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St Marychurch market report TQ1 1, Torquay
The standing TQ1 1 (St Marychurch) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 6,697 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in TQ1 1 (Torquay) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh. Page updated 19 October 2026.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in TQ1 1 (Torquay) came in at £189,500, out of 68 registered, up 3% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £241,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,610 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 6,697 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
A postcode sector like TQ1 1 is a single group of streets within TQ1 (Torquay), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where TQ1 1 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.
The going rate for a home in TQ1 1
The 2026 median for TQ1 1 is £189,500, taken from 68 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £241,100, a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.
What a square metre costs in TQ1 1
By floor space, homes in TQ1 1 have sold for about £2,610 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so TQ1 1 trades 34% below the country as a whole.
TQ1 1's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £189,500 | £189,500 | 68 |
| 2025 | £193,500 | £198,127 | 129 |
| 2024 | £199,000 | £211,578 | 116 |
| 2023 | £202,500 | £222,498 | 123 |
| 2022 | £189,000 | £221,624 | 210 |
| 2021 | £184,800 | £233,981 | 234 |
| 2020 | £165,000 | £214,091 | 145 |
| 2019 | £155,000 | £203,168 | 167 |
| 2018 | £158,000 | £210,617 | 187 |
| 2017 | £166,500 | £227,089 | 215 |
| 2016 | £150,000 | £209,851 | 198 |
| 2015 | £140,000 | £197,820 | 185 |
| 2014 | £135,000 | £191,521 | 168 |
| 2013 | £130,500 | £187,776 | 135 |
| 2012 | £139,800 | £205,768 | 140 |
| 2011 | £133,000 | £200,779 | 106 |
| 2010 | £136,800 | £214,538 | 108 |
| 2009 | £130,000 | £208,976 | 147 |
| 2008 | £135,000 | £221,294 | 131 |
| 2007 | £148,500 | £251,897 | 277 |
| 2006 | £141,000 | £244,758 | 311 |
| 2005 | £124,000 | £220,670 | 220 |
| 2004 | £126,500 | £229,749 | 345 |
| 2003 | £99,700 | £183,672 | 324 |
| 2002 | £83,500 | £157,105 | 425 |
| 2001 | £69,600 | £133,802 | 346 |
| 2000 | £57,300 | £112,451 | 310 |
| 1999 | £49,000 | £97,654 | 282 |
| 1998 | £45,500 | £91,845 | 273 |
| 1997 | £44,000 | £90,235 | 275 |
| 1996 | £42,500 | £89,631 | 224 |
| 1995 | £40,500 | £88,041 | 173 |
In cash terms the typical TQ1 1 home went from £40,500 in 1995 to £189,500 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 115%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2007; the current median sits about 25% below that. Someone who bought at the 2007 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the TQ1 1 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 2004 (+26.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−9.1%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year (since 2025) | −2.1% | −4.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.5% | −4.1% |
| 6 years (since 2020) | +2.3% | −2.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.4% | −1.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.5% | −1.3% |
Each row is compound annual growth of the median; ONS CPIH supplies the real-terms deflator. Annualising irons out the cycle, which the chart above shows in full, and past growth records what happened rather than predicting anything.
How many homes change hands in TQ1 1
How many homes change hands
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
TQ1 1 recorded 68 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 320 sales a year before the financial crisis and 129 a year over the last five. Volume matters as much as price: when few homes change hands, the median gets jumpy and a single street can move the figure. The most recent year is always still filling in, because sales appear in the Land Registry weeks or months after completion.
The shape of the TQ1 1 market
Within TQ1, this sector trades 10% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
What homes rent for around TQ1 1
The local authority for TQ1 1 is Torbay, 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 £189,500 median purchase price, a rent of £908 a month (£10,896 a year) works out at a 5.7% 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.
Common questions on TQ1 1 (St Marychurch)
How much did a house sell for in TQ1 1 (St Marychurch)?
Are property prices falling in TQ1 1 (St Marychurch)?
Is TQ1 1 (St Marychurch) a good place to buy a house?
Are TQ1 1 prices heading up or down?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 3% over five years in cash but down 19% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
On the market in TQ1 today
The live side of the market holds 2 homes at the moment, listed by 2 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole TQ1 district, not just TQ1 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
100% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
"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 TQ1 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.
Moving up a bedroom in TQ: the cost
Real sold prices by size across the TQ area, straight from the Land Registry record. How much a size step costs is a local fact: the third-bedroom premium runs from about a quarter to nearly four fifths depending on the area, and national rules of thumb miss it.
| Type | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | 5 bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £305,000 | £345,000 (+13%) | £375,000 (+9%) | £450,000 (+20%) | £572,500 (+27%) |
| Semi-detached | £220,000 | £260,000 (+18%) | £292,250 (+12%) | £360,000 (+23%) | £454,000 (+26%) |
| Terraced | £180,000 | £220,000 (+22%) | £243,312 (+11%) | £295,000 (+21%) | £390,000 (+32%) |
| Flat | £120,000 | £170,000 (+42%) | £265,000 (+56%) | £320,000 (+21%) | £450,000 (+41%) |
Medians of recorded sales over the last four years, by built form and bedroom count. Sold homes carry no advertised bedroom count, so sizes are estimated from their EPC records; a small number of homes will sit one size out. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the TQ area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
TQ area districts: five years of change
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in TQ1
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of TQ1, each linking to its own report:
Zoom out to the full TQ1 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how TQ1 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in TQ1 1? Get a rough value first
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in TQ1 1, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from TQ1 1's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded TQ1 1 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with TQ1 1 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual TQ1 1 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.
Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.