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South Molton market report EX36 3
The standing EX36 3 (South Molton) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 1,869 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in EX36 3 (South Molton) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the typical home in EX36 3 (South Molton) sold for £317,500 in 2026, the median of 28 registered sales, up 18% on five years earlier. The mean was £311,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,180 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 1,869 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
EX36 3 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside EX36 (South Molton). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where EX36 3 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 EX36 3
In the EX36 3 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £317,500, from 28 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £311,700, sitting almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
EX36 3 prices by floor area
Measured by floor area, the last five years of EX36 3 sales average about £3,180 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.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, EX36 3 runs 11% above it.
A typical EX36 3 home, priced year by year (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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £317,500 | £317,500 | 28 |
| 2025 | £330,000 | £337,891 | 67 |
| 2024 | £303,000 | £322,151 | 62 |
| 2023 | £361,000 | £396,651 | 68 |
| 2022 | £351,000 | £411,588 | 88 |
| 2021 | £270,000 | £341,855 | 136 |
| 2020 | £250,000 | £324,380 | 75 |
| 2019 | £283,500 | £371,601 | 92 |
| 2018 | £250,000 | £333,255 | 85 |
| 2017 | £245,000 | £334,155 | 82 |
| 2016 | £179,400 | £250,982 | 50 |
| 2015 | £230,000 | £324,990 | 52 |
| 2014 | £224,000 | £317,783 | 65 |
| 2013 | £214,200 | £308,212 | 54 |
| 2012 | £174,000 | £256,106 | 35 |
| 2011 | £159,400 | £240,633 | 30 |
| 2010 | £191,500 | £300,321 | 39 |
| 2009 | £175,000 | £281,314 | 25 |
| 2008 | £200,000 | £327,842 | 21 |
| 2007 | £230,000 | £390,144 | 45 |
| 2006 | £176,000 | £305,514 | 55 |
| 2005 | £177,500 | £315,878 | 40 |
| 2004 | £180,000 | £326,915 | 49 |
| 2003 | £145,000 | £267,125 | 37 |
| 2002 | £125,000 | £235,186 | 72 |
| 2001 | £90,000 | £173,020 | 69 |
| 2000 | £80,000 | £157,000 | 70 |
| 1999 | £71,800 | £143,094 | 68 |
| 1998 | £60,000 | £121,114 | 69 |
| 1997 | £60,000 | £123,048 | 64 |
| 1996 | £44,200 | £93,216 | 39 |
| 1995 | £43,400 | £94,345 | 38 |
In cash terms the typical EX36 3 home went from £43,400 in 1995 to £317,500 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 237%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2022, and today's median remains roughly 23% under it: a 2022 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the EX36 3 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 (+38.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2016 (−22.0%). 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) | −3.8% | −6.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.3% | −1.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.9% | +2.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.0% | +0.2% |
Each row is compound annual growth of the median; ONS CPIH supplies the real-terms deflator. Annualising irons out the cycle, which the chart above shows in full, and past growth records what happened rather than predicting anything.
Sales activity in EX36 3
How many homes change hands
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.
The register shows 28 EX36 3 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Unusually, activity here runs above its pre-2008 level: 63 sales a year over the last five years against 55 before the financial crisis. 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 kind of market EX36 3 is
This is a thin market: 28 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. Within EX36, this sector trades 29% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
What tenants pay around EX36 3
EX36 3 falls under North Devon, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £845 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £588 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,330, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, North Devon
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £317,500 median purchase price, a rent of £845 a month (£10,140 a year) works out at a 3.2% 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.
Asked and answered: EX36 3 (South Molton)
Is EX36 3 (South Molton) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in EX36 3 (South Molton)?
Are property prices falling in EX36 3 (South Molton)?
Where do EX36 3 prices go next?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 18% over five years in cash but down 7% 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.
EX36's current homes for sale
This is what you could actually buy today: 116 homes currently on the market from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole EX36 district, not just EX36 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 26% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. 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 EX36 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. 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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
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 EX36
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of EX36, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| EX36 4 | £226,200 | 36 |
Zoom out to the full EX36 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how EX36 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in EX36 3? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in EX36 3, open the average prices map and zoom from the EX36 3 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded EX36 3 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim EX36 3.
Dig further
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See every individual EX36 3 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.
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.