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Gulf Breeze Real Estate Buyers can search N.W. Florida Real Estate - Southern Escambia County - Pensacola area MLS RealEstate database and South Santa Rosa County daily for real estate that meets your specific Gulf Breeze Real-Estate criteria. Click on "Find A Home - Property tab" and then on the Type of property you are interested in (New Homes, Waterfront Homes, Condos, etc.) After you find the property you are interested in just click on the red "send me more detail" button to send us a message. We will coordinate with you on the specific property you desire. If you can't find anything using our search engine, give us a call, email, or use the VIP Buyer Program and we will perform a custom search the minute you call or Email if at all possible.

We can design a custom search MLS engine specifically for you (VIP Buyer Program) . You will be emailed the very day or every week anything new shows up that meets your specifications. We can put you on this search engine to search for just about anything including: a Pensacola Beach house, Pensacola river front homes, Gulf Breeze Bay front homes, Gulf Breeze Sound Homes, Gulf Breeze waterfront homes – Just about any Real Estate in the N.W. Florida area or S.E. Gulf Coastal Alabama.

GULF BREEZE REAL ESTATE - WHY CHOOSE US?

By combining my extensive knowledge of business (M.B.A., Finance), my knowledge of the Sea including the waters around the Gulf Coast (U.S. Coast Guard Certified Master [Captain]) and my Real Estate expertise, you will find your search for that perfect place easier. You and I will find that home of your dreams that fits your budget with the least amount of "hassle". Together we can quickly find that home or Property in the Florida Gulf Coast areas of: Gulf Breeze, Tiger Point, Sun Chase, Santa Rosa island, Grassy Point, Santa Rosa Shores, Fort Pickens, Oriole Beach, Holley by the sea, Venetian Isles, Greenbriar Estates, Grande Pointe, Town Point, Deer Point, Sea Breeze, and Sterling Point.

Click on the Below Blue hyperlinks to view (FREE - You Do NOT have to identify yourself) Gulf Breeze homes, Gulf Breeze Pool Homes, Gulf Breeze Waterfront homes, and Gulf Breeze Mansions. These are sorted by price. Take your time and explore. You may also go to the second page of this web site by clicking on "Find a Home - Property" at the top left of the page. Take your time and explore. If you don't find anything to your liking, please call or email us - we'll be happy to assist.

If you aspire to search in the Alabama Gulf Coastal region, we can find it together as I am also licensed in Alabama as well as Florida. Our market area is generally from the Gulf of Mexico Northward to U.S. Hwy 10, from the Eastern shore of Mobile Bay Alabama Westward to Navarre Beach Florida. The Coastal area cities we generally concentrate on are: Gulf Shores Alabama, Orange Beach Al, Ono Island Alabama and in Florida: Perdido Key, Pensacola, Pensacola Beach, Gulf Breeze, Navarre, Navarre Beach, and Santa Rosa island. Let us assist you in your search at NO CHARGE to buyers and VERY competitive rates to sellers of property.

GULF BREEZE FL MARKET AREA:
"Panhandle of Florida"

We are literally surrounded by the warm coastal waters of the Gulf of Mexico to the South with their white sugar sand beaches, extensive Federal Parks (Gulf Islands National Sea Shore), and both Florida and Alabama State Parks. The Intercoastal Water-way winds it’s way between the mainland’s of Florida and Alabama and the Gulf Islands of Gulf Breeze, Pensacola Beach, Perdido Key, Innerarity Island, Ono Island, empting into Bon Secour and Mobile Bay. This area is truly a water-wonderland with the various rivers such as Black Water, Escambia, Perdido, Styx, and Fish empting into the various Bays such as Escambia, Black Water, Perdido, and Mobile. Those of us who love to Fish and boat have found the place of our dreams. You can fish the brackish and fresh protected waters of the intercoastal Bays, rivers, streams, and bayous, or go after the big ones in the Blue Gulf of Mexico waters. If fishing or boating isn’t in your interests, why not sit back and just enjoy the spectacular vistas of a water front home or just have a pleasant water view. Isn’t it time you rewarded yourself and family?

