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Locally, houses of this size normally have 3 bedrooms with a garden.
Our estimate of the sale value of 26, Empire Road, Torquay is £198,475 and its rental estimate is £1,111 per month, given the available information and assuming reasonable condition.
Empire Road, Torquay, TQ1 falls within the TQ1 postal district.
26, Empire Road, Torquay has no recent1 records in the the Land Registry and a single entry in the EPC database dated May 2015.
We combine this information with public data of neighbouring properties to estimate the property attributes and values.
The local information is scored as 3 out of 5 and is considered of medium accuracy.
The condition of a property plays an important role in determining its value, with the degree of impact varying by property type, size and location.
For 26, Empire Road, Torquay, we estimate a market value of £208,399 and a rental value of £1,167 per month when presented in very good decorative order. Should the property require extensive cosmetic improvement, those figures would reduce to £184,582 and £1,034 per month respectively.
Over the last year, 26, Empire Road, Torquay has seen its estimated sale value decrease by £3,510 (1.8%) and its estimated rental value grow by £52 per month (4.7%). This results in an estimated gross rental yield of 6.7%.
26, Empire Road, Torquay has an Energy Performance Rating (EPC) of D. This is based on the most recent assessment, dated 28 May 2015.
The property is connected to mains gas and has fully double glazed windows. It is heated using Boiler and radiators, mains gas.
The most recent sale of 26, Empire Road, Torquay completed on 16th April 2003 at £102,000 and was recorded by HM Land Registry as a freehold house.
Since 1995 the property has sold 3 times.
Over the past 2 years 3 properties similar to 26, Empire Road, Torquay have sold within a radius of 430 metres, per the Land Registry and our network of Estate Agents.
The latest, on the 31st July 2025, was 39, Hill Park Road, Torquay, TQ1 4LD, a freehold house which sold for £220,000.
Read more about house prices in TQ1.
•Nearby is defined as the radius comprising the nearest 2,000 addresses.
Of the 88 addresses on Empire Road, Torquay, TQ1, 26, Empire Road, Torquay comes out as the 77th largest and the 78th most expensive in our analysis of the public data.
It is also £61k less expensive than the average property across the TQ1 district.
From 26, Empire Road, Torquay, the nearest station is Torre, 1.1 kilometres away.
Broadband here reaches superfast speeds, based on recent Ofcom data.
According to recent data from Ofcom, Superfast broadband is available in the area.
The flood risk here is rated very low, based on Environment Agency data.
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The recent census recorded whether a resident owned or rented their home.
In the area around 26, Empire Road, Torquay, 38.1% of property is privately owned with a mortgage and 33.3% is privately owned outright.
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The recent census recorded the highest level of education achieved by residents in the local area.
In the area around 26, Empire Road, Torquay, 23.3% of residents are recorded as possessing school level qualifications and 25.2% as possessing degree level qualifications.
The graph below shows how this compares to South West and the rest of England & Wales.
The most recent census in 2021 recorded the age of all UK residents.
In the area around 26, Empire Road, Torquay, the average age was 46.7 and the most common age was 72.
The graph below shows how this compares to South West and the rest of England & Wales
The recent census recorded whether a property was a primary or secondary home for the resident.
In the area around 26, Empire Road, Torquay, 0.0% of property was a second home.
Comparison figures for South West and the rest of England & Wales are listed below.
The recent census recorded the number of cars registered in each household.
In the area around 26, Empire Road, Torquay, there are an average of 1.3 cars per household.
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