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Fremington market report EX31 3, Barnstaple
The EX31 3 (Fremington) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 7,086 sales registered with HM Land Registry in EX31 3 (Barnstaple) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: 95 registered 2026 sales put the EX31 3 (Barnstaple) median at £300,000, down 2% on five years earlier, with a mean of £322,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,600 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 7,086 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
EX31 3 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 3 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 EX31 3 homes really sell for
Take the 95 registered 2026 sales in EX31 3 and the middle price, the median, is £300,000. The mean lands at £322,300, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
EX31 3 prices by floor area
By floor space, homes in EX31 3 have sold for about £3,600 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, EX31 3 sits 5% above the national market.
The price of a typical EX31 3 home, 1995 to 2026
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £300,000 | £300,000 | 95 |
| 2025 | £315,000 | £322,533 | 197 |
| 2024 | £317,500 | £337,568 | 205 |
| 2023 | £325,000 | £357,096 | 174 |
| 2022 | £310,000 | £363,510 | 223 |
| 2021 | £306,000 | £387,435 | 418 |
| 2020 | £278,900 | £361,879 | 274 |
| 2019 | £276,000 | £361,770 | 281 |
| 2018 | £275,000 | £366,580 | 304 |
| 2017 | £260,000 | £354,614 | 310 |
| 2016 | £246,000 | £344,156 | 273 |
| 2015 | £225,000 | £317,925 | 210 |
| 2014 | £209,700 | £297,496 | 166 |
| 2013 | £211,000 | £303,608 | 142 |
| 2012 | £202,000 | £297,319 | 137 |
| 2011 | £185,000 | £279,279 | 186 |
| 2010 | £198,000 | £310,515 | 163 |
| 2009 | £182,000 | £292,567 | 133 |
| 2008 | £210,000 | £344,234 | 89 |
| 2007 | £229,000 | £388,448 | 207 |
| 2006 | £195,000 | £338,495 | 274 |
| 2005 | £177,500 | £315,878 | 194 |
| 2004 | £178,500 | £324,191 | 150 |
| 2003 | £155,000 | £285,548 | 176 |
| 2002 | £134,000 | £252,120 | 215 |
| 2001 | £104,500 | £200,896 | 238 |
| 2000 | £86,000 | £168,775 | 282 |
| 1999 | £72,500 | £144,489 | 324 |
| 1998 | £66,700 | £134,639 | 268 |
| 1997 | £60,000 | £123,048 | 295 |
| 1996 | £55,000 | £115,993 | 285 |
| 1995 | £56,200 | £122,170 | 198 |
In cash terms the typical EX31 3 home went from £56,200 in 1995 to £300,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 146%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2007. The market now sits about 23% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the EX31 3 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 (+28.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−13.3%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −4.8% | −7.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −0.4% | −5.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.0% | −1.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.2% | −0.6% |
Compound annual growth of the median sold price; the real column deflates by ONS CPIH. Annualised figures smooth the cycle (the chart above shows the cycle), and past growth is a record, not a forecast.
How many homes change hands in EX31 3
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.
The register shows 95 EX31 3 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 179 sales a year recently, against 217 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.
What homes rent for around EX31 3
For renting purposes EX31 3 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.
£845 a month is £10,140 a year, which against the £300,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 3.4%. 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: EX31 3 (Fremington)
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What happens to EX31 3 prices now?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 23% 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 EX31 today
The live side of the market holds 167 homes at the moment, listed by 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole EX31 district, not just EX31 3: 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.
"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.
The price of an extra bedroom in EX
Real sold prices by size across the EX area, straight from the Land Registry record. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.
| 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. 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.
Winners and losers across the EX area, five years
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own 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 1 | £189,000 | 19 |
| EX31 2 | £292,000 | 42 |
| 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.
Selling a home in EX31 3? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in EX31 3, open the average prices map and zoom from the EX31 3 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded EX31 3 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 3.
Keep digging
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about EX31 3. Free, with a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every EX31 3 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.