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Exeter market report EX
The standing EX (Exeter) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Underneath every chart here sit 347,548 registered sales in the EX postcode area (Exeter) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales recorded to August 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release. Page updated 19 October 2026.
In short: 3,823 registered 2026 sales put the the EX postcode area (Exeter) median at £295,000, up 3% on five years earlier, with a mean of £337,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,580 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 347,548 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
The figures for EX centred on Exeter run across 33 districts, the broad sweep by design. For a specific place, drop down to its district report below.
Where EX sits
Shaded by median price on the same scale as the average prices map. Click any shape to open it on the live map with every sale plotted at its address, or zoom in past street level to see the sold homes right here.
What buyers actually paid in EX
The 2026 median for EX is £295,000, taken from 3,823 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £337,700, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
Price per square metre in EX
A square metre of EX home has cost about £3,580 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, EX sits 4% above the national market.
EX's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £295,000 | £295,000 | 3,823 |
| 2025 | £302,500 | £309,734 | 9,503 |
| 2024 | £307,500 | £326,936 | 9,260 |
| 2023 | £318,200 | £349,624 | 8,781 |
| 2022 | £315,000 | £369,373 | 10,688 |
| 2021 | £287,000 | £363,379 | 13,668 |
| 2020 | £270,000 | £350,331 | 9,621 |
| 2019 | £255,000 | £334,244 | 10,552 |
| 2018 | £250,000 | £333,255 | 11,082 |
| 2017 | £240,000 | £327,336 | 11,555 |
| 2016 | £228,000 | £318,974 | 11,897 |
| 2015 | £220,000 | £310,860 | 11,651 |
| 2014 | £208,000 | £295,084 | 11,315 |
| 2013 | £199,000 | £286,341 | 10,012 |
| 2012 | £195,000 | £287,016 | 8,729 |
| 2011 | £192,000 | £289,846 | 8,392 |
| 2010 | £199,000 | £312,083 | 8,692 |
| 2009 | £182,500 | £293,370 | 8,411 |
| 2008 | £192,000 | £314,729 | 7,129 |
| 2007 | £198,000 | £335,863 | 13,352 |
| 2006 | £185,000 | £321,136 | 14,546 |
| 2005 | £175,000 | £311,429 | 10,841 |
| 2004 | £173,300 | £314,747 | 11,834 |
| 2003 | £150,000 | £276,336 | 12,713 |
| 2002 | £125,000 | £235,186 | 14,879 |
| 2001 | £94,500 | £181,671 | 14,262 |
| 2000 | £82,500 | £161,906 | 13,257 |
| 1999 | £70,000 | £139,506 | 13,775 |
| 1998 | £63,000 | £127,170 | 11,573 |
| 1997 | £60,000 | £123,048 | 12,659 |
| 1996 | £56,000 | £118,101 | 10,691 |
| 1995 | £54,500 | £118,475 | 8,405 |
In cash terms the typical EX home went from £54,500 in 1995 to £295,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 149%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2022, and today's median remains roughly 20% under it: a 2022 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the EX median
Each bar is the change on the year before, in cash. The zero line is the boundary between rising and falling.
The strongest year on record here is 2002 (+32.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−4.9%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What EX has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year (since 2025) | −2.5% | −4.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.6% | −4.1% |
| 6 years (since 2020) | +1.5% | −2.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.6% | −0.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.4% | −0.4% |
Each row is compound annual growth of the median; ONS CPIH supplies the real-terms deflator. Annualising irons out the cycle, which the chart above shows in full, and past growth records what happened rather than predicting anything.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of detached houses dominate the record here, 34% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £415,000 against £160,000 for a flat, 2.6 times the price.
Median by property type, EX
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £415,000 | 1,325 | 119,865 |
| Semi-detached | £291,500 | 848 | 72,252 |
| Terraced | £240,000 | 1,201 | 110,230 |
| Flats | £160,000 | 449 | 45,201 |
How many homes change hands in EX
The year-by-year sales count
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
The monthly pulse, last five years
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
The register shows 6,987 EX sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 13,211 sales a year before the financial crisis and 8,411 a year over the last five. Price without volume misleads: a median built on few sales jumps around, and one street can tilt it. Keep in mind too that the latest year is still filling in, since sales reach the register weeks or months after completion.
What homes rent for around EX
The local authority for EX is East Devon, the local authority covering most of the EX area (parts fall under North Devon and Torridge, where rents differ), and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £973 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £688 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,624, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, East Devon
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £295,000 median sold price, £973 a month is £11,676 a year, a gross yield of 4.0%: gross, before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax, so a ceiling rather than a promise. Rents are published at local-authority level, so nearby districts in the same authority share these figures.
EX (Exeter): the questions that come up
Is EX (Exeter) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in EX (Exeter)?
Are property prices falling in EX (Exeter)?
Are EX prices heading up or down?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 3% over five years in cash but down 19% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
On the market in EX today
Everything above is what homes in EX sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 363 homes currently on the market from 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 3% below the EX median sold price.
