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Torquay market report TQ2 7
The TQ2 7 (Torquay) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 7,276 HM Land Registry entries for TQ2 7 (Torquay), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in TQ2 7 (Torquay) came in at £265,000, out of 67 registered, up 6% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £269,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,300 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 7,276 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
TQ2 7 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside TQ2 (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 TQ2 7 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 buyers actually paid in TQ2 7
Take the 67 registered 2026 sales in TQ2 7 and the middle price, the median, is £265,000. The mean lands at £269,400, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
Price per square metre in TQ2 7
The last five years of sales put TQ2 7 at roughly £3,300 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, TQ2 7 sits 7% below the national market.
A typical TQ2 7 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 | £265,000 | £265,000 | 67 |
| 2025 | £250,000 | £255,978 | 152 |
| 2024 | £260,000 | £276,433 | 163 |
| 2023 | £245,000 | £269,195 | 104 |
| 2022 | £255,800 | £299,955 | 175 |
| 2021 | £250,000 | £316,532 | 206 |
| 2020 | £228,500 | £296,483 | 132 |
| 2019 | £220,000 | £288,367 | 167 |
| 2018 | £220,000 | £293,264 | 208 |
| 2017 | £208,000 | £283,691 | 217 |
| 2016 | £214,000 | £299,388 | 209 |
| 2015 | £170,000 | £240,210 | 183 |
| 2014 | £181,500 | £257,489 | 186 |
| 2013 | £160,500 | £230,943 | 182 |
| 2012 | £154,000 | £226,669 | 144 |
| 2011 | £168,500 | £254,370 | 170 |
| 2010 | £169,000 | £265,036 | 153 |
| 2009 | £152,500 | £245,145 | 169 |
| 2008 | £170,000 | £278,666 | 147 |
| 2007 | £173,000 | £293,456 | 335 |
| 2006 | £165,000 | £286,419 | 353 |
| 2005 | £156,000 | £277,617 | 255 |
| 2004 | £150,000 | £272,429 | 301 |
| 2003 | £130,000 | £239,492 | 353 |
| 2002 | £103,000 | £193,794 | 391 |
| 2001 | £84,500 | £162,447 | 399 |
| 2000 | £72,500 | £142,281 | 353 |
| 1999 | £62,000 | £123,563 | 357 |
| 1998 | £58,100 | £117,279 | 338 |
| 1997 | £56,000 | £114,845 | 264 |
| 1996 | £52,800 | £111,353 | 215 |
| 1995 | £52,200 | £113,475 | 228 |
In cash terms the typical TQ2 7 home went from £52,200 in 1995 to £265,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 134%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 16% below that. Someone who bought at the 2021 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the TQ2 7 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 (+26.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−10.3%). 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) | +6.0% | +3.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.2% | −3.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.2% | −1.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.4% | −0.4% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
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 register shows 67 TQ2 7 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 343 sales a year before the financial crisis and 132 a year over the last five. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.
Rents around TQ2 7
TQ2 7 falls under Torbay, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £908 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £611 a month here against £1,279 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Torbay
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £265,000 median purchase price, a rent of £908 a month (£10,896 a year) works out at a 4.1% 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.
Common questions on TQ2 7 (Torquay)
How much did a house sell for in TQ2 7 (Torquay)?
Are property prices falling in TQ2 7 (Torquay)?
Is TQ2 7 (Torquay) a good place to buy a house?
Are TQ2 7 prices heading up or down?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 6% over five years in cash but down 16% 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.
TQ2's current homes for sale
Turning to what is actually available: 94 homes on the market right now, from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole TQ2 district, not just TQ2 7: live asking prices are collected per district.
26% 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.
- Ben Jonson Close, Torquay, Devon, TQ2
- Salisbury Avenue, Torquay, Devon, TQ2
- Barn Owl Close, Torquay, Devon, TQ2
"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
See every TQ2 home for sale on the map →
Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
The price of an extra bedroom in TQ
What homes of each size actually sold for across the TQ area, from the Land Registry record. 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%) | — |
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.
TQ area districts: five years of change
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in TQ2
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of TQ2, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| TQ2 5 | £125,000 | 19 |
| TQ2 6 | £258,000 | 79 |
| 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.
Thinking of selling in TQ2 7? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in TQ2 7, open the average prices map and zoom from the TQ2 7 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded TQ2 7 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 TQ2 7.
Dig further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to TQ2 7. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual TQ2 7 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale runs the numbers on a real purchase.
How this page is made: the statistics are computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to address level; inflation adjustment uses the ONS CPIH index; rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents at local-authority level. Medians of recorded sales, not valuations. Nothing on this page is financial advice.