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Dolton market report EX19 8, Winkleigh
The standing EX19 8 (Dolton) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Underneath every chart here sit 2,293 registered sales in EX19 8 (Winkleigh) 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.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the 2026 median for EX19 8 (Winkleigh) is £282,000, from 22 registered sales, down 6% on five years earlier; the mean is £290,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,210 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 2,293 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
EX19 8 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside EX19 (Winkleigh). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where EX19 8 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.
EX19 8 sold prices: where the market stands
In the EX19 8 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £282,000, from 22 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £290,700, sitting practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
House prices per square metre in EX19 8
Measured by floor area, the last five years of EX19 8 sales average about £3,210 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so EX19 8 trades 1% below the country as a whole.
A typical EX19 8 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £282,000 | £282,000 | 22 |
| 2025 | £297,500 | £304,614 | 62 |
| 2024 | £325,000 | £345,542 | 62 |
| 2023 | £330,000 | £362,589 | 66 |
| 2022 | £350,000 | £410,415 | 64 |
| 2021 | £300,000 | £379,839 | 74 |
| 2020 | £270,000 | £350,331 | 65 |
| 2019 | £268,500 | £351,939 | 59 |
| 2018 | £247,500 | £329,922 | 74 |
| 2017 | £250,000 | £340,975 | 63 |
| 2016 | £225,000 | £314,777 | 80 |
| 2015 | £203,000 | £286,839 | 83 |
| 2014 | £205,000 | £290,828 | 75 |
| 2013 | £196,000 | £282,024 | 64 |
| 2012 | £203,000 | £298,791 | 43 |
| 2011 | £185,000 | £279,279 | 54 |
| 2010 | £217,000 | £340,312 | 56 |
| 2009 | £235,000 | £377,765 | 64 |
| 2008 | £212,500 | £348,332 | 58 |
| 2007 | £221,800 | £376,235 | 106 |
| 2006 | £207,000 | £359,326 | 89 |
| 2005 | £243,000 | £432,442 | 64 |
| 2004 | £196,000 | £355,974 | 75 |
| 2003 | £144,500 | £266,204 | 72 |
| 2002 | £140,000 | £263,409 | 89 |
| 2001 | £111,200 | £213,776 | 100 |
| 2000 | £80,000 | £157,000 | 137 |
| 1999 | £76,000 | £151,464 | 143 |
| 1998 | £70,000 | £141,300 | 72 |
| 1997 | £68,500 | £140,480 | 55 |
| 1996 | £60,000 | £126,537 | 50 |
| 1995 | £60,000 | £130,431 | 53 |
In cash terms the typical EX19 8 home went from £60,000 in 1995 to £282,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 116%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2005. The market now sits about 35% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the EX19 8 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 2001 (+39.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2006 (−14.8%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −5.2% | −7.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −1.2% | −5.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.3% | −1.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.6% | −1.2% |
The table annualises median growth over each period, with the real column deflated by ONS CPIH. Smoothing hides the cycle (see the chart above for it), and none of this forecasts: it is the record.
The turnover behind the prices
How many homes change hands
Each bar is a year's recorded sales. 2008's dip is the financial crisis, and the newest bar always grows for a while as late registrations arrive.
The register shows 22 EX19 8 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 92 sales a year before the financial crisis and 55 a year over the last five. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.
What kind of market EX19 8 is
Only 22 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes EX19 8 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Expect volatility in the annual figures: swings past ten per cent show up repeatedly above, and they usually reflect the mix of homes sold in a given year rather than genuine repricing.
What homes rent for around EX19 8
EX19 8 falls under Torridge, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £787 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £564 a month here against £1,267 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Torridge
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£787 a month is £9,444 a year, which against the £282,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 3.3%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
Asked and answered: EX19 8 (Dolton)
How much did a house sell for in EX19 8 (Dolton)?
Are property prices falling in EX19 8 (Dolton)?
Is EX19 8 (Dolton) a good place to buy a house?
What happens to EX19 8 prices now?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is down 6% over five years in cash but down 26% after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.
What is for sale in EX19 right now
This is what you could actually buy today: 28 homes currently on the market from 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole EX19 district, not just EX19 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
16% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
See every EX19 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 price of an extra bedroom in EX
What homes of each size actually sold for across the EX area, from the Land Registry record. 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 | — | £320,000 | £425,000 (+33%) | £635,000 (+49%) | £840,000 (+32%) |
| Semi-detached | £230,000 | £275,000 (+20%) | £335,000 (+22%) | £430,000 (+28%) | £569,000 (+32%) |
| Terraced | £203,000 | £245,000 (+21%) | £280,000 (+14%) | £350,000 (+25%) | £475,000 (+36%) |
| Flat | £145,000 | £222,000 (+53%) | £325,000 (+46%) | £458,250 (+41%) | — |
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.
EX area districts: five years of change
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Zoom out to the full EX19 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how EX19 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in EX19 8? Price it on the evidence
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at EX19 8'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.
Estate agents working EX19 8: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim EX19 8.
Dig further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to EX19 8. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual EX19 8 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale runs the numbers on a real purchase.
About the numbers: everything is computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to the address; today's-money figures use the ONS CPIH index, and rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents by local authority. These are medians of recorded sales, not valuations, and none of it is financial advice.