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Barnstaple market report EX32 8
The EX32 8 (Barnstaple) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 3,900 HM Land Registry entries for EX32 8 (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.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in EX32 8 (Barnstaple) came in at £205,100, out of 33 registered, up 15% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £228,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,970 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 3,900 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
A postcode sector like EX32 8 is a single group of streets within EX32 (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 EX32 8 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.
Today's EX32 8 prices, from the sold record
33 sales were registered in EX32 8 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £205,100. The mean works out at £228,900, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
EX32 8 prices by floor area
The last five years of sales put EX32 8 at roughly £2,970 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving EX32 8 28% below the national figure.
The price of a typical EX32 8 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 | £205,100 | £205,100 | 33 |
| 2025 | £220,000 | £225,261 | 83 |
| 2024 | £239,000 | £254,106 | 96 |
| 2023 | £200,000 | £219,751 | 82 |
| 2022 | £203,000 | £238,041 | 113 |
| 2021 | £179,000 | £226,637 | 116 |
| 2020 | £185,000 | £240,041 | 91 |
| 2019 | £172,000 | £225,451 | 104 |
| 2018 | £158,500 | £211,283 | 112 |
| 2017 | £175,000 | £238,682 | 92 |
| 2016 | £155,000 | £216,847 | 105 |
| 2015 | £148,500 | £209,831 | 111 |
| 2014 | £148,600 | £210,815 | 112 |
| 2013 | £154,500 | £222,310 | 113 |
| 2012 | £133,000 | £195,759 | 89 |
| 2011 | £132,000 | £199,269 | 81 |
| 2010 | £152,500 | £239,159 | 94 |
| 2009 | £127,800 | £205,440 | 59 |
| 2008 | £140,000 | £229,490 | 71 |
| 2007 | £143,500 | £243,416 | 130 |
| 2006 | £133,000 | £230,871 | 177 |
| 2005 | £131,000 | £233,127 | 151 |
| 2004 | £129,000 | £234,289 | 105 |
| 2003 | £102,000 | £187,909 | 131 |
| 2002 | £86,500 | £162,749 | 221 |
| 2001 | £72,000 | £138,416 | 227 |
| 2000 | £56,500 | £110,881 | 183 |
| 1999 | £49,000 | £97,654 | 189 |
| 1998 | £44,000 | £88,817 | 196 |
| 1997 | £41,100 | £84,288 | 176 |
| 1996 | £42,800 | £90,263 | 156 |
| 1995 | £39,500 | £85,867 | 101 |
In cash terms the typical EX32 8 home went from £39,500 in 1995 to £205,100 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 139%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2024. The market now sits about 19% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the EX32 8 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 2001 (+27.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−13.4%). 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) | −6.8% | −9.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.8% | −2.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.8% | −0.6% |
| 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.
Transaction volumes
How many homes change hands
Each bar is a year's recorded sales. 2008's dip is the financial crisis, and the newest bar always grows for a while as late registrations arrive.
Over the last twelve months of data, 33 sales completed in EX32 8. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 166 sales a year before the financial crisis and 81 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.
What kind of market EX32 8 is
Only 33 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes EX32 8 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching. Against the EX32 district median, EX32 8 sits 13% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
What tenants pay around EX32 8
The local authority for EX32 8 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 £205,100 median sold price, £845 a month is £10,140 a year, a gross yield of 4.9%: 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.
EX32 8 (Barnstaple): the questions that come up
Is EX32 8 (Barnstaple) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in EX32 8 (Barnstaple)?
Are property prices falling in EX32 8 (Barnstaple)?
Are EX32 8 prices heading up or down?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 15% over five years in cash but down 10% 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.
EX32's current homes for sale
This is what you could actually buy today: 33 homes currently on the market from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole EX32 district, not just EX32 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
16% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Dennington, Swimbridge
- Station Hill, Swimbridge, Barnstaple
- Acland Road, Landkey, Barnstaple, Devon, EX32
"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 EX32 home for sale on the map →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
Bedroom by bedroom: EX prices by size
Real sold prices by size across the EX area, straight 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%) | — |
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 EX32
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are EX32's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| EX32 0 | £285,000 | 29 |
| EX32 7 | £211,000 | 18 |
| EX32 9 | £182,200 | 24 |
Zoom out to the full EX32 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how EX32 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in EX32 8? Get a rough value first
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in EX32 8, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from EX32 8's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded EX32 8 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim EX32 8.
Dig further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to EX32 8. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual EX32 8 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.
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.