Fore Street, Totnes house prices are built from 92 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1996 and the most recent on 8 Dec 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £171,500. Across the 14 years from 2005 to 2019 the median moved +18.2% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -15.1%.
Median price paid
£171,500
Change in cash, 2005–2019
+18.2%
Change in real terms
-15.1%
Median per m²
£2,250
HM Land Registry92 sales27 with floor areaLatest sale 8 Dec 2025
Section 01
How Fore Street, Totnes prices moved
The chart tracks the median Fore Street, Totnes house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1996 to 2019. 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 | 2 | £45,000 | £99,921 |
| 2000s | 3 | £167,500 | £305,136 |
| 2010s | 2 | £110,000 | £155,100 |
The highest yearly median on record for Fore Street, Totnes is £208,000 in 2019; the lowest is £45,000 in 1998. Across the full 24-year record the cash median has moved from £56,225 to £208,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £121,965, so the real change over the whole record is +123.1% — about +3.55% 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: +18.2% in cash against -15.1% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 Hancocks Cottages | 8 Dec 2025 | Terraced | £360,000 | £367,826 |
| 55a | 31 Oct 2025 | Terraced | £280,000 | £286,087 |
| 44c | 1 Jul 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £240,000 | £245,217 |
| 1 Cottage, 66 | 27 Mar 2025 | Terraced | £260,000 | £265,652 |
| 55a | 10 Apr 2024 | Terraced | £227,000 | £238,858 |
| 44c | 1 Dec 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £195,000 | £210,690 |
| 1 Cottage, 66 | 19 May 2023 | Terraced | £265,000 | £286,322 |
| Flat 3 10 | 21 Oct 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £177,500 | £205,649 |
| 2 Hancocks Cottages | 6 Sep 2022 | Terraced | £375,000 | £434,470 |
| 6a | 23 Aug 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £475,000 | £550,329 |
| 21a | 17 Jun 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £175,000 | £202,753 |
| Flat 2 50b | 20 Dec 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £292,400 | £369,430 |
| The Cottage 52 | 5 Aug 2021 | Terraced | £485,000 | £612,769 |
| Harvey Cottage | 28 Jun 2021 | Terraced | £399,950 | £505,313 |
| Flat 2 67 | 19 May 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £173,000 | £218,575 |
| 1 Cottage, 66 | 7 Dec 2020 | Terraced | £277,500 | £359,298 |
| 44c | 6 Aug 2020 | Flat or maisonette | £174,450 | £225,872 |
| 1 Hancocks Cottages | 26 Jun 2020 | Terraced | £220,000 | £284,848 |
| 14a | 27 Sep 2019 | Flat or maisonette | £198,000 | £258,980 |
| 55a | 27 Sep 2019 | Terraced | £147,000 | £192,273 |
| Flat 2 50a | 19 Sep 2019 | Flat or maisonette | £250,000 | £326,994 |
| 44a | 26 Apr 2019 | Flat or maisonette | £292,500 | £382,583 |
| 1 Cottage, 66 | 7 Jan 2019 | Terraced | £208,000 | £272,059 |
| 17a | 25 May 2017 | Flat or maisonette | £150,000 | £204,151 |
| Flat 2 50b | 5 May 2017 | Flat or maisonette | £178,000 | £242,259 |
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 Fore Street, Totnes values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 HANCOCKS COTTAGES Fore Street | £225,000 (2017) | £360,000 (2025) | +6.1% | +2.3% |
| 55A Fore Street | £47,000 (1996) | £280,000 (2025) | +6.3% | +3.6% |
| 44C Fore Street | £174,450 (2020) | £240,000 (2025) | +6.6% | +1.7% |
| 1 COTTAGE, 66 Fore Street | £41,000 (1996) | £260,000 (2025) | +6.6% | +3.8% |
| FLAT 3 10 Fore Street | £40,000 (1998) | £177,500 (2022) | +6.4% | +3.9% |
| 6A Fore Street | £95,000 (2001) | £475,000 (2022) | +8.0% | +5.3% |
| FLAT 2 50B Fore Street | £175,000 (2007) | £292,400 (2021) | +3.7% | +1.4% |
| THE COTTAGE 52 Fore Street | £89,000 (1997) | £485,000 (2021) | +7.3% | +5.0% |
| FLAT 2 67 Fore Street | £48,000 (1995) | £173,000 (2021) | +5.1% | +2.8% |
| 1 HANCOCKS COTTAGES Fore Street | £155,000 (2009) | £220,000 (2020) | +3.2% | +1.0% |
| 14A Fore Street | £140,000 (2012) | £198,000 (2019) | +5.1% | +3.1% |
| FLAT 2 50A Fore Street | £62,500 (1997) | £250,000 (2019) | +6.5% | +4.2% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Fore Street, Totnes 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 | 52 | 56.5% | £156,500 | £40,000 – £475,000 |
| Terraced | 33 | 35.9% | £225,000 | £41,000 – £580,000 |
| Semi-detached | 5 | 5.4% | £110,000 | £65,000 – £190,000 |
| Detached | 2 | 2.2% | £86,000 | £86,000 – £180,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Fore Street, Totnes
60 of the sales on record are leasehold and 32 freehold — 65.2% 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 £157,750 and the median freehold sale £211,500 — a gap of +34.1%. 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 | 60 | 65.2% | £157,750 |
| Freehold | 32 | 34.8% | £211,500 |
| New build | 6 | 6.5% | £62,500 |
| Existing home | 86 | 93.5% | £175,000 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -64.3%. 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 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 Fore Street, Totnes
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 £171,500 here, that rent is a gross yield of 7.03% 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 TQ9, 10 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 1 violent, 0 burglary, 0 vehicle-related and 5 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 16.7 times quieter.
