Forest Road, Torquay house prices are built from 210 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1996 and the most recent on 20 Mar 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £135,000. Across the 10 years from 2015 to 2025 the median moved +60.1% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +16.0%.
Median price paid
£135,000
Change in cash, 2015–2025
+60.1%
Change in real terms
+16.0%
Median per m²
£1,464
HM Land Registry210 sales58 with floor areaLatest sale 20 Mar 2026
Section 01
How Forest Road, Torquay prices moved
The chart tracks the median Forest Road, Torquay house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1996 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 | 4 | £42,000 | £93,260 |
| 2000s | 8 | £113,000 | £205,853 |
| 2010s | 5 | £166,500 | £234,765 |
| 2020s | 5 | £210,000 | £214,565 |
The highest yearly median on record for Forest Road, Torquay is £227,000 in 2025; the lowest is £34,000 in 1996. Across the full 30-year record the cash median has moved from £34,000 to £227,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £73,754, so the real change over the whole record is +214.5% — about +4.03% 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: +60.1% in cash against +16.0% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 164 | 20 Mar 2026 | Semi-detached | £425,000 | £425,000 |
| 130 | 11 Mar 2026 | Detached | £151,000 | £151,000 |
| 65 | 21 Oct 2025 | Terraced | £230,000 | £235,000 |
| 118 | 19 Sep 2025 | Semi-detached | £227,000 | £231,935 |
| 104a | 27 Jun 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £150,000 | £153,261 |
| 122 | 9 May 2025 | Detached | £245,000 | £250,326 |
| 60 | 9 May 2025 | Terraced | £202,500 | £206,902 |
| First Floor Flat 88 | 13 Nov 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £155,000 | £163,097 |
| 152 | 6 Nov 2024 | Terraced | £290,000 | £305,149 |
| 102 | 14 Oct 2024 | Terraced | £346,550 | £364,653 |
| 33 | 16 Aug 2024 | Terraced | £220,000 | £231,493 |
| 10 | 8 Aug 2024 | Terraced | £134,000 | £141,000 |
| 51 | 30 Jul 2024 | Terraced | £280,000 | £294,627 |
| 104b | 19 Jan 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £155,000 | £163,097 |
| 56 | 29 Nov 2023 | Terraced | £155,000 | £167,471 |
| 79a | 24 Oct 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £140,000 | £151,264 |
| 114 | 8 Sep 2023 | Terraced | £260,000 | £280,920 |
| 49 | 1 Sep 2023 | Terraced | £133,000 | £143,701 |
| 114 | 15 May 2023 | Terraced | £242,000 | £261,471 |
| 22 | 20 Jan 2023 | Terraced | £220,000 | £237,701 |
| 91 | 31 Oct 2022 | Terraced | £366,000 | £424,043 |
| 24 | 30 Sep 2022 | Terraced | £210,000 | £243,303 |
| First Floor Flat 79 | 2 Sep 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £125,000 | £144,823 |
| 15 | 26 Aug 2022 | Terraced | £244,150 | £282,869 |
| Flat 1 88 | 17 May 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £177,000 | £205,070 |
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 Forest 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 164 Forest Road | £149,950 (2012) | £425,000 (2026) | +7.7% | +4.7% |
| 118 Forest Road | £55,400 (1995) | £227,000 (2025) | +4.8% | +2.1% |
| 60 Forest Road | £59,950 (2000) | £202,500 (2025) | +5.0% | +2.2% |
| FIRST FLOOR FLAT 88 Forest Road | £58,500 (2001) | £155,000 (2024) | +4.3% | +1.5% |
| 10 Forest Road | £97,500 (2002) | £134,000 (2024) | +1.5% | -1.3% |
| 51 Forest Road | £230,000 (2021) | £280,000 (2024) | +6.8% | +0.5% |
| 114 Forest Road | £88,500 (2001) | £260,000 (2023) | +5.0% | +2.2% |
| 49 Forest Road | £46,750 (1997) | £133,000 (2023) | +4.1% | +1.4% |
| 22 Forest Road | £154,000 (2008) | £220,000 (2023) | +2.4% | -0.6% |
| 91 Forest Road | £325,000 (2021) | £366,000 (2022) | +12.6% | +3.3% |
| 24 Forest Road | £89,000 (2003) | £210,000 (2022) | +4.6% | +2.0% |
| FIRST FLOOR FLAT 79 Forest Road | £28,000 (1996) | £125,000 (2022) | +5.9% | +3.4% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Forest 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terraced | 149 | 71.0% | £135,000 | £30,000 – £366,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 28 | 13.3% | £97,000 | £20,000 – £192,000 |
| Semi-detached | 17 | 8.1% | £160,000 | £55,400 – £425,000 |
| Detached | 16 | 7.6% | £185,000 | £45,800 – £320,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Forest Road, Torquay
27 of the sales on record are leasehold and 183 freehold — 12.9% 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 £97,000 and the median freehold sale £145,000 — a gap of +49.5%. 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 | 27 | 12.9% | £97,000 |
| Freehold | 183 | 87.1% | £145,000 |
| New build | 6 | 2.9% | £150,000 |
| Existing home | 204 | 97.1% | £134,975 |
New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +11.1%. 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 10 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 Forest 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 £135,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 8.48% 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 TQ1, 482 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 209 violent, 12 burglary, 19 vehicle-related and 55 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 2.9 times busier.
