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Woolacombe market report EX34, Ilfracombe
The EX34 (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: 11,391 sales registered with HM Land Registry in EX34 (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 July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the 2026 median for EX34 (Ilfracombe) is £243,500, from 111 registered sales, down 10% on five years earlier; the mean is £275,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,230 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 11,391 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 EX34 covering Ilfracombe, Woolacombe sits in Ilfracombe. 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 EX34 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 homes really sell for
The 2026 median for EX34 is £243,500, taken from 111 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £275,000, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
Price per square metre in EX34
Measured by floor area, the last five years of EX34 sales average about £3,230 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts EX34 15% below the country at large.
The price of a typical EX34 home, 1995 to 2026
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £243,500 | £243,500 | 111 |
| 2025 | £259,500 | £265,705 | 270 |
| 2024 | £252,200 | £268,140 | 246 |
| 2023 | £275,000 | £302,158 | 262 |
| 2022 | £268,200 | £314,495 | 290 |
| 2021 | £270,000 | £341,855 | 439 |
| 2020 | £236,000 | £306,215 | 335 |
| 2019 | £232,000 | £304,096 | 351 |
| 2018 | £182,000 | £242,609 | 408 |
| 2017 | £202,500 | £276,190 | 360 |
| 2016 | £195,000 | £272,807 | 362 |
| 2015 | £187,500 | £264,938 | 357 |
| 2014 | £186,200 | £264,157 | 348 |
| 2013 | £175,000 | £251,808 | 324 |
| 2012 | £170,000 | £250,219 | 284 |
| 2011 | £170,000 | £256,635 | 260 |
| 2010 | £180,000 | £282,286 | 278 |
| 2009 | £171,800 | £276,170 | 252 |
| 2008 | £195,000 | £319,646 | 259 |
| 2007 | £185,000 | £313,812 | 512 |
| 2006 | £180,500 | £313,325 | 492 |
| 2005 | £180,000 | £320,327 | 346 |
| 2004 | £173,000 | £314,202 | 354 |
| 2003 | £133,000 | £245,018 | 399 |
| 2002 | £110,000 | £206,964 | 540 |
| 2001 | £95,000 | £182,633 | 490 |
| 2000 | £78,000 | £153,075 | 430 |
| 1999 | £66,500 | £132,531 | 477 |
| 1998 | £55,000 | £111,021 | 414 |
| 1997 | £58,000 | £118,946 | 485 |
| 1996 | £48,500 | £102,284 | 375 |
| 1995 | £49,000 | £106,518 | 281 |
In cash terms the typical EX34 home went from £49,000 in 1995 to £243,500 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 129%, 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 29% 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 EX34 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 (+30.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−11.9%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of terraced homes dominate the record here, 34% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £370,000 against £147,000 for a flat, 2.5 times the price.
Median by property type, EX34
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 | £370,000 | 35 | 3,286 |
| Semi-detached | £274,000 | 11 | 1,569 |
| Terraced | £210,000 | 42 | 3,823 |
| Flats | £147,000 | 23 | 2,713 |
What EX34 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −6.2% | −8.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −2.0% | −6.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.2% | −1.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.5% | −1.3% |
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
The year-by-year sales count
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.
Month by month, five years back
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
Over the last twelve months of data, 227 sales completed in EX34. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 445 sales a year before the financial crisis and 236 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.
Rents around EX34
The local authority for EX34 is North Devon, and its ONS average private rent currently stands 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.
Against the £243,500 median purchase price, a rent of £845 a month (£10,140 a year) works out at a 4.2% 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.
The shape of the EX34 market
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. Among the 33 measurable districts of its area, EX34 ranks 32 by median price: towards the affordable end.
What people ask about EX34 (Woolacombe)
Is EX34 (Woolacombe) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in EX34 (Woolacombe)?
Are property prices falling in EX34 (Woolacombe)?
Where do EX34 prices go next?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is down 10% over five years in cash but down 29% 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
Everything above is what homes in EX34 sold for. The live side of the market holds 84 homes at the moment, listed by 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 99% above the EX34 median sold price.
13% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
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 →
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.
Moving up a bedroom in EX: the cost
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%) | — |
Medians of recorded sales over the last four years, by built form and bedroom count. Sold homes carry no advertised bedroom count, so sizes are estimated from their EPC records; a small number of homes will sit one size out. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
EX34 ranks 33 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 EX34, sector by sector
The next slice down is the postcode sector: a group of streets, each with its own report. Two sectors a short walk apart can trade at sharply different prices.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| EX34 0 | £242,500 | 23 |
| EX34 7 | £340,000 | 13 |
| EX34 8 | £246,000 | 36 |
| EX34 9 | £225,000 | 39 |
How EX34 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The dearest districts of the EX area, and EX34 itself, which ranks 32 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% |
| EX34 (this report) | £243,500 | -10% |
Before you sell in EX34: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in EX34, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from EX34's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded EX34 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
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Two maps carry on from here: every EX34 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.