Higher Street, Brixham house prices are built from 156 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1996 and the most recent on 27 Nov 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £135,000. Across the 14 years from 2007 to 2021 the median moved +69.5% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +23.2%.
Median price paid
£135,000
Change in cash, 2007–2021
+69.5%
Change in real terms
+23.2%
Median per m²
£1,841
HM Land Registry156 sales28 with floor areaLatest sale 27 Nov 2025
Section 01
How Higher Street, Brixham prices moved
The chart tracks the median Higher Street, Brixham house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1996 to 2021. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.
| Decade | Years with sales | Median paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 4 | £41,750 | £92,705 |
| 2000s | 6 | £105,000 | £191,279 |
| 2010s | 6 | £158,975 | £224,155 |
| 2020s | 1 | £241,500 | £246,750 |
The highest yearly median on record for Higher Street, Brixham is £241,500 in 2021; the lowest is £28,250 in 1996. Across the full 26-year record the cash median has moved from £28,250 to £241,500.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £61,281, so the real change over the whole record is +397.9% — about +6.63% 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: +69.5% in cash against +23.2% 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.
Section 02
The most recent sales
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.
| Address | Sold | Type | Price paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 42 | 27 Nov 2025 | Terraced | £105,000 | £107,283 |
| 4 Harbour Heights | 21 Sep 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £295,000 | £318,736 |
| 60 | 10 Jan 2022 | Semi-detached | £375,000 | £434,470 |
| 19 | 22 Dec 2021 | Terraced | £231,000 | £291,855 |
| 70 | 3 Sep 2021 | Terraced | £310,000 | £391,667 |
| 1 Hosgood Cottages | 28 Jun 2021 | Terraced | £275,000 | £347,446 |
| 21 | 14 Apr 2021 | Terraced | £169,000 | £213,522 |
| 4 Harbour Heights | 12 Apr 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £242,000 | £305,753 |
| 56 | 10 Feb 2021 | Terraced | £241,500 | £305,121 |
| 18 | 15 Jan 2021 | Terraced | £199,950 | £252,625 |
| Second and Third Floor Flat 25a | 12 Jun 2020 | Flat or maisonette | £180,000 | £233,058 |
| 10 | 20 Mar 2020 | Terraced | £187,450 | £242,704 |
| 2 | 25 Oct 2019 | Semi-detached | £160,000 | £209,276 |
| 29 | 13 May 2019 | Terraced | £115,000 | £150,417 |
| 25 | 12 Apr 2019 | Terraced | £137,450 | £179,782 |
| 5 | 23 Nov 2018 | Terraced | £210,000 | £279,868 |
| 68 | 23 Jul 2018 | Terraced | £235,000 | £313,185 |
| Second and Third Floor Flat 25a | 15 Jun 2018 | Flat or maisonette | £104,750 | £139,601 |
| 19 | 26 Apr 2018 | Terraced | £145,000 | £193,242 |
| White Cottage, 30 | 28 Feb 2018 | Terraced | £177,700 | £236,821 |
| 38a | 28 Feb 2018 | Flat or maisonette | £140,000 | £186,578 |
| 40 | 24 Jan 2018 | Terraced | £187,000 | £249,216 |
| 60a | 29 Nov 2017 | Terraced | £220,000 | £299,421 |
| 46 | 23 Nov 2017 | Terraced | £190,000 | £258,591 |
| 22 | 12 Sep 2017 | Terraced | £220,000 | £299,421 |
Section 03
Homes that sold twice
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 Higher Street, Brixham values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 42 Higher Street | £29,000 (1996) | £105,000 (2025) | +4.5% | +1.9% |
| 4 HARBOUR HEIGHTS Higher Street | £70,000 (2000) | £295,000 (2023) | +6.5% | +3.6% |
| 60 Higher Street | £97,000 (2001) | £375,000 (2022) | +6.7% | +4.0% |
| 19 Higher Street | £18,500 (1996) | £231,000 (2021) | +10.6% | +8.3% |
| 70 Higher Street | £99,950 (2004) | £310,000 (2021) | +6.9% | +4.5% |
| 1 HOSGOOD COTTAGES Higher Street | £65,000 (2000) | £275,000 (2021) | +7.1% | +4.8% |
| 21 Higher Street | £38,300 (1998) | £169,000 (2021) | +6.7% | +4.4% |
| 56 Higher Street | £57,500 (2000) | £241,500 (2021) | +7.1% | +4.8% |
| 18 Higher Street | £105,000 (2002) | £199,950 (2021) | +3.4% | +1.2% |
| SECOND and THIRD FLOOR FLAT 25A Higher Street | £104,750 (2018) | £180,000 (2020) | +31.1% | +29.2% |
| 10 Higher Street | £45,000 (1999) | £187,450 (2020) | +7.0% | +4.7% |
| 2 Higher Street | £123,500 (2010) | £160,000 (2019) | +2.9% | +0.7% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Higher Street, Brixham is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.
