Esplanade Road, Paignton house prices are built from 206 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 2000 and the most recent on 30 Jan 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £74,000. Across the 14 years from 2009 to 2023 the median moved +43.8% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -5.4%.
Median price paid
£74,000
Change in cash, 2009–2023
+43.8%
Change in real terms
-5.4%
Median per m²
£1,791
HM Land Registry206 sales38 with floor areaLatest sale 30 Jan 2026
Section 01
How Esplanade Road, Paignton prices moved
The chart tracks the median Esplanade Road, Paignton house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 2000 to 2023. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 8 | £64,950 | £118,320 |
| 2010s | 2 | £77,750 | £109,628 |
| 2020s | 3 | £110,000 | £112,391 |
The highest yearly median on record for Esplanade Road, Paignton is £110,000 in 2022; the lowest is £36,750 in 2000. Across the full 24-year record the cash median has moved from £36,750 to £110,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £73,500, so the real change over the whole record is +61.7% — about +2.11% 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: +43.8% in cash against -5.4% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flat 15 New Esplanade Court | 30 Jan 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £90,000 | £90,000 |
| Flat 3 New Esplanade Court | 19 Aug 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £75,000 | £76,630 |
| Flat 20 New Esplanade Court | 8 Aug 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £72,500 | £74,076 |
| Flat 37 New Esplanade Court | 30 Jun 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £83,000 | £84,804 |
| Flat 25 New Esplanade Court | 20 Dec 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £84,000 | £88,388 |
| Flat 1 Antony Court | 23 Aug 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £162,500 | £170,989 |
| Flat 56 New Esplanade Court | 12 Aug 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £88,500 | £93,123 |
| Flat 51 New Esplanade Court | 31 May 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £89,500 | £94,175 |
| Flat 8 Antony Court | 1 Dec 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £130,000 | £140,460 |
| Flat 2 Antony Court | 27 Oct 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £147,000 | £158,828 |
| Flat 39 New Esplanade Court | 16 Aug 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £106,000 | £114,529 |
| Flat 47 New Esplanade Court | 14 Jul 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £86,500 | £93,460 |
| Flat 33 New Esplanade Court | 12 Jun 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £110,000 | £118,851 |
| Flat 7 Antony Court | 4 Nov 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £115,000 | £133,237 |
| Flat 12 New Esplanade Court | 13 Sep 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £110,000 | £127,445 |
| Flat 6 Antony Court | 22 Jul 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £118,000 | £136,713 |
| Flat 55 New Esplanade Court | 1 Jul 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £101,000 | £117,017 |
| Flat 37 New Esplanade Court | 18 Feb 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £100,000 | £115,859 |
| Flat 50 New Esplanade Court | 15 Oct 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £99,500 | £125,712 |
| Flat 24 New Esplanade Court | 8 Oct 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £103,000 | £130,134 |
| Flat 60 New Esplanade Court | 1 Oct 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £80,000 | £101,075 |
| Flat 43 New Esplanade Court | 30 Sep 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £78,000 | £98,548 |
| Flat 25 New Esplanade Court | 10 Sep 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £82,000 | £103,602 |
| Flat 18 New Esplanade Court | 3 Sep 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £89,500 | £113,078 |
| Flat 28 New Esplanade Court | 27 Aug 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £95,000 | £120,027 |
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 Esplanade Road, Paignton values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FLAT 15 NEW ESPLANADE COURT Esplanade Road | £38,345 (2000) | £90,000 (2026) | +3.3% | +0.6% |
| FLAT 3 NEW ESPLANADE COURT Esplanade Road | £36,100 (2000) | £75,000 (2025) | +3.0% | +0.2% |
| FLAT 20 NEW ESPLANADE COURT Esplanade Road | £30,995 (2000) | £72,500 (2025) | +3.5% | +0.7% |
| FLAT 37 NEW ESPLANADE COURT Esplanade Road | £39,850 (2001) | £83,000 (2025) | +3.1% | +0.3% |
| FLAT 25 NEW ESPLANADE COURT Esplanade Road | £36,995 (2000) | £84,000 (2024) | +3.5% | +0.7% |
| FLAT 1 ANTONY COURT Esplanade Road | £134,950 (2004) | £162,500 (2024) | +0.9% | -1.9% |
| FLAT 56 NEW ESPLANADE COURT Esplanade Road | £36,750 (2000) | £88,500 (2024) | +3.7% | +1.0% |
| FLAT 51 NEW ESPLANADE COURT Esplanade Road | £37,500 (2000) | £89,500 (2024) | +3.7% | +1.0% |
| FLAT 8 ANTONY COURT Esplanade Road | £125,500 (2004) | £130,000 (2023) | +0.2% | -2.6% |
| FLAT 2 ANTONY COURT Esplanade Road | £124,495 (2004) | £147,000 (2023) | +0.9% | -2.0% |
| FLAT 39 NEW ESPLANADE COURT Esplanade Road | £37,500 (2000) | £106,000 (2023) | +4.6% | +1.9% |
| FLAT 47 NEW ESPLANADE COURT Esplanade Road | £36,250 (2000) | £86,500 (2023) | +3.9% | +1.1% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Esplanade Road, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flat or maisonette | 192 | 93.2% | £72,000 | £24,000 – £162,500 |
| Terraced | 11 | 5.3% | £249,500 | £60,000 – £535,000 |
| Detached | 3 | 1.5% | £280,000 | £177,000 – £340,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Esplanade Road, Paignton
192 of the sales on record are leasehold and 14 freehold — 93.2% 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 £72,150 and the median freehold sale £264,750 — a gap of +266.9%. 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 | 192 | 93.2% | £72,150 |
| Freehold | 14 | 6.8% | £264,750 |
| New build | 51 | 24.8% | £36,750 |
| Existing home | 155 | 75.2% | £80,000 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -54.1%. 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 28 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 Esplanade Road, Paignton
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Torbay, 37.1% of 76,225 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 6.2% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 140 | 0.2% |
| B | 5,689 | 7.5% |
| C | 22,436 | 29.4% |
| D | 30,540 | 40.1% |
| E | 12,689 | 16.6% |
| F | 3,525 | 4.6% |
| G | 1,206 | 1.6% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Torbay at £913 a month as of Jun 2026 — £614 for a one-bedroom home and £989 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £74,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 14.81% 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 TQ4, 265 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 110 violent, 10 burglary, 6 vehicle-related and 49 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 1.6 times busier.
