What's going for it? Tenby is so perfect, you have to blink twice to believe it. It looks like a historically authentic holiday theme park created by a Russian oligarch with a taste for Enid Blyton. The craggy outcrop, the golden coves of powdery sand, the Regency terraces hugger-mugger on the clifftops, the raggedy islands populated by seals and monks, the rock pools, the Georgian lanes skipping down to the harbour, the harbour itself! It's too much, Tenby. I tap the craggy town walls to make extra sure they aren't fibreglass. But that's not to say Tenby's picture-perfect appearance hasn't been purposefully crafted. If you'd visited in the late 17th century, you'd have found Tenby decaying and depopulated; the romantics and tourists who moved in a century later "discovered" it and polished it up, in a kind of proto-gentrification. For the fact that it still contains a drop of normality we can thank its geography, dangling on the end of Wales – imagine if it were 60 miles from Clapham.
The case against Obviously mad with tourists right now, but soon to return to a degree of normality. Not cheap, by local standards. Quite a way from anywhere but Pembroke.
Well connected? No, but it has rail services to Pembroke (20 min), Carmarthen (45 min), and Swansea (100 min), every two hours. Driving: Swansea about an hour and a half, Fishguard an hour.
Schools Primaries: St Teilo's Catholic is "good", with Tenby junior "adequate". The town's Greenhill secondary is "good".
Hang out at... Plantagenet House for the posh, Fecci's ice cream-cum-fish-and-chips empire for the rest of us. Or elbow the tourists for a pint at the Coach and Horses.
Where to buy Within the walls for full-on perfection. Regency town houses and cottages jostling on the cliffs for sea views. Or just outside on slightly more affordable streets with multicoloured seaside terraces. Heywood Lane and environs for roomy Victorians. North Cliffe for plum suburbans near the surf, like Tenby's Malibu.
Market values Town houses, £450,000-£900,000. Large detacheds, £400,000-£750,000. Detacheds, £200,000-£400,000. Semis, £130,000-£380,000. Terraces, £125,000-£345,000. Flats, £100,000-£450,000. Rentals: two-bed flat, £400-£750 pcm, three-bed terrace, £550-£950 pcm.
Bargain of the week Three-bed postwar semi, not a looker and needs updating, but a short walk from the centre: £125,000 with John Francis.
Jennifer Henley "The best of places: picturesque harbour, wonderful walking along South Beach. The downside is lack of a decent restaurant – Tenby is definitely not a foodie heaven. It needs a Rick Stein to do the same for the town as he did for Padstow."
Siobhan Lancaster "Gorgeous Welsh countryside, and a micro-climate that often escapes the bad weather drifting over to Swansea from Ireland. Downside: buses wind around every local village and are expensive, so you need a car."
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