The Strand, Exmouth house prices

The Strand, Exmouth house prices are built from 209 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1996 and the most recent on 5 Dec 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £157,000. Across the 10 years from 2012 to 2022 the median moved -25.1% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -41.9%.

HM Land Registry209 sales8 with floor areaLatest sale 5 Dec 2025

The chart tracks the median The Strand, Exmouth house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1996 to 2022. 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 The Strand, Exmouth is £450,000 in 2018; the lowest is £37,250 in 1996. Across the full 27-year record the cash median has moved from £37,250 to £215,000.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £80,804, so the real change over the whole record is +208.3% — about +4.43% 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: -25.1% in cash against -41.9% 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 The Strand, Exmouth values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

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

72 of the sales on record are leasehold and 137 freehold — 34.4% 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 £116,500 and the median freehold sale £215,000 — a gap of +84.5%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -46.1%. 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 13 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 £157,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 7.41% 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 EX8, 158 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 65 violent, 4 burglary, 6 vehicle-related and 19 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is about typical.

Against the 150,828 residents the 2021 census counted in East Devon, that is 1.05 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.

10 state and independent schools have a EX8 postcode: 9 primary, 1 secondary. 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. The Strand, Exmouth sits below that national figure — -0.3%.

Within Exmouth the street ranks 355 of 510 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £174,950 (-10.3%).

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,099 per square metre, across 8 of the 209 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 £27,950 to £950,000. 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.

The Strand, Exmouth 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 nearby

• Douglas Avenue£223,500 median
• Exeter Road£110,000 median
• Salterton Road£166,000 median
• Cranford Avenue£181,000 median
• Victoria Road£148,000 median
• Shelly Road£325,000 median
• Byron Way£149,000 median
• Hulham Road£232,750 median
• Littleham Road£95,500 median
• Rosebery Road£149,950 median
• Withycombe Village Road£159,500 median
• The Marles£145,000 median
• Wordsworth Close£125,950 median
• Egremont Road£152,250 median
• Parkside Drive£220,000 median
• Rolle Road£129,475 median

Addresses with more than one recorded sale

• BEACH COTTAGE the Strand6 sales
• 5, BROOKFIELD COTTAGES the Strand6 sales
• 6, EAGLE FLATS, 48 the Strand6 sales
• THE STUDIO FLAT, the OLD BAKERY the Strand5 sales
• LONDON COTTAGE the Strand5 sales
• 13A the Strand5 sales
• 2, EAGLE FLATS, 48 the Strand5 sales
• 4, EAGLE FLATS, 48 the Strand5 sales
• FLAT 1, 45 the Strand4 sales
• BROOKSIDE COTTAGE the Strand4 sales
• THE OLD BAKERY the Strand4 sales
• THE CUDDY the Strand4 sales
• ESTUARY COTTAGE the Strand4 sales
• 7, BROOKFIELD COTTAGES the Strand4 sales
• 1, CLAYS COTTAGES the Strand4 sales
• FLAT 1, 43 the Strand4 sales
• FIRST FLOOR FLAT, 44 the Strand3 sales
• 2, BROOKFIELD COTTAGES the Strand3 sales
• THE PENTHOUSE, 17 – 18 the Strand3 sales
• MIDSHIPS 3, CLAYS COTTAGES the Strand3 sales
• BRIDGETHORPE HOUSE the Strand3 sales
• FARLEYS COTTAGE the Strand3 sales
• MITCHELLS the Strand2 sales
• 4, BROOKFIELD COTTAGES the Strand2 sales

Back to Exmouth house prices.

What is the average house price in The Strand, Exmouth?

The median price paid in The Strand, Exmouth across every sale on the register is £157,000. 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 The Strand, Exmouth?

209 sales are on record for The Strand, Exmouth, the most recent completing on 5 Dec 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have The Strand, Exmouth house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose -25.1% between 2012 and 2022. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -41.9%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were The Strand, Exmouth house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £450,000, set in 2018. 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 The Strand, Exmouth?

£1,099 per square metre, from the 8 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 5 Dec 2025. 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, “The Strand, Exmouth 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.