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Lympstone market report EX8 3, Exmouth
The EX8 3 (Lympstone) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 3,106 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in EX8 3 (Exmouth) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in EX8 3 (Exmouth) came in at £395,000, out of 33 registered, up 22% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £432,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,960 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 3,106 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
A postcode sector like EX8 3 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 3 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.
The going rate for a home in EX8 3
Across 33 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) EX8 3 home went for £395,000. The mean is £432,700, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
Price per square metre in EX8 3
A square metre of EX8 3 home has cost about £3,960 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts EX8 3 39% above the country at large.
The price of a typical EX8 3 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 | £395,000 | £395,000 | 33 |
| 2025 | £416,500 | £426,460 | 76 |
| 2024 | £368,800 | £392,110 | 70 |
| 2023 | £365,000 | £401,046 | 60 |
| 2022 | £387,500 | £454,388 | 92 |
| 2021 | £325,000 | £411,492 | 92 |
| 2020 | £323,000 | £419,099 | 91 |
| 2019 | £327,500 | £429,274 | 94 |
| 2018 | £300,000 | £399,906 | 80 |
| 2017 | £277,000 | £377,800 | 99 |
| 2016 | £275,000 | £384,728 | 103 |
| 2015 | £272,200 | £384,619 | 110 |
| 2014 | £232,000 | £329,133 | 121 |
| 2013 | £236,000 | £339,580 | 97 |
| 2012 | £235,000 | £345,891 | 88 |
| 2011 | £225,000 | £339,663 | 83 |
| 2010 | £228,000 | £357,563 | 88 |
| 2009 | £210,000 | £337,577 | 81 |
| 2008 | £217,500 | £356,528 | 73 |
| 2007 | £228,000 | £386,752 | 112 |
| 2006 | £201,000 | £348,910 | 135 |
| 2005 | £198,000 | £352,360 | 106 |
| 2004 | £186,600 | £338,902 | 126 |
| 2003 | £175,000 | £322,392 | 117 |
| 2002 | £150,000 | £282,224 | 160 |
| 2001 | £107,200 | £206,087 | 152 |
| 2000 | £95,000 | £186,438 | 106 |
| 1999 | £78,000 | £155,450 | 93 |
| 1998 | £67,000 | £135,244 | 87 |
| 1997 | £65,000 | £133,302 | 107 |
| 1996 | £65,000 | £137,082 | 105 |
| 1995 | £59,400 | £129,126 | 69 |
In cash terms the typical EX8 3 home went from £59,400 in 1995 to £395,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 206%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2022. The market now sits about 13% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the EX8 3 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 (+39.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2023 (−5.8%). 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) | −5.2% | −7.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +4.0% | −0.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.7% | +0.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.4% | +0.6% |
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.
Transaction volumes
The year-by-year sales count
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, 33 sales completed in EX8 3. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 127 sales a year before the financial crisis and 66 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.
Reading the EX8 3 market
Only 33 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes EX8 3 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Within EX8, this sector trades 25% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
What homes rent for around EX8 3
For renting purposes EX8 3 sits in East Devon. The ONS average private rent there is £973 a month (May 2026). 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.
Set against the £395,000 median sold price, £973 a month is £11,676 a year, a gross yield of 3.0%: gross, before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax, so a ceiling rather than a promise. Rents are published at local-authority level, so nearby districts in the same authority share these figures.
Common questions on EX8 3 (Lympstone)
Are property prices falling in EX8 3 (Lympstone)?
Is EX8 3 (Lympstone) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in EX8 3 (Lympstone)?
Where do EX8 3 prices go next?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 22% over five years in cash but down 4% 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.
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 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 26% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- Winston Road, Exmouth, Devon, EX8
- Clinton Square, Exmouth, Devon, EX8
- Masey Road, Exmouth, Devon, EX8
"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 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.
Bedroom by bedroom: EX prices by size
Real sold prices by size across the EX area, straight 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. 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.
EX area districts: five years of change
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in EX8
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of EX8, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| EX8 1 | £255,000 | 55 |
| EX8 2 | £308,000 | 79 |
| 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 3? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in EX8 3, open the average prices map and zoom from the EX8 3 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded EX8 3 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim EX8 3.
Take it further
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about EX8 3. Free, with a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual EX8 3 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.
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.