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St Marychurch market report TQ1 4, Torquay
The TQ1 4 (St Marychurch) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 6,502 sales registered with HM Land Registry in TQ1 4 (Torquay) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in TQ1 4 (Torquay) came in at £230,000, out of 54 registered, up 10% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £241,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,710 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 6,502 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
TQ1 4 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.
Where TQ1 4 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 4
Take the 54 registered 2026 sales in TQ1 4 and the middle price, the median, is £230,000. The mean lands at £241,500, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
TQ1 4 prices by floor area
The last five years of sales put TQ1 4 at roughly £2,710 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, TQ1 4 sits 19% below the national market.
The price of a typical TQ1 4 home, 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 | £230,000 | £230,000 | 54 |
| 2025 | £228,000 | £233,452 | 165 |
| 2024 | £230,000 | £244,537 | 149 |
| 2023 | £242,200 | £266,119 | 128 |
| 2022 | £220,000 | £257,975 | 189 |
| 2021 | £210,000 | £265,887 | 259 |
| 2020 | £190,000 | £246,529 | 151 |
| 2019 | £176,500 | £231,349 | 190 |
| 2018 | £168,000 | £223,947 | 189 |
| 2017 | £156,200 | £213,041 | 214 |
| 2016 | £161,900 | £226,500 | 196 |
| 2015 | £154,500 | £218,309 | 192 |
| 2014 | £150,000 | £212,801 | 188 |
| 2013 | £137,700 | £198,137 | 176 |
| 2012 | £153,000 | £225,197 | 163 |
| 2011 | £146,000 | £220,404 | 159 |
| 2010 | £145,000 | £227,397 | 129 |
| 2009 | £145,500 | £233,892 | 140 |
| 2008 | £165,000 | £270,470 | 171 |
| 2007 | £155,500 | £263,771 | 270 |
| 2006 | £146,000 | £253,437 | 289 |
| 2005 | £135,800 | £241,669 | 208 |
| 2004 | £128,000 | £232,473 | 253 |
| 2003 | £116,500 | £214,621 | 258 |
| 2002 | £90,000 | £169,334 | 310 |
| 2001 | £73,500 | £141,300 | 304 |
| 2000 | £64,000 | £125,600 | 301 |
| 1999 | £55,000 | £109,612 | 262 |
| 1998 | £48,500 | £97,901 | 223 |
| 1997 | £45,000 | £92,286 | 231 |
| 1996 | £44,000 | £92,794 | 193 |
| 1995 | £47,200 | £102,606 | 198 |
In cash terms the typical TQ1 4 home went from £47,200 in 1995 to £230,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 124%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2008, and today's median remains roughly 15% under it: a 2008 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the TQ1 4 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 (+29.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−11.8%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +0.9% | −1.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.8% | −2.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.6% | +0.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.3% | −0.5% |
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.
How many homes change hands in TQ1 4
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 54 sales completed in TQ1 4. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 274 sales a year before the financial crisis and 137 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.
The shape of the TQ1 4 market
This is a thin market: 54 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.
Rents around TQ1 4
TQ1 4 falls under Torbay, where the ONS puts the average private rent 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 £230,000 median purchase price, a rent of £908 a month (£10,896 a year) works out at a 4.7% 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.
What people ask about TQ1 4 (St Marychurch)
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Will TQ1 4 prices rise from here?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 10% over five years in cash but down 13% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
TQ1's current homes for sale
The live side of the market holds 116 homes at the moment, listed by 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole TQ1 district, not just TQ1 4: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 31% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
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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 →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
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. 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%) | — |
Built from the last four years of recorded sales by form and bedroom count. Bedroom counts are estimated from EPC records (the register carries none), so expect a small number of homes one size adrift. 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.
Winners and losers across the TQ area, five years
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in TQ1
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are TQ1's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| TQ1 1 | £190,000 | 55 |
| TQ1 2 | £249,000 | 35 |
| TQ1 3 | £190,000 | 41 |
Zoom out to the full TQ1 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how TQ1 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in TQ1 4? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in TQ1 4, open the average prices map and zoom from the TQ1 4 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded TQ1 4 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim TQ1 4.
Take it further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to TQ1 4. Free after a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual TQ1 4 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.