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Lympstone market report EX8 2, Exmouth
The EX8 2 (Lympstone) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 6,689 registered sales in EX8 2 (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: 79 registered 2026 sales put the EX8 2 (Exmouth) median at £308,000, down 1% on five years earlier, with a mean of £363,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,810 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 6,689 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
EX8 2 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside EX8 (Exmouth). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where EX8 2 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.
EX8 2 sold prices: where the market stands
In the EX8 2 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £308,000, from 79 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £363,400, sitting well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
Price per square metre in EX8 2
By floor space, homes in EX8 2 have sold for about £3,810 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, EX8 2 sits 8% above the national market.
EX8 2's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £308,000 | £308,000 | 79 |
| 2025 | £347,500 | £355,810 | 182 |
| 2024 | £367,500 | £390,728 | 182 |
| 2023 | £350,000 | £384,565 | 173 |
| 2022 | £320,000 | £375,237 | 266 |
| 2021 | £310,000 | £392,500 | 339 |
| 2020 | £304,200 | £394,706 | 226 |
| 2019 | £280,000 | £367,013 | 218 |
| 2018 | £267,500 | £356,583 | 198 |
| 2017 | £230,000 | £313,697 | 208 |
| 2016 | £226,200 | £316,456 | 215 |
| 2015 | £215,800 | £304,925 | 226 |
| 2014 | £210,000 | £297,922 | 185 |
| 2013 | £210,000 | £302,169 | 175 |
| 2012 | £229,500 | £337,795 | 190 |
| 2011 | £229,000 | £345,702 | 166 |
| 2010 | £226,200 | £354,740 | 174 |
| 2009 | £194,000 | £311,857 | 193 |
| 2008 | £200,000 | £327,842 | 173 |
| 2007 | £204,000 | £346,041 | 281 |
| 2006 | £185,000 | £321,136 | 266 |
| 2005 | £179,500 | £319,438 | 198 |
| 2004 | £170,000 | £308,753 | 255 |
| 2003 | £158,000 | £291,074 | 266 |
| 2002 | £130,000 | £244,594 | 260 |
| 2001 | £100,000 | £192,245 | 251 |
| 2000 | £85,000 | £166,813 | 224 |
| 1999 | £69,000 | £137,513 | 243 |
| 1998 | £68,800 | £138,878 | 172 |
| 1997 | £60,000 | £123,048 | 203 |
| 1996 | £60,000 | £126,537 | 189 |
| 1995 | £60,000 | £130,431 | 113 |
In cash terms the typical EX8 2 home went from £60,000 in 1995 to £308,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 136%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2020. The market now sits about 22% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the EX8 2 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 (+30.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−11.4%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −11.4% | −13.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −0.1% | −4.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.1% | −0.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.6% | −0.2% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
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 79 EX8 2 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 250 sales a year before the financial crisis and 176 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.
Rents around EX8 2
The local authority for EX8 2 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.
Against the £308,000 median purchase price, a rent of £973 a month (£11,676 a year) works out at a 3.8% 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.
Asked and answered: EX8 2 (Lympstone)
Is EX8 2 (Lympstone) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in EX8 2 (Lympstone)?
Are property prices falling in EX8 2 (Lympstone)?
Where do EX8 2 prices go next?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 22% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
EX8's current homes for sale
This is what you could actually buy today: 230 homes currently on the market from 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole EX8 district, not just EX8 2: 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
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 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.
What another bedroom costs in EX
Real sold prices by size across the EX area, straight 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%) | — |
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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the EX area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Five-year change in the median, EX area districts
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in EX8
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are EX8's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| EX8 1 | £255,000 | 55 |
| 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.
Thinking of selling in EX8 2? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in EX8 2, open the average prices map and zoom from the EX8 2 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded EX8 2 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim EX8 2.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with EX8 2 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual EX8 2 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.
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.