Against the 134,803 residents the 2021 census counted in Teignbridge, that is 3.58 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 Forest 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.
12 state and independent schools have a TQ1 postcode: 10 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Spires College | Secondary | Foundation school | 1,154 |
| St Cuthbert Mayne School | Secondary | Voluntary aided school | 1,001 |
| St Margaret's Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 382 |
| Warberry CofE Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 368 |
| Ellacombe Church of England Academy | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 337 |
| Torre Church of England Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 310 |
| St Marychurch Church of England Primary and Nursery School | Primary | Academy converter | 241 |
| Homelands Primary School | Primary | Community school | 208 |
| All Saints Babbacombe CofE Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 193 |
| Ilsham Church of England Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 176 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Torquay – North Quay | Ferry | 1.4 km |
| Torquay Harbour Boarding Pontoon | Ferry | 1.6 km |
| Torre Rail Station | Rail | 1.6 km |
| Torquay Rail Station | Rail | 1.9 km |
Section 09
How Forest Road, Torquay compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Forest Road, Torquay sits below that national figure — -14.3%.
Within Torquay the street ranks 452 of 769 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £136,000 (-0.7%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,464 per square metre, across 58 of the 210 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 £20,000 to £425,000. 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.
Forest 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
- Babbacombe Road£125,000 median
- Teignmouth Road£145,500 median
- St Marychurch Road£120,000 median
- Lower Warberry Road£138,500 median
- Higher Warberry Road£107,750 median
- Middle Warberry Road£105,000 median
- Thurlow Road£86,000 median
- Windsor Road£133,000 median
- Asheldon Road£142,500 median
- Higher Erith Road£86,000 median
- Old Torwood Road£135,000 median
- Ellacombe Church Road£110,000 median
- Petitor Road£155,000 median
- Warbro Road£135,000 median
- Lymington Road£104,250 median
- Grange Road£105,250 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 77 Forest Road6 sales
- FIRST FLOOR FLAT, 79 Forest Road5 sales
- 138 Forest Road5 sales
- 12 Forest Road5 sales
- 24 Forest Road4 sales
- 21 Forest Road4 sales
- 146 Forest Road4 sales
- 1 Forest Road4 sales
- 124 Forest Road4 sales
- 60 Forest Road3 sales
- FIRST FLOOR FLAT, 88 Forest Road3 sales
- 114 Forest Road3 sales
- 15 Forest Road3 sales
- 11 Forest Road3 sales
- 26 Forest Road3 sales
- 23 Forest Road3 sales
- 87 Forest Road3 sales
- 40 Forest Road3 sales
- 64 Forest Road3 sales
- 53 Forest Road3 sales
- FLAT 4, 142 Forest Road3 sales
- 28 Forest Road3 sales
- 38 Forest Road3 sales
- 164 Forest Road2 sales
Back to Torquay house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Forest Road, Torquay?
The median price paid in Forest Road, Torquay 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 Forest Road, Torquay?
210 sales are on record for Forest Road, Torquay, the most recent completing on 20 Mar 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Forest Road, Torquay house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +60.1% between 2015 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +16.0%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Forest Road, Torquay house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £227,000, 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 Forest Road, Torquay?
£1,464 per square metre, from the 58 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 20 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, “Forest 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.