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South Molton market report EX36
The standing EX36 (South Molton) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 4,945 sales registered with HM Land Registry in EX36 (South Molton) 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 middle 2026 sale in EX36 (South Molton) came in at £245,500, out of 64 registered, down 7% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £291,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,100 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 4,945 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
EX36 is the postcode district covering South Molton in South Molton. Districts are a practical way to slice a market: small enough to mean something locally, big enough to have a steady flow of sales to measure.
Where EX36 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.
EX36 sold prices: where the market stands
In the EX36 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £245,500, from 64 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £291,700, 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
Measured by floor area, the last five years of EX36 sales average about £3,100 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, EX36 sits 14% below the national market.
EX36'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 | £245,500 | £245,500 | 64 |
| 2025 | £290,000 | £296,935 | 191 |
| 2024 | £280,000 | £297,698 | 177 |
| 2023 | £310,000 | £340,614 | 140 |
| 2022 | £325,000 | £381,100 | 191 |
| 2021 | £263,000 | £332,992 | 261 |
| 2020 | £240,000 | £311,405 | 188 |
| 2019 | £262,000 | £343,419 | 212 |
| 2018 | £237,000 | £315,925 | 193 |
| 2017 | £235,000 | £320,516 | 203 |
| 2016 | £183,000 | £256,019 | 169 |
| 2015 | £225,000 | £317,925 | 152 |
| 2014 | £190,000 | £269,548 | 175 |
| 2013 | £191,500 | £275,549 | 134 |
| 2012 | £185,000 | £272,297 | 115 |
| 2011 | £163,000 | £246,067 | 101 |
| 2010 | £176,500 | £276,797 | 126 |
| 2009 | £162,500 | £261,220 | 115 |
| 2008 | £170,000 | £278,666 | 83 |
| 2007 | £200,900 | £340,782 | 222 |
| 2006 | £177,400 | £307,944 | 186 |
| 2005 | £170,000 | £302,531 | 127 |
| 2004 | £180,000 | £326,915 | 113 |
| 2003 | £148,000 | £272,652 | 104 |
| 2002 | £110,000 | £206,964 | 194 |
| 2001 | £90,000 | £173,020 | 173 |
| 2000 | £75,000 | £147,188 | 166 |
| 1999 | £67,000 | £133,528 | 156 |
| 1998 | £58,500 | £118,086 | 157 |
| 1997 | £58,500 | £119,972 | 151 |
| 1996 | £49,000 | £103,339 | 108 |
| 1995 | £49,500 | £107,605 | 98 |
In cash terms the typical EX36 home went from £49,500 in 1995 to £245,500 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 128%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2022; the current median sits about 36% 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 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 (+34.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2016 (−18.7%). 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 detached houses dominate the record here, 41% of the typed total. In 2025, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £345,000 against £168,800 for a flat, 2.0 times the price.
Median by property type, EX36
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 | £384,000 | 24 | 2,033 |
| Semi-detached | £235,000 | 13 | 927 |
| Terraced | £202,500 | 25 | 1,683 |
| Flats | £168,800 (2025) | – | 288 |
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −15.3% | −17.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −1.4% | −5.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.0% | −0.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.6% | −1.1% |
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.
How many homes change hands in EX36
How many homes change hands
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
The monthly pulse, last five years
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
Over the last twelve months of data, 129 sales completed in EX36. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 153 sales a year recently, against 161 a year before 2008. Volume matters as much as price: when few homes change hands, the median gets jumpy and a single street can move the figure. The most recent year is always still filling in, because sales appear in the Land Registry weeks or months after completion.
The shape of the EX36 market
This is a thin market: 129 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. 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. In its area's price order EX36 comes 30 of 33, towards the cheaper end of the table.
Rents around EX36
The local authority for EX36 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.
Set against the £245,500 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.
EX36 (South Molton): the questions that come up
Are property prices falling in EX36 (South Molton)?
Is EX36 (South Molton) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in EX36 (South Molton)?
Where do EX36 prices go next?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is down 7% 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 EX36 today
Everything above is what homes in EX36 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 116 homes currently on the market from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 34% above the EX36 median sold price.
26% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
"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 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.
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. 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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
EX36 ranks 31 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.
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.
Inside EX36, sector by sector
Below district level sit the sectors, street groups with reports of their own, and the gaps between neighbouring ones can be sharp.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| EX36 3 | £317,500 | 28 |
| EX36 4 | £226,200 | 36 |
How EX36 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The dearest districts of the EX area, and EX36 itself, which ranks 30 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% |
| EX36 (this report) | £245,500 | -7% |
Selling in EX36? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in EX36, open the average prices map and zoom from the EX36 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded EX36 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 EX36.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with EX36 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every EX36 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.