Place County Average house price (end 2005)
Sandbanks, Dorset £531,280
Lymington, Hampshire 318,831
Sidmouth, Devon 255,220
Christchurch, Dorset 246,540
Falmouth, Cornwall 242,483
Swanage, Dorset 238,000
Hythe, Kent 231,249
MoneyWeek 31/3/2006
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What are these prices based on? A 2 bed house or flat?
These are seaside prices. What about the rest of the country?
Please refer to an ealier post I made re Swanage being the 6th most expensive place to live (seaside) and I was shot down in flames because I dared accuse the incomers with their 2nd honmes and retirement dwellings of bumping up the price old news this, well another round of local bashing comming up I suppose, please inform us inbreds when you have finished screwing the prices there might be a cowshed or mud hut left for my kids to buy
Are you seriously telling us house prices have gone up because of a few hundred malevolent people moving to Swanage. Do you really think that it owes nothing to the avalanche of money that has cascaded into the pockets of the middle class in the last 30 or so years. Almost all the increase in spending power has gone to the best off 30% and that leaves them with plenty of cash for second homes in nice places. There is simply too much money chasing too few properties.
For 60 years, ever since the beach was cleared of debris after the war I have taken great pleasure in being able to walk along the beach.
When my children were small we were disconcerted to discover that the new groynes to the north of Ocean Bay were a barrier over which we had to scramble if we were agile enough.
Last year there was such delight when those groynes were breached to enable a survey and we surged through and made it to the foot of the chalk cliffs. We couldn’t believe it when those gaps were plugged.
THEN IMAGINE OUR JOY THIS WINTER!
The fascination of watching the surge of sand upon the beach and the pas des deux of the bulldozers.
The piles being driven into the sand.
We watched with baited breath to see what kind of groynes we were going to have.
Then joy of joys we realised that they were not going to tower over us, nor divide the beach like some Berlin wall.
We could skip and jump along the water, unimpeded.
We could sally forth towards the cliffs without obstruction.
Imagine my despair this month as those groynes have been girdled and braced.
The effort required to cross these monstrous hurdles is quite beyond me.
The simple pleasure of a walk along the beach has disappeared forever for the vast majority of Swanage residents who are too old or too young.
Is this latest addition to the groynes really necessary?
Bit Cheeky this...What private beach? There is no such thing here.
One other thing//How do we start a new subject I can see no way of doing it.
Brian Guy
The Echo reported a house at Sandbanks going on the market at £11.5 million so Swanage still has a little way to go. Perhaps we can entice some football players to move here and push the prices up a bit. Jonathon Ross did nothing at all for house prices.
Better to blame the agents who got the piece in the Telegraph a few weeks ago saying houses were being snapped up around Swanage -- when people here (those looking to buy anyway) know perfectly well they have been sitting around for months, with asking prices being cut. Was interesting the other night to see a programme on tv about how prices in Spain have fallen by 20%, so things don't always go up for ever!
No things dont go up for ever not at my age anyway tehe !
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