Palm Coast, Florida
A house you are not living in still has a lawn that grows, a roof in the sun, and a canal or a stand of pines out back. Home watch photos and drone video show you the outside of yours from wherever you spend the season.
Palm Coast is the largest city in Flagler County, and it was planned before it was built: long runs of quiet residential streets, a few main parkways, and houses that mostly sit on one level. That makes it an easy place to own from far away, right up to the week something outside needs attention and you are a thousand miles from the driveway.
East of I-95
The canal streets are on the east side of the city, where many houses back onto water that connects to the Intracoastal Waterway. From the street a house shows its front; the seawall, the dock and the back yard all face the canal.
Full Property and Drone take in the water side. Front View shows the street side.
West of I-95
Across the interstate, the lots tend to be larger and greener, with tall pines and oaks and some houses set farther from the road. Limbs, needles and leaf litter are what change most between one visit and the next.
Front View suits most of these streets. Drone shows a whole wooded lot at once.
The months you miss are the ones when a Florida lawn grows fastest and summer storms roll through on many afternoons. A monthly visit while you are gone, plus one on each side of any named storm, is a rhythm that suits a summer away.
Afternoon rain arrives most days from June into September, and a lawn left alone for three weeks in that stretch can look as if it was left for three months.
01 / From the street
The front of your home from the public street and sidewalk: the roof line, the lawn, the driveway and the front door as the street sees them.
02 / On the grounds
Photos of the outside all around from the open grounds, canal side included: the seawall, the dock, the back lawn and the screens of the lanai and pool cage.
03 / From the air
One aerial video framed on your lot: the roof, the canal or the pines behind the house, and the street in front.
The saltwater canals of Palm Harbor, the Intracoastal edge at Grand Haven, the long residential streets of Pine Lakes and Indian Trails, and the wooded sections off Belle Terre Parkway and Matanzas Woods Parkway: a visit works the same way in each.
Palm Coast photo visit guide Every Flagler County town we serve
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Owning a Palm Coast canal home from far away: what salt water does to seawalls, docks and lifts, and how photos and drone video show the water side.
Palm Coast home watch photos and drone video, on FlaglerPropertyWatch.com.