Dunbar house prices

How to read Dunbar price data

Published averages tell you about the mix of property that happened to sell, not about your home. A quarter with three villa sales will show a higher average than a quarter of one-bedroom flats on the same streets, with no change in underlying values.

The figures on this page are taken directly from ESPC market reports and Registers of Scotland House Price Statistics, with the period and publication date shown. Where we have no verified figure for Dunbar, we show nothing rather than an estimate.

What sellers in Dunbar need to know

Dunbar's market is shaped by the station. A direct service to Edinburgh and onward to Newcastle brings buyers who work in the city but want coastal living, and the difference between a ten-minute walk to the platform and a fifteen-minute drive shows up in offers.

The town has absorbed a lot of new housing, which means resale sellers are usually competing with a developer somewhere in the same postcode. That competition is beatable — a resale house is available now, is landscaped, and has floor coverings — but only if the marketing states those advantages rather than assuming them.

Coastal exposure is a genuine survey issue here. Render, roof condition and window frames on seafront property should be looked at before the Home Report inspection rather than argued about afterwards.

What kind of property sells in Dunbar?

How should I prepare a Dunbar home for sale?

• Instruct the Home Report before you market. Outside Edinburgh the buyer pool is smaller and more deliberate, and a property that cannot be viewed and offered on in the same week loses momentum.
• Fix the approach: driveway, fencing, front garden and the front door. Beyond the city, most buyers arrive by car and form a view before they are out of it.
• Find the paperwork for any extension, conversion or new boiler now — building warrant, completion certificate, gas certificate. Missing documents stall Scottish sales after acceptance far more often than surveys do.
• State the commute honestly in the marketing: the station, the service and the realistic door-to-door time. Vague claims get checked, and checked claims lose viewings.

About Dunbar

Dunbar sits on the East Lothian coast twenty-nine miles from Edinburgh, with two harbours, Dunbar Grammar, Belhaven beach and a main-line station.

Dunbar seller questions

Where do the Dunbar house price figures come from?

Recorded sale prices for EH42 and the surrounding East Lothian streets, published by the Registers of Scotland and updated as each period is confirmed. We publish the source and the period alongside every figure, and we do not adjust the numbers.

Why is the average Dunbar price different from what my home is worth?

An average blends every property type sold in the period, so it moves with the mix of flats and houses as much as with the market. Condition, floor level, outlook and the state of the common parts move an individual Dunbar property well away from the average in either direction.