Anastasia Island: one island, four different ways to live on it.

The island runs from the Bridge of Lions at the north end, where Davis Shores sits directly across the water from downtown, south along A1A through St. Augustine Beach and Butler Beach to Crescent Beach, Summer Haven and Matanzas Inlet. Anastasia State Park holds the northern beach; Fort Matanzas National Monument sits at the southern tip. Two bridges connect it to the mainland, the Bridge of Lions into downtown and the SR-312 bridge to the south.

Three MLS areas cover it: Davis Shores, St. Augustine Beach and Crescent Beach/Summer Haven. The homes shown on this page are every active listing across all three.

Davis Shores is inside the City of St. Augustine, a mid-century neighborhood on filled marsh with a walk to downtown over the Bridge of Lions. It is one of the city’s most loved neighborhoods and one of its lowest. Most of its current listings carry FEMA’s high-risk AE designation, and it flooded in Matthew, Irma, Dorian, Ian and Nicole. The homes that were raised or rebuilt after 2017 are a different purchase from the original slab houses beside them; elevation and flood history are the first two things I pull on any address here. Davis Shores homes for sale

The City of St. Augustine Beach is a separate municipality with its own rules, including its own short-term-rental rules, distinct from the City of St. Augustine’s zone-based limits. It is the island’s commercial and residential center: A1A Beach Boulevard, the pier, the beach-access streets and the condo buildings along the ocean. The island’s spine sits higher than the bayfront, so most of the beach town’s inventory maps to minimal-hazard Zone X even though every island address is in evacuation Zone A. St. Augustine Beach homes for sale

South of the beach town the island thins and quiets. Butler Beach and Crescent Beach are unincorporated county, a mix of oceanfront and ocean-side condos, older cottages and newer houses on the Intracoastal side, in small named enclaves rather than one master plan. Summer Haven, at the inlet, is the most exposed stretch of the island and has taken water in the recent storms. The beach here is the widest and least crowded on the island. Crescent Beach homes for sale

Every address on the island is St. Johns County evacuation Zone A, the first zone called in a surge evacuation. The FEMA flood zone is a different fact and varies by street: high-risk on most of Davis Shores and on the Intracoastal side, minimal-hazard on most of the beach town’s spine. The zone decides whether a lender requires flood insurance; the elevation certificate and the home’s history decide what it costs. Both ride on every listing on this site, and the flood-zone page below shows the live mix by place. St. Augustine flood zones, neighborhood by neighborhood