TQ4 house prices are built from 14,228 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 19 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £160,000. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +32.9% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -4.8%.
Median price paid
£160,000
Change in cash, 2016–2026
+32.9%
Change in real terms
-4.8%
Median per m²
£2,079
HM Land Registry14,228 sales3,039 with floor areaLatest sale 19 Jun 2026
Section 01
How TQ4 prices moved
The chart tracks the median TQ4 house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2026. 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 | £59,500 | £132,118 |
| 2000s | 10 | £158,475 | £288,695 |
| 2010s | 10 | £190,000 | £267,900 |
| 2020s | 7 | £275,000 | £280,978 |
The highest yearly median on record for TQ4 is £285,000 in 2024; the lowest is £54,000 in 1995. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £54,000 to £265,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £119,906, so the real change over the whole record is +121.0% — about +2.59% 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: +32.9% in cash against -4.8% 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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 36 Hartley Road | 19 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £295,000 | £295,000 |
| 32 Fisher Street | 19 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £244,000 | £244,000 |
| 14 Foxglove Way | 19 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £220,000 | £220,000 |
| 32 York Road | 17 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £233,000 | £233,000 |
| 2 Collingwood Road | 17 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £230,000 | £230,000 |
| 11 Battersway Road | 15 Jun 2026 | Detached | £275,000 | £275,000 |
| 74 Brantwood Drive | 10 Jun 2026 | Detached | £367,500 | £367,500 |
| 8 Bidwell Walk | 5 Jun 2026 | Detached | £360,000 | £360,000 |
| 3 Foxglove Way | 5 Jun 2026 | Detached | £340,000 | £340,000 |
| 22A Hayes Road | 5 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £227,500 | £227,500 |
| 8 South Sands | 1 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £246,000 | £246,000 |
| 43 Great Western Close | 1 Jun 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £148,500 | £148,500 |
| 1H GREYSTONES Grosvenor Road | 29 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £133,500 | £133,500 |
| 6 Longstone Road | 28 May 2026 | Terraced | £242,000 | £242,000 |
| 19 Highcliffe Mews | 27 May 2026 | Detached | £265,000 | £265,000 |
| 5 Osney Crescent | 26 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £202,000 | £202,000 |
| 94 Hookhills Road | 22 May 2026 | Detached | £305,000 | £305,000 |
| 24 Footlands Road | 22 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £243,000 | £243,000 |
| 16 Haytor Avenue | 22 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £235,000 | £235,000 |
| 80 Wheatlands Road | 22 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £137,500 | £137,500 |
| 30 Hill Park Terrace | 20 May 2026 | Terraced | £145,000 | £145,000 |
| 50 Kingsway Avenue | 18 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £292,500 | £292,500 |
| 27 Pebble Court | 15 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £142,500 | £142,500 |
| 30 Foxglove Way | 11 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £277,000 | £277,000 |
| 19 Horseshoe Bend | 8 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £335,000 | £335,000 |
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 TQ4 values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 36 Hartley Road | £185,000 (2021) | £295,000 (2026) | +9.8% | +4.8% |
| 32 Fisher Street | £60,000 (1998) | £244,000 (2026) | +5.1% | +2.4% |
| 14 Foxglove Way | £195,000 (2019) | £220,000 (2026) | +1.7% | -2.1% |
| 32 York Road | £265,000 (2023) | £233,000 (2026) | -4.2% | -6.6% |
| 2 Collingwood Road | £152,000 (2015) | £230,000 (2026) | +3.8% | +0.6% |
| 11 Battersway Road | £60,000 (1997) | £275,000 (2026) | +5.4% | +2.7% |
| 74 Brantwood Drive | £66,000 (1996) | £367,500 (2026) | +5.9% | +3.2% |
| 22A Hayes Road | £135,000 (2004) | £227,500 (2026) | +2.4% | -0.4% |
| 8 Bidwell Walk | £195,000 (2020) | £360,000 (2026) | +10.8% | +6.1% |
| 3 Foxglove Way | £270,000 (2018) | £340,000 (2026) | +2.9% | -0.7% |
| 8 South Sands | £159,950 (2001) | £246,000 (2026) | +1.7% | -1.0% |
| 43 Great Western Close | £39,500 (1997) | £148,500 (2026) | +4.7% | +2.0% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. TQ4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | 4,287 | 30.1% | £230,000 | £7,500 – £1,700,000 |
| Terraced | 3,422 | 24.1% | £146,000 | £2,000 – £1,350,000 |
| Semi-detached | 3,276 | 23.0% | £172,000 | £8,750 – £590,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 3,243 | 22.8% | £110,000 | £10,000 – £412,500 |
Section 05
How big homes are in TQ4
Energy Performance Certificates record a floor area for every home that has been surveyed, sold or let — far more homes than have changed hands. 2,775 certificates cover TQ4, and their median floor area is 78 m².
