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Fremington market report EX31, Barnstaple
The standing EX31 (Fremington) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 15,777 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in EX31 (Barnstaple) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Covers registered sales to July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in EX31 (Barnstaple) came in at £300,000, out of 182 registered, down 1% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £317,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,490 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 15,777 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
EX31 is a postcode district covering Barnstaple (west), Fremington, Yarnscombe in Barnstaple. It is the most useful size for market figures: tight enough to describe somewhere real, large enough that sales keep coming and the medians hold steady.
Where EX31 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 buyers actually paid in EX31
In the EX31 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £300,000, from 182 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £317,000, sitting modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
What a square metre costs in EX31
Per square metre, EX31 homes have averaged around £3,490 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, EX31 sits 5% above the national market.
The price of a typical EX31 home, 1995 to 2026
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £300,000 | £300,000 | 182 |
| 2025 | £305,000 | £312,293 | 464 |
| 2024 | £311,000 | £330,657 | 496 |
| 2023 | £325,000 | £357,096 | 407 |
| 2022 | £330,000 | £386,963 | 553 |
| 2021 | £302,500 | £383,004 | 805 |
| 2020 | £275,000 | £356,818 | 579 |
| 2019 | £270,000 | £353,905 | 564 |
| 2018 | £265,000 | £353,250 | 564 |
| 2017 | £252,700 | £344,657 | 636 |
| 2016 | £237,200 | £331,845 | 540 |
| 2015 | £225,000 | £317,925 | 470 |
| 2014 | £207,500 | £294,375 | 431 |
| 2013 | £197,000 | £283,463 | 365 |
| 2012 | £200,000 | £294,375 | 363 |
| 2011 | £189,500 | £286,072 | 376 |
| 2010 | £200,000 | £313,651 | 336 |
| 2009 | £182,500 | £293,370 | 365 |
| 2008 | £192,000 | £314,729 | 283 |
| 2007 | £212,000 | £359,611 | 631 |
| 2006 | £195,000 | £338,495 | 626 |
| 2005 | £181,000 | £322,107 | 422 |
| 2004 | £178,500 | £324,191 | 346 |
| 2003 | £155,000 | £285,548 | 452 |
| 2002 | £130,000 | £244,594 | 515 |
| 2001 | £99,200 | £190,707 | 550 |
| 2000 | £85,000 | £166,813 | 613 |
| 1999 | £72,000 | £143,492 | 687 |
| 1998 | £68,500 | £138,272 | 567 |
| 1997 | £60,000 | £123,048 | 599 |
| 1996 | £57,000 | £120,210 | 542 |
| 1995 | £56,700 | £123,257 | 448 |
In cash terms the typical EX31 home went from £56,700 in 1995 to £300,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 143%: 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 22% 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 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 (+31.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−9.4%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of detached houses dominate the record here, 49% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £349,800 against £131,000 for a flat, 2.7 times the price.
Median by property type, EX31
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £349,800 | 93 | 7,670 |
| Semi-detached | £286,000 | 41 | 3,679 |
| Terraced | £227,500 | 40 | 3,338 |
| Flats | £131,000 | 8 | 1,090 |
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −1.6% | −3.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −0.2% | −4.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.4% | −1.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.2% | −0.6% |
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
How many homes change hands
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The last five years, month by month
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
Over the last twelve months of data, 405 sales completed in EX31. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 420 sales a year recently, against 519 a year before 2008. Volume matters as much as price: when few homes change hands, the median gets jumpy and a single street can move the figure. The most recent year is always still filling in, because sales appear in the Land Registry weeks or months after completion.
The rental side of EX31
The local authority for EX31 is North Devon, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £845 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £588 a month here against £1,330 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, North Devon
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £300,000 median sold price, £845 a month is £10,140 a year, a gross yield of 3.4%: gross, before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax, so a ceiling rather than a promise. Rents are published at local-authority level, so nearby districts in the same authority share these figures.
Asked and answered: EX31 (Fremington)
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Will EX31 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.
On the market in EX31 today
Everything above is what homes in EX31 sold for. The live side of the market holds 167 homes at the moment, listed by 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 42% above the EX31 median sold price.
24% 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.
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 →
Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
What another bedroom costs in EX
What homes of each size actually sold for across the EX area, from the Land Registry record. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| 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
EX31 ranks 20 of 33 in the EX area on five-year growth. The gap between the top and bottom of this chart is the difference between buying well and buying badly in the same city.
Five-year change in the median, EX area districts
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Inside EX31, sector by sector
The next slice down is the postcode sector: a group of streets, each with its own report. Two sectors a short walk apart can trade at sharply different prices.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| EX31 1 | £189,000 | 19 |
| EX31 2 | £292,000 | 42 |
| EX31 3 | £300,000 | 95 |
| EX31 4 | £331,000 | 26 |
How EX31 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the EX area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| EX3 | £425,000 | -6% |
| EX6 | £400,000 | +24% |
| EX10 | £387,500 | +2% |
| EX9 | £380,000 | -4% |
| EX21 | £377,500 | +9% |
| EX11 | £366,200 | +10% |
| EX33 | £364,000 | -4% |
| EX37 | £340,000 | +5% |
| EX1 | £337,500 | +15% |
| EX23 | £325,000 | +2% |
| EX24 | £320,000 | -9% |
| EX8 | £315,000 | +11% |
| EX2 | £305,000 | +3% |
| EX17 | £303,800 | +9% |
| EX5 | £300,000 | +10% |
| EX12 | £300,000 | +0% |
| EX31 (this report) | £300,000 | -1% |
| EX18 | £295,000 | -6% |
| EX22 | £290,000 | -5% |
| EX13 | £285,000 | +1% |
| EX15 | £283,800 | +9% |
| EX19 | £282,000 | -6% |
| EX7 | £275,000 | +4% |
| EX20 | £275,000 | +2% |
Selling in EX31? Start from the sold record
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at EX31'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 EX31: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim EX31.
Go deeper
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The live map plots every individual EX31 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.
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.