Your cultural cravings are not forgotten in this wonderful area. Starting with the more formal Educational Institutions for the young Adults or the Older among us with Adult enrichment classes at the University of West Florida or the Pensacola Junior College Campuses. For a less structured experience you can enjoy the Saenger Theatre with it’s Plays, Concerts, and operas. We can visit the Pensacola Historical Museum, Civil War Soldier’s Museum, Fort Pickens, Big lagoon State Park, National Museum of Naval Aviation, or watch the U.S. Navy’s Blue Angels hone their incredible skills at their home at NAS Pensacola. Greater Pensacola has about 300,000 residences so it is big enough to keep your mind active but small enough to find that out of the way quiet that all of us enjoy. 

For a little sporting excitement you can go to the Pensacola Greyhound Track or the Five Flags Speedway. The Pensacola Civic Center hosts our Professional hockey team the Pensacola Ice Pilots. There always seems to be a Sailing Regatta sponsored by the Pensacola Yacht Club to join in or just watch from the shore. Inexpensive fishing is always available from the many fishing piers in and around Pensacola and the Alabama Gulf Coast area. With any imagination at all it is impossible to become bored. Come and join the excitement. Come to the United States of America Gulf Coastal areas of Escambia County, Florida (Pensacola) and South Baldwin County, Alabama. If coming from outside the U.S. and security is important, we understand the desire to keep your transactions confidential. Trust us. Gulf Beach Realty will keep your interests and purchases as confidential as legally possible.


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SELLING YOUR REAL ESTATE - WHY CHOOSE US?

As a respected full time real estate Brokers, we are dedicated to providing the best service possible with the least amount of "HASSLE". We are Licensed Real Estate Brokers in both Alabama and Florida so we can work with any realtors and are Qualified as buyers in both states. The key to success is to make sure the public, the 2,600 Pensacola Associations of Realtors (PAR), and the 1,400 Baldwin County Association of Realtors (BCAR), know that you're property is for sale. These 4,000 Realtors will work hard to assist us in selling your property. We will of course use the most advanced state of the art advertising and marketing techniques to attract the Maximum QUALIFIED buyers. You already are using one of our web sites.

This is really a wonderful area. If you are moving we’ll miss you. If you are planning to come-on down, we welcome you. This area is one of the fastest growing areas in real estate in the United States. Prices are still "reasonable." Even beach front condos with an unobstructed ocean view can be purchased for under $600,000! Bay Front, River Front, Sound Front, and Beach Access condos even can be purchased for less! Take a look at California ocean front, Miami or Naples Florida Ocean front condos. Comparisons just show how inexpensive we are! This area still boasts of wonderful inland homes in the $200,000 to $499,000 range. We have wonderful beaches, great climate, friendly folks, and blue waters of the Gulf of Mexico. In this area you can Golf, Swim, Walk, Bike Ride, or just lay on the sand Beaches or in your own Pool. Most of our attractions are within EASY, short drives from your future home. Why not contact us TODAY and start on a great adventure. Use this web site or my other sites to learn all you can. After you are totally satisfied that we are the ones you want to work with, CALL OR EMAIL today! Truly your GULF BREEZE REAL ESTATE BUYS!

GULF BREEZE HISTORY

Gulf Breeze shares the rich history of Pensacola Bay. Shell mounds here date back over one thousand years, evidence of the Native Americans desire for seafood.

1559 - Spaniard Tristan de Luna arrived in Pensacola Bay with 500 soldiers on August 15th. Spanish colonization attempt was abandoned two years later in 1561, defeated by natural disasters (Major Hurricane), diseases and hostile Indians. 

1682 West Florida was from 1682 until 1763 a part of the French colony of Louisiana. At the end of the Seven Years' War, Britain received the Spanish colony of Florida and a portion of the French colony of Louisiana lying between the Mississippi and Perdido rivers and north of Lake Pontchartrain. The British organized this territory into the provinces of East Florida, which consisted of most of the present U.S. state of Florida, and West Florida, bounded by the Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain in the west, by the 31st parallel on the north and the Apalachicola River on the east. The British capital of West Florida was in Pensacola.

