About £345,000 gets you the middle of the market in South Brent. Detached houses sit well above that. Terraced houses sit a good way below it, when one comes up at all. Barely three dozen homes changed hands across the whole area in a year, so this is a thin market as well as a pricey one. Dartmoor addresses are not sold at a discount, and nobody here is confused about that.
The Land Registry's records for the year to early May 2026 put the median sale across the South Brent area at £345,000, spread over 35 completed sales. The split by type carries more information than the median. Detached homes account for 17 of those sales at a median of £415,000, terraced for 12 at about £246,000, and semi-detached for five at £300,000. Thirty-five sales in twelve months cuts both ways: not much choice when you are buying, and a longer wait for the right person when you sell.
The published house-price index had the average for the area at about £364,000 as of May 2026, down about 7% over the preceding twelve months. Flats moved further over the same year, down about 10%, with the index putting the average flat at about £191,000. Those are recorded movements for the index area over a year that has already happened, not a forecast, and in a market this small a single year of index movement describes the recent past rather than promising anything about the next one.
Council tax lands lower than the detached-heavy sales figures would suggest. Band B is the most common band across the area, and about 34% of dwellings sit in bands A or B. A band D bill runs to about £2,615 a year, which is the figure most people can hold against whatever they are paying now.
Rent is published at local-authority scale rather than village scale, so the honest number is the South Hams one. Typical private rent across the South Hams area was about £1,000 a month as of April 2026, and that is a mean from the Office for National Statistics rent index rather than a median of what sits in an agent's window. By size, the same area figures come out at about £725 for one bedroom, about £910 for two, about £1,120 for three, and about £1,610 for four or more.
Median gross household income across the area, before tax, was modelled at about £55,000 for the financial year to March 2023, and that is the year the figure describes rather than the money in anyone's account today. Set that beside a £345,000 median and buying here is a stretch rather than an impossibility, though the gap between the terraced end and the detached end is where the stretch actually happens.
Of the sales that can be measured, meaning the roughly 66% that could be matched to an energy certificate's floor area, the median comes out at about £3,285 per square metre, with a typical matched home at about 83 square metres. That is a rate for floor space rather than a price list. Two houses of the same size can sit a long way apart on land, condition and how the heating works.
The bedroom mix explains where the entry point sits. At the 2021 census, about 37% of homes had three bedrooms and about 31% had four or more. About 26% had two, and about 6% had one. Small is the rare thing here, which is why small does not come cheap.
Middling is the honest word for what houses cost in South Brent. Nothing about it is a bargain and nothing about it is outrageous. You pay a fair price for space, and the less space you want, the fewer chances you get to buy any.