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Fremington market report EX31 4, Barnstaple
The EX31 4 (Fremington) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 2,595 HM Land Registry entries for EX31 4 (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: a typical EX31 4 (Barnstaple) home changed hands for £331,000 in 2026 (median of 26 registered sales, down 5% on five years earlier), with the mean at £383,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,600 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 2,595 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
EX31 4 is one sector of EX31 (Barnstaple): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where EX31 4 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 a home in EX31 4 sells for
The 2026 median for EX31 4 is £331,000, taken from 26 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £383,200, a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.
House prices per square metre in EX31 4
Measured by floor area, the last five years of EX31 4 sales average about £3,600 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 EX31 4 trades 16% above the country as a whole.
The price of a typical EX31 4 home, 1995 to 2026
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £331,000 | £331,000 | 26 |
| 2025 | £317,500 | £325,092 | 90 |
| 2024 | £300,000 | £318,962 | 79 |
| 2023 | £340,000 | £373,577 | 61 |
| 2022 | £450,000 | £527,676 | 87 |
| 2021 | £350,000 | £443,145 | 139 |
| 2020 | £270,000 | £350,331 | 91 |
| 2019 | £280,000 | £367,013 | 92 |
| 2018 | £305,000 | £406,571 | 81 |
| 2017 | £275,000 | £375,072 | 107 |
| 2016 | £250,000 | £349,752 | 87 |
| 2015 | £259,800 | £367,097 | 78 |
| 2014 | £221,000 | £313,527 | 90 |
| 2013 | £222,900 | £320,731 | 55 |
| 2012 | £247,500 | £364,289 | 62 |
| 2011 | £197,500 | £298,149 | 46 |
| 2010 | £322,500 | £505,763 | 40 |
| 2009 | £245,000 | £393,840 | 53 |
| 2008 | £250,000 | £409,803 | 38 |
| 2007 | £301,000 | £510,580 | 82 |
| 2006 | £236,200 | £410,013 | 98 |
| 2005 | £249,000 | £443,120 | 55 |
| 2004 | £163,800 | £297,493 | 78 |
| 2003 | £152,500 | £280,942 | 103 |
| 2002 | £151,000 | £284,105 | 90 |
| 2001 | £100,000 | £192,245 | 95 |
| 2000 | £92,000 | £180,550 | 115 |
| 1999 | £78,500 | £156,446 | 117 |
| 1998 | £72,000 | £145,337 | 103 |
| 1997 | £67,500 | £138,429 | 102 |
| 1996 | £64,000 | £134,973 | 77 |
| 1995 | £59,000 | £128,257 | 78 |
In cash terms the typical EX31 4 home went from £59,000 in 1995 to £331,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 158%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2022; the current median sits about 37% below that. Someone who bought at the 2022 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the EX31 4 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 2005 (+52.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−38.8%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +4.3% | +1.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −1.1% | −5.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.8% | −0.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.7% | −1.1% |
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.
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.
The register shows 26 EX31 4 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 90 sales a year before the financial crisis and 69 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.
Rents around EX31 4
The local authority for EX31 4 is North Devon, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £845 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £588 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,330 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, North Devon
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £331,000 median purchase price, a rent of £845 a month (£10,140 a year) works out at a 3.1% 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.
How EX31 4 trades
Only 26 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes EX31 4 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. Within EX31, this sector trades 10% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
Asked and answered: EX31 4 (Fremington)
Is EX31 4 (Fremington) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in EX31 4 (Fremington)?
Are property prices falling in EX31 4 (Fremington)?
Where do EX31 4 prices go next?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is down 5% over five years in cash but down 25% 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.
EX31's current homes for sale
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 4: live asking prices are collected per district.
24% 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 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.
Bedroom by bedroom: EX prices by size
What homes of each size actually sold for across the EX area, 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%) | — |
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. 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 districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in EX31
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of EX31, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| EX31 1 | £189,000 | 19 |
| EX31 2 | £292,000 | 42 |
| EX31 3 | £300,000 | 95 |
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 4? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in EX31 4, open the average prices map and zoom from the EX31 4 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded EX31 4 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 4.
Keep digging
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See every individual EX31 4 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.
How this page is made: the statistics are computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to address level; inflation adjustment uses the ONS CPIH index; rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents at local-authority level. Medians of recorded sales, not valuations. Nothing on this page is financial advice.