{"id":257329,"date":"2025-07-11T22:33:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T22:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/257329\/"},"modified":"2025-07-11T22:33:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T22:33:10","slug":"two-of-the-best-seaside-towns-in-britain-to-move-to-in-2025-are-near-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/257329\/","title":{"rendered":"Two of the Best Seaside Towns in Britain To Move To in 2025 Are Near London"},"content":{"rendered":"

Is this\u00a0weather making you\u00a0want to pack up all your belongings,\u00a0get out of the city and\u00a0set up in\u00a0a cute little place on the coast? We can\u2019t blame you. But, of course, we know that London, with its fantastic food scene and world-class culture, is a hard place to leave behind completely. So, a seaside town that\u2019s\u00a0within easy reach of the capital would be the dream.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Luckily, the UK is a relatively tiny island and those places do in fact exist. And two of them made it onto the Times<\/a>\u2019\u00a0list of the best seaside towns to move to in 2025. Here\u2019s where you can get the\u00a0best of both worlds.\u00a0<\/p>\n

First up \u2013 Hove<\/strong>. The\u00a0Times\u00a0describes this East Sussex town as\u00a0\u2018far less crowded and chaotic than Brighton<\/a> with its relentless stream of boozy day-trippers\u2019, but says that Hove\u2019s food scene is beginning to rival that of its more popular neighbour. Locals here can easily get to London Victoria in little under an hour, so there\u2019s no need to quit your city job.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The only downside? Hove is\u00a0pretty spenny. The average house price in\u00a0the area is \u00a3547,063, with seafront apartments costing up to \u00a31 million.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Hove
\nPhotograph: cktravels.com \/ Shutterstock.com <\/p>\n

The other highly desirable seaside town near London\u00a0was\u00a0Deal\u00a0<\/strong>in Kent,\u00a0which is just under an hour and a half away. The paper called Deal the \u2018most appealing spot on the Kent coast\u2019, saying: \u2018The browsable high street \u2014 posh and quirky at one end, down to earth at the other \u2014 has everything a high street should, and the town\u2019s sense of community is winning out against the weekenders from London.\u2019<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Times\u00a0said that high demand means houses here aren\u2019t so easy to come by and prices are relatively high (but it\u2019s more affordable than Hove). If you\u2019re tempted to make the move here, you\u2019ll be looking at an average house price of around \u00a3342,000 but, according to the paper, four beds are at least \u00a3700,000.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In\u00a0Time Out\u2019s guide to Deal, local writer Kate Wickers wrote: \u2018Deal\u2019s sedate (yet uplifting) atmosphere that remains its biggest draw\u2019. If you\u2019d rather stay in the city, but still want to check Deal out,\u00a0Kate recommends wandering around the historic Deal Castle, filling your boots at Deal Town Market, getting\u00a0brunch at Deal Pier Kitchen, seeing some art\u00a0at\u00a0Linden Hall Studio and basing yourself\u00a0at The Rose<\/a> hotel. You can see her full list of recommendations here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

See the\u00a0Times\u2019\u00a0full pick of the best coastal towns to move to in 2025 here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Get the latest and greatest from the Big Smoke \u2013 from news and reviews to events and trends. Just\u00a0follow our Time Out London WhatsApp channel<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Stay in the loop: sign up to our\u00a0free Time Out London newsletter<\/a>\u00a0for the best of the city, straight to your inbox.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Is this\u00a0weather making you\u00a0want to pack up all your belongings,\u00a0get out of the city and\u00a0set up in\u00a0a cute…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257330,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5018,3,4],"tags":[748,6419,393,4884,6420,1144,7825,712,6417,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-257329","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-britain","8":"category-uk","9":"category-united-kingdom","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-categories-things-to-do","12":"tag-england","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-news-city-life","15":"tag-northern-ireland","16":"tag-outside-kl-london","17":"tag-scotland","18":"tag-things-to-do","19":"tag-uk","20":"tag-united-kingdom","21":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114836983196421778","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}