You could easily spend 250k round here, but if you were thinking of a nice sea view that's more the price of a (quite fancy) 2 bedroom flat on the sea front.
Apparently 3 or 4 years ago you could get a big old house near the station for that sort of money, but they're more like 450k.
As Mick says, best come down and have a look.
This is part of my website The FG that I built in a fury of excitement when we first moved here sometime in 2004. I'd been a frequent visitor for a few years before that but I am technically one of those Down From Londons you get nowadays. The site was a lot more dynamic with a calendar of events and voting for favourite venues and stuff, and I know it was a handy resource for others who were moving to the area. Now I've moved out of Folkestone again (though only a couple of miles) it doesn't get as much attention as it used to. Ironic really as Folkestone itself is becoming the exciting place we knew it was just about to. My name is not Gerald BTW, this comes from a fake newspaper in an episode of The Day Today or something, the Portsmouth Gerald, and how there is a local newspaper here called the Folkestone Herald. Puns like this are great aren't they? Do contact me if you have anything to contribute, email anythign @ this domain, or try @folkestone or @pauly on the twitter.