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St Marychurch market report TQ1 3, Torquay
The TQ1 3 (St Marychurch) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 7,045 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in TQ1 3 (Torquay) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: a typical TQ1 3 (Torquay) home changed hands for £190,000 in 2026 (median of 41 registered sales, down 4% on five years earlier), with the mean at £220,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,790 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 7,045 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
A postcode sector like TQ1 3 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 3 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 TQ1 3 prices, from the sold record
In the TQ1 3 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £190,000, from 41 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £220,600, sitting well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
What a square metre costs in TQ1 3
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in TQ1 3 costs about £2,790 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving TQ1 3 33% below the national figure.
A typical TQ1 3 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £190,000 | £190,000 | 41 |
| 2025 | £190,000 | £194,543 | 149 |
| 2024 | £200,000 | £212,641 | 171 |
| 2023 | £195,000 | £214,257 | 147 |
| 2022 | £200,000 | £234,523 | 205 |
| 2021 | £198,500 | £251,327 | 286 |
| 2020 | £174,500 | £226,417 | 149 |
| 2019 | £167,200 | £219,159 | 182 |
| 2018 | £168,000 | £223,947 | 213 |
| 2017 | £157,200 | £214,405 | 210 |
| 2016 | £164,000 | £229,438 | 239 |
| 2015 | £162,000 | £228,906 | 194 |
| 2014 | £140,000 | £198,614 | 213 |
| 2013 | £140,000 | £201,446 | 142 |
| 2012 | £141,500 | £208,270 | 149 |
| 2011 | £132,000 | £199,269 | 147 |
| 2010 | £150,000 | £235,239 | 137 |
| 2009 | £145,000 | £233,089 | 129 |
| 2008 | £153,000 | £250,799 | 143 |
| 2007 | £168,000 | £284,975 | 303 |
| 2006 | £157,000 | £272,532 | 310 |
| 2005 | £149,200 | £265,516 | 242 |
| 2004 | £139,000 | £252,451 | 281 |
| 2003 | £122,500 | £225,675 | 347 |
| 2002 | £87,100 | £163,878 | 338 |
| 2001 | £79,000 | £151,873 | 363 |
| 2000 | £63,000 | £123,638 | 289 |
| 1999 | £60,000 | £119,577 | 305 |
| 1998 | £53,000 | £106,984 | 279 |
| 1997 | £50,000 | £102,540 | 306 |
| 1996 | £45,700 | £96,379 | 276 |
| 1995 | £48,000 | £104,345 | 160 |
In cash terms the typical TQ1 3 home went from £48,000 in 1995 to £190,000 in 2026, roughly 4.0 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 82%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2007; the current median sits about 33% 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 3 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 2003 (+40.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−12.0%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | 0.0% | −2.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −0.9% | −5.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.5% | −1.9% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.0% | −1.8% |
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.
Sales activity in TQ1 3
The year-by-year sales count
Each bar is a year's recorded sales. 2008's dip is the financial crisis, and the newest bar always grows for a while as late registrations arrive.
TQ1 3 recorded 41 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 309 sales a year before the financial crisis and 143 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 kind of market TQ1 3 is
This is a thin market: 41 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict. Against the TQ1 district median, TQ1 3 sits 13% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
What homes rent for around TQ1 3
For renting purposes TQ1 3 sits in Torbay. The ONS average private rent there is £908 a month (May 2026). 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.
Set against the £190,000 median sold price, £908 a month is £10,896 a year, a gross yield of 5.7%: 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.
TQ1 3 (St Marychurch): the questions that come up
Is TQ1 3 (St Marychurch) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in TQ1 3 (St Marychurch)?
Are property prices falling in TQ1 3 (St Marychurch)?
Will TQ1 3 prices rise from here?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is down 4% over five years in cash but down 24% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
TQ1's current homes for sale
This is what you could actually buy today: 116 homes currently on the market from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole TQ1 district, not just TQ1 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 31% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Higher Erith Road, Torquay, TQ1
- Kenwyn Road, Torquay, Devon, TQ1
- Ellacombe Church Road, Torquay, Devon...
The "under comparable sales" label measures each asking price against real nearby sales of similar homes: an opening position for a conversation rather than a valuation. The home itself still needs looking at.
See every TQ1 home for sale on the map →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
Moving up a bedroom in TQ: the cost
What homes of each size actually sold for across the TQ area, from the Land Registry record. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.
| 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.
TQ area districts: five years of change
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in TQ1
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of TQ1, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| TQ1 1 | £190,000 | 55 |
| TQ1 2 | £249,000 | 35 |
| TQ1 4 | £230,000 | 54 |
Zoom out to the full TQ1 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how TQ1 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in TQ1 3: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in TQ1 3, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from TQ1 3's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded TQ1 3 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim TQ1 3.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with TQ1 3 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every TQ1 3 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map from area shading down to single homes. The report tool answers a specific question in writing, and each sale's mortgage and rent calculator prices 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.