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Like to be beside the seaside?
Yorkshire Evening Post
|June 24, 2025
Britain's most expensive coastal towns and cheaper 'hidden gems' revealed
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With its golden beaches and associations with luxury lifestyles, Sandbanks in Dorset has been identified as Britain's most expensive seaside location.
Home buyers wanting to move to Sandbanks will not get much change from £1 million typically, with the average house price sitting at £965,708 last year, according to Lloyds.
The bank said while the average house price in Sandbanks has fallen by 3%, or £33,595, compared with 2023, it still sits at the top of its coastal property league, which is dominated by locations in the South West of England.
Sandbanks is known as a popular location for celebrities, with it array of upscale restaurants and glitzy nightlife.
Salcombe in Devon, with its galleries and boutiques, is second on the Lloyds list, with an average house price of £826,159 in 2024.
Foodie hotspot Padstow in Cornwall is third, with buyers paying £715,974 on average to live there and enjoy the charm of its harbour and seafood scene on a daily basis.
This story is from the June 24, 2025 edition of Yorkshire Evening Post.
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