Dear beaches, when a beach house costs less than a sunbed

It sounds like a paradox, but the data is there. Because of the expensive beaches, renting a two-room apartment by the sea can cost less than a monthly subscription for a sunbed. We start from the Altroconsumo numbers. He calculated that this year for our place in the sun – or rather in the shade – we will have to pay 10% more than in 2021 (increase calculated on the week from 31 July to 6 August, making an average of the rows of umbrellas and sunbeds at the beach). Prices are often impressive, almost comparable to those for renting a property. Starting from this consideration, Immobiliare.it, the leading real estate portal in Italy, has decided to analyze the costs of two-room apartments for rent in the most famous seaside resorts and of which the average prices of umbrellas and sunbeds have been disseminated, with some surprises. In any case, these are not holiday homes but traditional apartments rented for medium-long periods but in any case some comparisons make us reflect. ) compared to sitting on the sunbed on the beach with a price difference of over 700 euros on a monthly basis. The same goes for Alassio, a picturesque town on the Ligurian Riviera di Ponente: if the price for an umbrella is around 1,300 euros per month, an average of 740 euros is enough to rent a small apartment. lie down in the sun and forget about the house overlooking the sea: if you need around 600 euros per month for a sun bed and umbrella, the budget to be foreseen for a two-room apartment in the Lazio seaside resort is on average about 1,000. In Alghero a month’s rent (623 euros on average) costs about 150 euros less than an umbrella while in Lignano Sabbiadoro, a well-known tourist destination on the Adriatic, for a two-room apartment (845 euros of average monthly rent) you have to allocate almost 300 euros more than the place on the beach for a month.There are other places where the difference is less marked. In Rimini and Viareggio, on both sides of the boot, the sunbed by the sea costs about 130 euros less than the two-room apartments in the city (649 euros on average per month for the first and 871 for the second). While in Taormina and Senigallia the prices are practically the same (over 700 euros for the first and about 500 for the second).