Ridgeway Road, Torquay house prices are built from 187 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 17 Oct 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £118,000. Across the 10 years from 2014 to 2024 the median moved +36.0% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -0.2%.
Median price paid
£118,000
Change in cash, 2014–2024
+36.0%
Change in real terms
-0.2%
Median per m²
£1,367
HM Land Registry187 sales38 with floor areaLatest sale 17 Oct 2025
Section 01
How Ridgeway Road, Torquay prices moved
The chart tracks the median Ridgeway Road, Torquay house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2024. 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 | £50,225 | £111,523 |
| 2000s | 7 | £117,000 | £213,140 |
| 2010s | 4 | £125,000 | £176,250 |
| 2020s | 4 | £180,000 | £183,913 |
The highest yearly median on record for Ridgeway Road, Torquay is £205,000 in 2023; the lowest is £46,475 in 1997. Across the full 30-year record the cash median has moved from £85,500 to £170,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £189,850, so the real change over the whole record is -5.8% — about -0.21% 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: +36.0% in cash against -0.2% 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 35 Ridgeway Heights | 17 Oct 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £100,000 | £102,174 |
| Flat 41 Ridgeway Heights | 31 Mar 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £150,000 | £153,261 |
| Flat 40 Ridgeway Heights | 7 Oct 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £190,000 | £199,925 |
| Flat 30 Ridgeway Heights | 1 Aug 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £175,000 | £184,142 |
| 2 Wellswood Heights | 24 May 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £200,000 | £210,448 |
| Flat 36 Ridgeway Heights | 15 Apr 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £83,000 | £87,336 |
| Flat 29 Ridgeway Heights | 23 Feb 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £160,000 | £168,358 |
| Flat 34 Ridgeway Heights | 17 Jan 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £165,000 | £173,619 |
| Flat 2 Ridgeway Heights | 21 Dec 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £134,000 | £144,782 |
| Kennington House | 5 Dec 2023 | Detached | £626,000 | £676,368 |
| Flat 13 Ridgeway Heights | 30 Oct 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £205,000 | £221,494 |
| Flat 15 Ridgeway Heights | 1 Aug 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £243,000 | £262,552 |
| Flat 8 Ridgeway Heights | 18 Jul 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £160,000 | £172,874 |
| Flat 22 Ridgeway Heights | 15 Dec 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £150,000 | £173,788 |
| Flat 1 Villa Borghese | 14 Sep 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £530,000 | £614,051 |
| The Lodge | 1 Jul 2022 | Detached | £350,000 | £405,505 |
| Flat 36 Ridgeway Heights | 4 Apr 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £141,000 | £163,361 |
| Flat 4 Villa Borghese | 28 Mar 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £345,000 | £399,712 |
| Flat 40 Ridgeway Heights | 18 Mar 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £188,000 | £217,814 |
| Flat 21 Ridgeway Heights | 18 Mar 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £137,750 | £159,595 |
| Flat 9 Ridgeway Heights | 29 Sep 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £195,000 | £246,371 |
| Flat 43 Ridgeway Heights | 6 Sep 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £153,500 | £193,938 |
| Skyfall | 28 Jun 2021 | Detached | £825,000 | £1,042,339 |
| Flat 2 Ridgeway Heights | 19 May 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £96,000 | £121,290 |
| Flat 7 Villa Borghese | 25 Mar 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £180,000 | £227,419 |
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 Ridgeway 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FLAT 40 RIDGEWAY HEIGHTS Ridgeway Road | £188,000 (2022) | £190,000 (2024) | +0.5% | -4.2% |
| FLAT 30 RIDGEWAY HEIGHTS Ridgeway Road | £120,000 (2019) | £175,000 (2024) | +7.8% | +3.2% |
| 2 WELLSWOOD HEIGHTS Ridgeway Road | £97,500 (2002) | £200,000 (2024) | +3.3% | +0.5% |
| FLAT 36 RIDGEWAY HEIGHTS Ridgeway Road | £141,000 (2022) | £83,000 (2024) | -23.3% | -26.9% |
