Buy-to-let in Torbay
Yields, prices, demand and local risks for Torbay, covering Brixham, Paignton, Torquay.
Torbay in figures
- Gross rental yield
- 4.4% to 5.1%
- By kind of home, across Torbay
- Entry price, across its towns
- £195,500 to £250,000
- The cheapest postcode district's median sale
- Price move, 12 months
- -2.6%
- UK House Price Index, across Torbay
- Price move, 10 years
- +31.5%
- 8.4% below the year to July 2023, across Torbay
- Population
- 139,486
- Torbay, +0.6% growth
- Semi-detached houses across Torbay let for £1,000/mo against a median sale of £272,000 there: 4.4% gross before costs, on ONS rents and sold prices for the whole authority.
- ONS puts the median rent across the whole local authority at £920/mo, which is the figure to check an asking rent against.
- Prices across Torbay fell 2.6% over the last year on the mix-adjusted UK HPI, which is measured for the whole local authority.
- Prices +32% over ten years, 8% below the year to July 2023 (Torbay)
- £15,000 stamp duty with the 5% surcharge on a £250,000 buy-to-let
- 2 regeneration awards (Torbay)
- 267 homes added across Torbay
- Band D £2,470 (Torbay)
- 2.4% long-term empty across Torbay
- +21% five-year forecast for South West as a whole (Savills), not this area
These figures are from Clarity's monthly ranking dataset, one method across every place so they compare. The Torbay report measures the area in more depth over its own twelve months, so its figures are the ones to quote.
What sits behind the figures
Prices across Torbay moved +31.5% over ten years on the UK House Price Index, and the latest year's average is 8.4% below its highest, the year to July 2023.
Employee jobs across Torbay moved +0.0% from 2015 to 2024 (ONS Business Register and Employment Survey).
68% of the energy performance certificates lodged across Brixham's postcode districts are below band C (7,611 certificates). Clarity measures areas rather than individual homes, so this is the share of the local stock likely to need energy-efficiency work before it meets a band C standard, not a survey of any one property.
A buy-to-let at £250,000 pays £15,000 in Stamp Duty Land Tax, including the 5% surcharge on additional homes.
The five-year forecast quoted above (Savills, South West) is a regional figure for South West as a whole, not a forecast for Torbay, and Clarity does not rank on it.
Towns in Torbay
| Town | Entry price | Gross yield | Tenant demand |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brixham | £250,000 | 4.4%semi-detached houses | 2.6/10 |
| Paignton | £207,000 | 5.1%terraced houses | 2.3/10 |
| Torquay | £195,500 | 5.1%terraced houses | 2.2/10 |
Each yield is Torbay's, for the kind of home that town's prices point to, and the year's price move is measured across Torbay as a whole, so towns pointing to the same kind of home share a yield.
The Torbay report
The full report measures Torbay from its own sales: sold prices and rents for each type of home, the year's price move, crime per resident and worker, flood risk, planning designations, housing delivery and regeneration funding, with a worked buy-to-let deal on your own budget. This edition was built in October 2026.
Read the cover of the Torbay report, free, with its headline figures, before you decide.
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Compare it with everywhere else
The investment map ranks Torbay against every other place we cover, on your own budget and strategy. Questions about the figures or about us are answered here.
Sources and further reading
- HM Land Registry: UK House Price Index
- HM Land Registry: Price Paid Data (England and Wales)
- Registers of Scotland: property market statistics (Scotland)
- ONS: Price Index of Private Rents
- ONS: Population estimates
- ONS: Business Register and Employment Survey
- MHCLG: Energy Performance of Buildings Data (England and Wales)
- HMRC: Stamp Duty Land Tax