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Torquay market report TQ2 5
The TQ2 5 (Torquay) 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: 3,715 sales registered with HM Land Registry in TQ2 5 (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.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: 19 registered 2026 sales put the TQ2 5 (Torquay) median at £125,000, down 31% on five years earlier, with a mean of £173,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,460 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 3,715 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
TQ2 5 is one sector of TQ2 (Torquay): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where TQ2 5 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.
What TQ2 5 homes really sell for
The 2026 median for TQ2 5 is £125,000, taken from 19 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £173,700, well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
What a square metre costs in TQ2 5
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in TQ2 5 costs about £2,460 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so TQ2 5 trades 56% below the country as a whole.
A typical TQ2 5 home, priced year by year (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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £125,000 | £125,000 | 19 |
| 2025 | £153,000 | £156,659 | 66 |
| 2024 | £150,000 | £159,481 | 59 |
| 2023 | £140,000 | £153,826 | 60 |
| 2022 | £185,000 | £216,934 | 117 |
| 2021 | £180,000 | £227,903 | 130 |
| 2020 | £148,500 | £192,682 | 86 |
| 2019 | £141,000 | £184,817 | 80 |
| 2018 | £115,000 | £153,297 | 116 |
| 2017 | £142,100 | £193,810 | 100 |
| 2016 | £145,000 | £202,856 | 109 |
| 2015 | £155,000 | £219,015 | 115 |
| 2014 | £108,800 | £154,352 | 84 |
| 2013 | £141,500 | £203,604 | 89 |
| 2012 | £120,000 | £176,625 | 71 |
| 2011 | £124,000 | £187,192 | 73 |
| 2010 | £148,500 | £232,886 | 82 |
| 2009 | £152,200 | £244,663 | 54 |
| 2008 | £173,500 | £284,403 | 113 |
| 2007 | £137,500 | £233,238 | 179 |
| 2006 | £138,000 | £239,550 | 160 |
| 2005 | £120,500 | £214,441 | 124 |
| 2004 | £116,500 | £211,587 | 194 |
| 2003 | £91,000 | £167,644 | 209 |
| 2002 | £84,500 | £158,986 | 235 |
| 2001 | £65,000 | £124,959 | 152 |
| 2000 | £62,000 | £121,675 | 181 |
| 1999 | £53,500 | £106,623 | 172 |
| 1998 | £52,700 | £106,379 | 138 |
| 1997 | £48,000 | £98,438 | 153 |
| 1996 | £41,500 | £87,522 | 108 |
| 1995 | £43,000 | £93,475 | 87 |
In cash terms the typical TQ2 5 home went from £43,000 in 1995 to £125,000 in 2026, roughly 2.9 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 34%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2008. The market now sits about 56% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the TQ2 5 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 2015 (+42.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2023 (−24.3%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −18.3% | −20.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −7.0% | −11.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | −1.5% | −4.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | −0.5% | −3.2% |
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
The year-by-year sales count
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The register shows 19 TQ2 5 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 179 sales a year before the financial crisis and 64 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.
What homes rent for around TQ2 5
TQ2 5 falls under Torbay, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £908 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £611 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,279 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Torbay
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£908 a month is £10,896 a year, which against the £125,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 8.7%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
The shape of the TQ2 5 market
This is a thin market: 19 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. 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 TQ2, this sector trades 50% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
TQ2 5 (Torquay): the questions that come up
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What happens to TQ2 5 prices now?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is down 31% over five years in cash but down 45% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
What is for sale in TQ2 right now
The live side of the market holds 94 homes at the moment, listed by 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole TQ2 district, not just TQ2 5: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 26% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Ben Jonson Close, Torquay, Devon, TQ2
- Salisbury Avenue, Torquay, Devon, TQ2
- Barn Owl Close, Torquay, Devon, TQ2
"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 TQ2 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.
Moving up a bedroom in TQ: the cost
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. 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.
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 TQ2
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are TQ2's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| TQ2 6 | £258,000 | 79 |
| TQ2 7 | £265,000 | 67 |
| TQ2 8 | £240,000 | 38 |
Zoom out to the full TQ2 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how TQ2 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in TQ2 5: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in TQ2 5, open the average prices map and zoom from the TQ2 5 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded TQ2 5 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim TQ2 5.
Keep digging
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to TQ2 5. Free after a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual TQ2 5 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.