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Lympstone market report EX8, Exmouth
The EX8 (Lympstone) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 26,176 sales registered with HM Land Registry in EX8 (Exmouth) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales recorded to July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the 2026 median for EX8 (Exmouth) is £315,000, from 261 registered sales, up 11% on five years earlier; the mean is £357,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,880 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 26,176 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
EX8 is a postcode district covering Exmouth, Lympstone in Exmouth. It is the most useful size for market figures: tight enough to describe somewhere real, large enough that sales keep coming and the medians hold steady.
Where EX8 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 a home in EX8 sells for
Across 261 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) EX8 home went for £315,000. The mean is £357,300, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
House prices per square metre in EX8
Per square metre, EX8 homes have averaged around £3,880 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so EX8 trades 11% above the country as a whole.
A typical EX8 home, priced year by year (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 | £315,000 | £315,000 | 261 |
| 2025 | £330,000 | £337,891 | 587 |
| 2024 | £325,000 | £345,542 | 608 |
| 2023 | £343,500 | £377,423 | 528 |
| 2022 | £320,500 | £375,823 | 782 |
| 2021 | £285,000 | £360,847 | 961 |
| 2020 | £275,000 | £356,818 | 703 |
| 2019 | £260,000 | £340,798 | 726 |
| 2018 | £257,800 | £343,652 | 682 |
| 2017 | £240,000 | £327,336 | 769 |
| 2016 | £225,000 | £314,777 | 832 |
| 2015 | £215,000 | £303,795 | 778 |
| 2014 | £210,000 | £297,922 | 834 |
| 2013 | £195,000 | £280,586 | 731 |
| 2012 | £198,200 | £291,726 | 702 |
| 2011 | £200,000 | £301,923 | 646 |
| 2010 | £190,000 | £297,969 | 692 |
| 2009 | £185,000 | £297,389 | 694 |
| 2008 | £190,000 | £311,450 | 602 |
| 2007 | £193,000 | £327,382 | 1,120 |
| 2006 | £179,000 | £310,721 | 1,136 |
| 2005 | £172,500 | £306,980 | 829 |
| 2004 | £162,000 | £294,224 | 1,102 |
| 2003 | £152,000 | £280,021 | 1,100 |
| 2002 | £126,000 | £237,068 | 1,297 |
| 2001 | £92,700 | £178,211 | 1,222 |
| 2000 | £81,000 | £158,963 | 969 |
| 1999 | £69,000 | £137,513 | 978 |
| 1998 | £64,000 | £129,189 | 854 |
| 1997 | £58,000 | £118,946 | 976 |
| 1996 | £55,000 | £115,993 | 857 |
| 1995 | £54,500 | £118,475 | 618 |
In cash terms the typical EX8 home went from £54,500 in 1995 to £315,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 166%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2023; the current median sits about 17% below that. Someone who bought at the 2023 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the EX8 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 (+35.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2024 (−5.4%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of detached houses dominate the record here, 26% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £465,000 against £173,000 for a flat, 2.7 times the price.
Median by property type, EX8
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 | £465,000 | 69 | 6,926 |
| Semi-detached | £325,000 | 55 | 5,562 |
| Terraced | £277,500 | 68 | 6,917 |
| Flats | £173,000 | 69 | 6,771 |
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −4.5% | −6.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.0% | −2.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.4% | 0.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.9% | +0.1% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
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.
Month by month, five years back
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, 514 sales completed in EX8. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 1,097 sales a year before the financial crisis and 553 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 tenants pay around EX8
The local authority for EX8 is East Devon, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £973 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £688 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,624, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, East Devon
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £315,000 median purchase price, a rent of £973 a month (£11,676 a year) works out at a 3.7% 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.
What people ask about EX8 (Lympstone)
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What happens to EX8 prices now?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 11% over five years in cash but down 13% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
On the market in EX8 today
Everything above is what homes in EX8 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 230 homes on the market right now, from 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 1% above the EX8 median sold price.
26% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. 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 →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
The price of an extra bedroom in EX
What homes of each size actually sold for across the EX area, 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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
EX8 ranks 4 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 EX8, sector by sector
The next slice down is the postcode sector: a group of streets, each with its own report. Two sectors a short walk apart can trade at sharply different prices.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| EX8 1 | £255,000 | 55 |
| EX8 2 | £308,000 | 79 |
| EX8 3 | £395,000 | 33 |
| EX8 4 | £307,500 | 53 |
| EX8 5 | £378,000 | 41 |
How EX8 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the EX area, dearest first:
| 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 (this report) | £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% |
| EX20 | £275,000 | +2% |
Selling a home in EX8? Price it on the evidence
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at EX8'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.
Estate agents working EX8: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim EX8.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with EX8 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual EX8 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.