About a quarter of a million pounds for a typical house, which in this county counts as restraint. Flats go for around a hundred and fifty thousand. Terraces sit in the low two hundreds. Detached houses stop short of four hundred thousand. Coastal Devon charges you for the view. This town charges you for the house.
The Land Registry recorded 388 sales in the year to May 2026, at a median of £250,000. Split by type, flats came in at about £152,000 across 62 sales, terraces at £215,000 across 129, semi-detached at £265,000 across 102, and detached at about £373,000 across 95. That spread matters more than the headline, because the gap between a terrace and a detached house here is the difference between two ordinary decisions rather than two different lives.
The published house price index puts the average for the area at about £302,000 as of May 2026, an average rather than a midpoint and drawn across a wider patch than the town itself, and it has moved down by roughly 1% over the preceding twelve months. Flats have come off harder, down about 5% over the same period. Neither of those is a collapse and neither is a forecast. A movement of one percent is the market shuffling in its seat.
Council tax band B is the most common band in the town, and about 48% of dwellings sit in bands A or B. The band D bill runs to roughly £2,640 a year, which is the number most people can hold against their current one, though the majority of homes here are billed below it.
Renting typically costs about £950 a month across the Teignbridge area, as of April 2026. That is a mean from the official rent index covering the whole local authority rather than this town alone, so it describes the shape of the market and not an asking price. By size, the district averages run at about £645 for a one bedroom, £860 for two, £1,070 for three and £1,540 for four or more.
Household income here runs at about £51,000 before tax, modelled by the Office for National Statistics for the financial year to March 2023, so it describes that year rather than today. Set a £250,000 house against a figure like that and the arithmetic stays in the realm of the ordinary. Two earners are buying a house rather than negotiating a hostage release, and one earner is still in the conversation at the terrace and flat end. That is the part of Devon most people assumed had closed.
For the sales that can be measured, meaning the 84% that match to an energy certificate with a floor area on it, the median works out at about £3,090 per square metre, against a typical measured floor area of 81 square metres. The useful thing about that pairing is that it tells you the money is buying actual rooms rather than a postcode with a small flat attached.
The 2021 census puts the bedroom mix at about 39% with three bedrooms, 30% with two, 21% with four or more and 11% with one. Three-bedroom houses are the default unit here, which is why the median sale reads the way it does.
Cost is the strongest thing this town has going for it. It still sells family-sized houses at prices most of the county quietly stopped offering, and it does not ask anyone to shrink the house to get them.