At the pace of the last twelve months' registered sales (6,987 in EX), the 363 homes listed here amount to about 3 weeks of supply. Not every agent publishes to HomesIndex, so the true figure is higher. That is a thin shelf: buyers here are choosing from little, and a well priced home is unlikely to wait long.
18% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
"Under comparable sales" means the asking price sits below what similar homes nearby actually fetched. Treat it as the start of a conversation, never a valuation, and always view the home.
See every EX home for sale on the map →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
The EX sales calendar
June is when EX changes hands most (10.7% of the 51,900 sales dated 2021 to 2025); April is the quiet end at 6.5%. That is a marked seasonal rhythm. A sale completes weeks after it is agreed, so the busy month reflects deals struck earlier in the year; a seller who wants competition should be on the market ahead of it.
Sales by month, 2021 to 2025
| Month | Sales | Share |
|---|---|---|
| January | 3,442 | 6.6% |
| February | 4,008 | 7.7% |
| March | 5,529 | 10.7% |
| April | 3,383 | 6.5% |
| May | 3,680 | 7.1% |
| June | 5,552 | 10.7% |
| July | 3,964 | 7.6% |
| August | 4,353 | 8.4% |
| September | 5,075 | 9.8% |
| October | 4,259 | 8.2% |
| November | 4,304 | 8.3% |
| December | 4,351 | 8.4% |
The price of an extra bedroom in EX
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the EX area. How much a size step costs is a local fact: the third-bedroom premium runs from about a quarter to nearly four fifths depending on the area, and national rules of thumb miss it.
| Type | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | 5 bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £290,000 | £325,000 (+12%) | £375,000 (+15%) | £470,000 (+25%) | £625,000 (+33%) |
| Semi-detached | £205,500 | £250,000 (+22%) | £295,000 (+18%) | £367,000 (+24%) | £450,000 (+23%) |
| Terraced | £171,500 | £220,000 (+28%) | £256,000 (+16%) | £300,000 (+17%) | £365,000 (+22%) |
| Flat | £134,000 | £180,000 (+34%) | £270,000 (+50%) | £305,250 (+13%) | £437,500 (+43%) |
Medians of recorded sales over the last four years, by built form and bedroom count. Sold homes carry no advertised bedroom count, so sizes are estimated from their EPC records; a small number of homes will sit one size out. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the EX area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Five-year change in the median, EX area districts
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
District by district
The area medians above hide a lot. Here is every EX district with enough sales to measure, dearest first; each links to its own full report.
| District | Median (2026) | 5-year | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| EX3 Clyst St George, Ebford | £450,000 | +0% | 38 |
| EX10 Sidmouth, Sidford | £398,800 | +5% | 158 |
| EX21 Beaworthy | £375,000 | +9% | 27 |
| EX33 Braunton | £375,000 | -1% | 65 |
| EX9 Budleigh Salterton, East Budleigh | £372,500 | -6% | 48 |
| EX11 Ottery St. Mary, West Hill | £366,200 | +10% | 64 |
| EX6 Christow, Cockwood | £355,000 | +10% | 63 |
| EX23 Bude, Coombe | £332,500 | +4% | 114 |
| EX1 Exeter (east), Heavitree (north) | £325,000 | +11% | 194 |
| EX37 Umberleigh, High Bickington | £325,000 | +0% | 22 |
| EX24 Colyton | £320,000 | -9% | 17 |
| EX8 Exmouth, Lympstone | £315,000 | +11% | 299 |
| EX19 Winkleigh, Dolton | £315,000 | +5% | 25 |
| EX2 Exeter (south), Heavitree (south) | £308,000 | +4% | 272 |
| EX12 Seaton, Beer | £305,000 | +1% | 94 |
| EX5 Bradninch, Broadclyst | £300,000 | +10% | 182 |
| EX17 Crediton | £300,000 | +7% | 101 |
| EX31 Barnstaple (west), Fremington | £300,000 | -1% | 208 |
| EX22 Holsworthy | £290,000 | -5% | 73 |
| EX13 Axminster | £287,500 | +2% | 83 |
| EX15 Cullompton, Plymtree | £285,000 | +10% | 165 |
| EX18 Chulmleigh | £278,500 | -11% | 17 |
| EX4 Exeter (north), Exwick | £274,500 | +8% | 238 |
| EX35 Lynton, Lynmouth | £267,000 | -3% | 17 |
| EX20 Okehampton, North Tawton | £266,700 | -1% | 132 |
| EX7 Dawlish, Dawlish Warren | £265,000 | +0% | 114 |
| EX16 Tiverton | £265,000 | -5% | 218 |
| EX14 Honiton | £254,000 | -2% | 151 |
| EX38 Great Torrington | £250,000 | +11% | 61 |
| EX39 Bideford, Northam | £248,000 | -1% | 235 |
| EX36 South Molton | £245,000 | -7% | 81 |
| EX34 Ilfracombe, Woolacombe | £242,500 | -10% | 123 |
| EX32 Barnstaple (east) | £240,000 | +4% | 124 |
Before you sell in EX: what the record supports
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at EX's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.
Go deeper
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about EX. Free, with a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual EX sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator runs the numbers on a real purchase.
Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.