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Barnstaple market report EX32
The EX32 (Barnstaple) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 13,266 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in EX32 (Barnstaple) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Covers registered sales to July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the 2026 median for EX32 (Barnstaple) is £234,500, from 104 registered sales, up 2% on five years earlier; the mean is £259,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,980 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 13,266 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
The postcode district EX32 covering Barnstaple (east) sits in Barnstaple. A district is the workhorse unit for reading a market: local enough to be meaningful, busy enough that the medians rest on a steady flow of sales.
Where EX32 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.
The going rate for a home in EX32
Across 104 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) EX32 home went for £234,500. The mean is £259,800, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
EX32 prices by floor area
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in EX32 costs about £2,980 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving EX32 18% below the national figure.
A typical EX32 home, priced year by year (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 | £234,500 | £234,500 | 104 |
| 2025 | £243,600 | £249,425 | 323 |
| 2024 | £247,500 | £263,143 | 307 |
| 2023 | £235,000 | £258,208 | 261 |
| 2022 | £248,000 | £290,808 | 411 |
| 2021 | £230,000 | £291,210 | 477 |
| 2020 | £219,500 | £284,806 | 370 |
| 2019 | £205,500 | £269,361 | 368 |
| 2018 | £194,500 | £259,272 | 394 |
| 2017 | £192,200 | £262,142 | 394 |
| 2016 | £176,000 | £246,226 | 398 |
| 2015 | £175,500 | £247,982 | 401 |
| 2014 | £169,000 | £239,756 | 383 |
| 2013 | £166,800 | £240,009 | 386 |
| 2012 | £165,000 | £242,859 | 311 |
| 2011 | £160,000 | £241,538 | 289 |
| 2010 | £164,000 | £257,194 | 322 |
| 2009 | £150,500 | £241,930 | 274 |
| 2008 | £162,100 | £265,716 | 240 |
| 2007 | £166,500 | £282,430 | 490 |
| 2006 | £158,000 | £274,268 | 547 |
| 2005 | £146,000 | £259,821 | 470 |
| 2004 | £145,000 | £263,348 | 363 |
| 2003 | £123,500 | £227,517 | 484 |
| 2002 | £100,000 | £188,149 | 701 |
| 2001 | £80,000 | £153,796 | 636 |
| 2000 | £71,000 | £139,338 | 693 |
| 1999 | £57,400 | £114,395 | 600 |
| 1998 | £49,500 | £99,919 | 503 |
| 1997 | £45,500 | £93,311 | 561 |
| 1996 | £44,400 | £93,638 | 474 |
| 1995 | £42,500 | £92,388 | 331 |
In cash terms the typical EX32 home went from £42,500 in 1995 to £234,500 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 154%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 19% below that. Someone who bought at the 2021 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the EX32 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 (+25.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−7.2%). 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) | −3.7% | −6.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.4% | −4.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.9% | −0.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.0% | −0.8% |
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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of terraced homes dominate the record here, 44% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £355,000 against £130,000 for a flat, 2.7 times the price.
Median by property type, EX32
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 | £355,000 | 30 | 3,757 |
| Semi-detached | £275,000 | 22 | 2,439 |
| Terraced | £192,500 | 44 | 5,820 |
| Flats | £130,000 | 8 | 1,250 |
Sales activity in EX32
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 monthly pulse, last five years
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
The register shows 239 EX32 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 548 sales a year before the financial crisis and 281 a year over the last five. Price without volume misleads: a median built on few sales jumps around, and one street can tilt it. Keep in mind too that the latest year is still filling in, since sales reach the register weeks or months after completion.
What tenants pay around EX32
The local authority for EX32 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.
Against the £234,500 median purchase price, a rent of £845 a month (£10,140 a year) works out at a 4.3% 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 EX32 trades
By median price EX32 sits at the bottom of its postcode area: the cheapest way in, with the least expectation already in the price.
EX32 (Barnstaple): the questions that come up
Are property prices falling in EX32 (Barnstaple)?
Is EX32 (Barnstaple) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in EX32 (Barnstaple)?
Where do EX32 prices go next?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 19% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
What is for sale in EX32 right now
Everything above is what homes in EX32 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 33 homes on the market right now, from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 107% above the EX32 median sold price.
16% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. 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
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 EX32 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.
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%) | — |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land one size out. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
EX32 ranks 15 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.
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.
Inside EX32, sector by sector
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets with its own market report. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| EX32 0 | £285,000 | 29 |
| EX32 7 | £211,000 | 18 |
| EX32 8 | £205,100 | 33 |
| EX32 9 | £182,200 | 24 |
How EX32 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The dearest districts of the EX area, and EX32 itself, which ranks 33 of 33 by median price:
| 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 | £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% |
| EX32 (this report) | £234,500 | +2% |
Selling a home in EX32? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in EX32, open the average prices map and zoom from the EX32 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded EX32 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 EX32.
Dig further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to EX32. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every EX32 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.
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.