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Lympstone market report EX8 1, Exmouth
The standing EX8 1 (Lympstone) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Underneath every chart here sit 6,083 registered sales in EX8 1 (Exmouth) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the typical home in EX8 1 (Exmouth) sold for £255,000 in 2026, the median of 55 registered sales, up 13% on five years earlier. The mean was £288,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,450 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 6,083 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
A postcode sector like EX8 1 is a single group of streets within EX8 (Exmouth), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where EX8 1 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.
Today's EX8 1 prices, from the sold record
55 sales were registered in EX8 1 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £255,000. The mean works out at £288,400, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
What a square metre costs in EX8 1
Per square metre, EX8 1 homes have averaged around £3,450 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.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, EX8 1 runs 11% below it.
EX8 1's median sold price, 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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £255,000 | £255,000 | 55 |
| 2025 | £250,000 | £255,978 | 109 |
| 2024 | £242,500 | £257,827 | 119 |
| 2023 | £255,000 | £280,183 | 94 |
| 2022 | £221,000 | £259,148 | 148 |
| 2021 | £225,000 | £284,879 | 214 |
| 2020 | £216,000 | £280,264 | 122 |
| 2019 | £210,000 | £275,260 | 143 |
| 2018 | £200,000 | £266,604 | 131 |
| 2017 | £207,500 | £283,009 | 198 |
| 2016 | £170,000 | £237,832 | 184 |
| 2015 | £171,500 | £242,330 | 172 |
| 2014 | £165,000 | £234,081 | 188 |
| 2013 | £154,100 | £221,735 | 166 |
| 2012 | £155,000 | £228,141 | 151 |
| 2011 | £163,500 | £246,822 | 142 |
| 2010 | £155,000 | £243,080 | 176 |
| 2009 | £160,000 | £257,201 | 150 |
| 2008 | £156,500 | £256,537 | 142 |
| 2007 | £164,800 | £279,547 | 294 |
| 2006 | £152,000 | £263,853 | 291 |
| 2005 | £143,500 | £255,372 | 215 |
| 2004 | £135,000 | £245,186 | 295 |
| 2003 | £115,000 | £211,858 | 265 |
| 2002 | £105,000 | £197,557 | 361 |
| 2001 | £75,000 | £144,184 | 328 |
| 2000 | £63,200 | £124,030 | 258 |
| 1999 | £57,000 | £113,598 | 225 |
| 1998 | £58,200 | £117,481 | 242 |
| 1997 | £45,000 | £92,286 | 225 |
| 1996 | £41,000 | £86,467 | 153 |
| 1995 | £44,000 | £95,649 | 127 |
In cash terms the typical EX8 1 home went from £44,000 in 1995 to £255,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 167%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2021. The market now sits about 10% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the EX8 1 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 2002 (+40.0% on the year before); the weakest, 1996 (−6.8%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +2.0% | −0.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.5% | −2.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.1% | +0.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.6% | −0.2% |
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 EX8 1
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 55 EX8 1 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 288 sales a year before the financial crisis and 105 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 homes rent for around EX8 1
The local authority for EX8 1 is East Devon, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £973 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £688 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,624 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, East Devon
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£973 a month is £11,676 a year, which against the £255,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.6%. 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.
What kind of market EX8 1 is
This is a thin market: 55 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. Against the EX8 district median, EX8 1 sits 19% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
Common questions on EX8 1 (Lympstone)
How much did a house sell for in EX8 1 (Lympstone)?
Are property prices falling in EX8 1 (Lympstone)?
Is EX8 1 (Lympstone) a good place to buy a house?
Where do EX8 1 prices go next?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 13% over five years in cash but down 10% 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 EX8 today
Turning to what is actually available: 230 homes on the market right now, from 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole EX8 district, not just EX8 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
26% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Winston Road, Exmouth, Devon, EX8
- Clinton Square, Exmouth, Devon, EX8
- Masey Road, Exmouth, Devon, EX8
"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 EX8 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.
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. 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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
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 districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in EX8
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of EX8, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| EX8 2 | £308,000 | 79 |
| EX8 3 | £395,000 | 33 |
| EX8 4 | £307,500 | 53 |
| EX8 5 | £378,000 | 41 |
Zoom out to the full EX8 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how EX8 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in EX8 1? 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 EX8 1'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.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim EX8 1.
Take it further
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about EX8 1. Free, with a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every EX8 1 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.
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.