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Great Torrington market report EX38, Torrington
The EX38 (Great Torrington) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 4,915 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in EX38 (Torrington) 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 July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: a typical EX38 (Torrington) home changed hands for £248,800 in 2026 (median of 54 registered sales, up 11% on five years earlier), with the mean at £267,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,910 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 4,915 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
EX38 is the postcode district covering Great Torrington in Torrington. 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 EX38 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
54 sales were registered in EX38 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £248,800. The mean works out at £267,200, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
Price per square metre in EX38
The last five years of sales put EX38 at roughly £2,910 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so EX38 trades 13% below the country as a whole.
EX38's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £248,800 | £248,800 | 54 |
| 2025 | £245,800 | £251,678 | 144 |
| 2024 | £267,500 | £284,407 | 114 |
| 2023 | £251,500 | £276,337 | 116 |
| 2022 | £250,000 | £293,154 | 129 |
| 2021 | £225,000 | £284,879 | 177 |
| 2020 | £215,000 | £278,967 | 129 |
| 2019 | £205,000 | £268,706 | 129 |
| 2018 | £196,800 | £262,338 | 126 |
| 2017 | £199,800 | £272,507 | 175 |
| 2016 | £182,500 | £255,319 | 183 |
| 2015 | £183,000 | £258,579 | 139 |
| 2014 | £165,500 | £234,791 | 161 |
| 2013 | £161,800 | £232,814 | 166 |
| 2012 | £170,000 | £250,219 | 111 |
| 2011 | £158,000 | £238,519 | 94 |
| 2010 | £165,200 | £259,076 | 110 |
| 2009 | £153,000 | £245,949 | 129 |
| 2008 | £166,500 | £272,929 | 114 |
| 2007 | £175,200 | £297,188 | 228 |
| 2006 | £177,500 | £308,117 | 238 |
| 2005 | £160,500 | £285,625 | 155 |
| 2004 | £156,000 | £283,326 | 125 |
| 2003 | £130,000 | £239,492 | 154 |
| 2002 | £94,500 | £177,801 | 207 |
| 2001 | £82,000 | £157,641 | 201 |
| 2000 | £72,500 | £142,281 | 223 |
| 1999 | £57,000 | £113,598 | 216 |
| 1998 | £53,000 | £106,984 | 201 |
| 1997 | £50,000 | £102,540 | 193 |
| 1996 | £43,500 | £91,740 | 150 |
| 1995 | £44,000 | £95,649 | 124 |
In cash terms the typical EX38 home went from £44,000 in 1995 to £248,800 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 160%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2006; the current median sits about 19% below that. Someone who bought at the 2006 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the EX38 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 (+37.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2025 (−8.1%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What EX38 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +1.2% | −1.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.0% | −2.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.1% | −0.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.7% | −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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of terraced homes dominate the record here, 40% of the typed total. In 2021, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £334,000 against £131,500 for a flat, 2.5 times the price.
Median by property type, EX38
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 | £377,000 | 17 | 1,832 |
| Semi-detached | £212,000 | 9 | 1,007 |
| Terraced | £200,000 | 25 | 1,934 |
| Flats | £131,500 (2021) | – | 81 |
Sales activity in EX38
Sales per year, counted
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 last five years, month by month
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
Over the last twelve months of data, 116 sales completed in EX38. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 191 sales a year before the financial crisis and 111 a year over the last five. 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.
What kind of market EX38 is
Only 116 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes EX38 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. In its area's price order EX38 comes 29 of 33, towards the cheaper end of the table.
The rental side of EX38
The local authority for EX38 is Torridge, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £787 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £564 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,267, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Torridge
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£787 a month is £9,444 a year, which against the £248,800 median sold price makes a gross yield of 3.8%. 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.
Asked and answered: EX38 (Great Torrington)
Are property prices falling in EX38 (Great Torrington)?
Is EX38 (Great Torrington) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in EX38 (Great Torrington)?
Will EX38 prices rise from here?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 11% over five years in cash but down 13% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
On the market in EX38 today
Everything above is what homes in EX38 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 61 homes currently on the market from 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 81% above the EX38 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 18% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
"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 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.
Bedroom by bedroom: EX prices by size
What homes of each size actually sold for across the EX area, 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%) | — |
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
EX38 ranks 3 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.
Five-year change in the median, EX area districts
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Inside EX38, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| EX38 7 | £261,200 | 30 |
| EX38 8 | £223,500 | 24 |
How EX38 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The dearest districts of the EX area, and EX38 itself, which ranks 29 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% |
| EX38 (this report) | £248,800 | +11% |
Selling in EX38? Start from the sold record
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in EX38, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from EX38's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded EX38 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim EX38.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with EX38 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual EX38 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.