Dolphin Crescent, Paignton house prices are built from 150 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 29 May 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £227,475. Across the 12 years from 2006 to 2018 the median moved +4.0% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -22.1%.
Median price paid
£227,475
Change in cash, 2006–2018
+4.0%
Change in real terms
-22.1%
Median per m²
£1,688
HM Land Registry150 sales33 with floor areaLatest sale 29 May 2026
Section 01
How Dolphin Crescent, Paignton prices moved
The chart tracks the median Dolphin Crescent, Paignton house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2018. 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 | £87,500 | £194,291 |
| 2000s | 5 | £175,000 | £318,798 |
| 2010s | 6 | £277,500 | £391,275 |
The highest yearly median on record for Dolphin Crescent, Paignton is £340,000 in 2016; the lowest is £72,000 in 1995. Across the full 24-year record the cash median has moved from £72,000 to £325,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £159,874, so the real change over the whole record is +170.9% — about +4.43% 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: +4.0% in cash against -22.1% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 52 | 29 May 2026 | Detached | £479,200 | £479,200 |
| 17 | 7 Mar 2025 | Detached | £340,000 | £347,391 |
| 68 | 31 Jan 2025 | Detached | £450,000 | £459,783 |
| 26 | 10 Sep 2024 | Semi-detached | £472,500 | £497,183 |
| 4 | 1 Dec 2023 | Detached | £435,000 | £470,000 |
| 20 | 13 Jan 2023 | Detached | £550,000 | £594,253 |
| 23 | 24 Oct 2022 | Detached | £475,000 | £550,329 |
| 57 | 5 Oct 2022 | Detached | £845,000 | £979,006 |
| 31 | 22 Apr 2022 | Detached | £370,000 | £428,677 |
| 13 | 31 Mar 2022 | Detached | £567,500 | £657,498 |
| 64 | 10 Dec 2021 | Detached | £405,000 | £511,694 |
| 74 | 15 Jun 2021 | Detached | £461,000 | £582,446 |
| 90 | 8 Feb 2021 | Detached | £285,000 | £360,081 |
| 64 | 20 Jan 2021 | Detached | £345,000 | £435,887 |
| 21 | 23 Sep 2020 | Detached | £315,000 | £407,851 |
| 72 | 14 Aug 2020 | Detached | £432,500 | £559,986 |
| 24 | 13 Feb 2020 | Detached | £327,500 | £424,036 |
| 4 | 6 Sep 2019 | Detached | £285,000 | £372,774 |
| 20 | 1 Jul 2019 | Detached | £395,000 | £516,651 |
| 45 | 28 Feb 2019 | Detached | £335,000 | £438,173 |
| 95 | 20 Nov 2018 | Semi-detached | £208,000 | £277,202 |
| 51 | 25 Oct 2018 | Detached | £395,000 | £526,418 |
| 6 | 10 Aug 2018 | Detached | £350,000 | £466,446 |
| 60 | 27 Apr 2018 | Semi-detached | £300,000 | £399,811 |
| 83 | 27 Mar 2018 | Detached | £455,000 | £606,380 |
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 Dolphin Crescent, Paignton values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 52 Dolphin Crescent | £263,950 (2015) | £479,200 (2026) | +5.6% | +2.3% |
| 26 Dolphin Crescent | £155,000 (2001) | £472,500 (2024) | +5.0% | +2.2% |
| 4 Dolphin Crescent | £186,500 (2009) | £435,000 (2023) | +6.2% | +3.1% |
| 20 Dolphin Crescent | £218,500 (2010) | £550,000 (2023) | +7.4% | +4.2% |
| 23 Dolphin Crescent | £85,500 (1996) | £475,000 (2022) | +6.8% | +4.3% |
| 57 Dolphin Crescent | £390,000 (2008) | £845,000 (2022) | +5.7% | +2.9% |
| 31 Dolphin Crescent | £144,000 (2002) | £370,000 (2022) | +4.8% | +2.2% |
| 13 Dolphin Crescent | £215,000 (2012) | £567,500 (2022) | +10.2% | +7.4% |
| 64 Dolphin Crescent | £277,500 (2010) | £405,000 (2021) | +3.5% | +1.3% |
| 74 Dolphin Crescent | £310,000 (2004) | £461,000 (2021) | +2.4% | +0.1% |
| 90 Dolphin Crescent | £124,950 (2000) | £285,000 (2021) | +4.0% | +1.8% |
| 72 Dolphin Crescent | £189,000 (2000) | £432,500 (2020) | +4.2% | +2.0% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Dolphin Crescent, Paignton 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | 135 | 90.0% | £237,500 | £30,000 – £845,000 |
| Semi-detached | 15 | 10.0% | £155,000 | £68,000 – £472,500 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Dolphin Crescent, Paignton
0 of the sales on record are leasehold and 150 freehold — 0.0% 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.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 0 | 0.0% | — |
| Freehold | 150 | 100.0% | £227,475 |
| New build | 4 | 2.7% | £124,950 |
| Existing home | 146 | 97.3% | £235,000 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -46.8%. 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.
