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South Molton market report EX36 4
The EX36 4 (South Molton) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 3,076 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in EX36 4 (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 data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the 2026 median for EX36 4 (South Molton) is £226,200, from 36 registered sales, down 13% on five years earlier; the mean is £276,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,040 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 3,076 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
A postcode sector like EX36 4 is a single group of streets within EX36 (South Molton), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where EX36 4 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 a home in EX36 4 sells for
In the EX36 4 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £226,200, from 36 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £276,100, sitting well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
House prices per square metre in EX36 4
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in EX36 4 costs about £3,040 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, EX36 4 sits 21% below the national market.
EX36 4's median sold price, 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 | £226,200 | £226,200 | 36 |
| 2025 | £272,500 | £279,016 | 124 |
| 2024 | £275,000 | £292,381 | 115 |
| 2023 | £256,500 | £281,831 | 72 |
| 2022 | £290,000 | £340,058 | 103 |
| 2021 | £260,000 | £329,194 | 125 |
| 2020 | £227,500 | £295,186 | 113 |
| 2019 | £245,000 | £321,136 | 120 |
| 2018 | £231,500 | £308,594 | 108 |
| 2017 | £227,000 | £309,605 | 121 |
| 2016 | £184,500 | £258,117 | 119 |
| 2015 | £221,200 | £312,556 | 100 |
| 2014 | £171,200 | £242,877 | 110 |
| 2013 | £170,000 | £244,613 | 80 |
| 2012 | £202,500 | £298,055 | 80 |
| 2011 | £170,000 | £256,635 | 71 |
| 2010 | £170,500 | £267,388 | 87 |
| 2009 | £162,500 | £261,220 | 90 |
| 2008 | £160,000 | £262,274 | 62 |
| 2007 | £194,000 | £329,078 | 177 |
| 2006 | £177,800 | £308,638 | 131 |
| 2005 | £170,000 | £302,531 | 87 |
| 2004 | £181,000 | £328,731 | 64 |
| 2003 | £150,000 | £276,336 | 67 |
| 2002 | £102,300 | £192,477 | 122 |
| 2001 | £90,000 | £173,020 | 104 |
| 2000 | £74,500 | £146,206 | 96 |
| 1999 | £60,800 | £121,171 | 88 |
| 1998 | £56,200 | £113,444 | 88 |
| 1997 | £55,200 | £113,204 | 87 |
| 1996 | £50,500 | £106,502 | 69 |
| 1995 | £54,000 | £117,388 | 60 |
In cash terms the typical EX36 4 home went from £54,000 in 1995 to £226,200 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 93%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2022; the current median sits about 33% below that. Someone who bought at the 2022 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the EX36 4 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 2003 (+46.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−17.5%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −17.0% | −18.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −2.7% | −7.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.1% | −1.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.2% | −1.5% |
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.
Transaction volumes
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 36 EX36 4 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 90 sales a year recently, against 106 a year before 2008. 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 EX36 4
The local authority for EX36 4 is North Devon, and its ONS average private rent currently stands 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.
£845 a month is £10,140 a year, which against the £226,200 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.5%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
How EX36 4 trades
Only 36 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes EX36 4 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. Against the EX36 district median, EX36 4 sits 8% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
Asked and answered: EX36 4 (South Molton)
Are property prices falling in EX36 4 (South Molton)?
Is EX36 4 (South Molton) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in EX36 4 (South Molton)?
Will EX36 4 prices rise from here?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is down 13% over five years in cash but down 31% after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.
What is for sale in EX36 right now
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 4: 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.
"Under comparable sales" means the asking price sits below what similar homes nearby actually fetched. Treat it as the start of a conversation, never a valuation, and always view the home.
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. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.
| 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. 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.
Winners and losers across the EX area, five years
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in EX36
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of EX36, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| EX36 3 | £317,500 | 28 |
Zoom out to the full EX36 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how EX36 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in EX36 4? Start from the sold record
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at EX36 4's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim EX36 4.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with EX36 4 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual EX36 4 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.
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.