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Great Torrington market report EX38 8, Torrington
The EX38 8 (Great Torrington) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 2,292 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in EX38 8 (Torrington) 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: a typical EX38 8 (Torrington) home changed hands for £223,500 in 2026 (median of 24 registered sales, down 5% on five years earlier), with the mean at £267,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,820 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 2,292 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
A postcode sector like EX38 8 is a single group of streets within EX38 (Torrington), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where EX38 8 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 EX38 8
In the EX38 8 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £223,500, from 24 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £267,300, sitting a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.
What a square metre costs in EX38 8
Per square metre, EX38 8 homes have averaged around £2,820 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving EX38 8 22% below the national figure.
The price of a typical EX38 8 home, 1995 to 2026
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £223,500 | £223,500 | 24 |
| 2025 | £278,000 | £284,648 | 67 |
| 2024 | £263,800 | £280,474 | 56 |
| 2023 | £230,000 | £252,714 | 55 |
| 2022 | £247,500 | £290,222 | 64 |
| 2021 | £235,000 | £297,540 | 91 |
| 2020 | £221,200 | £287,012 | 66 |
| 2019 | £207,000 | £271,327 | 69 |
| 2018 | £195,000 | £259,939 | 61 |
| 2017 | £195,500 | £266,642 | 69 |
| 2016 | £175,000 | £244,827 | 79 |
| 2015 | £190,000 | £268,470 | 60 |
| 2014 | £169,000 | £239,756 | 71 |
| 2013 | £154,500 | £222,310 | 70 |
| 2012 | £172,500 | £253,898 | 58 |
| 2011 | £150,000 | £226,442 | 51 |
| 2010 | £161,000 | £252,489 | 47 |
| 2009 | £151,500 | £243,538 | 48 |
| 2008 | £148,000 | £242,603 | 38 |
| 2007 | £185,000 | £313,812 | 99 |
| 2006 | £184,000 | £319,400 | 109 |
| 2005 | £170,000 | £302,531 | 81 |
| 2004 | £168,000 | £305,121 | 73 |
| 2003 | £124,000 | £228,438 | 77 |
| 2002 | £93,000 | £174,979 | 119 |
| 2001 | £85,200 | £163,793 | 102 |
| 2000 | £68,200 | £133,843 | 96 |
| 1999 | £49,800 | £99,249 | 91 |
| 1998 | £51,200 | £103,351 | 94 |
| 1997 | £46,000 | £94,337 | 82 |
| 1996 | £46,500 | £98,066 | 74 |
| 1995 | £45,000 | £97,823 | 51 |
In cash terms the typical EX38 8 home went from £45,000 in 1995 to £223,500 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 128%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2006. The market now sits about 30% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the EX38 8 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 2000 (+36.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−20.0%). 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) | −19.6% | −21.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −1.0% | −5.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.5% | −0.9% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.0% | −1.8% |
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.
How many homes change hands in EX38 8
Sales per year, counted
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 24 sales completed in EX38 8. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 95 sales a year before the financial crisis and 53 a year over the last five. 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 EX38 8
For renting purposes EX38 8 sits in Torridge. The ONS average private rent there is £787 a month (May 2026). The spread runs from £564 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,267 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Torridge
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £223,500 median purchase price, a rent of £787 a month (£9,444 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 EX38 8 market
Only 24 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes EX38 8 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. Within EX38, this sector trades 10% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
EX38 8 (Great Torrington): the questions that come up
How much did a house sell for in EX38 8 (Great Torrington)?
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What happens to EX38 8 prices now?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is down 5% over five years in cash but down 25% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
On the market in EX38 today
Turning to what is actually available: 61 homes on the market right now, from 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole EX38 district, not just EX38 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 18% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
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 EX38 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
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the EX area. 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 EX38
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of EX38, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| EX38 7 | £261,200 | 30 |
Zoom out to the full EX38 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how EX38 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in EX38 8? Price it on the evidence
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in EX38 8, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from EX38 8's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded EX38 8 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 EX38 8.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with EX38 8 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual EX38 8 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.
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.