Beach Hunters

Newlyweds look for their first home together on Topsail Island, N.C.

A couple hope to leave the desert behind for a beach house in Brookings, Ore.

A couple want to have quality family time in a beach home in the small coastal town of Gearhart, Ore.

A couple want to relocate to a more relaxed area, and hope to find a beach home in Plymouth, Mass., where they can still commute to Boston.

Newlyweds are on a mission to relocate from cold and snowy Chicago to sunny and sandy Florida.

A Washington native going through a transition in his life is looking for a fresh start, and gets help from his best friend.

A family of four wants to add water and sand to their Texas life by trading in their busy schedules for a beach house on the coastal islands of Galveston.

A couple that loves the outdoors relocates from the suburbs of Chicago to a beach home on the Emerald Coast of Florida.

Active and outdoorsy newlyweds look to buy their first home together in the sleepy surf town of Melbourne Beach, Florida, hoping to find an open-concept home right on the beach with a big kitchen and stunning ocean views.

A mother teams up with her daughter to find a perfect beach home in the towns of southeastern North Carolina.

A Massachusetts couple and their two teenage daughters move to New England's coastal region, set on finding a house with a soft, sandy beach right in their backyard with a great outdoor space for entertaining.

A family of four is trading the snowy mountains of Colorado for the sunny shorelines of Cocoa Beach, Florida.

After many years of renting various vacation houses in Perdido Key, Fla., a Georgia couple can finally afford their dream home in this relaxing haven on the Gulf of Mexico.

A Boston couple searches for a beach house in Narragansett, R.I., hoping to share memories with their children and spend more time with their extended family.

Two schoolteachers grew up dreaming of starting a family in a small town on the water, and they see Long Island's fabled South Shore as the perfect place to make their vision a reality.

A Louisiana couple who've always loved the beach looks for a beach house on the sands of Gulf Shores, Ala.