| Property type | Sales | Share | Median paid | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terraced | 118 | 75.6% | £134,000 | £18,500 – £310,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 21 | 13.5% | £140,000 | £30,000 – £295,000 |
| Semi-detached | 14 | 9.0% | £123,500 | £41,500 – £375,000 |
| Detached | 3 | 1.9% | £175,000 | £80,000 – £190,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Higher Street, Brixham
20 of the sales on record are leasehold and 136 freehold — 12.8% 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 £138,750 and the median freehold sale £134,500 — a gap of -3.1%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 20 | 12.8% | £138,750 |
| Freehold | 136 | 87.2% | £134,500 |
A further 6 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.
Section 07
Living in Higher Street, Brixham
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.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 775 | 1.5% |
| B | 6,359 | 12.2% |
| C | 11,843 | 22.7% |
| D | 16,680 | 31.9% |
| E | 10,298 | 19.7% |
| F | 4,645 | 8.9% |
| G | 1,622 | 3.1% |
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 £135,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 8.93% 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 TQ5, 104 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 45 violent, 2 burglary, 3 vehicle-related and 23 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 1.6 times quieter.
Against the 88,627 residents the 2021 census counted in South Hams, that is 1.17 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.
Section 08
The neighbourhood around Higher Street, Brixham
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.
7 state and independent schools have a TQ5 postcode: 5 primary, 2 secondary. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.
| School | Phase | Type | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| Churston Ferrers Grammar School Academy | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,062 |
| Brixham College | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,012 |
| Eden Park Primary & Nursery School | Primary | Academy converter | 342 |
| Furzeham Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 257 |
| Galmpton Church of England Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 222 |
| Brixham Church of England Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 187 |
| St Margaret Clitherow Catholic Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 56 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Brixham Ferry Landing | Ferry | 1.0 km |
| Brixham Harbour Boarding Stage | Ferry | 1.1 km |
| Churston (Paignton and Dartmouth Railway) | Metro or underground | 2.4 km |
| Churston (Paignton and Dartmouth Railway) | Metro or underground | 2.4 km |
Section 09
How Higher Street, Brixham compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Higher Street, Brixham sits below that national figure — -14.3%.
Within Brixham the street ranks 246 of 322 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £160,000 (-15.6%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,841 per square metre, across 28 of the 156 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 £18,500 to £375,000. 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.
Higher Street, Brixham 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.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
Streets nearby
- New Road£100,000 median
- Milton Street£139,950 median
- Bolton Street£78,750 median
- Mount Pleasant Road£125,950 median
- North Boundary Road£175,000 median
- Drew Street£125,500 median
- Heath Road£165,000 median
- Berry Head Road£227,500 median
- South Furzeham Road£150,000 median
- Chestnut Drive£153,500 median
- Northfields Lane£179,225 median
- Pillar Avenue£89,500 median
- Ranscombe Road£172,500 median
- Cumber Drive£128,650 median
- Burton Street£120,000 median
- Summercourt Way£186,750 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 1, HOSGOOD COTTAGES Higher Street7 sales
- 25 Higher Street7 sales
- 19 Higher Street5 sales
- 8 Higher Street5 sales
- 7 Higher Street5 sales
- 38 Higher Street5 sales
- 4, HARBOUR HEIGHTS Higher Street4 sales
- 70 Higher Street4 sales
- 21 Higher Street4 sales
- 56 Higher Street4 sales
- 18 Higher Street4 sales
- 29 Higher Street4 sales
- 68 Higher Street4 sales
- 40 Higher Street4 sales
- 25A Higher Street4 sales
- 36 Higher Street4 sales
- 32 Higher Street4 sales
- 2, HOSGOOD COTTAGES Higher Street4 sales
- 54 Higher Street4 sales
- 42 Higher Street3 sales
- 60 Higher Street3 sales
- 5 Higher Street3 sales
- 60A Higher Street3 sales
- 22 Higher Street3 sales
Back to Brixham house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Higher Street, Brixham?
The median price paid in Higher Street, Brixham across every sale on the register is £135,000. 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 Higher Street, Brixham?
156 sales are on record for Higher Street, Brixham, the most recent completing on 27 Nov 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Higher Street, Brixham house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +69.5% between 2007 and 2021. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +23.2%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Higher Street, Brixham house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £241,500, set in 2021. 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 Higher Street, Brixham?
£1,841 per square metre, from the 28 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 27 Nov 2025. 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, “Higher Street, Brixham 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.