In the showy harbourside enclave of Sandbanks, in Dorset, properties regularly go for upward of £7 million; one bungalow there recently sold for £13 million. Footballers and screen stars call it home. But there are two things money can’t buy when it comes to Sandbanks: sunshine and style.
It’s a desperately cramped, traffic-ridden place
Estate agents like to claim that Sandbanks is ‘Britain’s Palm Beach’, but on a rainy Thursday night in October it’s hard to see how. Over the next week, Britain’s priciest seaside community is expected to see a blend of torrential rain, light rain, and partial sunshine at temperatures roughly on par with those forecast for London.
Some residents claim the outcropping of Poole has its own microclimate. This seems unlikely: after all, it is still England and on the coast, which means plenty of cloud and rain, and very little of the Eden-like weather that drives prices high in other ritzy European harbours.
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