform breaks these small communities out individually. Seacrest Beach is a genuine exception: AirROI publishes a market page built specifically around Seacrest Beach, not a blended Santa Rosa Beach or South Walton figure, and we fetched it directly and re-checked it rather than repeating a number secondhand. That's real data worth taking seriously — and, given how badly the major portals mangle this community's own name and location (documented on this site's Seacrest Beach guide), also data worth being precise about what it does and doesn't establish. Here's what's actually on the page, what one figure on it needs a specific caveat, and why none of it turns into a projected return for any address.
AirROI's Seacrest-Beach-Specific Page: 357 Listings, 41.7% Occupancy, $642 ADR
AirROI's dedicated Seacrest Beach, Florida market page reports trailing-twelve-month figures for the period July 2025 through June 2026: 357 active listings, 41.7% occupancy, a $642 average daily rate, $269 RevPAR, roughly $74,647 in average annual revenue per listing, and 10.1% year-over-year revenue growth. We fetched this page directly, and on a second, independent re-fetch in the same research session, every one of those headline figures came back identical — active listings, occupancy, ADR, RevPAR, average annual revenue, and the YoY growth rate all matched across both pulls. That consistency is itself worth noting: this is a genuinely Seacrest-Beach-scoped dataset, not a rounded restatement of a wider Walton County or 32461 zip-code figure of the kind several neighboring 30A communities' pages rely on when no better data exists.
Read the number for what it is: an average across 357 active listings, not a promise about any single property. A $642 ADR paired with 41.7% occupancy describes a market with real spread — Gulf-front single-family homes and smaller condo units both feed into that pool, and a market-wide average doesn't show you that distribution. It's also a single trailing-twelve-month window, not a multi-year track record; 30A short-term rental demand moves with gas prices, storm seasons, and interest rates, so treat this as the best available market context for Seacrest Beach specifically, not as a forecast for a property you're evaluating.
Who Is Actually Renting Here: Superhosts, Professional Managers, and an All-Entire-Home Market
Beyond the headline rate and occupancy figures, AirROI's page reports that 51.5% of Seacrest Beach's active listings carry Superhost status, 64.7% are professionally managed rather than self-managed, and 100% are entire-home listings — no shared rooms or partial units in the mix at all. Houses make up 58.8% of that inventory, with the balance in condos and other property types. Taken together, this reads as a mature, largely professionalized short-term rental market: a majority-professionally-managed supply with more than half its hosts already at Superhost status suggests a market where casual, first-time hosts are competing against operators who already know how to run a listing here, not an undiscovered niche with room to coast on novelty.
That has a practical implication for anyone buying with rental income in mind: the 64.7% professionally-managed figure means a large share of your actual competition for bookings isn't an individual owner renting out a spare property — it's a management company running pricing, photography, and guest communication as a business. A newly purchased property competing on the open market here is competing against that baseline, not against an empty field.
The 69.5% "30+ Night Minimum Stay" Figure: A Flag, Not a Confirmed Fact About How People Actually Rent Here
AirROI's minimum-stay breakdown reports that 69.5% of Seacrest Beach's active listings carry a stated 30-night-or-longer minimum stay, with only 7.8% set at a 1-night minimum and 13.7% at 3 nights. Taken at face value, that would mean most of this inventory is structured around monthly or longer stays rather than the weekly beach-vacation rentals that dominate most 30A marketing — a striking claim for a community whose entire commercial identity, and every other data point on this same page, points toward classic short-term Gulf Coast tourism.
We're flagging this explicitly rather than repeating it as settled fact. A 30+ night minimum stay figure this dominant is more consistent with how a booking platform's search filters or a scraper's listing classification can misread flexible or auto-calendar-blocked availability settings as long-term-only, than with an actual shift in how owners here structure their rental terms — but we could not independently confirm which explanation is correct, and AirROI's page doesn't explain its own methodology for this specific field. Don't assume any specific Seacrest Beach property you're evaluating is locked into 30-night minimums based on this figure alone; check that property's actual current listing terms and its management company's stated minimum-stay policy directly.
One More Open Question: Does AirROI's "Seacrest Beach" Mean the Same Place the Portals Keep Mixing Up?
This site's Seacrest Beach guide already documents a real problem: Redfin files its Seacrest Beach neighborhood page under "Laguna Beach, FL" in Bay County; Zillow shows "Seacrest Beach, FL 32413" (a Bay County zip) and "Inlet Beach, FL 32461" (the real Walton County zip) tagged inconsistently on the same street; Yelp tags a Seacrest Beach association listing as "Panama City Beach"; and Compass runs at least four separate agent-location pages containing the word "Seacrest," only one of which is this Walton County community. AirROI's page is titled simply "Seacrest Beach, Florida" and doesn't itself spell out an exact geographic boundary for its 357-listing pool.
We have no specific evidence that AirROI's figures pull in mistagged Bay County listings — 357 active listings is a plausible count for the real Walton County community on its own, and AirROI's other 30A community pages (WaterSound, Grayton Beach) appear to isolate those markets correctly where checked. But given how consistently the major portals mix up this exact place name across four independent platforms, we're not going to assert a boundary AirROI itself doesn't state. If a listing agent hands you this data to support a specific address, confirm that address is the Walton County Seacrest Beach on CR-30A near Inlet Beach, not a same-named result from somewhere else, before attaching any of these figures to it.