Against the 88,627 residents the 2021 census counted in South Hams, that is 0.11 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 Fore Street, Totnes
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.
11 state and independent schools have a TQ9 postcode: 10 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| King Edward VI Community College | Secondary | Academy converter | 940 |
| The Grove School | Primary | Community school | 342 |
| Dartington Church of England Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 286 |
| Totnes St John's Church of England Primary School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 163 |
| Blackawton Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 140 |
| Harbertonford Church of England Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 101 |
| Berry Pomeroy Parochial CofE Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 87 |
| East Allington Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 80 |
| Stoke Gabriel Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 72 |
| Diptford Parochial Church of England Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 54 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Totnes Ferry Landing | Ferry | 1.4 km |
| Totnes Rail Station | Rail | 2.1 km |
| Totnes (South Devon Railway) | Metro or underground | 2.5 km |
| Totnes (South Devon Railway) | Tram | 2.5 km |
Section 09
How Fore Street, Totnes compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Fore Street, Totnes sits above that national figure — +8.9%.
Within Totnes the street ranks 288 of 368 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £235,000 (-27.0%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,250 per square metre, across 27 of the 92 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 £40,000 to £580,000. 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.
Fore Street, Totnes 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
- New Walk£162,500 median
- The Plains£194,950 median
- High Street£128,000 median
- Plymouth Road£225,000 median
- Whiteley Avenue£147,500 median
- Punchards Down£138,750 median
- The Carrions£140,000 median
- Coronation Road£170,000 median
- Bridgetown£205,000 median
- Higher Westonfields£250,000 median
- Copland Meadows£337,500 median
- South Street£250,000 median
- Follaton£232,500 median
- Jubilee Road£435,000 median
- Station Road£330,000 median
- Crocadon Meadows£201,563 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 1, COTTAGE, 66 Fore Street6 sales
- 55A Fore Street4 sales
- 6A Fore Street4 sales
- THE COTTAGE, 52 Fore Street4 sales
- 44A Fore Street4 sales
- 17A Fore Street4 sales
- FLAT 2, LITTLE PRIORY Fore Street4 sales
- FLAT 2, 10 Fore Street4 sales
- 44C Fore Street3 sales
- FLAT 3, 10 Fore Street3 sales
- FLAT 2, 50B Fore Street3 sales
- 14A Fore Street3 sales
- FLAT 2, 50A Fore Street3 sales
- 4A Fore Street3 sales
- FLAT 1, 50A Fore Street3 sales
- 3, HANCOCKS COTTAGES Fore Street2 sales
- FLAT 2, 67 Fore Street2 sales
- 1, HANCOCKS COTTAGES Fore Street2 sales
- FLAT 1, 67 Fore Street2 sales
- POTTERY COTTAGE 39 Fore Street2 sales
- 54A Fore Street2 sales
- 16 Fore Street2 sales
- 66 Fore Street2 sales
Back to Totnes house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Fore Street, Totnes?
The median price paid in Fore Street, Totnes across every sale on the register is £171,500. 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 Fore Street, Totnes?
92 sales are on record for Fore Street, Totnes, the most recent completing on 8 Dec 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Fore Street, Totnes house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +18.2% between 2005 and 2019. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -15.1%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Fore Street, Totnes house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £208,000, set in 2019. 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 Fore Street, Totnes?
£2,250 per square metre, from the 27 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 8 Dec 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, “Fore Street, Totnes 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.