Against the 139,324 residents the 2021 census counted in Torbay, that is 1.90 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 Esplanade Road, Paignton
The 2021 census counted 139,324 residents in Torbay across 62,992 households. 65.1% of those households own their home and 34.9% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
6 state and independent schools have a TQ4 postcode: 5 primary, 1 16 plus. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| White Rock Primary School | Primary | Foundation school | 666 |
| Curledge Street Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 439 |
| Hayes School | Primary | Academy converter | 340 |
| Roselands Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 315 |
| St Michael's Church of England Academy | Primary | Free schools | 101 |
| South Devon College | 16 plus | Further education | — |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Goodrington (Paignton and Dartmouth Railway) | Metro or underground | 0.8 km |
| Goodrington (Paignton and Dartmouth Railway) | Tram | 0.8 km |
| Goodrington (Paignton and Dartmouth Railway) | Metro or underground | 0.8 km |
| Paignton (Paignton and Dartmouth Railway) | Metro or underground | 1.5 km |
Section 09
How Esplanade Road, Paignton compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Esplanade Road, Paignton sits below that national figure — -53.0%.
Within Paignton the street ranks 572 of 592 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £148,500 (-50.2%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,791 per square metre, across 38 of the 206 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 £24,000 to £535,000. 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.
Esplanade Road, Paignton sits in Torbay, in the South West.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Torbay at 8.1 times median local earnings of £30,873 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
- Totnes Road£92,250 median
- Dartmouth Road£125,000 median
- Fisher Street£124,000 median
- Belle Vue Road£91,500 median
- Roselands Drive£169,000 median
- Roundham Road£173,000 median
- Penwill Way£192,000 median
- Cleveland Road£149,950 median
- Hookhills Road£168,000 median
- Alta Vista Road£200,000 median
- Haytor Avenue£108,000 median
- Steed Close£221,000 median
- Harbourne Avenue£157,000 median
- Gibson Road£180,000 median
- Davies Avenue£192,975 median
- Pebble Court£95,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- FLAT 37, NEW ESPLANADE COURT Esplanade Road6 sales
- FLAT 50, NEW ESPLANADE COURT Esplanade Road6 sales
- FLAT 35, NEW ESPLANADE COURT Esplanade Road6 sales
- FLAT 56, NEW ESPLANADE COURT Esplanade Road5 sales
- FLAT 51, NEW ESPLANADE COURT Esplanade Road5 sales
- FLAT 57, NEW ESPLANADE COURT Esplanade Road5 sales
- FLAT 15, NEW ESPLANADE COURT Esplanade Road4 sales
- FLAT 2, ANTONY COURT Esplanade Road4 sales
- FLAT 19, NEW ESPLANADE COURT Esplanade Road4 sales
- FLAT 52, NEW ESPLANADE COURT Esplanade Road4 sales
- FLAT 16, NEW ESPLANADE COURT Esplanade Road4 sales
- FLAT 38, NEW ESPLANADE COURT Esplanade Road4 sales
- FLAT 11, NEW ESPLANADE COURT Esplanade Road4 sales
- FLAT 8, NEW ESPLANADE COURT Esplanade Road4 sales
- FLAT 10, NEW ESPLANADE COURT Esplanade Road4 sales
- FLAT 26, NEW ESPLANADE COURT Esplanade Road4 sales
- FLAT 14, NEW ESPLANADE COURT Esplanade Road4 sales
- 15 Esplanade Road4 sales
- FLAT 20, NEW ESPLANADE COURT Esplanade Road3 sales
- FLAT 25, NEW ESPLANADE COURT Esplanade Road3 sales
- FLAT 1, ANTONY COURT Esplanade Road3 sales
- FLAT 39, NEW ESPLANADE COURT Esplanade Road3 sales
- FLAT 47, NEW ESPLANADE COURT Esplanade Road3 sales
- FLAT 33, NEW ESPLANADE COURT Esplanade Road3 sales
Back to Paignton house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Esplanade Road, Paignton?
The median price paid in Esplanade Road, Paignton across every sale on the register is £74,000. 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 Esplanade Road, Paignton?
206 sales are on record for Esplanade Road, Paignton, the most recent completing on 30 Jan 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Esplanade Road, Paignton house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +43.8% between 2009 and 2023. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -5.4%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Esplanade Road, Paignton house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £110,000, set in 2022. 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 Esplanade Road, Paignton?
£1,791 per square metre, from the 38 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 30 Jan 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, “Esplanade Road, 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.