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Salcombe market report TQ8
The standing TQ8 (Salcombe) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Underneath every chart here sit 2,532 registered sales in TQ8 (Salcombe) 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 June 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: 10 registered 2026 sales put the TQ8 (Salcombe) median at £605,000, down 19% on five years earlier, with a mean of £727,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £8,330 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 2,532 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
The postcode district TQ8 covering Salcombe sits in Salcombe. 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 TQ8 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.
TQ8 sold prices: where the market stands
Take the 10 registered 2026 sales in TQ8 and the middle price, the median, is £605,000. The mean lands at £727,100, well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
Price per square metre in TQ8
Measured by floor area, the last five years of TQ8 sales average about £8,330 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, TQ8 sits 112% above the national market.
The price of a typical TQ8 home, 1995 to 2026
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £605,000 | £605,000 | 10 |
| 2025 | £735,000 | £752,576 | 44 |
| 2024 | £756,200 | £803,996 | 66 |
| 2023 | £900,000 | £988,880 | 65 |
| 2022 | £934,700 | £1,096,042 | 71 |
| 2021 | £750,000 | £949,597 | 77 |
| 2020 | £670,000 | £869,339 | 77 |
| 2019 | £660,000 | £865,102 | 80 |
| 2018 | £554,600 | £739,292 | 71 |
| 2017 | £475,600 | £648,671 | 98 |
| 2016 | £527,500 | £737,978 | 98 |
| 2015 | £470,000 | £664,110 | 85 |
| 2014 | £532,500 | £755,444 | 103 |
| 2013 | £475,000 | £683,478 | 66 |
| 2012 | £437,500 | £643,945 | 62 |
| 2011 | £442,500 | £668,005 | 68 |
| 2010 | £469,000 | £735,513 | 75 |
| 2009 | £420,000 | £675,154 | 45 |
| 2008 | £378,000 | £619,622 | 62 |
| 2007 | £405,000 | £686,993 | 109 |
| 2006 | £430,000 | £746,425 | 121 |
| 2005 | £379,500 | £675,357 | 64 |
| 2004 | £390,000 | £708,316 | 87 |
| 2003 | £291,200 | £536,461 | 94 |
| 2002 | £250,000 | £470,373 | 87 |
| 2001 | £179,000 | £344,118 | 81 |
| 2000 | £177,500 | £348,344 | 76 |
| 1999 | £138,000 | £275,027 | 107 |
| 1998 | £107,500 | £216,996 | 97 |
| 1997 | £95,000 | £194,826 | 121 |
| 1996 | £87,500 | £184,534 | 101 |
| 1995 | £96,000 | £208,689 | 64 |
In cash terms the typical TQ8 home went from £96,000 in 1995 to £605,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 190%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2022. The market now sits about 45% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the TQ8 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 (+39.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−17.7%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of detached houses dominate the record here, 35% of the typed total. In 2025, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £1,337,500 against £507,500 for a flat, 2.6 times the price.
Median by property type, TQ8
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 | £1,337,500 (2025) | – | 889 |
| Semi-detached | £697,500 (2024) | – | 389 |
| Terraced | £428,800 (2025) | – | 490 |
| Flats | £507,500 (2025) | – | 746 |
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −17.7% | −19.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −4.2% | −8.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.4% | −2.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.7% | −1.0% |
The table annualises median growth over each period, with the real column deflated by ONS CPIH. Smoothing hides the cycle (see the chart above for it), and none of this forecasts: it is the record.
Transaction volumes
Sales per year, counted
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
The last five years, month by month
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
TQ8 recorded 36 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 90 sales a year before the financial crisis and 51 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.
The shape of the TQ8 market
This is a thin market: 36 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. Expect volatility in the annual figures: swings past ten per cent show up repeatedly above, and they usually reflect the mix of homes sold in a given year rather than genuine repricing. TQ8 is currently the dearest district of its postcode area by median price.
The rental side of TQ8
The local authority for TQ8 is South Hams, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,000 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £728 a month here against £1,613 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, South Hams
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £605,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,000 a month (£12,000 a year) works out at a 2.0% 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.
Common questions on TQ8 (Salcombe)
Is TQ8 (Salcombe) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in TQ8 (Salcombe)?
Are property prices falling in TQ8 (Salcombe)?
Will TQ8 prices rise from here?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is down 19% over five years in cash but down 36% after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.
What you could buy in TQ8 now
Everything above is what homes in TQ8 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 57 homes currently on the market from 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 12% above the TQ8 median sold price.
32% 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.
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 TQ8 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.
Bedroom by bedroom: TQ prices by size
Real sold prices by size across the TQ area, straight 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%) | — |
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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
TQ8 ranks 13 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.
Five-year change in the median, TQ area districts
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside TQ8, sector by sector
Below district level sit the sectors, street groups with reports of their own, and the gaps between neighbouring ones can be sharp.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| TQ8 8 | £605,000 | 10 |
How TQ8 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the TQ area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| TQ8 (this report) | £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 | £217,500 | +6% |
Before you sell in TQ8: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in TQ8, open the average prices map and zoom from the TQ8 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded TQ8 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 TQ8.
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Two maps carry on from here: every TQ8 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.
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.