| FLAT 29 RIDGEWAY HEIGHTS Ridgeway Road | £131,000 (2020) | £160,000 (2024) | +5.1% | -0.2% |
| FLAT 34 RIDGEWAY HEIGHTS Ridgeway Road | £145,000 (2019) | £165,000 (2024) | +2.6% | -1.8% |
| FLAT 2 RIDGEWAY HEIGHTS Ridgeway Road | £96,000 (2021) | £134,000 (2023) | +18.1% | +9.3% |
| FLAT 8 RIDGEWAY HEIGHTS Ridgeway Road | £115,000 (2019) | £160,000 (2023) | +8.6% | +3.5% |
| FLAT 1 VILLA BORGHESE Ridgeway Road | £60,000 (1996) | £530,000 (2022) | +8.7% | +6.1% |
| THE LODGE Ridgeway Road | £250,000 (2003) | £350,000 (2022) | +1.8% | -0.8% |
| FLAT 4 VILLA BORGHESE Ridgeway Road | £70,000 (2002) | £345,000 (2022) | +8.3% | +5.6% |
| FLAT 21 RIDGEWAY HEIGHTS Ridgeway Road | £122,500 (2018) | £137,750 (2022) | +3.0% | -0.6% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Ridgeway 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 | 151 | 80.7% | £115,000 | £24,300 – £530,000 |
| Detached | 28 | 15.0% | £238,000 | £50,500 – £1,125,000 |
| Terraced | 7 | 3.7% | £250,000 | £75,000 – £325,000 |
| Semi-detached | 1 | 0.5% | £116,500 | £116,500 – £116,500 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Ridgeway Road, Torquay
152 of the sales on record are leasehold and 35 freehold — 81.3% 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 £115,000 and the median freehold sale £250,000 — a gap of +117.4%. 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 | 152 | 81.3% | £115,000 |
| Freehold | 35 | 18.7% | £250,000 |
A further 5 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 Ridgeway 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 £118,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 9.70% 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 Ridgeway 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 Ridgeway Road, Torquay compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Ridgeway Road, Torquay sits below that national figure — -25.1%.
Within Torquay the street ranks 577 of 769 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £136,000 (-13.2%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,367 per square metre, across 38 of the 187 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 £24,300 to £1,125,000. 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.
Ridgeway 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
- 19, RIDGEWAY HEIGHTS Ridgeway Road5 sales
- SHERATON Ridgeway Road5 sales
- 53, RIDGEWAY HEIGHTS Ridgeway Road5 sales
- 2, WELLSWOOD HEIGHTS Ridgeway Road4 sales
- VALESWOOD Ridgeway Road4 sales
- 28, RIDGEWAY HEIGHTS Ridgeway Road4 sales
- FLAT 2, SOUTHCOURT MEWS Ridgeway Road4 sales
- 49, RIDGEWAY HEIGHTS Ridgeway Road4 sales
- 40, RIDGEWAY HEIGHTS Ridgeway Road4 sales
- 39, RIDGEWAY HEIGHTS Ridgeway Road4 sales
- 35, RIDGEWAY HEIGHTS Ridgeway Road4 sales
- FLAT 1, VILLA BORGHESE Ridgeway Road3 sales
- FLAT 4, VILLA BORGHESE Ridgeway Road3 sales
- FLAT 21, RIDGEWAY HEIGHTS Ridgeway Road3 sales
- TRELAWNEY Ridgeway Road3 sales
- 31, RIDGEWAY HEIGHTS Ridgeway Road3 sales
- 37, RIDGEWAY HEIGHTS Ridgeway Road3 sales
- CROSSWAYS Ridgeway Road3 sales
- 1, WELLSWOOD HEIGHTS Ridgeway Road3 sales
- 36, RIDGEWAY HEIGHTS Ridgeway Road3 sales
- 27, RIDGEWAY HEIGHTS Ridgeway Road3 sales
- 17, RIDGEWAY HEIGHTS Ridgeway Road3 sales
- 7, RIDGEWAY HEIGHTS Ridgeway Road3 sales
- FLAT 3, VILLA BORGHESE Ridgeway Road3 sales
Back to Torquay house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Ridgeway Road, Torquay?
The median price paid in Ridgeway Road, Torquay across every sale on the register is £118,000. 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 Ridgeway Road, Torquay?
187 sales are on record for Ridgeway Road, Torquay, the most recent completing on 17 Oct 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Ridgeway Road, Torquay house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +36.0% between 2014 and 2024. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -0.2%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Ridgeway Road, Torquay house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £205,000, set in 2023. 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 Ridgeway Road, Torquay?
£1,367 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 17 Oct 2025. 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, “Ridgeway 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.