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Fremington market report EX31 2, Barnstaple
The standing EX31 2 (Fremington) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 3,800 HM Land Registry entries for EX31 2 (Barnstaple), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: 42 registered 2026 sales put the EX31 2 (Barnstaple) median at £292,000, down 1% on five years earlier, with a mean of £311,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,480 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 3,800 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
EX31 2 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside EX31 (Barnstaple). 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 EX31 2 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.
EX31 2 sold prices: where the market stands
The 2026 median for EX31 2 is £292,000, taken from 42 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £311,900, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
What a square metre costs in EX31 2
By floor space, homes in EX31 2 have sold for about £3,480 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so EX31 2 trades 2% above the country as a whole.
The price of a typical EX31 2 home, 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 | £292,000 | £292,000 | 42 |
| 2025 | £300,000 | £307,174 | 118 |
| 2024 | £327,500 | £348,200 | 138 |
| 2023 | £350,000 | £384,565 | 107 |
| 2022 | £360,000 | £422,141 | 157 |
| 2021 | £295,000 | £373,508 | 153 |
| 2020 | £282,700 | £366,809 | 142 |
| 2019 | £273,000 | £357,838 | 133 |
| 2018 | £260,000 | £346,585 | 125 |
| 2017 | £245,000 | £334,155 | 137 |
| 2016 | £230,200 | £322,052 | 98 |
| 2015 | £228,500 | £322,871 | 106 |
| 2014 | £210,000 | £297,922 | 116 |
| 2013 | £195,000 | £280,586 | 113 |
| 2012 | £205,000 | £301,734 | 109 |
| 2011 | £207,500 | £313,245 | 95 |
| 2010 | £199,000 | £312,083 | 81 |
| 2009 | £185,800 | £298,675 | 84 |
| 2008 | £200,000 | £327,842 | 57 |
| 2007 | £220,000 | £373,181 | 149 |
| 2006 | £205,000 | £355,854 | 154 |
| 2005 | £188,500 | £335,454 | 89 |
| 2004 | £180,000 | £326,915 | 84 |
| 2003 | £157,500 | £290,153 | 111 |
| 2002 | £126,500 | £238,009 | 134 |
| 2001 | £97,200 | £186,862 | 134 |
| 2000 | £84,000 | £164,850 | 148 |
| 1999 | £72,500 | £144,489 | 174 |
| 1998 | £69,500 | £140,291 | 135 |
| 1997 | £66,200 | £135,763 | 128 |
| 1996 | £59,500 | £125,483 | 125 |
| 1995 | £58,200 | £126,518 | 124 |
In cash terms the typical EX31 2 home went from £58,200 in 1995 to £292,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 131%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2022, and today's median remains roughly 31% under it: a 2022 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the EX31 2 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 (+30.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−9.1%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What EX31 2 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −2.7% | −4.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −0.2% | −4.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.4% | −1.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.8% | −1.0% |
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
The year-by-year sales count
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
Over the last twelve months of data, 42 sales completed in EX31 2. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 112 sales a year recently, against 125 a year before 2008. 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.
Rents around EX31 2
The local authority for EX31 2 is North Devon, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £845 a month (May 2026 figures). 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 £292,000 median purchase price, a rent of £845 a month (£10,140 a year) works out at a 3.5% 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.
Reading the EX31 2 market
Only 42 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes EX31 2 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint.
Asked and answered: EX31 2 (Fremington)
Are property prices falling in EX31 2 (Fremington)?
Is EX31 2 (Fremington) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in EX31 2 (Fremington)?
Will EX31 2 prices rise from here?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 22% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
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 2: live asking prices are collected per district.
24% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
"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 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.
What another bedroom costs 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%) | — |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land one size out. 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
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of EX31, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| EX31 1 | £189,000 | 19 |
| 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 2: 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 EX31 2'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.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim EX31 2.
Keep digging
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about EX31 2. Free, with a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual EX31 2 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.