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St Marychurch market report TQ1 2, Torquay

The standing TQ1 2 (St Marychurch) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 4,705 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in TQ1 2 (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.

In short: the 2026 median for TQ1 2 (Torquay) is £249,000, from 35 registered sales, down 13% on five years earlier; the mean is £358,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,450 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 4,705 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.

TQ1 2 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside TQ1 (Torquay). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.

What buyers actually paid in TQ1 2

Take the 35 registered 2026 sales in TQ1 2 and the middle price, the median, is £249,000. The mean lands at £358,800, well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.

TQ1 2 prices by floor area

The last five years of sales put TQ1 2 at roughly £3,450 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.

For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so TQ1 2 trades 13% below the country as a whole.

In cash terms the typical TQ1 2 home went from £74,000 in 1995 to £249,000 in 2026, roughly 3.4 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 55%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2007; the current median sits about 40% below that. Someone who bought at the 2007 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.

The strongest year on record here is 2002 (+37.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−29.3%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.

The long view: annualised growth

Compound annual growth of the median sold price; the real column deflates by ONS CPIH. Annualised figures smooth the cycle (the chart above shows the cycle), and past growth is a record, not a forecast.

Transaction volumes

TQ1 2 recorded 35 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 199 sales a year before the financial crisis and 83 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.

What homes rent for around TQ1 2

For renting purposes TQ1 2 sits in Torbay. The ONS average private rent there is £908 a month (May 2026). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £611 a month here against £1,279 for four or more bedrooms.

Set against the £249,000 median sold price, £908 a month is £10,896 a year, a gross yield of 4.4%: gross, before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax, so a ceiling rather than a promise. Rents are published at local-authority level, so nearby districts in the same authority share these figures.

Reading the TQ1 2 market

Only 35 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes TQ1 2 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching. Within TQ1, this sector trades 14% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.

Common questions on TQ1 2 (St Marychurch)

What happens to TQ1 2 prices now?

That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is down 13% over five years in cash but down 31% 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 you could buy in TQ1 now

Bedroom by bedroom: TQ prices by size

The risers and the fallers

The spread across the TQ area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.

Other sectors in TQ1

Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of TQ1, one report each:

Zoom out to the full TQ1 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how TQ1 compares with its neighbours.

Selling in TQ1 2? Start from the sold record

Dig further

The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to TQ1 2. Free after a one click sign in.

The live map plots every individual TQ1 2 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.