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Woolacombe market report EX34 8, Ilfracombe
The EX34 8 (Woolacombe) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 4,044 sales registered with HM Land Registry in EX34 8 (Ilfracombe) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the 2026 median for EX34 8 (Ilfracombe) is £246,000, from 36 registered sales, down 6% on five years earlier; the mean is £260,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,010 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 4,044 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
EX34 8 is one sector of EX34 (Ilfracombe): 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 EX34 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 EX34 8 prices, from the sold record
In the EX34 8 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £246,000, from 36 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £260,000, sitting modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
What a square metre costs in EX34 8
A square metre of EX34 8 home has cost about £3,010 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so EX34 8 trades 14% below the country as a whole.
A typical EX34 8 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £246,000 | £246,000 | 36 |
| 2025 | £260,000 | £266,217 | 82 |
| 2024 | £232,800 | £247,514 | 94 |
| 2023 | £280,000 | £307,652 | 86 |
| 2022 | £270,800 | £317,544 | 90 |
| 2021 | £262,500 | £332,359 | 138 |
| 2020 | £235,000 | £304,917 | 126 |
| 2019 | £201,500 | £264,118 | 122 |
| 2018 | £132,200 | £176,225 | 200 |
| 2017 | £183,000 | £249,594 | 149 |
| 2016 | £172,700 | £241,609 | 124 |
| 2015 | £170,000 | £240,210 | 103 |
| 2014 | £188,800 | £267,846 | 122 |
| 2013 | £174,200 | £250,656 | 115 |
| 2012 | £158,000 | £232,556 | 97 |
| 2011 | £167,800 | £253,313 | 72 |
| 2010 | £175,000 | £274,445 | 102 |
| 2009 | £161,000 | £258,809 | 83 |
| 2008 | £207,800 | £340,628 | 92 |
| 2007 | £179,000 | £303,634 | 157 |
| 2006 | £173,500 | £301,174 | 171 |
| 2005 | £165,000 | £293,634 | 117 |
| 2004 | £174,500 | £316,926 | 142 |
| 2003 | £126,000 | £232,123 | 163 |
| 2002 | £99,000 | £186,268 | 185 |
| 2001 | £87,500 | £168,214 | 171 |
| 2000 | £80,000 | £157,000 | 157 |
| 1999 | £64,500 | £128,545 | 177 |
| 1998 | £53,500 | £107,994 | 150 |
| 1997 | £57,000 | £116,896 | 173 |
| 1996 | £50,000 | £105,448 | 135 |
| 1995 | £47,500 | £103,258 | 113 |
In cash terms the typical EX34 8 home went from £47,500 in 1995 to £246,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 138%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2008. The market now sits about 28% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the EX34 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 2019 (+52.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2018 (−27.8%). 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) | −5.4% | −7.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −1.3% | −5.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.6% | +0.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.8% | −1.0% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
Sales per year, counted
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The register shows 36 EX34 8 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 158 sales a year before the financial crisis and 78 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.
Reading the EX34 8 market
Only 36 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes EX34 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.
Rents around EX34 8
The local authority for EX34 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 £246,000 median sold price, £845 a month is £10,140 a year, a gross yield of 4.1%: 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.
EX34 8 (Woolacombe): the questions that come up
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Are property prices falling in EX34 8 (Woolacombe)?
What happens to EX34 8 prices now?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is down 6% over five years in cash but down 26% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
On the market in EX34 today
This is what you could actually buy today: 84 homes currently on the market from 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole EX34 district, not just EX34 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
13% 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.
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 EX34 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.
The price of an extra bedroom in EX
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the EX area. How much a size step costs is a local fact: the third-bedroom premium runs from about a quarter to nearly four fifths depending on the area, and national rules of thumb miss it.
| 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
The spread across the EX area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Winners and losers across the EX area, five years
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in EX34
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are EX34's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| EX34 0 | £242,500 | 23 |
| EX34 7 | £340,000 | 13 |
| EX34 9 | £225,000 | 39 |
Zoom out to the full EX34 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how EX34 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in EX34 8? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in EX34 8, open the average prices map and zoom from the EX34 8 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded EX34 8 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 EX34 8.
Go deeper
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The live map plots every individual EX34 8 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.
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.