About £285,000 gets you the middle of Chudleigh, and the whole house comes with it. Terraces at around £245,000. Detached at around £454,000. Sixty-nine sales in twelve months, which is a small market that still turns over. Nobody is buying a brochure lifestyle at these prices. They are buying floor space with a bit of Devon attached.
The Land Registry's figures for the year to May 2026 put the median sale at £285,000 across 69 transactions. Split by type, terraces went at about £245,000 across 28 sales, semis at about £290,000 across 14, and detached houses at about £454,000 across 24. Flats barely register as a market: three sold, at about £225,000. Anyone hoping to start small and trade up locally should note how few of the small things exist to start on.
Direction of travel is close to flat. The official house price index for the area stood at about £302,000 as of May 2026, down about 1% over the year, which is a rounding wobble rather than a correction. Flats did move more, down about 5% over the same period to an average of about £151,000, and with three flat sales in the town over the year that index number is describing a wider area than this one.
Council tax lands lower than the sale prices suggest. Band B is the most common band and bands A and B together cover about 39% of dwellings, with a band D bill of about £2,640 a year for anyone wanting a figure to hold against their current one.
Renting is published for the wider district rather than the town, so read it as the typical private rent across the Teignbridge area: a mean of about £950 a month from the Office for National Statistics index as of April 2026, up about 4% over the year. By size, that works out at about £645 for a one-bedroom, about £860 for a two, about £1,070 for a three and about £1,540 for four or more. It is an average of rents being paid, not a median of what is currently advertised in a window on the high street.
Set against local earnings, the prices are demanding without being ridiculous. Household income for this area was modelled at about £56,300 gross, before tax, for the financial year to March 2023. A median-priced house on a single income of that size is a difficult conversation with a lender. On two, it is an ordinary one, which is roughly why the town fills up with couples rather than solo buyers.
Measured by floor area, the sold stock works out at about £3,400 per square metre, on a typical home of around 80 square metres. That covers the sales that could be matched to an energy certificate's floor area, about 90% of them, so it describes most of the market rather than all of it. The useful part is what 80 square metres means in practice: a proper house, not a converted upstairs.
The bedroom mix explains who the town was built for. About 38% of households have three bedrooms and about 30% have four or more, against about 24% with two and about 8% with one, on the 2021 Census. Families are the default setting here, and the market prices accordingly.
On cost, Chudleigh is doing better than most of what surrounds it: proper houses, priced for people who work for a living, with a council tax bill that does not undo the saving. Value is one of the strongest things this town has going.