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High Bickington market report EX37, Umberleigh
The EX37 (High Bickington) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 1,679 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in EX37 (Umberleigh) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Covers registered sales to June 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the 2026 median for EX37 (Umberleigh) is £340,000, from 20 registered sales, up 5% on five years earlier; the mean is £361,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,290 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 1,679 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
EX37 is the postcode district covering Umberleigh, High Bickington in Umberleigh. 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 EX37 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 EX37 sells for
20 sales were registered in EX37 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £340,000. The mean works out at £361,900, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
Price per square metre in EX37
Measured by floor area, the last five years of EX37 sales average about £3,290 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, EX37 sits 19% above the national market.
The price of a typical EX37 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 | £340,000 | £340,000 | 20 |
| 2025 | £371,000 | £379,872 | 45 |
| 2024 | £325,000 | £345,542 | 35 |
| 2023 | £325,000 | £357,096 | 49 |
| 2022 | £360,000 | £422,141 | 59 |
| 2021 | £325,000 | £411,492 | 72 |
| 2020 | £335,000 | £434,669 | 51 |
| 2019 | £297,500 | £389,951 | 47 |
| 2018 | £265,000 | £353,250 | 61 |
| 2017 | £247,000 | £336,883 | 61 |
| 2016 | £255,000 | £356,748 | 49 |
| 2015 | £210,000 | £296,730 | 53 |
| 2014 | £239,500 | £339,773 | 44 |
| 2013 | £230,000 | £330,947 | 57 |
| 2012 | £212,800 | £313,215 | 46 |
| 2011 | £220,000 | £332,115 | 33 |
| 2010 | £250,000 | £392,064 | 41 |
| 2009 | £222,500 | £357,671 | 52 |
| 2008 | £265,000 | £434,391 | 16 |
| 2007 | £225,000 | £381,663 | 79 |
| 2006 | £198,000 | £343,703 | 92 |
| 2005 | £250,000 | £444,899 | 53 |
| 2004 | £242,500 | £440,427 | 41 |
| 2003 | £200,000 | £368,449 | 45 |
| 2002 | £157,500 | £296,335 | 54 |
| 2001 | £131,200 | £252,225 | 84 |
| 2000 | £97,500 | £191,344 | 56 |
| 1999 | £84,500 | £168,404 | 64 |
| 1998 | £94,000 | £189,746 | 57 |
| 1997 | £65,000 | £133,302 | 75 |
| 1996 | £72,000 | £151,845 | 46 |
| 1995 | £53,800 | £116,953 | 42 |
In cash terms the typical EX37 home went from £53,800 in 1995 to £340,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 191%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2005. The market now sits about 24% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the EX37 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 1998 (+44.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2006 (−20.8%). 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, 60% of the typed total.
Median by property type, EX37
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 | £408,800 | 12 | 988 |
| Semi-detached | £246,200 (2025) | – | 364 |
| Terraced | £172,000 (2025) | – | 292 |
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −8.4% | −10.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.9% | −3.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.9% | −0.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.7% | −0.1% |
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 EX37
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.
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.
EX37 recorded 50 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 63 sales a year before the financial crisis and 42 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.
What tenants pay around EX37
The local authority for EX37 is North Devon, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £845 a month (May 2026 figures). 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.
Against the £340,000 median purchase price, a rent of £845 a month (£10,140 a year) works out at a 3.0% 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 EX37 market
This is a thin market: 50 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. EX37 sits 8 of 33 in its area's price order, well inside the expensive end.
Asked and answered: EX37 (High Bickington)
Are property prices falling in EX37 (High Bickington)?
Is EX37 (High Bickington) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in EX37 (High Bickington)?
Are EX37 prices heading up or down?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 5% over five years in cash but down 17% 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 EX37 right now
Everything above is what homes in EX37 sold for. The live side of the market holds 53 homes at the moment, listed by 3 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 57% above the EX37 median sold price.
19% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. 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 EX37 home for sale on the map →
Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
Moving up a bedroom in EX: the cost
What homes of each size actually sold for across the EX area, 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%) | — |
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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
EX37 ranks 11 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 biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside EX37, sector by sector
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets with its own market report. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| EX37 9 | £340,000 | 20 |
How EX37 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the EX area, dearest first:
| 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 (this report) | £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% |
| EX20 | £275,000 | +2% |
Thinking of selling in EX37? Get a rough value first
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in EX37, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from EX37's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded EX37 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 EX37.
Keep digging
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with EX37 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual EX37 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator 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.