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Torquay market report TQ2 8
The TQ2 8 (Torquay) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 4,080 registered sales in TQ2 8 (Torquay) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing 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: 38 registered 2026 sales put the TQ2 8 (Torquay) median at £240,000, up 4% on five years earlier, with a mean of £233,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,020 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 4,080 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
A postcode sector like TQ2 8 is a single group of streets within TQ2 (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 TQ2 8 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.
TQ2 8 sold prices: where the market stands
The 2026 median for TQ2 8 is £240,000, taken from 38 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £233,700, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
TQ2 8 prices by floor area
Per square metre, TQ2 8 homes have averaged around £3,020 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, TQ2 8 runs 16% below it.
A typical TQ2 8 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £240,000 | £240,000 | 38 |
| 2025 | £252,500 | £258,538 | 116 |
| 2024 | £266,000 | £282,813 | 87 |
| 2023 | £246,500 | £270,843 | 92 |
| 2022 | £240,000 | £281,427 | 94 |
| 2021 | £230,000 | £291,210 | 135 |
| 2020 | £190,000 | £246,529 | 113 |
| 2019 | £187,000 | £245,112 | 139 |
| 2018 | £182,000 | £242,609 | 109 |
| 2017 | £176,000 | £240,046 | 141 |
| 2016 | £166,800 | £233,355 | 106 |
| 2015 | £169,000 | £238,797 | 109 |
| 2014 | £156,800 | £222,448 | 120 |
| 2013 | £142,200 | £204,612 | 142 |
| 2012 | £148,800 | £219,015 | 84 |
| 2011 | £155,000 | £233,990 | 68 |
| 2010 | £143,500 | £225,045 | 82 |
| 2009 | £150,000 | £241,126 | 79 |
| 2008 | £170,000 | £278,666 | 61 |
| 2007 | £171,000 | £290,064 | 187 |
| 2006 | £145,000 | £251,701 | 164 |
| 2005 | £147,300 | £262,135 | 123 |
| 2004 | £138,000 | £250,635 | 172 |
| 2003 | £115,000 | £211,858 | 180 |
| 2002 | £94,500 | £177,801 | 210 |
| 2001 | £80,000 | £153,796 | 195 |
| 2000 | £66,000 | £129,525 | 182 |
| 1999 | £60,000 | £119,577 | 177 |
| 1998 | £57,000 | £115,059 | 177 |
| 1997 | £52,000 | £106,642 | 153 |
| 1996 | £51,200 | £107,979 | 122 |
| 1995 | £49,500 | £107,605 | 123 |
In cash terms the typical TQ2 8 home went from £49,500 in 1995 to £240,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 123%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2021. The market now sits about 18% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the TQ2 8 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 (+21.7% 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) | −5.0% | −7.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.9% | −3.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.7% | +0.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.6% | −0.2% |
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.
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 38 sales completed in TQ2 8. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 177 sales a year before the financial crisis and 85 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 TQ2 8 is
Only 38 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes TQ2 8 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint.
Rents around TQ2 8
TQ2 8 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.
£908 a month is £10,896 a year, which against the £240,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.5%. 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.
Common questions on TQ2 8 (Torquay)
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What happens to TQ2 8 prices now?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 4% over five years in cash but down 18% 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
This is what you could actually buy today: 94 homes currently on the market from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole TQ2 district, not just TQ2 8: 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.
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. 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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the TQ area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Five-year change in the median, TQ area districts
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own 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 7 | £265,000 | 67 |
Zoom out to the full TQ2 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how TQ2 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in TQ2 8? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in TQ2 8, open the average prices map and zoom from the TQ2 8 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded TQ2 8 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 8.
Dig further
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about TQ2 8. Free, with a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every TQ2 8 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.
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.