That is the middle of 2,084 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 4.6 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.
A third of Torquay’s sales are flats and maisonettes
2,084 homes sold in three years: 287 detached houses, 316 semi-detached houses, 707 terraced houses and 774 flats and maisonettes. A detached house sells for 2.8 times what a flat does.
Detached houses£420K
median sale · 287 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£340K–£600K
Last 12 months
£410K90 sold
Semi-detached houses£269K
median sale · 316 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£225K–£315K
Last 12 months
£260K102 sold
Terraced houses£223K
median sale · 707 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£185K–£260K
Last 12 months
£213K198 sold
Flats and maisonettes£150K
median sale · 774 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£110K–£200K
Last 12 months
£142K203 sold
New build
£227K
The mix
A mixed market: no one type makes up more than 37% of sales
Detached houses14%
Semi-detached houses15%
Terraced houses34%
Flats and maisonettes37%
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 Torquay’s homes sold for between £160K and £294K
One sale in ten was under £110K and one in ten over £420K. 63% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £220,000, sits in the £200–250K band
2,084 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 4.6 times as much as in 1995, a slower rise than England’s
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £48,000 in 1995 to £220,000 in the last 12 months (£175,000 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
593 sales in the last 12 months, against 2,024 in 2002, the busiest year, and 677 in 2023. Sales fell by 54% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, and the median by 8%. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 67% more sales than 2020.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Torquay costs less than England as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: Torquay, every standard sale in England, and the typical UK town (the middle of the town medians, towns of 2,500 or more).
By type
Terraced houses rose the most since 1995
1995
2000
2005
2010
2015
2020
Last 12 months
Detached houses
£86K
£141K
£275K
£280K
£284K
£360K
£410K
Semi-detached houses
£55K
£73K
£164K
£173K
£193K
£228K
£260K
Terraced houses
£43K
£62K
£142K
£145K
£155K
£183K
£213K
Flats and maisonettes
£36K
£50K
£109K
£124K
£125K
£140K
£142K
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: 0.3% of sales in the last 12 months
2,870 new homes have been sold in Torquay since 1995; the share peaked at 17% in 2008.
New-build share of sales
Calendar years with 10 or more sales, then the last 12 months.
New builds and tenure · 3 years
A new home sold for a median £228,000
against £220,000 for a home sold on, about the same, over three years. New homes are often a different mix from the homes sold on, so part of the gap is size and type.
37% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 1.8% sold leasehold in Torquay. 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
Babbacombe Road is Torquay’s busiest street, with 46 sales in three years
157 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026, 43 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
Babbacombe Road
TQ1
46
£161,000
Mostly flats
2
St Marychurch Road
TQ1
36
£160,500
Mostly flats
3
Parkfield Road
TQ1
33
£210,000
Mostly flats · new builds
4
Teignmouth Road
TQ1
32
£231,000
Mixed
5
Abbey Road
TQ2
23
£82,500
Mostly flats
6
Warbro Road
TQ1
21
£200,000
Mixed
7
St Albans Road
TQ1
20
£131,000
Mostly flats
8
Lower Warberry Road
TQ1
19
£205,000
Mostly flats
9
Higher Erith Road
TQ1
19
£110,000
Mostly flats
10
Middle Warberry Road
TQ1
18
£227,500
Mixed
11
Forest Road
TQ1
18
£211,250
Mixed
12
Princes Road
TQ1
18
£176,250
Mostly terraced houses
13
Barton Hill Road
TQ2
17
£248,500
Mixed
14
Asheldon Road
TQ1
17
£220,000
Mostly flats
15
Higher Warberry Road
TQ1
17
£170,000
Mostly flats
Dearest streets
Thatcher Avenue: £1,050,000
Torquay median£220K
Thatcher Avenue£1.1M
Whidborne Avenue£860K
Abbey Crescent£600K
Welsury Road£465K
Seymour Drive£443K
Cheapest streets
Market Street: £58,000
Torquay median£220K
Market Street£58K
Falkland Road£68K
Ebdon Way£70K
Orchid Way£70K
Abbey Road£83K
Among streets with five or more sales; the dearest street’s median is 18.1 times the cheapest’s. Street medians mix types: a street of detached houses beats one of flats.
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.
Across Devon
Torquay is the 46th most expensive of 47 towns in Devon
Torquay is one of Devon’s cheapest towns to buy in; the typical UK town’s median is £277,000.
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 Torquay
What is the average house price in Torquay?
The median home in Torquay sold for £220,000 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 2,084 standard sales (£220,000 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £420,000, semi-detached houses £269,000, terraced houses £223,000 and flats and maisonettes £149,500.
Are house prices going up in Torquay?
The median was £220,000 in 2025, about the same on 2024 (£225,000), and £220,000 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 Torquay each year?
593 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 968 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
What are the most expensive streets in Torquay?
Among streets with five or more sales in three years: Thatcher Avenue (TQ1, £1,050,000), Whidborne Avenue (TQ1, £860,000) and Abbey Crescent (TQ2, £600,000).
How much does a new build cost in Torquay?
New homes sold for a median £228,000 over three years, against £220,000 for homes sold on. New builds were 1.6% of sales.
Is Torquay expensive for Devon?
Torquay is the 45th most expensive of 47 towns of 2,500 or more in Devon by median sale price.
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.