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Paignton market report TQ3
The standing TQ3 (Paignton) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 20,852 sales registered with HM Land Registry in TQ3 (Paignton) 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 data to July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the typical home in TQ3 (Paignton) sold for £250,000 in 2026, the median of 204 registered sales, up 4% on five years earlier. The mean was £261,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,090 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 20,852 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
TQ3 is the postcode district covering Paignton (north, Preston area) in Paignton. Districts are a practical way to slice a market: small enough to mean something locally, big enough to have a steady flow of sales to measure.
Where TQ3 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 TQ3 homes really sell for
Across 204 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) TQ3 home went for £250,000. The mean is £261,900, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
House prices per square metre in TQ3
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in TQ3 costs about £3,090 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, TQ3 sits 12% below the national market.
A typical TQ3 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 | £250,000 | £250,000 | 204 |
| 2025 | £250,000 | £255,978 | 462 |
| 2024 | £247,000 | £262,612 | 489 |
| 2023 | £250,000 | £274,689 | 377 |
| 2022 | £256,000 | £300,189 | 553 |
| 2021 | £240,000 | £303,871 | 697 |
| 2020 | £203,000 | £263,397 | 507 |
| 2019 | £198,000 | £259,531 | 562 |
| 2018 | £200,000 | £266,604 | 583 |
| 2017 | £196,500 | £268,006 | 685 |
| 2016 | £182,000 | £254,620 | 571 |
| 2015 | £178,000 | £251,514 | 680 |
| 2014 | £170,000 | £241,175 | 572 |
| 2013 | £162,500 | £233,821 | 551 |
| 2012 | £155,000 | £228,141 | 433 |
| 2011 | £155,000 | £233,990 | 435 |
| 2010 | £162,000 | £254,058 | 409 |
| 2009 | £160,000 | £257,201 | 442 |
| 2008 | £164,000 | £268,831 | 385 |
| 2007 | £171,500 | £290,912 | 789 |
| 2006 | £166,000 | £288,155 | 919 |
| 2005 | £155,000 | £275,838 | 682 |
| 2004 | £150,000 | £272,429 | 826 |
| 2003 | £129,000 | £237,649 | 922 |
| 2002 | £106,000 | £199,438 | 1,019 |
| 2001 | £85,000 | £163,408 | 1,014 |
| 2000 | £72,500 | £142,281 | 992 |
| 1999 | £64,600 | £128,744 | 988 |
| 1998 | £59,000 | £119,096 | 847 |
| 1997 | £54,500 | £111,769 | 869 |
| 1996 | £52,800 | £111,353 | 791 |
| 1995 | £53,000 | £115,214 | 597 |
In cash terms the typical TQ3 home went from £53,000 in 1995 to £250,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 117%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 18% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the TQ3 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 2002 (+24.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−4.4%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What TQ3 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | 0.0% | −2.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.8% | −3.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.2% | −0.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.1% | −0.7% |
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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of semi-detached homes dominate the record here, 31% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £351,000 against £119,000 for a flat, 2.9 times the price.
Median by property type, TQ3
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 | £351,000 | 64 | 6,063 |
| Semi-detached | £257,800 | 58 | 6,530 |
| Terraced | £191,200 | 44 | 4,585 |
| Flats | £119,000 | 38 | 3,674 |
Transaction volumes
Sales per year, counted
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The last five years, month by month
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
TQ3 recorded 393 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 895 sales a year before the financial crisis and 417 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 TQ3
For renting purposes TQ3 sits in Torbay. The ONS average private rent there is £908 a month (May 2026). 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.
Set against the £250,000 median sold price, £908 a month is £10,896 a year, a gross yield of 4.4%: gross, before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax, so a ceiling rather than a promise. Rents are published at local-authority level, so nearby districts in the same authority share these figures.
How TQ3 trades
In its area's price order TQ3 comes 12 of 14, towards the cheaper end of the table.
Asked and answered: TQ3 (Paignton)
How much did a house sell for in TQ3 (Paignton)?
Are property prices falling in TQ3 (Paignton)?
Is TQ3 (Paignton) a good place to buy a house?
Where do TQ3 prices go next?
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 TQ3 right now
Everything above is what homes in TQ3 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 75 homes on the market right now, from 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 20% above the TQ3 median sold price.
26% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- Barcombe Heights, Preston, Paignton, ...
- Queen Elizabeth Drive, Paignton, Devo...
- Manor Road, Paignton, Devon, TQ3
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 TQ3 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.
The price of an extra bedroom in TQ
Real sold prices by size across the TQ area, straight 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%) | — |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land one size out. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
TQ3 ranks 9 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
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside TQ3, sector by sector
The next slice down is the postcode sector: a group of streets, each with its own report. Two sectors a short walk apart can trade at sharply different prices.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| TQ3 1 | £332,000 | 55 |
| TQ3 2 | £227,500 | 65 |
| TQ3 3 | £222,500 | 84 |
How TQ3 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 (this report) | £250,000 | +4% |
| TQ11 | £250,000 | +14% |
| TQ1 | £217,500 | +6% |
Selling a home in TQ3? Price it on the evidence
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in TQ3, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from TQ3's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded TQ3 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working TQ3: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim TQ3.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with TQ3 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual TQ3 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.