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Typical sold price, TQ1
£212,500
250 real sales, 22 January 2026 to 24 August 2026. A rough cash guide is shown below, not a quote.
- Sales in sample
- 250
- Cash guide, 70%
- £149,000
- Cash guide, 85%
- £181,000
HM Land Registry Price Paid Data
Our take · opinion, not advice
Our take on selling in Babbacombe / Wellswood: steady sales, so price from the evidence
At around 36 sales a month, Babbacombe / Wellswood ticks along steadily, which is enough to price from, though not enough history for us to call a clear twelve-month direction.
To judge an offer, with detached homes at £495,000 and flats at £146,000, the £110,000 to £420,500 spread is really several markets, so price from sold homes that match yours in type and size; buyers can compare homes at this pace but are not spoilt for choice.
Compare optionsNeither route is obviously right at this pace: a cash sale buys a date, the open market usually buys a better price; for a typical £212,500 home, 70–85% of market value works out at about £149,000 to £181,000, which is a rough guide and not a quote, so check any offer against homes that really sold.
Our short list for a Babbacombe / Wellswood seller: paperwork for any damp, roof or window work; the lease paperwork if it is leasehold; and gas and electrical safety certificates, with your conveyancer to fill in the rest.
One enquiry reaches one independent cash buyer, who contacts you directly: free to you, no obligation, and you can compare the offer with the sold prices above.
Get Cash OfferOur opinion, drawn from the figures on this page: not advice and not a forecast. We earn from OfferCheck reports and from introducing sellers to cash buyers, so weigh it with that in mind (see our disclosure). We are not authorised or regulated by the FCA.
Key figures
Babbacombe / Wellswood at a glance
Sourced figures for the district, each one dated.
Most sell between
£110,000 to £420,500
Middle 80% of 250 sales
Gross yield
5.2%
gross, before costs, illustrative
Average rent
£920 a month
Torbay, August 2026
Planning applications
967
Within 500 m of the centre
Local data
What Babbacombe / Wellswood homes sell for
Real Land Registry sold prices for TQ1, each chart with its table underneath.
Price by type
What each type sells for in TQ1
Detached homes had the highest typical price in TQ1 at £495,000, from 27 sales; flats came to £146,000.
- Detached11%
- Semi-detached12%
- Terraced37%
- Flats40%
See the figures
| Type | Typical (median) | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Detached | £495,000 | 27 |
| Semi-detached | £274,000 | 28 |
| Terraced | £220,000 | 90 |
| Flats | £146,000 | 96 |
HM Land Registry, 22 January 2026 to 24 August 2026. Types with fewer than 10 sales are left out.
Rent by size
What Torbay homes rent for
Average private rent in Torbay was £920 a month in August 2026, a gross yield of 5.2% on the TQ1 median price (gross, before costs, illustrative).
See the figures
1 bed £619, 2 bed £817, 3 bed £997, 4+ bed £1,296 a month. ONS source
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, August 2026. The rent covers the whole local area, not just TQ1.
Planning activity
Planning near Babbacombe / Wellswood
967 planning applications within 500 m of the TQ1 centre. Of the 20 most recent, 1 are still undecided.
- Decided95%
- Undecided5%
Planning detail
Planning activity near Babbacombe / Wellswood
967 planning applications within 500 m of the TQ1 district centre
That count covers every date PlanIt holds. The 20 most recent were received between 29 Apr 2025 and 9 Apr 2026, and 1 of them is still undecided.
Source: PlanIt (planit.org.uk), which gathers local council planning registers. Checked 20 July 2026. This is activity in the area, not at any one address, and coverage and council update speed vary.
View applicationsPlanIt, from local council planning registers. Area activity, not one address.
Contains HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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Whatever the reason you need to move on in Babbacombe / Wellswood (Torquay), a cash sale can be quicker and simpler than the open market, though cash buyers usually offer below market value. Want to know what homes in Babbacombe / Wellswood actually sell for first? See real Land Registry sold prices for TQ1.
