Paignton house prices

Paignton house prices are built from 35,023 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 29 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £148,500. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +36.8% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -2.0%.

HM Land Registry35,023 sales6,961 with floor areaLatest sale 29 Jun 2026

The chart tracks the median Paignton house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2026. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.

The highest yearly median on record for Paignton is £270,000 in 2024; the lowest is £53,500 in 1995. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £53,500 to £260,000.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £118,795, so the real change over the whole record is +118.9% — about +2.56% a year after inflation. Cash growth and real growth are not the same story, and the gap is the part most price reports leave out.

Over the last decade alone the difference is stark: +36.8% in cash against -2.0% once inflation is removed. A buyer who sold at the end of that decade would have needed the real figure, not the headline one, to know whether they had actually gained.

Every row is a completed sale as lodged with HM Land Registry. The right-hand column restates the price in 2026 money, which is the only fair way to compare a sale from the 1990s with one from last year.

These addresses appear in the register more than once, so the same bricks are being priced twice. That makes them the strongest evidence of what actually happened to Paignton values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Paignton is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.

Energy Performance Certificates record a floor area for every home that has been surveyed, sold or let — far more homes than have changed hands. 6,280 certificates cover Paignton, and their median floor area is 79 m².

The median across the whole register is 76 m², so homes here are larger than average — +3.9%. Size explains a large part of why one area's median price sits above another's, which is why the price per square metre further up this page is the fairer comparison.

6,676 of the sales on record are leasehold and 28,347 freehold — 19.1% of the market. Tenure is not a detail: a leasehold flat and a freehold house are different assets, and mixing them into one median hides the difference.

The median leasehold sale is £102,500 and the median freehold sale £162,000 — a gap of +58.0%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +4.7%. A new-build premium is normal: the buyer gets a warranty and nothing to fix, and the price is set by a developer rather than negotiated between two households.

A further 1,365 transfers for this area are on the register but are left out of every figure above. HM Land Registry marks them as additional price paid entries: repossessions, buy-to-let portfolio moves, transfers between companies or family, and sales at a discount such as right to buy. They are real records but they are not open-market prices, and including them would drag the median somewhere no buyer ever paid.

Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across South Hams, 36.3% of 52,222 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 12.0% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.

The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in South Hams at £1,005 a month as of Jun 2026 — £732 for a one-bedroom home and £1,130 for three bedrooms.

Against the median sale of £148,500 here, that rent is a gross yield of 8.12% a year. It is a measured figure rather than an assumption: a real local rent over a real local price, before any cost of ownership.

Police forces publish every recorded street-level crime. Within a mile of the centre of TQ3, 442 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 139 violent, 14 burglary, 15 vehicle-related and 62 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 2.6 times busier.

Against the 88,627 residents the 2021 census counted in South Hams, that is 4.99 recorded crimes per thousand people in the month. The count covers a mile around the district centre while the population covers the whole council, so read the rate as an order of magnitude rather than a precise figure.

A count is not a rate. A district with shops and a station records more crime than a residential one of the same size, because more people pass through it. Read this next to the median, not on its own.

The 2021 census counted 88,627 residents in South Hams across 39,337 households. 72.1% of those households own their home and 27.9% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.

6 state and independent schools have a TQ3 postcode: 5 primary, 1 secondary. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.

The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Paignton sits below that national figure — -5.7%.

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,900 per square metre, across 6,961 of the 35,023 sales on record. Price per square metre is the only figure that compares a two-bed flat with a four-bed house honestly.

The full range on record runs from £500 to £1,700,000. Extremes usually mean something unusual — a plot sold without a house on it, a transfer between family members, or a very large property — so the median is the number to trust.

Paignton sits in South Hams, in the South West.

The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in South Hams at 11.4 times median local earnings of £32,086 a year, measured to Sep 2025. Across England and Wales the same ratio is 7.6. That number, not the price alone, is what decides whether a place is within reach of the people who work in it.

Streets in Paignton

• Totnes Road540 sales
• Torquay Road505 sales
• Dartmouth Road384 sales
• Preston Down Road348 sales
• Fisher Street335 sales
• Belle Vue Road317 sales
• Roselands Drive304 sales
• Colin Road301 sales
• Roundham Road301 sales
• Southfield Avenue294 sales
• Maidenway Road284 sales
• Mulberry Close284 sales
• Occombe Valley Road275 sales
• Blatchcombe Road272 sales
• Clifton Road271 sales
• Colley End Road269 sales
• Marldon Road260 sales
• Kings Ash Road258 sales
• Penwill Way253 sales
• Mariners Way246 sales
• Waterleat Avenue237 sales
• Lutyens Drive232 sales
• Laura Grove230 sales
• Cleveland Road207 sales
• Esplanade Road206 sales
• Barton Avenue205 sales
• Hookhills Road205 sales
• Oldway Road203 sales
• Alta Vista Road193 sales
• Primley Park188 sales
• Duchy Drive187 sales
• Barcombe Road186 sales
• Haytor Avenue181 sales
• Winner Street177 sales
• Steed Close176 sales
• Old Torquay Road174 sales
• Harbourne Avenue170 sales
• Sandringham Drive170 sales
• Davies Avenue168 sales
• Gibson Road168 sales
• Shorton Valley Road168 sales
• Pebble Court165 sales
• York Road165 sales
• Polsham Park163 sales
• Broadsands Avenue160 sales
• Sands Road156 sales
• Goodrington Road155 sales
• St Michaels Road153 sales
• Trelissick Road151 sales
• Dolphin Crescent150 sales
• Dunstone Park Road150 sales
• Lancaster Drive147 sales
• Marine Drive146 sales
• Sturcombe Avenue146 sales
• Edenvale Road144 sales
• Manor Road142 sales
• Cotehele Drive141 sales
• Elm Park141 sales
• Berry Road139 sales
• Freshwater Drive139 sales

Postcode districts covering Paignton

• TQ3£140,000 median
• TQ4£160,000 median

What is the average house price in Paignton?

The median price paid in Paignton across every sale on the register is £148,500. The median is used rather than the mean because a handful of very large sales would otherwise drag the average away from what a typical buyer paid.

How many homes have sold in Paignton?

35,023 sales are on record for Paignton, the most recent completing on 29 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Paignton house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +36.8% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -2.0%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Paignton house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £270,000, set in 2024. That is the cash figure; measured in 2026 money the peak may fall in a different year, because inflation reshapes the series.

What is the price per square metre in Paignton?

£1,900 per square metre, from the 6,961 sales where an EPC floor area could be matched to the address. Price per square metre strips out size, so a flat and a house can be compared on the same basis.

How current is this data?

The latest sale shown here completed on 29 Jun 2026. HM Land Registry publishes Price Paid Data monthly and a sale can take a month or two to appear after completion, so the most recent weeks are always incomplete.

Cite this page: Sold Price History, “Paignton house prices”, 2026. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data © Crown copyright and database right, used under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Inflation adjustment: ONS CPIH.