1698 Spanish returned in 1698, but transferred all of Florida to the British in 1763. It was the British who named Town Point. British Navy Cove was the area where ships were careened, a process of hauling ships aground on the beach shore to allow the hulls to be inspected scraped free of barnacles. 

15th-19th Century - Europeans arrived again. Built coastal forts to protect settlements.

1767 The British moved the northern boundary to a line extending from the mouth of the Yazoo River east to the Chattahoochee River (32° 28′ north latitude), consisting of approximately the lower third of the present states of Mississippi and Alabama. In the 1783 Treaty of Paris, which ended the American Revolutionary War, the British ceded both Florida provinces back to Spain, but without specifying the boundaries. The Spanish wanted the expanded 1764 boundary, while the United States demanded the old boundary at the 31st parallel. In the Treaty of San Lorenzo of 1795, Spain recognized the 31st parallel as the boundary.

1790s - Ships were built from area strong Live Oak wood. (USS Constitution "Old Ironsides" and USS Constellation)

1800 In the secret Treaty of San Ildefonso of 1800, Spain returned France's Louisiana colony, however the boundaries were not specified. After France sold the Louisiana Purchase to the United States in 1803, another boundary dispute erupted. The United States claimed the territory from the Perdido River to the Mississippi River, which had been a part of the old province of Louisiana when the French had ceded it in 1763. The Spanish insisted that they administered that portion as the province of West Florida and that it was not part of the territory returned to France in 1800.

The boundaries of the Republic of West Florida included all territory south of the 31st parallel, west of the Perdido River, and east of the Mississippi River, but north of Lake Pontchartrain. The southern boundary was of course the Gulf of Mexico. It included the lower portions of what are now Alabama and Mississippi and the Louisiana parishes of East Baton Rouge, East and West Feliciana, Livingston, St. Helena, Tangipahoa, St. Tammany and Washington.

The capital of the Republic of West Florida was St. Francisville. The first governor was Fulwar Skipwith whose great-granddaughter, Leila Lee Roberts, of Staten Island, New York, has donated the original copy of the constitution of the West Florida Republic and supporting papers to the Louisiana State Archives. 

1810 Parts of West Florida were annexed by proclamation of U.S. President James Madison, with possession taken of St. Francisville on December 6, 1810, and of Baton Rouge on December 10, 1810. These portions were incorporated into the newly formed Orleans Territory. 

1812 U.S. annexed the Mobile District of West Florida to the Mississippi Territory. Spain continued to dispute the area, though the United States gradually increased the area it occupied.

1819 Spain ceded all of Florida to the United States in the Adams-Onís Treaty 

1822 United States organized Florida Territory, consisting of most of East Florida a small portion of West Florida.

1822 The Florida Territory was a historic organized territory of the United States from 1822 to 1845. The land was acquired from Spain at a cost of $5 million in the Adams-Onís Treaty. The ceremonies of transfer took place on July 17, 1821 in Pensacola. The United States merged East Florida and West Florida into Florida Territory on March 30, 1822. The act approving Florida as the 27th state was passed on March 3, 1845. 

1824 A road ran through the peninsula all the way to St. Augustine. Part of this road can be traced in the Naval Live Oaks Area of Gulf Islands National Seashore today. President John Quincy Adams authorized Naval Live Oaks, a federal tree farm dedicated to providing live oak timber for U.S. Navy ships, in 1828. The Pensacola Navy Yard dates to 1825, and the Army began building forts to protect the yard and Pensacola Bay in 1829. Beginning with Fort Pickens, the Army built harbor forts off and on through World War II, all of which are within Gulf Islands National Seashore, a unit of the National Park System. Fort Pickens was one of only four forts in the South to be held by the U.S. Army during the entire Civil War. In November of 1861, Union held Fort Pickens exchanged 6000 rounds of cannon fire for two days with Confederates at Fort Barrancas and Fort McRae. Both Confederate held forts were heavily damaged and the Confederates abandoned the area in May of 1862.

1824 - First road built through the peninsula to carry mail from Pensacola to St. Augustine. Part of this road can be traced in the Naval Live Oaks area of Gulf Islands National Seashore today. (See historical marker at intersection of US 98 and Fairpoint Drive.)

1825 - Pensacola Navy Yard designated.

