Life's a Beach: Top 10 Most Spectacular Beach Homes

This influx reaches well beyond the usual locations that typically dominate this list like Hawaii, California and other hot spots on the Pacific coast. But the tides appear to have changed for this year anyway, with the Atlantic boasting six of the ten beach Homes for Sale including three in The Hamptons. Consequently, demand and prices continue to slide as the oceanfront home inventory increases. For example, unfavorable market factors led the owners of the #4  home on this list to trim nearly 50% ($11 million) off of the price tag. However, since these homes offer something that very few homes can match — the ocean at your backdoor — I suspect that the affluent beach home market will be one of the first segments to stabilize, with price increases soon to follow. And no, the taste test wasn't organized by Walmart. Time and again over the last few years, retailers have resorted to big discounts as a reliable means to move merchandise and boost sales figures. In some cases, raising prices is accomplishing the same goal. Homes for Sale