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The Sun
02-07-2025
- The Sun
Charming seaside town with huge sandy beach named the cheapest place to buy a house by the sea in the UK
THE most and least expensive seaside destinations to buy a house have been revealed - and the cheapest place is a charming town in Scotland. The town of Saltcoats in Ayrshire is officially the cheapest place by the sea to buy a house, according to Rightmove. 5 5 Saltcoats is known for having soft sandy beaches and beautiful sunsets over the Firth of Clyde sea front. The town was given its name from when it made its money by harvesting salt from the seawater. Saltcoats Beach was even picked as a top coastal spot by Sun readers last year. One happy beach goer wrote on Tripadvisor: "We loved this beach, beautiful sunsets and our dogs allowed to run around freely. Would recommend." Another added: "Saltcoats is a great wee place lovely sandy beach for children and dog to play, smashing views to Arran also good for cycling." Saltcoats is also very close to Scotland's Glasgow and can be reached in under an hour with Scotrail. So it's a great seaside stop to have whilst on a trip to the city. Saltcoats is the cheapest seaside location to buy a house with the average asking price of a house being £122,208 – which is over £250,000 below the national average. Saltcoats is experiencing the fastest price growth of any coastal area, with the average asking price up 13 per cent compared to last year. Just up the road from Saltcoats is Ardrossan, where there's a historical castle that sits on a hill over the town. Scotland's Cheapest & Most Expensive Coastal Towns 5 5 It dates back to the fifteenth century and you can still see its ruins. Ardossan's South Beach offers free deckchair hire through their Community Deckchair Project which is great for a sit down on a sunny day. Across the bay is the Isle of Arran which one Sun writer described as being 'Scotland in Miniature'. The little island has mountains, rolling hills and even more sandy beaches. There's even a new sauna on the island called Stonethrow which is right on the sand and is great for having a steam before plunging into the chilly water. As for other popular beach towns to visit, Which? recently revealed the UK's best seaside destinations with the likes of Bamburgh, Beer and Sidmouth making the top 10. While Sun reader favourite Bognor Regis was the least favourite - but here's why we think it's one of the best. Plus, our favourite seaside towns that are less than 90 minutes from London with Banksy art and award-winning beaches. And the pretty historic city near two popular beaches is just 90 minutes from London.
Yahoo
02-07-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Britain's priciest and most affordable seaside property hotspots
Poole in Dorset has been identified as the most expensive seaside property location in Britain by housing platform Rightmove, which ranked coastal houses for sale by average asking price. The average asking price of a pied-a-terre in Sandbanks, Poole, would set you back almost £1.3m, the data showed. It's the only coastal spot on the list with an average asking price of more than £1m. A close second was Canford Cliffs — also in Poole. Both locations are cheaper now than they were a year ago. Meanwhile, properties in Milford-on-Sea in Hampshire clocked average asking prices of nearly three-quarters of a million pounds. It was one of the only places in the top 10 that hadn't decreased in value on an annual basis. Read more: 10 sporting homes with outdoor courts Seaside homes in Devon also swept the top 10 list, with Dartmouth, Sidmouth and Budleigh Salterton all making an appearance, though costing considerably less than the table-toppers. Rightmove also laid out the most affordable seaside locations for buyers. Saltcoats in Ayrshire, Scotland, took first place in that list with average prices of just 10% of the value of properties in Sandbanks. That was even after houses on the Scottish coast had gained value in double digits since the same time a year ago. On average, Saltcoats homes will set a buyer back around £122,208 — up 13% from the same point in 2024. Coastal dwellings in the north of England were also singled out as costing less on average. Peterlee in County Durham, Ashington in Northumberland and Bootle in Merseyside were among the most affordable locales. The latest data from Nationwide shows that buying a home in the UK became slightly more affordable in June. British house prices unexpectedly fell by an average of 0.8% amid signs of a slowdown in the property sector after the end of a stamp duty holiday earlier in the year. Across the UK, the average house price in June was £271,619. Regionally, Northern Ireland remained the strongest performer, though it did see a slowing in annual price growth to 9.7%, from 13.5% in the first quarter. An average house there came in at £208,686. Scotland recorded a 4.5% annual rise to £189,259, while Wales saw a 2.6% increase to £212,969. Average property prices in England as a whole climbed 2.5% to £309,570, a slight softening from the 3.3% annual rise seen last quarter. Read more: 8 homes with film and TV links "The north-south divide in house price performance narrowed during the quarter," said Robert Gardner, Nationwide's chief economist. "Average prices in Northern England (comprising North, North West, Yorkshire & The Humber, East Midlands and West Midlands) were up 3.1% year on year, whilst those in Southern England (South West, Outer South East, Outer Metropolitan, London and East Anglia) were up 2.2%." Sandbanks, Poole - £1,282,565 (-3% YoY) Canford Cliffs, Poole - £974,635 (-9% YoY) Milford-on-Sea, Hampshire - £728,460 (+1% YoY) Lymington, Hampshire - £639,316 (-2% YoY) Budleigh Salterton, Devon - £535,761 (0% YoY) St. Ives, Cornwall - £507,139 (-2% YoY) Dartmouth, Devon - £500,006 (+4% YoY) Sidmouth, Devon - £494,811 (-5% YoY) Whitstable, Kent - £469,586 (-2% YoY) Hythe, Kent - £466,898 (0% YoY) Saltcoats, Ayrshire - £122,208 (+13% YoY) Peterlee, County Durham - £122,246 (+6% YoY) Ashington, Northumberland - £135,050 (+4% YoY) Bootle, Merseyside - £135,208 (+3% YoY) Grimsby, Lincolnshire - £142,072 (0% YoY) Blackpool, Lancashire - £142,804 (0% YoY) Fleetwood, Lancashire - £148,101 (+1% YoY) Birkenhead, Merseyside - £149,527 (+2% YoY) Blyth, Northumberland - £153,487 (+1% YoY) Workington, Cumbria - £158,956 (0% YoY)Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
