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Woolacombe market report EX34 9, Ilfracombe
The EX34 9 (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: 3,973 sales registered with HM Land Registry in EX34 9 (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 recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: a typical EX34 9 (Ilfracombe) home changed hands for £225,000 in 2026 (median of 39 registered sales, up 18% on five years earlier), with the mean at £243,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,870 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 3,973 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
EX34 9 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 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 EX34 9 homes really sell for
The EX34 9 median stands at £225,000 for 2026, built from 39 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £243,700, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
House prices per square metre in EX34 9
Per square metre, EX34 9 homes have averaged around £2,870 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.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, EX34 9 runs 21% below it.
A typical EX34 9 home, priced year by year (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 | £225,000 | £225,000 | 39 |
| 2025 | £230,000 | £235,500 | 112 |
| 2024 | £227,500 | £241,879 | 99 |
| 2023 | £240,000 | £263,701 | 108 |
| 2022 | £230,000 | £269,701 | 124 |
| 2021 | £190,500 | £241,198 | 148 |
| 2020 | £178,200 | £231,218 | 104 |
| 2019 | £218,000 | £285,746 | 129 |
| 2018 | £212,500 | £283,267 | 104 |
| 2017 | £180,000 | £245,502 | 128 |
| 2016 | £176,500 | £246,925 | 120 |
| 2015 | £161,500 | £228,200 | 124 |
| 2014 | £156,800 | £222,448 | 124 |
| 2013 | £158,600 | £228,210 | 112 |
| 2012 | £155,000 | £228,141 | 96 |
| 2011 | £157,500 | £237,764 | 107 |
| 2010 | £150,000 | £235,239 | 104 |
| 2009 | £149,000 | £239,519 | 89 |
| 2008 | £150,000 | £245,882 | 88 |
| 2007 | £150,000 | £254,442 | 203 |
| 2006 | £155,000 | £269,060 | 166 |
| 2005 | £155,000 | £275,838 | 131 |
| 2004 | £155,000 | £281,510 | 129 |
| 2003 | £116,500 | £214,621 | 121 |
| 2002 | £90,000 | £169,334 | 166 |
| 2001 | £82,700 | £158,987 | 162 |
| 2000 | £65,000 | £127,563 | 146 |
| 1999 | £60,000 | £119,577 | 160 |
| 1998 | £48,500 | £97,901 | 141 |
| 1997 | £52,200 | £107,052 | 168 |
| 1996 | £41,200 | £86,889 | 130 |
| 1995 | £38,000 | £82,606 | 91 |
In cash terms the typical EX34 9 home went from £38,000 in 1995 to £225,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 172%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2019; the current median sits about 21% below that. Someone who bought at the 2019 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the EX34 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 2004 (+33.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2020 (−18.3%). 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) | −2.2% | −4.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.4% | −1.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.5% | −0.9% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.9% | −0.9% |
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.
Sales activity in EX34 9
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 register shows 39 EX34 9 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 153 sales a year before the financial crisis and 96 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 tenants pay around EX34 9
For renting purposes EX34 9 sits in North Devon. The ONS average private rent there is £845 a month (May 2026). 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 £225,000 median sold price, £845 a month is £10,140 a year, a gross yield of 4.5%: 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.
What kind of market EX34 9 is
Only 39 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes EX34 9 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. Within EX34, this sector trades 8% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
What people ask about EX34 9 (Woolacombe)
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What happens to EX34 9 prices now?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 18% over five years in cash but down 7% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
What you could buy in EX34 now
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 9: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 13% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
"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 EX34 home for sale on the map →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
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 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 8 | £246,000 | 36 |
Zoom out to the full EX34 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how EX34 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in EX34 9? Start from the sold record
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in EX34 9, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from EX34 9's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded EX34 9 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 EX34 9.
Go deeper
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to EX34 9. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every EX34 9 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.
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.