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St Marychurch market report TQ1, Torquay
The TQ1 (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: 24,936 sales registered with HM Land Registry in TQ1 (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 July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in TQ1 (Torquay) came in at £217,500, out of 185 registered, up 6% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £259,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,850 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 24,936 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
The postcode district TQ1 covering Torquay (centre), St Marychurch sits in Torquay. A district is the workhorse unit for reading a market: local enough to be meaningful, busy enough that the medians rest on a steady flow of sales.
Where TQ1 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
185 sales were registered in TQ1 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £217,500. The mean works out at £259,000, a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.
House prices per square metre in TQ1
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in TQ1 costs about £2,850 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts TQ1 24% below the country at large.
A typical TQ1 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 | £217,500 | £217,500 | 185 |
| 2025 | £214,200 | £219,322 | 510 |
| 2024 | £220,000 | £233,905 | 518 |
| 2023 | £229,000 | £251,615 | 497 |
| 2022 | £215,500 | £252,698 | 738 |
| 2021 | £205,000 | £259,556 | 994 |
| 2020 | £188,000 | £243,934 | 555 |
| 2019 | £170,000 | £222,829 | 702 |
| 2018 | £175,000 | £233,278 | 755 |
| 2017 | £169,500 | £231,181 | 788 |
| 2016 | £165,000 | £230,837 | 790 |
| 2015 | £157,000 | £221,841 | 719 |
| 2014 | £149,000 | £211,383 | 688 |
| 2013 | £146,500 | £210,799 | 565 |
| 2012 | £150,000 | £220,781 | 535 |
| 2011 | £145,500 | £219,649 | 500 |
| 2010 | £150,000 | £235,239 | 469 |
| 2009 | £146,000 | £234,696 | 516 |
| 2008 | £155,000 | £254,078 | 534 |
| 2007 | £160,000 | £271,405 | 1,035 |
| 2006 | £150,000 | £260,381 | 1,084 |
| 2005 | £143,000 | £254,482 | 803 |
| 2004 | £135,000 | £245,186 | 1,053 |
| 2003 | £116,000 | £213,700 | 1,121 |
| 2002 | £92,500 | £174,038 | 1,333 |
| 2001 | £78,000 | £149,951 | 1,242 |
| 2000 | £65,000 | £127,563 | 1,144 |
| 1999 | £58,000 | £115,591 | 1,084 |
| 1998 | £51,000 | £102,947 | 958 |
| 1997 | £49,000 | £100,489 | 1,007 |
| 1996 | £46,500 | £98,066 | 866 |
| 1995 | £47,800 | £103,910 | 648 |
In cash terms the typical TQ1 home went from £47,800 in 1995 to £217,500 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 109%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2007, and today's median remains roughly 20% under it: a 2007 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the TQ1 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 (+25.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−5.8%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What TQ1 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +1.5% | −0.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.2% | −3.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.8% | −0.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.9% | −0.9% |
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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of flats dominate the record here, 42% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £495,000 against £148,100 for a flat, 3.3 times the price.
Median by property type, TQ1
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 | £495,000 | 29 | 3,366 |
| Semi-detached | £275,500 | 24 | 2,604 |
| Terraced | £215,000 | 58 | 8,547 |
| Flats | £148,100 | 74 | 10,419 |
Transaction volumes
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.
The monthly pulse, last five years
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
Over the last twelve months of data, 390 sales completed in TQ1. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 1,102 sales a year before the financial crisis and 490 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
TQ1 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 £217,500 median purchase price, a rent of £908 a month (£10,896 a year) works out at a 5.0% 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.
The shape of the TQ1 market
By median price TQ1 sits at the bottom of its postcode area: the cheapest way in, with the least expectation already in the price.
TQ1 (St Marychurch): the questions that come up
How much did a house sell for in TQ1 (St Marychurch)?
Are property prices falling in TQ1 (St Marychurch)?
Is TQ1 (St Marychurch) a good place to buy a house?
Will TQ1 prices rise from here?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 6% over five years in cash but down 16% 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
Everything above is what homes in TQ1 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 116 homes on the market right now, from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 15% below the TQ1 median sold price.
31% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Higher Erith Road, Torquay, TQ1
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- Ellacombe Church Road, Torquay, Devon...
"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 →
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.
What another bedroom costs 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%) | — |
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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
TQ1 ranks 7 of 14 in the TQ area on five-year growth. The gap between the top and bottom of this chart is the difference between buying well and buying badly in the same city.
TQ area districts: five years of change
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside TQ1, sector by sector
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets with its own market report. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| TQ1 1 | £190,000 | 55 |
| TQ1 2 | £249,000 | 35 |
| TQ1 3 | £190,000 | 41 |
| TQ1 4 | £230,000 | 54 |
How TQ1 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the TQ area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| TQ8 | £605,000 | -19% |
| TQ9 | £389,000 | +11% |
| TQ7 | £335,000 | -16% |
| TQ10 | £335,000 | +12% |
| TQ13 | £332,500 | +7% |
| TQ6 | £310,000 | -24% |
| TQ14 | £310,000 | +6% |
| TQ5 | £275,500 | -1% |
| TQ12 | £270,000 | +0% |
| TQ4 | £266,200 | +6% |
| TQ2 | £250,000 | +9% |
| TQ3 | £250,000 | +4% |
| TQ11 | £250,000 | +14% |
| TQ1 (this report) | £217,500 | +6% |
Before you sell in TQ1: 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, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from TQ1's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded TQ1 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
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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.