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Fremington market report EX31 1, Barnstaple
The EX31 1 (Fremington) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 2,294 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in EX31 1 (Barnstaple) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: a typical EX31 1 (Barnstaple) home changed hands for £189,000 in 2026 (median of 19 registered sales, down 29% on five years earlier), with the mean at £211,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,030 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 2,294 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
A postcode sector like EX31 1 is a single group of streets within EX31 (Barnstaple), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where EX31 1 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.
The going rate for a home in EX31 1
19 sales were registered in EX31 1 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £189,000. The mean works out at £211,600, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
House prices per square metre in EX31 1
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in EX31 1 costs about £3,030 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, EX31 1 sits 34% below the national market.
A typical EX31 1 home, priced year by year (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 | £189,000 | £189,000 | 19 |
| 2025 | £274,000 | £280,552 | 59 |
| 2024 | £240,500 | £255,701 | 74 |
| 2023 | £235,500 | £258,757 | 65 |
| 2022 | £260,000 | £304,880 | 86 |
| 2021 | £265,000 | £335,524 | 95 |
| 2020 | £234,500 | £304,269 | 72 |
| 2019 | £191,000 | £250,355 | 58 |
| 2018 | £187,500 | £249,941 | 54 |
| 2017 | £214,500 | £292,556 | 82 |
| 2016 | £211,500 | £295,891 | 82 |
| 2015 | £165,000 | £233,145 | 76 |
| 2014 | £190,000 | £269,548 | 59 |
| 2013 | £174,500 | £251,088 | 55 |
| 2012 | £165,000 | £242,859 | 55 |
| 2011 | £170,000 | £256,635 | 49 |
| 2010 | £179,500 | £281,502 | 52 |
| 2009 | £174,400 | £280,349 | 95 |
| 2008 | £170,000 | £278,666 | 99 |
| 2007 | £182,800 | £310,080 | 193 |
| 2006 | £165,000 | £286,419 | 100 |
| 2005 | £180,000 | £320,327 | 84 |
| 2004 | £153,000 | £277,878 | 34 |
| 2003 | £145,000 | £267,125 | 61 |
| 2002 | £109,000 | £205,083 | 75 |
| 2001 | £88,500 | £170,137 | 83 |
| 2000 | £78,700 | £154,449 | 68 |
| 1999 | £59,400 | £118,381 | 72 |
| 1998 | £64,000 | £129,189 | 61 |
| 1997 | £56,600 | £116,075 | 74 |
| 1996 | £54,500 | £114,938 | 55 |
| 1995 | £47,000 | £102,171 | 48 |
In cash terms the typical EX31 1 home went from £47,000 in 1995 to £189,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 85%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2021. The market now sits about 44% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the EX31 1 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 2003 (+33.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−31.0%). 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) | −31.0% | −32.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −6.5% | −10.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | −1.1% | −4.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +0.7% | −2.1% |
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.
Transaction volumes
Sales per year, counted
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
EX31 1 recorded 19 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 87 sales a year before the financial crisis and 61 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 kind of market EX31 1 is
This is a thin market: 19 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict. 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. Against the EX31 district median, EX31 1 sits 37% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
Rents around EX31 1
For renting purposes EX31 1 sits in North Devon. The ONS average private rent there is £845 a month (May 2026). A one-bed averages £588 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,330, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, North Devon
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £189,000 median purchase price, a rent of £845 a month (£10,140 a year) works out at a 5.4% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.
What people ask about EX31 1 (Fremington)
How much did a house sell for in EX31 1 (Fremington)?
Are property prices falling in EX31 1 (Fremington)?
Is EX31 1 (Fremington) a good place to buy a house?
Where do EX31 1 prices go next?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is down 29% over five years in cash but down 44% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
EX31's current homes for sale
Turning to what is actually available: 167 homes on the market right now, from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole EX31 district, not just EX31 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
24% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
The "under comparable sales" label measures each asking price against real nearby sales of similar homes: an opening position for a conversation rather than a valuation. The home itself still needs looking at.
See every EX31 home for sale on the map →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
Moving up a bedroom in EX: the cost
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 | — | £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%) | — |
Built from the last four years of recorded sales by form and bedroom count. Bedroom counts are estimated from EPC records (the register carries none), so expect a small number of homes one size adrift. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
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
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in EX31
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are EX31's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| EX31 2 | £292,000 | 42 |
| EX31 3 | £300,000 | 95 |
| EX31 4 | £331,000 | 26 |
Zoom out to the full EX31 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how EX31 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in EX31 1: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in EX31 1, open the average prices map and zoom from the EX31 1 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded EX31 1 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim EX31 1.
Keep digging
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with EX31 1 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every EX31 1 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map from area shading down to single homes. The report tool answers a specific question in writing, and each sale's mortgage and rent calculator prices 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.