Exeter house prices

Exeter house prices are built from 92,545 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 26 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £184,000. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +27.1% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -9.0%.

HM Land Registry92,545 sales17,533 with floor areaLatest sale 26 Jun 2026

The chart tracks the median Exeter house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2026. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.

The highest yearly median on record for Exeter is £323,000 in 2023; the lowest is £55,000 in 1995. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £55,000 to £305,000.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £122,126, so the real change over the whole record is +149.7% — about +3.00% a year after inflation. Cash growth and real growth are not the same story, and the gap is the part most price reports leave out.

Over the last decade alone the difference is stark: +27.1% in cash against -9.0% once inflation is removed. A buyer who sold at the end of that decade would have needed the real figure, not the headline one, to know whether they had actually gained.

Every row is a completed sale as lodged with HM Land Registry. The right-hand column restates the price in 2026 money, which is the only fair way to compare a sale from the 1990s with one from last year.

These addresses appear in the register more than once, so the same bricks are being priced twice. That makes them the strongest evidence of what actually happened to Exeter values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Exeter is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.

Energy Performance Certificates record a floor area for every home that has been surveyed, sold or let — far more homes than have changed hands. 25,372 certificates cover Exeter, and their median floor area is 79 m².

The median across the whole register is 76 m², so homes here are larger than average — +3.9%. Size explains a large part of why one area's median price sits above another's, which is why the price per square metre further up this page is the fairer comparison.

16,541 of the sales on record are leasehold and 76,004 freehold — 17.9% of the market. Tenure is not a detail: a leasehold flat and a freehold house are different assets, and mixing them into one median hides the difference.

The median leasehold sale is £127,000 and the median freehold sale £204,995 — a gap of +61.4%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +35.0%. A new-build premium is normal: the buyer gets a warranty and nothing to fix, and the price is set by a developer rather than negotiated between two households.

A further 5,141 transfers for this area are on the register but are left out of every figure above. HM Land Registry marks them as additional price paid entries: repossessions, buy-to-let portfolio moves, transfers between companies or family, and sales at a discount such as right to buy. They are real records but they are not open-market prices, and including them would drag the median somewhere no buyer ever paid.

Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across East Devon, 43.8% of 81,511 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 7.1% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.

The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in East Devon at £970 a month as of Jun 2026 — £686 for a one-bedroom home and £1,123 for three bedrooms.

Against the median sale of £184,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 6.33% a year. It is a measured figure rather than an assumption: a real local rent over a real local price, before any cost of ownership.

Police forces publish every recorded street-level crime. Within a mile of the centre of EX4, 607 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 231 violent, 12 burglary, 13 vehicle-related and 90 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 3.6 times busier.

Against the 150,828 residents the 2021 census counted in East Devon, that is 4.02 recorded crimes per thousand people in the month. The count covers a mile around the district centre while the population covers the whole council, so read the rate as an order of magnitude rather than a precise figure.

A count is not a rate. A district with shops and a station records more crime than a residential one of the same size, because more people pass through it. Read this next to the median, not on its own.

The 2021 census counted 150,828 residents in East Devon across 66,788 households. 73.6% of those households own their home and 26.3% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.

15 state and independent schools have a EX4 postcode: 10 primary, 2 16 plus, 1 nursery, 1 secondary, 1 all-through. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.

The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Exeter sits above that national figure — +16.8%.

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,334 per square metre, across 17,533 of the 92,545 sales on record. Price per square metre is the only figure that compares a two-bed flat with a four-bed house honestly.

The full range on record runs from £1,600 to £6,200,000. Extremes usually mean something unusual — a plot sold without a house on it, a transfer between family members, or a very large property — so the median is the number to trust.

Exeter sits in East Devon, in the South West.

The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in East Devon at 8.3 times median local earnings of £40,224 a year, measured to Sep 2025. Across England and Wales the same ratio is 7.6. That number, not the price alone, is what decides whether a place is within reach of the people who work in it.

Streets in Exeter

• Fore Street880 sales
• Pinhoe Road676 sales
• Farm Hill560 sales
• Topsham Road524 sales
• High Street447 sales
• Monks Road413 sales
• New North Road409 sales
• Church Road408 sales
• St Davids Hill364 sales
• Bartholomew Street West339 sales
• Cowick Street336 sales
• Butts Road328 sales
• Clyst Heath319 sales
• Kinnerton Way307 sales
• Gras Lawn301 sales
• Ladysmith Road297 sales
• Haven Road281 sales
• Water Lane279 sales
• Pennsylvania Road274 sales
• Bonhay Road262 sales
• Gloucester Road251 sales
• Broadway250 sales
• Roundtable Meet234 sales
• Church Street222 sales
• Cowick Lane221 sales
• Old Mill Close219 sales
• Alphington Road218 sales
• Cowick Hill217 sales
• Okehampton Road217 sales
• Haldon Road213 sales
• Lewis Crescent211 sales
• Station Road211 sales
• Waterside211 sales
• Wyndham Road208 sales
• Park Road201 sales
• Old Tiverton Road194 sales
• The Strand194 sales
• Old Bakery Close193 sales
• Magdalen Road192 sales
• Myrtlebury Way191 sales
• North Street190 sales
• St Leonards Road190 sales
• Wardrew Road188 sales
• Polsloe Road187 sales
• Berrybrook Meadow186 sales
• Hamlin Lane186 sales
• Sweetbrier Lane184 sales
• Portland Street182 sales
• Hawkins Road178 sales
• Smith Field Road178 sales
• Miller Way176 sales
• Chantry Meadow175 sales
• Richmond Road174 sales
• King Arthurs Road173 sales
• Mincinglake Road173 sales
• Burnthouse Lane170 sales
• Garland Close169 sales
• Exwick Road168 sales
• Sentrys Orchard166 sales
• Hoopern Street165 sales

Postcode districts covering Exeter

• EX4£155,000 median
• EX2£180,500 median
• EX1£190,500 median
• EX5£230,000 median
• EX6£205,000 median
• EX3£280,000 median

What is the average house price in Exeter?

The median price paid in Exeter across every sale on the register is £184,000. The median is used rather than the mean because a handful of very large sales would otherwise drag the average away from what a typical buyer paid.

How many homes have sold in Exeter?

92,545 sales are on record for Exeter, the most recent completing on 26 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Exeter house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +27.1% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -9.0%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Exeter house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £323,000, set in 2023. That is the cash figure; measured in 2026 money the peak may fall in a different year, because inflation reshapes the series.

What is the price per square metre in Exeter?

£2,334 per square metre, from the 17,533 sales where an EPC floor area could be matched to the address. Price per square metre strips out size, so a flat and a house can be compared on the same basis.

How current is this data?

The latest sale shown here completed on 26 Jun 2026. HM Land Registry publishes Price Paid Data monthly and a sale can take a month or two to appear after completion, so the most recent weeks are always incomplete.

Cite this page: Sold Price History, “Exeter house prices”, 2026. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data © Crown copyright and database right, used under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Inflation adjustment: ONS CPIH.