491 Babbacombe Road, Torquay, TQ1 1HL

491 Babbacombe Road is a four-bedroom mid-terrace house in Torquay (TQ1 1HL). It has a recorded floor area of 159 m² (around 1711 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band D. It is a listed building, which means external alterations are tightly controlled but it may qualify for heritage tax reliefs. Period features are noted in the property record. The latest certificate (October 2025) shows a D (score 62), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The rating has held steady at D across 3 certificates since August 2013. Between certificates, lighting dropped from Very Good to Good. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 83), a 2-band jump.

At 159 m² the property is well over the postcode median (71 m² across 32 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. 4 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 3 is the typical count. Across 2004–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 2.5% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £344,000 is 22.9% above the 2022 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£164/sq ft) was about 41.4% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £280,000 in January 2022. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.