Avenue Road, Torquay house prices are built from 312 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1996 and the most recent on 30 Mar 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £120,500. Across the 10 years from 2013 to 2023 the median moved +214.6% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +133.1%.
Median price paid
£120,500
Change in cash, 2013–2023
+214.6%
Change in real terms
+133.1%
Median per m²
£1,723
HM Land Registry312 sales55 with floor areaLatest sale 30 Mar 2026
Section 01
How Avenue Road, Torquay prices moved
The chart tracks the median Avenue Road, Torquay house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1996 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 4 | £60,000 | £133,228 |
| 2000s | 10 | £152,500 | £277,810 |
| 2010s | 9 | £140,000 | £197,400 |
| 2020s | 3 | £270,000 | £275,870 |
The highest yearly median on record for Avenue Road, Torquay is £280,000 in 2008; the lowest is £45,000 in 1996. Across the full 28-year record the cash median has moved from £45,000 to £280,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £97,615, so the real change over the whole record is +209.9% — about +4.28% 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: +214.6% in cash against +133.1% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 Elizabeth Court | 30 Mar 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £125,000 | £125,000 |
| 146 | 9 Jan 2026 | Semi-detached | £355,000 | £355,000 |
| The Meadows | 11 Dec 2025 | Detached | £610,500 | £623,772 |
| 98 | 27 Jun 2025 | Terraced | £367,000 | £374,978 |
| Flat 2 27 | 22 Nov 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £127,500 | £134,160 |
| 19 Elizabeth Court | 2 Jul 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £152,000 | £159,940 |
| 1 Birds Haven | 17 May 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £237,000 | £249,381 |
| 12 Birds Haven | 9 Jan 2024 | Semi-detached | £180,000 | £189,403 |
| 140 | 12 Oct 2023 | Terraced | £235,000 | £253,908 |
| 68 | 25 Sep 2023 | Semi-detached | £410,000 | £442,989 |
| 116 | 6 Jul 2023 | Semi-detached | £340,000 | £367,356 |
| 154a | 19 May 2023 | Terraced | £125,000 | £135,057 |
| 45 | 21 Apr 2023 | Detached | £280,000 | £302,529 |
| 88 | 23 Feb 2023 | Terraced | £305,000 | £329,540 |
| 23 Elizabeth Court | 5 Jan 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £162,000 | £175,034 |
| 108 | 9 Dec 2022 | Detached | £347,500 | £402,609 |
| 22 Elizabeth Court | 28 Oct 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £153,000 | £177,264 |
| Apartment 2 82 | 9 Sep 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £95,000 | £110,066 |
| 118 | 14 Jul 2022 | Terraced | £239,050 | £276,960 |
| 158 | 13 Jun 2022 | Semi-detached | £362,500 | £419,988 |
| 150 | 13 Jun 2022 | Terraced | £269,500 | £312,239 |
| Flat 2 27 | 23 May 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £115,000 | £133,237 |
| 138 | 7 Apr 2022 | Terraced | £250,000 | £289,647 |
| 53 | 18 Feb 2022 | Semi-detached | £373,000 | £432,153 |
| 16 Elizabeth Court | 17 Jan 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £147,000 | £170,312 |
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 Avenue Road, Torquay values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 ELIZABETH COURT Avenue Road | £72,000 (2001) | £125,000 (2026) | +2.2% | -0.5% |
| 146 Avenue Road | £88,000 (2000) | £355,000 (2026) | +5.5% | +2.7% |
| THE MEADOWS Avenue Road | £572,500 (2021) | £610,500 (2025) | +1.6% | -3.6% |
| 98 Avenue Road | £236,000 (2016) | £367,000 (2025) | +5.0% | +1.4% |
| FLAT 2 27 Avenue Road | £23,500 (1996) | £127,500 (2024) | +6.2% | +3.5% |
| 12 BIRDS HAVEN Avenue Road | £70,000 (1998) | £180,000 (2024) | +3.7% | +1.0% |
| 68 Avenue Road | £99,500 (1998) | £410,000 (2023) | +5.8% | +3.1% |
| 116 Avenue Road | £82,000 (1999) | £340,000 (2023) | +6.1% | +3.3% |
| 154A Avenue Road | £100,000 (2012) | £125,000 (2023) | +2.0% | -0.9% |
| 45 Avenue Road | £285,000 (2008) | £280,000 (2023) | -0.1% | -3.0% |
| 88 Avenue Road | £72,500 (1998) | £305,000 (2023) | +5.9% | +3.2% |
| 23 ELIZABETH COURT Avenue Road | £99,950 (2002) | £162,000 (2023) | +2.3% | -0.5% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Avenue Road, Torquay 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 | 116 | 37.2% | £95,000 | £23,500 – £237,000 |
| Semi-detached | 113 | 36.2% | £155,000 | £46,650 – £410,000 |
| Terraced | 66 | 21.2% | £147,000 | £31,500 – £367,000 |
| Detached | 17 | 5.4% | £280,000 | £80,000 – £885,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Avenue Road, Torquay
114 of the sales on record are leasehold and 198 freehold — 36.5% 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 £94,975 and the median freehold sale £155,000 — a gap of +63.2%. 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 | 114 | 36.5% | £94,975 |
| Freehold | 198 | 63.5% | £155,000 |
| New build | 37 | 11.9% | £79,400 |
| Existing home | 275 | 88.1% | £133,000 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -40.3%. 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 45 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 Avenue Road, Torquay
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Teignbridge, 40.2% of 68,510 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 8.0% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 605 | 0.9% |
| B | 8,824 | 12.9% |
| C | 18,091 | 26.4% |
| D | 24,507 | 35.8% |
| E | 11,010 | 16.1% |
| F | 4,044 | 5.9% |
| G | 1,429 | 2.1% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Teignbridge at £954 a month as of Jun 2026 — £650 for a one-bedroom home and £1,078 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £120,500 here, that rent is a gross yield of 9.50% 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 TQ2, 396 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 175 violent, 6 burglary, 9 vehicle-related and 41 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 2.4 times busier.
