Preston Down Road, Paignton house prices are built from 348 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 £180,500. Across the 10 years from 2015 to 2025 the median moved +69.4% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +22.7%.
Median price paid
£180,500
Change in cash, 2015–2025
+69.4%
Change in real terms
+22.7%
Median per m²
£1,901
HM Land Registry348 sales30 with floor areaLatest sale 29 May 2026
Section 01
How Preston Down Road, Paignton prices moved
The chart tracks the median Preston Down Road, Paignton house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2025. 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 | 5 | £68,500 | £152,102 |
| 2000s | 10 | £187,975 | £342,435 |
| 2010s | 10 | £219,000 | £308,790 |
| 2020s | 4 | £350,000 | £357,609 |
The highest yearly median on record for Preston Down Road, Paignton is £367,500 in 2025; the lowest is £67,725 in 1995. Across the full 31-year record the cash median has moved from £67,725 to £367,500.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £150,381, so the real change over the whole record is +149.7% — about +3.10% 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: +69.4% in cash against +22.7% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 100 | 29 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £340,000 | £340,000 |
| 175 | 1 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £320,000 | £320,000 |
| Flat 5 Dunmoil, 30 | 1 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £118,000 | £118,000 |
| 20 | 17 Apr 2026 | Semi-detached | £320,000 | £320,000 |
| 187 | 17 Dec 2025 | Semi-detached | £430,000 | £439,348 |
| 22 | 12 Nov 2025 | Detached | £300,000 | £306,522 |
| 110 | 1 Aug 2025 | Terraced | £370,000 | £378,043 |
| 173 | 11 Jul 2025 | Detached | £365,000 | £372,935 |
| 131 | 24 Jun 2025 | Detached | £540,000 | £551,739 |
| 168 | 24 Apr 2025 | Semi-detached | £343,000 | £350,457 |
| 5 Kirkella 26 | 25 Mar 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £265,000 | £270,761 |
| South Orchard House | 31 Jan 2025 | Detached | £565,000 | £577,283 |
| 185 | 24 Oct 2024 | Detached | £368,390 | £387,634 |
| 11 | 21 Aug 2024 | Detached | £407,500 | £428,787 |
| 31 | 3 Jun 2024 | Semi-detached | £201,000 | £211,500 |
| 14 | 22 May 2024 | Semi-detached | £240,000 | £252,537 |
| 1 Preston Down Farm | 15 Sep 2023 | Semi-detached | £300,000 | £324,138 |
| 95 | 4 Aug 2023 | Detached | £340,500 | £367,897 |
| 19 | 30 Jun 2023 | Detached | £175,000 | £189,080 |
| 116 | 9 Jun 2023 | Detached | £387,000 | £418,138 |
| 52a | 5 Oct 2022 | Detached | £602,000 | £697,469 |
| 205 | 4 Oct 2022 | Detached | £372,000 | £430,994 |
| 73 | 30 Sep 2022 | Detached | £500,000 | £579,293 |
| 72 | 2 Sep 2022 | Detached | £340,000 | £393,919 |
| 167 | 22 Aug 2022 | Detached | £410,000 | £475,021 |
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 Preston Down 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 100 Preston Down Road | £112,000 (2001) | £340,000 (2026) | +4.5% | +1.8% |
| FLAT 5 DUNMOIL, 30 Preston Down Road | £38,500 (1997) | £118,000 (2026) | +3.9% | +1.3% |
| 175 Preston Down Road | £88,500 (2000) | £320,000 (2026) | +5.1% | +2.3% |
| 20 Preston Down Road | £205,000 (2007) | £320,000 (2026) | +2.4% | -0.6% |
| 187 Preston Down Road | £162,500 (2003) | £430,000 (2025) | +4.5% | +1.6% |
| 110 Preston Down Road | £180,000 (2005) | £370,000 (2025) | +3.7% | +0.7% |
| 173 Preston Down Road | £229,500 (2004) | £365,000 (2025) | +2.2% | -0.6% |
| 131 Preston Down Road | £175,000 (2009) | £540,000 (2025) | +7.3% | +4.2% |
| 168 Preston Down Road | £201,000 (2005) | £343,000 (2025) | +2.7% | -0.2% |
| SOUTH ORCHARD HOUSE Preston Down Road | £299,820 (2005) | £565,000 (2025) | +3.2% | +0.3% |
| 185 Preston Down Road | £70,000 (1997) | £368,390 (2024) | +6.3% | +3.6% |
| 11 Preston Down Road | £127,000 (2000) | £407,500 (2024) | +5.0% | +2.2% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Preston Down 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | 188 | 54.0% | £222,000 | £52,000 – £850,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 75 | 21.6% | £90,000 | £26,500 – £265,000 |
| Semi-detached | 74 | 21.3% | £199,950 | £30,000 – £430,000 |
| Terraced | 11 | 3.2% | £180,000 | £36,500 – £370,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Preston Down Road, Paignton
72 of the sales on record are leasehold and 276 freehold — 20.7% 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 £102,750 and the median freehold sale £198,975 — a gap of +93.6%. 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 | 72 | 20.7% | £102,750 |
| Freehold | 276 | 79.3% | £198,975 |
| New build | 7 | 2.0% | £285,000 |
| Existing home | 341 | 98.0% | £176,000 |
New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +61.9%. 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 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 Preston Down Road, 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 £180,500 here, that rent is a gross yield of 6.68% 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 Preston Down Road, 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 Preston Down Road, Paignton compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Preston Down Road, Paignton sits above that national figure — +14.6%.
Within Paignton the street ranks 234 of 592 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £148,500 (+21.5%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,901 per square metre, across 30 of the 348 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 £26,500 to £850,000. 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.
Preston Down Road, 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
- 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
- Barton Avenue£139,500 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 7 Preston Down Road7 sales
- FLAT 5, DUNMOIL, 30 Preston Down Road5 sales
- 96 Preston Down Road5 sales
- BISHOPS COTTAGE Preston Down Road5 sales
- 15 Preston Down Road5 sales
- 100 Preston Down Road4 sales
- 131 Preston Down Road4 sales
- 168 Preston Down Road4 sales
- FLAT 1, DUNMOIL, 30 Preston Down Road4 sales
- 191 Preston Down Road4 sales
- THE LINNEY Preston Down Road4 sales
- 107A Preston Down Road4 sales
- FLAT 4, 26 Preston Down Road4 sales
- 32A Preston Down Road4 sales
- 160 Preston Down Road4 sales
- 203 Preston Down Road4 sales
- 193 Preston Down Road4 sales
- 83 Preston Down Road4 sales
- 20 Preston Down Road3 sales
- 187 Preston Down Road3 sales
- SOUTH ORCHARD HOUSE Preston Down Road3 sales
- 11 Preston Down Road3 sales
- 116 Preston Down Road3 sales
- 205 Preston Down Road3 sales
Back to Paignton house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Preston Down Road, Paignton?
The median price paid in Preston Down Road, Paignton across every sale on the register is £180,500. 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 Preston Down Road, Paignton?
348 sales are on record for Preston Down Road, 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 Preston Down Road, Paignton house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +69.4% between 2015 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +22.7%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Preston Down Road, Paignton house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £367,500, set in 2025. 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 Preston Down Road, Paignton?
£1,901 per square metre, from the 30 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, “Preston Down 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.