Governance and County Rules Sit Underneath Every One of These Numbers
Seacrest Beach II Owner's Association, Inc. is the single master association for the roughly 78-acre core community, per its own site — a seven-member board, a separate five-member Design Review Board, and professional management. What that same site doesn't publish anywhere is a dues figure or a short-term-rental policy: no rental cap, no minimum-stay rule, no board-approval requirement is stated publicly. Several individual condo buildings inside the community (Waterhouse, Mistral, Arcadia Place, Sand Cliffs, per search-result mentions) likely carry their own sub-associations layered on top, though that hasn't been independently confirmed through Florida's Sunbiz registry. None of AirROI's market-wide numbers tell you whether the specific parcel you're considering is even permitted to operate as a short-term rental under its own association's rules — that has to come from the HOA (or condo association) directly.
Whatever the HOA situation, every Seacrest Beach property also sits within Walton County's South Walton Tourist Development Tax district: a 5% rate on the full rental charge plus non-refundable fees like cleaning or pet charges, in effect since March 1, 2021, per the Walton County Clerk of Courts & Comptroller, stacking on top of Florida's state sales tax. Separately, the county's Short-Term Vacation Rental Registration Program requires anyone renting a property more than three times a year for stays under 30 days to register the structure — a $300 annual fee, a local responsible party reachable 24/7, and prerequisite state-level registrations through the Florida Department of State, Department of Revenue, and DBPR — with reported enforcement (per Mid Bay News) using detection software against unregistered listings and fines running roughly $500 per day. Confirm the HOA's actual rental rules, and that both county and state registrations are current, on any specific property before you rely on it producing rental income at all.
What a Real Number Still Can't Tell You: No Projection Built From This Data
Here's what's sourced and what isn't. Sourced, and independently re-confirmed on a second fetch: a genuinely Seacrest-Beach-specific AirROI dataset covering July 2025-June 2026 (357 active listings, 41.7% occupancy, $642 ADR, $269 RevPAR, ~$74,647 average annual revenue, +10.1% YoY growth, 51.5% Superhosts, 64.7% professionally managed, 100% entire-home). Sourced, but explicitly flagged rather than trusted at face value: the 69.5% 30+-night-minimum-stay figure, which may reflect a data-classification quirk rather than how owners actually rent here, and an unresolved question about whether AirROI's geographic scope could touch a mistagged result the way Redfin, Zillow, Yelp, and Compass all separately do with this community's name. Not sourced, and not something we'll manufacture from real data: a projected occupancy rate, income figure, or return for any specific address. A market average across 357 listings, with real spread between Gulf-front houses and smaller units, is historical market context — not underwriting.
The number you actually need for a specific decision comes from elsewhere: a written rental-income projection (an actual rent roll, not a verbal estimate) from a property manager with real Seacrest Beach inventory, tied to the exact address and its actual current listing terms; confirmation of that parcel's HOA or condo-association rental rules; confirmation that county and state registrations are active; and a CPA's net cash-flow model after Walton County's tax and registration costs, insurance, and any HOA dues. Nothing on this page is legal, tax, or investment advice.
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Get a Free Agent Referral →Independent research. No ads. No sponsored listings. Data sourced from: AirROI's dedicated Seacrest Beach, Florida market page (airroi.com/airbnb-data/united-states/florida/seacrest-beach), fetched directly and independently re-fetched a second time in the same research session to confirm consistency, for trailing-twelve-month (July 2025-June 2026) figures on active listings, occupancy, ADR, RevPAR, average annual revenue, YoY revenue growth, Superhost share, professionally-managed share, entire-home share, property-type mix, and the minimum-stay-length distribution. The 30+-night minimum-stay figure (69.5% of listings) is reported as shown but flagged in this page's text as a possible data-classification artifact rather than confirmed typical rental terms, since AirROI's page doesn't explain its own methodology for that field and it conflicts with every other indicator of a classic short-term vacation rental market on the same page. Seacrest Beach II Owner's Association's own site (seacrestbeachcommunity.com/association/), previously verified on this site's Seacrest Beach hub and 'what nobody tells you' pages, for board structure, Design Review Board, and the absence of any published dues figure or short-term-rental policy; individual condo-building sub-association names (Waterhouse, Mistral, Arcadia Place, Sand Cliffs) come from search-result mentions, not an independent Sunbiz.org read, and remain unconfirmed. The Redfin, Zillow, Yelp, and Compass place-name and geocoding inconsistencies referenced here are documented in full, with direct citations, on this site's Seacrest Beach 'what nobody tells you' page. The Walton County Clerk of Courts & Comptroller's Tourist Development Tax page (waltonclerkfl.gov/touristtax) for the 5% South Walton rate and its March 1, 2021 effective date, and Walton County's Short-Term Vacation Rental Registration Program FAQ (mywaltonfl.gov) plus Mid Bay News' reporting on enforcement and fines, as previously verified on this site's other 30A vacation rental investment guides rather than re-fetched fresh this session. Nothing above is a projected occupancy rate, income figure, or return for any specific Seacrest Beach property, and none should be inferred from the market-wide figures cited. Confirm current HOA and condo-association rules for the specific parcel, county and state registration status, tax rates, and net cash-flow projections with the applicable association, Walton County, a licensed property manager, and a CPA or attorney before purchasing. Nothing on this page is legal, tax, or investment advice.