Crystal Bay

Crystal Bay In Grant-Valkaria, Florida

Crystal Bay sits west of US 1 at Senne Road, about eight miles south of Malabar Road. You turn in at the gate, and the first thing you notice is that this does not look like the rest of the town. Sidewalks, curbs, street trees, uniform setbacks. D.R. Horton built it in phases, and the plat book records Crystal Bay, Phase One and its replat, Phase Two and Phase Three. Waterfall Place is the main entry drive.

Houses run 1,828 to 3,357 square feet, with about 2,034 typical, and were built between 2022 and 2025. Roughly half are single story and half are two. Everything is concrete block with stucco and a shingle roof, which is standard D.R. Horton construction and easy to insure. Four and five bedroom plans are common, and most homes have a two car garage, with some three car layouts on the wider lots.

The association dues are quarterly, most commonly $196, with some homes on schedules of $210, $244.50 or $290 depending on phase and lot. That buys a real amenity package: a clubhouse, a community pool, a fitness center, pickleball, bocce, a dog park and grounds maintenance in the common areas, all behind a security gate. Management is handled off site rather than by volunteers, which is unusual for Grant-Valkaria and worth factoring into how the place is run.

The lots are the honest tradeoff. At 0.17 to 0.31 acre, with about 0.19 typical, these are the smallest homesites of anywhere in the town. Grant-Valkaria is a place people move to for two acres and a barn, and Crystal Bay is deliberately the opposite: compact, serviced, walkable within the gate. Twenty one of the fifty six properties sit on a lake or pond, and lake views are the feature people pay up for here.

Prices run from about $364,990 to $589,620 with $399,999 typical, or roughly $186 a square foot. That is the lowest entry point in Grant-Valkaria by a wide margin, and it is why the community fills a specific role: newer construction, public utilities, a real amenity list and no well or septic to inspect, in a town where almost every other address has all three of those things reversed.