1828 - President John Quincy Adams set aside 1378 acres of live oaks as the first federal tree farm (current Naval Live Oaks-Gulf Islands National Seashore) to assure a continuous supply of the hard Live Oak timber for U.S. Navy shipbuilding.

1829 - The Army began building forts to protect Pensacola Bay from foreign invasion. Harbor forts were built off and on through World War II

1861 - During the Civil War Union-held Fort Pickens, one of only four forts in the South to be held by the U.S. Army during the entire Civil War, exchanged cannon fire for two days with Confederate soldiers at Fort Barrancas and Fort McRae. The latter two forts were heavily damaged, leading the Confederates to abandon the area in May of 1862.

1861-1865 - During the Civil War a Confederate hospital, camp (Camp Ariolla) and lookout tower were built on Deer Point.

1871 - Escambia County Board of Health established a quarantine station on Santa Rosa Island for victims of yellow fever. Ship’s Ballast was unloaded along with the sick, thus the name Ballast Point. 

1925 - Colonel Guy Wyman platted Navarre and named it after his wife's favorite province in northern Spain. Wyman's Navarre property changed hands several times until 1971 when E.H. Pullum bought it and moved his family from Miami.

1928-1931 - First bridge built from Pensacola by Johnson, Drake and Piper Company of Minneapolis, MN.was opened with great fanfare. This concrete drawbridge connected Gulf Breeze to Pensacola until the current bridge replaced it in 1960. The original bridge is now two fishing piers. A concrete drawbridge replaced a wooden bridge to Pensacola Beach built in 1931 in 1951. It, too, is now used for fishing and was replaced by the current bridge built in 1973. 

1931 - U.S. 98 paved through Gulf Breeze.

1933 - First bridge (wooden swing bridge) built to Pensacola Beach. Casino beach resort opened where The Dock now stands. 

1936 - Gulf Breeze traces its name to the Gulf Breeze Cottages and Store, which opened a post office branch in 1936 where Beach Road Plaza now stands. The community began to grow following the opening of the improved bay bridge in 1960, and continues to grow today.

1940 - Benson Complex built, housing a store, gas station and post office.

1947 - Federal government deeded Santa Rosa Island to Escambia County with the provision that the county must keep title to the island public. 

1949 - First church, St. Ann Catholic Church established.

1950 - Bonifay family opened first hardware store on Live Oak Street across from Benson's Complex. Allan Davis Seashells opened a shop next door. 

1951 - Concrete bridge built to Pensacola Beach. (Current fishing pier)

1956 - Gulf Breeze Elementary School built and Shoreline Park area was deeded to the city for public use. 

1957 - Gulf Breeze Volunteer Fire Department took delivery of first fire truck.

1960 - Second bridge from Pensacola to Gulf Breeze built.

1961 - Gulf Breeze incorporated with City Hall located on Hoffman Drive. (SunTrust bank location)

1971 - Gulf Breeze High School built. Gulf Islands National Seashore established. 

1973 - Third bridge from Gulf Breeze to Pensacola Beach built. 

1984 - The Zoo and Botanical Gardens opened.

1985 - Gulf Breeze Hospital opened.

1987 - UFO "sightings" put Gulf Breeze on intergalactic tourist maps.

1988 - Chamber of Commerce established.

1991 - South Santa Rosa Service Center opened serving Gulf Breeze and Navarre. South Santa Rosa Tourist Development Council established by county ordinance with funding through 2% bed tax passed by electorate. 

1995 - Hurricanes Opal and Erin hit area.

1996 - Santa Rosa County began construction on Tiger Point Park, a county recreational park east of Gulf Breeze.

1996 - Pensacola Junior College purchased 80 acres of land (the Rogers family property) on U.S. 98 in Midway for a new campus. 

1999 - Garcon Point Bridge toll bridge opened linking South and North Santa Rosa County providing another evacuation route for peninsula residents.

2000 - Gulf Breeze broke ground for a multi-use trail. When completed, the trail will complete a 40-mile loop through Navarre, Navarre Beach and Pensacola Beach.

2004 – Sept. 16th, Hurricane Ivan hit area causing major beach destruction on Gulf Breeze Real Estate.

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