The most expensive place to buy a seaside home

House prices in some of the UK’s best seaside towns have doubled since 2012 - we reveal the most expensive and cheapest places to buy a seaside home.

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Whether you’re looking for a buy-to-let or a holiday home, you may be looking at where the best place to buy right now is. With house prices slowing down, we look at the most expensive and cheapest places to buy a home by the sea.

According to latest data from Halifax, Salcombe in Devon is the most expensive seaside setting in Britain to buy a home, with an average house price of £1,244,025. The town has swapped places with last year’s priciest spot – Sandbanks in Dorset.

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Britain’s most expensive seaside locations
Seaside locationRegionAverage house price 2022
SalcombeSouth West£1,244,025
SandbanksSouth West£952,692
AldeburghEast of England£794,492
PadstowSouth West£790,847
LymingtonSouth East£663,474
YarmouthSouth East£611,816
DartmouthSouth West£567,985
KingsbridgeSouth West£556,659
WadebridgeSouth West£548,669
Budleigh SaltertonSouth West£537,681
Tom Higgins

Tom is a journalist and writer with an interest in sustainability, economic policy and pensions, looking into how personal finances can be used to make a positive impact. He graduated from Goldsmiths, University of London, with a BA in journalism before moving to a financial content agency. 

His work has appeared in titles Investment Week and Money Marketing, as well as social media copy for Reuters and Bloomberg in addition to corporate content for financial giants including Mercer, State Street Global Advisors and the PLSA. He has also written for the  Financial Times Group.

When not working out of the Future’s Cardiff office, Tom can be found exploring the hills and coasts of South Wales but is sometimes east of the border supporting Bristol Rovers.