A sea view costs £32,000.

That is what it adds to a typical £230,000 home here: 13.7% more than the same type of home, with the same bedrooms, around the same town. More than 1 in 5 homes for sale has one: 575 of 2,604.

Without a sea view£230k

With one, like for like£262k

Homes with a sea view

£260,000

10 Mount Carmel, Kirn, Dunoon

£260,000

Scarfskerry, Thurso, Highland. KW14 8XN

£260,000

Brisan, Skaill Avenue, Lybster, Highland. KW3 6AL

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Where views are rare

The rarer the view, the more it costs.

Argyll and Bute

+6.7%

for a sea view, where 46.4% of homes for sale have one

Highland

+16%

for a sea view, where 19.7% of homes for sale have one

Sea views on both coasts

£80,000

Burnside Cottage, Lochcarron, IV54 8YD

£58,000

0/2, 8 Argyll Terrace, Kirn, Dunoon

£89,995

1 Gortein, Strathlachlan, Cairndow, PA27 8BU

Side by side

Three coasts compared.

	Argyll and Bute	Highland	Moray
Homes with a sea view	46.4%	19.7%	9.6%
What a view adds, like for like	+6.7%	+16%	Too few homes
Median price with a sea view	£280k	£300k	£250k
Sea views under £150,000	28	35	13
The cheapest sea view	£50k	£80k	£85k

Everywhere, and almost nowhere

Around Portree

80.8%

of homes for sale have a sea view: more than 4 in 5

Around Inverness

4.5%

of homes for sale have a sea view: fewer than 1 in 20

Portree has the most sea views of any town in the index; Inverness, the fewest.

The view from the cheapest sea view home around Portree

£200,000

The cheapest sea view around Portree · 3 bed

Dunoon

A sea view for less than an average home.

A sea view around Dunoon, median£225,000

Any home in the Highlands and Islands, median£245,000

Dunoon has more homes with a sea view for sale than any other town: 58. The cheapest asks £55,000. Oban is the opposite: its sea views ask a median £367,500, against £245,000 for all its homes.

Sea views around Dunoon