I like the inside, but I hate beach house towns (DE, NJ) where houses fill the entire lot and you are a few feet away from neighbors. We have a beach house and spend a lot of time outside - having a real yard, not just a concrete slab, is important to me.

Not oceanfront and no walkway to beach

Anonymous wrote:No it’s in Delaware.

+100

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People really need to get out more. There are lots of places in this country where you can get true oceanfront properties on beaches that basically get almost zero people, for much much less than $6 million.

Please share.

https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/439-Atlantic-Ave_Westerly_RI_02891_M41334-02651?from=srp-list-card

https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/25-Fly-Jib-Ct_Jamestown_RI_02835_M44118-52550?from=srp-list-card

https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/491-E-Beach-Rd_Charlestown_RI_02813_M45037-54735?from=srp-list-card

https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/541-Seaside-Dr_Jamestown_RI_02835_M40223-98780?from=srp-list-card

https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/7-Clarkes-Village-Rd_Jamestown_RI_02835_M36546-92577?from=srp-list-card

There are more, but there you have it.

Anonymous wrote:Private beach, huge and new. All it needs is a pool. Gorgeous.

Do you agree? What would you change?

https://www.redfin.com/DE/Bethany-Beach/39889-Bennett-Rd-19930/home/134941644

This is not a private beach.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Uh, enjoy climate change.

You have to be legit mentally ill to buy something on a beach or barrier island.

My parents bought a home in OCNJ over 30 years ago. My dad always said that one day the ocean would reclaim the house.

In any event, at least there's constant maintenance to combat erosion.

Yeah, but that maintenance is getting more and more expensive and laborious and the insurance companies are not going to keep paying much longer. Banks are already pulling back on 30 year mortgages in places like Hilton Head. I'd be very happy to know someone who had a house like that, and if I had a house like that, I'd be planning an exit that left me financially well off enough to continue renting or whatever in the area, but no way would I buy anything significant in that area of Jersey or Delaware.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People really need to get out more. There are lots of places in this country where you can get true oceanfront properties on beaches that basically get almost zero people, for much much less than $6 million.

You need to be careful about the long term prospects. Crowded northern beaches have large tax bases that can dredge and enlarge the beaches. On sparsely populated North Carolina beaches, you have homes falling into the ocean.

This house is going to be leveled by a hurricane in the next 10 years. There will probably be insurance, but this is not the kind of place you should plan to be spending time in 20-25 years.

Delaware or Maryland in General have no private beaches.

Look at Ocean City MD they posted ( 8 million people visited their beaches in 2023).

with tons of hotels and and AIRBnBs and day trippers the whole Rehoboth to Ocean City Stretch is crowded.

Now compare that to Beach Front Dune Road in Hamptons. There are zero chain hotels, handful of small motels or BnBs in area. Airbnb is illegal for stays less than one month. The big stretch on Dune Road is all no parking with no shoulder except a Sand Shoulder you pull over get stuck. No public entrance to beach between houses.

Technically beach is public but only below high water line and you have to walk 2-3 miles from public area to get to a beach in front of you mansion and there are no bathrooms or lifeguards.

Even Joe Bidens multi million home in Rehoboth has no private beach access.

I own a beach place in a town I rather not mention but all our beaches are resident only, we sell zero day passes, they are in non resident parking zones and gated. Need picture ID to enter. It is not private since open to town, but unlike the Delaware beach no riff raft.

Anonymous wrote:Uh, enjoy climate change.

You have to be legit mentally ill to buy something on a beach or barrier island.

My parents bought a home in OCNJ over 30 years ago. My dad always said that one day the ocean would reclaim the house.

In any event, at least there's constant maintenance to combat erosion.

That is definitely not my dream beach house. It’s not actually a beach house, it’s a house near a beach. And for that money they could at least power wash their deck. Hard pass.

Anonymous wrote:People really need to get out more. There are lots of places in this country where you can get true oceanfront properties on beaches that basically get almost zero people, for much much less than $6 million.

You need to be careful about the long term prospects. Crowded northern beaches have large tax bases that can dredge and enlarge the beaches. On sparsely populated North Carolina beaches, you have homes falling into the ocean.

I paid $1.5 for waterfront on the eastern shore 5 years ago, huge pool with deep end and diving board, pier, jet skis (plus lifts), nice neighbors, 1.5 hour drive from DMV (or less).

Anonymous wrote:People really need to get out more. There are lots of places in this country where you can get true oceanfront properties on beaches that basically get almost zero people, for much much less than $6 million.

Please share.

Uh, enjoy climate change.

You have to be legit mentally ill to buy something on a beach or barrier island.

But where else will your high school kids be able to flex on their peers and by extension you flexing on those kids parents in some po dunk town in Florida or South Carolina?