Against the 134,803 residents the 2021 census counted in Teignbridge, that is 2.94 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 Avenue Road, Torquay
The 2021 census counted 134,803 residents in Teignbridge across 59,837 households. 72.6% of those households own their home and 27.4% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
10 state and independent schools have a TQ2 postcode: 7 primary, 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Torquay Academy | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 1,472 |
| Torquay Boys' Grammar School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,087 |
| Torquay Girls' Grammar School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,058 |
| Sherwell Valley Primary School | Primary | Community school | 694 |
| Lift Barton Hill | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 568 |
| Cockington Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 380 |
| Shiphay Learning Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 373 |
| Preston Primary School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 325 |
| Watcombe Primary School | Primary | Community school | 221 |
| Our Lady of the Angels Catholic Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 145 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Torre Rail Station | Rail | 0.4 km |
| Torquay Rail Station | Rail | 1.7 km |
| Torquay – North Quay | Ferry | 2.3 km |
| Torquay Harbour Boarding Pontoon | Ferry | 2.4 km |
Section 09
How Avenue Road, Torquay compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Avenue Road, Torquay sits below that national figure — -23.5%.
Within Torquay the street ranks 554 of 769 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £136,000 (-11.4%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,723 per square metre, across 55 of the 312 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 £23,500 to £885,000. 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.
Avenue Road, Torquay sits in Teignbridge, in the South West.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Teignbridge at 8.7 times median local earnings of £34,315 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
- Warren Road£150,000 median
- Abbey Road£71,500 median
- Sherwell Valley Road£143,750 median
- Hele Road£73,000 median
- Glebeland Way£120,000 median
- Newton Road£161,000 median
- Fore Street£133,000 median
- St Lukes Road South£125,000 median
- Heron Way£99,950 median
- Barton Hill Road£140,500 median
- Leeward Lane£153,725 median
- Seaway Lane£295,000 median
- Walnut Road£107,000 median
- Shearwater Drive£135,000 median
- The Reeves Road£129,975 median
- Sherwell Lane£129,500 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- FLAT 2, 27 Avenue Road8 sales
- FLAT 1, 27 Avenue Road7 sales
- 138 Avenue Road6 sales
- 3, BIRDS HAVEN Avenue Road6 sales
- 68 Avenue Road5 sales
- 116 Avenue Road5 sales
- 5, BIRDS HAVEN Avenue Road5 sales
- 154B Avenue Road5 sales
- 95 Avenue Road5 sales
- 6, ELIZABETH COURT Avenue Road5 sales
- 118 Avenue Road4 sales
- 150 Avenue Road4 sales
- 20, ELIZABETH COURT Avenue Road4 sales
- 7, BIRDS HAVEN Avenue Road4 sales
- 72 Avenue Road4 sales
- 102A Avenue Road4 sales
- CROWN LODGE GUEST HOUSE, 83 Avenue Road4 sales
- 74 Avenue Road4 sales
- 12, BIRDS HAVEN Avenue Road3 sales
- 88 Avenue Road3 sales
- 23, ELIZABETH COURT Avenue Road3 sales
- 22, ELIZABETH COURT Avenue Road3 sales
- 122 Avenue Road3 sales
- 154 Avenue Road3 sales
Back to Torquay house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Avenue Road, Torquay?
The median price paid in Avenue Road, Torquay across every sale on the register is £120,500. 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 Avenue Road, Torquay?
312 sales are on record for Avenue Road, Torquay, the most recent completing on 30 Mar 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Avenue Road, Torquay house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +214.6% between 2013 and 2023. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +133.1%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Avenue Road, Torquay house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £280,000, set in 2008. 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 Avenue Road, Torquay?
£1,723 per square metre, from the 55 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 Mar 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, “Avenue Road, Torquay 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.