Rent: ONS Price Index of Private Rents, August 2026 (published 16 September 2026): the average monthly rent for all private rented homes in Torbay, up 4.0% on a year earlier. It covers the whole area, not just TQ1. Official statistics in development. By size: 1 bed £619, 2 bed £817, 3 bed £997, 4+ bed £1,296.
Gross yield is 12 months of that average rent divided by the TQ1 median sale price. It is gross, before costs such as void periods, agent and management fees, repairs, insurance, tax and mortgage interest, and illustrative only: the rent covers a whole local area and every property type, while the price is for TQ1, so the two are not a like-for-like pair.
Price spread and sales volume are from HM Land Registry sold prices. Liquidity (sales volume) is a rough guide to how many homes change hands, not a forecast.
Explore sold prices
What actually sold in TQ1
Filter by property type and radius around the TQ1 centre. Distances use each sale's postcode centroid, so they are approximate.
250 sales match · page 1 of 13
| Address | Price | Date | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 76, VICTORIA PARK ROAD, TORQUAYTQ1 3QJ | £130,000 | 2026-08-24 | Terraced | Freehold |
| 16, PRINCES ROAD EAST, TORQUAYTQ1 1PE | £122,000 | 2026-08-19 | Terraced | Freehold |
| 115, LYMINGTON ROAD, TORQUAYTQ1 4BG | £195,000 | 2026-08-18 | Semi-detached | Freehold |
| WILLIS COURT, SHIRBURN ROAD, TORQUAYTQ1 4JN | £95,000 | 2026-08-18 | Flat / maisonette | Leasehold |
| 124B, WESTHILL ROAD, TORQUAYTQ1 4NT | £200,000 | 2026-08-18 | Flat / maisonette | Leasehold |
| THE MOUNT, ST MARKS ROAD, TORQUAYTQ1 2EH | £730,000 | 2026-08-17 | Terraced | Freehold |
| 53, DUNMERE ROAD, TORQUAYTQ1 1LR | £162,000 | 2026-08-17 | Terraced | Freehold |
| COURTENAY MANOR, GRAFTON ROAD, TORQUAYTQ1 1UN | £150,000 | 2026-08-17 | Flat / maisonette | Leasehold |
| 1, DERWENT ROAD, TORQUAYTQ1 3QL | £125,000 | 2026-08-14 | Terraced | Freehold |
| 8, CARY PARK ROAD, TORQUAYTQ1 3PU | £333,000 | 2026-08-10 | Terraced | Freehold |
| 56, HARTOP ROAD, TORQUAYTQ1 4QQ | £205,000 | 2026-08-10 | Terraced | Freehold |
| COURTENAY MANOR, GRAFTON ROAD, TORQUAYTQ1 1UN | £185,000 | 2026-08-10 | Flat / maisonette | Leasehold |
| COLWYN COURT, ASHELDON ROAD, TORQUAYTQ1 2QT | £300,000 | 2026-08-07 | Terraced | Freehold |
| 159, WINDSOR ROAD, TORQUAYTQ1 1SR | £310,000 | 2026-08-06 | Terraced | Freehold |
| 12, SPRINGFIELD ROAD, TORQUAYTQ1 3QA | £215,000 | 2026-08-06 | Terraced | Freehold |
| STANLEY COURT, STANLEY ROAD, TORQUAYTQ1 3JJ | £162,000 | 2026-08-06 | Flat / maisonette | Leasehold |
| 8B, ST JAMES ROAD, TORQUAYTQ1 4AZ | £110,000 | 2026-07-31 | Flat / maisonette | Leasehold |
| 5A, ST JAMES PLACE, TORQUAYTQ1 3UY | £125,000 | 2026-07-31 | Flat / maisonette | Leasehold |
| 17, STRAND, TORQUAYTQ1 2AA | £630,000 | 2026-07-31 | Other | Freehold |
| 1, THE PALMS, TORQUAYTQ1 1TS | £221,000 | 2026-07-30 | Flat / maisonette | Leasehold |
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