Property website Zoopla.co.uk, which provides free value estimates and sold prices for every UK home, compiled the Seaside Property League by comparing average home values and property price changes for all UK coastal resorts from 1st June 2008 to 1st June 2009.
Despite seeing values drop 12.9% over the past year, Britain's answer to St Tropez was the clear leader, ahead of scenic Milford on Sea in Hampshire (average £335,030) and golfing hotspot North Berwick in East Lothian (average £293,598).
Woolacombe in Devon was fourth in the league with values of £286,730 whilst the top five was rounded off by Southwold in Suffolk where a working lighthouse, beach huts and an award-winning pier helped the seaside retreat to a current average property value of £285,468.