Section 07
Living in Dolphin Crescent, Paignton
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 £227,475 here, that rent is a gross yield of 5.30% 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.
Section 08
The neighbourhood around Dolphin Crescent, Paignton
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.
| School | Phase | Type | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paignton Academy | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,568 |
| Oldway Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 598 |
| Kings Ash Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 293 |
| Marldon Church of England Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 216 |
| Sacred Heart Catholic School | Primary | Academy converter | 208 |
| Collaton St Mary Church of England Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 199 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Paignton (Paignton and Dartmouth Railway) | Metro or underground | 1.3 km |
| Paignton (Paignton and Dartmouth Railway) | Tram | 1.3 km |
| Paignton Rail Station | Rail | 1.3 km |
| Paignton (Paignton and Dartmouth Railway) | Metro or underground | 1.3 km |
Section 09
How Dolphin Crescent, Paignton compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Dolphin Crescent, Paignton sits above that national figure — +44.4%.
Within Paignton the street ranks 118 of 592 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £148,500 (+53.2%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,688 per square metre, across 33 of the 150 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 £30,000 to £845,000. 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.
Dolphin Crescent, 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.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
Streets nearby
- Torquay Road£105,000 median
- Preston Down Road£180,500 median
- Colin Road£86,950 median
- Southfield Avenue£220,000 median
- Maidenway Road£149,975 median
- Mulberry Close£120,475 median
- Occombe Valley Road£148,500 median
- Blatchcombe Road£130,500 median
- Clifton Road£147,000 median
- Colley End Road£106,000 median
- Marldon Road£153,500 median
- Kings Ash Road£145,000 median
- Mariners Way£138,250 median
- Waterleat Avenue£130,000 median
- Lutyens Drive£185,998 median
- Laura Grove£203,500 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 72 Dolphin Crescent5 sales
- 83 Dolphin Crescent5 sales
- 12 Dolphin Crescent5 sales
- 23 Dolphin Crescent4 sales
- 90 Dolphin Crescent4 sales
- 45 Dolphin Crescent4 sales
- 95 Dolphin Crescent4 sales
- 60 Dolphin Crescent4 sales
- 69 Dolphin Crescent4 sales
- 26 Dolphin Crescent3 sales
- 4 Dolphin Crescent3 sales
- 20 Dolphin Crescent3 sales
- 57 Dolphin Crescent3 sales
- 31 Dolphin Crescent3 sales
- 64 Dolphin Crescent3 sales
- 30 Dolphin Crescent3 sales
- 73 Dolphin Crescent3 sales
- 58 Dolphin Crescent3 sales
- 77 Dolphin Crescent3 sales
- 27 Dolphin Crescent3 sales
- 34 Dolphin Crescent3 sales
- 75 Dolphin Crescent3 sales
- 94 Dolphin Crescent3 sales
- 52 Dolphin Crescent2 sales
Back to Paignton house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Dolphin Crescent, Paignton?
The median price paid in Dolphin Crescent, Paignton across every sale on the register is £227,475. 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 Dolphin Crescent, Paignton?
150 sales are on record for Dolphin Crescent, Paignton, the most recent completing on 29 May 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Dolphin Crescent, Paignton house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +4.0% between 2006 and 2018. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -22.1%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Dolphin Crescent, Paignton house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £340,000, set in 2016. 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 Dolphin Crescent, Paignton?
£1,688 per square metre, from the 33 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 May 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, “Dolphin Crescent, 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.