The median across the whole register is 76 m², so homes here are larger than average — +2.6%. Size explains a large part of why one area's median price sits above another's, which is why the price per square metre further up this page is the fairer comparison.
| Measure | Floor area | Sample |
|---|---|---|
| Median floor area | 78 m² | about 840 sq ft |
| Smaller quarter, up to | 57 m² | about 614 sq ft |
| Larger quarter, from | 99 m² | about 1,066 sq ft |
| Under 60 m² | 27.0% | 750 homes |
| 150 m² and over | 6.0% | 167 homes |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in TQ4
3,329 of the sales on record are leasehold and 10,899 freehold — 23.4% 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 £110,000 and the median freehold sale £180,000 — a gap of +63.6%. 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 | 3,329 | 23.4% | £110,000 |
| Freehold | 10,899 | 76.6% | £180,000 |
| New build | 1,341 | 9.4% | £202,995 |
| Existing home | 12,887 | 90.6% | £155,000 |
New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +31.0%. 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 698 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 TQ4
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Torbay, 37.1% of 76,225 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 6.2% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 140 | 0.2% |
| B | 5,689 | 7.5% |
| C | 22,436 | 29.4% |
| D | 30,540 | 40.1% |
| E | 12,689 | 16.6% |
| F | 3,525 | 4.6% |
| G | 1,206 | 1.6% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Torbay at £913 a month as of Jun 2026 — £614 for a one-bedroom home and £989 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £160,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 6.85% 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 TQ4, 265 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 110 violent, 10 burglary, 6 vehicle-related and 49 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 1.6 times busier.
Against the 139,324 residents the 2021 census counted in Torbay, that is 1.90 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 TQ4
The 2021 census counted 139,324 residents in Torbay across 62,992 households. 65.1% of those households own their home and 34.9% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
6 state and independent schools have a TQ4 postcode: 5 primary, 1 16 plus. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| White Rock Primary School | Primary | Foundation school | 666 |
| Curledge Street Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 439 |
| Hayes School | Primary | Academy converter | 340 |
| Roselands Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 315 |
| St Michael's Church of England Academy | Primary | Free schools | 101 |
| South Devon College | 16 plus | Further education | — |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Goodrington (Paignton and Dartmouth Railway) | Metro or underground | 0.8 km |
| Goodrington (Paignton and Dartmouth Railway) | Tram | 0.8 km |
| Goodrington (Paignton and Dartmouth Railway) | Metro or underground | 0.8 km |
| Paignton (Paignton and Dartmouth Railway) | Metro or underground | 1.5 km |
Section 09
How TQ4 compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. TQ4 sits above that national figure — +1.6%.
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,079 per square metre, across 3,039 of the 14,228 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 £2,000 to £1,700,000. 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.
TQ4 sits in Torbay, in the South West.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Torbay at 8.1 times median local earnings of £30,873 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
Sectors inside TQ4
The closest districts
- TQ32.4 km · £140,000
- TQ54.9 km · £160,000
- TQ26.3 km · £142,000
- TQ16.6 km · £131,000
- TQ98.4 km · £235,000
- TQ1212.2 km · £163,995
- TQ721.6 km · £228,000
- TQ1321.7 km · £210,000
This district mostly covers Paignton.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in TQ4?
The median price paid in TQ4 across every sale on the register is £160,000. 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 TQ4?
14,228 sales are on record for TQ4, the most recent completing on 19 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have TQ4 house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +32.9% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -4.8%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were TQ4 house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £285,000, 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 TQ4?
£2,079 per square metre, from the 3,039 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 19 Jun 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, “TQ4 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.