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Torquay market report TQ
The TQ (Torquay) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 195,617 registered sales in the TQ postcode area (Torquay) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Covers registered sales to July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the typical home in the TQ postcode area (Torquay) sold for £275,000 in 2026, the median of 1,826 registered sales, up 1% on five years earlier. The mean was £312,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,550 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 195,617 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
The TQ postcode area centred on Torquay covers 14 districts. At this scale the figures average away real local contrasts; the district reports below are the place for anywhere specific.
Where TQ sits
Shaded by median price on the same scale as the average prices map. Click any shape to open it on the live map with every sale plotted at its address, or zoom in past street level to see the sold homes right here.
Today's TQ prices, from the sold record
In the TQ property market, the 2026 median sale price is £275,000, from 1,826 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £312,900, sitting somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
House prices per square metre in TQ
Per square metre, TQ homes have averaged around £3,550 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, TQ sits 4% below the national market.
The price of a typical TQ home, 1995 to 2026
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £275,000 | £275,000 | 1,826 |
| 2025 | £290,000 | £296,935 | 4,685 |
| 2024 | £290,000 | £308,330 | 4,644 |
| 2023 | £295,000 | £324,133 | 4,316 |
| 2022 | £294,000 | £344,749 | 5,738 |
| 2021 | £272,500 | £345,020 | 7,519 |
| 2020 | £250,000 | £324,380 | 5,018 |
| 2019 | £235,000 | £308,029 | 5,618 |
| 2018 | £232,500 | £309,927 | 5,856 |
| 2017 | £227,500 | £310,287 | 6,450 |
| 2016 | £220,000 | £307,782 | 6,352 |
| 2015 | £206,600 | £291,926 | 6,295 |
| 2014 | £198,500 | £281,607 | 5,964 |
| 2013 | £185,000 | £266,197 | 5,292 |
| 2012 | £184,500 | £271,561 | 4,520 |
| 2011 | £182,500 | £275,505 | 4,298 |
| 2010 | £190,000 | £297,969 | 4,472 |
| 2009 | £175,000 | £281,314 | 4,425 |
| 2008 | £185,000 | £303,254 | 3,847 |
| 2007 | £193,500 | £328,230 | 7,440 |
| 2006 | £180,000 | £312,457 | 7,886 |
| 2005 | £175,000 | £311,429 | 6,059 |
| 2004 | £165,000 | £299,672 | 7,589 |
| 2003 | £140,500 | £258,835 | 7,899 |
| 2002 | £118,000 | £222,016 | 8,884 |
| 2001 | £90,000 | £173,020 | 8,590 |
| 2000 | £79,000 | £155,038 | 8,240 |
| 1999 | £70,000 | £139,506 | 8,736 |
| 1998 | £64,000 | £129,189 | 7,573 |
| 1997 | £59,000 | £120,997 | 7,794 |
| 1996 | £56,000 | £118,101 | 6,618 |
| 1995 | £55,000 | £119,562 | 5,174 |
In cash terms the typical TQ home went from £55,000 in 1995 to £275,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 130%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 20% below that. Someone who bought at the 2021 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the TQ median
Each bar is the change on the year before, in cash. The zero line is the boundary between rising and falling.
The strongest year on record here is 2002 (+31.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−5.4%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of detached houses dominate the record here, 30% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £413,500 against £154,000 for a flat, 2.7 times the price.
Median by property type, TQ
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £413,500 | 546 | 59,543 |
| Semi-detached | £280,000 | 403 | 41,829 |
| Terraced | £230,000 | 541 | 57,865 |
| Flats | £154,000 | 336 | 36,380 |
What TQ has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −5.2% | −7.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.2% | −4.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.3% | −1.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.1% | −0.6% |
The table annualises median growth over each period, with the real column deflated by ONS CPIH. Smoothing hides the cycle (see the chart above for it), and none of this forecasts: it is the record.
The turnover behind the prices
The year-by-year sales count
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The monthly pulse, last five years
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
Over the last twelve months of data, 3,816 sales completed in TQ. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 7,823 sales a year before the financial crisis and 4,242 a year over the last five. Price without volume misleads: a median built on few sales jumps around, and one street can tilt it. Keep in mind too that the latest year is still filling in, since sales reach the register weeks or months after completion.
Rents around TQ
The local authority for TQ is Torbay, the local authority covering most of the TQ area (parts fall under South Hams and Teignbridge, where rents differ), and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £908 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £611 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,279, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Torbay
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £275,000 median purchase price, a rent of £908 a month (£10,896 a year) works out at a 4.0% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.
TQ (Torquay): the questions that come up
Are property prices falling in TQ (Torquay)?
Is TQ (Torquay) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in TQ (Torquay)?
Will TQ prices rise from here?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 20% after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.
What is for sale in TQ right now
Everything above is what homes in TQ sold for. The live side of the market holds 2,223 homes at the moment, listed by 11 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 27% above the TQ median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 32% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- Ben Jonson Close, Torquay, Devon, TQ2
- Alma Road, Brixham, Devon, TQ5
- Mount Pleasant Road, Brixham, Devon, TQ5
"Under comparable sales" means the asking price sits below what similar homes nearby actually fetched. Treat it as the start of a conversation, never a valuation, and always view the home.
See every TQ home for sale on the map →
Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
The price of an extra bedroom in TQ
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the TQ area. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| Type | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | 5 bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | — | £325,000 | £435,000 (+34%) | £660,000 (+52%) | £930,000 (+41%) |
| Semi-detached | £225,000 | £270,000 (+20%) | £315,000 (+17%) | £406,000 (+29%) | £530,000 (+31%) |
| Terraced | £200,000 | £230,000 (+15%) | £264,500 (+15%) | £340,000 (+29%) | £450,000 (+32%) |
| Flat | £133,500 | £205,000 (+54%) | £325,000 (+59%) | £430,000 (+32%) | — |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land one size out. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the TQ area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Five-year change in the median, TQ area districts
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
District by district
The area medians above hide a lot. Here is every TQ district with enough sales to measure, dearest first; each links to its own full report.
| District | Median (2026) | 5-year | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| TQ8 Salcombe | £605,000 | -19% | 10 |
| TQ9 Totnes, Dartington | £389,000 | +11% | 114 |
| TQ7 Kingsbridge | £335,000 | -16% | 97 |
| TQ10 South Brent | £335,000 | +12% | 15 |
| TQ13 Ashburton, Bovey Tracey | £332,500 | +7% | 141 |
| TQ6 Dartmouth | £310,000 | -24% | 57 |
| TQ14 Teignmouth, Bishopsteignton | £310,000 | +6% | 129 |
| TQ5 Brixham | £275,500 | -1% | 130 |
| TQ12 Newton Abbot, Kingsteignton | £270,000 | +0% | 360 |
| TQ4 Paignton (centre), Goodrington | £266,200 | +6% | 156 |
| TQ2 Torquay (west, north) | £250,000 | +9% | 203 |
| TQ3 Paignton (north, Preston area) | £250,000 | +4% | 204 |
| TQ11 Buckfastleigh | £250,000 | +14% | 25 |
| TQ1 Torquay (centre), St Marychurch | £217,500 | +6% | 185 |
Before you sell in TQ: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in TQ, open the average prices map and zoom from the TQ shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded TQ sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim TQ.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with TQ already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual TQ sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator runs the numbers on a real purchase.
About the numbers: everything is computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to the address; today's-money figures use the ONS CPIH index, and rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents by local authority. These are medians of recorded sales, not valuations, and none of it is financial advice.