That is the middle of 142 standard sales recorded by HM Land Registry from September 2023 to August 2026, against £277,000 in the typical UK town. The typical home sells for 6.1 times as much as in 1995. Below: what each type of home sells for, the spread of prices, every year since 1995, new builds, the busiest streets and the neighbours. Rents and council tax are on Cost of living.
142 homes sold in three years: 46 detached houses, 23 semi-detached houses, 30 terraced houses and 43 flats and maisonettes. A detached house sells for 1.7 times what a flat does.
Detached houses£1.1M
median sale · 46 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£730K–£1.5M
Last 12 months
£1M12 sold
Semi-detached houses£713K
median sale · 23 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£513K–£1.1M
Terraced houses£573K
median sale · 30 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£450K–£815K
Last 12 months
£363K7 sold
Flats and maisonettes£630K
median sale · 43 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£390K–£1.1M
Last 12 months
£395K9 sold
The mix
A mixed market: no one type makes up more than 32% of sales
Detached houses32%
Semi-detached houses16%
Terraced houses21%
Flats and maisonettes30%
Standard sales, Sep 2023 to Aug 2026. A median needs 5 sales of a type; “middle half” is the 25th to 75th percentile of 10 or more.
Price range
Half of Salcombe’s homes sold for between £500K and £1.3M
One sale in ten was under £350K and one in ten over £1.8M. 2% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £760,000, sits in the £750K–1M band
142 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 6.1 times as much as in 1995, a faster rise than England’s
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £97,000 in 1995 to £593,000 in the last 12 months (£645,000 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
28 sales in the last 12 months, against 120 in 2006, the busiest year, and 43 in 2009. Sales fell by 59% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, though the median held.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Salcombe costs more than England as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: Salcombe, every standard sale in England, and the typical UK town (the middle of the town medians, towns of 2,500 or more).
By type
Detached houses rose the most since 1995
1995
2000
2005
2010
2015
2020
Last 12 months
Detached houses
£110K
£185K
£550K
£485K
£540K
£890K
£1M
Terraced houses
£80K
£180K
£384K
£468K
£495K
£578K
£363K
Flats and maisonettes
£87K
£136K
£310K
£426K
£413K
£575K
£395K
Calendar years; a year’s median needs 5 sales of the type, so gaps are years with fewer.
Prices are as paid, not adjusted for inflation. Standard (category A) sales only; Land Registry adds a sale when it is registered, so the newest months fill in later.
New builds
Hardly any new homes: 0% of sales in the last 12 months
148 new homes have been sold in Salcombe since 1995; the share peaked at 21% in 2006.
New-build share of sales
Calendar years with 10 or more sales, then the last 12 months.
New builds and tenure · 3 years
30% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 1% sold leasehold in Salcombe. A leasehold buyer owns the home for a fixed term and may pay ground rent and service charges; check the lease before you buy.
Streets
Devon Road is Salcombe’s busiest street, with 12 sales in three years
11 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026, 1 of them ten or more. A busy street is often a new estate selling its first homes, or a long road of terraces and flats.
#
Street
Postcode area
Sales
Median
Homes
1
Devon Road
TQ8
12
£925,000
Mixed
2
Fore Street
TQ8
9
£555,000
Mixed
3
Bonaventure Road
TQ8
8
£995,000
Mostly detached houses
4
Cliff Road
TQ8
7
£1,300,000
Mostly flats
5
Allenhayes Road
TQ8
7
£1,140,000
Mixed
6
Bennett Road
TQ8
6
£1,650,000
Mostly flats
7
St Dunstans Road
TQ8
6
£1,287,500
Mostly detached houses
8
Herbert Road
TQ8
6
£888,075
Mostly detached houses
9
Sandhills Road
TQ8
5
£935,000
Mixed
10
Coronation Road
TQ8
5
£745,000
Mostly terraced houses
11
Island Street
TQ8
5
£490,000
Mostly terraced houses
Standard sales with a street name, grouped by street and postcode district (Sep 2023 to Aug 2026); a name used in two districts shows the district. Medians only: we don’t list individual sales.
Median: standard sales over three years (10+ needed). Since 2016: the median over three years against 2016’s. Miles: centre to centre.
Questions about property prices in Salcombe
What is the average house price in Salcombe?
The median home in Salcombe sold for £760,000 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 142 standard sales (£593,000 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £1,100,000, semi-detached houses £712,500, terraced houses £572,500 and flats and maisonettes £630,000.
Are house prices going up in Salcombe?
The median was £745,000 in 2025, about the same on 2024 (£736,250), and £593,000 in the last 12 months. A town’s median moves with the mix of homes sold each year as well as with prices.
How many homes sell in Salcombe each year?
28 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 71 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
What are the most expensive streets in Salcombe?
Among streets with five or more sales in three years: Bennett Road (TQ8, £1,650,000), Cliff Road (TQ8, £1,300,000) and St Dunstans Road (TQ8, £1,287,500).
Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid, every standard sale since January 1995 (yearly files of 28 September 2026), inside the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary by postcode (ONS Postcode Directory) · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranked against UK towns only. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.