The Plains, Totnes house prices

The Plains, Totnes house prices are built from 199 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1997 and the most recent on 15 Jul 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £194,950. Across the 10 years from 2014 to 2024 the median moved +59.3% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +16.8%.

HM Land Registry199 sales50 with floor areaLatest sale 15 Jul 2025

The chart tracks the median The Plains, Totnes house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1997 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.

The highest yearly median on record for The Plains, Totnes is £385,000 in 2024; the lowest is £56,750 in 1998. Across the full 28-year record the cash median has moved from £72,500 to £385,000.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £153,722, so the real change over the whole record is +163.5% — about +3.65% 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: +59.3% in cash against +16.8% 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.

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.

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 The Plains, Totnes values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. The Plains, Totnes is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.

194 of the sales on record are leasehold and 5 freehold — 97.5% 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 £190,000 and the median freehold sale £350,000 — a gap of +84.2%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +20.5%. 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.

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.

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 £194,950 here, that rent is a gross yield of 6.19% 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.

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.

The median across the whole archive is £157,500. The Plains, Totnes sits above that national figure — +23.8%.

Within Totnes the street ranks 246 of 368 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £235,000 (-17.0%).

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,453 per square metre, across 50 of the 199 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 £35,500 to £560,000. 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.

The Plains, 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.

Streets nearby

• New Walk£162,500 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
• Fore Street£171,500 median
• Jubilee Road£435,000 median
• Station Road£330,000 median
• Crocadon Meadows£201,563 median

Addresses with more than one recorded sale

• FLAT 5, BRIDGE TERRACE the Plains6 sales
• FLAT 5, the CHAPEL the Plains6 sales
• FLAT 9, APPLE WHARF the Plains6 sales
• FLAT 17, APPLE WHARF the Plains5 sales
• FLAT 3, the CHAPEL the Plains5 sales
• FLAT 14, APPLE WHARF the Plains5 sales
• 12, WATERSIDE HOUSE the Plains5 sales
• FLAT 12, APPLE WHARF the Plains5 sales
• FLAT 9, BRIDGE TERRACE the Plains4 sales
• FLAT 1, BRIDGE TERRACE the Plains4 sales
• FLAT 10, APPLE WHARF the Plains4 sales
• FLAT 14, BRIDGE TERRACE the Plains4 sales
• FLAT 20, APPLE WHARF the Plains4 sales
• FLAT 6, the CHAPEL the Plains4 sales
• FLAT 6, BRIDGE TERRACE the Plains4 sales
• 6, WATERSIDE HOUSE the Plains4 sales
• FLAT 10, BRIDGE TERRACE the Plains3 sales
• FLAT 11, APPLE WHARF the Plains3 sales
• FLAT 5, APPLE WHARF the Plains3 sales
• FLAT 13, BRIDGE TERRACE the Plains3 sales
• FLAT 17, BRIDGE TERRACE the Plains3 sales
• FLAT 18, APPLE WHARF the Plains3 sales
• FLAT 26, APPLE WHARF the Plains3 sales
• FLAT 15, APPLE WHARF the Plains3 sales

Back to Totnes house prices.

What is the average house price in The Plains, Totnes?

The median price paid in The Plains, Totnes across every sale on the register is £194,950. 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 The Plains, Totnes?

199 sales are on record for The Plains, Totnes, the most recent completing on 15 Jul 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have The Plains, Totnes house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +59.3% between 2014 and 2024. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +16.8%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were The Plains, Totnes house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £385,000, set in 2024. 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 The Plains, Totnes?

£2,453 per square metre, from the 50 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 15 Jul 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, “The Plains, 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.