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Barnstaple market report EX32 9
The standing EX32 9 (Barnstaple) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 3,485 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in EX32 9 (Barnstaple) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the 2026 median for EX32 9 (Barnstaple) is £182,200, from 24 registered sales, down 36% on five years earlier; the mean is £216,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,930 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 3,485 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
A postcode sector like EX32 9 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 9 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 EX32 9
Take the 24 registered 2026 sales in EX32 9 and the middle price, the median, is £182,200. The mean lands at £216,600, well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
House prices per square metre in EX32 9
Per square metre, EX32 9 homes have averaged around £2,930 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so EX32 9 trades 36% below the country as a whole.
The price of a typical EX32 9 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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £182,200 | £182,200 | 24 |
| 2025 | £280,000 | £286,696 | 87 |
| 2024 | £235,000 | £249,853 | 81 |
| 2023 | £245,000 | £269,195 | 63 |
| 2022 | £240,000 | £281,427 | 111 |
| 2021 | £286,200 | £362,366 | 132 |
| 2020 | £225,000 | £291,942 | 113 |
| 2019 | £195,000 | £255,598 | 101 |
| 2018 | £217,500 | £289,932 | 98 |
| 2017 | £190,000 | £259,141 | 93 |
| 2016 | £188,000 | £263,014 | 96 |
| 2015 | £167,800 | £237,101 | 110 |
| 2014 | £192,500 | £273,095 | 101 |
| 2013 | £193,000 | £277,708 | 103 |
| 2012 | £204,000 | £300,263 | 70 |
| 2011 | £169,000 | £255,125 | 76 |
| 2010 | £170,500 | £267,388 | 90 |
| 2009 | £156,500 | £251,575 | 80 |
| 2008 | £179,500 | £294,238 | 70 |
| 2007 | £180,000 | £305,330 | 130 |
| 2006 | £162,500 | £282,079 | 147 |
| 2005 | £165,000 | £293,634 | 117 |
| 2004 | £173,000 | £314,202 | 93 |
| 2003 | £127,500 | £234,886 | 130 |
| 2002 | £109,500 | £206,023 | 186 |
| 2001 | £92,000 | £176,865 | 188 |
| 2000 | £92,000 | £180,550 | 217 |
| 1999 | £59,500 | £118,580 | 156 |
| 1998 | £49,700 | £100,323 | 100 |
| 1997 | £48,000 | £98,438 | 132 |
| 1996 | £42,000 | £88,576 | 113 |
| 1995 | £42,000 | £91,302 | 77 |
In cash terms the typical EX32 9 home went from £42,000 in 1995 to £182,200 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 100%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2021. The market now sits about 50% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the EX32 9 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 2000 (+54.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−34.9%). 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) | −34.9% | −36.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −8.6% | −12.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | −0.3% | −3.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +0.6% | −2.2% |
The table annualises median growth over each period, with the real column deflated by ONS CPIH. Smoothing hides the cycle (see the chart above for it), and none of this forecasts: it is the record.
The turnover behind the prices
How many homes change hands
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
Over the last twelve months of data, 24 sales completed in EX32 9. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 151 sales a year before the financial crisis and 73 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.
Reading the EX32 9 market
This is a thin market: 24 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict. 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. Against the EX32 district median, EX32 9 sits 22% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
What homes rent for around EX32 9
EX32 9 falls under North Devon, where the ONS puts the average private rent 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.
£845 a month is £10,140 a year, which against the £182,200 median sold price makes a gross yield of 5.6%. 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: EX32 9 (Barnstaple)
Is EX32 9 (Barnstaple) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in EX32 9 (Barnstaple)?
Are property prices falling in EX32 9 (Barnstaple)?
Where do EX32 9 prices go next?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is down 36% over five years in cash but down 50% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
EX32's current homes for sale
The live side of the market holds 33 homes at the moment, listed by 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole EX32 district, not just EX32 9: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 16% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- Dennington, Swimbridge
- Station Hill, Swimbridge, Barnstaple
- Acland Road, Landkey, Barnstaple, Devon, EX32
"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 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.
The price of an extra bedroom in EX
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. 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.
Five-year change in the median, EX area districts
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's 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 8 | £205,100 | 33 |
Zoom out to the full EX32 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how EX32 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in EX32 9: 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 EX32 9'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 EX32 9: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim EX32 9.
Go deeper
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to EX32 9. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual EX32 9 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.